when you think about this vert recently with michael dunn, this stand your ground law allowed him to criminal liability for the death of jordan dunn just as george zimmerman escaped criminal liability for the death of trayvon martin. that's a problem, what messages we are sending out. when you think about these verdicts. when you kill an unarmed black child, you don't go to jail, but when you shoot and you miss attempted murder on the other occupants on the car you get held accountable. marissa alexander in jacksonville florida she shot a warning shot on the ceiling. she says stand your ground. what message are we send something don't miss? is that what stand your ground law means? don't miss? if you miss, you get off. if you kill a young black man, you go home, that's just troubling. >> do you think the verdict here would have been different had michael dunn been black and jordan davis been white? >> no question about it, this is an equal justice issue, where else does it work in america if you reverse the rolls and you have jordan davis killing unarmed michael dunn, or you have tra

in the michael dunn matter, you have jordan davis and michael dunn in two vehicles.y never come into contact with each other. the concept that someone needed to shoot nine, ten times to defend themselves is farfetched. >> and then the key witness. remember the friend of trayvon martin that was on the phone with him. >> you don't know the person. trayvon did not know him. >> in the michael dunn case the three young men in the car when jordan davis was killed. >> i went to check and see if he had a pulse. >> and what did you find? >> i did not feel one. >> there was a big difference in the caliber of those witnesses. >> we made a big deal about rachel genteel and how inarticulate she was and how the difficulties understanding what she was saying. but in the dunn trial we have these three young men who have been through a horrific experience. >> and finally the issue of the defendants taking the stand. zimmerman did not and dunn did. >> you said it looked like a shotgun? >> it was thick enough profile. it was a 12 gauge, to my eye, or 20. >> there is no evidence that an

michael dunn has never denied he shot and killed 17-year-old jordan davis after an argument over loud muse nick a parking lot. dunn testified he feared for his life even though police never found any evidence of a weapon in the car carrying davis and his friends. there's been a lot of speculation about how big a role if any race played in the killing and the trial. in a moment you're going to hear from the parents of jordan davis as they react to juror number 8. first we want you to hear from juror number 8, her take. she was one of just two african-americans on the jury. she was also the youngest juror, just 21 years old. here's what she told our cnn reporter. >> what did you think of michael dunn? >> i honestly think he was a good guy. i think he's a good guy. i don't think he hates everybody. i don't think he walks around wanting to shoot everybody. i think that he made bad decisions. >> you still think he's guilty of murder, though. >> yes. i really think he's guilty of murder, but not guilty as charged. >> first degree. you don't think he's guilty of first degree? >> i think he's

the only person that can testify to that is michael dunn. prosecution in this case learned from the zimmerman case. no video interrgation of michael dunn telling his story is in evidence. the only way to prove self-defense at this point is to have michael dunn testify. when i was in court right before the end of the day, the defense indicated they had one or maybe two witnesses pending. when going over the jury instructions, the defense wanted to go over the self-defense instruction, she made it clear it would be inappropriate to go over that instruction unless there was evidence of self-defense. i suspect we will hear from michael dunn tomorrow. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. >>> up next we're back on the charity money trail keeping them honest. and when you put them in charge of making an unbeatable truck, good things happen. this is the ram 1500. the 2014 motor trend truck of the year. ♪ and first ever back-to-back champion. guts. glory. ram. they're the days to take care of business.. when possibilities become reality. with century

>>> crime and punishment tonight, the murder trial of michael dunn in florida, prosecutors rested theirhe defense called witnesses. dunn is charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old jordan davis in a confrontation at a gas station. now, he admits he shot the teen in a dispute over loud music, but claims he fired in self-defense, he said he thought he saw a shotgun in the suv davis was riding in. no weapon was ever found. seeing as martin savage was inside the courtroom today. the details about the shooting of jordan davis were so intense his parents for the first time had to leave the courtroom. jurors were shown photographs, x-rays in the blood stained clothes, the 17-year-old was wearing when he was killed. the prosecution's final witness, former associate medical examener stacy simmons, testifying davis was shot three times, twice in the leg, it was a bullet to the abdomen that killed him. >> right about here is where the bullet entered. it entered at the actual border. over here it perforated the right lung and continued on behind the heart and in front o

