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>> how is the demeanor of oscar pistorius now? we know just a couple days ago, the judge adjourned for the day very early, at 2:00 in the afternoon your time, because he was having such a hard time on the witness stand. how is he holding up under this aggressive cross examination? >> reporter: today he's holding the up quite well. he's managed to maintain his composure. you can hear the emotion in his voice. his voice quivers and shakes, but on the whole, he's managing to get out clear and coherent answers. he didn't fair as well yesterday, a day, obviously, the prosecutors opened with very sh...

Good morning. welcome back to "early start." more dramatic testimony at the oscar pistorius murder trial. the former olympic blade runner back on the stand, the witness stand, again today, being grilled as the cross examination continues. a very aggressive cross examination. the prosecutor questioning pistorius about his relationship with his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. let's listen to some. >> mr. pistorius, we did a search on all the websites. the phrase "i love you" appeared twice in reeva's -- both times she wrote that to her mother, never to you, and you never to her. am i right? >> that...

Prosecutor really trying to show that oscar pistorius did not say in his statement to the family at the beginning of his testimony that he was sorry, he was sorry for killing reeva steenkamp? he never said that, and they're trying to get -- he was trying to get an apology, sort of, out of him, asking him why he didn't apologize. what did you make of all that? >> reporter: well, i actually found that a bit disingenuous that part of his questioning. because really, the point that he was making in that questioning was that this was all about pistorius. it wasn't about the apology to the family. h...

Tell reeva that i loved her. >> cnn legal analyst kelly phelps is live in pretoria, south africa. some really, really compelling testimony again here this morning, and this time, i mean, this prosecutor is really hammering oscar pistorius, kelly. >> reporter: he absolutely is. i mean, he's going for the jugular in terms of character evidence. but from a legal perspective, i think it's important to place that into context, because this is all character evidence. and we have to remember that had pistorius, in terms of the rules of evidence in south africa, had pistorius not raised evidence of hi...