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the case america is talking about, i wan to hear from you, tweet us at piers morgan live. my exclusive interview with the star witness in the case, speaking out for the first time since she took the stand. >> i saw a picture of the man -- >> you're going to see george zimmerman's verdict after the verdict was announced. >> i have seen what trayvon martin did to my brother, and it's time -- it's high time that they accept that the jury system that we have in this country is a system that we should respect. >> also, my exclusive with the man who defended casey anthony. why he said this is not a case about racial profiling. plus, my legal eagles, jeffrey toobin and janie weintraub, was this case more about the law than the color of anybody's skin, and was the prosecution simply out foxed by the defense? this is piers morgan live. i want to begin with the young woman on the phone with trayvon martin the night he died. this is her first interview, rachel jeantel. than the color of anybody's skin, and was the prosecution simply out foxed by the defense?

this is piers morgan live. i want to begin with the young woman on the phone with trayvon martin the night he died. this is her first interview, rachel jeantel. >> hi, how are you? >> you are very famous now. everyone saw your testimony, you didn't look like you wanted to be there, you're also suffering from the loss of your friend trayvon martin. tell me about the fact that george zimmerman was acquitted. >> disappointed, upset, angry, question and mad. >> the jury decided after a long deliberation that the prosecution hadn't proved its

case, they believed that it was trayvon on top of george zimmerman, that it was george zimmerman's voice on the tape crying out for help. and they concluded he acted in self-defense. what do you say to that? >> yes. just yes. >> in your heart, what do you believe happened. >> he was trying to get home, and he was, and that's a fact. >> and you know that because you were talking to him? >> yes, sir. >> one thing we didn't get in this trial, was a real sense of what trayvon martin was really like. nobody knew him better than you. how often would you talk to trayvon? >> all day. >> all day long?

>> yeah, all day. >> you were telling me earlier, where you had phone records produced that it was literally all day. >> they showed me records and it was all day. >> what kind of guy was he? >> he was a calm, chill, loving person. loved his family, definitely his mother. and a good friend. >> what would you talk about? >> really, what we were going to be in life. how life's going to happen, what's going on currently around that time. and mind you around that time, it was both of our birthdays had passed. we were talking about what happened, and that --

>> he was a good friend to you? >> yes. >> a kind friend? >> yes. >> was he ever aggressive? >> no. >> did you ever see him aggressive? >> no. >> did he ever lose his temper? >> no. >> he really was a calm guy. >> yes. >> when people have tried to paint a picture of a young thug because he was in a hoodie and was walking home. >> first of all, trayvon is not a thug. they need to know a definition of a thug, to be judging a person -- well, a teenager, mind you a teenager, could post anything, even i post anything to just brag. >> you mean the stuff on social media? >> yeah, that's just brag, it's not true. >> again, they tried to paint a picture of somebody interested in guns, took a lot of drugs. let's get to the truth about that. did he ever talk to you about guns? >> no. >> did you ever see him with a gun? >> no.

>> what about drugs? >> drugs. okay, weed, marijuana. in my area, we say weed. my area, we -- for trayvon, i can explain one thing, we don't do make him go crazy, it just make him go hungry. it's the best thing i can say. >> did he take a lot of weed? >> no. >> how much would you say? >> like twice a week. >> twice a week? >> yes. >> is that normal for teenagers in your community? >> yes. real normal. >> you would do the same? >> no, because i -- >> you don't take it. >> no, no. >> you knew trayvon did, he would tell you that. we know there was some evidence of that in his blood. >> yes. >> what the defense again tried to paint a picture of is

somebody who -- because of the drug use, that would make him more violent. >> no. like i said, that's b.s., that's just their opinions. that's the problem in this case, that was their opinion. >> do you think they understood the world that you and trayvon come from? >> no. >> don west gave you a very hard time, the defense attorney? >> don west. >> what is your view of him? >> i'm going to say, i'm a christian. >> i want to clear up one thing before we move on. a lot of people have mocked you or they called you all sorts of things, you know that, on twitter. they called you stupid. they were very racist to you,

