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Billions of people around the world. what i would look for is for lots of a focus on the odious nature of joe ar ppaio or the mental competency of george w. bush but let's have a debate about the actual path we're going down and whether or not what we're seeing in the beginning of this administration in terms of a more nationalist policy more rooted in american interest and not americn values, is that working? is that delivering results? i think when voters come up with the next round of voting they're going to look at those results and make a decision whether or not the bad end view is really...

Him. and in the audience, of course, are survivors, and there are also victims' family members. all of this crowded into one courtroom, and he gets up, defending himself, speaks in his own words for the first time. and he -- well, you just don't know what he's going to do essentially. though the judge had spoken to him before the jury came in, and they had set down some ground rules of what he could and could not do, you're talking about a man whose mental competency has been questioned twice. so, no doubt there were a lot of people wondering what will he do, what will he say. turns out what h...

Didn't address the massacre and used up his whole time to talk about his own mental competency really hurt him. he said he stood there like a statue. tawan's uncle claud said dylann roof is certainly one of a kind and went on to compare him to charles manson. i think they were referring to the peculiar way that dylann roof has conducted himself throughout this trial, the fact that he used his opening statement to talk about the fact that he didn't have a mental illness. i want to read to you what he told the jury during these two minutes in which he spoke. he said, "i chose to represent myself...

Evaluation. it isn't because i am trying to keep a secret. i'm not going to lie to you, there's nothing wrong with me psychologically. peter ro dylann roof spoke about his mental competency and this infuriated people, including one family member that stormed out. the defense team tried to introduce evidence about his mental health, roof refused and that's why he's representing himself. in the courtroom now, we just heard from jennifer pinkney, how her husband was a voice for the voiceless and talking about his relationship with the two daughters. the girls would always run to their dad in the ...

Opening statement where jurors and family members heard dylan roof in his own words for the first time, dylan roof talked about his own mental competency. he dedicated his entire two minute opening statement to saying why he was essentially not crazy. he said he was representing himself because he didn't want his lawyers to present his mental health evaluation, proving that he is sane. it's been the one issue that dylan roof really seems to care about. firi his defense team and his ers saying he's also afraid of anything that might come out that could embarrass his family. meanwhile, prosecuto...