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Toures point, would you say it aids the defense in the sense that theres no real clarity as to what was going on in that struggle? >> no, i think this is more helpful to the prosecution because they need to get this story in and they need to get this 911 call in. i expect through other witnesses, especially trayvon martins mother, theyre going to get somebody to say that this was the voice of trayvon martin. i think shes going to identify that screaming of the sounds of her son. you may have mor...

That dangerous for the prosecution? because you have some jurors obviously that are white. do they hear that this is a kid also kind of looking for an altercation? could it play both ways there? laura, lets be honest i have had this in my trials. its a problem for the prosecution. cases are won or lost in jury selection. this is all white female jury to hear the word cracker to be used by trayvon martin with the prism and the light and that the jurors view the world from. can 100% back fire and ...

It became president obamas, they went from going after foreign intelligence surveillance into lets blanket cover a whole area of the country, figure out if we can find something. we dont know what theyre doing with all of the information theyre sitting on. >> obama said he was going to change, he wasnt going to be the guy that surveilled americans, he was going to shut this program down, wasnt for the warrantless surveillance of anyone. so thats where the hypocrisy comes in. he said he was going...

He said they have a bellicose itch to get involved with other countries in internal affairs. russia arrested an american accuse him of being a spy. and president obama and vladimir putin in an awkward meeting in europe, both of them taking their turns staring at the floor. martha: here is what we know so far about the snowden case. he has disclosed the existence of prism, the name of the program which gives the nsa direct access to the systems of google and facebook and other internet giants. th...

Dark room, drawing conclusions with little shafts of light that illuminate this or that thing, and it seems toxic to me, that this is the basic conditions under which we are operating. >> unfortunately, part of having a self-governing republic in this day and age means there are going to be some points of secrecy that, you know, help us to manage our resources and assets around the globe, that help us manage an entire intelligence community, which help us to manage an entire foreign affairs poli...

Used to be we were spying on foreigners. then when they expanded under george bush to get telephone companies to give them trunk lines to tap into, it went to all americans. >> two separate things. we can talk about the phone records thing as a lock box in which no one is able to look in, youre confusing that with p.r.i.s.m. now. >> were going to take a momentary break on that and listen to a bit of sound here, this is rand paul on snowden. >> i do think that when history looks at this, theyre g...

It became president obamas, they went from going after foreign intelligence surveillance into lets blanket cover a whole area of the country, figure out if we can find something. we dont know what theyre doing with all of the information theyre sitting on. >> obama said he was going to change, he wasnt going to be the guy that surveilled americans, he was going to shut this program down, wasnt for the warrantless surveillance of anyone. so thats where the hypocrisy comes in. he said he was going...

But part of his oath of office is to the constitution, and he believes that, when james clapper came in march, our national director of intelligence came and lied, that he was simply coming forward and telling the truth that your government was lying. this was a big concern of mine because it makes me doubt the administration and their word to us when they come and talk to us because they have now admitted that they will lie to us if they think its in the name of national security. >> i believe ...

To conservative talk radio, conservative television to sell this plan. every time theres any critique about it he goes back and rebutts it. if that happens where you have grass roots support from the conservative side, he has a lot to do with that. >> has rubio hurt himself? i know this has been a delicate act for him where he goes on talk radio but ultimately is supporting part of the base they think is amnesty. has he hurt himself? >> its a complicated question. to be a national leader in hist...

Columbia universitys graduate school of journalism and former digital director at londons "guardian." emily, to the extent ed snowden has been painted by the media at least by some elements of the media as a man who was acting out of conscience, the fact that he is now in moscow could very dramatically change that media narrative, could it not? >> well, i think that one of the thirngz which will be frustrating about this story is how initially the focus was on the surveillance techniques about o...