the people i saw on twitter. they were racist to you. they also mocked you for the way you spoke. explain to me the background to that. >> the way i speak? people, a lot of people have the same issue i have right now. okay, how i can say this? i have this situation since kindergarten, to figure out how to speak. i have an underbite. >> which is a dental condition for your teeth? >> no, a bone, they got to push back. >> you had to have surgery for it? >> yeah, i had to have surgery to push it back, and right now i don't want to do it, because it will take a year to heal. and a lot of people have that situation. words i can say, it can't come

out right. >> have you been bullied for that before? >> look at me, no. no. >> so you seem to me, a very different character tonight to the one we saw in court. you looked like you didn't want to be there. is that how you felt? >> it's not that i didn't want to be there, it's a lot of stress. i was dealing with a lot of stress for 16 months, i think. >> and you were grieving a friend. >> i was grieving. and i had to deal with around february, my birthday, his birthday. my mother's birthday. there's a lot of birthdays up in there.

so death creeped me out. i don't -- i don't do death at all. i told my parents, i'm not going to their funeral. i'm not doing none of that, i don't like funerals. >> for those who just don't know, what effect did it have on you, trayvon's death. particularly the shocking fact that you were the last person he was talking to? >> shock. just shock. just like wow! you can't believe -- like you can't believe what just happened.

you were just on the phone with the person. and he sounded normal. and then a situation happened, and then i'm finding out two days later he's dead. and then i had to be -- by a friend telling me, oh, do you know he died at 7:17? and i had to look at my phone. my phone say 7:16. and people got the nerve to tell me, oh, why didn't you come to the funeral? i didn't put trayvon at the funeral. i didn't put trayvon in the casket. that's what people need to understand. i did not plan for that week to be at a funeral. that day i was so shaken, like wow, it's really happening, he's really dead? >> do you miss him? >> well, yes. he was a funny person. and the area i currently stay

at, no. that's where he hang out. that's his friends, all that, we -- you know, they have their grief. >> the juror who was interviewed tonight by anderson cooper, said she felt sorry for you. but she also said this, let's watch the clip. >> i want to ask you about some of the different witnesses. rachel jeantel, the woman who was on the phone with trayvon martin at the start of the incident. what did you make of her

testimony? >> i didn't think it was very credible. but i felt very sorry for her. she didn't ask to be in this place, she wanted to go. she wanted to leave, she didn't want to be any part of this jury. i think she felt inadequate toward everyone because of her education and her communication skills. i just felt sadness for her. >> you're uneducated. you have no communication skills. what do you feel about what that juror said about you? >> angry. upset. and the closing, when the state closed they're trying to explain what kind of person i am. you can see the kind of person i am. out of the whole stand i never cussed out don. even during -- since march i've

been dealing with don west -- >> you actually saw him here? in the cnn show -- he was here to do anderson's show. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> what did that do -- >> i'm holding back. the only thing i've not seen nothing to don west, because my parents taught me better. as an adult, you don't have the right to disrespect an adult. don't curse. i did give attitude, but that's -- >> i like your attitude. when we come back, i want to talk to you about, there's a particular moment when we had this reference to creepy ass cracka, that became a very famous phrase. i want to get from you exactly what it means. right now more of my exclusive with the star witness in the george zimmerman trial. fl every time you wear it. neutrogena® healthy skin liquid makeup.

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right now more of my exclusive with the star witness in the george zimmerman trial. lots of tweets pouring in here, you can tweet me @piersmorgan. very proud of rachel right now,

a lot of dignity and grace. a lot of people saying that tonight. i want to talk to you more about trayvon, but first of all, i want to play a clip from anderson cooper's interview with the juror, the first juror to speak out. >> a lot of times she was using phrases i have never heard before, and what they meant. >> when she used the phrase creepy ass cracka, what did you think of that? >> i thought it was probably the truth. i think trayvon probably said that. >> and did you see that as a negative statement or a racial statement as the defense suggested? >> i don't think it's really racial. i think it's every day life.

the type of life that they live, and how they're living, in the environment that they're living in. >> what's your reaction to that. >> well, the jury, they see their fact. they old, that's old school people. we in a new school, our generation, my generation. so -- >> let's talk about creepy ass cracka. people have said that that is a phrase used by black people, cracka, to describe a white person. is that true?

