son. number one, george zimmerman was a grown man with a gun. and number two, trayvon martin was a liner who had no blood on his hands. bill: the defense of course has those stanford police department photographs of george zimmerman shortly after the altercation showing a bloody george zimmerman face as well as blood and scrapes on the back of his head. inside the courtroom we are seeing pictures, george zimmerman there at the defense table. and shortly we ll have the prosecutor begin what are expected to be a couple hours of powerful opening statements. bill: the judge will make some last-minute important decisions, what are they? reporter: disallowing any expert audio analysis of who was
security to hamid karzai and the specific road map for troops to come home from the more than decade long war. last year, we removed 10,000 u.s. troops from afghanistan. another 23,000 will leave by the end of summer. after that, reductions will continue at a steady pace with more and more of our troops coming home. as our coalition agreed, by the end of 2014 the afghans will be fully responsible for the security of their country. the trip fell on the one-year anniversary of the day that the president ordered navy s.e.a.l.s to take out osama bin laden. over the last three years, the tide has turned. we broke the taliban s momentum. we built strong afghan security forces. we devastated al qaeda s leadership, taking out over 20 of the top 30 leaders. one year ago, from the base here in afghanistan, our troops launched the operation that killed osama bin laden. the goal that i set to defeat al qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuild is now within our reach. so does all of
as our coalition agreed, by the end of 2014 the afghans will be fully responsible for the security of their country. the trip fell on the one-year anniversary of the day that the president ordered navy s.e.a.l.s to take out osama bin laden. over the last three years, the tide has turned. we broke the taliban s momentum. we built strong afghan security forces. we devastated al qaeda s leadership, taking out over 20 of the top 30 leaders. one year ago, from the base here in afghanistan, our troops launched the operation that killed osama bin laden. the goal that i set to defeat al qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuild is now within our reach. so does all of this add up? does the president s optimism about the future square with what s happening on the ground? sean parnell is the author of outlawed platoon. all right, good to see you. let me just ask you this question, colonel lleyton first. we just heard the president there saying by the end of 2014 afghans will be full
information hasn t come out. so florida law enforcement has a history of providing a lot of information before a trial starts. casey anthony my case in point. i use that as an example. but in this case they have determined it is better not to provide the information. and i think that s because of the history of the stanford police department when it comes to race relations. the police chief who has temporarily stepped down, police chief lee. it s my understanding he was hired because of those bad relationships and things had gone the better until this shooting happened. it s also my believe why it s been passed onto the state s attorney who passed it on to another state s attorney and it will be gone over by a grand jury because the sanford police department is trying to show the world they did everything right by george and trayvon as well. martha: what is your understanding of what he thought
we re going to turn this over to the department of justice and their investigation because the family does not trust the stanford police department and anything to do with the investigation. and there is more, nbc news believes zimmerman used a racial slur on the 911 call. which entrance is that that he s heading towards? the back entrance [ bleep ] let s bring in reverend al sharpton, host of politics nation here on msnbc and charles blow, columnist for the new york times. gentlemen, thanks for your time tonight. gentlemen, a lot has changes in the last 24 hours, the racial slur would be relative to motive, particularly a hate crime. i think the racial slur, as well as the phone calls that the mr. zimmerman, the killer in this case had made several reports over the last several months, all of which he