that he ran after trayvon martin after he said, okay? i have another challenge for the state. let me tell you about it. let me show you in the record of this case that they had evidence that he ran after trayvon martin, walked after him after he said, okay. because if it s there, i missed it. presumption, assumption, connecting the dots? sure. but you agree not to do that and don t let them let you do that. and a lot of time has been spent on the position of the gun and the position of trayvon martin s body when the gun went off. now, here s a theory of guilt for you. you ready? because this is the state s
think it, i don t think, didn t seem normal that he would have ever been charged in this case, but in his mind at that time i imagine you could say that he had an interest in telling the story for himself. so, sure. was he interested in the outcome? absolutely. people trying to take away his liberty? absolutely. consider that when you consider those statements as well. and does the witness testimony agree with other testimony? that s the global view. dennis root kept saying to you, well, you have to look at it in the totality of the circumstances. don t just give me one sheet and say, well, what do you think now? i want to read everything i can. that s that totality of the circumstances. so rules for you to deliberate earned, and here they are.
tell what they were thinking other than to say they watched it all as they did every day. here with us is tom meszaros, defense attorney linda kenney badden and jeffrey toobin. let s take a look, jeff, at what you called the key moment from the defense today. he could have been backing up. could have been. if i was arguing that, i would be arguing to you reasonable doubt. you know, it could have happened this way. it could have been that he was backing up. well, i don t know. i almost made light of it when i say well, he could have been backing up to strike another blow, but the could have beens don t belong in this courtroom. jeff, why does that stand out so much for you?
comes right back at you. from his perspective as a prosecutor, that s what he has to say. but this case is suffused with race. even if the term racial profiling has not been allowed, the term profiling was allowed. this is an educated jury. they understand that even if the word racial isn t there that someone is suggesting racial profiling. don t you think? absolutely. i think this case has followed the same contours of the way we handle race in the broader society, which is to say we talk about it by not talking about it. when the prosecutor came up to the jury and said mr. zimmerman made assumptions or he profiled him as a criminal and so on, anyone could tell, you know, what he was getting at there. and so race is there. it s just we can t say so explicitly. i also think it s telling to the
but as he s not able to do it at this point, he has no other choice but ask russia for asylum. and lastly, tanya, was there any discussion about flight routes out of russia, how he wants to be able to get to latin america? no, no discussion of flight routes. he made it very clear that the only reason he s not there is the united states is putting pressure on other countries and he wanted to have his freedom of movement back. tanya, thank you so much. thank you. the white house has a warning for moscow, don t cooperate with snowden. president obama has a phone call scheduled with russian president vladimir putin today. the question is whether or not moscow will play ball. elise, what are putin s options at this point? he doesn t have a lot, jake. he s kind of in a box, if you