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So thats why during that interview, i said i wasnt sure. listening to it was clouded by shock and denial and sadness, and i didnt really want to believe that was him. >> today, the jury heard emotional testimony from trayvon mart knyou knows family. how will the six women who will decide zimmermans fate reacting to this? lets ask susan constantine. very emotional. a mother on the stand, brother on the stand. concluding with these two emotional witnesses and then you also have the defense, beginn...

So thats why during that interview, i said i wasnt sure. listening to it was clouded by shock and denial and sadness, and i didnt really want to believe that was him. >> today, the jury heard emotional testimony from trayvon mart knyou knows family. how will the six women who will decide zimmermans fate reacting to this? lets ask susan constantine. very emotional. a mother on the stand, brother on the stand. concluding with these two emotional witnesses and then you also have the defense, beginn...

Women have gone through tragedies. miss fulton lost her son, miss zimmerman has sort of lost her son at least temporarily having to live in hiding for a year and facing a life imprisonment sentence based on the state trying to con fickevict him of something. but both of the women just have to live with the belief it is, in fact, their son. theyre going to have to make a determination not based on what each mom says but on the other evidence, sort of the forensic evidence. >> six female jurors, f...

Chance to hear what the other one is saying? >>. >> under best circumstances, yes, sir, its preferred. >> why do you do ta? >> its preferred to keep each individuals testimony individual. >> because if there were going to be differences in the witnesses testimonies or statements an, you want to make sure they stay apart from each other not to sort of collaborate on what they say happened? >> correct. >> why that is intentional or just a by-product of hearing what the other witness says, correct?...

They almost dont have to put the case on. he said zimmerman was being beat up. he testified the whole time he was watching, thats all he saw. you have zimmerzimmermans 0s a thats their case. >> my position is and what i would argue for either side, there may have been wrestling that you have to explain the different testimonies. one woman said trayvon was on top and another said zimmerman was. my explaination is that there was rolling around and each was on top at different moments in time. >> a...

Did the jurors seem to really connect with her or not? >> reporter: they were really focused. i mean, they were listening to every word. i didnt see a lot of notes because i think they just wanted to listen to her as she testified, and shes so critical for the prosecution because the prosecutions theory is that george zimmerman confronted trayvon martin. she was on the phone with trayvon martin right before he was shot and killed by george zimmerman, and she said that trayvon told her, this guy ...

Much like a montgomery bus boycott, where people staid off the buses for an entire year. but also your point about wendy -- davis, im sorry, i feel like she and i are running buddies. but the fact that she wasnt just speaking herself, she was reading all those testimonies of the peoples filibuster who had come. they had come to filibuster and then been silenced. and she was reading their stories. and yet, right, and yet perry can call another 30-day session. and apparently can do so forever, rig...

>> martin savage is in florida for us. everybody was watching her. she was the person speaking to trayvon martin the last moment he was alive and as he died what else did she say? >> reporter: from a totally nonlegal perspective it was one of the most remarkable testimonies i have ever seen. and there is a lot you can talk about. lets talk about the specifics. on top of saying she claims it was george zimmerman she could hear being the aggressor she says she can hear trayvon saying get off, get ...

Have been there for a long time. and i know you wrote an article today, milton, the survivor of that 1973 shooting, the woman who was testifying said she was on the fence. she told you. she wasnt sure whether she wanted to testify but she decided to because she was looking at the testimonies of his former associates. so cold she wanted to put the victims face on it. ill quote her. i realized after reading the way the press was covering it all, i realized it was a three-wing circus for the bad gu...

Testimonies on military sexual trauma that reports are actually going down to less than 1% when theres sexual assault? how could you possibly put that in there? >> there was an op-ed and governor bobby jindal wrote, its time to stop the bed-wetting. we are the conservative party in america, deal with it. we have a lot of dissenting voices. so what? deal with it. republicans, hold fast, get smarter, get disciplined, get on offense and put on your big-boy pants. what about that, john? >> i think b...