limited to the scope that that party that called you asks about. so the defense wanted to ask some additional questions of her that they were not allowed to ask during the prosecution s case in chief. so now they re calling her as their witness. that expands the scope. they can ask her about anything that s relevant to this trial. so i don t know, of course, what exactly is being discussed at the sidebar since we can t hear it but it is usually an evidentiary issue, an issue about hearsay that the judge will resolve in a way that the jury can t hear about. craig melvin, as you have been pointing out, this is another one of the defense witnesses in what is moving very rapidly along this defense case. what do we know about whether o mara plans to call george zimmerman? you know what, andrea? that s the million dollar question at this point. they re keeping that those cards pretty close to their vest. over the weekend again mark o mara did talk to some reporters an gave no indicatio
i ll wait for an objection. okay. thank you. i think you were saying sort of the setting. so if you would continue. the setting was in the office cubicles. they were both sitting at chris serino s desk, chris in his own seat and an extra chair they had brought over to chris desk so tracy martin could sit. i believe it was his girlfriend that was with him. and they were there to so that chris serino could explain to them why at this point an arrest couldn t be made. and it was your understanding that investigator serino was still in the beginning stages of the investigation. is that correct? yes. i believe it was either two or three days after the incident. and where were you sitting or standing while this conversation was occurring? i was sitting probably diagonal to the cubicles. the cubicles are sitting square and there is a path between them that you can walk through.
there was an objection from the state so they ll have to hash that out at some point. we can see officer singleton taking the stand. thanks to you, craig and lisa bloom. we ll be back to you with breaks. now we go back to the trial. let s listen in. thank you, your honor. how are you doing? i m doing okay. thank you. i guess you were just sworn back in. you have testified here before the jury before. correct? yes. so let me focus you after you had the conversation where you took an initial statement from mr. zimmerman. we talked about that in your initial testimony. correct? we did. then you were also present with chief investigate or serino when he was doing some of his workup, including a second statement taken from my client. remember that? yes, i remember. i was there.
in egypt today, violence is now escalating out of control after supporters of deposed president mohamed morsi clashed with the military and police leaving at least 50 dead, more than 400 wounded. joining me now from cairo, nbc news s ayman muhyeldin. military is saying they were returning fire. how is it affecting what s continuing to be a political and military crisis? reporter: well, andrea, we spent the better part of the day speaking to eyewitnesses, going to that field hospital, speaking to some of the people that were injured. if you ask the supporters of the ousted president twlb is only one narrative here, and that was they were simply engaged in a peaceful protest and prayer in the early hours of the morning outside the republican guard headquarters. it was at that point the military and the police opened fire on them killing more than 50 people. they believe they were doing this the military was doing this to send a clear message to these protesters that they want them ou
to act in a way they can. of course with, it is not just snowed than has put the white house and its national security team under pressure from all sides. in the escalating crisis in egypt accused of propping morsi up and now under fire for abanening him and they say, acquiescing into what has all the earmarks of a military coup. critics on all side. joining me now, former defense secretary william cohen, chairman and ceo of the cohen group. bill, this is a very tough time indeed for this administration. you have a knew national security advisor, susan rice. she took over a week ago today. the secretary of state has been traveling non-stop in the middle east and now you have egypt absolutely in flames. well, i think it is a pivotal moment for egypt and for the administration and how it deals with this. we have very limit leverage with egypt at this point $1.5 billion isn t enough. economic assistance that goes to egypt and military assistance going to the military. the questi