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former prosecutor. paul callan, cnn legal analyst. brian is a former prosecutor as well, holly hughes as well. mark will join me shortly. so will sunny hostin. then also jennifer friedman, faith jenkins excuse me joins me and then jeffrey toobin who is our legal analyst joins me on the phone. jeff, as we await the jury, the judge at least, the attorneys, george zimmerman to come back into court, where do you think this puts us? what does it all mean? well, the judge has a tough decision right now. the safe choice is simply to repeat what she said before about the definition of manslaughter. that would certainly not create a problem on appeal if george zimmerman is convicted. however, if she wants to help the jury she has to try to translate the jury instructions
0 means. i think you could interpret it three different ways. and it s what we do, but it does not necessarily tell us anything. except that, clearly, manslaughter is in the mind of at least one or some of the jurors. again, we don t want to speculate here but that is the reason you were a prosecutor. you know, you ve been through this process numerous times. as an attorney you ve been through this process as well but this at least tells you in some instance where the jurors are in this process. just a short time ago we got notice there was movement in the courtroom that attorneys on both sides were making their way to the courtroom. the attorneys came in as well as george zimmerman. the defendant here and seated themselves in the courtroom. the jurors not in the courtroom yet. the judge came in, walked in, judge nelson saying the jurors have a question regarding manslaughter. jurors not in yet. where does that put us, sunny hostin? when you look at the research and stats about jur
to be to blame. brianna keilar is at the white house. any comment? reporter: well, the white house is not commenting. they re directing us toward the comes more department which just is saying simply, carol, that secretary bryson was involved in traffic accident over the weekend in los angeles, he was taken to the hospital for examination, and has been released. he sustained no injuries and the investigation is ongoing. but this is john bryson. he is the commerce secretary, but as far as president obama s cabinet goes, he s a pretty low profile member of it. it s possible you never heard his name or didn t know who the commerce secretary was but the circumstances involving the series of accidents pretty bizarre. it happened saturday around 5:00 p.m. in the lamt area. the first accident in san ga gabrielgab gabri gabriel. he was in car, a lexus, and he hit a car that was stopped waiting for a train to pass. he hit a buick that had three men inside of it and actually got out,
boxing superstar manny pacquiao loose to timothy bradley but no one of the three judges seems to know why. i have never been ashamed much to be associated with the sport of boxing as i am tonight. these people don t know how to score. sports fans screaming for justice. is there any truth to accusations of game tampering? and gaffes aplenty. obama, ramny, we re asking this morning what tees the shelf life of a gaffe? newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. i m carol costello. good morning. a key member of possible s economic team is facing felony hit and run-charges this morning, and the details make this story even more odd. witnesses say commerce secretary john bryson hit a parked car, struck it again as he pulled away, app then hit a second car minutes later a few miles down the road. he was found passed out behind the wheel, but police say alcohol or drugs do not appear to be to blame. brianna keilar is at the white house. any comment? reporter: well, the w