about her per spective of what happened in that jury room. a lot of people, the national conversation growing. >> what mattered was those final seconds, minutes when there was an altercation and whether or not in your mind who the most important thing was whether or not george zimmerman felt his life was in danger sner. >> well that's how we read the law. that's how we got to the point of everybody being not guilty. >> that's at 10:0 0 p.m. eastern. eastern. thanks for watching. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com this is piers morgan live. welcome to the viewers in the united states and around the world. the jurors say b 37 doesn't speak for them. b 37 says she's in anguish. a man that calls the trial a side show and blasts me. i'll go head-to-head with larry

elder and in the wake, justice in america. who gets it and who doesn't? exhibit a marissia alexander. she says she was trying to stand her ground to fire a shot to scare off her husband. >> i believe when he said he would kill me, that's what he would do. >> she's behind bars for 20 years as george zimmerman walks free. i'll talk to her attorney. and the outrage of this, the man that took this picture of the boston marathon says it's a slap in the face. i want to begin with a conservative radio host that calls the zimmerman trial a side show. he's also the author of "dear father, dear son." he joins me now. welcome to you. >> thank you for having me. >> you've been talking about my interview with rachel jeantel. >> this is a young lady who didn't apply herself, a 19-year-old who is still in high school and still the same young lady, take this as an

opportunity to take stock in your life. 7,000 murders last year, piers, of black people committed by black people. since trayvon martin had his unfortunate death 480 blacks killed in chicago alone, 75% have been unsolved. where are the cameras? where are the shows? >> hold on. >> black america should fear a non-black guy stocking a kid at night. the likelihood of a black person being killed by a non-black person is extremely remote which is why it's a big issue in the first place, piers. >> it's justice exercised by what is happening in chicago which is an absolute national disgrace to america -- >> but you're not -- but you're not, piers. >> i am, actually. >> there are 7,000 -- >> i don't think you've watched my show. >> wait a minute -- >> i don't think you've watched

my show -- >> half of the murders in this country are commented by black people, 12% of black people are the p population. you throw out the old people and the young people, piers, you're talking about 3% of the population committing 50% of the murders -- >> the point i was going to ever. >> it's people -- >> calm down for a moment. >> i'm quite calm. i'm bothered. >> let me speak, larry. >> it's non-sense. >> you're a liberal bleeding heart person. you think you're doing something for black people. you're not. you're making black people feel under seeinged. it's outrage. >> thank you, rarely. if i could get a word in, it would be great. i completely agree with everything you're saying about chicago. all right. let's get that on the table. i've been seeing this repeatedly in this show. it's a disgrace what is happening in chicago, particu r particularparticula particularly with young black teenagers killing -- >> and the president. >> they have to deal with it. but let's get back to the

zimmerman trial. >> let's do that. >> let's get back to my interview with rachel jeantel. you tweeted would i like rachel jeantel to fly my plane. why would you say that? >> because after you interviewed her you went on television the next morning and called her one smart cooky. bull. hire her as a nanny -- >> do you think she's stupid, larpry? >> i think you're stupid for saying that -- >> that wasn't my question. do you think rachel jeantel -- do you think she's stupid. >> race is not a major problem in america. the number one problem facing black people are the large number of black people born outside of wedlock. 75%. in 1960, 5% of all people were born outside in wedlock. fast forward, look at that for 45%. crime, dropouts, that's connected. the other big problem for black peel is the economy. one in two black men doesn't

have a job and one of the heads of the commercial black caucus said if a white person were in the white house we would be marging because the high unemployment but talking about trayvon martin and george zimmerman the number one problem facing black america? it's not on the top -- >> this isn't a competition to see who can be the greatest filibuster in my show history -- >> i'm not trying to filibuster. >> let me get back to the question i asked you and see if you can actually answer the question. >> sure. >> do you think rachel jeantel is stupid? >> i think that i would rather have a george zimmerman living my neighborhood and maybe if he was living my neighborhood we would have a few fewer ariel castros. >> that wasn't the question, larry. >> i know, i'm answering something different. >> could you answer my question. >> he's not a criminal. >> george zimmerman shot dead an unarmed teenager. >> he's a neighborhood watch guy. don't you want people to proactive and there was crime in that neighborhood, piers. i live in south central --

