so even to claim the title the world's biggest liar, you have to earn it. the competition takes place in england every year and it's been noted lawyers and politicians are banned because they have an unfair advantage. i turn you over to the always truthful wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >> breaking news, a second juror in the george zimmerman trial breaks her silence and shows her fate faced. why the only minority on the all-female panel now says that, quote, zimmerman got away with murder. and horrific video of that train derailment. and anthony weiner's sexting

partner is speaking out about it all. >> he's a horny, middle-aged man. >> a second juror in the george zimmerman trial breaking her silence and showing her face but not revealing anything more than a first name in fear of her safety. and the only minority on the panel says she was a holdout juror that favored second degree murder but in the end the evidence wasn't there to convict and she's wrestling with whether she made the right decision. let's bring in our legal panel, jeanne casarez, mark nejames.

let me read what the jurors said "george zimmerman got away with murder but you can't get away from god." what do you make of that? >> if you do not have the proof to found him guilty of intent to murder, you cannot find him guilty. second degree murder does not require intent. and she never addresses self-defense. that was such a focal point in the case, not only for the defense, also for the prosecution. they had the burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt there was not self-defense. >> lisa, what do you think? >> i think there's no question that george zimmerman shot trayvon martin intention ally.

he according to his own statements pulled out the gun and shot the gun intentionally. it's so disturbing to hear a juror speak after the fact that perhaps she should have held out when she had every opportunity in the jury room to voice how she felt and stand her ground and ultimately she chose not to. >> she's chose not to. mash, go ahead. when you heard this woman explain her rational, what did you think? >> the parties that i'm extracting from it i want to compliment about. trials are not moral try b-- tribunals in the united states. it happens every day in american jurisprudence. people may be everything from

child molesters to murderers and robbers and everything in between but you have to apply the fact, you have to apply the evidence to the law. what she's saying is although morally she believed what was done was wrong, she listened to the jury instructions, she read that, she indicated they were something like a small book, i think they were 27 pages and she applied the law and could not in fact find -- she found that there was reasonable doubt. i'm real nervous that when we start talking about second guessing what jurors do -- look, there's a chemistry, a soup that get made when jurors get together, there's a dynamic that takes place. they walk in with a preconceived belief but when they discuss it together and look at the fact, they cumulatively come up with the facts. that's called deliberating.

>> i want you to recall what she said as opposed to juror b-37, what she told anderson cooper about ten days or so ago. listen to this. >> what did you think of george zimmerman? are. >> i think george zimmerman is a man whose heart was in the right place but just got displaced by the vandalism in the neighborhoods and wanting to catch these people so badly that he went above and beyond what he really should have done. >> all right, jeanne, go ahead and compare these two women. one is saying that george zimmerman got away with murder but there was no enough evidence to convict him. another one giving a little bit different nuance there. >> the jury determines the issues of fact. i think these jurors are diametrically opposed as to what they believe factually was the case but they had to look at the law. obviously the juror that

anderson interviewed was one that was dominant in that room to sway this other juror who believed he had committed murder. the jury instructions with pivotal in all of this. this new juror that has come forward, she's a mother of eight. she has one child that is around the age of trayvon martin. we have to feel for her emotionally because she is a distraught woman. >> she also goes on to say this. she says, that's where i femt confused, where if a person kills someone, then you get charged for it. but as the law was read to me, if you have no proof that he killed him intentionally, you can't say he's guilty. even though she was the holdout, she thought maybe second degree murder would be appropriate. in the end she went along with the five other women and acquitted. >> you know what's fascinating to me, we know initially in the jury deliberations, there were

three to convict and through to acquit. one who we wanted to find second degree murder. we talked a lot about the racial make-up of this jury. can you see how important it is. in this case there's no question that there's huge racial disparity in terms of the way people viewed this case from the beginning. and the fact that there were so few minority faces on that jury, you can see how it played out now in terms of the one they voted. ultimately there was only one minority voice on that jury. there was just not enough to carry the day. >> mark, go ahead, wrap this up. >> i agree. i was complaining from the onset that the jury didn't have more minority representation. but when you have a county that's only 11% african-american and 30% of that comes from sanford, the odd of getting an african-american on that jury were very slim to begin with. so now we have this cultural

divide that we're following day by day now. >> mark nejame, lisa bloom and jean casarez, thank you. up next, the woman at the center of anthony weiner's revived sexting scandal isn't holding back. >> he's an argumentative, perpetually horny middle-aged man. at the i was like oh, no, you're not but, yes, he is. ♪ [ male announcer ] it's a golden opportunity to see how lexus effortlessly connects you to where you're going. ♪ come to the golden opportunity sales event and experience the connectivity of lexus enform, available on all lexus models, including the es and rx. ♪ this is the pursuit of perfection.

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snow in new york. she's got the latest numbers. numbers not good for anthony weiner, mary, right now. >> reporter: this new poll shows anthony weiner's favorable rating dropping more than 20 points. faced with questions about how many other women could potentially come forward, he admitted today he had online relationships with several women since leaving office. anthony wi antho a with charts in hand, he tried to talk about nonprofits. but two days after holding a press conference with his wife by his side and admitting he hap online with a woman after resigning from congress, he put a number for the first time on the number for the first time

since leaving office. >> i don't believe it was more than three. >> reporter: as for how many altogether? >> it's not dozens and dozens. it's around six but i can't tell you if people will find that inappropriate or not. >> reporter: he was even asked if he has an addiction. >> i don't believe that it is. the people that i'm working with don't believe that it is and i'll leave it, you know, there's some things -- i want to have some modicum of privacy between me and the people offering me this help. but the answer is no. >> reporter: while weiner with his wife's support has stressed his issues are personal, a poll of registered democrats taken after tuesday's press conference shows a steep drop in support. in june he was 5 percentage points ahead of christine quinn. he's now 9 points behind her.

asked if he should drop out of the race, 47% said no, 43% said yes and 10% are unsure. in a jewish orthodox neighborhood where he campaigned, there were mixed feeling. >> he was flying as high as an f-14 and not listening too much to people on the ground, these problems might have landed him. as a voter, that doesn't concern me as much. he didn't do anything illegal. >> i feel that being it happened after he resigned, i'm a little bit doubtful about his sincerity and doubtful about his capabilities. >> reporter: and weiner's behavior isn't fading from the spotlight now that sydney leathers is giving an interview to "inside edition" about her relationship with weiner. the campaign had no comment about her interview. >> we want to bring you a little

more on sydney leathers and her exclusive interview with "inside edition" correspondent jim more. >> i read one quote that you said he was a dirty old man. >> he said he's an argumentative, per -- perpetually horny middle-aged man. at the time i was like no, you're not but now i think he is. >> and here's another clip. >> i felt manipulated. >> why? >> he's saying one thing to me, one thing to his wife and i don't know who he is.

