joining me, senior analyst jeffrey toobin and gloria. welcome to you. what a stellar panel it is tonight. i must say. let me start with you, gloria, as you have the great dishonor of being next to me. what do you make of this? it's great for the defense, could also be great for the prosecution. what do you think? >> well, that's the jury that was chosen, and i do think that that's where the decision is going to be made. of usually, it's all in jury selection. i think other things will be important than gender. i think for example attitudes about law and order. usually if the prosecution wants more law and order oriented juror but here i think the defense wants that. in audition, in terms of the selection of the jury, i think the prosecution probably wanted more african americans, rather than mainly a white jury, but they have the jury that they have. so i think that these issues are all going to be on the table, and gun issues are going to be on the table, and that's how the case is going to be decided. >> jeffrey toobin, fascinating break down of the j

jeffrey toobin. george zimmerman, this is the witness that his team was afraid of the most. she is the one who was talking on the phone with trayvon martin right before the confrontation when he was killed? >> no doubt about it. she is the last person to speak to trayvon martin alive. it is through her that they are trying most of all to get the story that george zimmerman was the aggressor in the confrontation between the two. she is testifies about that conversation. that's the core of her testimony, but certainly there's a lot of other thing she's testifying about, how she happened to come to testify and the various versions of the story she's told over the months, some of which she now analogies was false. >> there were other witnesses. the trial started on monday. there was a day of witness yesterday. they were ear witnesses, people who had heard the confrontation and called the police, but nobody who had seen the scuffle directly. some of them said there was a loud, angry voice verse what sounded like a boy's voice. did that do anything in the case? we don't necessaril

let me start with you, jeffrey toobin. your reaction to what happened. in particular this key witness. it's hard to work out after that performance whether she was brilliant for the prosecution or potentially not to brilliant. what do you think? >> she was an unusually difficult witness to evaluate because she was like a surly kid up there. she answered in half sentences. it was very hard to hear or understand a lot of what she said. she admitted that she had lied under oath in the past. she very much seemed sympathetic to the martin family and to the prosecution. so all of that could, on the one hand make her seem like a terrible witness. but on the other hand like she just seemed like a kid who was kelg the truth in certain respects, at least the crucial aspects of her testimony which is that trayvon was on the phone saying this guy is following me and making me uncomfortable. that's the key part of her testimony and that seemed believable to me any way. >> well let's take a look at that particular clip of what she said about the sequence of events. le

five rules -- also joining us, cnn's legal genius, jeffrey toobin.et's start with you, ari, you've been in the white house through many a crisis. i find this debate fascinating, i think it's perfectly permissible to see both sides of the argument. to find yourself nodding away as i have done the last few days at one both sides are saying. >> i don't find myself agreeing with the obama administration very often, but i'm with the obama administration on this one. how the president came out and continued the push on the policy. i think it's important to keep us safe, it is legal. it's been authorized by all three branches of the government. you really have found a broad center in the united states, is doing what's necessary to keep us safe. >> jeffrey toobin, is anything that's happened here illegal? >> certainly not, as far as we can tell. i mean, again -- >> if it's perfectly legal, why all the fuss? >> that's so -- that's only the beginning of the debate. there are lots of things that are legal, that people object to, there are laws that we think are

they're going to want the opinion polls to move a little bit more. >> rose: jeffrey toobin joins us. jeffrey, tell me your reaction to these decisions. were you surprised in any way? >> well, given my poor record of predictions, i think i've agreed to be permanently surprised brie anything the supreme court does. but certainly i was surprised at the broad language in justice kennedy's opinion. the implication of his decision-- he doesn't say this-- but the strong implication of his decision is any government rule that puts gay people in one category and straight people in another is unconstitutional. and that's a very broad, frank, "new idea under the constitution, and that certainly was surprising and leads to all sorts of questions about the future of same-sex marriage, particularly in the 38 states that don't have it. >> rose: so having heard that decision first and kennedy's opinion first, did you expect the decision in "hollingsworth" would go as it did? >> well, certainly there was a lot of speculation there there was going to be a kind of punt on that decision using standing as