>> there wasn't crime from trayvon martin in that neighborhood. >> the burglar bars are not on there because of george zimmerman but the thugs in the community. this is why people profile. instead of being angry at george zimmerman but the minority and the thugs committing the crime. >> to clarify, trayvon martin wasn't committing crimes in that neighborhood, was he. >> it was an unfortunate incident. it never should have happened. it doesn't ever george zimmerman a criminal. i used to work in the d.a.'s office. it was a dog case, nobody would have filed the case. >> i think it's completely wrong george zimmerman should get no punish mtd at all -- >> he's got serious punish mtd. he can't go anywhere. are you kidding me? he's a marked man. he'll be sued civilly. he'll never have a moment of peace. morally he has to deal with that, piers. he recognizes that. he's not -- >> larry, if i may respond -- >> he recognizes what he did.

>> if i may respond. >> sure. >> some people may say he's got it easy compared to trayvon martin. as much people feel sorry not living the life he could, at least he can lead a life. >> wouldn't it be nice to have a george zimmerman in cleveland -- >> i don't want george zimmerman doing my neighborhood watch patrol, i don't. i have three teenage sons, larry. i don't want -- >> no, you live in a very wealthy area, gated community. >> potentially killing my kids as they come home from the store with a bag of skittles and a can of soda, no. >> you live in a wealthy neighborhood, plenty of security you don't have to worry. come down to south central sometime. see what is going on down there. they aren't worried about george simm e man or the thug down the street coming from a sink l parent household and that situation is created by the left-wing people like you that feel sorry for people and want government to take care of them. you think government is the way

to prosperity. go to an indian reservation -- >> larry, i do feel sorry for people. let me get back to rachel jeantel -- >> you're thinking of the wrong things to do, i feel sorry for you. this person shouldn't have cross-examined you the way he d. all you're doing is creating a victim. you're telling rachel jeantel she shouldn't have to work hard or work on her dictionary or improve her grammar, wave the flag of victim hood and it will be okay. it's an outrage and you're part of this parade. >> thank you. how many languages do you speak? >> i don't speak ebonics as well as rachel, if that's what you mean. >> no, how many languages do you speak? >> the relevance is what? >> you don't think she's a smart cooky. she speaks three languages fluently, how many do you speak?

>> oh, you want to bring it back to rachel -- >> that is why i booked you lar ray. >> rachel jeantel needs to get her act together. if my mother were alive she would say how dare she speak like that? >> do you know her educational background, larry? >> i know how she presented herself -- >> larry do you know her educational background? this young 19-year-old black woman that you are putting down for lack of intelligence, why don't you have any idea of her back ground? >> why don't you hire her as a co-host? >> why don't you -- >> i know -- >> why are e with talking about this -- let's talk about something -- >> i talked you to talk about rachel jeantel. >> let's talk about -- >> larry, larry. >> you are i'm flying that it

is. it is not. as we speak there is a guy in prison, somebody in an suv with his fiancee killed a hispanic who cut in front of him. >> larry. >> he wasn't arrested right away. the family wasn't agitated. the guy may not have been arrested. you have some white guy do something to a black person and want to march on washington. you ought to be ashamed of yourself. >> thank you. if i could bring you up to speed on rachel jeantel, this woman you think is so stupid -- >> i didn't say stupid, you did. >> we checked this with her lawyer today, this is why i booked you of course even though you're trying to pretend this is the last thing you want to talk about, this is why i booked you. rachel jeantel young in school had a lot of time off of school fell behind because of illness. she's doing very well. she was a b grade high school until her great friend trayvon martin was shot dead by george zimmerman. >> did she sound to you -- >> wait a minute --

