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what's the score on the red wings game? >> just to review, we've got pot brownies, malfunctioning phone, inadequate amount of fried fish, and some kind of easy on the meat, heavy on the mayor situation 37 will 911 wonders never cease? "outfront" next, where is the next battlefield in europe? not in greece. no, not in spain. the french elections over the weekend have a whole lot more effect on the american economy. and mitt romney puts his foot in his mouth, president obama hits the golf course in a similar thing. but they both say they understand the american people. it doesn't add up. and has the ipad killer finally arrived? a top secret event happening in our hour. let's go "outfront."
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good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, carte blanche. this man smiling with president obama could save or sink europe's economy. and ours. francois hollande has just won free rein to do whatever he wants, while american headlines today went all in on greece which, when all is said and done, is just another delay of inevitable default. the fate of europe was decided in paris. france is the heart and the wallet of the eu because france isn't greece, or even spain. it is the eu. second only to the almighty germany in size. if either fall, the eu is done. and that's why the vote in paris is the story today. overnight, president francois hollande's socialist party got a voter mandate, winning an absolute majority in parliament. that's like controlling the house, the senate and the presidency. and hollande plans to use it. he has promised french voters
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the moon. this really isn't, everyone, about taking a side on the spending versus austerity as a national policy debate because the reality of it is is some of hollande's promises are simply extreme. like cutting the country's retirement age from 62 back to 60. that ties for the low nest europe, even though the french live longer than almost all other europeans. things like boosting the minimum wage when it's already an outlier. right now, minimum wage is $7,000 a month. and they do work fewer hours in france. and the new french president recently said this on tv -- >> translation? i do not like the rich.
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some people might say, i want to live in france. who wants to be number one? work fewer hours, get paid more, retire earlier. that's the way a civilized country should be. maybe so. except it doesn't add up. someone has to pay for it. the millionaire's tax when you add up the millionaires in france doesn't even put you in the ballpark. and the bean counters see the problem coming like an 18-wheeler. last week, the credit ratings agency eagan jones slashed france's credit rating because, quote, hollande will be under pressure to keep campaign promises. and s&p downgraded france back in january. it's unclear if hollande will break his promises. after all, there is plenty of room to still be on the side of spending without being as extreme. hollande is in a tough spot of his own making. it might make his personal life look like a walk in the park. he does have a -- well, to the american eyes a store yo typical french lifestyle.
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this weekend, his partner lashed out at his former partner and the mother of his four children, royal. trierweilor tweeted against her. as for president obama, he might want to think before he does another smiling photo op with hollande. his fate and reelection could be in this man's big spending hands. "outfront" tonight, a valued member of our spike team, bill gross, ceo of pimco. bill, good to see you. i was waiting all day to get my lovely menage a trois example into the broadcast. >> i can't top that. >> you're an investor who's looking at europe. do you think francois hollande will keep the extreme promises he's made on cutting the retirement age?
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>> well, i think that was vote-getting. you mentioned some of the extreme measures. and that's typical of elections, is it not, in the u.s. as well? but i think clearly and this was an anti-austerity vote in france and it elevates the socialist pro-growth, higher deficit agenda as a model for euroland. angela merkel has been snubbed by the french in this election, which i suppose won't be the first or the last time. but it's going to have a consequence in you'reland fiscal policy for a long time now. and we're going to see what hollande's agenda is. >> you've talked about being worried about france and its fiscal balance. it's one of the few countries in europe that you do have money. you do still, don't you? >> yes, we have investments in france, typically they're ten-year yields or about 2.5%. they're not what we are in italy, which are 5.5% or in
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spain, which are 7.5%. but they're at 2.5%. and they could go either way, depending upon whether or not this growth agenda is successful. >> but it's people like you and your investors -- a lot of americans, we always talk about it -- have money with pimco. you're going to make a decision on whether you are going to pay for some of francois hollande's promises. so what's your verdict? if you really see him going in the direction of a few of the things we said, the retirement age, the minimum wage, tax rates of 75%, would that be something that -- forget your own politics as an investor. you'd put money in? >> i think those are extreme. i think what he's trying to do is favor labor as opposed to capital. remember, to the extent he moves only gradually, i think that's a positive. what france needs, what euroland needs is growth. to the extent that they can prevent a continuing recession,