jeffrey toobin? >> i think it's a terrible thought and idea and fortunately both attorney general holder and president obama said we don't want to penalize journalists for doing their job. the first ameantment -- >> already trying to do that -- >> after there was a big reaction. eric holder has not prosecuted any journalist -- >> he was trying quite hard to get to first base, wasn't he? >> he was trying to get information from journalist to prosecute the people -- >> but tell me this, jeffrey, why shouldn't -- there is a big scandal in britain involving journalists and phone hacking and breaking the law. what happened here and the guardian exposed it, what has happened here is somebody has willfully and self-confessingly broke the law. he's admitted that and the guardian has been putting that information out there. why shouldn't they also face the same potential charges as he has? >> because the first amendment specifically refers to the freedom of the press. and it says the press is an interest that

to explain this, let's bring in legal analyst jeffrey toobin.'s listen to what zimmerman's brother said today. >> i can tell you as a family that we're very confident and that the state will not be able to meet its burden. not only do they have to prove this was a murder, as they allege, they have to prove simultaneously that it could not have been self-defense. so we're confident the state won't meet its burden and that kind of backs into our confidence in the legal team. >> jeff, explain this to me. what are some key pieces of evidence that will make it difficult for the jury to convict zimmerman? >> well, the best evidence that zimmerman has are his on injuries. he is going to claim that this was a confrontation, that trayvon martin assaulted him and he was conducting an act of self-defense. he had bruises on his head, bruises on his nose. that is going to be the core of his defense, is that this was a violent confrontation, i wasn't looking for trouble and most importantly there is, alas, only one witness surviving to this contest because tr

back with our panel, sunny hostin, mark geragos, jeffrey toobin, marcia clark. how did this play a part? >> it is interesting to me in the courtroom, didn't seem to play a part in opening statements. race was not mentioned once. we did hear the word profile, which many would say is code for racial profiling, but when john guy, the prosecutor, discussed this case, he did not mention race, he only mentioned profiling in the sense of he profiled trayvon martin as someone who was about to commit a crime in the neighborhood. i thought it was fascinating. i think we can all agree race is sort of the elephant in the room, that it appears no one is going to talk about. >> that was because the judge, marsha, was saying you can't use the term racial profiling, you can use the word profiling, correct? >> exactly, anderson. everybody knows when you say profiling, what comes before it. it is the silent k in know. that's what it is. you can pretend it is not there, don't have to say the word or say the word race, we're all going to know what it is about. when he says profilin

joined by our own legal team, distinguished panel, sonny hostin, jeffrey toobin, on the defense side, criminal defense attorney mark geragos, a look at how the criminal justice system worked and sometimes doesn't. marcia clark, deputy district attorney and author, her latest thriller, killer ambition. sonny, you were in the courtroom, the knock knock joke, how damaging do you think it was. a defense attney normally doesn't apologize to the jury, especially on the first day. >> you know, i looked at the jury because i was so surprised at this joke. they seemed offended to me and it was painful for me to listen to. not only as someone covering the trial but as someone who has tried cases and given opening statements, some of them go better than others, but this was just so very painful. i will tell you, it wasn't just the delivery of the knock knock joke which didn't make sense, it was a rambling presentation. he seemed to break all the rules of opening statement, it wasn't schematic, it was rambling. it didn't make sense to me. >> mark, you think it is much ado about nothing. what do y

i'm joined now by jeffrey toobin who literally wrote the books on the supreme court. speak. unofficially, what does it all mean what happened today with affirmative action? >> what it means is affirmative action is hanging by a thread when it comes to university admissions in this country. what justice anthony kennedy's opinion said is if a university wants to use race in admissions, it has to articulate why that's the only way that diversity can be achieved and we're going to look very, very carefully at the university's reasoning and it may not be good enough. and you, university of texas, go back and explain again why you think you need this program. it's not outlawing affirmative action, but it certainly seems like the court at least these nine justices are heading in that direction. but they haven't gotten there yet. >> stand by if you would for a moment. i want to bring in naacp president and ceo. you heard jeffrey toobin describe this as affirmative action managing on by a thread. is that your read of it and if so, is this a grave concern to you? >> we read thi

