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The court-martial of private first class bradley manning as early as this tuesday. the presiding judge is considering whether manning was aiding the enemy with general evil intent. that language is important. manning is accused of giving more than 700,000 documents, and diplomatic cables to wikileaks, including a video showing a helicopter attack in iraq. that mistakenly killed innocent civilians. the legal director of the center for constitutional rights joins me here in the studio. what have we learned from the proceedings that started back in june? >> we've learned a number of things. we've...

>> i'm not. the system didn't work for us. the system was broken initially. i think the system continues to be broken tonight is what i'm suggesting to you. >> but about that system, that system, there are those who say it's simple, the prosecution did not prove its case, did not prove second degree murder. the state needed to show george zimmerman had ill will, hatred, spite, evil intent against trayvon martin and clearly the jury agreed the prosecution did not make that connection. martin savidge live in san frrd, florida. how are officials moving forward in we heard some warnings about prot...

But i think he's trying to get to the emotions of that jury to let them know we have a minor, who was unarmed, who was shot and killed and he is trying to bring out those elements of second-degree murder statute in this state, so they are able to look at that, and quite frankly they should look at that only in make their decision with their deliberatio deliberations. >> in other words, he's trying to meet that element of evil intention, which is required? >> absolutely. that's what he's trying to do. i don't think he has enough. i've said that for quite a while now. they're so far removed from...

Under cross-examination watch what happens. >> was there anything in george's voice that gave you the impression that he was angry or acting with ill-will, spite or hatred on that phone call? >> no. >> okay. little confusing but bear with me because there's so much direct, cross, redirect, re, reand re-re. what she was saying was that when she heard those words and i'm sorry i can't say them and we can't play them. they were used to bring out what kind of person this was. what kind of intent this was that was chasing after whoever he thought was in that hoodie. the defense attorney used those ...

Trayvon martin and george zimmerman, that darkness can have an impact, so there's so much testimony for them to consider and now, they're going into the defense case. but remember, the prosecution has to show as one of the elements of second degree murder that george zimmerman had hatred, ill will, spite, evil intent against trayvon martin as a person, so the jury has to be thinking about the words of george zimmerman, was that evil intent? there's a very challenging issue there. >> lots of stuff to think about there. thanks so much for putting it all together for us. after the trial resumes m...