>> give me a sense who have she is? >> well, she's a now 23-year-old college sophomore and she was enamored of anthony weiner the politician and was very disappointed when he fell from grace from congress and basically wrote to him online on his facebook page telling him she was disappointed. about a year later, last summer, she said that he reached out to her on a social media site under a supseudonym. i said how could you let this happen? she said she didn't know. she said she was caught up in the fantasy of it all, they never met but the relationship soon went to sexting and phone

sex very quickly. and he spoke to her and had phone sex with her, according to her, at least twice a week, often more. >> for how long of a period did they have this online and phone relationship? >> according to sydney leathers, she had this relationship with him for six months. this was right around the time when "people" magazine ran the photo piece showing anthony weiner and his wife and new baby saying all of this was behind him, he was a changed man, he was a good husband, his wife had forgiven him and he had learned his lesson. and within a matter of days after that article came out, he began this relationship with sydney leathers. >> let me play one more clip from your interview. watch this. >> so at what point did it break off and why? >> there wasn't really a specific reason why. and neither one of us ever really officially ended it. it just kind of started to fizzle out. he got a little bit controlling with me towards the end.

>> reporter: how so? >> he would tell me that he would be jealous. he would look at my facebook frequently and he would tell me he would get jealous if other men would compliment me and just little stuff like that. >> did she say how the relationship ended? >> she said that -- it was interesting. she posted on facebook something from the show "house of cards" in which kevin spacey plays a politician caught up in an affair with a reporter. and she got a comment from him on facebook saying is this about me? is that though show about me? she broke it off. she does not portray herself as the victivictim, she takes responsibility. she says she does feel manipulated. the one person she did apologize

to was anthony weiner's wife. she feels that is the only victim in this case and she's getting ready for the onslaught of bad publicity sure to come her way because she's believes she is a target of the weiner campaign. >> the critics are already coming out saying she's been compensated, she wants money. you've heard those suggestions about her. i don't know if you asked her about that but what do you make of that? >> i think if she wanted to make a lot of money, she could. i didn't perceive that as being her motivation at all. she felt disillusioned, especially after the "new york times" article came out, she felt this man was a fraud that is correct he really isn't a changed man. when anthony weiner said today that there were perhaps two or three other women, i asked her if she believed she was the only one that he was doing this with.

she said, no, it would be foolish to believe that he would do that now. she was caught up what she called this dirty little secret fantasy. >> the weiner campaign is not commenting on your interview right now. i guess it's just causing a lot of stir out there. this woman, what is she going to do now? did she say what she's going to do next in her life? >> well, she's planning to go back to school in the fall, which is next month. she's more worried about that than anything. she's gotten support from her father. she told him what happened and he said he loved her, she made a mistake, it was bad judgment but she's 22. 22-year-olds do foolish things sometimes, and anthony weiner is

not 22 and has been through this before. >> she just turned 23 years old now. is that right? >> yeah. i have to tell you, wolf, she was very emotional at times during the interview, especially when we showed her a clip of anthony weiner's wife. she began to cry, frankly, and she feels very guilty about the pain that she feels responsible for causing in their marriage. however, she doesn't take full responsibility she says much of that calls on anthony weiner. he always called her. she does not have his number. he reached out to her repeatedly. she was a willing participant but she also feels that he is culpable and responsible for his actions. >> jim moret, chief correspondent for "inside edition." thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks for being here.

>> nancy pelosi is blasting anthony weiner for his behavior. listen to what she said. >> let me just say before i leave that, let me be very clear, the conduct of some of these people that we're talking about here is reprehensible. it's so disrespectful of women. and what's really stunning about it is they don't even realize it. they don't have a clue. and it is really -- if they're clueless, get a clue. if they need therapy, do it in private. >> nancy pelosi of the speaker of the house back in 2011 when the weiner sexting scandal first surfaced, forcing him to resign from congress. coming up, word of a possible plea deal in a horrifying climb. with the man accused of holding three women captive for a decade avoid a trial and possibly the

death penalty? plus, gripping details about a train disaster and what may have caused it.

mary snow is monitoring some of the other top stories. >> miami dade fire and rescue responded to a call today about a 55-gallon drum containing depleted uranium. it was located in a junk yard where they dismantle planes. a fire and rescue says it is not a spill, the you're uranium is

contained. no injuries are reported. >> ariel castro was set to go on trial august 5th on almost 1,000 charges if a plea deal is not reached. a court source says negotiations are close but nothing is final. >> and actor brian kranzton hasn't exactly struggled to find work in recent years but he told cnn there's another job he'd like to try and also gave a shout out quite literally to a familiar scene and anchor. take a listen. >> this is cnn. i want to get the voiceover gig for that. this is cnn. you know, i could kill people if they didn't give it to me. i wouldn't kill them. wolf blitzer! >> there you go. cnn caught up with kranzton.

