sunny hostin is a cnn legal analyst and linda kenney baden. discussion of these federal chashlgs have typically been applied to public pliies like the police officers in the rodney king case. can you walk us through this high bar? what would be needed? is this really credible? >> it is a high bar. i do, jake, think that it's a possibility. i think it's credible and we do know the justice department has a parallel investigation going on into this matter and they have had for some time, for about a year now. and that investigation, as the attorney general said, was still ongoing. what they would have to prove is under the matthew shepherd and james bird act, the hate crime act many people call it, it was passed in 2009. they would have to prove that george zimmerman's actions were racially motivated, that he willfully injured trayvon martin because of his race, that part of it was because of his race. i don't know. when you look at that and you