failed to find an example of george zimmerman being racist.he prosecution slammed george zimmerman from co-opting the victim role which he says rightfully belongs to more tin who was profiled, followed, shot, and killed all while doing nothing wrong. george zimmerman's brother claimed racial tension is dangerously high. >> we are afraid. i'm afraid right here. this is a secure area because it is the courthouse but we have to do things for our security all the time, special contingencies to be able to participate. phil: a key win for george zimmerman's defense team, they will get the original unedited version of the witness number eight phone interview with the attorney for the trayvon martin family that is believed to be the star witness for the state, the torch age girl who says she was on the phone with trayvon martin that night and trayvon martin told her he was fear because he was being followed. >>shepard: you have a cough, you take the nasty syrup. wouldn't you rather have chocolate? researchers say this is a compound in chocolate that w

that's george zimmerman. why do you think this story got so much attention? richard, let's start with you. >> well, they labeled zimmerman from the beginning a white hispanic, so it kind of sets it up right there for you, marty. you know, this was a racially charged news story that they made it racially charged. i don't think it was. i don't think per se zimmerman is a racist. i think that it's an unfortunate set of circumstances. it's a tragedy the young man is killed. but i will tell you this, marty, this is a classic self-defense case. this is not a stand-your-ground case because zimmerman was actually chasing trayvon martin

take a look at this photograph released today by george zimmerman's lawyers. it was taken they say by a police officer the night their client killed the unarmed teenager. you can see there is blood on zimmerman's face and his nose looks swollen. it's the clearest image that surfaced of those injuries described in a police report from that night. zimmerman says he killed martin in self-defense after the teen attacked him, slamming his head against the ground and breaking his nose. zimmerman's lawyers want to know why prosecutors waited until now, until october, to give them the photograph. earlier, the state had turned over a much grainier black and white version of that image. take a look at them side by side. you can see how much clearer the digital version is, but will it help zimmerman's defense? in a statement today, a lawyer for the martin family said quote, this isn't a new photograph. this is a color photograph we have already seen. there would be no interaction between trayvon martin and george zimmerman had zimmerman not gotten out of his car. like the

>> my son left sanford, florida in a body bag, while george zimmerman went home to go to sleep in his own bed. >> aaccused gunman george zimmerman claims self-defense in a case that sparked international outrage and ignited racial tensions. trial is set for june. number two. >> we need rescue inside the auditorium. we have multiple victims. i've gone seven down in theater 9. >> july 20th just past midnight terror inside theater 9. >> aurora, colorado 9 miles east of denver where there's a mass shooting at a movie theater. >> they same james holmes donned protective gear, through tear gas and fired. in the end 12 killed, 58 others wounded. holmes faces 152 charges. many victims continue to recover while others will never recover the loss they suffered that night. and number one -- >> unimaginable horror grips the

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he has a righteous beef george zimmerman does. i also think the state in withholding the bloody nose shot of zimmerman until they were really frauded and pushed by the defense is unconscionable, bore derg on capitol hill violation by the prosecutor. i think george zimmerman is going to walk as a result. >> laura: i agree. that photo that was finally released is devastating. thanks so much. >> okay, laura. >> laura: plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. high times in washington state where smoking pot is now legal. but one problem is still against the law of the land. so what will the feds do? we're going to have a report. and the supreme court decides to take up two gay marriage cases so how will those come down? we hope you stay tuned for all those reports. >> laura: in the first unresolved problem segment tonight, pot smokers in state having one long party. now that it's perfectly legal to light up for fun. >> 3, 2, 1. [cheers] >> i have never seen so many happy people in such a wide vicinity in seattle. >> th

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george zimmerman, the man accused of killing a florida teenager martin is suing abc news coming the network tried to portray him as a racist in order to boost ratings. zimmerman took issue with other network edited his 911 call on the night of the shooting in february. this is what the network aired. >> this guy looks like he is up to no good. he looks black. lou: wow. that's remarkable editing because this is wht he actually said to the 911 operator. >> this guy looks like he is up to no good are on drugs or something. it's raining. walking around looking about. >> okay. white, black or hispanic? >> looks like. lou: it turns out to left quite a bit out of that dialogue, a they? the lawsuit seeks an undisclosed amount of damages. nbc denies any wrongdoing. they have not apologized. critics are slamming president obama and his inauguration committee for announcing they

sanford, florida, george zimmerman is back in court for another hearing in the trayvon martin case. zimmerman's attorneys want a list of people who can allegedly i.d. zimmerman and martin on the 911 call from that night. zimmerman also wants off electronic monitoring and would like more travel freedoms. he maintains he killed trayvon martin in self-defense. >>> new details on the health of former south african president nelson mandela. four days after checking into a hospital the government says the 94-year-old is battling a lung infection. the civil rights icon has not appeared in public in more than two years. >>> here is a story to stir some taxpayer outrage, a government watchdog says mortgage giants fannie mae and freddie mac doled out huge paychecks despite being propped out with your tax money. the payout $92 million for the top 90 employees and that does not include the ceos.