>> did she sound like somebody you would want to hire? >> her grades slipped to 2 something because of the stress that she suffered understandably from the death of her friend trayvon. she's now been offered a chance by tom joiner and people from his foundation to go to college. she wants to get those grades back up and ever something of herself. why would you -- >> i think that's wonderful, piers. >> why would you be so pat newsing to a young woman whose clearly been through an appalling ordeal and when i interviewed i found to be a smart cooky like i said. i found her to be fun, warm, engagin engaging, and nowhere near as stupid as you like to think. >> once again, i never used the word stupid. you did. she was the most important witness in a murder trial. she was standing between george zimmerman and 30 years in jail and for you to act as if she was abused by don west whose job was

to ever sure his client didn't go to jail is outrage use. for education, i applaud mr. joiner. he's done a lot of work and i recommend we do something about the 50% dropout rate and president obama opposes allowing parents to use vouchers to get their kids out of bad government schools and get to a better school to get to a middle class. that's what we should talk about here instead of a situation like george zimmerman going to somebody he thinks is suspicious and they have an exchange that leads to an unfortunate death and black people should act over their shoulders and think a white guy will jump out of a bush and get them. outrageous. hard work wins. get an education. don't pay attention to negative people and stay focussed and you'll be okay in america. that's why most of the people want to come do america, that's why you want to come here, piers. >> thank you larry. when we come back stand your ground in the wake of the zimmerman trial. the woman serving 20 years

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this isn't my life i'm fighting for, this is my life and it's my life and it's not entertainment. it is my life. >> i want to turn to stand your ground, two florida towns, two people firing weapons at unarmed subjects and claexclaiming self-defense, two very different results. she fire add shot to scare off

her husband who she claims threatened to kill her. she was convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and the jury came back in 12 minutes. joining me now is her attorney. on the face of it, the disparity between what happened to your client and what happened to george zimmerman is enormous. >> it's extremely frustrating when you see a case that gets the media attention that george zimmerman, trayvon martin case did and then to watch the outcome, to watch the trial basically in front of us and at the end of the day the jury comes back and finds him not guilty. he serves no time in jail, and then you think back just a few months prior to that you have a lady defending herself against an abusive husband who has a history of abuse against her, beaten her several times, put her in the hospital. kicked her pregnant causes premature birth and kicks her

nine days after delivery in the bathroom. she's able to get out of the bathroom. she fires one shot 2 feet away from each other in the kitchen and she gets 20 years? it's a frustrating situation. >> temperature she fire the shot to try and kill him? >> no, i think the facts in the case are clear. when he said that he was going c to kill her, he was 2 feet away from her in a small enclosed area. she fired one shot. she was 2 feet away. if she wanted to kill him, she could have shot him like george zimmerman did. she did the humane thing to fire a shot to get him to leave her alone. that shot was high and wide from him. it went through the wall. did not hurt anyone in the house, and he left her alone. if she had not done that, she may not be here today serving her 20 year sentence. she would be under ground. >> marissia, as she rejected a plea bargain deal three years in

prison opting to take a case to the jurors, did she actually claim stand your ground as defense or self-defense? >> well, that's kind of a difficult question. stand your ground is a defense you bring before you would actually go to a jury. it's an immunity individuals are granted in the state of florida if they have a reasonable fear they are in imminent danger. we brought that before a judge, a claim she was in fear for her life, the same thing george zimmerman argued. the standard is lower in that kind of case but the judge said -- denied the motion i'm puding a duty of her to run out of another door that's not in the stat tud. she's in her home, her own castle she has to duty to retreat. we took the case octo trial aft that. >> in the trial it was self-defense because you failed in the attempt to have stand your ground asedness?

