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Evolutionary which is the dugout, those foundation pits in 2007 and then they stayed on as foundation pits until six months ago and whatnot. so that is one of the problems with russia. it wants to argue with the results, but how to get there that is really always an issue. >> david, on the one hand -- it's's zi to look at a figure like putin and point to the ways in which there's this dramatic performance of the olympics. but the olympics are always a dramatic performance, particularly a dramatic performance of national pride. so should we be surprised in this case to find that the russians be...

Case of trayvon martin. the defense didn't base their case on stand your ground. the judge did cite the law in her instructions to the jury. the jury then returned with a not guilty verdict for george zimmerman. now michael dunn's attorney is using stand your ground. by now we're all well versed in what that means. michael dunn who pleaded not guilty to first degree murder and attempted murder believes he had the right not to retreat, but to use deadly force to prevent himself from being harmed. it's no coincidence this central legal question at issue in this case became and continues to be a ...

That's basically what the jury said, basically what the stand your ground standard of evidence is making us all -- >> i'm so glad you brought this up. it's a discourse i can remember from being a young person that was always about, oh, white ladies pull their purse up close are to them. even president obama in his philadelphia race speech talked about seeing the discomfort in the eyes of white women who might clutch their purse closer. now it goes from that, which is a micro aggression, walking the streets and feeling that someone feels afraid of you in a mike xwroe aggression way to life and ...

Jail, you have to redefine what justice looks like. is it a repeal of stand your ground? it's hard for me to know what justice looks like in this case? >> i think it is a repeal of stand your ground, debates in further states where these laws could be passed, becoming centered around these issues that have been elevated by these incredible individual tragedies and people who would be opposed to them are sort of couch sitting about it, would actually stand up and say i know what that could look like in my state. i think the question about what does justice look like also has to be the fact that...

Things need to be dealt. it's no secret i've taken this position for some time now. these laws in 23 states need to be repealed around stand your ground. what was very telling to me is even the judge in this case admitted how confusing the self-defense law is. and even though he read to it the jury when they asked for a reread, that portion of the jury, watch what he said. this is the judge in that trial. >> he wants me to read the first paragraph of justifiable use of deadly force? >> yes, your honor. >> which is an incomplete instruction. and i do not want to go through that whole justifiabl...