this case that may support george zimmerman's story. of we're going to show you what it is, and you can decide what you think about it. we'll be right back. >> i immediately went to grab my phone to this time call 911 instead of the nonemergency, and when i reached into my pants pocket -- because that's where i keep it out of habit -- can it wasn't there, and i was shocked. i looked up, and he punched me and broke my nose. >> one shot? >> yes, sir. ally bank. why they have a raise your rate cd. tonight our guest, thomas sargent. nobel laureate in economics, and one of the most cited economists in the world. professor sargent, can you tell me what cd rates will be in two years? no. if he can't, no one can. that's why ally has a raise your rate cd. ally bank. your money needs an ally.

specular that george george zimmerman has still with himself i mean there's just so many conspiracies and theories coming from all sides it's just really interesting but of course they really did bring racism into the dialogue again which i think a lot of people you know when you have a case like this so divisive and not send very true and i think you know when talking to people trying to figure out you know the reasoning behind the voting i'm a lot of people said the same thing said that he essentially it's a symbol it's a symbol of of race in the country and an opening of dialogue i mean when the president of states comes out and says hey my son could look like trayvon self it really does hit home and it strikes a chord in many many you know households across the country so when people took that into account well i believe they took that into account and as much yeah and also i mean the stand your ground laws which was really interesting with the whole case that i didn't realize how much influence the alec had on shaping these laws and and also the koch brothers and just kind of thi

zimmerman says he shot the teenager in self-defense. georgeing the case for us. so why is this picture coming out now? >> well, carol, look, it's a new image but not really new wp we have seen this image before. it was released in the first round of discovery as a black and white i am imagine, so not nearly as impressive. i think we even have a side by side where you can look at the difference here. you see george zimmerman here black and white, but when you look at that high resolution digital image, you can tell this is -- it's a powerful image. you can tell exactly how badly he was injured. you can tell that there was a fight. now, the thing that we're looking at here, we know his attorney pushed for that image initially. he wanted to get this high resolution digital image. first he got the black and white. then he got a color printout, but that's no comparison to what we're seeing here, and that's why the attorney says it's important to get it out. >> so there's been a lot of reaction to this photo. so give us some of the highlights. >> su

there are new developments in a legal challenge for george zimmerman as he takes on nbc universal. zimmerman is charged in the killing of the teenager trayvon martin earlier this year. now he's suing the tv met work for airing an edited version of a 911 call from that night, an edit that zimmerman's attorney claims deceptively made zimmerman appear to be a quote, racist predatory villain. a lot of people saw this suit coming, trace. >> reporter: when this first broke and we got a copy of the call that george zimmerman made to police dispatch it was four minutes long. you had to make it clear that this was a much bigger and broader conversation. the media often accused of taking things out of context, they seldom do but in this case it clearly was. nba acknowledged at the time firing three employees and apologizing. listen now to the clip that nbc ran at least three different times. play it. >> this guy looks like he's up to no good. he looks black. >> reporter: he looks black. now listen if you will to what george zimmerman actually said in context. >> this guy looks like he's up to

george zimmerman approached him from what we know about that.ffle between the two an was concerned that he was going to get hurt and he did get hurt. how before the killing happened and trayvon martin lost his life that night. we have to go back to some of the evidence here, and it is difficult, eric, because these two people were the only ones there and witnessed it and one of them is now gone. what do you make of this evidence? >> martha, a picture is worth a thousand words n. this case this picture is worth reasonable doubt. it is worth everything. it is a silent weurbgts i a cedars-sinai medical center length witness. it captured what happened. this isn't like the movie like my cousin vinnie where they are surprised to get reciprocal discovery. it is the job of the district attorney's office to turn over every picture. this photo shows what can be reasonable doubt, shows marks, shows bruises, shows cuts, shows reasonable doubt which is everything in a criminal case. martha: is there something to be made of that, marla, that this photo was re