and on the phone, jeffrey toobin. how did someone like this have access to classified information?> well, because he's a technician, don, he has to be one of the people that makes sure that the connections work, that one computer can talk to the other computer, and information can be passed. you know, there's been so much criticism about stove piping. in order to prevent stove piping you have to have the machines talk to each other across agency lines and company lines. in this case, corporations feeding information to the united states. so that takes a small army of technicians, like him, to make sure that those systems continue to operate and move the data. >> so was the fbi aware that he had access to this classified information? i mean, doesn't the fbi keep track of all people who have access to our classified information? >> no, there's 850,000-plus people in this country with top secret security clearance, according to the "washington post." the fbi is not in the position to track every one of those people. along with the other 750,000 on the terrorist list. so the assumption

jeffrey toobin.hink we will have more conversations. >>> also anderson coop serving another conversation about this. his special guest is julian assange, founder of wikileaks and knows a thing or two, knows about leaking and being stuck somewhere where you don't want to be to avoid prosecution. >>> a gunman armed and as police put it ready to do battle. left a deadly path through santa monica last week. one woman tried, tried, to stop him. and luckily she lived to tell her story. she will tell us next. ♪ norfolk southern what's your function? ♪ ♪ hooking up the country helping business run ♪ ♪ build! we're investing big to keep our country in the lead. ♪ load! we keep moving to deliver what you need. and that means growth, lots of cargo going all around the globe. cars and parts, fuel and steel, peas and rice, hey that's nice! ♪ norfolk southern what's your function? ♪ ♪ helping this big country move ahead as one ♪ ♪ norfolk southern how's that function? ♪ tdd# 1-800-345-2550 hours can go by before i

so, jeffrey toobin, thank you. work out there, very accurate and well-assessed. >>> other news we've been following, the breaking story about the nfl's aaron hernandez, currently under arrest, cuffed, taken out of his house by plains clothes, our legal experts look at his case and what the young man could be facing other than being fired from his football team. [ stewart ] we've never cooked anything like this before. [ male announcer ] introducing red lobster's seaside mix & match. combine any two from a wide variety of seven exciting choices on one plate! all for just $12.99, but only for a limited time. i'm stewart harrington, and i sea food differently. but only for a limited time. that's a good thing, but it doesn't cover everything. only about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. so consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement plans, they pick up some of what medicare doesn't pay. and save y

. >> for more what's ahead for edward snowden, let's bring in senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and congressman king, chairman of the house committee. congressman king, could he have wiretapped the president if he wanted to? this guy claims to have extensive wiretapping access all the way to the top of the food chain. he said, if he wanted to, he could wiretap the president. is that true? >> no. and so much he said is untrue. this guy is dangerous to the country. he had, i think, real questions as to why he left the cia. the fact he's in china right now, or hong kong, which is a substation of china. he knows who our intelligence assets, who our intelligence agents are around the world, and the fact he has allowed our enemy to know our sources and methods is extremely dangerous. i think he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. i consider him to be a defector. >> you consider him a defector. you were the first to call for prosecution after the guardian revealed him as the nsa leak. what prosecution would you like to see? >> i think prosecution should be to the fullest

. >> let's go live to sunny hostin who is in sanford and jeffrey toobin. do you think she may gotten something of a talking to about her demeanor in court yesterday? >> yes, sir. i'm not sure. when you're on the witness stand, certainly you're not supposed to be coached. i think she came across more often than not just very raw, very authentic, not coached. there was a difference between her demeanor yesterday and today. she attributed it to having slept, perhaps she more comfortable on the witness stand. i've had witnesses that get on that are very, very nervous, are sometimes a bit combative and then as the testimony goes on, they get a little bit more comfortable. we know that she was a reluctant witness. she didn't want to come forward from the very beginning, and perhaps we were seeing a little bit of that. i will say when you speak to jurors, those reluctant witnesses are the ones they tend to believe a bit more, they're not trying to write a book, they're not trying to be flamboya flamboyant. they're just being authentic. >> there were some key mome

glenn greenwald obtained some of the documents and joins me by the phone and jeffrey toobin. glenn, i know you think he did patriotism of revealing those papers. what do you make of this? >> it's the absolutely atrocious record of the treatment of whistle blowers and leakers. the espionage exact is designed to criminal wise descent. on the a total of three leaker haves been prosecuted under that statute in the pre-obama era. we now have seven, double the number, of previous presidents combined. this is why james good all who is the general counsel during the fights with the nixon administration over the pentagon papers says obama is worse than nixon, john mayer the great journalist for the new yorkers said these prosecutions have brought investigative journal list tom a standstill in the united states and it's a true threat to press freedom, and i think it's one thing to charge snowden with crimes but to charge him with espionage when somebody works for a foreign government or sells secrets, given what he did is the kind of extreme excess that the obama administration is guil