the only person that can testify to that is michael dunn.learned from the zimmerman case. no video interrogation of michael dunn telling his story is in evidence. the only way to prove self-defense at this point is to have michael dunn testify. when i was in court right before the end of the day, the defense indicated they had one or maybe two witnesses pending. when going over the jury instructions, the defense wanted to go over the self-defense instruction, she made it clear it would be inappropriate to go over that instruction unless there was evidence of self-defense. i suspect we will hear from michael dunn tomorrow. > thank you so much. appreciate it. >>> up next we're back on the charity money trail keeping them honest. frequent heartburn? the choice is yours. chalky... not chalky. temporary... 24 hour. lots of tablets... one pill. you decide. prevent acid with prevacid 24hr. you decide. life's an adventure and it always has been. but your erectile dysfunction - it could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use help

mattress discounters >> a jury in jacksonville, florida is now deciding the guilt of innocence of michael dunnjurors began deliberating late this afternoon. we've learned they've wrapped up for the night without reaching a verdict. they'll resume deliberations tomorrow morning at 10:00. dunn is charged in murder in the shooting death of a 17-year-old man, jordan davis at a gas station in 2012. he claims he acted in self-defense during a confrontation with a group of teenagers in an suv. martin savidge was inside the courtroom today. >> reporter: in closing arguments, prosecutors said 17-year-old jordan davis may have a big mouth, but he never had a weapon. >> let me be very clear. on november 23rd, 2012, when this defendant shot and killed jordan davis, there was no gun in that durango. there was no stick. there was no bat. there was no lead pipe. there was no gun. >> reporter: 47-year-old michael dunn says it all started when he exchanged words over loud music coming from an suv carrying four teens. he says he pulled his weapon after he thought he saw the teens, at least one of them, point so

michael dunn believes the true victim in the case, you're going to hear this from himself, is michael dunn. in this phone call his fiancee tells him she believes he's innocent. here's why. >> i was thinking the same thing. i'm the [ mute ] victim here. i was the one who was victimized. i mean, i don't know how else to cut it. it's like they attacked me. i'm the victim. i'm the victor but i was the victim, too. >> saying that he was attacked. victimhood also figures highly in this next conversation, dunn comparing himself to a rape victim. >> i was the one that was being preyed upon and i fought back. >> right. >> and then it's not quite the same, but it made me think of like the old tv shows and movie s where like how the police used to think when a chick got raped. they're like oh, it's her fault because of the way she was dressed. >> right. >> yeah. so it's my fault because i asked them to turn their music down. it's like i got attacked and i fought back because i didn't want to be a victim. and now i'm in trouble. >> yeah. >> it's like i refused to be a victims and now i'm incarcer

but you've got to remember, michael dunn did take the witness stand.k that what they're doing is taking apart his testimony. if there are a few jurors that find him credible the jurors are going to walk through all the evidence to find the discrepancies. i think that's why they asked for the gray mannequin that shows the bullet hole trajectories. i think that's why they're asking for an easel so that they can sort of take their notes, take their votes. i think that's why they're asking for the letter that michael dunn wrote to his family, which would show some inconsistencies. i think they're just doing some hard work. i would be surprised, however, if they didn't come down with a verdict tomorrow. it is friday. most juries do not go into the weekend, especially when they're sequestered. friday is generally verdict day. >> martin, sunny brought up these pieces of evidence that the jury asked to see, specifically the last thing was that letter that martin dunn wrote himself. explain to us the significance of that letter. >> reporter: yeah. this letter t

>> even though michael dunn is off the streets, the justice system let him escape criminal liability for killing jordan davis, just as george zimmerman escaped criminal liability for killing trayvon martin. so in the end, anderson, what you have, when you think about the message that's being pour trade to america is when you shoot, if you miss, you go to jail, that's what jordan davis' killer was convicted of, attempted murder, not for killing jordan. so this stand your ground law should be called the don't miss law, because if you miss, you go to jail. but if you kill the young minority, then you're not held accountable. >> do you believe that stand your ground can be equally used by an african-american youth against a caucasian if he feels threatened by or says he feels threatened by a caucasian person, do you think the law is equally applied in the state of florida? >> well, anderson, where does it happen in america when trayvon martin kills an unarmed george zimmerman or jordan davis kills an unarmed michael dunn and they are not arrested, convicted of first degree murder and nob