that's george zimmerman. why do you think this story got so much attention? d, let's start with you. >> well, they labeled zimmerman from the beginning a white hispanic, so it kind of sets it up right there for you, marty. you know, this was a racially charged news story that they made it racially charged. i don't think it was. i don't think per se zimmerman is a racist. i think that it's an unfortunate set of circumstances. it's a tragedy the young man is killed. but i will tell you this, marty, this is a classic self-defense case. this is not a stand-your-ground case because zimmerman was actually chasing trayvon martin by his own words, so the question is during the course of the altercation and the beating that zimmerman was taking and the evidence clearly shows that, he shot to prevent the beating to continue. >> wait a minute here. the attorney that represents trayvon martin has come forward and said, look, had george zimmerman just stayed in his car after he called the police, none of this would have happened. >> that's right. >> avery, do you agree wit

pro trayvon or pro george zimmerman. >> i want to hear them when zimmerman is acquitted because thiss the weakest case. >> you just took sides. >> i'm telling you, this is the weakest case i've ever seen. >> on the other hand, i don't think al sharpton did a good thing because he tried to be both, an activist but i do think it is useful to have voices like sharpton who speak for people who don't have a voice. and young black men in this country often do not have a voice in a situation like this. it was useful to have al sharpton speak for him. >> one other thing we're not talking about is how long it took for the story to become a story. do you remember they don't have somebody in the bureau in that town covering the town and it took days. >> it was seen as just another murder. >> right. >> until it became, until the racial aspect even though -- >> the story in jacksonville just a few weeks ago where a man shot kids, nothing. >> fred francis, thanks for taking this look back at the media in 2012. >>> the campaign stories during the presidential campaign. two political reporters in ju

george zimmerman is suing nbc alleging that the network defamed him when it edited the recording of hispolice about the death of trayvon martin. they excuse the network of making zimmerman sound like a racist. here is the edited version. >> gregg: sounds like he is volunteering the issue of race here. listen to the unedited real conversation. >> gregg: all right, david let me start with you. let's put up on the screen, nbc's statement about the lawsuit. what they are essentially saying is, it was an honest mistake. it wasn't intentional just kind of a dumb error made by somebody trying to shorten up a soundbite but it ended up being wrong and inflammatory and racism. can zimmerman win? >> i don't think he can win in this case. there is a lot of obstacles. number one you have to prove the statement is false. the statement is not false, they take two different parts and leave out the middle but is the statement false. that needs to be litigated. i'm not so sure zimmerman can prove that. >> gregg: distinction without a difference. >> and this is public case and public figure, they have to

. >>> 5:14 in florida, they have released a photo of george zimmerman, showing george zimmerman withwollen nose and blood did i face. they responded and said it adds nothing new to the case. the volunteer watch man is charged with second-degree murder and his trial is due to begin next june. >>> contra costa police officer was taken to the hospital after an attack. it happened at the college yesterday morning. he was hit in the face with a small metal object. she was taken to the hospital but police believe the incident was a targeted attack but they have no suspects. >>> and samsung is asking the court to throw out a 1 billion- dollar verdict against it. they will ask the court to increase what sum sung should pay. they have to pay another half a billion dollars and they need to be permanently banned from selling more than 2 dozen devices and apple is infringing on its patent. >>> coming up, 5:24, the qualities, some say they want to see in the next police chief. >>> meantime a plan to give low income teens free muni passes may be approved today. they may approve a $1.6 million plan

george zimmerman shot a teenager.him in the school he might have shot one of the kids. >> louie gommert. he was a judge deciding the fate of his fellow-- >> it's almost better that he's in congress. >> cenk: he's so profoundly ignorant. we got to go. when we come back we'll have one more hypocrisy for you from the right wing. >> when you're not arming people you're creating a health hazard. a gun is a vitamin of safety. you know who's coming on to me now? you know the kind of guys who do like verse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. >> she gets the comedians laughing... >> that's hilarious! >> ...and the thinkers thinking. >> okay, so there's wiggle-room in the ten commandments is what you're telling me. >> you would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me. >> absolutely! >> and so would mitt romeny. >> she's joy behar. >> and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? >> only on current tv. >> cenk: rupert murdoch on fox news. he's very