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sfx: oil gushing out of pipe. sfx: birds chirping. a juror breaks her silence and drops a bombshell saying george zimmerman got away with murder. >> one of the deadliest train accidents in year. >> and cnn goes inside north korea on an extraordinary mission. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." president obama blasting what he calls phony scandals.

does that include the irs scandal over the targeting of political groups? dana bash has been reporting on the irs controversy for months. there's the suggestion this is a phony controversy, dana. what's going on? >> reporter: there is legitimate controversy about unfair delays in treat party irs investigations. but so far officials in both parties tell me they have not traced it to any obama officials. there was buzz that there was a connection to an obama appointee. he was referring to testimony that the office of the irs chief counsel was involved in scrutinizing irs applications. she called that a bomb shell because the chiefs counsel is one of only two political appointees at the irs. there is no evidence that the actual counsel knew anything about the tea party targeting. there are 1,600 employees in the

office of the chief counsel. a few of the career lawyers were brought in to deal with the issue. one source summed it up saying what we learned is meaningful but it's not a bomb shell. >> republicans are already using this issue in their campaigns for mid-term elections. >> they certainly are. it's too juicy to pass you. we are going to watch two videos accusing the president of using the irs for political advantage. >> he's used the irs to launch a war on our freedom of speech. >> when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. >> what does the president believe? >> the law here is irrelevant. >> we're going to punish our

enemies and we're going to reward our friends. >> look, that's misleading. there's no evidence that there is, again, any motivation in the case of the president to deal with the irs and tea party applications. now, in the case of mitch mcconnell, he did warn early on many people wouldn't listen to him that tea party applicants were getting inappropriate questions, unfair delays. clearly he's trying to capitalize in his own reelection campaign, never mind the respecifics. can you argue the white house may have been guilty of jumping to conclusions. they tried to brush it off arguing it was just limited to employees in the cincinnati office. it abundantly clear that's not true. this is really the important point. so far these are washington bureaucrats, not obama political operatives. >> good explanation. dana, thanks very much. let's get a little more with our chief political correspondent,

candy crowley and zek miller, editor for "time" magazine. this is the president speaking out on phony scandals. >> they don't think that's a probl problem. the point is with an endless distraction of political posturing and phony scandals and lord knows what, washington keeps taking its eye off the ball. >> so he's trying to deflect right now. that's why he launched these series of speeches today, earlier in the week. can he succeed in getting away from these what he calls phony scandals? >> depend what is he's talking about? irs, legitimate questions. is he talking about benghazi? legitimate questions. is he talking about following reporters who are trying to find out? legitimate questions.

this is a good way to say don't pay any attention to these things that really have hurt him and eaten into his poll numbers. so we're seeing the president under 50%. 47, around there the last time we saw him and he needs to get back out there and build them up because he's got great big fights coming up in september about the budget. >> his suggestion is let's not worry about all these silly side issues, if you, will we've got major economic issues affecting the middle class, poor americans, we need to focus in like a laser beam on the economy. >> that's the message he's trying to convey to the american people, while members of congress have been pushing the economic message for years now, they've also run into trouble, they've been trying to use these scandals as a way to hurt the president, undermine his credibility, weaken him before the fight in september. house republicans want to keek talking about them and that's going to be a problem for him going forward. >> can he succeed?

you and i, candy, have a presidents try to move away from a specific scandal or uproar at one point and focus in on other issues. what do you think? what are the prospect of him over the next few weeks and months getting on his agenda, as opposed to the republicans, the critics' agenda? >> they have to turn to the economy come september 30 9/because that's when the fiscal year expires and they're soes to have for new bills, which they haven't had for years, that will fund the departments, et cetera. the president is trying to set that table for himself. the longer range is this is about the mid terms, this is about nextier. this is about saying i could do so much, september for i've got this house filled with republicans what i understand really need is a democratic house because then i could move forward. there's the short-term thing, september 30th and the long term

thing, november 2014. >> he's got major issues bl. what do you think of the strategy? >> we've seen the president try to set himself right from the legacy, 20, 30 years. >> he can't do that without a democratic house. >> that's what we're seeing, is an attempt to say all the right things, even if he can't do them. so people when they go back in 30 years will put him on the right side. that's what he's shooting for right now. >> guys, thanks very much. just ahead, is getting there quickly worth the risk? we're looking at the safety records of high-speed railroads. plus why the north koreans are celebrating. we'll speak with a cnn correspondent who is allowed to make a rare visit to that closed country. ♪ norfolk southern what's your function? ♪

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turning now to spain and horrifying new video of that train tearing around a curve seconds before flipping over and smashing into a wall of concrete. at least 80 people were killed, more than 175 others injured, including at least five americans. the state department says one u.s. citizen is also among the dead. a full-scale investigation into the terrifying crash is now under way, but there are also grows suggestions speed, speed may have been a factor. our brian todd has details.

>> reporter: wolf, a railway spokesman in spain says that train is capable of going to 150 miles an hour. some trains can get up to 250. we're looking at the dangers of high-speed rail and whether it's worth of risk. in an instant, a gasp-inducing moment of destruction. sources are saying the driver reported going more than twice the speed limb tit around that curve. >> you really have to monitor your track. >> reporter: when he was managing director of the ntsb, he investigated nearly half a dozen serious train accidents. none of them were high speed. there's no high-speed rail travel in the u.s. but he know what is can go wrong on those tracks. >> not much margin for error coming around the curve at high speed? >> no, you've got to follow the posted speed when coming around. if you don't, you're putting the

whole train in jeopardy. high heat can distort rail and cause what they call heat kinks. and particularly in a welded track, it can separate, just slightly. >> a slight separation of track, all that's needed to cause a deadly action, though goelz says that's rare. they say one reason it still hasn't made itself to the u.s., the infrastructure doesn't fit in the areas where it would be most needed, like the stretch between boston and washington, there are too many structures too close to where the tracks would go. for high speed rails, buildings have to be dozens of miles from the tracks. and another reason, where roads go right over the tracks. safety experts say you can't have them on high-speed lines.

in the u.s. alone, a person or car is hit by a train about every three hours. >> the force is enormous. if you multiply that speed to 350 miles an hour, you have a real disaster. >> is high-speed rail worth these risk? this former engineer says absolutely. >> i'm going to be on it every single time, even above airplanes. i can hop on the train and be there in no time at all. >> the u.s. the debate is not just about safety. so far states like florida, hai o'and wisconsin have rejected the idea partly because of the course. there is plan to put high speed rail lines in place with trains that could go over 2 hoon miles an hour. wolf? >> thanks very much. we'll have more on this story coming up in our next hour as well. also coming up, bombshell

