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Filibuster in exchange for up or down votes on president obama's stalled nominees. majority leader harry reid had threatened to change senate rules if no bargain was met. the immediate result was the confirmation of richard cordray to lead the consumer financial protection board. president obama nominated him back in 2011, but republicans kept pushing off a vote. while the compromise temporarily got things moving, it doesn't address larger questions. senators did not set any framework for restricting future filibusters of nominees. frustration, concern and calls for justice continue across t...

About the tough jury deliberations and reveals one juror actually wanted to leave the jury room. >> it was tough. we all pretty much get along. as far as sometimes to let other people talk, you know, one time and then have somebody else talk. instead of adding your comments to whatever they were saying, trying to help figure out what we were trying to figure out. at times i thought we might have a hung jury because one of them said they were going to leave. and we convinced them, no, you can't leave. you can't do this. you have been in this too long to walk out now. >> and she said this juror ...

Holder's speech then turned personal. he mentioned a talk he had with his son after the trayvon martin shooting. >> yet for all the progress that we've seen, recent events demonstrate that we still have much more work to do. and much further to go. >> four of the jurors in the zimmerman trial are now distancing themselves from the comments made by juror b-37 in the interview with anderson cooper on cnn. and one provocative reaction to the zimmerman verdict has now gone viral. former white house adviser van jones tweeted this picture after the not guilty verdict. as you can see it shows marti...

Birthday. we all should be so lucky. >> and he's, of course, been ailing. all good wishes to mandela, to nelson mandela, to the family, and to the entire nation. this is a huge celebration, not only around the world, but primarily in south africa where he is beloved. chris, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." marah schiavocampo has a look at what's next on "news nation. >> protesters descend on the florida governors office demanding the repeal of the state's controversial stand your ground law in the wake of george zimmerman'...

She even said george zimmerman started the confrontation. why would she think he didn't have the right to respond? to say he should have just gone home. >> right. there's a certain level of denial in what she said. because she also said that race was not an issue here at all, it was not even discussed in the jury room. and george zimmerman had seen anyone of any race, he would have stopped them. and anyone looking at the statements he made and his history about the young black men he called the police on numerous times knows that's simply not true. so the view that the way that she looked at t...