>> correct in trial you bring the same self-defense claim, different wording but you bring basically the same claim. >> a disturbing case. thank you for joining me. alan, i mean, on the face of it, this is a total fast isn't it? >> there is tremendous differences in rates, of conviction, appeal let reversal, rates on release of parole determined by race. race of the victim often determines the extent of sentence. for years we didn't have the death penalty for killing a black person, only for killing a white person. so race permeates the system. now it's getting better because we're conscious of this. it's far better than it was 20 or 30 years ago, but it's not anywhere near where it should be. >> i want to play you a clip. this is from juror b 37 who

talked of course at length to anderson cooper this is particularly about the struggle the jury had over what they were facing in terms of the law. >> there was a couple of them in there that wanted to find him guilty of something, and after hours and hours and hours of deliberating over the law and reading it over and over again, we decided there's -- there's just no way -- other place to go because of the heat of the moment and stand your ground. he had a right to defend himself. if he felt threatened that his life was going to be taken away from him or have body harm, he had a right. >> what i was confused by there and want to clear this up, why would she refer to stand your ground, given that was not the defense that was put up? >> because that's been on television and in the mind of many people in florida. stand your ground was not part of the george zimmerman case but

she was absolutely right that no matter how much you might feel morally that george zimmerman should pay some consequence, there was no basis in law for convicting him. if the jury had a reasonable doubt about who started the encounter and we don't know who started it, who shouted help me, help me, who was on top and who was on bottom, the evidence seemed to support zimmerman was on bottom and head was banged against the pavement. you can't expect rationality and you can't expect calculations when somebody has his head banged on the pavement. doubts have to be resolved in the favor of a person claiming self-defense -- >> why in that case does marissia alexander who has already been abused by her husband, he's threatening to kill her and coming towards her and she fires a warning shot, why is she not able to use stand your ground? it would seem absolutely perfect example of what that law is

intended for? >> not only that. she should have been able to use it, but even without stand your ground, she should have been able to claim self-defense. that case sounds like a terrible miscarriage of justice and i would expect in light of the zimmerman verdict, i think their chances of getting that conviction reversed have actually increased. >> right. >> so maybe there is some benefit that she will accrue from the publicity according to this case. she should not be in jail based on the account at least that i've heard of the fact in that case. >> stay with me. we'll take a short break. when i come back i want to get into what goes through jurors heads when they are deliberating. i'll ask a jury from the last high-profile case, the jody arris trial. hey linda!

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the state of arizona versus jodi arias count one we the jury duly inpanelled and sworn find the defendant as to count one first-degree murder guilty. >> the most explosive watched murder trial before the zimmerman case was the jody arrus trial. she could face the death penalty when the sentencing phase begins in september. marry lu was one of the jurors that found her guilty and back with us is attorney alan. marry, you've been where these jurors have been in the zimmerman trial. you've been in the pressure environment of a high-profile case. what is it like in that room deliberating when perhaps you

don't all agree to start with with what the verdict should be? >> it's intention. there is a lot of give and take. there is a lot of not argument per se everyone firmly believes what they believe when they get in there and it's a coal labtive process to figure out what the case ends up as. >> you agreed she was guilty of murder but couldn't reach a unanimous verdict whether she should have the death penalty. how did you vote in that? >> i voted for the dent penalty. >> were you frustrated more of your colleagues didn't? >> yes, there was definitely an element of frustration. >> what did you think of the zimmerman trial? i know you weren't a juror there and following it as closely as they were, but from what you've seen and heard, what was your view of it? >> in my opinion, the verdict ended up -- this is really difficult because i wasn't

there. what i did see, i don't think the state of florida proved their case. >> alan, this is what it comes down to. the other thing it comes down too fast nat too fat too fast nating with the interview anderson cooper did was the fact they didn't know enough about trayvon martin. they heard the testimony what a great guy george zimmerman was. they hardly heard anything about trayvon martin. you could argue we heard more about him in a positive way from my interview with rachel jeantel than we heard in court that is a failure of the prosecution, isn't it? >> well, there are rules that limit testimony to relevance and after all, trayvon martin was not on trial. people have difficulty understanding that. trayvon martin was killed, should not have been killed but he was not on trial. zimmerman's actions and conduct and what zimmerman believed