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> >> still no sound open edward snowden. he remains holed up in a moscow airport for a month. the former president jimmy carter sparked an uproar when he was quoted as calling snowden's leaks beneficial. he told cnn's chief

international correspondent, that's wrong. watch this. >> may i ask you about edward snowden? >> yes. >> you have been quoted by a german magazine. >> which was incorrectly. go ahead. >> was it incorrect? i just want to know for the record. because they quoted you as basically saying that what he did was beneficial to the situation by revealing the extent of the nsa under surveillance. >> well, that's almost right. what i said was snowden has violated the law. he had to be punished if he gets under the governation of the united states and he knows that, but the revelation of what has been done, not the details of it, but the fact that we will listen to and with telephone calls and cell phones and everything else, snowden has precipitated a debate, even among members of congress who didn't know about it ahead of time. it opens up the question of how

much intricacies. what snowden did is obviously a serious violation of the law. >> snowden has been charged with three felonies for revealing three details of government under surveillance programs. more than half a century ago, he took extraordinary action. now the aging veteran has returned to north korea on equally extraordinary missions. paula hancocks is in north korea and explains. >> reporter: the last time this captain was in north korea, he was fighting. 63 years later, he's on a mission of peace. the north korean leader can commemorate the korean war cemetery the final resting place he and fellow veterans fought against. >> it's an opportunity i never thought i'd have.

it's very impressive and to see the turnout on this population is quite enspiering. it's a wonderful thing. it's a wonderful experience for them, too. and i'm glad that he had an opportunity to be a part of it. >> reporter: he and a second war veteran are here to search for the remains of a fallen comrad. the region where his plane crashed is flooded and access is impossible. representatives of the north korean military met the veterans this week and promised to help in the search, inviteing them back in september. the military asked him to tell the u.s. government they want the joint recovery work to resume. around 8,000 americans are missing in action in north korea from the 1950 to 1953 war. official u.s. efforts to find them were stalled in 2005 when relation soured. he was awarded the medal of honor for his actions on december 4th, 1950.

he crashed his plane to try to save him, but brian was trapped in his cockpit and died. the search on hold due to the weather, they have effectively been tourists in and around pyongyang this week. the first day they were taken to the palace of the sun to pay their respect to the embombed bodies of the former leaders, which we were not allowed to film. captain hebner did not come to north korea just to attend these ceremonies and also to be taken around the country as a tourist, but he does believe that even though he was not able to get to the northeast and search for the remains of his fallen comrad, it is not a wasted trip. he had the true belief that this could help improve relations between the united states and the dkrk. >> our senior correspondent is in north korea right now. he is joining us live on the

upon the from pang i don't think, what is it like, ivan? what are they letting you do? what are you seeing? >> reporter: we have only been on the ground 24 hours, wolf. our movements are strictly controlled. we are basically bussed with a group of journalists to different points in the city. we have been able to see the inauguration of a new veteran's cemetery that was attended by kim jong-il and the young leader of north korea. he cut the ribbon there. he didn't address the elderly veterans of the korean war that gathered there, but to tour the site and we saw, it was a very emotional scenes as north koreans visit the graves of their loved ones, former veterans passed away, i think by natural dawes causes, and this is just the beginning of what are going to be days of celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the end of the korean war, which koreans rally view as a victory over the u.s.,

though i think many historians would question that judgment. >> it's unusual to have one correspondent from cnn inside north korea. we have two inside north korea, paula hancocks and ivan watson. ivan, we will check back with you tomorrow. i know you will be doing a full day of reporting in pyongyang for us right now. when we come back, a shocking development in the george zimmerman trial, another one breaks her silence, and new information about what caused the nose gear on that southwest airline jetliner. that's coming in as well. d distribution systems," "and one of the most efficient trucking networks," "with safe, experienced drivers." "we work directly with manufacturers," "eliminating costly markups," "and buy directly from local farmers in every region of the country." "when you see our low prices, remember the wheels turning behind the scenes, delivering for millions of americans, everyday.

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so i know how important that is. . >> mary i have something i'd like to discuss with you and also our viewers, something obviously of interest to me. the retirement of jason sedakis from "saturday night live." he announced it last night. he's leaving the cast. his best character is me in the situation. let's see how snl, though, he wasn't the first. he was one of several snl stars who have spoofed me over the years. so let's look at a little history. >> hello, i'm wolf blitzer,

tonight on the situation room, the president's numbers hit an all time low and the fallout has begun. >> moving back full screen. i'm a newsman. no! . no! . stop it! . oh. >> no more on screen news for the crawl is a privilege, not a ride. >> good evening, i'm wolf blitzer and my face is being haunted by the guest of an old beard. >> it's all pretty funny, chris pardonell. jason sedakis, many others over the years have been playing me. here's the question, with jason sedakis gone, who would you recommend, mary, i got an idea, to be the best candidate to play me on "saturday night live?" >> well, you know, wolf, i would suggest perhaps george clooney, hugh jackman, maybe those two guys. we have a volunteer, ray.

it's a high profile volunteer to do this. austan goolsby. >> i seen him volunteering. you know who could play wolf blitzer excellently? >> who? >> me. i have been training for that role my whole life. thanks very much, mary. we will continue this conversation down the road. and happening now, one of the jurors who set george zimmerman free says he got away with murder. stand by for more of the bombshell rorks from the only majority juror. plus a woman speaking out who says she was manipulated by the new york candidate anthony weiner. and anthony castro may soon reach a deal to save his life. you are in the "situation room." i'm wolf blitzer. ♪ one of the six women who

acquitted george zimmerman now says she feels she owes trayvon martin's parents an apology, because she believes zimmerman in her words got away with murder. the breaking news this hour. the only minority juror is speaking out for the first time. she's showing her face to the world. in an interview with abc news, juror b 29 revealed she initially wanted to find zimmerman guilty of second-degree murder. in the end, she says, the panel couldn't convict him based on florida law. she says she is still struggling with the verdict. let's bring in lisa bloom, a legal analyst and a legal analyst, paul cowan, a former defense attorney and former prosecutor. guys, thanks for coming in. let me read the full quote. paula, i'll start with, this woman known as matty. she didn't want to reveal her whole name. she is black hispanic. she says george zimmerman got away from murder. but you can't get away from

