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Questions and make sure that you are electing people that are going to work with the community. >> representative brown, hold for me for one moment. christina, i wanted to ask you a question. why would marissa alexander would have even needed stand your the ground? she was in her home, which is castle doctrine, which is law in all 50 states, right? why does she even need stand your ground? >> well, i'm not sure whether she needs stand your ground or not, but i do know, what seems to have happened in this case, a judge says, based on her behavior around the time she fires the shot, it doesn't s...

Lens of the abuse she sustained through the course of that relationship. and i don't know miss alexander, but i don't know whether there's a family history of abuse. so she's making a judgment, from a history of abuse from this man, as to whether or not she was in mortal danger. that was just completely absent from the analysis of what happened here. and that was a mistake. >> representative brown, yes? >> let me say, she had a master's degree. she worked her way through school. she had no priors. so this was her first offense. >> yep. >> and we have sent this woman to jail for 20 years. and y...

Case is so important. >> first of all, i want to tell you that your father is correct. 50 years later, each one of us still have to continue to work to make things better. >> yep. >> so the fight goes on. first of all, this female, a warning shot, the day that it happened, the day that it happened, it was a restraining order against her husband. >> yeah. >> she was beaten when she was pregnant and put in the hospital by her husband. >> yeah. >> and the way stand your ground works, the officer write it up, so the judge decide. and so if you have an officer writing it up, that's not trained, it'...

A consciousness. for her to have to prove her worth as a human being, there's not an american who doesn't -- who can understand that concept. that you have a group of people who are purely american, born in this country, that have to prove their worth, generation after generation, in this country. how -- rapists get less than this mother who was trying to protect her life and her child got. this is a dr. martin luther king moment. injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. >> and congresswoman brown, that's why your advocacy on this has been so important. thank you so much for joini...

Child conceived in the rape. representative brown says it was meant to target perpetrators of rape or incest who try to could have their tracks by forcing those victims to have abortions. she will clarify the language to remove any ambiguity. you can see why that has some people upset. bill: fox news alert. waiting major announcements from the white house of the president obama getting set to name new members of his administration. including chief of staff denness mcdonough. one of the president's long-time national security aides will get that powerful position. we'll bring you the news when ...