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should the president speak out to the american public on this issue any time soon? i think he has no choice. i think at some point he s going to be asked a question directly about it and he s going to have to answer it. i think the problem they ve got inside the white house is that whef the president speaks about race, wolf, the conversation becomes about him and not about the issue. and so i think that s what the president is juggling right now. he s got to be the leader of the country, he s got to lower the decibel level, but he doesn t want this to be a conversation about how president obama reacted to the trayvon martin/george zimmerman verdict. he wants the nation to have a conversation about race, not him. gloria borger, as usual, thank you. sure. we certainly haven t heard a whole lot from trayvon martin s parents in the aftermath of saturday night s verdict. but let s get some perspective with how the trayvon martin
of her 2-year-old daughter-in-law caylee. while we re happy for casey, there are no winners in this case. caylee has passed on far, far too soon. what my driving force has been for the last three years has been always to make sure that there has been justice for caylee and casey. that s a very different situation. but zimmerman s defense team was criticized by some for spiking the football on saturday night, for not talking about the loss of the life of trayvon martin. talk, if you would, about the difficult balance between defending your client and also being mindful of the fact that there is a loss of life. first off, different lawyers handle things differently. they may have felt that s the way they wanted to be portrayed.
as soon as i heard those screams, it sounded like a young male voice to me. as soon as i heard that the screaming stopped, i knew it was his voice. i thought it was one. most compelling points of the case. villainizing trayvon martin and now villainizing you because you guys are hiding the evidence, aren t giving them what they re supposed to have. they kept saying it and saying it and saying it. did you feel like a villain in the courtroom? i thought what they were trying to do was create issues for appeal when there really weren t any. there s this thing of we got to depose ben crump. we did that. ben crump never testified. there was issue about this evidence that came out, our i.t. person testified about that. they had the evidence.
zimmerman. george zimmerman just happened to be the person that took trayvon martin s life. but what we have is trayvon martin s legacy, it s causing this country to have a conversation it normally doesn t have. that s a plus for all of the country. will they file a wrongful death civil lawsuit against george zimmerman? obviously they have that right but right now, wolf, the big issue is the jury verdict that came down. so it s too fresh to make a decision trying to profit off this death. that is not the time of people they are. these are very good, hard working people who live down in the south florida/miami area. right now they believe their son s legacy has been dealt an ininjuries and they are happy and encouraged by the fact that so many other people feel that this is an injustice and that our government should answer in some way. you think we ll be seeing them any time soon, doing