good. and at the end of the day, he has to have a lot of questions and answers he has to deal with. but the law couldn't prove it. >> i know a lot of people will be shocked by this, a juror so soon after the trial will make a statement like this. but lawyers who try these cases see this happen all the time. jurors have buyers remorse. they, she's listening to the press. she's re-evaluating. she is feeling kind of guilty about her vote. so she's making this statement. i do note, though, that she does say that in following the law, prosecutors have not proven guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. the thing you have to remember is you can't reopen a case just because a juror has had a change of heart post-verdict. you have to show something improper happened in the jury room. we have to hear the details of the interview to see if that develops. >> is this damaging to the prosecution, lisa, the way they operated, the way they conducted their case? >> well, i have been very critical of this prosecution

team throughout this trial. i this i the evidence was there. i think the dis-ese she expresses with this verdict is what many of us feel. the evidence in my opinion was there. i watched every minute of the trial t. prosecution failed to argue the strongest physical evidence they had in the case. their closing argument was the worst i have ever seen in a high profile case. they were essentially arguing reasonable doubt. so, of course the jury came to this conclusion this juror felt in her heart this was a murder case, she felt something was there. we know the voters voted 3-3. i think they argued their evidence, has been forceful in closing arguments like prosecutors are in every other case. there could very well have been an acquittal here. >> do you agree with her, ball? >> no, i totally disagree. i tried a lot of cases as a prosecutor and a defense attorney. this case is a horrific tragedy. trayvon martin did not deserve to die, but it was a mistake by

george zimmerman that was made because he thought that trayvon was up to no good. it is quite possible under the theory presented by the defense that trayvon martin had circled back and jumped george zimmerman and, frankly, there wasn't evidence to contradict the self-defense game i claim. so i don't think any -- >> there was a lot of evidence. >> i don't think they could have gotten a conviction. another reason i disagree with lisa. a lot of times juries come in based on emotion. of course, the emotion of a 17-year-old young man dying loo ec this is so great. it's such a horrific killing. but it would go up on appeal. it would have been thrown out by an appellate court. i think in the end the jury did the right thing on the evidence they had. >> lisa, look at this. here's another excerpt, this juror, b-29 she is known, you can't put the man in jail even though in our hearts we felt he was guilty, but we had to grab our hearts and put it aside and look at the evidence.

b-47 told anderson cooper about ten days ago. >> did you also want to find him guilty of something? >> i wanted to find him guilty of not using his sense, but you can't fault anybody. i mean, you can't charge anybody for not being, i guess, i don't know, you can't fault him, you can't charge him with anything because he didn't do anything unlawful. >> all right, lisa. you see what these women are saying now, but go ahead. >> well, sure, and this juror is absolutely right. you need evidence to convict. you need more than a gut feeling. that's what the prosecutor should have done what they do in every case, you take the jury instruction, you take the evidence you have, you prnt a theory of the case, you match it up. er show how the physical evidence shows how george zimmerman was lying, the gun was

holstered inside his pants in front of him. it is not possible he could have been laying down with trayvon martin laying on top of him and trayvon martin saw the gun. that was the evidence of the case. the prosecution did a half hearted job in this case. we got an acquittal. these jurors are absolutely right, with the way the case was presented to them, an acquittal was the only possible outcome. >> quickly, palm, wrap it up. >> this was the most vicious prosecution team you could assign to a case, they had been accused of ethical violations, they pulled out every stop to prove the evidence they had. it wasn't there, wolf. sometimes it's just not there and injustice is done. i think we are always going to feel badly about this verdict. but the jury did the right thing. >> both of you did analysis, thanks very much. this is cnn breaking news. >> we got some breaking news. the ntsb, the national transportation safety board now releasing new information about what caused the nose gear on

that southwest airlines jetliner, a boeing 787 to collapse during landing monday at new york's laguardia airport. renee marshal is joining us. she's got the details. what are they saying? >> wolf. we literally got this information minutes ago. the ntsb is telling us, they say based on video and other sources that the nose gear actually made contact with the runway before the main gear. i can tell you, it's not supposed to go that way. the nose gear is not built to withstand idle force. it's supposed to be the main gear first then the nose gear. that's the basics of landing a plane. moments ago, we spoke with a pilot of a 787 and he was giving us a little bit of perspective on this. he says this is one of the first things you learn when landing a plane, essentially, you put the main gear down first, then comes the nose gear. so he says hearing this information, this new

information, it brings up the possibility, perhaps, pilot error, of course, ntsb is investigating all of this, so they will make the determination as far as what went wrong. we also know they will continue to analyze the cockpit voice recorders and we may get more information tomorrow. >> renee, hold on for a moment. kevin hyatt is joining us now on the phone. he's president and ceo of flight safety foundation, outside of washington, alexandria, virginia. he is a former pilot who flew 787s. kevin, what do you make of this new information coming in from the ntsb? >> well, it's very interesting. renee hit the story very well. you know, this aircraft is not designed to take the forces imposed on that nose gear if you land it with the nose first. so now that the investigating, the investigation is pointing towards this investigation the ntsb will look into some of the factors to why. >> is it too early to determine if this was some sort of technology problem, equipment

problem, or human error? >> good point, wolf. these could be all of the things we look at. also, we want to mix in there some wind conditions and what was taking place in the cockpit just as the aircraft was coming over the threshold for the landing. as you said, human factors, technology and automation and speed could be a factor, too. >> i know renee has a question for you as well. go ahead. >> we all are sort of finding out from the ntsb the flaps on the wings were set to 30 to who degrees, about 56 seconds prior to touchdown. did that tell you anything? >> well, it could indicate that they were just fast on the approach, not knowing the exact approach speeds right now. it's too early to tell. in that particular situation, we'll just have to wait for the ntsb to get the final investigation. >> this investigation is continuing. all right, kevin, thanks very much. renee, thanks to you as well. >> still ahead, a whole new

