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The warehouse. and the foreman in the walter scott shooting trial following that cases mistrial. it was earlier today dorsey montgomery sat down with craig melvin and was asked if he thought race played a factor in the outcome. >> i would call it intense fellowship when things got a little heavy but the majority of the time it wasn't any racial attention or anything of that nature. of course, it came up. we discussed it, but, of course, it wasn't in my opinion one of the major decision factors. >> walter scott was shot and killed by former patrolman michael slager following an altercation du...

You look at sort of the overall picture. yes, donald trump in that interview with "the new york times" a couple weeks ago said maybe he would be open, he would keep an open mind on the paris climate change accord. now just like i think back to tom price, for example, his pick to head the department of health and human services. price was a guy where we said almost that exact same phrase. he was the chief architect of trying to dismantle president obama's in that case affordable care act. you're seeing a lot of change that is could be coming under president-elect trump. >> you spent a lot of ti...

And weight is put by a family member impacted by a loved one on trial. >> that may not work. the defense's job is to create doubt as far as saving this person's life and trying to delay the trial because this is one of those inevitable cases. you know this is a very, very slow guilty plea, and what the defense wants to do is lay enough groundwork for possible appeals, which some of us may know it takes years and years and years on death penalty cases for the death penalty to be actually impacted. so what we have right here is a slow -- what we call a slow guilty plea where they're trying to pr...

>> so there we have the jury foreman for the slager case. that will go to a new trial, but as we look at the graphic now, and i want to show everybody, eric, the roof jury. here we know we're hearing from the foreman in the slager case, you know, they tried to come to consensus, they couldn't do it. this is a different mix up or a different makeup, rather, of a jury, and they are basically deciding whether or not to take a man's life, a young man's life for a horrific crime that he confessed. what is the onus when it comes to a jury that has to go behind closed doors to come up with that verdi...

Person, those things are in your hands, the decision whether or not this person lives or dies, and that's a very tough decision, but the jurors swore to listen to the evidence. they swore to take the testimony seriously and to make a decision outside of their personal feelings. >> do you think if you were part of the defense that you would use the bond hearing closed camera moments where the families of those lost said to roof in the summer of 2015 i forgive you. do you think that would work on a jury to say if the family were able to forgive him, then you should not sentence him to death. >> ...