. >> sean: george zimmerman filed a lawsuit.y ede edited the operator asg is he black, white, hispanic. good for george zimmerman. that was purposely deceptive on their part. this is now -- this is now becoming an -- i don't know what the reason is, but this is now their m.o., and i think it's harmful to the dialogue. it's certainly hurting their news brand. if i'm tom brokaw, if i'm matt lauer or brian williams, i'd be embarrassed by what my news organization is doing regularly now. >> you know, what's interesting to me is that i think this whole conversation about race over the last four years since the president's been in office. i mean, there has been an undertone where we haven't used racial language specifically, but there's been a racial con connotation. >> this is where i disagree. >> he's one of the most educated men ever, and we're still questioning whether he's born in the country. >> here's the thing. we actually haven't had a conversation about race, and that's where i disagree with you. because a conversation about

george zimmerman shot a teenager.l, he might have shot one of the kids. >> louie gommert. he was a judge deciding the fate of his fellow-- >> it's almost better that he's in congress. >> cenk: he's so profoundly ignorant. we got to go. when we come back we'll have one more hypocrisy for you from the right wing. >> when you're not arming people you're creating a health hazard. a gun is a vitamin of safety. exciting issue. from financial regulation, fraud on wall street. things everyday exploding around the world that leave no shortage for exciting conversations. at the end of the show, you know what has happened, why its happened and more importantly, what's going to happen tomorrow. ññm0m01367

lawyers for george zimmerman, releasing this photo. it shows the accused shooter with a bloody nose taken on the night of the deadly shooting. zimmerman as you might recall faces second-degree murder charges in the death of this man, 17-year-old trayvon martin. zimmerman claims he shot the teen in self-defense during a violent struggle and martin inflicted the bloody nose. does this change the arc of this case? let's talk about it with lose we will, fox news analyst and crystal panich a criminal defense attorney. the shooting happened and that photo was taken february 26th, 2012. >> right. jon: apparently the prosecution didn't release the color version of the photo until october 29th. doesn't that eight-month delay hurt the prosecution, the people who are trying to put george zimmerman in jail here? >> well it does hurt the prosecution but it is not fatal to the prosecution. the prosecutors should have turned over the color version from the very beginning. as a prosecutor you turn over everything. i have a open file system. everything

lou: ii this was shown i my opinio i want you lee we would not have a discussion about george zimmermangist a black and white a binning, defense had to ask. the same picture but now in color, defense asked again and again. to be fair torosecution,. lou: i know how fair you lawyers like to be. >> that iss. they may not have had theolor in their own file. lou: are we going through this? >> just giving you both sides. lou: do you think that any grand jury would have broughthis -- if they had seen that. no. this -- >> they saw the black andhite to beair, they jusdidn't see the cor. >> i don't think that black and white photo and cor photo elicit the same span, you look at this -- response, you look at this photo you immediately think self-defense. lou: we have color otherwise inkhat a travesty of justi all those grand juries in the day of black and white photos. >> it is probable cause for a grand jy. lou: and do you thnk that he should be prosecuted? >> you know, my sense is given that picture, i'm a lot less supporve of pro psecution but. >> it would have changed a lot of people's mines,

is, florida trying to frame george zimmerman in the flormonç may have a defamation case against nbc casetook a major hit showing george zimmerman's badly beaten case which indicates his claim of self-defense may not be so farfetched after all. joey jackson on the left. former prosecutor lis wiehl on the right. that picture looks self-defensish to me. it's horrible that he this didn't turn it over. the only thing can i say in the prosecution's defense is maybe they did not have the color photo. >> is this the old days when it took you six months to develop the film. >> i know. the other thing though everybody is calling it a new photo. it's not a new photo. it's the same photo. it's just what they had first in color. and as we know in color is going to be much greater. >> two issues. number one, doesn't it make the self-defense argue. resonate? >> yes. of course it does. >> number two, doesn't it look as if the prosecution attempted to withhold critical exculpatory evidence? >> yes it does. >> joey? >> as for the picture, i think the prosecutor can make the following argument. so what? ok

stay with us. ♪ ♪ lou: back with the a-team, and i want to turn, if i may, to george zimmerman suinging, they did, in my opinion, outrageous, clearly, intentional. what do you think the chances of are prevailing? >> oh, damn good because nbc, says, oh, oh, the videographer, audio, video edit, it's, you know, he just snipped it in the wrong place. they'll blame the engineer, the video and the audio editor opposed to blaming their politics over it. lou: you agree? >> i see settlements, big time settlements, and i would settle if i were nbc. lou: what do you think? did we need a deep peek into the interworkings of nbc news? >> well, you know, possibly. yoin if he could win or lose, but it will not happen again at nbc or anywhere else after this. lou: iight want to get on the other side of that bet. there's seriously committed ideological operators in a few places that might just, you know, humorous is a hard thing to constin. the supreme court taking up the cases the defense of mairmings act, proposition eight, and there's a supreme court decision on gay marriage. >> let's go for it mos

