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Transcripts For MSNBC MSNBC Live 20130820

May be effective. I think most americans can see through this and see the political agenda in the video. Its pretty clear they dont want to stop gun violence. They want to stop firearms, period. They want to stop our freedoms. Reporter in the wake of George Zimmermans acquittal, the floridas Sheriff Association asked its members if they supported the law. The Association Says in unanimous voice vote, 57 sheriffs said, the law does make sense. Kerry sanders, nbc news, miami. Joining me right now is Joshua Horowitz who of the company who produced that ppsa. There is shock value to that psa using the actual phone calls but actors in it. Mark omara pointing out he didnt use a stand your Ground Defense and zimmermans brother tweet out what he saw is giving this psa a fail and Sybrina Fulton saying she cant watch it. The jury got the stand your ground instructions and i think that is important. There was testimony about stand your ground. George zimmerman had been to class about stand your ground. The idea this isnt part of the trial is ridiculous. You the jury had that in front of them. A big change in florida law. It used to be if you had an opportunity to spare life, did you so and you got out of the situation. With the stand your ground jury instruction that is is not part of floridas law any more. We will hear from the Martin Familys Attorney Benjamin Crump coming up. Did you reach out to the Martin Family and let them know of this intention . We did not. We have a lot of survivors on staff. We work with survivors every day. I got a lot of support from our survivors around the country but this was a decision we made as our own and we think that its tastefully done and we think its an important place to show and, obviously, we believe stand your ground should be repelled in the 26 states and the purpose of the video is show what the real results are of those laws. Lets talk about the stand your ground laws, the 26 states you mentioned in this National Campaign since the zimmerman verdict. There is a number of lawmakers from these states have actually called for a review of the law but this year alone, we have a couple of states, including ohio, they propose bills to strength the states existing laws when it comes to stand your ground. However, Law Enforcement officials like chief Robert Oppenheimer chairman of the Ohio Association of Police Chiefs legislative Committee Says no need to change. He told the columbus sdadispatc quote. Explain why is that . Despite the growing protests against stand your ground laws. More states are considering enacting them. Look. I really cant speak to why states are doing more of it. I think its a terrible idea and i think more people are chg out against it with good reason. It goes against 3,000 years of legal principle from the jewish bible and common law it is known if you spare human life you did it and shows a moral problem right now. If people believe we should you know, its all right to start a fight and maybe lose that fight and then shoot somebody, i think the moral thing to do is try to spare life if you possibly can and i think the states are doing it have forgotten their legal and moral responsibility in these situations. Joshua horowitz of the coalition to stop gun violence, thank you for joining me. Joining me is benjamin crump. Have the Martin Family seen than psa and maybe to react to it. Maybe not sybrina but maybe trayvons father . Not that im aware. Its still emotional for them. Their son is gone and he is never coming back. So they have so much emotion tied to these things this they try to shy away from them. We are getting this psa, ben, now, on the heels of pretty emotional oped that you penned for wp titled stand up for Trayvon Martin by amending stand your ground. What is your reaction to the psa . Its a in your face kind of message to certainly lawmakers but your message in the Washington Post was to voters out there and if you wanted to vote for trayvon, the best way to do that is to look for those people that are in favor of amending stand your ground laws. Well, as Sybrina Fulton said and tracy martin said, they are trying to make something positive out of something very negative and dealing with the devastating loss of their son and aftermath of the verdict. Therefore, they are trying to have a legacy that will define trayvon and that is to have this Trayvon Martin amendment to stand your ground laws that simply stand for the proposition that you cannot be the initial aggressor. You cant start the confrontation and kill somebody and say you were standing your ground. Its common sense legislation. We think that its a win win for everybody. They have not been partisan about it. They have been completely nonpartisan say we want to protect our children. We believe our children have a right to walk in peace. The trayvon voter is a person who is common sense person who say i should have a right to walk in paens not be profiled, especially on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther king who dreamed about his children being judged by the content of their character, rather than by the color of their skin, and the march on washington on saturday, that is is going to be where the parents and i are going to be talking about. So, ben, you write in this piece that people stop you, that the jury got it wrong. And how people have looked over this, some people would say they got it wrong and some say they got it right, based on what the law allowed them to do. How do you think that your oped in coordination with what the Martin Family wants to do for Trayvon Martins legacy can get the attention of people . Because it seems now that as more time has gone by, more emotion around it has dissipated. People have lost the attention, the focus that is needed. I havent seen many people stop talking about it, thomas. In fact, if you look at the ebony magazine piece and if you look at reverend sharpton and Martin Luther king iii talking about saturday trayvon is a major focus of the march. Its not just a symbolic march. Its a call for action. We think that a lot of young people, black and white alike are rallying around this cause. They want to vote and didnt get to vote in the criminal proceeding dealing with his shooting death. This is their opportunity to vote for trach and make sure they register to vote and vote in the november midterm elections. Trayvon was 17 years old. He would have been able to vote had he not been killed when he turned 18. So the real question is for all of those young people, will you vote . Trayvon didnt get a chance. Martin family Attorney Benjamin Crump, thanks for making time for me and getting in so quickly. Appreciate it. Youre welcome. Thank you. Our big question today is for you. Do you think the psa goes too far . Share your thoughts on facebook or twitter. We will have those later in the show. What is going with san diego mayor bob filner . He still is no show at city hall as he negotiates a possible settlement with some of the 16 women accusing him of Sexual Harassment . Will he stay or will he go . We will talk to one of the accusers next. Get the play on words . Announcing his play on candidacy. Ted cruz in a birther crisis of his own. Will it impact his run for president in 2016 . announcer scottrade knows our clients trade and invest their own way. With scottrades smart text, i can quickly understand my charts, and spend more time trading. 