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soaring. >> plus, employers asking job applicants for their facebook passwords, shocking, but likely legal. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> this is cnn breaking news. let's get right to the breaking news this hour in sanford, florida. just moments ago the chief of police announced he's temporarily stepping aside, a move over the handling of the trayvon martin shooting death. martin is the unarmed black teenager killed by a volunteer who has not been charged. update our viewers on the very latest. >> reporter: wolf, the city m...

this will be a topic of heated debate here in the city of new orleans. sean payton has been a beloved figure ever since the saints won the super bowl after the 2009 season in the years after hurricane katrina. sean payton and quarterback drew brees, you know, were the faces of this team and in the city for a team that had done so much to kind of bring this city out of the doldrums here. so the punishment against him, i think, will be a hot topic of debate here in the city. >> a lot of people, new orleans saints being one of my favorite teams having my family being from new orleans. c...

>> well, we know -- >> there's something wrong with this. >> we know from this tape everything he knew about trayvon martin. and this is it. he looks black. that's it. that's everything he knew. from what you're hearing in these tapes, dan french, do you see the elements to make a hate crime case here because that's the only thing he knew about who he shot? >> there's only two elements. they couldn't have written a more simple federal statute. if you commit a crime, you willfully do it, you injure somebody or kill them because of their race, that's a hate crime. if you kill them, you face life...

Why did you pursue him? he was walking home. was he committing any crime? no. >> well, we know -- >> there's something wrong with this. >> we know from this tape everything he knew about trayvon martin. and this is it. he looks black. that's it. that's everything he knew. from what you're hearing in these tapes, dan french, do you see the elements to make a hate crime case here because that's the only thing he knew about who he shot? >> there's only two elements. they couldn't have written a more simple federal statute. if you commit a crime, you willfully do it, you injure somebody or kill th...

toss the head set fell. >> zimmerman says he was acting in self-defense and has never been arrested or charged, but martin's family and their many supporters claim that racial bias in the shooting and the investigation. so now the fbi has stepped in and the justice department has opened a civil rights investigation. cnn legal analyst sunny hostin joining me now with more on all of this. why don't we go ahead and start with trayvon's cell phone friend. i understand you actually have a copy of her sworn affidavit. give us the details, sunny. we'll kind of unfold the conversation from t...