prosecutors, arguing that the only reason zimmerman was charged was social and political pressure. >> wow, there is a lot of information out here that seems to suggest that georgeppropriately that night and there seems to be not very much to suggest that he threatened, ran off, corner erred, profiled racially, anything like that. >> reporter: ruling for the defense the judge is allowing zimmerman's team to get the additional files. the state prosecutors are handing over the original recording of a woman known as witness 8. she is the teen aged girlfriend of trayvon martin who claims she was talking with him on a cellphone the night of the shooting in february when awful this went down and claims trayvon was telling her that some guy is following her and she may have actually heard the first words spoken between the two of them. she is considered a star witness for the state. jenna: jenna: more on this story as we get it, phil, thank you very much. bill: right now to the growing concern over sports concussions and head injuries. the nfl could see its liability costs, its insurance premiums rise as it faces lawsuits brought by thousands of former players, but the

. >> my son left sanford, florida, in a body bag, while george zimmerman went home to go to sleep inis own bed. >> accused gunman george zimmerman claimed self defense in a case that sparked international outrage and ignited racial tensions. trial is set for june. >> number two -- >> we need rescue inside the auditorium. multiple victims. >> seven down in theater nine. seven down! >> july 20th, just past midnight, terror inside theater number nine. >> aurora, colorado, nine miles east of denver, where there has been a mass shooting at a movie theater. >> prosecutors say james holmes donned protective gear, threw tear gas, and began firing. in the end, 12 people killed, 58 others wounded. holmes faces 152 charges. many victims continue to recover while others will never recover the loss they suffered that night. >> and number one -- >> unimaginable horror grips the nation. one of the deadliest school shootings in u.s. history. >> tragedy at sandy hook elementary. >> this is unspeakable, what happened in this town. >> innocent children shot dead in their classrooms. the victims -- 16 6

own bed. >> accused gunman george zimmerman claims self-defense in a case that sparked internationalrage and ignited racial tensions. the trial is set for june. number two -- >> we need rescue inside the auditorium. multiple victims. >> seven down! >> july 20th, just past midnight, terror inside theater nine. >> nine miles east of denver where there was a mass shooting at a movie theater. >> in the end, 12 people killed, 58 others wounded. holmes faces 152 charges. many victims continue to recover, while others will never recover the loss they suffered that night. and number one -- >> unimaginable horror grips the nation in one of the deadliest school shootings in u.s. history. >> tragedy at sandy hook elementary. >> this is unspeakable what happened in this town. >> innocent children shot dead in their classrooms. the victims, . >> emilie's laughter was infectious and all those who had the pleasure to meet her would agree this world is a better place because she has been in it. >> in newtown, connecticut, an outpouring of compassion while the nation faced hard questions about mental

own bed. >> aaccused gunman george zimmerman claims self-defense in a case that sparked internationalted racial tensions. trial is set for june. number two. >> we need rescue inside the auditorium. we have multiple victims. i've gone seven down in theater 9. >> july 20th just past midnight terror inside theater 9. >> aurora, colorado 9 miles east of denver where there's a mass shooting at a movie theater. >> they same james holmes donned protective gear, through tear gas and fired. in the end 12 killed, 58 others wounded. holmes faces 152 charges. many victims continue to recover while others will never recover the loss they suffered that night. and number one -- >> unimaginable horror grips the nation is one of the deadliest school shootings in u.s. history. >> tragedy at sandy hook elementary. >> this is unspeakable what happened in this town. >> innocent children shot dead in their classrooms. the victims? 16 6-year-olds, 4 7-year-olds along with six adults. >> emilie's laughter was infectious and all that met her would aagree the world is a better place because she's been in it. >

there's a picture, new in-color picture of second-degree murder suspect george zimmerman, released by it was reportedly taken by a police officer the night that zimmerman shot and killed trayvon martin. the picture itself is not new. the fact that it's a high resolution color photo is. we've seen black and white versions. to what degree does this help george zimmerman's case? does it change the case? >> obviously we're not in the legal process, so we don't know all the details. but i don't think it really tells you that much. it doesn't tell you at what point any injuries were sustained and what was going on when they were. clearly there was an altercation, which we always knew that. >> i'm a nonpracticing lawyer. >> you always do the denials first. i just want to say, this is not my client. then you launch into -- but if you see a guy's bloody face -- >> it's absolutely right there's some altercation. we know that. the fact that he has a bloody lip doesn't justify killing somebody. >> this does prove there was an altercation t might shed light or give evidence to some story of who wa