information that zimmerman told him around the time that the incident occurred. so that s why we re seeing this. patrick, let s broaden the lens. the point lisa was making that a lot of the state s witnesses, people are saying, why did the state call that person? i think we ve seen several times that the defense is able to make the state s witnesses seem like defense witnesses. is that representative of the complexity of the state s case and the difficulty of the state s case, or is it that the defense team is so good they can turn these witnesses around? the defense team is good, but you have to look at the fact that in the prosecution, like in political campaigns, sometimes it s important to hang a lantern, which means you have to put your words out there so people understand it. in this case, it was important to bring mark in for two reasons. one, he wrote a book. this is zimmerman s best friend, yet he already wrote a book about it. there s two major inconsistents here. one, th