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Florida goes on to say that he or she has exhausted every reasonable means to escape such danger other than the use of force, which is likely to cause death or great bodily harm to the assailant. how important is that? >> absolutely important. can you not be subjective and set up your on standard. it has to be objectively reasonable and to the extent you have other options. when the jurors looked at this, i think the demonstration they had about the accessibility or non-accessibility of the gun really plays heavily in here in terms of what options were available to him. i also think that the f...

About what constitutes reasonable. >> sometimes i joke if you have don't know the answer to a legal question, the answer is the reasonable standard. but what's reasonable to you may not be reasonable to me. what's reasonable to somebody if they are down, if they are being physically assaulted may not be reasonable to someone else. it's definitely a every broad and somewhat vague standard and subject to interpretation. >> i was going to say isn't the problem, though, in this case for the defense that george zimmerman claims initially he was having his head bashed on the concrete but at some poi...

Were introduced and they've got to disstill all of that and come to a decision. i'm going to bring in craig melvin in sanford, florida, lisa bloom, former prosecutor paul henderson joins me from san francisco. paul, let me start with you. if you're the prosecutor, how are you feeling about that question? >> i would actually be really excited about that question because it means they are focusing on one of the charges that means there's some accountability. i would be very concerned and whenever a jury question comes back, the lawyers rush in and you try and interpret exactly what does that que...

They want to resolve this, they're working hard at it, and i wouldn't be surprised if you don't have a verdict late this evening or first thing in the morning given how hard they're working and where they are in the jury instructions. i think that we'll know more with the next question about how far along they are. because the issue here is have they ruled out self-defense yet. and if they have, then it's a question of does all the elem t elements of manslaughter adhere. if they have not ruled out self-defense, then they still have a lot of work to do. >> and it could be they're just hungry. >...

Responsibility. we have been incredibly blessed. but, the simple point i make and i say this everywhere i go is with rights come responsibilities. and burdens, and it's not always comfortable and you can't always make everybody happy. it's like being president of a country. [ laughter ] thank you. >> thank you very much. effectively the question of africa and its history and the development globally, i think they should be taken what they are without assumptions. today we are talking about the globalized world. if the world is global blizzing. why should there be a question about africa that a...