that s it for this week s show. thanks to my panel and especially to all of you for watching. i m paul gigot. hope to see you all here next week. what they care about is making an extremely negative example out of him to intimidate future whistleblowers from coming forward. the columnist who served as conduit for government secrets for snowden. defending the actions of his source. is had acting as a journalist or activist? and what s the difference? did you think there was anything wrong with him following him to see where he was going? legally speaking, no. murder trial of george zimmerman getting more volatile coverage. as the trial presses on, are the media pressing their agenda? trying to convict zimmerman before the jury speaks? nfl star aaron hernandez facing
enough things there for the jury if they should decide they want to convict zimmerman to do so. they have three of the witnesses who say they saw zimmerman on top. i want to talk about the mother of trayvon martin. she s going to take the witness stand. our heart goes out to her. she has gone through an awful lot. she lost her son. she is going to say that s my son yelling for help. do you even cross-examine her? i don t think you do. that s a great point. i would probably say no. the biggest fear for the defense is those six women jurors have such sympathy for her and the pain she felt they don t want to give her more pain. gregg: get her off the stand as quick as you can. they won t gain anything from her. there is enough there for the defense to argue in their
legal analyst jeffrey toobin. let s listen to what zimmerman s brother said today. i can tell you as a family that we re very confident and that the state will not be able to meet its burden. not only do they have to prove this was a murder, as they allege, they have to prove simultaneously that it could not have been self-defense. so we re confident the state won t meet its burden and that kind of backs into our confidence in the legal team. jeff, explain this to me. what are some key pieces of evidence that will make it difficult for the jury to convict zimmerman? well, the best evidence that zimmerman has are his on injuries. he is going to claim that this was a confrontation, that trayvon martin assaulted him and he was conducting an act of self-defense. he had bruises on his head, bruises on his nose. that is going to be the core of his defense, is that this was a
and accomplished defense attorney omira. both received time marks for their advocacy in their case and prudence in dealing with a situation that otherwise could have been explosive. welcome on board tonight. appreciate you coming on. let me if i may start with you. i know you are mad for the remarks i made on o reilly show friday night. my brother craig told me you called. putting that aside, and we will get into that, this was i think you field the headline in everything that had been released is that this was ultimately an avoidable confrontation avoidable by zimmerman? i concluded avoidable had he just stayed in his car and not got out of the rain and profiled and confronted sent off trayvon
it is such a contrast to what he really looked like as opposed to the little boy pictures. that s the only reason. if he had taken that dam hood off his head if he and zimmerman had only spoken. what are you doing? i am here with my father s fiancee. you are not supposed to be here. don t you think it would have avoided this awful tragedy? two points. mark zucker berg ceo facebook one of the richest mans in the world wears a hood de every day. you mean to tell me if mark zuckerberg you could be profiled and killed by george sglirm man. they both wear the same uniform a hood de and jeans, what s the difference between the two? the difference is in the eye of george zimmerman, isn t it? isn t that the only subjective viewpoint? when you talk about defense and why the encounter was initiated isn t that what counts?