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He needed more time to talk to his attorneys, and if he does, i will afford it to him. mr. zimmerman, how much more time do you think you're going to need to discuss this with your attorneys? >> i assume it would depend on how long the recesses are, your honor. the end of the day. >> okay. well, if your attorneys have finished with two witnesses before the end of the day, do you think that you would then know whether or not you want to testify? >> so john, do you believe that -- meaning the defense here, if they've made a decision as to whether or not they're going to bring george zimmerman on...

His testimony. i don't know that it opens up because the defendant himself hasn't made those statements. >> all of these witnesses and many of them except for perhaps those who have talked about the science of the gunshot wound and even their credibility, i think, can be put on the table. but a witness like this, this dennis root, who admits this is the first time he's ever been used as an expert. he knows the publicity that will come with this case. he goes beyond my questions on deadly force to questions of demeanor and what someone was thinking and all of these things. it just begs to the q...

To bring himself into this type of case. but i think at the end of the day, all this discussion -- really, i don't think the prosecutors had to do a lot of some of these because these are going to be jury questions and whether the jury really sees these as significant. they're not going to want to believe that a guy that's had mma experience for eight months has no skill, as these people are trying to say. it defies logic and doesn't make sense. they didn't really help themselves. they overreached with this particular witness. i think it helped the prosecution more than they thought it would. ...

Criminal justice. it's how the system works in and of itself. >> and having done it for now, i guess, 20, 25 years, did you enjoy being a law enforcement officer? >> i did. i enjoyed being a police officer very much. >> you think it was for you a noble profession? >> absolutely. >> would you encourage or discourage -- say you had a 20-year-old nephew or son, would you encourage them or discourage them of taking on a life of law enforcement? >> depends on the child. i have a stepson, for example, very physically fit. i would encourage him without question to pursue it. >> an interesting line of...

Zimmerman -- can we play it? okay. we're going to get that on tap. again, that was an extraordinary moment, lisa, in this case for us to hear, a, from george zimmerman, and the uncertainty in his mind as to whether or not he's going to testify. >> right. so let me set it up for you. in normal criminal cases, and this is so far from a normal criminal case, at the end of the defense case, the defense announces that the defendant is not going to testify. then there's a particular format that the judge goes through in every case where she asks a series of questions to make sure he knowingly, volun...