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Catholic and that his put his head down and shook his head know and she finally told him that trayvon martin had passed. she told that you, right? >> i dont remember that conversation but she may have. >> okay. >> did anything at all -- and i want you to really drill into it. and im sorry, i know that youve heard it. i have a transcript of the interview. would that assist you as i ask you some questions about the interview. >> if you have an extra copy. i might have one myself. >> up to the stat...

Uncaring or other things were going on. >> did in the investigation, did he -- im sorry, in the interview, and were talking now about the one that happened at midnight, did he seem to be cavalier or uncaring in the way he answered your questions? >> not necessarily. >> anything in interview that you would point out to the jury where you thought he was acting cavalier? by that i mean something like "can i go home no?" or "are we done here?" or "theres a midnight movie i want to catch"? >> other t...

Believe him, statements that your client made that corroborated everything else and thats where we were on that last interview. i had nothing of substance to basically toss it in to confront him with as far as the interview went, other than suspicious lack of remembering the streets, how many streets he had in his neighborhood and other oddities but that would have compelled me to go ahead and keep on interviewing him, they did quite add up. it would have had to have been further. >> so then wha...

>> exactly. >> -- stole eight cars in the neighborhood and you have his fingerprints on six of them and hes just telling you he was in the library studying. >> correct. >> that challenge is you walk in the interview and go you got one last chance, youre going to prison a long, long time and or you tell me what happened. thats a really aggressive challenge interview, correct? >> yes, sir. >> you have to modify the challenge style based upon what you have to hit him with, right? >> yes. >> and in ...

He could get in there and rub it in a little bit more and hes not doing that yet. >> lets reserve judgment on that. >> well reserve judgment, thats right. thats it for "the lead." i turn you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room" who will continue the coverage of the george zimmerman trial. >> happening in his own words, jurors see and hear george zimmerman on tape recounting those dramatic chain of events that ended in trayvon martins death. >> also, its the deadliest blaze since the 9/11...

Sentence for sentence each time you talked to them, what would you think about that persons honesty or veracity? >> id -- either theyre being completely honest or completely false. >> if you were to ask somebody three weeks apart and they came up with the exact same story each time, wouldnt you think they were lying every time? >> its hard to say, im a professional skeptic. >> its job security being a professional skeptic, right? >> job performance really. >> yeah. >> and so in the interview, yo...

Interview. i can attest to what the interview -- what officer singleton and the walk-through was based on what i saw, thats more fair. i kind of went there to move things along because i was kind of focused to trying to identify who the deceased was at that time. >> to what? >> trying to identify who the deceased was. >> okay. >> so the interview was kind of short but ill try. >> youre talking about the interview at midnight? >> yes. >> i also want to you tell us of any indiscrepancies in the re...

Interrogated george zimmerman on the night of the killing of trayvon martin. lets continue our coverage. >> that was when i actually walked all the way over to my street, which was those 40, 50 feet or so, correct? >> i dont recall those responses, but i was measuring from retreat view circle to his vehicle. and id have to listen to it again. it just seemed excessive. there was a time -- i do think that he did say that he actually paused to pick up his flashlight or something. >> pick up -- >> h...

>> no, sir. >> okay. now lets just sort of move forward into your next efforts in this regard. im going to then move us up pretty quickly to the next interview with mr. zimmerman. before before you got to thatneck interview with mr. man, tell the jury, if you would, what other actions you were doing as the investigating officer? >> from the beginning? >> yeah. weve sort of gone through the 26th, correct that, night. and weve talked about you had a dozen or so witness statements youd already gat...

That -- you might even exaggerate as a problem just to see if he bites, right? >> absolutely. >> thats a tactic, right? >> yes, sir. >> and it works, doesnt it? >> at times. >> usually. >> sometimes. >> right? i mean, thats why you do it, right? >> yes, sir. >> and this type of an -- im going to use a term from now on, challenge interview, are you okay with that? >> thats fine. >> this type of a challenge interview, you often have two people there, right, so you can kind of play one off against ...