>> no. like i said -- >> how do you spell it first of all? >> cracka. >> there's no e-r? >> yeah, it's an a at the end. >> c-r-a-c-k-a? >> yes, people acting like they're police. trayvon said crazy ass cracka. he told me the man was still watching him. if it was a security guard or policeman, they would come up to trayvon and say, do you need -- do you have a problem, do you need help? you know, like normal people. >> and if george zimmerman had done that, if he introduced himself as a neighborhood watch patrolman, even though he was offduty, if he had done that, what would trayvon have said to him do you think? >> no, i'm just trying to get home, i'm waiting for the rain to slow down so i can catch the game, the all-star game. >> that's all that he wanted to do? >> yes. >> they implied trayvon was looking suspicious. he was walking around, looking at houses looking suspicious. >> trust me, no. first of all, trayvon lazy. sorry, no. >> did he ever show interest in

burglaring houses? >> what was he going to burglar for? he don't live there, he don't know nobody there. he only know his brother or his step brother and his father and his father's girlfriend. >> when you heard the tape of george zimmerman saying these a-holes, these f-ing punks are always getting away with it, before he has the confrontation with trayvon, what did you think was going through george zimmerman's mind when he said that? >> i'm finally going too get one, that night. >> and be honest with me, rachel, do you think that that was racially motivated or more a case of somebody he thought was a young thug, black or white? >> it was racial. let's be honest, racial. if trayvon was white and he had a hoodie on, would that happen? because i ask you, that was around 7:00 or something. that's around the time people walk their dogs, people stand outside, all that. >> the jury, the juror tonight made it clear that the jury never really discussed race as being a motivating factor. >> i imagine, they're white.

well, one hispanic lady. >> five white women on the jury and one hispanic. >> yeah. i had a feeling it was going to be not guilty. >> because of the make june of the jury? do you think it was wrong they didn't have any black people on the jury? >> no, not that. when someone bashes -- that's not called bashing, that's whoop ass. >> would trayvon if he were scared, would he have whooped ass as you put it?

>> what. >> would he have defended himself if he had been in that position? >> yes, in my mind, in reality, trayvon, before his death, he thought i was still on the phone, i could have called out for help or something. but i wasn't on the phone. the struggle -- trayvon have an android. if you click on the android, it can end the call. there was a struggle, so somebody had to be on top of trayvon. >> you felt that there was no doubt in your mind from what

trayvon was telling you on the phone about the creepy ass cracka and so on, that he slightly believed george zimmerman was pursuing him? >> yes. >> and he was freaked out by it? >> yes. definitely after i say may be a rapist, for every boy, every man who's not that kind of way, seeing a grown man following them, would they be creeped out? so you have to take it -- as a parent, when you tell your child, you see a grown person following you, run away, and all that. you getting to stand there? you going to tell your child stand there? if you tell your child stand there, we're going to see your child on the news for missing person. >> let's take another break. i want to come back and talk to you about this photograph. this is of don west, the defense

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time now, more on my exclusive interview with the star witness from the george zimmerman trial, trayvon martin's friend, rachel jeantel. there was a moment after your testimony, where don west's daughter posted a picture of herself eating an ice cream cone. we beat stupidity celebration

cones. how did you feel? >> look at the picture. it's blonde female. where we live, where everybody live, blondes say dumb things. he could have won by law trying to act like a -- no offense, a jackass. but that's him doing his job. he got to get that check. it's all about the check. >> i have a question from the member of the audience. >> first, i wanted to say thank you so much for sharing your courage and your spirit with everybody in the world after

such a controversial testimony. do you feel that your testimony strongly impacted the case at all. >> yes. >> in a negative way? >> no. it might have said, why's her education? or why she kept it so honest? but people -- too honest, you can't be too honest, you can't say cracka all this, the jury's so shocked what i said. and they're acting like the generation we got now don't say that. >> police, a lot of people just -- like that juror, didn't believe you for whatever reason. are you an honest person by nature? >> yes. by law, yes. >> when it came to giving your evidence? >> yes.