busy night for cnn legal analyst jeffrey toobin he joins me once again.hat do you think of what hasan is saying in court, that his defense is that he was killing troops at ft. hood as a defense to protect the taliban? >> no, i don't think this is a legal defense. this is really i think a form of suicide by judge. he is trying to become a martyr, trying to be executed for this crime as the culmination of this insane, horrible series of acts. but i don't think this has any connection to what we would think of as a legal or factual defense. >> so, is it even appropriate for the judge to let him do this or are the judge's hands tied? >> you know, this is a really tough call. especially because if he's the lawyer, if hasan is the lawyer, he will be cross-examining victims, people that he shot, which is a really appalling prospect. but as i understand the law, if he can prove that he's sane, and he has to the judge's satisfaction, the judge more or less has to let him do this with standby counsel sitting by his side. so it's an awful scenario, especially for th

glenn greenwald obtained some of the documents and joins me by the phone and jeffrey toobin.lenn, i know you think he did patriotism of revealing those papers. what do you make of this? >> it's the absolutely atrocious record of the treatment of whistle blowers and leakers. the espionage act is designed to criminalize descent. on the a total of three leaker haves been prosecuted under that statute in the pre-obama era. we now have seven, double the number, of previous presidents combined. this is why james goodall who is the general counsel during the fights with the nixon administration over the pentagon papers says obama is worse than nixon, john mayer the great journalist for the new yorkers said these prosecutions have brought investigative journal list tom a standstill in the united states and it's a true threat to press freedom, and i think it's one thing to charge snowden with crimes but to charge him with espionage when somebody works for a foreign government or sells secrets, given what he did is the kind of extreme excess that the obama administration is guilty of f

jeffrey toobin, we may have lost jeffrey toobin.ictment against ariel castro in cleveland, including one charge, one count of aggravated murder for purposely and with prior calculation and design causing the unlawful termination of another's pregnancy. we'll continue to watch this story for our viewers. >>> also happening now, breaking news. deadly shootings at multiple locations in southern california. we're standing by for police to reveal new information. santa monica college is in lockdown right now, after a shot rang out in the school library. we're following all the angles to this developing story. >>> i'm wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. the world. this is t"the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> deadly shootings at a college campus, at a home and gunshots also fired on a bus. we're standing by for two news conferences, all this happening while president obama himself was in santa monica for a political fund-raiser, just a ten-minute

jeffrey toobin, appreciate your insight on this. again, edward snowden now admitting and -- that he is the person who helped reveal this nsa information leaked to "the guardian" newspaper and now in hong kong. now to california where another victim has died after that horrible shooting ram page in santa monica. 26-year-old marcella franco was driving to xut with her father to buy textbooks. officials say a gunman shot both of them in their suv. her father died on friday. she passed away today. kyung lah is live in santa monica with the latest as this tragic investigation still grows. >> reporter: the investigation is continuing. the investigation shifting now to one of the biggest questions here, fred rekwa -- how a young and disturb man got his hands on such an enormous arsenal. the armed gunman dead at the end of his rampage. the 23-year-old had one intent. >> he was armed and ready for battle. >> reporter: police displayed his jaw-dropping arsenal. hundreds of rounds loaded into two dozen magazine clips. an addition and 1,300 rou

jeffrey toobin in new york. dr. sanjay gupta here in atlanta. for more, go to cnn.com and coming up, the fall out over the secret government surveillance of phone and internet traffic now creating pretty unusual alliances. we're talking about the political impact up next and rob lowe moving back to the west wing. only this time he is playing john f. kennedy. resemblance uncanny. a sneak peek ahead. >>> a hispanic boy slammed for wearing a mariachi outfit and you will hear what he is saying and you can hear him sing, too. >> i think the people were talking bad was because of what i was wearing. it is not my fault. it is what i love. [ male announcer ] this is betsy. her long day of pick ups and drop offs begins with arthritis pain... and a choice. take up to 6 tylenol in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. all aboard. ♪ all aboard. ♪ chances are, you're not made of money, so don't overpay for boat insurance. geico, see how much you could save. >>> just a short time allege we learned president obama and vice president biden will meet with ne

