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>> she agreed to the postponement. well go into the end of the week, a two-week postponement. this was a very pragmatic decision. there are state holidays coming up in south africa. the court would have been disturbed anyway. she emphasized to the courts and the lawyer that is she and the assessors intend to use the postponement, adjournment as an opportunity to get ahead of the workload for the trial. she implored the lawyers to do the same, emphasizing the need to expedite the trial and not de...

Is at the courthouse in pretoria. kelly, pistorius has spent more time on the stand than any other witness in this trial. this, though, is going to wrap up pretty soon, right? >> reporter: yes. we expect -- we heard this morning, mr. nel asked for a postponement, essentially, after pistorius has concluded his testimony, and he indicated that he should be finished with cross examination today. and then all thats left after that with regards to mr. pistoriuss testimony is the opportunity for his l...

Elections on the 7th. >> so it will be two week, two weeks -- postponement for two weeks. >> indeed, may lady. yes -- my lady. yes, it sounds like two weeks. but if one goes through the diary and identifies the working days in the week, my lady, its no more than seven -- i havent counted this morning, but i remember having countsed it. although its a two-week postponement, my lady, on court days that we may miss, its a maximum seven days, my lady. thats my application. >> yes? >> at the inceptio...

Those cuts next year are still on the books. so what are we going to see? big cuts next year or another postponement? the bottom line here is, the president has worked his way out of a political problem by abandoning the cuts this year. but hes worked himself into a financial problem, how does he get all this money for obamacare? youve taken care of one problem. youve encouraged another. >> we will check out your show tomorrow on the fox business network. great to see you. >> thanks. for the f...

South africa. this just came within the last hour or so, kelly. what happened? >> reporter: well, this trial-like life is very unpredictable. they were question marks over whether pistorius would take the stand today, but no one saw this postponement coming. apparently, one of the members is sick in hospital and they had to adjourn for a week until she recovers. >> talk about what an assessor is, because this is someone that actually plays a critical role alongside the judge in this courtroom, a...

>> you know, i know that we saw a shot just as that announcement was being made about an hour ago of the steenkamp family, and also, you know, we saw a shot of oscar pistorius waiting, you would assume preparing for days and days to possibly take the stand today. did we get any reaction from either of the families to this postponement now, a ten-day postponement? >> reporter: we havent had a reaction from them, and the families generally have not been speaking directly to the media throughout th...

The court was not properly constituted and there would have to be a postponement. pistorius is the only person that knows what happened at 3:00 in the morning on valentines. this is going to include his own testimony. he claimed he thought he was shooting an intruder and not his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. there were many witnesses that said they heard a wild and heated argument prior to the shots that he admits he fired that resulted in her death. the postponement until april 7th. betty. tha...

>> thank you. >> this matter, then, will be postponed to the -- to monday the seventh of april, 2014 at 9:30 this the morning and im grateful to all counsel and the court staff for accommodating this. >> as the court pleases, myly di. >> court will adjourn. >> a surprise. right after the court began there has been for some reason a postponement, we just saw a quick shot of the steenkamp family there as she made the

Announcement. it is -- will reconvene at 9:30 in the morning pretoria time on april 7. lets go back to our analyst. kelly, what are you making of this. >> well, apparently the news were hearing from the courtroom is that one of the assessors has taken ill and theyve therefore requested yet another weeks postponement. this is really quite excruciating for everyone involved in the case and im sure no one more so than oscar pistorius himself who essentially has been watching the time tick away unti...

Postponement after postponement and excuse after excuse. run out the clock. >> we also got a better sense of what the committee is looking for. emails from her which would suggest she was not just some sort of, you know, dispassionate bureaucrat in all of this. rooting for one side or the other this things like elections. again, it seems like, you know, if they know what they are looking for, that shouldnt be quite that hard for the irs to find. there are search terms presumably that you could p...