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Happened with george zimmerman and o.j. how would this trial be handled today? >> i'm not sure that there would be a great deal of factual difference. there may well be, don, a difference in perception. a difference in the way that the media might play the case. but for some reason, we americans are always fascinated with the issues of race. and concerning what jeff said, i think in order to understand the verdict from the prism of an african-american juror, you have to understand the dynamics that was going on then between the african-american community and the los angeles police department. ...

Imagine this 150 million people tuned in to hear the verdict in the o.j. simpson trial and to put that into perspective for you, the population of the united states at the time was 266 million. 150 million people tuned in, 266 million people in the united states at the time. so it is no surprise that the case continues to fascinate, especially with what it tells us about race in america. back with me now is yale galanter, jeffrey toobin and carl douglas. jeffrey toobin jumped ahead in the workbook here and started talking about the race polarization here. this is what a new cnn orc poll shows,...

Imagine this 150 million people tuned in to hear the verdict in the o.j. simpson trial and to put that into perspective for you, the population of the united states at the time was 266 million. 150 million people tuned in, 266 million people in the united states at the time. so it is no surprise that the case continues to fascinate, especially with what it tells us about race in america. back with me now is yale galanter, jeffrey toobin and carl douglas. jeffrey toobin jumped ahead in the workbook here and started talking about the race polarization here. this is what a new cnn orc poll shows,...

>> i'm not sure that there would be a great deal of factual difference. there may well be, don, a difference in perception. a difference in the way that the media might play the case. but for some reason, we americans are always fascinated with the issues of race. and concerning what jeff said, i think in order to understand the verdict from the prism of an african-american juror, you have to understand the dynamics that was going on then between the african-american community and the los angeles police department. those jurors filtered the facts of that case through the prism of their own exp...

Way the media covers a case like this, with gavel to gavel coverage, even, you know before o.j. it wasn't bad, was it? >> well, what happened was there was a tremendous backlash mostly among judges against cameras in the courtroom because i think they felt that judge ito, lance ito, looked bad, didn't do a good job controlling the room and they said the heck with this, we don't want cameras in our courtroom. and if you think back to the big televised trials since o.j., they have almost all been in florida and florida is the state with the famous sunshine law where everything is open to the pub...