jeffrey toobin, they cite the census data, yesterday they sent affirmative action back down too.vil rights? >> i think they're very different. i do think they punted on affirmative action case. they didn't want to deal with it. they're leaving the status quo, more or less intact for the short term. voting rights act is very different. that is a very big deal. the voting rights act changed america like almost no lawen history. and one of the key parts of it was. they said, look this part of the country, essentially, the south can not be trusted to enforce the law. so we are, we are going to make you -- come to washington when you want to do anything, any sort of change, and we are going to have to achuf pprove it preclearance. it is now over the they say they kicked it back to congress. the house will never pass the voting rights act again. this is over. >> when they say the country has changed. some things have not. some have. it looks like voter turnout -- >> hovering over the whole case is an african-american president of the united states. something that was so unthinkable in

i was to bring in our cnn legal analyst, jeffrey toobin, from washington, d.c.s there any other way to see this other than that the supreme court punted today? they're asked to make a decision and say, hey, state court, back to you. >> it's somewhat of a punt but not entirely. there was a chance in this case where the supreme court could have said race is not allowed to be a factor in admissions, period. the fact they didn't say that. the fact that they said race can be a factor is a real victory nature the civil rights community. the problem, the punt comes in in they don't really spell out how much of a factor race can be and what admissions officers are supposed to do when they're sitting there with applications. so yes, it is -- it is somewhat of a punt, but they did answer at least part of the question. >> what about the issue that i raised with reverend jackson? that you already have a higher percent of degree granting institutions -- african-american enrollment than you do of african-americans in the regular population, and the same with women? if you loo

jeffrey toobin, a grandiose narcissist that deserves to be in prison. one complained about his naivete. roger simon called him a slacker that came in from the cold. >> the establishment including the mainstream media aren't always wrong. it's possible this guy did disclose most important national security assets we have in terms of surveillance around the world. it's one thing you shouldn't spy on americans. that is good argument but put the whole world on notice and spying on them and sources and methods. >> jon: next on news watch, has the media hurt chances for a fair trial for george zimmerman? >> i don't like they rushed to judgment the way they. >> have media spotlight back on george zimmerman, coverage heats up as jury selection for his trial ramps up. has the accused already been convicted in the press? answers next on news watch. ♪ [ female announcer ] he could be the one. soulmate. husband. loving father to your children. but first you've got to get him to say, "hello." new crest 3d white arctic fresh toothpaste. use it with these 3d white pro

i want to bring in jeffrey toobin, our senior analyst. people were perplexed by this in so many ways if they heard it in sort of common parlance. how on earth could you pat tent a piece of me however molecularly small? on the other hand, when they hear the argument that this company invested years and money finding a beige needle in 50 haystacks and that achieving that takes that kind of work and if you can't be protected, you will never get this kind of research and this kind of benefit to people like us who need it. >> you isolated the dilemma in this case. they decided that a piece of dna was essentially like an elbow. you can't tell other companies i own elbows. i know -- if you want to do research on elbow, you have to pay me first. so that's what they said about this dna. even though it did cost a lot of money and even though there was a lot of effort and money and time expended in isolating this piece of our genetic sequences, they said that is not something one company can own. >> which is not surprising. >> not surprising. it's t

jeffrey toobin from "the new yorker" a grand yose nars sist referring to snoweden who deserves to be in prison. lawrence owe dodge on msnbc, complained about snowden's naive and maturity level. politico's roger simon called him the slacker that came in from the cold and tom brokaw dismissed him as a high school dropout who is a military washout. >> the establishment including the mainstream media establishment, aren't always wrong. i mean, it's possible this guy did disclose most important national security assets we have in terms of surveillance around the world. i mean it's one thing to say you shouldn't spy on americans. that's a good argument. seems to have put the whole world on notice we're spying on them and given them detail as to sources and methods. >> next on "news watch" have the media hurt chances for a fair trial for george zimmerman? >> i don't like that they've rushed to judgment the way they have. >> the media spotlight back on george zimmerman. coverage heats up as jury selection for his trial ramps up. but has the accused already been convicted in the press? answer

