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Trial. some said it hurt trayvon martin, some said it hurt george zimmerman. it was a mixed bag. they contradicted each other. they even contradicted themselves because they gave several different accounts of what happened. heres what one resident, jonathan good, said that seemed to fall in trayvons corner. >> the person you knew to be trayvon martin was on top, correct? >> correct. >> and he was the one raining blows to the man on the bottom, george zimmerman, right? >> thats what it looked lik...

Here is they have put forth that and i think mr. goods testimony is real important. if you look at the details of him describing the fight, he -- he actually even in the clip that you just played right, he actually talks about the person on the bottom fighting back to some degree, too. so the notion that he said at one point in trying to say that in putting forth the theory of mma style, the persons legs were held down the arms of the person on the ground is simply not true. they were fighting a...

You described him as a creepy ass cracker? >> yes. >> so it was racial, but it was because trayvon martin put race in this? >> no. >> you dont think thats a racial comment? >> no. >> no denying rachel jeantel is a polar rising figure as jonathan goods testimony was electrifying. this is fascinating because of race, class or self-defense? joining me now angela and sherry williams a professor at syracuse university and gloria still with me. sherry, is it about race, this trial? >> i think -- well ...

Bloody head. he seem to encapsulate zimmermans entire defense, telling him what he said after the fatal shot and the body of the teenager nearby. >> this guy was beating me up and i shot him. >> i was defending myself when i shot him. >> so this guy was beating me up. i was defending myself and i shot him is what he told you. >> yes. >> without hesitation? >> no. >> and from what you could tell at the moment, it seemed completely true? >> yes. >> after the testimony of jonathan good, then came s...

150e78d to encapsulate zimmermans entire defense, quoting what zimmerman told him minutes after the fatal shot and with the body of the teenager lying sprawled nearby. >> this guy was beating me up and i shot him. >> and i had to defend myself and i shot him. >> im sorry? >> i was defending myself and i shot him. >> so this guy was beating me up. i was defending myself and i shot him is what he told you? >> yes. >> without hesitation? >> no. >> and from what you could tell at the moment, it seem...

The it was moving towards the defense case today. 100% as you just heard everybody else talk about. jon good was a fantastic witness for the defense, even if you take into account we had witnesses over the course of the week that thought george zimmerman was on top and one was discredited quite skillfully by getting her to admit she was making that assessment seeing trayvon martin when he was a young kid. we know this was a tussle, they were rolling around and while jon goods testimony was dif...

The back of zimmermans jacket walls covered in grass and more wet on the back than the front, doesnt that corroborate his story more? >> yeah, it corroborates his story. thats why you had omara yesterday holding up that picture board of the cuts and things on the back of the head, because all theyre going to argue is that you tie all of this together. he was down on the grass. at that point, even all of this stuff that has been talked about, about whether or not he was chasing him or not, it all...

They just excused mr. mckinney because page pate told me it was just to establish the video cameras were there. and now mr. mckinney has been excused. page, we probably wont see the video at this time or maybe we will. this next witness is named john good. im not quite sure of the significance of this witness. well wait until they introduce him. am i right with that? >> youre right. mr. mckinney was just a foundation witness they brought in to say this is the camera and angle and this is when i ...

Call us. we can show you how at&t solutions can help you do what you do... even better. ♪ welcome back to "hardball." weve talked about the demeanor of witnesses. now lets look at the demeanor of some of the attorneys, particularly don west and mark omara, both for the defense. first, here is west with rachel jeantel yesterday. >> trayvon got hit. >> you dont know that, do you? >> no, sir. >> you dont know that trayvon got hit. >> he couldnt -- he had to -- >> you dont know that trayvon didn...

And secure watching it, and getting lost in the activity of it. you mention ed a lot of anxiety. scared of what happened yesterday. there is a lot of gunfire and violence in the movie. one of the people we spoke with said while watching this movie yesterday, about 20 minutes in, a little on edge when that shooting broke out in the movie itself. so, of course, a lot of people still on edge of their seats as they do watch this movie. >> indeed. thank you very much, wnbcs jonathan good to see you. ...