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the growth is going to be positive. but radical steps probably won't move in that direction. it will take too much towards labor. so moderation is the way forward for france and other countries, i believe. >> bill, if hollande does go full-out, goes for his agenda and everything he promised, what's the risk to the united states? if it becomes clear he's doing that, a break-up of the eu, not speculation about, oh, little greece, will it break apart? but a break-up at the heart of europe. >> i think the example, erin, is in terms of the results. what we've seen in the uk over the past two years with cameron is a very austered budget, the uk is in recession and moving perhaps in the opposite direction at the moment in terms of more fiscal spending. this is an experiment in france. can they take germany with them? can they, in a sense, develop a new model for euroland? we're going to see what investors wants and what the
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u.s. desires in terms of a balance is a growth agenda that will permit investment and permit capitalists to continue on in terms of their investment in france, such as pimco. we're just going to have to see. it's not a grand experiment. but it's certainly an experiment that's different from what we've seen over the past two years. >> thanks very much to bill gross. some of those promises may not be kept. but if they are, things could really change. coming into our election, if europe falling apart. still "outfront," who's more out of touch with the american people? the guy who loves the golf or the guy who's never been to wa wa. did you know that egypt is the third biggest recipient of american aid? billions of dollars a year. is it time for our country to put its money where its mouth is? and new audio released from george zimmerman's jailhouse calls tonight, we'll play the conversation that some say he was having in code with his wife.
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our second story out front, something mitt romney said today in pennsylvania caught our attention -- >> where do you get your hoagies here? do you get them at wawas? i went to wawas today. i wanted to order a sandwich. you press the little keypad. you touch this, touch this, pay the cashier, there's your sandwich. it's amazing. >> it is amazing, by the way. anybody who lives in the mid-atlantic know that is wawa is amazing. he's a massachusetts guy. they don't have wawa up there. it's a sad thing for them. but critics were quick to say it shows romney is out of touch. but romney and the president have both proven they are far from average joes. >> the private sector is doing fine. >> i'll till you what, 10,000
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bucks? $10,000 bet? >> they get bitter and they cling to guns or religion or antipathy -- >> and the last election, there was the famous arugula salad that mitt romney enjoyed -- yeah, i like looking at ryan and roland with that look on their face. i have to say, i feel bad for the guy that he's deprived of a wawa, singular. but wawa's? >> well, one thing about that video that's worth mentioning is that if you look at the unedited version of the video, what heesz describing as amazing is not wawa's, the fictional store that doesn't exist, but he's talking about private sector streamlining.
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that's the amazing thing. it's not actually this -- >> but that's been in wawa for a while? i am a wawa lover. >> but he's talking about -- >> what the hell is a wawa? >> roland, wait a minute! >> i'm from texas. what is a wawa? is that what a baby does when they're crying. excuse me if i'm not feeling the wawa. >> all right. i'm going to preface this with you didn't know. but i believe it's a native american term for some sort of bird. >> have you ever heard of a pompano's? we have them in texas. >> you're defending him? >> no. he's not from there. i got it. but who's a regular person? president obama, he lives in public housing, rides public transportation, maybe he gets it. we go through this all of the time about who's a regular person. guess what? both of these guys have got money. it's not like they're hanging out riding the metro, the subway
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or a bus every day. of course they're not regular. we don't want a regular president. >> well, there's something to be said for that. >> roland's right to the extent -- this gets trot out every campaign cycle, the president's out of touch. when you live in the bubble of the presidency, you're going to do the google. and this cycle is complicated by the fact you've got a candidate who's got a horse in the olympics. these are gaffes on the campaign trail. this goes back to george h.w. bush with a scanner at the grocery store. these are innocent mistakes. but the real question is folks feeling they can relate to them. that's what this becomes is proxy war for. do they seem like real guys? >> i'll defend the premise of politicians being out of touch in this broader way. but it's not so much about romney or obama.
