they re not listening. she says you are rude. look at that, all black people. she says she apologized and god has forgiven her. it wasn t a statement of racism just frustration. i m sorry. in other news there is no mustard. and god has forgiven her. you got to get right with yourself. i think you have to worry about everybody else s feels as well. let us know what you mean mikaela will read them. more on the new phase in the fight against isis. is the terror group so savvy on social media or is the u.s. just lagging behind? osama bin laden was the biggest thing to happen on the war on terror. is everything we think about it false? there is an explosive new article that says just that. we will have the guy who wrote it on
in the most comprehensive and rigorous way that we have seen in this nation. how is prop 8 and the decision different from other cases dealing with same-sex marriage? it goes back to the trial. it was the first federal trial on this issue and they had 12 days of expert testimony and lay testimony on the issue. everything from whether or not gay parents are as good as straight parents to whether or not recognizing same-sex marriage would have negative effects on heterosexual marriage. all of the issues that the court was looking at were vetted and sort of cleaned out in this trial in the sense of all the counter arguments were systematically debunked at that level. after listening and reading the arguments from this week, what is your sense of what the court is thinking and how it will rule this summer. there were tough arguments on both sides. it wasn t a cake walk by any
it more difficult? did that weigh on you at all? absolutely. i know for myself if you do something, perform an act, you always question rationally what was the reason for why you did it and without that information, it made it very difficult. so without hearing a motive that made the difficult for you? it did. it made it harder because we had more to piece together. i saw you nodding your head. just what he said. there was more of the puzzle we had to piece together. it wasn t a clear cut answer. that man sitting in that seat deserves a chance. so that s where it was with me. i just kept rereading what the judge instructed us. we had that in a pretty thick pile of papers and i just kept rereading that and would have
involved. so to me that is important. the fact that he indicated he knew what time odin lloyd was murdered to you, that was a tell? it was one of them. one of many. when the defense in closing argument said said that aaron hernandez was there, which is different than what they had been saying, or hadn t said previously. how important was that? it surprised us that the attorney would say that but that wasn t a statement we could consider in our verdict. why not. we were told that anything that an attorney says or if they object to something, that s not a piece of admissible evidence. did it make you then doubt the defense in general, that wait a minute, why didn t they say that from the get go?
figuring out where these guys were. how helpful is that in a case like this and moving along in a quick fashion? well i think that the guilt was really a foregone conclusion. the defense said that in essence. it wasn t a matter of whether he was guilty or not. but as we move to the penalty phase, the ability to really play for the jurors how horrendous this crime was, the amount of suffering, bringing in the witnesses, people who actually saw victims bleeding out in front of them. listen to the family members and friends of people who were killed or injured, that sets the stage for the penalty phase and it is the value of having them there to bring the jurors into that process. we talked about the case that the federal authorities put together and that beginning with fbi and law enforcement put together and carried out by the