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to ten minutes after he was shot in the heart. it is my opinion that he was still alive, he was still in pain, he was still suffering, from my experience, another autopsy we did three weeks ago, i don t believe he can move after shot. trayvon martin s family was in the gallery today but trayvon s mother was noticeably absent during the part of the medical examiner s testimony that included detail autopsy photographs. let s go back to criminal defense attorney john burris, joy reid of the grio and msnbc legal analyst lisa bloom. great to have all of you with us. it s been a very eventful day. let s go back to the testimony of sybrina fulton. how effective was she?
witness for the prosecution, the medical examiner. there s no question that sybrina fulton has not only sat and listened to this entire trial so far and all of the excruciating testimony about the death of her son and how he was shot and killed and the medical testimony and it just has to be horrific and then she took the stand and did what she had to do. i think the jury may have wished that they could have heard more from her. identifying trayvon martin on that 911 call. ed? all right. lisa, you had a you struggled today with the testimony of the fed cal examiner? take us down that road. yeah. struggle, to put it mildly. this is a professional witness. this is what he does for a living, at least in part. he s testified at least 20 times before, he s done hundreds of autopsies, and this is a witness who was condescending, sassing
the elderly going forward and yet it did not take care of everything. in 30 years later in 1963, 56% of people 65 and older had hospital insurance and that left americans vulnerable if a crisis struck. medicare was enacted in 1965 after decades of debate and lack of political will for a federal health insurance program for the elderly, and the growth of the program has not kept pace with contribution contributions, and why medicare provided for more than 49 seniors last year, keeping the program solvent is a big issue. but are these fed cal expenditures really what is driving the deficit? according to former labor secretary robert reich, the answer is no. quote, he says, they are temporary. if anything, america s safety nets have been too small, and shot through with holes, and that is why the number of percentage of american in poverty has increased dramatically including 22% of our children. so at a time when people are pushing for cuts in social programs we must pause to show that t
california today as you can see in those cities. you just can t pay those retirement benefits to the government workers. so it will crash, it will stop. the question is whether we do it through logic or whether we let it crash into the system on its own. that s what this election is all about, and that s what romney is talking about and that is what obama is talking about. bill: what the governor is saying is he s suggesting the white house is gutting welfare. yes he is. bill: and taking apart the way the program was set up in 1996 between bill clinton and newt gingrich. do you agree with that? he s cutting the work requirement to get welfare. in 1996 clinton and the congress agreed that you had to actually look nor work to get welfare. that was welfare reform. he has now said you don t have to look for work to get welfare. that s what obama just put through that you can drop the work requirement in order to receive welfare. so he s not gutting it, he s increasing the eligibility d