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Zimmerman to find him suspicious in the first place? what is it that makes him get out of the car, to follow with the gun? those questions are central to understanding how the encounter happens in the first place, and that encounter is what is at the heart of this case. you know, the big facts are not ever going to change, you know. george zimmerman gets out of a car and follows trayvon at some point during that evening. and they encounter each other and trayvon ends up with a hole in his chest ...

Called it to get out of town. >> he should be treated like any other defendant. if hes not a risk of flight, if the equities are in his favor, he has no prior record, he has a stable family situation, hes a member of the community, he has a solid employment situation. >> theres every reason to think that the case against him is strong, that he would be looking at -- that he would flee the commonwealth and potentially flee the country. >> despite the fact that he has a fiancee and a baby and is a...

President obama today is down playing efforts to take the nsa leaker edward snowden into custody on felony charges, even as the case strains some foreign relations. our correspondent is following the latest from the state department. >> reporter: nsa leaker edward snowden is cooling his heels for another day at moscows airport. but is that the plan or is he stuck? obama administration officials are lobbying hard for countries around the world to stop him and send him back, but president barack o...

Closely, that trayvon said why are you following me? and that really described george zimmerman as the initial aggressor, as the pursuer. that is crucial, crucial to the states case because, after all, george zimmerman is claiming self-defense. if he is found to have been the first aggressor, if the jury believes rachel, then i think self-defense is almost off the table here. >> jeffrey, the defense, they have a tough job walking that very, very thin line. they want to undermine her credibility,...

Article for cnn.com, said its all about race. and for us to deny that i think doesnt get us a step further than where we were yesterday. >> do you think, charles, theres a real consensus in the african-american community about this case? >> well, i do believe that people understand the idea of racial profiling and that they believe in this case that something about trayvon triggered that response in george zimmerman, and they believe that that has something to do with racial profiling. because y...

This case from the very minute it started, and its continued to weave its way through the trial. you know, the state has been very effective through the back door of getting in their issue of race. theyve got in the five prior calls that zimmerman made. four of those are about african-american males who he was watching. so, we know that the state is very aware of it, but they cant specifically use that. we also know it came out in cross examination today where the witness number eight, you know,...

Version of event, if the jury hears that version of events, its over for the prosecution. but if they hear that version and have heard what rachel has said and they believe her, then the prosecution is well on its way to a conviction in this case. >> sunny hostin, thanks very much. jeffrey, dont go away, ive got some other questions on another case that were watching as well. jeffrey tubin is standing by. lets go to the devastating boston marathon bombings and the subsequent manhunt that left fo...

The world quite often the data is left with the telephone company. if the government needs to go after, you know, tamerlans cell use, they then would get what amounts to a warrant, go into that database which resides at the company, and get the same information. im with your prior guest. its not a question of do we need to do this? i think we do. the question is, are there ways that we can do it that will give us a higher level of protection? and it shouldnt matter whos in charge. >> senator -- ...

>> im not privy, obviously, to the intelligence that you see, but its interesting that you bring up the tsarnaev case, because i was thinking intuitively that its an example of why you should have a program like this because once you know whos responsible for the bombing of the boston marathon and have a phone number for that person, and youll remember for a while we were searching for the younger brother. you would instantly be able to see with whom that phone number has connected and with whom...

Tsarnaev. cnns nick paton walsh is live in moscow with details for us on this development. really breaking overnight, nick. >> absolutely. the early hours of sunday morning that this raid youre seeing, remarkably violent it appears, was aimed at trying to kill the man. let me wind back a little bit and explain to you why hes significant in the tsarnaev case. he is part of a militant group led by a man called abu dujen, a video of him was by tamerlan tsarnaev on his youtube channel. we dont know ...