>> in a serious trial? >> yes. >> you took that seriously? >> yes, because mind you, who want to be in a murder case. and who want to start a murder case? you think i would make all that up to be in a murder case? never knew it was going to be nationwide. so why make that up, deal with the b.s. to get to the trial, why make that up? tell me, because i ain't get no money out of this, mind you, my mommy and daddy paying my bills, ain't nobody else. >> what is your view of george zimmerman?

>> weak, scary, hiding from his father. >> why do you say that? >> if you were a real man, you would have stand on that stage and tell what happened. >> give evidence, you mean? >> yes. i understand what don's trying to say, oh, i switched it around. mind you, you keep going at me, every once in a while i have an

interview. i quit after the state interviewed me, that's it. but mind you, i'm a teenager. >> was there anything you wished you had said when you finished and went home and saw the reaction, everyone giving you a hard time. was there anything you wished you had said when you were in there? [ expletive ] >> why? >> the whole world say it's a racist word. mind you, around 2000, that was not, they changed it around i think. they started spelling it n-i-g-g-a. >> what does that mean to you, that way of spelling it? >> that mean a male. >> a black male? >> no, any kind of male. >> black or white? >> chinese could say it. >> and rappers use it in the music? that's what they mean? >> yes. but nigger is a racist word. >> they have two different meanings in your community? >> no, not young people, old people use that too. >> how would you like trayvon to be remembered. the picture that's being built

now because of the acquittal of george zimmerman, is that trayvon martin was a young thug who had it coming to him, because he jumped george zimmerman, punched him in the face, got his head, smashed it into the concrete repeatedly, and was going to kill him. that's why george zimmerman pulled out a gun and shot him. >> that's called dramatic. that's really called acting like a punk. be honest. >> did trayvon have that in him? >> no. no. trayvon was too quiet. and why's trayvon going to run if he wanted to beat him. why would he run? and people need to understand, he didn't want that creepy ass cracka going to his father or girlfriend's house to go get -- mind you, his little brother is there. mind you i told you, i told trayvon, might have been a rapist. parents need to stop acting

dumb. if you going to tell your child run away, trying to find somebody, that's not what trayvon was doing? so why the jury, they're all parents -- some of them are parents, they be telling their child that. you tell me you're going to tell your child to stand there? no. >> let me ask rod, your attorney. i haven't come to you, because it's compelling to talk to rachel and learn what she's

really like. do you think that she got an unfairly hard time in terms of the reaction to the evidence that she gave? >> i believe she did. i think don west was very aggressive toward her in the courtroom. to the point where the judge had to back him up off her and tell him to lower his voice and not yell at her. i read some things that some of the adults had written about her, some of the adults had said about her, which i found disturbing. and that is one of the reasons why i've taken her under my arm and really protected her from what has been happening in the media.

and let me just say this, piers, for every negative thing that was said about her. i have received letters, e-mails, text messages, phone calls from a number of individuals from all races, black, white, hispanic, they have written letters saying, we support her, we appreciate the courage and dignity that she had to be able to walk in that courtroom as a teenager and subject herself to the cross-examination of an attorney who's been practicing longer than she's been living. and that was admirable on her part. >> it was. and rachel, it's been admirable for you to come in here, go through another ordeal. i know you haven't done this before, i've learned a lot before you and trayvon than i knew before, and it's been fascinating. thank you for coming in and talking to me. coming up next, a man who defended casey anthony. this case is not about race. was this case more about race than law? [ female announcer ] are you sensitive to dairy? then you'll love lactose-free lactaid® it's 100% real milk that's easy to digest so you can fully enjoy the dairy you love. lactaid®. for 25 years, easy to digest. easy to love.