and the jury was riveted when michael dunn was on the witness stand. and so at first the appearance was wow, he probably did okay. but on cross-examination, i think that john guy played it just right. it was very well-played. it was effective. it wasn't over the top. many people are saying he didn't do enough. well, that is what makes a good prosecutor. you don't want to go too far. you're never going to get the moment that jack nickelson and tom cruise got in "a few good men" where jack nicholson says damn right. that doesn't happen. but what happened this time is that john guy made sure that all the inconsistencies that really that michael dunn had came out in the rebuttal case. and i thought that was so, so very effective. >> mark, what did you make of dunn's time on the stand? >> look, dunn had to take the stand. anybody who knows anything about self-defense knows that they did not have in this case any other way to get a self-defense instruction. the problem is with a fiancee like that, who needs a wife? because she basically cut his legs off. and

we have more from martin savidge. >> reporter: from the witness stand, 47-year-old michael dunn gave a simple reason for firing nine shots into an suv. >> i thought i was going to be killed>> reporter: he said he pulled into a gas station, parking next to a red dodge dur rango playing music so loud his vehicle was rattling. >> my eardrums were vibrating. >> reporter: while his fiance was in the store, he said he spoke to the teens. >> i said can you turn that down, please? they turned it off. >> at that point, what did you then say? >> i said thank you. >> reporter: moments later, he said the volume was back up and jordan davis in the back seat was using racially infused profanity that grew increasingly theory. >> i hear, i should kill that mother [ bleep ]. and i'm flabbergasted. i must not be hearing this right. >> reporter: dunn says he tried to deescalate the situation, asking are you talking to me? that's when he says davis reached for something. >> he reached forward and slammed it against the door. i saw sticking above like the window sil about four inches of a barrel. >> repo

. >>> up next one of the jurors in michael dunn's trial speaks publicly about the jury's inability to reach a decision on the top charge, first degree murder. and jordan davis's aunt tells us what kind of young man he was. >>> also candidate for governor in texas takes heat for campaigning with ted nugent, the musician who called president obama a subhuman mongrel. more on that ahead. [ female announcer ] most of the time it's easy to know which option is better. other times, not so much. so it's good to know that mazola corn oil has 4 times more cholesterol blocking plant sterols than olive oil. and a recent study found that it can help lower cholesterol 2 times more. take care of those you love and cook deliciously. mazola makes it better. instead of paying too much for an ipad, i got the surface 2. first of all, it comes with office and outlook. then, with free skype calls to phones in over 60 countries, i can talk to my cousins any time. and then, i got 200 gigs of cloud storage -- free -- so i can get my photos and stuff almost anywhere. others charge for that. surface is such a

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what happened this time is john guy makes sure all the inconsistencies that michael dunn had came out in the rebuttal case. i thought that was so very effective. >> mark, what did you make of dunn's time on the stand? >> look, dunn had to take the stand. anybody that knows anything about self-defense knows they did not have in this case any other way to get a self-defense instruction. the problem is, with a fiance like that, who needs a wife? because she basically cut his legs off. as good as i think he did, she was devastating to him. >> so whatever in roads he made on the stand in convincing people, you think she just completely undercut him? >> look, right, because his testimony just taking it in a vacuum sounds convincing until you ask why didn't you call anybody and he said i can understand if he's shell shocked or something and called somebody the next day. then his fiance gets up there and pretty much undercuts that, undercuts him on the idea that he saw a gun. and that's pretty devastating stuff. a jury is going to say, wait a second, if his fiance is not going to lie for them

drew griffin, cnn atlanta. >> michael dunn's trial is scheduled to begin in september. anderson talked to jordan davis' parents. they were joined by their lawyer john phillips. >> i'm so sorry for your loss. what do you want people to know about your son? >> jordan was like an american boy. he wasn't like an african american boy but also an american boy in that it could be your son, and i want you to understand the way we feel is the way you would feel if you lost a son when it happens like that, when somebody actually tears your child away from you, you know. because of loud music, something so petty as that, it really just takes, you know, takes the heart of out you. >> where were you when you heard the news? >> i was in chicago visiting family for the holiday. >> i can't imagine what that was like. >> it's -- it is a parent's worst nightmare, and you hear about it happening to other individuals, people around you when you know you mourn for the loss when it happens to them, and in the back of your mind you're saying wow, i don't know how i would -- i don't know what

