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a couple of holdouts initially, and they are now of one of cord. >> shannon: do you think maybe they were convinced, whatever the disagreement was, if there was a disagreement, they asked for the pecker testimony and the cohen testimony, the rereading of the jury instructions, do you think the fact that we didn't hear from them again after that, that that one section or that one conflict was what they needed to get to something now? >> i think the jury instruction was pretty pro-prosecution. i think a lot of the evidentiary rulings were pro-prosecution. so what you are going to get w...

Sondland and for president trump and for his defenders. all of his defense hinges on there was no quid pro quo. let's repeat that, there was no quid pro quo. now we have ambassador sondland realizing that his testimony under oath could be construed as false, and quickly having to correct it, especially after seeing other transcripts of other testimony that clearly contradicted his own. and so now we have the full mulvaney, there was a quid pro quo, so what, get over it. but the entire defense of president trump by his republican acolytes in congress that there was no quid pro quo has now colla...

They, too, might have been afraid of trayvon martin. a lot of his defense hinges on the idea that trayvon martin would have been frightening to a reasonable person and that that's why george zimmerman's self-defense claim makes sense. >> did it show to you at all how much o'mara was bringing up the word sympathy or bringing up emotions and trying to almost be paternal to this all-female jury -- you're women, you're going to be emotional about it, you got to put that at the side. >> he realizes five or six of these jurors are mothers and that trayvon was 17-year-old high school student with sna...

Just days after launching a website to help raise money to pay his expenses. all of it potentially damaging to his case. >> it's a credibility question with mr. zimmerman. and now that credibility has been attacked or tarnished. and now he's going to have to rehabilitate it. >> reporter: we could hear recordings of those conversations. and you can be sure the jury will hear them as well. that's bad news for zimmerman. his defense hinges upon the jury believing his version of events the night of the shooting. matt gutman, abc news, sanford, florida. >> so he is in a really, really small jail ce...

Of the two remaining girls who are 12 and 8. they are believed to be with adam mayes, a longtime family friend who is the subject of an intense multistate manhunt. more grim news this morning. a minnesota woman is under arrest for trying to suffocate her 5-month-old baby at a st. paul hospital. 24-year-old katie lewis told doctors her son occasionally stopped breathing and then alone in a room with him, a surveillance camera caught her allegedly suffocating him. lewis later told police she was stressed about caring for the baby and her other child all by herself. john edwards intended to c...