Clerk read the verdict. State of florida versus George Zimmerman. Verdict, we the jury find George Zimmerman not guilty. Schieffer cbs news correspondent has been covering this case over the last year he is in florida this morning with the latest, mark . Good morning, bob. Not guilty in the end jury of six women, five of them mothers decided that George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin in self defense. His face was impassive. He shook hands with his lawyers as his wife cried in the gallery. Prosecutors looked drained in defeat they lost in both the murder and manslaughter conviction they pushed for, Trayvon Martins parents who watched every day of testimony from the courtroom were not present for the verdict. Zimmerman never took the stand but jurors watched lawyers use a man can to recreate his no independent witness saw the fight before he was arrested. And by then, the martin familys private outrage had gone national. There are no winners here in sanford. Zimmerman is a freeman but m
I want to make it as exciting as it can be. History is an interesting subject. We want to report what actually happened. You cannot just except what is handed down. This is the key to the whole series, is to find out how we got to where we are. It is a great, great story. That was the trailer for the untold history of the United States. It will air on monday evenings at 8 00 p. M. And is available on demand. Oliver stone joins us here in new york, and we are joined by his coauthor, peter. We welcome you both to democracy now. Oliver stone, you have been working on this for years, and be announced to people. Why . It was apri big job for need. I have been working on it for four and a half years. I recently discussed wallace and the bomb at one of his glasses and we ended up talking for about an hour, hourandahalf. Wallace was a key to the link would we have dropped the bomb . That is the origin mess. Still my daughter, in a good school, a private school, is learning that we dropped the
I want to make it as exciting as it can be. History is an interesting subject. We want to report what actually happened. You cannot just except what is handed down. This is the key to the whole series, is to find out how we got to where we are. It is a great, great story. That was the trailer for the untold history of the United States. It will air on monday evenings at 8 00 p. M. And is available on demand. Oliver stone joins us here in new york, and we are joined by his coauthor, peter. We welcome you both to democracy now. Oliver stone, you have been working on this for years, and be announced to people. Why . It was apri big job for need. I have been working on it for four and a half years. I recently discussed wallace and the bomb at one of his glasses and we ended up talking for about an hour, hourandahalf. Wallace was a key to the link would we have dropped the bomb . That is the origin mess. Still my daughter, in a good school, a private school, is learning that we dropped the
Information, let experts from around the country, from hospitals, from physicians, from advocates, from people that want to fix it, whatever the point of view is, lets get some information. This place doesnt work well when a few people put something together behind closed doors and spring it on the rest of it. Thats just not the way the process is supposed to work. Shorted of details, i heard a philosophical argument made by a republican on the show recently that i want your response to. He said, you know, we have to figure out what we can afford. Were spending too much. We cant keep spending it. Were going to spend what we can, and thats all. My counterargument was, but youre taking a lot of money out of the system and giving it in tax breaks youd be giving the money in the Health Care Plan which are the neediest on medicaid. Whats your point about the philosophy of were spending too much, we must spend less and thats what this is about . Hes absolutely right. We may almost twice as m
Their lowest point in 2017. He has argued that millions are illegally entering the country from the southern border, but the majority of Illegal Immigrants in the u. S. Did not come over the southern border. Most enter legally through customs and Border Protection, and then they never leave. Theyre called visa overstays. Trump and his administration have claimed or implied that 4,000 known or suspected terrorists were stopped at the southern border last year, ten a day, but nbc news has debunked that claim. For the first half of the fiscal year 2018, that figure is six. Six, not 4,000. His administration has insisted that 17,000 criminals were detained at the border, but who are these quote unquote criminals . The Washington Post found that nearly half of them were convicted of just one crime, and that crime was illegally entering into the u. S. , which is not the same as the violent criminals, drug dealers, rapists, and bad hombres the president keeps talking about. The Trump Administ