trayvon martin was doing to him and the threat he posed. the jury system is the great protection against political correctness, against government oppression, against political pressures but it often evers mistakes but we say better guilty go free than one innocent be confined. we acknowledge there will be mistakes but if there is going to be a mistake it darn well better be in favor of acquitting george simmzimmerman, guilty or rather than convicting the woman in the segment before if she's, in fact, not guilty. we error on that and they love it when the result is consistent with their own wishes. >> do you feel, alan, the real issue going forward because we've got the verdict and i respect the jury's decision and it's a very difficult job and it's hard to argue against their conclusion that the prosecution didn't meet the criteria for the charges that were put forward. but do you think the real issue

as eric holder suggested is stand your ground, which is a map here, how many states in america, there is 22 i think. it's like a vast spread across the country -- >> look at all the green there. all the green there is where stand your ground applies. that is a huge percentage of the american population who -- >> and -- >> what is happening is these gangsters in particular, these gang members are using stand your ground to justify just killing each other. they are saying i was in imminent fear of my life. i killed him. and they are walking free. this is a wild west non-sense. >> i agree with you. it encourages gang killing. given a choice between macho, protecting your territory or ground and retreating and there by saving a human life, you don't have to retreat. you can preserve your macho. to give you the most extreme

case and i argued this in florida against the law. if you're driving your ferrara that gets from 0 to 60 in a second and somebody comes up to you with a knife and waves it at you and you can easily put your foot on the gas and escape. you don't have to do that. you can take out your uzi and shoot him dead. that evers no sense at all. at the very least, stand your ground laws have to be modified to limit them selfs to a person's home, to situations if you try to run away you're risking your life, running into traffic or something but if you have the option of leaving without risking your life clearly that option ought to be taken instead of taking the life of somebody. even if that person is guilty or could be killed if you have the option of not killing him, that the the option the law should encourage. >> marry lu, let me come back to you. two issues that were different in your situation to the zimmerman jurors, there were 12

of you. there were six of them. and secondly, you were not sec sequestered. you were allowed to go home each night. do you think either of those things were beneficial to what you went through compared to zimmerman jurors or perhaps, not so beneficial. >> definitely the lack of s sequestration we would have lost jurors. i would have been able to not sit on the jury. >> in terms of the -- the -- i mean jodi arias said that was unfair on her because potentially you could read and hear stuff that could put a negative thought in your mind. >> we were, however, we were given instruction by the court to stay away from news to stay away from articles, not to discuss the case with anyone, not even each other and -- >> fascinating talking to you -- >> 12 people --

>> alan, sorry. >> thank you. there ought to be 12 people because that increases the racially diverse jury as well. >> you got six female jurors and five are white. it seems an inbalance to put it mildly. the storm of outrage over this magazine cover. is it really offensive? i'll talk to one man that says it's a slap in the face to boston. the boys used double miles from their capital one venture card

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the outcry over the rolling stone cover photo of dzhokhar tsarnaev. many are calling it a slap in the face to boston, the victims of the terror attack. walgreens, cvs are refusing to sell it but does the glamourize the terrorist are tell a story. i have a guest that took pictures of that awful day. you're not happy about this. tell me why. >> i just think it's a -- like you said earlier, a slap in the face to boston for all the things that wove tried to do as a city and victims recovering and feeling finally feeling good about themselves, and then to see his picture on the rolling stone cover is sort of like, you though, it's going back. it's, you know, here is the poster boy for terrorism.

he's on the cover. everything that the victims have been through, you know, the families are still trying to recover and help each other. you know, people are still trying to walk on their new legs and to have to see that picture on the cover, i find it repulsive. >> what is the difference really between, say, "the new york times" or the norew york post putting that same picture and rolling stone choosing to do it now with a much longer lead in with these issues? >> i think rolling stone is a different publication. you know, teenagers might look at that photo in the cover and think he's -- he's a rock star. he looks like he's a rock star if you didn't nope he was a terrorist. you would look and say there he is long-haired kid might be in a band, but i think the difference is, you know, the boston globe, new york times, you know, we did a story on tim ahim and talked his court appearance and all the harm he's done to people and we've covered the news event.

