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woman to tells lie when she s uncomfortable. she she talked to his parents, she told them one story. to the media, she told a second story. in this court, even though she swore to the tell the truth, she told a different story. which one are you to believe? that s what this defense attorney is trying to do. i think he s doing a good job. i groo he with you about the knock knock joke though. lis la bloom offering anticipation of what don west is going to say in closing arguments. thank you very much. we re going to take a very brief break. but we will be back. chantix. it s a non-nicotine pill. i didn t want nicotine to give up nicotine. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. [ mike ] when i was taking the chantix, it reduced the urge to smoke. [ male announcer ] some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chanti
don west off and said you ve got to understand. you ve got to understand. trying to explain why she went through all of this and what did don west do? he cut her off. i sincerely think that don west is the wrong person to be doing this cross-examination. i think mark o mara i think would have let her speak, would have been much more compassionate, someone who the other thing about don west and why i m focused on don west, remember he s the one who told the knock knock joke in the opening statement for the defense. so he s already coming to this cross-examination with a knock against him. so you would think that he would show a little bit of compassion, not be so cold. right. we re also joined by craig melville melvin down in sanford, florida. you ve been in the courtroom. can you describe the atmosphere? as things have been proceeded with this particular witness?
came on this program. he s not trying the case. mark o mara is ex joins us tonight. your co-counsel got attention yesterday for a knock knock joke he told as an opening statement. was that something the two of you discussed before hand? what did you think about it? we had not discussed it before hand. i think what was really happening, don has been frustrated with some of what has been going on. made no bones about the fact we re frustrated with the discovery concerns we had with the state, and i think that really frustrated don. i think this was an attempt by him, you know, to put levity into it and loosen himself up a bit because he s carrying frustration with him. i would note that it didn t work the way he wanted it to and probably should have been we thought. the state had wanted to have some audio experts, what they said were audio experts testify saying that on the 911 call, that according to these two audio experts it was not george zimmerman s voice yelling for