Counity Prayer Services today. Kerry, whats the mood down there . Reporter well, the pastors opened the church today and invited the community to join them along with the mayor, the police chief, the city manager, and to talk about what has happened here with this not guilty verdict. This is the way the system works. It was a demand by the community to have a thorough investigation to lead to a trial, if there were charges. There were charges. And then to accept the jury verdict. There are those who say they find it hard to accept the jurys verdict because they feel they watched much of this trial and heard Something Different. So in the effort to make sure that there was communication so that there is not a violent protest of people frustrated, theyre opening the lines of dialogue, making sure that people are listening and that the mayor and the police chief and others are addressing concerns that they hear. This as the backdrop as we take you across the country and you look at some o
We put together a segment for you folks. Hope you enjoy it and find it entertaining and informational. A few moments with new York City Comptroller Eliot Spitzer. Take it away, eliot. Huge, enormous, massive, nuts, bigger, bigger, too big, thrust, it goes deeper than a that, a stick is a rhinoceros. I think hes on to something. Is that how were starting the show this morning . My god. It is wednesday wednesday, july 10th, as you look at an empty summertime square. With us on set Mike Barnicle, former Communications Director for george w. Bush and former Senior Adviser to mccain president ial campaign nicolle wallace, the former chair of the rnc Michael Steele and political analyst visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman from the great state of tennessee mr. Harold ford jr. Good morning, sir. Good morning. Joe and mika have the morning off. Start right there. Eliot spitzer on this program, nicole you were here, took some tough questions from joe and mika and from Mark H
0 most cases, from ever, for the rest of their lives serving on a jury. that means that 30% of african-american men nationwide cannot serve on a jury for the rest of their lives, even if the conviction is 30 or 40 years in the past. so african-americans who are more likely to be defendants, are less likely to have a jury of their peers. it s also important in cases like this where an african-american is the victim because there s a lot of racial disparity in cases with african-american victims. that s one of the underlying causes i think we all need to look hard at in the wake of this verdict. yeah, i think lisa makes a very important point there. it s one that goes to the baseline. the problem with looking at any trial in isolation is people have very different baselines for what they think the rules are and what s fair. lisa is speaking to the fact that the baseline might be a jury of my peers and that sounds good, but we have all sorts of laws which reflect decisions about who s o
0 path. correct? he did. he left had his vehicle and he walked down the path. correct. do you know this area that we are talking about? i do. and you know there is a path that goes straight through, then a right turn that goes off to the right. a t. yes. he had said to you trayvon went down the t. yes. he asks what he believes because the street beyond was lit better than the dog path was. so if trayvon had gone all the way to the tree view circle, he he would have seen him or his shadow perhaps. because he lost sight of him around the time where the t was, he just said i believe he made his turn down that dark dog path area that was not very well lit at all. tell us the path, if you recall, that george zimmerman told you that he took? moment. during the event in the car, when he said things like, do you have a problem, you do now, or no, i don t, are those, as best you can recall, the words george told you he remembered from the night before? that is c