listening to this evidence. and they re hearing from rachel, and they re being swung in another direction and hearing from john good. and they re being pulled back and forth. yeah. and we re just in the first week of this trial. they got a lot more evidence coming. now, lisa, how important is it that the parents is there? and this affect of the some of the jury seeming to look at them? and is this why the defense do you think didn t want the parents in the courtroom? i think it brings a real solemnity to the proceedings to have the parent there s as much as possible. if i were the prosecutor i would ask them, please, i know this is difficult, except for perhaps the most excruciating days, i want you to be here, because the jury has to take this seriously every moment. they understand that that s what it s about. it s about justice for the victim s family. now, faith, there is a lot of key witnesses still left to testify. we have the lead sanford police investigator, christoph
we have possibly tracy martin, the father, and sybrina fulton, the mother. so we still have a lot of peaks to go in the prosecution s case. that s right. in every trial, it is a marathon. it is not a sprint. you re going to have your good moments. you re going to have your bad moments. but you stick to your theory of the case. you continue to present your witnesses, and then you use your closing arguments to sum up and argue your case and everything in totality and paint a clear picture for the jury. now, ken, you re a prosecutor. what does the prosecutor need to do next week with these witnesses, especially the mr. serino, the police investigator. what does the prosecutor need to bring out of these witnesses? they re going to methodically lay their case out for the jury so they meet the elements of the crime and prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. it s not an accident that john good was called today as a witness. it was strategically decided by the prosecution when to pl
0 on top of george zimmerman only moments before he heard the fatal gunshot. but he wasn t 100% sure if punches were being thrown or who was yelling for help. another eyewitness described mr. zimmerman as, quote, calm and coherent just moments after the altercation. and a physician s assistant testified george zimmerman did not need sutures, and that he was taking mma classes several times a week. but it was the testimony of neighbor john good that began this 15th day of the trial. the jury heard the 911 call he made the night of trayvon martin s death. can you hear somebody yelling for help? um, i m pretty sure the guy is out here. okay, we have several people calling in also. anything else that you heard? no. i could not hear that. no. can you say unequivocally that it was the person on the bottom versus the person on the top that was saying no? not 100%. no. all this testimony is aimed at one thing, finding out what happened exactly the rainy night last year that tra
one quick back to esther, they did turn over the photo. it is not fair to say the prosecution didn t turn over photo. they turned over black and white, not color. that is typically what you have in your file as prosecutor. jon: okay. well they would have, how would they get the color photo? just mysteriously appeared? probably sent their investigator out to get the color version of the photo. but why would it take so long as a photo? there are thousands of documents. shouldn t have taken so long. jon: hear is the other thing that esther alluded to earlier. there is a motion just been filed by george zimmerman s attorneys. they want the court to allow them to interview, to take a deposition from an investigator by the name ofer win. they said investigatorer win stated he was in the investigator s office during the time lead investigator, christopher serino told mr. tracy martin. that is trayvon s father, that, in that office.
0 and taxes. it seems they need to have some sort of increase in taxes. how does that play out. reporter: the statement from the white house said until the republicans are willing to get serious about asking the wealthyist to pay slightly higher tax rates there won t be a significance balanced approach to reducing the deficit. here is a house republican on higher rates. republicans are willing to make sure we don t go over this fiscal cliff but at the same time don t harm this economy. what has to happen here if the president shows a little leadership we are willing to stay in the room and stay here and we are willing to get this done. that s why you saw a proposal that is raoeubl reasonable that meets his criteria. reporter: steny hoyer said in the next few days we will see substantive movement in private to get this done. jenna: we ll continue to watch the play-by-play, mike, thank you. jon: right now we are continuing to await a speech by former president george w. bush, the s