we're not taking it lightly. we're covering it as a news event. >> i don't think anybody is taking it lightly. they call him the bomber. this is from the editor, this is why they choose that image. >> part of what the story is about is what an incredibly normal kid he seemed like to those who knew him best, fellow students and teachers there. we were trying to draw a contrast between the person everyone thought they knew and the person he became. >> see, you're a photographer, a photo journalist, some of your images were pretty graphic, pretty grew some in many ways but told the story better than many words could do. i read the rolling stone article from start to finish. i thought it was a powerful priest of journalism and the picture if you read the article

was appropriate. it told the story of how this ordinary americanized kid at college had gone through this extraordinary radicalization and become this appalling bomber, and that image was the appropriate image, if you read the piece. >> i -- you know, i didn't read the piece to be honest with you. i saw the photo and there is something about that photo upsetting to me. i see that in the light on me being at the finish of the boston marathon and seeing the victims that suffered. i don't know if there was a necessity to put his picture on the cover. i mean, there could have been some other use for his photo or some other graphic they could have used, but to ever him look like he's an appealing teenage boy or, you know, a rock star, i just think that sends the wrong message. i think of celeste who lost both her legs and i photographed her

walking for the first time. to me that's a cover photo. that's what we'll put on the cover of the globe. you write and we do cover dzhokhar tsarnaev and he appeared in court last week. i think that cover photo of him was inappropriate. >> great respect for you and your work and opinion on this. it's a dee vie sieve issue and opinion is strong-on both sides. thank you for joining me. >> thank you. did rolling stone cross a line sni want to bring in dav--g in my guest. most journalist are on side with rolling stone but everyone in boston is furious. a lot of other people not in the media are furious. they see it as glamization of a terrorist. >> if you look at the picture, he looks like he could be fronting a band. the idea of being on the cover confers the notion of being a

rock star. part of this is what is your expectation. time magazine had on hitler numerous times and osama bin laden. it's a hard news publication -- >> they always have celebrities and rolling stone had charles manson on their cover and others. it's not always rock stars. what is the difference between time hmagazine doing it and rolling stones? >> i don't think rolling stone is on the other side of the spectrum. it's not glamour magazine. rolling stone does serious stories. i think of them being the publication that published the priest of general mccrystal that cost him his job. this is a publication that once tries to capture the popular culture and at the same time does serious journalism about serious things. >> you read the piece, right? >> i read most of it. >> to me as i say, when you read

it the image is less a fence sieve. you get why they chose this image. he was a normal, good looking guy, into society, college, friendly, lots of people liked him and then boom, suddenly he goes from that in a matter of a year and a half to two years radicalized -- >>his picture, although it has the word monster as the final word signaling what the story is about, the evolution of that point to be the bomber author y authorities accused him of. nonetheless, he doesn't look like a monster and to perceive someone that is so vie verse from what they expect, that's disturbing. if there was a picture of a reached tortured soul, people would say that's who he was. >> that wouldn't necessarily be as instpirational to try to get people to read this piece.

that's what i say. you want people to read the article and it's an important piece of journalism and explains how he got radicalized. it may help people to spot that warning sign, and i get why they did it, and i think it was powerful, but i also understand why people in boston feel offended. >> well, there is no question they did this knowingly. they wanted to have a provocative cover and get people to read the piece and wanted people to buy the magazine. these are tough times in the publishing business. nonetheless, they can't be entirely surprised. i personally have no problem with this cover but can't be surprised that people are invoked, particularly at the home of this in boston where people feel so immediately or personally as a trama. >> i think we would all share that view. >> thank you. forgive or forget, should my next guest get a second chance? he steps into the arena next. ready?

