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>> all it takes is wild socks i guess. anyway, looks like he was having fun and is having fun in life these days. the daily show was back last night and john oliver didn't shy from the zimmerman verdict. here he he was weighing in on the controversy. >> this is an awful story. and it is hard to make a case for it not being at least partially about race. it definitely has some racial undertones if not racial only tones. is there anything that we can learn from then terrible tragedy? let's hear from george zimmerman's defense attorney. >> the prosecution raised this question about whether the outcome would be different if the races of the defendant and the victim were different. >> i think that the things would having been different if george zimmerman was black for this reason. he never would have been charged with a crime. >> yeah. i suppose the one thing that our justice system is notorious for is how lenient it is on black people.
there was not any sincerity in whether this woman felt insecure or felt some type of way about her lack of education or ability to communicate. i think the juror was patrontising. i do think that it showed that the juror did not give this woman any credibility whatsoever. and just basically wrote her off to be someone who didn't know what she was talking about and you know, didn't give it much help for the prosecution's case. >> i think if you're prejudiced in favor of george, you probably would like to see the failure of that witness to do as badly as she did. there's some of that at play. we're all human. thank you. great witnesses you two were. seem an iyer, thanks very much. don't laugh when i say stuff. i mean it. thank you, kisha for coming on, as well. we'll be right back after this. you make a great team.
why was he doing certain things. chris, that is legally objectionable. you cannot ask a witness on the stand about what will someone else, someone else who frankly is dead what they were thinking and what they were doing because you do not observe it, and that is state of mind. so the i put this on the prosecution. >> and i also agree that with miss jeantel's demeanor and somewhat aggressiveness, it kind of put in the jurors' minds okay, if she has the type of attitude, is that what trayvon martin had? >> what about the cracker comment? i'm annoyed, cracker is not a word i hear from black or white. it must be a local term, certainly local. didn't she say something thank didn't seem to bother as an ethnic term of derision? >> i think it was an ethnic term and she being 19 years old did not think of the consequences of using those types of terms. i think it hurt the prosecution