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will you hear from jim in a moment. first, listen to this. >> how would you describe him? i read one quote that suggested you thought he was a dirty old man. >> he actually said that about himself to me. he, the exact wording was that he was an argumentative, perpetually horne middle-aged man. and at the time i was like, oh, no, you're not. but, yes, he is. i felt manipulated. >> why? >> because, obviously, i felt like, you know, he's saying one thing to me, saying another thing to his wife, saying another thing on the campaign trail. i don't know who the real anthony weiner is, i guess. >> let's talk a little about this woman, sydney leathers. what was she like? what is her motivation? give me a sense of who she is? >> well, she is a now 23-year-old college sophomore and she was enamered of anthony weiner, the politician and was very disappointed when he fell

from grace, from congress. and basically wrote to him online on his facebook page telling him she was disappointed. about a year later, last summer, she said he reached out to her on a social media site under a sued name carlos danger, who he soon revealed to be himself. and basically started an online relationship, which she said became explicit and dirty very quickly. you know, i asked her, i said, how could you let this happen? you knew what he had done before. she said, she doesn't really even know. she was 22 at the time. she was caught up in the fantasy of it all. they never actually met. but the relationship soon went to secting and then phone sex, very quickly. and he spoke to her and had phone sex according to her at least twice a week, often more. >> how long a period did they have this online and phone relationship? >> according to sydney leathers, she had this relationship with him for six months and what's

interesting, wolf, is that this was right around the time when "people" magazine ran the photo piece, showing anthony weiner and his wife and their new baby saying all of this was behind him. he was a changed man, he was a good husband, his wife had forgiven him. he learned his lesson, within a matter of days when that article came out, he gaen this relationship with sydney leathers. >> let me play a clip from your interview. watch this. >> so at what point did it break off and why? >> there wasn't really a specific reason why and neither one of us ever really officially ended it. it kind of started to fizzle out. he got a little bit controling with me towards the end. >> how so? >> he would tell me that he would be jealous, he would like look at my facebook frequently. he would tell me he would get jealous if other men would complement me and just little stuff like. did she say how the relationship

ended? >> she said that it was interesting, she posted on facebook something from the show "house of cards," in which kevin spacey plays a politician caught up with an affair with a reporter. she quoted that. she got a comment from him on facebook saying is this about me? is that show about me? and she felt he was very controling. they eventually broke it off. i want to be very clear about something, wolf, she does not portray herself as the victim. she takes responsible for what she's done. she knows it was a mistake. she feels manipulated by anthony weiner. she said the one person that deserves an apology, frankly, she did apologize to her on "inside ediction," was anthony weiner's wife. she feels that is the only victim in this case. she is getting ready for the onslot of bad publicity coming her way. she believes she is a target now by the campaign. >> speaking with this

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>> in ohio right now, prosecutors have offered cleveland kidnapping suspect

airline ca aerial castro a plea deal. what are the terms of this deal, scott? >> reporter: right now, wolf, it looks like it's going to be life in prison without parole. there is negotiations still going on at this hour. if they're going to leave it up to the judge for that final sentence or they're going to have something as they head into court tomorrow morning around 10:00. now, i do know that the defense team with aerial castro have asked from day one to drop the murder charges, that's in connection with the loss of michel knight's baby, ariel castro said i will spend the rest of my life in jail. >> how do the families and the victims feel about this? >> reporter: well, they have for quite some time came out publicly in statements over the last couple of months and said that they want swift justice. it appears to me from my sources that they do not want to go to

trial. they want to spare gina and also amanda and gina, amanda, and michelle any more nightmares going through ten years of captivity. they don't want them to relive it. also, you have to remember, amanda has that little girl jocelyn 6-years-old, they don't want to spare any more trauma to her. also, a riel castro's defense team said they will go with plea deal of life in prison if the prosecutors drop those two aggravated murder charges. it looks like they will. over the last couple of days, the defense has gotten 4,000 documents of evidence from the prosecution and also the bci lab just got done itemizing the testing over 200 items of evidence and they were just back at ariel castro's house yesterday gathering some more evidence. so it looks like this tidal wave is going over ariel castro and

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. >> happening now, breaking news, another juror with george zimmerman now speaking out. she says in her heart she believes he's guilty. we will tell you what she is saying about the role of race in the trial. plus, deadly impact. security video showing the speed and the horror as a spanish train crashes flips and kills. a leaker who paid the way for edward snowden could soon

learn his fate in a u.s. military court. we will compare their leaks and the damage to u.s. national security. i'm wolf blitzer. you are in "the situation room." ♪ let's get back to the breaking news this hour, another juror in the george zimmerman trial now speaking out. she says she believes zimmerman got away with murdering trayvon martin. juror b-29 is the only woman. she told abc news, she never thought the case was about race. we are joined now by the former obama adviser, one of the new co-hosts of cnn's "cross fire." joining us is raynard jackson. he is here. the role of race, let me start with you, van, what do you think, based on what we are now hearing from this juror, what we've heard from the other juror, what do you think the role of race was in this case? >> well, you know, it's

interesting. you have, usually the thing about race, it's usually black and white. now you got the situation where the only latino involved in this case and zimmerman is half latino says she wants to put him in jail. she says it's not about race. then when you look at the reaction in the public the majority of latinos and black folks think the case was decided wrongly, the vast majority of whites say it was decide correctly. i think what have you is a bad and confusing law the stand your ground law, aploo id to bad and confusing facts with a bad and confusing outcome in a racially diverse country trying to come to terms with itself. i think what we got to do here is listen to each other in our reaction. it's almost like an ink blot test, somebody sees a butter fly, somebody sees a dog who is right, who is wrong? you are learning more about the person looking at the image than the image, itself. white americans having one set

of reaction. a lot of folks having another reaction. race is a factor. it's a complicated one. >> what about that ra daer? >> i don't disagree with what van is saying. i think there is a bifur indication of issues going on here. -- a if i fur indication of -- a bifur cation is going on here. that's the difference. >> where do we go from here raynard, where should the country go from here? it's caused such a commotion as you well know? >> i think to me the biggest opportunity is for the governor of florida, rick scott, to show some leadership and bring the state of florida together and to deal with this issue of the unequal application of the stand your ground, because you may by a ware, wolf, of the black female in jacksonville i think who got 20 years for just shooting up in the air. 20 years and the governor has

not said anything. so i think there is an opportunity for the governor, especially as a republican to show some leadership that could have national implications for polling the company. >> what do you think about that idea, van? >> yeah. well, look, i do think there are some big opportunities here. first of all, you know, the conservatives have come out over and over and said, what about chicago? what about the killings in chicago? i think a lot of african-american leaders took offense at that at first. it's almost like you are trying to dismiss trayvon and make a dig at the civil rights leadership. i think we should look past that. it could be the case this could bring us together. i know liberals are concerned about the gun violence in places like chicago. conservatives appear to be as well. what if we turn to each other and work together to bring the violence down in these urban areas, using entrepreneurship, private partnerships, mentorships. i don't think that we should stay where we are right now t.