was this case more about race than law? anderson cooper spoke with one juror who said she and her fellow jurors never discussed race. >> you don't think race played a role in this case? >> i don't think it did. if there was another person, spanish, white, asian, if they came in the same situation where trayvon was, i think george would have reacted the same way. >> joining me now is cheney mason, he defended casey anthony. what did you make of the rachel jeantel interview there? >> i couldn't hear your question. >> did you hear the interview i did with rachel jeantel? >> yeah, i saw part of it. >> she portrayed a very different kind of trayvon martin to the one that we had been led to believe by the defense. do you think this -- justice has been done here?

>> well, i think that she clearly could have done a better job testifying if she had been proper preens by the lawyers, given an opportunity to. you know, she clearly was a controversial witness, that didn't mean she wasn't telling the truth. and i'm sure it's a foreign environment for her, she didn't want to be there, as i understand it, and she was attacked, you know in the lawyer manner. but i'll repeat, it doesn't mean she wasn't telling the truth many one thing i did hear, piers, people worrying about this comment about him being a cracka. let me tell you, i'm a cracka, been one for 70 years. a cracka to us means a person who was born here, we're native to florida. there's very few of us florida cracka's.

less than 30% of the population. it has nothing to do with race. >> let me ask you about the verdict itself, because we talked a lot about it before. you were thinking manslaughter may be the outcome, but it wasn't. we saw a fascinating insight that three of them believed that he was not guilty at the start. two thought he was guilty of manslaughter, one of second degree murder. they all came around to an acquittal. what do you make of that. >> normal sob. that's the way jury deliberations go. i've been trying criminal cases for 40 years, they never start off exactly one way. they're an intelligent individual people, they refute

the evidence and they think what they think, and they listen to each other. that's the beauty of our jury system. i mean, it's remarkable how a group of strangers can be put together and come to an answer. i can tell you, even all those cases i have lost, i've always believed that juries get the right result, though they may get there from some of the most convoluted routes that we would expect, but they do. i would expect people saying, okay, i feel this, i feel that, and they talk about it, that's why these jurors spent almost 16 hours? that's a long time to talk about a case -- as simple as this one. >> they insisted that race played no part really in their deliberations at all. they ruled it out quickly as being a factor here. rachel jeantel felt very strongly that was not the case. that trayvon was month filed because he was a young black

teenager in a hoodie. do you think race was a subliminal presence here, and how much was the jury affected by the fact that they were effectively an all white jury? >> what i know, piers, we don't know what somebody else thinks. we don't know what's in the mind of a young black man or a white person, unless you are one. all we can go on is the evidence. i did not see or here any evidence in this case that was racial. what i did sees was the outside atmosphere and the media stirring of the issue has been racial from day one, from altering the 911 tape to make it look like mr. zimmerman said he was black, when that's not what he said. and then the continued talking heads, people polarizing based on race. and what we've seen around the country. to me, that's nothing short of a shame. it's not a black community or a white community. it's our community. it's 2013. it's time we get over this. let's start dealing with the

facts. you go in a courtroom, we have facts and evidence. there are no facts in this case to suggest racial anything. >> cheney mason, stay with me. we're going to take a short break, we're going to come back, and i'll bring in some people with strong opinions on this case. we'll have many more questions for my panel and from our studio audience. dad. how did you get here? i don't know. [ speaking in russian ] look, look, look... you probably want to get away as much as we do. with priceline express deals, you can get a fabulous hotel without bidding. think of the rubles you'll save. with one touch, fun in the sun. i like fun. well, that went exactly as i planned.. really? now save up to 60% during summer hotel sale. use code "summer" on priceline's. ♪ it's about where you're going.

