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Lawn, you knew the story was about security. >> absolutely. >> he said, i said why, doug, why this? why are you doing this in this fashion? why not some form or protest? do you remember the guy that lit himself on fire in front of the white house two years ago e? and i said, no. did that happen? sure enough turned to google. a man committed suicide by lighting himself on fire in front of the white house. this garnered attention, way more than a crazy, hard to believe act like that. this got the ...

England patriot. a law enforcement source saying hernandez telling his jailers, "i didnt do it." hours after being sentenced to life without parole. >> guilty of murder in the first degree. >> reporter: hernandez grim faced as he heard the verdict with his mother and fiancee in tears and just feet away from the family of victim olin lloyd, no less emotional. hernandez appearing to mouth the words, youre wrong and then telling his family, be strong and im okay. watching them weep. a jury finding ...

Prominent black man or black women and women of color feeling -- i feel o.j. had become white and then became black again in some ways. i remember my mother and all the anger of the black women around me towards o.j. for so many years until that trial, where he became black again and needed protection again, and any of nicoles pain and identity was totally ignored in that moment. >> he reclaimed his blackness, black against the wall, back against the wall. thats the truly. >> stick with me. i wa...

Loop. it was certainly that trial of the century, perhaps replacing the lindbergh trial of 1935 which had the designation up until simpson. >> something like dog magazines were covering o.j. simpson back in the day. i want to ask you because i used to work at "in session" and people seemed to ask why cant there be cameras in every courtroom? are there cons to having trials covered and televised? >> yeah, i think its an interesting fallacy that exists with cameras in the courtroom. i think it doe...

And then i remember o.j. first putting on the nylon latex glove and after he first tried to put on the actual glove itself, the murder glove, it became clear that it didnt fit. and you saw o.j. holding up his hand and standing up and walking over to the jury. he was then in full actor mode. >> i was going to say, that was quite a bit of acting. >> he sure was. >> because he played that moment for all that it was worth. yale, i want to talk to you. you were o.j.s attorney from 2013, im pretty sur...

Happened with george zimmerman and o.j. how would this trial be handled today? >> im not sure that there would be a great deal of factual difference. there may well be, don, a difference in perception. a difference in the way that the media might play the case. but for some reason, we americans are always fascinated with the issues of race. and concerning what jeff said, i think in order to understand the verdict from the prism of an african-american juror, you have to understand the dynamics th...

Imagine this 150 million people tuned in to hear the verdict in the o.j. simpson trial and to put that into perspective for you, the population of the united states at the time was 266 million. 150 million people tuned in, 266 million people in the united states at the time. so it is no surprise that the case continues to fascinate, especially with what it tells us about race in america. back with me now is yale galanter, jeffrey toobin and carl douglas. jeffrey toobin jumped ahead in the workbo...

Imagine this 150 million people tuned in to hear the verdict in the o.j. simpson trial and to put that into perspective for you, the population of the united states at the time was 266 million. 150 million people tuned in, 266 million people in the united states at the time. so it is no surprise that the case continues to fascinate, especially with what it tells us about race in america. back with me now is yale galanter, jeffrey toobin and carl douglas. jeffrey toobin jumped ahead in the workbo...

>> im not sure that there would be a great deal of factual difference. there may well be, don, a difference in perception. a difference in the way that the media might play the case. but for some reason, we americans are always fascinated with the issues of race. and concerning what jeff said, i think in order to understand the verdict from the prism of an african-american juror, you have to understand the dynamics that was going on then between the african-american community and the los angeles...

Way the media covers a case like this, with gavel to gavel coverage, even, you know before o.j. it wasnt bad, was it? >> well, what happened was there was a tremendous backlash mostly among judges against cameras in the courtroom because i think they felt that judge ito, lance ito, looked bad, didnt do a good job controlling the room and they said the heck with this, we dont want cameras in our courtroom. and if you think back to the big televised trials since o.j., they have almost all been in ...