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>> if i may have a moment, your honor. >> yes, you may. youve been listening to the george zimmerman trial. firearms expert amy sewart is testifying. lisa bloom is with me and former prosecutor and seema ire is with me. se seema, i want to start with you. the significance of the gun to the entry wound that was on trayvon martin or on his clothing, whats the significance? >> the significance is actually just setting up the their self-defense, right? because what this witness is saying is that i...

Effects of a contact shot. >> so, again, evidence that the end of the gun was against the material when it was fired? >> yes. >> all right. >> and finally states 131, what is depicted there? >> this is a close-up shot of the test that i had generated with the lighter color sweatshirt, depicting a little better that you can see the tearing and the blackening of the fabric right around the hole. >> all right. are your findings consistent with the muzzle of the gun having been pressed into the dark...

>> yes. >> all right. states 126, what did we see there? >> that is a close-up of the distance test that i had made. the arrows are pointing to diagonal tear that occurred in the fabric. >> and when you conducted the distance tests with the cal tech pistol and the hooded sweatshirt what did you determine about the distance between the muzzle of the gun and the material at the time the gun was discharged? >> the clothing displayed residues and physical effects consistent with a contact shot. >> m...

And i think you corrected him to say it was touching, correct? >> yes. >> there is no evidence, for example, that would show up that you would take a gun nuzzle and push it into the shirt some way where the shirt would fold around it, was there? >> no. it was consistent with the muzzle of the firearm touching. >> it was consistent with this, correct? >> yes. >> shirt, firearm. >> yes. >> wasnt consistent with this, pushing or anything? >> no. >> that would have shown up in a completely different...

Cal tech pistol? >> i did. >> what did you find? >> the fired bullet jacket portion was fired from the pistol, the two smaller fragments were inconclusive, and the bullet core is not suitable for microscopic examination. >> you say inconclusive, what do you mean? >> i was not able to determine whether they were or were not fired from the pistol. >> and why is that? >> a lack of detail on them, they were very damaged, they had very small portions of rifling on them. >> is it apparent the fragment...

I want to talk to you about some of those. >> okay. >> the medical examiners report, you had a chance to review that, correct? >> yes, i have. >> okay. and the medical examiners report and its findings were consistent with mr. zimmermans story, were they not? >> yes, sir. >> as far as how he shot him, correct? where he shot him? >> yes, sir. >> and the distance between the muzzle of the gun and the clothing, correct? >> yes, sir. >> and also there was a gap of a few inches between the clothing a...

The number of things concerning the investigation. i want to talk to you about some of those. you had a chance to review that, correct? >> the medical examiners report and findings were consistent with mr. zimmermans story, were they not? >> yes, sir. >> as far as how he shot him, correct? >> where he shot him? >> yes, sir. >> the distance between the muzzle of the gun and clothing, correct? >> yes, sir. >> and there was a gap of a few inches between the clothing and mr. martins chest. correct? ...

Know, a couple of years in his push to blow the whistle on this snooping, on the phone records. what did he tell you, dana? >> reporter: from his perspective, it is like screaming with a muzzle on your mouth. you can only scream so loud when you have information that is classified. so when the president said today that members of congress knew all about it, they voted for it, they could have objected to it, he is somebody, again, a member of the presidents own party, who is a member of the senat...

Made the fatal mistake id tried to teach my guys is, dont get fixa fixated, keep your head on a swivel. i was focused on straight to the west, and i didnt see how the enemy had snuck up to my right-hand side and fired an rpg into the generator i was on. it blew me over on to gregory who is to my left. >> romesha helped gregory, then grabbed the last belt of ammunition and started firing. >> he took off running back to the barracks, and there was muzzle flashes everywhere. you just couldnt pick h...

Lets look at the preview. >> one last thing about political correctness which i think is a horrible thing, by the way. im very, very compassion national, and im not ever out to offend anyone, but pc is dangerous. because this country, one of the founding principles was freedom of thought and freedom of expression, and it must have elses people. it puts a muzzle on them. why is it so important we educate our people? because we dont want to go down the same pathway as many other nations of that pr...