binaries are fought working. the polarization is not working. we're missing the common ground t. common ground is we want to see fewer kids in caskets. both parties can work on that. >> i think two people to watch in the house are republican caucus is watch eric cantor, a congressman from virginia, majority leader and congressman jim sensenbrenner. these two guys understand the racial dynamic. they have good will and history within the black community. those are the two guys that are going to be the barometer of how republicans deal with this thorny issue of race. and i'm optimistic. >> you think, you are a graduate of yale law school, do you think attorney general eric holder should press civil rights charges against george vermillion for committing what is called a hate crime? >> i think the jury is still out on that and i think that we should actually let the process go forward. it's so strange to me to hear people saying, well, the federal

government should stay out of this look on drug imes, you see people get prosecuted at the state level. they get prosecuted with the rodney king case, they were prosecuted. nobody complained. i think we should let the department of justice do its job, but at the end of the day this one case should not turn america into this almost a civil war. we're almost at tribal level. you listen to social media. people are reacting because of this one case, we should turn to each other not only on each other. >> i do agree, most black americans think justice was not served here. >> exactly. >> and a lot of whites don't understand that. because i'm from missouri. i had a situation in missouri years ago, a black killed a state trooper on the highway in missouri, got the death penalty. a month later, a white did the same crime in a different part of the state, got life in jail. so it's -- the biggest problem is justice is not meted out

equally between blacks an whites. >> how do you fix it? >> i think number one, you got to have dialogue and we're so polarized. i tell the most segreagated hour is 11:00 on sun morning when we go to church. most of us go to churches that look like us. we don't ever come together. i think with people like van on his side, people like me on my side, there is an opportunity for us to come together and have a conversation like we are having with you. >> it's a good idea. let's see if we can make that happen. >> go ahead. >> one big thing, i want to underscore, i don't think that a lot of white americans look at the criminal justice system and see at this time way black ones do. yeah, white kids are doing drugs at the same level as black kids, black kids are going to prison ten times the rate. those kind of things weigh heavily in the minds of african-americans when we look at a verdict like this i think when white people hear those numbers, they say, that's not right. there are things we can agree on

we can work together to reduce. this should bring more light to those common ground issues. i appreciate the earlier comments. we can work together on the stuff, along party lines and across party lines. >> we hope you do. guys, thank very much for coming in. up next, dramatic new video and chilling new details. we will go live to the scene of one of the deadliest train accidents in years. plus, notorious leaks about questions of whether they were as damaging as the federal government is claiming. [ engine revving ]

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guys, thank very much for coming closing arguments today in the court marshal of bradley maning, the army private and

intelligence analyst charged with the largest leak of classified documents in u.s. history, but there are questions about how damaging his leaks were. those are the former nsa contractor edward snowden. how damaging are they? our pentagon correspondent barbara starr reports. two. two young men, both computer gear, bradley maning and edward snowden found themselves in jobs with access to critical national security secrets of the u.s. government. both would leak classified documents, both accused of harming national security. after maning's leaks. >> it puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems. >> reporter: the same dire warnings when snowden went public. >> people may die as a consequence of what this man did. >> reporter: they seem to be too similar cases with the same question, how often damage was

really caused? private first class bradley maning downloaded thousands of classified do you means with battlefield details about the wars in iraq and afghanistan and state department activities around the world. all of it ending up on wikileaks. they are raising money for manning's defense. he says the government hiked the threats maning's leaks posed. >> they would not have gone recorded with great impact. it's more embarrassment than anything else. >> reporter: the information from manning's leaks was rapidly outdated. snowden's case is different, officials say, because he disclosed how the government actually collects telephone and online information, leaving the nsa to try to re-assemble it's under surveillance networks t.nsa also says there's concrete proof terrorists are now changing their communications because of snowden's leaks, be you to what extent is unclear. >> it's too soon to tell

whether, in fact, adversaries will take great note of the things he's disclosed. >> i think this will follow the same trajectory as wikileaks, a lot of noise up front, six months later, all that's left is embarrassment. >> reporter: perhaps the impact will be on intelligence gathering, itself, as we have seen, there the a growing movement in congress to try to change or at least modify the laws that govern these intelligence collection programs. wolf. >> barbara, thank you. you can see it coming, a high speed train racing around a curve, in moments on its side, off the tracks, broken in two. a status official now confirms 80 people were killed. 178 people injured. was the train going too fast? cnn is joined from spain. what are we learning, carl? >> reporter: well, wolf, if you look at that video taken from a

under surveillance camera, you see that train hurdleing towards you, the locomotive seems to slide off the track and then the whole train comes sideways towards you. it does seem to be traveling at an extremely high speed. be you that said, these trains are designed and supposed to travel at high speed. so the question is, was it at that particular stage of the track traveling too fast for the conditions. now, we heard from as spain's minister of development early this morning and she suggested that excessive speed may have been a factor in this accident, but then later on in the day, we heard from the spanish prime minister. he said it was too early to reach any conclusions. and he urged that people kept an open mind, because all factors were under consideration. the spanish government has ruled out until now at least that any terrorist act has been to play here. they say there was no terrorist act here. they say that everything else is under observation. we also know that the train

driver has been under investigation by police through the course of much of the day, but so far, authorities have not given any details about what he may have revealed, wolf. >> so the latest numbers, though, we are getting once again 80 people killed, 178 injured. has there been an update on that? >> reporter: i believe those figures may be somewhat skewed. we've heard from the state railway agency there were 218 passengers on board, so those figures don't add up. but, yes, we do have confirmed 80 killed. figure that out, that's more than one-third of the passengers on board this train were killed. that really does pay testimony to the scale of this tragedy. we also note, from authorities, that right now as of tonight around 100 passengers are still in hospitals, receiving treatment for their injuries. they say about one-third of those are on the critical list. so there is always a danger that the death toll could rise