he disrespected. >> jordan davis threatened michael dunn. you're dead [ mute ]. going down now. with a shotgun barrel sticking out of the window or a lead pipe. whatever it was it's a deadly weapon. >> reporter: dunn told investigators he saw a weapon pointed at him, feared for his safety, grabbed his gun and fired. >> we have shots fired in the parking lot. the person firing has left. police say they never found a gun in the teen's red dodge durango. >> the only thing he had on his person was a cell phone and a pocket knife. and both of those things were in his pockets when he was shot and killed. >> reporter: at the crux of the case, why didn't dunn just drive off? >> he just had somebody threaten his life, display a weapon, try to exit a vehicle and say this is [ mute ] going down now. and for the first time in his life, he has to use a firearm to defend himself. >> reporter: so one thing that continues come up in court the fact that dunn left the scene, never calling 911. it was detectives who were able to talk to witnesses and found a license plate and that's

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th then we went to michael dunn, then mcbride, there is a fatigue in the african-american community markstice not being done when you see the death of a young african-american -- >> renesha mcbride -- >> bottom line he didn't even have to take this before the grand jury. a case like this, a prosecutor goes in front of it for himself. >> had he not taken it in front of a grand jury, we all would have been frustrated. which by the way he said he would make the proceedings public afterwards is the best way to handle it. 12 people look at a case and decide whether or not to go forward. we have to believe in the process. >> i couldn't disagree with you more. >> marko 'mara, and sunny hostin. >>> coming up, more on ben bradley, who died today after an equally legendary life. >>> anyone who does what we do owes a debt of gratitude to people who came before us, journalists who get it right, reporting without fear or favor even if it means taking on the powers that be. few did it better than ben bradley, and nobody did it with more flair or style than he did. he championed a pair of young reporte

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. >> reporter: michael dunn, the man charged with first degree murder in the jordan davis case, looked on as witnesses relived the night the 17-year-old was shot and killed. dav davis's best friend leeland brunson among those that testified. >> do you love jordan davis? >> yes. >> are you lying for jordan davis? >> no. >> reporter: he was sitting next to davis in the back of a red suv when an argument over loud music broke out at a jacksonville gas station. >> it's fair to say he asked for a common courtesy just to lower the music, correct? >> yes. >> reporter: kevin thompson says dunn parked next to them asked them to turn down the music. thompson described it in court as pretty loud and said dunn told them -- >> turn your music down. i can't hear myself think. >> reporter: everyone agrees the music was turned down, but that's when things escalated between davis and dunn. >> isn't it true that jordan davis said to you, [ mute ] that turn it back up. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: thompson testified he did exactly that, and that he turned the music back up. 's at that point the timeline get

. >>> a florida jury convicted michael dunn in the shooting death of 17-year-old jordan davis.davis after an argument outside a jacksonville gas station. >>> in japan, search teams discovered 12 more bodies on mt. ontake bringing the death toll to 48. seismologists are warning another big eruption may be days away. >>> a sit in as part of continuing pro-democracy protests. some demonstrators say next step could be occupying government buildings. >> that does it for us. cnn tonight starts now. >>> good evening. this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. >> great to be with you. >>> a deadly disease hits home. a 42-year-old man flies to dallas to visit family and comes down with ebola. he's not hospitalized until days after he became ill and after having contact with at least five school children. how many people are at risk now? we are going to ask the experts. >>> a mix up at a sperm bank causes a white woman

they were waiting for michael fanone and harry dunn, the other former d.c. police officer, at the hotel, and followed them through, were shouting abuse at them. um, look, there was a lot of things happening in d.c. last week, one of them being cpac, the sort of main conservative conference. there was a bit of debate earlier in the week whether jay sixers would be allowed in or not. they very much were. one, a defiant proud boy told me when he was. i asked him how he was being received there. he said, we're being treated like gods. these guys are really emboldened. i want to show you just one example a picture people will probably remember it from, from january 6th of a man named richard barnett. he had his feet on a desk in nancy pelosi's office, of course. and that's the guy there he was around cpac last week very much in high spirits and was actually proud of himself. he was signing pictures, giving autographs on there he is. there he is now bald. but he was signing that picture, that that iconic picture of of of course, what many people would say was an a

