done that s the whole point. they could have forced his hand. if you want self-defense, have you to have a foundation for it. and the defense has to have the foundation. in this case, the prosecution set up the entire defense by putting all the statements in. this i think this case was won and lost on the fact that the that george zimmerman didn t testify. if he testified, we could have seen him rolling around on the ground with that dummy and reenacting this alleged attack by trayvon martin. we could have actually heard him on the stand screaming. well, here s the thing. two people can keep a secret when one of them is dead. george zimmerman, we will never know what really happened. we will never really have all the facts of what really went down. and now trayvon wasn t there to testify to any of this. and all we had was george zimmerman s case and an originally an investigator on this case was like, i need to help you out here. i need to figure out how your story really a
no way to get these people apparently or patrick fitzgerald didn t demand it to testify at trial. right? so we never learned any of this. well, you are right. you are essentially right. but we have fitzgerald, the prosecutor. the u.s. attorney who can rip this sitting governor out of his house at 6:00 in the morning. fitzgerald had the opportunity to call obama who the fbi interviewed whose notes were not given to the defense. the opportunity to bring out rahm image who is a victim. laura: why didn t he? i don t know. i would like to know why. i wish that he did and he should have. he should have put on image and jarrett. laura, bottom line here is that fitzgerald has a good track record in bringing down blagojevich s closest inner circle we have monk and rezko fundraiser waiting sentence. who didn t testify. not yet. and kelly who committed suicide during his trial to.
no way to get these people apparently or patrick fitzgerald didn t demand it to testify at trial. right? so we never learned any of this. well, you are right. you are essentially right. but we have fitzgerald, the prosecutor. the u.s. attorney who can rip this sitting governor out of his house at 6:00 in the morning. fitzgerald had the opportunity to call obama who the fbi interviewed whose notes were not given to the defense. the opportunity to bring out rahm image who is a victim. laura: why didn t he? i don t know. i would like to know why. i wish that he did and he should have. he should have put on image and jarrett. laura, bottom line here is that fitzgerald has a good track record in bringing down blagojevich s closest inner circle we have monk and rezko fundraiser waiting sentence. who didn t testify. not yet. and kelly who committed suicide during his trial to.
no way to get these people apparently or patrick fitzgerald didn t demand it to testify at trial. right? so we never learned any of this. well, you are right. you are essentially right. but we have fitzgerald, the prosecutor. the u.s. attorney who can rip this sitting governor out of his house at 6:00 in the morning. fitzgerald had the opportunity to call obama who the fbi interviewed whose notes were not given to the defense. the opportunity to bring out rahm image who is a victim. laura: why didn t he? i don t know. i would like to know why. i wish that he did and he should have. he should have put on image and jarrett. laura, bottom line here is that fitzgerald has a good track record in bringing down blagojevich s closest inner circle we have monk and rezko fundraiser waiting sentence. who didn t testify. not yet. and kelly who committed suicide during his trial to.
legal analyst and criminal defense attorney who has been watching this case unfold. after several weeks, a couple of dozen witnesses it all comes down to what the jury thinks about the one witness they were promised they would hear from, the guy who didn t testify, rod blagojevich. how is it looking? reporter: well, i don t know if i look kind of tired, but the prosecution s case is so boring. everybody is complaining about how it s moving slowly. i would say that the opening statements were even more exciting than closing arguments. thinks the prosecution s opportunity to layout their case, really set the tone before the jury goes and deliberates. it is the most boring thing i think i ve ever heard. jon: well and sam adams jr. is blagojevich s attorney. he should wake things up but he hasn t had his chance to get his closing giver his closing argument yet? reporter: no, no it started around, i don t know, 10:00 and the prosecution i think is going to get anywhere from an hour an