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You could read in jury reaction to the testimony, the direct testimony of the -- from the witnesses, the kids in the car and that -- and the defendant taking the stand himself? >> lawrence, the jurors were really raptly listening to dunn throughout his testimony. it was a struggle to figure out what they thought they were watching. i saw a juror shake her head in disgust. it was after the fiancee left that they basically turned on dunn. she contradicted a lot of what dunn said on the stand. >> t...

They said where was dunn in those three minutes? he left and went to the hotel and had a pizza and walked the dog and a rum and coke. those kids fled because they were being fired upon and came right back to the scene because they knew that is where they could get help. >> now, when you look at the fact that the prosecution hammered away at the words that michael dunn used to describe these teens, words like gangster and thug, watch this and tell me the significance of the prosecutor focusing on...

>> reporter: dunn says he was afraid the suv would return. and unaware hed hit anyone, he and his fiancee drove to their hotel, never calling police. but davis was hit three times. he died a short time later. and police say no gun was found. on cross-examination, john guy pounced on dunn saying the moments and hours after the shooting he never told his fiancee the teens had a gun. dunn maintains he did. >> you never told the love of your life that those boys had a gun? >> you werent there. >> re...

That was an important aspect. secondly, no blood. theres no alcohol. theres no drugs. those are critically important. what the prosecution has not done is put on dunns statement itself. and thats really designed to have dunn testify if he wants to, im sure the defense doesnt want that to happen but though they may say they do, they dont want the defendant to have to testify because hes going to be quite vulnerable to flight and other questions. im not surprised. i think the prosecution put on a ...

the bureau produced employment statistics and the extent to which the statistics were accurate or not. >> well, i never had -- i never really had any responsibility to look in to the adequacy or accura accuracy. i relied very heavily on jeff moore who was an utterly first class economist as to the accuracy. there was -- and jim hodgson used to sit down with jeff and his staff to go over the press releases and it was the press releases that became controversial. there was a feeling in t...