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. >> he's a four star u.s. marine corps general who retired last month who doesn't mix any words. he was a head of the entire middle east in south asia. ei questioned general james madison about syria, egypt, iraq, afghanistan a lot more during a one-hour conversation

we had in recent days at thes apen security forum he is blunt in discussing his top concern. >> the first three things i can my briefers about when i woke every morning were iran, iran and iran. >> reporter: general mattis was very candid when he talked about a plot at a popular restaurant in washington, d.c. did the iranians want to blow up cafe milano and kill the saudi ambassador to the united states? >> absolutely. that was their plan and absent one fundamental mistake, they would have done it. so they actually set out to do it. it was not a rogue agent off on his own. this decision was taken at the very highest level in tehran. again, absent one mistake, they would have murdered a lot of americans at that restaurant a couple miles from the white house.

frankly, i'm not sure why again they haven't been held to account. >> what was the one mistake they made? >> i think going to the drug cartel ahead of a dea agent, a memo to themself, don't do that anymore. they got caught in the act. >> reporter: mattis was disappointed in obama's weak response. >> when we caught them in the act, we had a beleaguered attorney general stand up and give a legal argument that, frafrgly, i couldn't understand. >> reporter: earlier this year, on iranian-american used car salesman pleaded guilty to plotting to kill the bed and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. mattis wanted more. >> i don't know why it wasn't dealt with more strongly. >> reporter: he said iran is getting close to developing a nuclear bomb. >> how close is iran to a nuclear weapon? >> i'd say one year. >> one year? >> one year if they chose to.

i don't believe he's made the decision. if he does, i'm not completely confident that we would know immediately. we might know soon. but i don't think we'd know right away. >> do you think the israelis would i have no out the they would. >> would the u.s. help israel in an operation like that? >> that one i don't want to speculate on. i mean, we make our own decisions. we aren't in lock step with another country, even one that we're as committed to the survival of as we are of israel. but i think it would be a decision for the president and whether or not he would know in advance, i think is at least questionable. >> but there are limits to military power. >> it can be delayed. six months, 18 months. what do you do with the delay is the question. there in is where diplomacy and all the elements of state craft come in. the military can buy our

diplomats some time but it cannot solve this problem straight up. >> he says syrian president assad would have been long gone if it were not for iran's support. >> as it is, he has been able to recently turn around with some tactical successes in western syria thanks to the iranian support and the lebanese hezbollah support. lebanese hezbollah acting very much in concert with the orders out of tehran. and now they're achieving some operational successes there that we didn't see six months ago. >> he is angry that iraq is allowing iranian aircraft to deliver weapon to the regime. >> you served in iraq. you fought there. you know the sacrifices that americans made in, starting in 2003. and you know how much money we spent. hundreds of billions of dollars. to create an iraq. and the question is this. and then i want to get back to years. i can't knowing what you know now, the relationship between

the government in iraq and the iranians, was it worth it? >> well, history will have to sell on that. >> but you served there. >> i have. >> you have some thoughts about whether or not the men and women who fought this and american taxpayers who paid for it, was that war knowing what we know now, worth it? >> if iraq sitting at the geo strategic center of the middle east continues to mature in a democratic way, then i would say yes. >> still, he is cautious about getting involved militarily in syria. even the kind of no-fly zone that senator john mccain and others are proposing. mattis recalls the ten-year u.s. experience in iraq. >> otherwise, you're liable to invade a country, pull down a statue and then say now what do we do? >> by the way, the interview with general mattis, fascinating. we spent more than an hour talking about the entire region. all sorts of issues if you're really interested in what he has

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kevin rose let his dog out of the san francisco home. then heard frantic yell thatting as a raccoon tangled with him. he grabbed the raccoon and hurled it. >> i was scared he was getting hurt. >> reporter: here the replay from another security camera. check out those eerie raccoon eyes. >> i want to them gunmen separated. i did not want to kick. >> reporter: he is the founder of dig, social news webb that spawns viral videos. and he found his own video going viral but what did he find when he went warily down those stairs? kevin says the raccoon definitely survived the toss. that he saw it get up and take off. >> it fit through those gate bars there. >> reporter: now it has its own fake twitter account. toastter labradoodle came without some scratches and kevin came away looking like a major

league pitcher. admirers have put the toss to music. kevin told twit tv, the raccoon weighed about 25 pounds. >> it felt very greasy. >> reporter: last time we saw a toss like this was when a raccoon got into the chimp enclosure at the san diego zoo. what a wind up. how did this raccoon wind up? mad in the drainage pipe. we're told it eventually got out alive. kevin rose came out of his encounter smelling like a rose. believe it or not, even peta gave kevin a pass for hurling a raccoon. peta that it was a crazy move that could have gone very wrong for man, dog and raccoon. but you can't fault a man for reacting to save his dog. >> it was one of those things, you care so much about an animal. they're like a family member. >> reporter: strike three,

raccoon. you're out. cnn. new york. by the way, kevin said he really had only two choices. the throw raccoon up the stair or down. let's wrap it up with a quick look at some of the hot shots in indonesia, a native worshipper carries an offering to the creator of the volcano for a festival. and a pair of elephants wrestle along the banks of the river. in spain, a chinese diver soars through the air above the barcelona skyline. in india, children play through the streets after very heavy rains. hot shots, pictures coming in from around the world. remember, you can always follow us. what's going on behind the scenes. you're in the situation room. you can tweet me. @wolf blitzer. and you can tweet the show. thank you for joining us. i'm wolf blitzer in washington.

please join us later tonight an hour from now, i'll be filling in for anderson cooper. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. breaking news, federal investigators make a starting revelation about monday's southwest airlines crash. why they think it wasn't mechanical error. plus the only minority on the george zimmerman jury said zimmerman got away with murder. a lawyer representing trayvon martin's family responds to that "outfront" tonight. >> and the latest from the anthony weiner texting scandal. the candidate reveals there were more women he maes mates how many of them there were, and we hear from one of them for the first time. let's go "outfront." >>d