he has jeffrey toobin, jonathan turley. they've now gone through the actual supreme court decision, hollingsworth versus perry. go ahead, jake. >> thanks, wolf. there has been a sweeping decision earlier today having to deal with the supreme court striking down the defense of marriage act, saying that if a state recognizes same-sex couples, the federal government cannot refuse them recognition. now comes the ruling in the california same-sex marriage ban, proposition 8. and it's an unusual ruling. it's one that brings together an odd coalition of justices, two conservatives, three liberals. jeffrey toobin, what exactly did the court decide here? >> you know, i'm not afraid to say, jake, that this is a puzzling decision. it's a puzzling lineup of justices. let me just say who's on which side. this decision in the california proposition 8 case is written by chief justice roberts. it is joined by justice scalia, justice ginsburg, justice brier, and justice kagan. two strong conservatives, three liberals. the dissenters in the

jeffrey toobin is still with us.harged with first degree murder, you ain't going to be getting bail. is that right? >> that's right, even though massachusetts doesn't have the death penalty, so he's not eligible for the death penal, but certainly he is eligible for life in prison. he's clearly a risk of flight, so they're not going to let him out. >> let's assume his attorneys are all arguing it's circumstantial. how credible is that? i don't know how strong the evidence is. >> right. it's important at this early stage to recognize his defense may be i didn't do it, someone else did it. what's your evidence? remember, there are, even according to the prosecutors, two conphet rats, two other people involved in what the prosecution calls this execution-style murder, so what the so-called confederates or guilty instead of hernandez is certainly something that will play out. >> people are already making comparisons to another great nfl player, o.j. simpson. he was accused of murder and eventually acquitted. >> he certain

let's bring in cnn's senior legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. he's also on the phone. s espionage necessarily mean that you are working in collusion with another country? >> reporter: it doesn't. in fact, the definition of the crime of espionage is a lot -- is a lot broader than the conventional definition of in the old days spying for the soviet union. there have been leakers in the past, people who have given documents to the press who have been charged with espionage just as snowden did, but it's important to point out that espionage carries enormously high penalties. and if snowden is found and convicted, and of course, neither has happened yet, he could be looking at decades in prison. >> are you surprised by these charges at all? >> reporter: no, no. it was a foregone conclusion that they were going to criminally charge him. what's interesting is they have not charged him with illegal disclosure of classified information. that is sort of the most obvious charge. but prosecutors have a lot of leeway, and of course, this is only the beginning of what is likely to be

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let's bring back jeffrey toobin for analysis. i read this entire indictment. i'm sure you read it as well. what's your bottom line? >> it really expands our knowledge, at least the government's version of it. it's so richly detailed. it reads like a thriller. and the theme of it all, i thought, was to preempt a like live defense in this case. the likely defense is this whole thing was the older brother's idea, that he was the mastermind, the only surviving brother, just went along. what the indictment does is it focusses on -- focused on dzhokhar's own activities and his action, calling his brother right before the brother sets off the two bombs. it is interesting, though, that it says the older brother is the one who actually pushed the button and set off both bombs. >> i'm sure there's going to be a lot more on this. the formal appearance in court i think scheduled for july 10th. thanks very much. >> up next, he's facing one murder charge. could there be more, though? details of an another investigation involving aaron hernandez. >> and a landmark vote on co

jeffrey toobin, always great to get your expertise. christiane amanpour, thank you.:00 p.m. eastern. and on amman poanpour.com. >>> and we're just hours away from opening statements in the trial of george zimmerman. he's charged with second degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. george howell is live in florida. what are we expecting today, george? is >> reporter: it comes down to a jury of people who say they have not yet made up their minds in this case. when you look at the latest cnn/orc poll, a group like that is hard to find. in the court of public opinion, most americans believe there is some truth in the charges against george zimmerman. in this court, it will be about the facts. it will be about the evidence. and the ability of these attorneys to make their case. in the second degree murder trial against george zimmerman, the first thing the jurors will hear, opening statements. >> all bets are off. >> reporter: the defense team will be opened by don west. their goal to convince jurors zimmerman acted in self-defense the night in