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,vo:remember to changew that oil is the it on schedule toy car. keep your car healthy. show your car a little love with an oil change starting at $19.95. all right. we want to pop back into the house of representatives right now because you can see congressman john lewis is standing there making a statement about the short-term spending bill that includes the defunding of obama care. of course, if that measure passes, there's a real possibility the government will shut down. right now, the congressmen and women will continue making statements, then they'll pass a series of bills, then they'l...

Sticking point? is that going to become a problem in geneva? after all, president putin in fact, just a day or two ago, said very same thing, you can't expect syria to disarm if the united states is still holding the threat of military action. so we'll have to see how this plays at that meeting in geneva. >> well, we're waiting to hear directly from the secretary of state and the russian foreign minister, they're making statements. we'll have live coverage of that. how much play, if any, jill, is putin's op-ed in "the new york times" getting in russia? >> reporter: quite a lot. and a lot of pe...

>> if russia doesn't have gay or lesbian athletes then it's probably make their team weaker. >> reporter: the russian sports ministers say it won't infringe upon private lives just public display. a russian athlete echoing his remarks. >> we are against publicity, but we are, of course, not against every choice of every single person. >> reporter: now a swedish athlete protesting by painting her nails in rainbow colors. the russian sports minister hasn't said whether olympic athletes would be prosecuted if making statements that violate the new law. the female runners haven't commented on that...

Saying is a minute ago this is fairly representative in terms of what we can expect from a defense. i guess the question that raises for me is, if you draw a line between what we saw in the courtroom and what we saw after the verdict was announced saturday night like at the press conference, it seemed is like a lot of what the defense was saying, oh, you know, george zimmerman would have never been charged if he was black, it was very inflammatory. it offended a lot of people. i wonder if that's representative of what we can expect. is that a legal strategy in there still could be a civil suit...

Time. >> reporter: in the end, judge debra nelson ruled against that option, but will allow jurors to consider manslaughter as a possible alternative to second-degree murder. so we saw prosecutors the other day go point by point with a slide show, powerpoint slide show also using those videos of george zimmerman making statements. we expect that defense attorney mark o'mara may turn to that video re-enactment, the computer re-enactment of the crime scene that was evidence that he wanted to get into the trial. remember, judge debra nelson said it couldn't be evidence for the jury to take back i...