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Unfortunately because his assumptions were wrong, trayvon benjamin martin no longer walks on this earth. >> joining me now is managing editor of the grio.com and an msnbc contributor, joyoid, and msnbc legal analyst lisa bloom. lisa, i want to go to you first. we know the prosecution is going toby g begin its rebuttal. a lot brought up in the defense closing arguments, the crux seeming to rest on the notion that there is too much of a reasonable doubt to convict george zimmerman. where does the prosecution begin as it must in the next few minutes? >> well, i would begin by starting out with wh...

Physical evidence which refutes his lies and the law that her honor is about to read to you. the law that applies to all of us and the law that applies to each of us. this is the truth. thank you for your time. >> ladies and gentlemen, i'm going to read the jury instructions but i want to give you a choice. would you like to have these instructions read after lunch or would you like to have them read now and then go to lunch? after lunch? okay. i will respect that. please put your notepads down. before you go to lunch -- >> that was state attorney john guy wrapping up the prosecution's rebutta...

Contributor and a contributor to the grio.com and james, want to ask you about this concept of democracy. we do have this sense in the united states that it is simply about elections, about the will of the people. but in egypt, we have an emergent democracy where the will of the people is essentially being expressed through the military. do we need to start to create a more fluid concept of what it means to be a democratic country? obviously, i think morsi won in the democratic election with i think 51% of the vote. so it was already going to be a contested situation. i think as outsiders here...

Does mr. snowden feel a need to go and flee and run around the globe going to countries that he probably opportunity want to live in? the answer is because we've allowed our government to persecute whistleblowers. read the column by david carr in "the new york times" today. he says the war on the press that the u.s. government is waging is not a matter of hyperbole but math. whistleblowers have no chance in this country because of this persecution. that's the reason he's fleeing and seems to me more important as well. >> glenn greenwald from the "guardian." joining me, goldie taylor, contrib...

Globe going to countries that he probably opportunity want to live in? the answer is because we've allowed our government to persecute whistleblowers. read the column by david carr in "the new york times" today. he says the war on the press that the u.s. government is waging is not a matter of hyperbole but math. whistleblowers have no chance in this country because of this persecution. that's the reason he's fleeing and seems to me more important as well. >> glenn greenwald from the "guardian." joining me, goldly taylor, contributor to msnbc and the grio.com. i've been watching all this unf...