explain how different we're seeing the testimony today, day two from the star witness for the prosecution? >> reporter: yeah, you know, thomas her demeanor in court has been different to say the least. i spent some time talking to jeantel's attorney yesterday before her testimony and he said that she was a reluctant witness. she demonstrated yesterday that she was very much so a reluctant witness. yesterday we saw a lot of back and forth between her and don west the defense attorney. we've not seen as much of that today. it seems as if she's going out of her way to be respectful to say yes, sir and no, sir. yesterday she was on the stand for about two hours in the afternoon under cross, close to two hours. she's been on the stand this morning since just after 9:00. we are right now, looks like we're about to start back again. there was about a 20-minute recess. but we expect that she's going to be on the stand for a while longer, for cross-examination. we also expect there will be at
happening moments ago. the star witness for the prosecution describing her last moments speaking with trayvon martin and why she was not forthcoming about why she did not go to his funeral, claiming she was in the hospital when, in fact, she just didn't want to go. she claims it was too traumatic for her to see her friend in a coffin. we're joined now by msnbc legal analyst lisa bloom, who's been watching it trial all along for us. it seems, lisa, they're now going to go back into session after this recess. just to reset the table once again, we are now prepared for the defense to have an aggressive cross-examination of this witness. >> that's right. every witness who testifies in an american courtroom is subject to cross-examination. this one is no different. let's listen in. >> let's listen in. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon, mr. don.
it was turned based on information the defense did not get if regard to the star witness for the prosecution, but 23 years him although the exhibit of correctionings here in arizona says it's 12 years when that automatic appeal starts, to when the execution can take place, it appear, as though in reality, it is much longer. >> jean casarez, beth karas, you are both astounding courtroom lawyers and you are great lawyers. you willb hard at work following this, court will be in session starting at 1:00 eastern. as soon as jodi arias john boehner her testimony or her aloindication, one gets challenged, the other one doesn't. we will bring it to you live. again, we don't know if she will ask the jury to spare her or kill her. it is a bizarre turn that's about to happen in this courtroom. i will be on from 2:00 to 4:00 eastern live here in phoenix, arizona, a death penalty case like very few others i have seen in this country.
around bombing for what you want. you don't bomb for peace, as the weather underground attempted to do and apparently there are just different standards for radical, violent extremists depending on which end of the spectrum they happen to occupy. >> and then come out as a reviewer and then talk about how romantic their idealism is. can you imagine so? in any event, it will be in the theaters for people to consume or not if they so choose. >> not, not. >> megyn: guy, thank you. >> thanks, megyn. >> megyn: coming up, a writer for a leading magazine says president obama needs sensitivity training after he complimented the good looks of california's female attorney general. we'll take a look after the break. this man was sentenced to prison for life and now the star witness for the prosecution in his murder case admits that much of what she testified to on the stand was a lie. but is it too late for this man, convicted of murder? and does it really chae the
universe who would say she had the ability to consent at that point. >> megyn: isn't it more not whether she had the ability, david, but whether the boys understood that she didn't have the ability? >> that's true, but-- >> that's right, megyn, that's right, megyn. but look, the statements that she made before the party is huge and if witnesses corroborate that, that establishes her state of mind before she went there and carried over into the party. it's the perception of the defendants as to her consent, megyn, that's the issue and i've got to say it's just absolutely incredible that it boils down to a victim and this is going to be the star witness for the prosecution, a victim herself whose testimony won't be credible because of her state of inebriation. >> megyn: i don't think it's going to boil down to her. she's going to get up there and say i don't remember. i mean, the other witnesses who come in, one of the witnesses got up there and testified the alleged victim had said she was fine and did not need a ride back to an earlier party although she was slurring her words and stumbling, that's the kind of
that's right. the u.s. prosecuting attorney managing the case was married to the man managing the case of seigleman's opponent. the star witness for the prosecution who came he had saw the governor with a check in his hand after meeting with the donor was demonstratively wrong about the time and had been extorting alabama businessmen and cooperated with the prosecutors to avoid a ten-year sentence for his own crimes. nevertheless, after two deadl k deadlocks the jewish acquitted him on 27 and convicted him. the federal judge sentenced him to seven years in prison. over 100 former politicians have tried to get him freed. this has over 41,000 signatures and you can find it at free don.org. the other man is clarence aaron convicted of a nonviolent drug fence in 1993, a 24-year-old
there covering the trial. i want to start with melinda. this is a sad story. a sad story of a marriage coming apart, of deception, of infidelity, of cheating, also of money laundering. of all kinds of things allegedly. what happened today in the testimony? what did you hear in the testimony of andrew young, the star witness for the prosecution? >> well, when you say it's in many ways a sad story, that's so true. just to see john edwards' elderly parents sitting behind him, supporting him even now as they always have throughout his life, you can't not feel it for the family. andrew young as a witness today just seemed to me like a nightmare witness. i mean, so many inconsistencies, internal inconsistencies even in what he was saying. for example, saying john edwards did not want to know a thing about the scheme to keep the
do this, it's for the greater goo. this is bigger than all of us, this is about america. and andrew was also i thought very believable on the point of his own motivations in this. he said, you know, of course i wanted my friend to become president of the united states. that would mean a lot of good benefits for me. and that really did come across as quite believable. >> let me go to hampton on the point by point here. hampton, what did you think the prosecution established today in terms of the claim by them, and of course by the star witness that john edwards came in second in the iowa caucuses for president. how he was able to spend money he got from people like bunny using that money according to the prosecution to cover up the affair, the child he had out of wedlock with rielle hunter. how he's doing all this as part of a campaign expenditure?
this is about america. and andrew was also i thought very believable on the point of his own motivations in this. he said, you know, of course i wanted my friend to become president of the united states. that would mean a lot of good benefits for me. and that really did come across as quite believable. >> let me go to hampton on the point by point here. what did you think of prosecution established today in terms of the claim by then and of course by the star witness that john edwards, will that won back in 2004, coming in second in the iowa caucuses for president, how he was able toth back in 2004, coming in second in the iowa caucuses for president, how he was able to spend money he got from people, using that money according to prosecution to cover up the favor, cover p tup the child ouf wedlock, and how he's doing all this as part of a campaign except chur? how successful were they today? >> well, they didn't lose ground
american homes. it shocked the country. hippies up to that point were never associated with violence and murder. >> i'm not committed to nonviolence in any way. >> greta: the killings did not go unnoticed by the underground's leader. she said her weathermen digged manson offing those rich pigs with their own forks and knives. said the group adopted a four finger forked salute. 1970, they went on trial at the hall of justice in downtown l.a.. >> problems that manson was not physically at the murder scene participating in the murders. the two main pieces of evidence that i used to connect manson with these murders were motive and his domination over his family. >> greta: in texas, watson was still fighting extradition to california. in l.a. a cleaned up linda became the star witness for the prosecution. >> i'd like to see them fall