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whenever you get elected -- whenever you become president, you see a lot of folks abandon positions they'd held before, partly because you're surrounded by the national security state. you have a totally different idea regarding what is and is not appropriate. think about the security you're surrounded by constantly. you don't have the ability to relate to people. >> you can't zip into wawa on a saturday night. >> that's what i'm saying. we could get so excited about this. bottom line is, we do not have regular candidates. they are not regular. it drives me crazy in the beltway when everything is about if you didn't go to harvard or yale, somehow you didn't go to a top-quality school. all that plays into this whole nonsense. i'm saying, fine, do this, mitt romney, get you some campaign staffers who know about the local joint. give them an f.a.q. run it all down so you don't say, you can press a button and get a sandwich. look, his wife said today, we're
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not going to take foreign trips because we have several houses here, we can live there. that's not regular, having several houses. but it is what it is. >> that reminds me of john mccain's irregular moment with not knowing how many houses he had. >> that's bad, not knowing how many cribs you have. >> and jock -- john kerry standing in for mitt romney in the obama debate -- we have a bunch of really wealthy guys in the senate who run for president. president obama being a notable exception to that rule. he's become successful but did not start out on third base. but, look, the whole process of running for president is insulated. most folks don't wake up with the security detail. so from the get-go, you're starting off in a strange place. >> a lot of folks believe that we want these unusual people to have less authority and control over our lives. there's no way that you from washington, d.c. -- no matter how noble or well-intentioned you are, can really understand
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the texture of life for person who are in very different places. you're the president of a sprawling country of over 300 million people. you can't understand your wawa from your pompano's. and if you can't understand that >> it's called papa doe's i don't know pompano. >> i've got that texas flavor all over. >> you've got the twang, no question about it. >> worked on it all day. >> wawa, wawa, wawa! >> wawa's. >> thanks to all of you. look, we all agreed. you want to have exceptional people run for president. people who champion the best. still "outfront," the ipad has ruled the tablet world. but is an announcement tonight about to change that?
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mystery solved. microsoft announcing literally just moments ago a tablet to compete with apple called the surface. that's the name of the new tablet, called the surface, like the surface of a table. microsoft which is sort of the khaki pants of the tech world has had geeks the world over foaming at the retainer after issuing an exclusive invitation.
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the mysterious event is getting under way at this very moment and it could be the first step in the company's attempt to transform from geek to chic. a la ronald miller in "can't buy me love." the big question remains is will tonight's unveiling be enough to kill the ipad? that brings me to tonight's number, 3 million. that's how many ipads apple sold in the first three days after its launch which was only in 2010. can you imagine it was 2010? two years ago. the entire world has changed. two years ago. since then, rivals have released dozens of alternatives to try to catch apple. no one has even come close. microsoft, in fact, has been chasing the tablet dream for 12 years now. some say it was bill gates and microsoft that came up with the whole idea of a tablet but apple actually got the execution right. so will microsoft finally deliver with the surface?
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tweet us, let us know. will you try the surface over an ipad? we really do want to know. it could be a game changer. "outfront" next, the u.s. gives billions in aid to egypt every single year. but is that money being used to buy weapons to keep the people down? and jerry sandusky underwent psychological evaluation. does he have histrionic personality disorder? does that give him a defense? we have the answer.
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welcome back to the second half of "outfront." we start with stories we care about where we focus on our own reporting from the front lines. first, former baseball star roger clemens found not guilty of lying to congress about steroid use. an emotional clemens wiped his eyes after a federal jury found him not guilty of all six counts in the case. the case centered around his 2008 testimony before a house committee where he said he had never used steroids or houcken growth hormone during his career. if clemens had been convicted, the 49-year-old would have faced up to ten years in prison. luka magnotta has been extradited to canada.
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he has been in german custody after authorities found him in an internet cafe in berlin two weeks ago. authorities say magnotta videoed himself killing and dismembering a chinese student. the victim's hands and feet were mailed to politicians and schools. magnotta just arrived in montreal and we are told he will appear in court tomorrow. meantime, the first day of talks over iran's nuclear ambitions ended in moscow. the talks continue tomorrow but they could be the last time world powers meet with iran before the new heart-hitting sanctions take effect at the end of the month. world powers demand iran stop enriching uranium to 20%. that obviously is closer to the 90% needed for a nuclear weapon. at the g-20 summit today, president obama said there is still time for a diplomatic resolution, flying in the face of the israeli president, perez. he told nbc today the time is running out for a diplomatic solution.
