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Forgetting that s what trump is all about. howie: cnn, playing with racial animus. is that proper framing? it s so difficult as a journalist to discuss a lot of these issues when they touch on racial sensitivities because we are not stenographers. it s our job to put these into context. you have a president who has a history of making racially sensitive comments. and it comes to the black football players who are kneeling he called them a word we won t say on this show. so as journalists you have to decide which context to put it in. but it is the white house on ....

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CNN CNN Newsroom July 20, 2013 15:09:00

Zimmerman of murder exactly one week ago. alina cho in manhattan. thastz so much. now to the nation s capital where we find athena jones. organizers there are demanding the federal government prosecute george zimmerman on the civil rights violations that alina just spelled out, but what is the likelihood of that happening? reporter: good morning, fredricka. this is far from an open and shut case, as you know. some of the legal experts we talked to raise questions about whether the federal government is going to be able to bring civil rights charges. this investigation has been ongoing by the federal government since last year. they ve been talking to witnesses down in florida. they ve been talking to folks who know george zimmerman. they re going to have to find evidence that wasn t brought to and presented at the trial, the state trial in florida. so there is a high bar for bringing these kinds of charges and proving george zimmerman acted out of racial hatred or racial animus. i ....

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CNN CNN Newsroom July 20, 2013 15:24:00

Sitting here today, i m not going to second guess it. i think they had to deal with a difficult set of facts, and they did the very best job they could. now without monday morning quarterbacking perhaps, you are engaged with the idea of whether this merits, this outcome, this verdict merits now a civil rights violation case that the justice department should be looking into. should it? i think it s appropriate to look into it. there are civil rights laws. the job of the department of justice is to enforce those laws and obviously this is a case, as i said earlier, has garnered a great deal of national attention. to be expected that the department of justice will look into this, but as many experts have said, i think there s a pretty high hurdle here, and what s missing in your view? well, the evidence that, in fact, these actions were based upon race, racial animus toward trayvon martin. we can all speculate about that, but is there evidence? because at the end of the day thi ....

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CNN CNN Newsroom July 20, 2013 15:20:00

and just days earlier attorney general eric holder addressed the nation s oldest civil rights group telling the naacp that stand your ground laws need to be changed. separate and apart from the case that has drawn the nation s attention, it s time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflicts in the our neighborhood. alberto gonzalez, good to see you. good to be in atlanta. how closely have you been watching the george zimmerman trial? i think like most americans, i had a great deal of interest in it. being a lawyer, being a former attorney general obviously, it s a case that s captivated the nation and has received a lot of media coverage and since i pay attention to what s going on in the media, obviously i have followed the case. and how did the verdict sit with you? i think based on the evidence ....

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CNN CNN Newsroom July 20, 2013 16:04:00

Where we find athena jones. organizers there demanding the federal government prosecute george zimmerman on civil rights violations. that s the mantra across the country at many of these demonstrations, but are people talking about the likelihood of that happening there in washington? reporter: hi, fredricka. that s right. if you talk to legal experts, they say there s a very high bar for the federal government to bring civil rights charges in this case. they d have to show that george zimmerman acted out of a sense of racial hatred or animus when he shot trayvon martin and they ve been down there investigating. down there for more than a year. they ve been interviewing witnesses, talking to folks who know george zimmerman. the bottom line, they would have to find evidence that was not found and presented in the state trial. it could be a high bar there, but nevertheless, you have all of these people gathered. a couple hundred are out here. if you remember an hour ago, what a differe ....

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