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Deliberately shoot and kill you. now pause for this, if youre an african-american in this country youre five times as likely to be shot and killed by someone as to do it to yourself. this explains if you think about this amazing number, and i will admit its only part of the telephone differing attitudes out there on the trayvon martin tragedy, it does explain a vital life and death difference about how we look and feel about guns in this country. if you are black in america, you see the horror u...

And your intentions. its great to have you on. please come back. up next, the politics in this case is not just black and white but part of it is. why people also see is the case through the right versus left here. by the way, some outrageous thoughts here and voices coming from the right. its not symmetric, ladies and gentlemen. theres some really crazy stuff coming from the hard right here. this is "hardball," the place for politics. mmitments. mmitments. and weve made a big commitment to amer...

Know? like, its racism where, like, you hit me and i take 20 steps away and then i die. >> shaka, i want you to hold your thought. josh with dubois, what to you make of this question of drugs? it didnt come into this trial, but i think it seems like its a big reason im hearing that theres so many young blacks in jail and its just a fact we ought to look at it. >> yeah, you know, it gets back to how we see young african-american men and boys in this country and thats related to the zimmerman tria...

>> i think we get used to that. >> that you wouldnt in this sort of case want the jury to have no african-american jurors. >> i dont think the prosecution believed in the case. i think they had their heart in it, they didnt have a story to tell. they didnt have a case to make. right. both of you, i agree with. they impeached the witness. they impeached the testimony given through videotape and otherwise testimony even with the guy not having to sit in the chair, zimmerman. i didnt get a sense th...

The justice department shares your concern. i share your concern. >> welcome back to "hardball." not guilty. that was the final decision by the florida jury acquitting george zimmerman of all charges in the killing of trayvon martin but those werent the last words in this case. as weve been seeing. attorney general holder you saw just there says his department of justice has placed the case under review. as it examines whether or not zimmerman violated any civil rights statutes. some 450,000 peo...

Politico, the verdict showed just how politicized every aspect of american life has become for a hyper partisan political class. joining me howard fineman and mother jones magazine david corn, both msnbc political analysts. gentlemen, this, well, predictable outrage i call it from the right, but i have to tell you, when i watched newt in action, ive learned to believe hes just pulled the pin in the grenade at every operation, every opportunity. here he is again trying to excite i think a group o...

Expert, im not an attorney like yourself, but do you have to prove that it was basically shooting on sight? ivor heard some earlier charges in the beginning of this one, was very outraged in the country that he saw young black man because he met the profile. and shot him because he met the profile in his head who was committing these burglaries. if he it did involve a scuffle, if his head was hit a number of times, maybe his testimony isnt accurate, but there if there was a scuffle that involved...

Want. thats, like, just in case we run out. >> wow. welcome back to "hardball." that was a scene from the new film, coming out film, "newlyweeds" directed by chaka king which premiered this year and is being released for general description. the influence of marijuana use on a young couple trying to make it. the director, and a former obama adviser and contributor to the "daily beast." thanks for joining us. this thing i hear about but dont know much about, drugs and incour incarceration percent...

Was because of his race and not because he feared for his life or safety or something else. what you say about the reason for the public outrage may well be true. but to try to place all that on the back of this admittedly difficult standard in the federal hate crimes law is a very tall order, chris. and the prosecutors who have brought these cases say they succeed when there is really strong evidence of a persons bias. theyre making statements while they attack someone. they tell other people i...

Thats the difficult thing here. now, the federal government could well look at evidence. theres been an argument here that it all started because george zimmerman, the race was a factor that trayvon martin factor was a race. in essence what the federal law requires is you persuade a jury the reason he pulled the trigger was a factor of race. the reason zimmerman pulled the trigger was because of trayvon martins race and not some other factor such as self-defense. the further away you get from th...