happened, police believed zimmerman s accounts of what happened. former chief bill lee says the george zimmerman investigation was hijacked by outside forces telling cnn he was pressured to make an arrest, even though he felt there wasn t enough evidence. cnn s george howell sat down with him and joins us live from sanford, florida. very important interview especially now, george. reporter: chris, good morning. so police chief bill lee and his own investigators, they all testified in court and lee believes it came out in court that they did their job to the letter and they were not able to make that arrest only as a matter of law, but lee believes he still ended up taking the fall. are you saying this was the result of political pressure that you lost your job? i believe it was political pressure and the fact that i upheld my oath. reporter: sanford, florida, a town caught in a divisive racially charged death investigation.
decision to testify or not testify is truly his decision made voluntarily, and so that s something that you see in courtrooms all the time. it was sort of odd that don west objected to the court s inquiry because it s something that happens day in and day out and they ve had a lot of testy exchanges, chris, throughout this trial and so i think we were sort of surprised the night before, there were all of these fireworks between this defense attorney and this judge, and you know, i ve been in front of judges that haven t liked me, that have been testy but you don t do your client any favors when the judge doesn t like you so you have to learn to back off. a judge not liking you, impossible, you must be lying. it s happened. now i ll move on. danny did the defense do a good enough job of the suggestion that zimmerman would have been able to reach for his gun from the bottom. the prosecution saying he couldn t get the gun from this position. it s a tremendous piece of
high. firefighters rushed to the scene. despite those heavy winds, crews were able to get the fire under control. these fires are like really scattered about. every time that wind would drop more ash down it would literally ignite and be like reporter: in seattle, six boats loaded with fireworks go up in flames just minutes before the annual show there. officials say illegal fireworks aboard caused that fire. in the simi valley incident, the one with the most injuries, an investigation is under way to determine what caused those fireworks to explode. as of now, they re suggesting it appears to have been an accident. chris in. thanks for that. let s talk about this more now. joining us from simi valley, california, captain mike lindberry with the fire department. good morning. good to be here. thanks for joining us. we know what happened. what do we know about why this
mm-hmm. there s no question about what he s doing. i can t look into his mind, i don t know. but objectively from what he s doing, he s doing everything that you would do if you were going to try to trade information with beijing. so when ewen is saying he feels like he was idealistic and those were his motives, you re saying at this point you don t buy it? look, he could be idealistic, but guy burgess, all those guys in england had these really idealized notions of the soviet union. this guy probably has idealized notions of china. he said china is not an enemy n of the united states in that interview. he said it doesn t matter, i can trade information with them, they re our friends. this is just a really bad story and it s going to get worse. that s a pretty amazing thing to say. chris lawrence joins us from the pentagon. gordon, i wanted to bring chris in. chris, i know you ve been looking into this. how could this person or any person being getting all this top secret cle
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