the it was moving towards the defense case today. 100% as you just heard everybody else talk about. jon good was a fantastic witness for the defense, even if you take into account we had witnesses over the course of the week that thought george zimmerman was on top and one was discredited quite skillfully by getting her to admit she was making that assessment seeing trayvon martin when he was a young kid. we know this was a tussle, they were rolling around and while jon good s testimony was different, it was pulled back and restrained today than it was when he first gave the testimony. he was very clear. i was in the courtroom with him this morning as he was testifying. the jurors leaning forward taking in every word, yes, can t say 100% but my gut who do i
the back of zimmerman s jacket walls covered in grass and more wet on the back than the front, doesn t that corroborate his story more? yeah, it corroborates his story. that s why you had o mara yesterday holding up that picture board of the cuts and things on the back of the head, because all they re going to argue is that you tie all of this together. he was down on the grass. at that point, even all of this stuff that has been talked about, about whether or not he was chasing him or not, it all goes by the boards. unless there s something dramatic that the prosecution intends to introduce in this case, it s all but over. i don t agree with that. as damaging as jonathan good s testimony seemed to be, there was a key point of clarification that both the defense and the prosecution made clear. i want to play that. it looked like that position was a ground and pound type
they just excused mr. mckinney because page pate told me it was just to establish the video cameras were there. and now mr. mckinney has been excused. page, we probably won t see the video at this time or maybe we will. this next witness is named john good. i m not quite sure of the significance of this witness. we ll wait until they introduce him. am i right with that? you re right. mr. mckinney was just a foundation witness they brought in to say this is the camera and angle and this is when i retrieved it. the judge wouldn t allow him to answer questions about his opinion about what was on the video. let s listen to this witness. john good. i believe he s a neighbor. good morning. state your name for the record. jonathan good. your last name is spelled g-o-o-d? correct. are you married?
call us. we can show you how at&t solutions can help you do what you do. even better. welcome back to hardball. we ve talked about the demeanor of witnesses. now let s look at the demeanor of some of the attorneys, particularly don west and mark o mara, both for the defense. first, here is west with rachel jeantel yesterday. trayvon got hit. you don t know that, do you? no, sir. you don t know that trayvon got hit. he couldn t he had to you don t know that trayvon didn t at that moment take his fist and drive it into george zimmerman s face. please lower your voice. do you? no, sir. and contrast that with the defense attorney mark o mara today as he began questioning witness jonathan good. morning, sir.
and secure watching it, and getting lost in the activity of it. you mention ed a lot of anxiety. scared of what happened yesterday. there is a lot of gunfire and violence in the movie. one of the people we spoke with said while watching this movie yesterday, about 20 minutes in, a little on edge when that shooting broke out in the movie itself. so, of course, a lot of people still on edge of their seats as they do watch this movie. indeed. thank you very much, wnbc s jonathan good to see you. sending shock waves around the globe. you re watching weekends with alex witt. ok! who gets occasional constipation,