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and saudi arabia has appointed prince salman as heir parent to king abdullah. prince salman replaces prince nayef who died in the past eight month. abdullah is hill and is thought to be 88 years old. i emphasize that because nobody knows the exact age of any of the current ruling generation. there is no history here. there is no succession plan for the next generation. and that's a problem because the next generation comprises 7,000 princes. that would be a real civil war. obviously people expect it will be peaceful. but the question is, will a religious hardliner get power? will the world's number one oil supplier remain stable? i've asked leaders and they don't know. it's an incredible vacuum and it will be the most important question facing the u.s. and the middle east in addition to controlling the oil markets, saudi is the number one buyer of american weapons on earth.
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it has been 319 days since america lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? the housing market is actually making a comeback. sentiment from homebuilders was up in june to its highest level in five years. the most gains were in the west and the midwest. and now our third story out front, the pentagon spoke out today on the chaos in cairo. spokesman george little expressed deep concern and said egypt's military should hand over full power to what he called a democratically elected civilian government. the military ignored it, tightening its grip on power today, announcing that it and not the president will decide if the country goes to war and that it and not the president will decide the military's budget. the military will name a group to write a new constitution. the office of president won't mean much in egypt. this comes as the muslim brotherhood candidate seems to have won the presidential vote this weekend, although the military candidate has not conceded.
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the u.s. has a very big choice to make. sure, america prefers the military in egypt to the muslim brotherhood, just like for daeblgd decades the united states preferred mubarak. we give egypt $2 billion a year in aid, two-thirds of that to the military for a total of $43 billion in guns and tanks to egypt in the past three decades. so do we stop funding egypt's military? jane harman served nine terms in congress. she was the chair of the house subcommittee on intelligence and was a monitor on egyptian voting earlier this year. jane joins us now. what should the u.s. do? this is a real moment of choice for the united states. >> i agree. it's also a moment of choice for egypt. i would say step one, take a deep breath and let these events unfold.
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first let's find out who won the election. we're supposed to know that by thursday. the muslim brotherhood candidate appears to have a lead. but let's let that play out. i am, i have to say, stunned by these developments in the last several weeks since i was in egypt and met with s.c.a.f. and met with other officials and aboved the first presidential primary, i guess you could call it. >> and it seems it is just a moment of choice because obviously for so long, egypt was not a democracy, it was a dictatorship. and the united states supported that dictator for a long time. it was in at least congress after congress, president after president, determined the united states' national interest was best to do so. to go now for the democratically elected candidate goes against u.s. interest but it might be the right thing to do. >> well, the u.s. position, it
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was announced while i was in egypt a few weeks ago, is to recognize the winner of a fair and democratic election. i think that our government will do that. how much power that person will have, at least at the moment, is totally unclear. >> jane, i'll never forget being there during the first -- coming to tahrir square, the beginnings of the revolution and how amazing it was. there was a moment of an 18-year-old girl and the soldiers picked her up and put her on the tank for some pictures. and it showed at that time the military supported the people. but if the people vote for something else and the military doesn't move, the united states has this lever. we can say, look, these f-14s, the f-4s, these tanks, all of this stuff we've sent you, no. and if we say no, can't we force them to respect what the people said? >> well, we have some leverage. we haven't transferred the --
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all of the $1.3 billion in military aid which the secretary of state has agreed to transfer this year. the way it worked this year was congress passed an aid package with conditions. >> one thing that stood out to me was a tax book approved, textbook for current eighth-graders in egypt -- a top cleric speaking for the muslim brotherhood candidate introducing him had this to say about jews -- [ speaking foreign
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>> let's understand that election rhetoric is often heated and things have been said in this interminable election that i find enormously objectionable. i find those comments awful. but the textbooks and a lot of the television programs in egypt have been objectionable for a long time. surely under the mubarak administration. and one of the ways forward that would make the biggest difference in egypt, both for the empowerment of girls and women and for the enlightenment of the civilization, would be to help support good schools that teach objective information to schoolkids. and by the way, part of the u.s. aid package is not military. there's $250 million in civilian aid, which i would hope would go for a new textbook in egypt's schools.
