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Analysis with respect to what joyce vance said earlier. i think this speech was a form of get off my back. i got this. also a form of gun shy. you talk about a justice department that s been under a lot of pressure politically over the past few years certainly in the face of not one but two impeachments and all the information that was born out of those efforts and i think that there s a level of cautiousness here that is hard to bear for citizens looking at this saying can you please do something or give me an indication of somebody s going to pay a price here. but that s not how our system works. so i m willing to give the justice department a little bit more runway. because you re talking about bringing heavy level charges ....
I think the problem with the department of justice, as the next step on this, is that the standard is just so high from a legal perspective. you really have to get within george zimmerman s head and prove what he is thinking. so they may very well pursue it, but it s really more difficult than the trial that we just had. i mean, to me, what was most striking was not obama s reaction, but the reaction of the prosecutor angela corey who really celebrated the spreader in the end or seemed pleased with it or pleased with what happened and it really, i think, raised questions as that this was a show trial and not a real trial aimed at getting a verdict. i want to say thanks to all four of you. a very good conversation going on here. our big question of the day for you has been about the zimmerman verdict and asking will it lead to a deeper discussion about race in america? also if you want to check out more from me and the agenda panel head to tv.msnbc.com and ....
Something of a new request. the justice department picking up on what they suspended and agreed to visit after the trial. do you think they waiting to see if something civil moves forward and the fact that george zimmerman would have to testify and they could pivot off that testimony? i think if something, civil moves forward and that is the family s option he will have to testify. i think in his answering those questions, he may provide very new evidence that could be used both by the justice department and others because he will have to answer, for example, when you said they always get away with it, who is they that you re referring to and get away with what? going home? is that what you were talking about? because that is all we have been told. what no one has raised to the defense is you had how many days? you never one time even implied that trayvon martin was doing anything illegal or improper. how do you defend the fact that ....
Chicago last year. over a hundred latinos killed in chicago last year. why isn t the justice department concerned about developing a task force that involves all of those people of color who were killed in the president s hometown? jed, let s talk about the political implications that come out of this. we are hearing a lot of rhetoric there from newt gingrich in trying to equalize it with other issues in the country that are important as well but may be apples to oranges. but what are the political implications when we talk about the department of justice wanting to take an investigative now that the criminal trial is over and potentially bring charges? i ll just say in the beginning that i think the attitude expressed by newt gingrich in that clip is exactly the same attitude that ended up costing trayvon martin his life. the idea that the protesters are going to be a lynch mob when the reality is these protesters have been overwhelmingly peaceful. thousands of people on the treat ....
There was no legal or any other reason that zimmerman should have approached trayvon martin according to transcript. in fact, he was told don t follow him. so he s a much different the other thing is unlike a lot of coverage that a lot of media and we have been doing, the family had made the request in the beginning for the justice department. i was there in the meeting when the broad civil rights issues was raised. this is not a new question. there is new petitions, new drive. the request was made and the justice department said we will suspend our inquiry until after the trial. so i think that a lot of people are trying to act like this started now because of the verdict. this is being picked up after the trial. the meeting was with the u.s. attorney in the beginning. i know there in sanford because i was part of the meeting raising broader civil rights issues. the family requested it then with attorney crump. i think we need to correct a lot of people acting like this is ....