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Case. including dylann roof's defense. up until two weeks ago, roof said he wanted to represent him c self. he has done an about face. now asking for representation during the guilt phase. he is expected to represent himself during the penalty phase. he is not just facing this federal hate crime death penalty case, but state death penalty case which is expected to be tried some time early next year. we expect closing arguments some time later this morning. john. nick, thank you. heart stopping video from china. firefighters rush to save a man who was on the verge of jumping off a high-rise. ...

Said he did not know he killed nine people, he thought it was four or five. they stated he had a problem of reality. going back to what you and eric discussed about of the sentencing phase. remember he changed his mind on this. he was going to be representing himself for this phase, the guilt phase. he changed his mind three days before the trial began. right now in that courtroom, he had david brooke and this is a man who represented the hijackers. he was on tsarnaev's defense team. he was clearly of the best known attorney in the country working for him right now. i want to ask eric, can you...

Information, it's not a question of did he do it. the question is is he going to die for it. that will be a question presented at the mipenalty phas and presumably at the guilt phase but it wasn't. >> so looking to your point as to whether he will die for what he did piece, from a defense perspective, how would you argue to save his life? map that out. >> it's very difficult. very few percent of death penalty eligible cases are pre-med pre-meditated. this is premeditated murder. that is the exception to the rule and the presumption in most jurors' minds is you kill somebody with full intent an...

Sanders, one of the survivors of that shooting. she actually had to take a break from her testimony because it was so emotional. also during opening statements, dylann roof's own mother suffered a heart attack and had to be removed from the courtroom, transferred to a local hospital by ambulance. there's also been a lot of drama around the defense for dylann roof. initially he said he wanted to represent himself in the guilt phase as well as the penalty phase. two sundays ago, he changed his mind asking only to represent himself during the penalty phase. the attorney that he has now is a famed...

The death penalty there i think he almost certainly will. that will be in the penalty phase. here in the guilt phase i think the defense lawyers worry that by putting on ed here they could just insult the jury's intelligence. this is not a who done it. this is not a mystery about who did this shooting. >> this is a "if he gets put to death." >> right. and that will be a separate -- the way death penalty cases work is you have the guilt face which is concluding and it's a foregone conclusion what the result will be and then they'll move to the penalty phase and there will be some kind of strate...