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and now our fourth story out front, a day after former penn state football coach jerry sandusky was examined by the prosecution's psychologist, we're learning the defense will call a witness to testify that sandusky suffers from, quote, histrionic personality disorder, hpd. the symptoms include acting or looking overly seductive, constantly seeking reassurance or approval, needing to be the center of attention and believing that relationships are more intimate than they actually are. so how will this play out in sandusky's child sex abuse trial? good to have you with us. doctor, first of all, we just went through the basic definition of histrionic personality disorder. this is something that -- i'd never heard of it before this case. how common is it? >> well, it's a condition that's diagnosed perhaps to 2% to 3% of the population. but the important point is the
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reason it's diagnosed and estimated to be so low is the kinds of condition that cause someone to present to a psychologist. people don't present to a psychologist or a psychiatrist who have a history of ped feel pedophilia and sexual assault. the reason this is incompatible with the sandusky scenario is you put the graphic up about attention-seeking, it's a condition of shallow relationships. this is a person whose legacy is defined by the substance of his relationships, not their shallowness, his substance as a coach, his substance as a father, his substance in a successful marriage, his substance leading a charity. it is incompatible with the shallowness of relationships of histrionic personality disorder. again, he's on trial for sexually assaulting in private, not for an attention-seeking sexual assault. so his alleged crimes are all
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about what he has been doing privately, secretly, away from view, not calling attention to his sexual deviance. so his life and history is incompatible with the diagnosis that's a bit of window dressing on love and romance to divert attention away from grooming behavior and how he relates to children to control them. >> paul callan, you were saying, this is not standard in pennsylvania to allow this sort of testimony at all in a sex abuse case. but given what dr. wellner is saying, you were skeptical of this defense. >> this defense is so idiotic, i think the prosecutor thought of it because in pennsylvania, you're not allowed to call a psychiatrist if you're a prosecutor to prove somebody is a child abuser. they, the defense now put a psychiatrist on the stand that gives the prosecutor now the right to call a psychiatrist to examine sandusky and say, he doesn't have hpd.
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he's a classic pedophile. this is classic grooming behavior. so it's really shocking that they would even consider this level of risk and to open the door to this possible testimony. >> did you think -- the defense started today. what did you think about how the defense did today? >> well, it was just sort of not much of a defense. they put a bunch of character witnesses on the stand who said basically, i know jerry, he's a really nice guy. he has a good reputation in the community. they were on and off the stand, most of them, in under ten minutes. none of them -- a couple of them said, by the way, which i found to be interesting, that they were coaches or former coaches and that they had showered with little boys. however -- >> what? >> yeah, they actually said that. that they had had showers with little boys but said they never touched or hugged the little boys as sandusky is alleged to have done. >> little boys like 3-year-old boys like your own child? that would be more normal --
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>> i mean little boys playing sports. >> teenage boys? >> adolescent boys. >> he's alleged to have done a lot more. sex offenders engage in what's known as cognitive distortion. justify, yeah, sure, this is what we athlete dos. if you can normalize something for public consumption, you speak to the natural human tendency to say, this man is an icon, i don't want to believe he could be this monstrous. and that's what prosecutors have to confront. we don't want to believe that anyone could be this monstrous. and he's not only an icon, but it's an icon that everybody in that community gave a pass to. >> if you're going to call a character witness, he's been with hundreds of kids in this second mile program. what i was struck by is why don't we see any grown-up kids coming forward saying, he was my coach, he was a wonderful guy, i never had a problem with him -- >> none of those people are
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coming forward. >> none of them took the stand. we only heard about these scattered people who said, jerry's a great guy and by the way, i shower with boys myself. >> i find that so bizarre. >> this has been one very strange defense. >> thanks very much to both of you. we'll see whether that histrionic personality disorder plays a role and whether jerry sandusky takes the stand. the judge has told the jury they should get this case by the end of the week. "outfront" next, the woman prosecuting george zimmerman has a history of using evidence from jailhouse sources. will the calls made to zimmerman's wife affect the case? and roger clemens found not guilty in the perjury trial. why did sports fans lose today? that's coming up. ♪
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it's actually their first meeting since putin took office last month. this meeting comes as the u.s. and russia are at odds over syria. the u.s. has accused russia of shipping wepens to the syrian government. i asked our reporter if today's meeting helped at all in bridging the gap between the two men. >> reporter: president obama and president putin met for about two hours, president obama saying it was a candid, thoughtful and thorough conversation. but perhaps the best indication of how that meeting went, body language. take a look at the videotape. both of the leaders did not sit very close together, president obama leaning over to president putin. putin appearing to lean away. no smiles. at the very end of their remarks, they had a quick handshake, a half smile from putin and a quick pat on the shoulder from president obama. the two leaders did talk about there needing to be an end to the violence in syria in order to prevent a civil war and that there needs to be a political
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solution. but no details on what that political solution will look like. erin? >> thanks to dan. couple speaking in code, about plans to move tens of thousands of dollars between bank accounts. >> call him and make sure that he does this every day. and you transfer from mine to yours every day. >> transfer from mine to yours every day and set an alarm on my phone to remind me, okay. >> the state says those calls prove zimmerman lied about previous claims he was too broke to post bond. zimmerman faces second degree murder charges in the shooting death of teenager trayvon martin. "outfront" tonight, criminal defense attorney janet jackson. janet, let me just ask, i know you know the prosecutor here.
