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Key swing states. >> "the washington post" printing on a day to day basis and on their website exactly where their race stands in terms of electoral votes. can we quickly p put that up on the screen 323 for her, 215 for him. give me 30 seconds on the big picture state of the race. >> i think the big picture state of the race right now is that donald trump needs to flip, 64 electoral votes that mitt romney lost. he needs to pick up a state like florida 29, which is sort of on the bubble right now. he needs to pick up a state like ohio which seems somewhat in his camp but of course could fade aw...

About him. if you can call it that. was not under some sort of delusions of what he was doing. >> the defense argued it's the other way, it's proof how out of touch he is after doing something so horrible to someone he knew cared about him, he did something routine. showing he didn't have that the upset of emotion that killers often have. then the chase. they watched this chase and the prosecution was very strong on this. because they said and as we heard in the sum up put in a very indelicate way by the prosecutor crazy don't run. when what were they saying? >> flight. flight is another very ...

Also look at the screen, someone was yelling help, help, help. the jury won't infer that the person yelling help was the person in the bottom and that corroborates the defense of self-defense. >> it sounds like that was pretty important testimony that helps george zimmerman. >> well, there's no question that it was important testimony. it was the most important testimony for the defense and many are saying why would he p put on the case. the prosecution doesn't want to be seen by this jury as trying to hide evidence. you can't run away from the facts when you're a prosecutor. you try to shape ...

>> obviously lautenberg -- >> who retired. >> i remember serving in the senate with rick santorum in the late '90s and early 2000s and it was lautenberg and -- lawtutenbg was the nice e of the senators. he was just a very nice gentlemen. very much partisan, but still a gentlemen. >> it's interesting. this is at a time when you know right now, democrats get criticized for not having people from the business community, he was a guy in the '80s from the business world. a ceo. a founder, made it big and it was a liberal democrat. >> exactly. a large publicly traded company and he made it a point o...

What about the assad dynasty in syria, obviously a minority part of the population, yet assad's father, infamous how he p put -- he would literally go into villages, wipe them out, kill everybody, salt the earth, and had little problems in his last years of ruling. his son is quite different. do you think the assad dynasty may collapse? >> it certainly, with the news of the last 48 hours, beginning to look like that. but it expresses the central conundrum of that and maybe why our western policies are not just expedient in some respects practical, which is to say, it's difficult to see where t...