family is dealing with this. attorney darrell parks, thanks so much for coming in. thanks for having me. the attorney general of the united states, do you have confidence in him that he ll do the right thing. i have every confidence that the attorney general will use the resources of the federal government to look into this matter. i happened to be at part of the meeting when the justice department had their first meeting with the family and we were able to see the resources that the federal government has used to investigate this case. so i know that they have gotten the information initially and now we re at a point where they can now analyze the evidence that came into the trial to make their decision. i think it s important, wolf, that the difference now, though, is that we now have evidence from the state criminal case where we seen that on all the previous calls that george zimmerman made to the police department all involved black people. the most important thing is in
to prove second-degree murder, such as who was on top of who, when they knew right from the beginning, the real fact from the real start. i think they went ahead and misled the public in many ways and gave false hope to many people in many ways and by overcharging this case, they went ahead and in large part lost the case because of their, in my opinion, arrogance of twisting the facts in this case when they should have just gone straight up to a manslaughter and gone in that direction, rather than all the smoke and mirrors that they tried to get in, that eventually they even backed away from at the end before the trial even ended. by use of the dummies and the switch-around. i think this is simply, as was stated, i think it s politicians acting like politicians rather than as prosecutors. all right, guys. we re going to continue our analysis. thanks so much, in the meantime, for joining us. up next, president obama walks a very careful line after the zimmerman verdict.
even though the trial has come to an end. martin, what else are city officials doing to maintain the peace? they re very aware here that this community remains a touch stone to many people who are connected to the tragedy of trayvon martin s death and the outcome of this trial. so the church service, like the one that was held today, there will be ones held on every monday for the next coming weeks and everyone is allowed to attend. they also point out that if people wish to come to this community to demonstrate, they are welcome. as long as they are peaceful and inclusive of everyone else s thoughts and ideas. wolf? martin savidge on the ground for us in sanford, florida. thank you. more than 800,000 people have signed petitions urging the justice department here in washington to pursue civil rights charges against george zimmerman. the naacp has been leading the push for federal action. the attorney general of the united states eric holder says his department is investigating
inside that s right. bill: doing some shopping. we ve got to run, -frbg. , everybody. we ll let you know the outcome of the i.r.s. hearings. martha: big stuff going on on capitol hill. we will be back tomorrow. happening now starts right now. we ll see you then, folks. 4. reporter: right now brand-new stories and breaking news. attorney general eric holder insisting he will not step down despite increasing calls for him to resign. he s about to testify before a u.s. senate committee and the scandal surrounding the white house will surely come up. plus, what went on behind closed doors during the jodi arias murder trial, newly unsealed documents detailing what jurors were asking as they were deciding whether the convicted killer should live or die. plus, caught on videotape an out of control driver careens across four lanes of a highway and crashes into a taco bell at lunchtime. it s all happening now.
we re going to hit this topic again as we sift through what else has transpired. there s a lot to go through. we ll revisit this. standby if you would. danny live for us. i want to bring you up to speed on a couple other big stories we re watching. in new mexico really just bizarre. two homeless women are going to be in court today on murder charges. police have released a video of a high-speed chase that led to their arrest. take a look. you have seen high-speed chases before. when the police stopped the car, one of the women inside they were pulling out admitted there was a body in the trunk. the prosecutors say the women who are 20 and 18 years old killed a 51-year-old man so that they could steal his car. another juror in the jodi arias murder trial is speaking out to cnn and talking about why they ended up at such an impass unable to decide on life or death for jodi arias. here s what the juror told