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really pull off a victory? elliott spitzer is in the chair tonight or maybe the arena. his new book is protecting capitalism. great to see great to be back, side of the table. >> i'm still here. but you're back here. a win-win all around. let me talk to you about the zimmerman case, because you've been right in the thick of big legal issues like this. what do you think of the whole stand your ground debate that's raging right now? >> it's a good debate and i'm not a fan of the stand your ground laws. they create an incentive to use force when you don't need to. eric holder said we have a doctrine of self-defense, we don't need a statute that says stand your ground even when you can retreat. there's been lot of study whether these laws reduce crime. the best studies indicate they do not.

and in fact, they encourage violence when we want to discourage it. >> when you have prosecuted zimmerman under second degree murder or manslaughter or not at all? >> look, i think -- i've heard your segments with allen dershowitz. i have great respect for him. but i begin with a premise here, justice was not served. an innocent man was shot and killed and something is wrong when there is no judicial response to that. having said, that we need to come to grips with another reality. proof beyond a reasonable doubt make it very difficult in a context like this where there's not overwhelming evidence to get a conviction. murder two was the wrong charge. as i understood the evidence, i think that was the wrong charge. manslaughter, if they had started with that, i always worry as a prosecutor, if you overcharge, you lose

credibility. >> and if the jury rules out what you've gone for, it's harder to come down. >> you're asking them to say i've argued a and b, reject a but embrace b. but your credibility is shot, because a, which was your more powerful argument, didn't work. remember, initially there was no charge at all. this was a murky, as powerful as the emotions are because of an innocent young man shot dead, as a legal matter it was always a tough case. they overreached a bit and that probably hurt them. the other issue is the jury selection. i'm not sure it's an art, but the jury selection in retrospect you begin to wonder in the voir dire they shouldn't have been able to tease out something about these jurors as prosecutors that indicated almost a sympathy for the defendant and certainly -- >> when you heard the juror who has spoke about talking about george this, george that, we didn't know much about trayvon

martin, but george, george. i found that very uncomfortable. >> and seemed to emotionally be relating more to the defendant. >> connected to him because he was much more from her world than she perceived trayvon martin and rachel generjeantel. >> this case is troubling, it frames a debate. i would hope the president would give us a good speech on these things. >> i agree. >> he's done great things. >> let's move to your book, "protecting capitalism." this is all part of a comeback. do you like being the comeback kid? >> i would have preferred to not be a comeback kid, but if it's the only alternative, sure. the genersis of the book was certainly the eight year as the attorney general. and i caught for several years and i thought let me try to write this sufficient down.

it's an argument in defense of capitalism. there are folks who disagree with me who said no, no, you're messing with the rules of c capit capitalism. if you understand markets correctly, you understand where self-regulation doesn't work, you need tone sure there are no conflicts of interest. the things that had infected wall street that i was saying back years before the cataclysm, i said guys, if we do not tame these problems, there's going to be an issue. >> we have record earnings again down at the banks and wall street is buzzing again. you were known as the sheriff of wall street. have they been policed properly since the huge crash? >> well, no, there's not been sufficient accountability and i write a little about that. i'm glad the profits are back. you want capital formation, you want the banks to be healthy. we did not either succeed in insuring accountability for those. there were malefactors that

should have been sanctioned. with still have too big to fail, too big to manage and the government has said too big to prosecute. so you put those three together, it leads to a situation where bad things can happen once again. and i think -- john galbraith makes the observation that we have a very short memory when it comes to financial crises. we like to forget because it's an ugly moment. but we forget at our own peril, because the lessons have to be internalized. >> you and anthony weiner both ahead in the polls in your relative races. what does that tell you about the american public's power of forgiveness? >> i don't read too much into polls. i would say this, the american public is a forgiving public. that is an affirmative quality

in us as a people. it doesn't mean that forgiveness will be extended, this is a tough race, and the media can be edgy and i knew that. >> there's been a lot of speculation whether your life is behind this, whether you're still together. do you want to clarify that? >> i'll say only this, yes, the family is behind it. and i would not have done it without the family being behind it. it's been a frenzied media moment. when i was down in union square, i was stuck in a doughnut it's called with about 100 folks surrounding me. so i would not have invited any member of my family into that context at this moment. but the family is behind it. beyond, that i said a lot about our personal lives. i'm running for an office, and i hope the public will give me a

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