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The high unemployment that youre seeing in europe, in the middle east, in africa and increasingly in the united states of america. and what i am hearing and seeing, both in the forums and in private dinner meetings, is that the worlds wealthiest and most influential people are getting that. so the real question is, what are we going to do about it? how are we going to move from one, accepting the notion that we have got to put more people to work. certainly young people. we have teen unemploymen...

Had no -- may have met him over the years once or twice but really didnt know him. and certainly was not anxious to win his endorsement for his re-election. just one of the sidebars in all of this. all right, standby, john. brian stelter is joining us. our senior media correspondent, the host of "reliable sources." brian, this is quite a media spectacle were now observing as well. >> you can say that again. and its been very interesting to watch reaction to conservative media outlets. before tod...

Happening? >> well, we have, number one, a 24-hour news cycle. number two, whether we like it or not, court proceedings now begin to dominate our lives. we are a nation built upon the rule of law. and with access to courtrooms by cameras, it has basically fuelled the thirst for kormg and people like to see its democracy in action. >> i tell you what. i only have one beef with you about spending 80-some odd days in your courtroom. i worked 20 hours a day and i was very sleepy and you had your off...

Perspective. i think that my view of things like other information we were supposed to get from prosecutors is at the very least a much different definition than he has. >> is he a snake, a liar? >> i think that he has -- i think hes probably more used to running against public defenders in cases that he gets to cherry pick and that he has overwhelming evidence, and that some of the nuances of how he handles discovery dont come to light. i dont think that don and i have presented ourselves as a ...

Throughout the day, youre also watching not only the mothers testify, youre watching these six female jurors, five of the six of mothers. what was their body language like while thats mothers were testifying? >> reporter: yeah. you know, really by being in the courtroom one of the few advantages you have, there are many actually, but the strongest is that you can look the jury in the face. you can watch and try to get any sense of reaction when they listen to this powerful testimony, and today i...

Do, given that he was in fact legitimately elected. the worry is how the united states would react if that were the case. so certainly they may come up -- they may fudge a solution where he stays in power but they compel him one way or the other to bring in opposition figures to call for early elections, to redraft the constitution. theres a whole list of things that the army would like him to do, that people here would like him to do, but what we heard tonight in his speech is hes not about to ...

Thats second degree murder. >> everything about this case is going to be circumstance. either the proof on self-defense or the proof it wasnt self-defense. >> we have zimmermans statement. so zimmermans going to have to stick to that. i expect the prosecution to go over every inconsistency. to bring in witnesses to show he was lying. thats the prosecutions point view. >> i guess these are final fine instructions. the classic vamping here for time. the judge obviously final instructions. >> let m...

Going to end up. how important is that in the mind of prosecutor or defense attorney picking a jury? >> starting out with the defense perspective, a lot of folks had thought maybe theyre going to try to get out of seminole county because of all the intense pretrial publicity. they decided to stay in the county. i think the demographics is one obvious the reasons. where they go is going to be fascinating to watch. because theres a whole process, actually a protocol and formula that florida uses i...

Hear more from this morning as well as contention by the prosecutor jodi arias having an iq like einstein. all this came out at the end of the day. they had a couple of side bars, at one point he turned to the judge, the prosecutor turned to the judge and said well start this again tomorrow and they ended the day a bit early. were all waiting to see how this begins this morning. the prosecutor is extremely aggressive with the final defense witness, alice violet. she claims she is victim of menta...

She denied a similar motion last week after the defense said that a juror may have swayed her piers with comments during a closed door hearing. the judge did dismiss that juror. well, lets get an update on todays shenanigans. adam housley is with us. the defenses domestic violence expert is back on the stand and the prosecutor grilled her about jodi areas truthfulness? >> yes, shepard. in fact they just finish 30 seconds ago for the day. he tried to make some headway. there were a lot of side ba...