metro police officer daniel hodges and michael fanone, and capitol police officer harry dunn. we invited congressman clyde and senator johnson to come on the program tonight. both declined. congresswoman stephanie murphy accepted. she's a democratic member of the committee and like everyone in that room owes a lot to the witnesses today. >> you know, i have two young children. i have a 10-year-old son and a 7-year-old daughter. they're the light of my life. and the reason i was able to hug them again was because of the courage that you and your fellow officers showed that day. >> congresswoman murphy joins us now. congresswoman, just hearing that again after surviving the attack in the first place and hearing the officers recount their stories in person earlier today, i mean, does it make the whitewashing of january 6th by some of your republican colleagues even more sickening to contemplate and difficult to explain? >> it's good to be with you tonight, anderson. and i think when you listen to the testimony today it was heart-wrenching. those officers went through a lot. the m

michael skakel. one was mark firman, dominic dunn, both writers and the third was frank gar who was what i would call a crooked police officer who was just dog in his determination to put one of the skakel's in jail and dug up evidence from people who were absolutely incredible. since i published an article i think in 2003 in the "atlantic monthly" about the case after the trial, and after that i was contacted by one of the people by a man named toby bryant, who is a cousin of the basketball player kobe bryant and toby bryant told me he was there the night of the murder and the men that murdered martha moxley, that pry yr to the murder they were going to, they would take her cave man style. two kids from new york city. very big man 6'3", 250 pounds who now lives in bridge port, connecticut, one lives in portland, oregon. i've spoken to both of them. one of them is black. when martha moxley's body was found, it was covered with hairs from a black person -- >> wait a second, robert -- let me interrupt for one second. >> is this jeffrey toobin? >> yes. your article in the atlantic -- >> you should discl

michael skakel. one of them was mark ferman, the other dominic dunn, both writers. and the third was frank garr who was what i would call a crooked police officer who was just dogged in his determination to put one of the skakels in jail and who dug up evidence from people who were absolutely incredible. since i published an article i think in 2003 "the atlantic monthly" about the case after the trial. after that i was contacted by pun of the people by a man named toby bryant who's actually a cousin of the basketball player, kobe bryant. and tony bryant told me that he was there the night of the murder, that he brought to greenwich the two men who murdered martha moxley. he said prior to the murder that they were going to, that they were going to take her caveman style. they were to kids from new york city, a very big man was 6'3", 250 pounds, who now lives in bridgeport, connecticut. the other one lives in portland, oregon. i have spoken to both of them. one of them is black. when martha moxley's body was found, it was covered with hairs from a black person -- >> w

doesn't change the fact that they went after him and maybe michael cohen solicited we know he solicited novartis. did the president sanction in dunnnt didn't sanction that. >> i can't prove the negative. >> i don't know either. we dope know that tonight which is why these questions are so interesting and hang on -- hang on. i'll bring you in the conversation right now. another thing he no is that the special counsel has been asking we questions about this dating back months. >> we do know that. we know the special counsel has talked to the russian oligarch, asking questions with these payments that there were conversation was novartis. we know it's a piece of the conversation that they're having in the investigation. and one other things to talk about the investigation to the election hacking, mueller's team is clearly investigating russian involvement and whether the trump campaign had any -- there is an investigation into that question of whether whether the trump campaign collude -- i hate that word expiring and aiding and abetting the russians in that. what hasn't been done is the deeper question of have we taken any efforts t

metropolitan police officer michael fanone secretly recorded a meeting with kevin mccarthy six months after the january 6th insurrection. he attended it with u.s. capitol police officer harry dunnl that day and mother of late capitol police officer brian sicknick. they press mccarthy on claims the former president didn't know there was any violence inside the capitol on that day but as you likely remember, testimony to the january 6th committee revealed he did know because he was watching hours of coverage on the violence from the white house. here's what officer fanone recorded from his meeting with mccarthy. >> wasn't watching tv. >> he knew what was going on. he knew what was going on. he knows they were fighting for hours and hours and hours. you know, just doesn't make any sense to me. >> i don't know that he did know that. >> that audio and other moments from that meeting are detailed in michael fanone's new book titled "hold the line: the insurrection and one cop's battle for america's soul" and michael fanone joins us now. i got to say reading in your book the account of this meeting with mccarthy, it was hard not to get very upset just listening to what you were saying

dunne. she wrote, we mourn for ourselves, as we were, as we are no longer, as we will one day not be at all. let's hand it over to michael john, thank you. >>> i am michael smeonh.