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People rallied at city hall calling for people not to prenudge him. Prejudge him. We asked him not to resign. I will stand by him. What we have is a lynch mob that has said just the opposite. They have said you are guilty and now you need to provide proof that you are innocent. He has a vision for the city which no previous mayor has ever had. Joining me right now is the third woman to come forward with allegations against mayor fillmayor. Morgan rose is a psychologist in the San Diego School system and executive director of the american angels campaign. The back story you initially met with mayor filner while he was still serving as a u. S. Congressman to promote the Advocacy Group you founded and had a private meeting with you. What do you allege happened at that private meeting . It was private but also public in the maria callendars across nhis office. We were there to talk about the hope of americas children and inviting the obamas to become involved. So we were seated in a back booth in maria callanders. I remember the restaurant was empty. He sat down across from me and since he had called this meeting on his own to find out who in the hell i am in his words, i had brought my resume expecting him to need to see my credentials before he went to the obamas. I handed those to him across the table and he barely glanced at the first page and put it aside and said he had already in wet Michelle Obama and she wanted us to work on a memo together. And then the next second i saw his whole face turn creepy and his eyes strange. And then he said to me, your eyes have bewitched me. And i knew that our discussion had just taken a 180 in a different direction. But i didnt know what he was about to do and within a few seconds, he had gotten up and come over and sat next to me, pinning me into the booth, and then as this is not normal in my life, it was like a suspension of time and space. I dont remember if he immediately tried to move my face to kiss me, or said he wanted to kiss me. But his arm was around my shoulders and four times during about the next ten minutes, he was taking my face, my head and trying to move it towards him and kiss me. That happened four times. And in between, i was negotiating with him, please go back to your side of the table so we can continue this very important discussion. Please let me out. Please let me leave. And no matter what i said, his response was, just kiss me and i will. Morgan, these allegations are similar to aggressive behavior that other women have come forward to tell about their encounters with the mayor. I want to remind everybody. Take a look. He would come in and try and kiss me on the lips and id have to squirm to get away. He got very close to me. And he ran his finger up my cheek like this. And he whispered to me, do you have a man in your life . I was placed in a filner headlock and moved around as a rag doll while he whispered sexual comments in my ear. Leaned over the desk and took my hands and says, i think i could go eight hours. And i looked at him and said, are you kidding . Some of these women just demonstrated there have gotten legal representation and counsel. Have you contacted or retained legal representation . I have contacted legal representation and that was a twoweek process, even finding out how i could come out with dignity and protect myself and my family by doing so. And that was with the counsel of an attorney. I want to point out real quickly, morgan, to everybody that these are very serious allegations and accusations against the mayor but as of yet he is not facing any criminal charges. His office has not responded to our repeated question for a statement. All nine councilmembers want the mayor to resign. Recall organizers need 100,000 signatures to get a recall of the mayor in place. But doubt that from your encounters from this man do you think he is delusional about the realities of his situation are or is this the behavior of a man being persecuted . There are people out there rallying for him that say he should not be prejudged. Absolutely, they have that right, but for those of us who were victimized by him and we can no long see him as worthy of being the leader of this beautiful city, you know, we have the other side of the story and im not going to judge any side one way or another but we are speaking out with our personal stories that do definitely have a theme of him imposing himself in our lives and sometimes assaulting us in our lives, and that is serious. For my vantage point, im not going to be able to consider criminal charges simply because the statute of limitations has run out. I continued to work on the email to Michelle Obama because of the stake what was for american children. I was not going to compromise that. As a congressman, i knew he had access to my Social Security number, my address. He had already phoned me at home. Possibly knowing where my work places were. So i just felt to keep myself safe, i would not come forward at that time. At that time, i would have only been one voice. Where now, with the group of us with the theme of our stories, there is much more impact and i think safety in numbers. We wish you nothing but the best and appreciate you coming on to share your story. We will follow the story as it plays out and see if charges ever come forward and if the mayor shows up at city hall. Thank you, morgan rose. Thank you for the opportunity. Big question, pay back time. Guardian reporter glenn greenborrow saying they will be sorry for retaining his partner. What they are planning in the press now. They are off. 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She was born in wilmington and lived most of her life in canada. Joining me is wayne. This matters because ted cruz have run for president come 2016. Does senator cruz qualify as the, quote, natural born u. S. Citizen as the constitution requires in a president . The quick answer is probably. The scholarship on the issue indicates if you talk to legal scholars and cases settled suggest that absolutely he is eligible to run for president. The issue itself, the precise issue with its circumstances that cruz has has never been litigated at the Supreme Court level, probably never will be, frankly. All indications are, yes, he is eligible to run. Hes the child of an american citizen, although born in cana

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