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and i know she has a real record in not just these phone conversations that zimmerman may have had but other conversations he could be having in passing in jail with other inmates and bringing that into the courtroom. do you think she's going to be able to get all this into court? >> even on the tape we heard him talk about conversations he's having with other inmates. we know he's pretty chatty. he's talking quite a bit. that office have a knack for getting jailhouse snitches. if he made any statements to anywhere else in that jail they're going to want to jump on that case. i would bet on that. >> wow, all right. so, mark, is it possible, in the audio we just heard where zimmerman is talking obviously what appears to be in pretty bad code frankly assuming that he's talking about what we think he is which is transferring money regularly into another account.
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would he know that that was illegal tampering? >> well, i agree with you. i think my 4-year-old and 6-year-old daughters speak in more sophisticated code than that. but the reality of it is that you have an issue about whether he knew that she was going to take the stand. remember the time line on this. we have those previous lawyers of zimmerman who got off the case. he got on the case, apparently only met him the night before. and then they were in court. so it wasn't even certain that she was going to be called as a witness. so to suggest she was a witness at the time before there was a hearing or she was even designated as a witness is going to be a hard road for the prosecution to prove he was doing any witness tampering. i do think that she's got a whole -- >> i don't agree with that because i think witness tampering, all he has to do is engage in misleading conduct that is going to get somebody to potentially testify to something
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that is not true or to withhold information. i think she can -- i certainly think angela will try to prove that. i think that that's probable cause. >> trying and doing are two entirely different things. the fact is that she's got a situation where they don't know that she was going to be called as a witness. and you've got all this money that was clearly moving back and forth. everybody keeps forgetting, zimmerman has a fifth amendment right. he did not have a legal obligation to say anything. he did not -- he was not the one that misled the court. now, he should have said something earlier. when his lawyer found out about it, he brought it right before the court as he was bound to do. zimmerman had no requirement under the fifth amendment to say anything when somebody else was saying something during that hearing. people seem to forget that part of it. >> one other quick thing. i just want to play another conversation. george zimmerman talking about a car picking him up from jail once he got bail. here he is. >> if the one we're going to
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drive in and then get the suv, i don't know if they black out zuvs though -- oh, okay. because you could always lay down or something. >> yeah, exactly. well, i have my hoodie. >> uh-huh, true. >> unclear whether he was making some sort of hoodie joke about trayvon or not. >> i think it's clear. think mrs. zimmerman may be savier and tried to deflect it. clearly a tasteless joke. you don't use the word hoodie by mistake. i think that was clear. >> thank you very much to both of you. "outfront" next, a verdict in the roger clemens perjury case. ask me what it's like when my tempur-pedic moves.
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late today, roger clemens was found not guilty of lying to congress during an investigation of steroid use during his nearly three decade career. the trial went on for ten weeks at a cost of about $3 million to american tax payers. that's right, we paid for it. the track record on these high-profile cases is expensive ones. and verdicts that are overwhelmingly not guilty. take lance armstrong. the u.s. anti-doping agency is now accusing him of doping.
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after the doj dropped a two-year criminal investigation and didn't even file charges. that cost us money. the reality is actually pretty uncomfortable here. supplement use, legal and otherwise, plague some professional sports. even horses dope. the latest way we found out is actually called milk shaking. as the trainer of the second to last triple crown winner told me, horses now are bred so much for speed that they're fragile. allegations for doping for speed have tainted the industry. and what have they gotten for it? public hasn't got be much. we haven't had a horse win the triple crown since 1978. as for human sport stars, they dope because we, the people, for the most part, look the other way. the biggest and best get paid the most. the problem is human beings can't do what fans want. it seems that only doped up human beings can deliver.