is a military area but more importantly because they are fed up with this protest that they think is stalling the country. when you ask the military and the military itself held the press conference today, they say that isn t further from the truth, that they allow everyone peaceful protests but in fact what did transpire was that armed gunmen stormed or tried to storm the republican guard headquarters. its soldiers came in under attack. in fact one soldier belonging to the republican guard was killed and it was only at that point that its soldiers acted in self-defense and had to open fire. the question though that i think human rights activists and democracy activists we are speaking to are asking, why did the military use that type of force? why do you have a death toll of nearly 50 people? why did you use live ammunition when you over the course of the last several days knew there was a staged sit-in protest outside the republican guards? i think these are the questions that will b
whether to call it a military coup or some kind of hybrid is whether or not cutting off the ate at this point would only deepen the crisis and send egypt into a further meltdown than it is currently experiencing. i think they re waiting to see whether or not any kind of order is going to be restored, whether or not the brotherhood is going to be excluded from the political process which would be a big mistake and whether or not at some point they are going to allow mr. morsi to come out of confinement. he has been removed and it is unlikely he s ever going to get back into the presidency as such without causing the division to go even further but there has to be a resolution. middle of the roaders have to come to grips an say, look, there are conservative radical islamists who have also opposed his presidency and there are liberals who want to see democracy established. what has to happen is you have to have some kind of a unity government formed and the egyptian people have to come to
looking at, again, this is chris serino. he was the lead detective in the case of trayvon martin, lead detective at one point. he s also the gentleman who s represented by jose diaz, the same attorney that represented casey anthony as well. as you also remember during his initial testimony for the state there were a number of objections. the judge at one point had to strike a portion of his testimony as well when the attorneys for the defense argued that he was expressing more of his opinion than fact. so it ll be very interesting to see precisely what they try to get him to narrow how they get him to narrow the focus and scope of his testimony for the defense. and lisa bloom, briefly as we end the hour, the important thing about this detective was that his original recommendation was a manslaughter charge, and some people are suggesting, especially after looking at the
trayvon martin s mother. we expect that when the defense calls trayvon martin s father they are going to continue to do what we ve seen them do all day today, which is play that tape again because, if you recall, tracy martin initially said that it wasn t his son s voice being heard in the background of that 911 tape that we ve heard over and over. months later he would then say, yes, it does sound like my son. but initially he said it was not trayvon martin s voice. right now doris singleton is the witness who is being called to the stand. again, the sixth witness of the day, andrea. we should also note here that at some point there is going to have to be a decision made by judge nelson over a motion that was made recently. it is the state s motion an animation. apparently the defense wants to play this animation that they ve created for the jury that in some way, shape, form or fashion depicts a critical part of the conflict that night, naturally
enforcement said it doesn t sound like me and add to that further that the screaming stops when the shot rings out, which might suggest that the shooting victim was the one who got shot. so it s complicated. my view as is the jury will probably say we can t sort this out and simply put this piece of evidence aside, andrea. craig melvin, what are we expecting for the rest of the afternoon and also coming up tomorrow and as we proceed this week? andrea, so far today the defense has called five witnesses. we expect that at any moment the jury in fact is being brought into the jury right now. they are moving at a pretty good clip with the evidence. mark o mara over the weekend says he plans at some point we don t know whether today or tomorrow, perhaps even the day after but at some point the defense is going to call tracy martin, trayvon martin s father. the state did not call tracy martin. they called sybrina fulton,