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Immigration is a key part. some in washington view immigration a problem we need to solve, i view it as an opportunity we need to seize and now is the moment. >> you go and talk to republicans about this, and i imagine you have, because you -- i know youve worked with eric cantor on a previous piece of legislation, the jobs act 37 when you talk to them, what do they say to you. is this message persuasive? it doesnt seem like its reaching the house republican caucus. >> it is. im not talking abou...

It, theyre supposed to keep their mind open until they go into the deliberation room. anybody who practices trial law will tell you is that what actually happens is they make up their mind virtually as soon as the opening statement is finished. what ends up actually happening is if theyve made up their mind and almost study shows that and virtually ever case ive ever tried shows that, theyre going to look at this case through the prism of what they believe. if they believe and they want to found...

Judges are really low to let in this kind of, i guess, reenactment when it almost encroaches on what the jury should be deciding which is what really happened that night. the jury should be the ones listening to the evidence, listening to the witnesses deciding credibility and deciding whose version of events they believe. not through the prism of someone elses reenactment. >> and it could be powerful for the defense because it would basically back up what the defense position as far as george z...

>> mark? >> look, the idea -- and i know that jurors get instructed on it, theyre supposed to keep their mind open until they go into the deliberation room. anybody who practices trial law will tell you is that what actually happens is they make up their mind virtually as soon as the opening statement is finished. what ends up actually happening is if theyve made up their mind and almost every study shows that and virtually every case ive ever tried show that is, theyre going to look at this cas...

Evidence, the prosecution says, not so fast. >> yeah, im surprised that the judge is considering it to this extent, just because it really is speculative and oftentimes judges dont allow these kinds of recreations, because youre kind of stepping into the province of the jury. the jury is supposed to determine, after hearing all of the witnesses and after looking at all the evidence, what happened that night. they arent supposed to be viewing it through the prism of some sort of computer animatio...

The research program were separated, were given new cover names, and almost all of them were then shifted over to the management and control of the national security agency. which unbeknownst to everyone in america, most people in america at the time, had been running its own total information awareness program. so tia is shut down publicly and privacy advocates really declared a great victory for this. unbeknownst to them, the work just continued in secret at the nsa and became part of this lar...

Obama and his family in africa, so, too, is george bush along with his wife, laura. the couple were renovating a health clinic in zambia, when they decided to gift us all with rare post-retirement face time. president bush took the opportunity to weigh in on the massive domestic surveillance scheme known as prism that began under his watch and remained secret until last month when information about the program leaked by edward snowden was published by "the guardian" and the "washington post." >>...

National security agency, which unbeknown to everybody was running the program. tia is shut down publicly and they declared a great victory but the work continued in sec relate at the nsa and became part of a larger apparatus that were learning more about now. >> or in other words, the beginning of prison, the data mining program were just learning about. now in the uproar over prism and other nsa revelations, there is a tendency to focus on privacy concerns. is the government reading my faceboo...

Working with europes chief representative. >> lady ashton did indeed raise it with me today, we agreed to stay in touch. i agreed to find out exactly what the situation is, and i would get back to her. >> reporter: german prosecutors are investigating whether laws were broken when the u.s. spied on european citizens using the p.r.i.s.m. program that collects overseas internet data, and bugged offices. >> we must say clearly eavesdropping on france is unacceptable, a no go. we are not in the cold...

What america is doing wrong.>> d some hate the u.s. and he does. doesnt mean that john boehner ought to defend a program where you are being spied on. >> i agree. >> if you are the party of freedom, why are you defending this? >> i do not have the information that apparently you do. what im working from is two separate programs. they are phone records that you do not know who they are and you do not read the content. i am okay with that, that is like a road map for a police officer to find a cri...