well, what if he has a future book deal or something like that? wouldn t you want the judgment? that s definitely something mark, you and i are book authors. anderson s a book author. there s not a big pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for george zimmerman. i need to write a book. you re a lot more interesting than george zimmerman. i m putting together a pamphlet so we can plug it here. you know what i think we haven t considered? the fact of possible stand your ground immunity from civil suit in florida. we know that s part of florida law, and he has been found not guilty in a criminal case. i wonder if that will apply eventually if the family decides to also, just being crude about this, knowing there is so little money out there, what lawyer is going to take it would be enormously expensive to sue, to bring a civil case. there will be some lawyer who would take trust me. there are lawyers who would take that case. i mean, i ll give you examples in the last
acquitted. there is a whole host of evidence, now, remember, the standard in a criminal case is higher. we saw it with o.j. simpson. the standard is simply a preponderance of the evidence. o.j. simpson was an example of a person acquitted using the reasonable doubt standard, but once he found himself in front of a civil jury, he was not found not guilty in a civil context. mark, you re making the case in terms of money, there may not be anything for the family to collect from george zimmerman. right, somebody actually just tweeted somebody that made some sense, well, what if he has a future book deal or something like that? so wouldn t you want the judgment? book authors, anderson is a book author. there is not a big pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for george zimmerman. i don t know i i need to write a book. you re a lot more interesting than george zimmerman.
this case are no longer able to speak publicly about any of this. the information we ve been getting is going to slow to more of a trickle as the hearings go on. people here got a bit of a surprise when christian bale, the actor who plays batman showed up here. it was a surprise to just about everybody. he visited patients in the hospital at the bedside. after that he came to this make shift memorial here and joined a prayer circle and prayed with people. it was all unannounced, they had no cameras with him and didn t want media coverage. our affiliate happened to be there and caught him. and it exploded on twitter and facebook, people pretty excited he took the time to come and visit. i ll bet that helped folks trying to recoup rate in the hospital. thanks, jim. the rest of the day s top stories, let s get right to christine romans. good morning. good morning, soledad, syrian forces stepping up attacks to regain control of aleppo, targeting rebel strong holds in syria s
threatening you. unless you back off, you re toast. the other part of that, if i could change my tone and be more upbeat and positive, good things could happen to me including maybe a judgeship or some other presidential appointment. it was disturbing and i think most disturbing because that s the reality in washington right now for so many of the regulators. if they play ball and don t push too hard on the banks, no worries, you know, big pot of gold but you push back and you could do yourself real harm. you were brought in to be the eyes and ears, inspector general to make sure on behalf of congress to make sure the money in tarp was being spent correctly. you re a life long democrat and you supported and donated to barack obama and yet, it was during the bush years that you were asked to come in, right? yeah, it was a straight appointment, i had a background prosecuting securities fraud and started a mortgage fraud unit in the southern district of new york where he was a prose
didn t change my tone because my tone was critical of the administration and wall street that i was going to do real harm to myself but if i changed and improved my tone, perhaps good things could happen like a judgeship or something like that. wow. what s amazing is it was said explicitly. that is said to every regulator, play ball, go through the resolving door, get a big pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. stand up and do you think some of the charges we re reading and hearing about in geithner s role at the new york fed regarding the libor investigation are fair? absolutely. at the time he was president of the new york fed is presented with nothing short of a global conspiracy to fix the rate of one of the most important interest rates imaginable. and the response wasn t to go to the department of justice and say here s this giant global