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three not guilties, one second degree murder as two manslaughters. >> half the jury felt he was not guilty, two manslaughters and one second degree? >> exactly. >> anderson's interview tonight with one of the jurors. welcome back to our panel. your reaction to rachel jeantel, it was gasping watching. >> if that went on for five more minutes, she would have her own show. i just thought it was so fascinating. she's such a big personality. it's just a good idea about how courtrooms don't give you the

full picture. i don't know if all that relevant but as a journalist it was fascinating. >> what was fascinating to me was she took on the weed issue. she said trayvon used to used weed and it gave him the munchies, never made him aggressive. if she was more like that on the stand, could it have made it difference? >> i think it could have made a difference. here she was blatantly honest, painfully honest in some cases. talking about the use of racial slurs, very open about his use of drugs. to me as somebody watching, i'm a journalist. i'm constantly watching if i can pick up where people may be holding back on something, may be lying. i didn't get that sense. her attorney sat right here with her, didn't interject. >> what was fascinating to me was she took on the weed issue. she said trayvon used to used weed and it gave him the munchies, never made him aggressive. if she was more like that on the stand, could it have made it difference? >> i think it could have made a difference. here she was blatantly honest, painfully honest in some cases. talking about the use of racial slurs, very open about his use of drugs.

to me as somebody watching, i'm a journalist. i'm constantly watching if i can pick up where people may be holding back on something, may be lying. i didn't get that sense. her attorney sat right here with her, didn't interject. see just said whatever is on her mind. that leads me to believe that a person is credible. the second thing is, you know, what it points to about credibility and what the juror said earlier this evening is about how homogeny a jury pool can be -- >> well, one woman is hispanic but certainly no african-american is on that panel. that has to come into play. >> if you don't even register that you have a racial issue in front of you, it's a racial problem.

>> judge hatchett, we saw the make-up of the jury start to finish. does that surprise you? i respect the jury's decision completely, that is the justice system and i believe they operated to what they thought was the interpretation of the law of self-defense. is it the law that's the problem? >> the law is the problem because the aggressor can then claim self-defense if the

situation changes. and obviously, piers, that's exactly what this jury ended up believing. but the diversity situation, we're talking about a county 80% white, maybe 11% african-american. so it did not surprise me we didn't have the level of diversity on this jury that i would have liked to have seen. i do think that that voice and that culture and that perspective of a diverse panel of all kind of diversity is very important in any jury deliberation and it's even minimized when you have a six-member jury. >> let me go to you, you're a jury expert. there was a complete disconnect between her world and therefore trayvon martin's world and that is where i think the make-up of the jury became really significant. just different worlds, different language, don't really understand each other. >> well, absolutely. and i think it remarkable that b-37 actually mentioned that she said she felt sorry for her but she felt that she was telling the truth in her own way. and i think very clearly these women looked very carefully through each one of these witnesses and evaluated them based upon, again, their on life experiences. >> let me just great quick question here from arianna. >> do you think florida or any

other states will be making changes or modifications to the current stand your ground law? >> are we going to have a change to -- although stand your ground isn't used in all state, it's prevalent in many states in america. many people think it got to go. >> yes, i'm sure it will be ripe for discussion on the legislate of floor. if nothing else, piers, this case has sparked a conversation of legitimate grievances that have to be dealt with, not just in the legislature. they need to be dealt with and in our homes we need to be talking to our kids about them early on so we don't have these tensions and we have understanding and tolerance. >> the republicans who took over so many states in 2010, they support stand your ground, they

support gun rights. so as long as they are in charge of these state, those laws are not going to change. >> we'll be back straight after this break.

we'll leave with a final thought from jayne weintraub. >> our constitution guarantees a defendant a jury of his peers, not a victim a jury of his peers. >> that's an interesting name.

>> and a special "anderson cooper 360" report. it starts right now. good evening. breaking news. for the first time anywhere, a zimmerman juror speaks out. welcome to this av 360 special edition. you are going to hear whoo went into the verdict. five women weighed the evidence and applied the law. what role of race played a part. we haven't known any of that until tonight. what she thinks happening the night george zimmerman shot and killed trayvon martin. juror b-37 is not holding back. here's part one of our "360 conversation." starting with day one of the trial and opening