joining me now, benjamin crump, attorney for the trayvon martin's family. thank you for your time. >> thank you, rev, for having me, reverend al. >> let me ask you, what do you make of today's hearing and -- and the move by mr. o'mara and mr. zimmerman, o'mara being his attorney, to wave their right to a trial -- a pretrial hearing for immunity on the grounds of stand your ground law? >> it was quite interesting, reverend sharpton. the state had wanted an inquiry of george zimmerman himself to waive his rights. and the court inquired of him, and he did, in fact, waive those rights. upon advice of counsel. what's interesting about that is, these are extraordinary rights when you consider the stand your ground law. it is a pretrial immunity hearing that says if you prevail, you don't have to stand trial for any civil matter, any criminal matter. in fact, you can't even be arrested. so for him just to waive that hearing says a lot about how strong they really felt their self-defense claim was or their stand your ground claim was. because they just waived it. >

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he plans to question the lawyer for the martin family under oath regarding crump's interview with's girl friend. >> he put himself in the middle of the investigation of a significant witness and did it in a way that caused more questions than answers. >> originally, a judge ruled that zimmerman's attorneys could not question crump. zimmerman has pleaded "not guilty" to second degree murder. tuesday's hearing is expected to be one of the pre-trial hearings before the trial officially begins june 10th >> happening now, golden state warriors getting ready for a playoff showdown against the denver nuggets. >> debra? >> reporter: fans are beyond excited as they climb the blue carpet over there. we saw them lining up hours before the door opened. with the warriors up 2-1 in the series, huge anticipation the team will pick up where they left off friday night. >> it seemed the oracle arena could barely hold the pandemonium. warriorses held on to win by two after being down 13. tonight, fans are primed to party again. >> this is big. it's a big game for us. we don't want to go to denver, down 2-2

"something like that" >> benjamin crump, the attorney representing martin's family, says the sergeant'starget was "absolutely reprehensible." there is a train derailment. details on our morning news, coming up the police are on the scene to restore traffic as soon as possible. >> background checks raise the question about how to determine if a person is mentally ill. many recent suspects in shooting rampages had mental health issues. yet were still able to obtain guns. athena jones has more. >> reporter: james holmes in colorado, jared loughner in arizona, seung-hui cho at virginia tech, all with mental health problems and all able to buy guns to kill. background checks stop others like them? >> the common ground rests on a simple proposition and that is that criminals and the dangerously mentally ill shouldn't have guns. but it's not simple at all for one thing who's considered dangerously mentally ill? under federal law, it's someone found by a judge to be quote "a mental defective or someone committed to any mental institution." but state standards vary widely and their mental health

. >> joining me is attorney benjamin crump. it's good to have you back on with me. nbc is yet to confirm that video is indeed from king himself. however, jonathan capehart did an editorial in today's "the washington post" about this story in which he says king never explains why he has a no-shoot training aid at a shooting range and while king may have viewed the targets as innocuo innocuous, that wasn't the intent. >> trayvon's parents are trying to deal with emotions that come over an allegation like this. if an allegation is true, it's extremely painful to them that the image of their child, their dead child, would be used by police officers follow target practice. that is something that as a parent you just think these are the police. they can't do that kind of stuff. it's not acceptable for anybody but certainly not police who are sworn to protect and serve all citizens. >> so the explanation in and of itself you don't really buy the fact that he was trying to use those aids for officers in police training to think first before shooting by using what would have