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0 >> continuing on the stand now is detective chris serino, the official detective who changed the official police report, wanting the charge to be manslaughter and not second-degree murder. let's listen in. >> -- february the 2 9th, did you have further contact with the defendant? >> yes, i did. >> was that at the sanford police department? >> yes, it was. >> was an interview conducted of the defendant on that day? >> yes, it was. >> okay. and were his miranda rights given by investigator singleton? >> yes, they were. >> your honor, in terms of time frame, we're going to have to play a record...

0 when i see here things like, as he put his hands on his head when the officer arrived, "he goes, i told the officer where on my person the firearm was holstered." i mean it is almost as if it has been lived worth of 30 years' worth of police reports that i have read. it is that dead-on in choosing the language in the sort of stilted way police speak. >> so strike. and as lisa indicated, tts the calmness with which he describes this compared with the hysterics of the witness whose heard this take place behind their observe town homes. jonathan, i want to take you back to the 35,000-foot level...

0 in self-defense. he recognizes he took the life of another human being. so it shows a more human side to him. >> okay. thank you very much. we'll continue following the trial of course. i'm brooke baldwin. jake tapper and "the lead" starts right now. >> it sounded to the dispatcher -- >> i'm jake tapper, this is "the lead." you're watching live coverage of the george zimmerman trial. you're listening to interviews that officer serino did with george zimmerman. let's take a listen. >> now you want us to believe that you're concerned about having a flashlight to move back where you just ran? y...

0 the only thing that's keeping you cool here is the actual ground. we're trained to dig a hole right by your mouth to try to breathe through the ground where it's cooler. there's two types of heat. the radiant heat about 95% of that is reflected. you can imagine how hot it is. you have gloves on your hand. once your hands burn you can't hold it down. >> why do you suppose they didn't survive? >> unfortunately, one of biggest things is suffocation. a lot of times you don't have enough oxygen, you can't hold your breath long enough. we're trained not to lift it up. if you lift it up you get the...

0 he could get in there and rub it in a little bit more and he's not doing that yet. >> let's reserve judgment on that. >> we'll reserve judgment, that's right. that's it for "the lead." i turn you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room" who will continue the coverage of the george zimmerman trial. >> happening in his own words, jurors see and hear george zimmerman on tape recounting those dramatic chain of events that ended in trayvon martin's death. >> also, it's the deadliest blaze since the 9/11 attacks and the deadliest in arizona history. and former government george w. bush breakin...