kendall coffey from miami. kendall, martin's mother, sybrina fulton, is one of the most anticipated witnesses. we've sort of ticked off the witnesses they would put towards the end of the prosecution. what makes her testimony so important? she was not there during this incident. >> well, i think the key thing from the prosecution's standpoint is convincing the jury that it was trayvon martin's voice crying for help, screaming for help on the 911 tape. while i think it is clear the jury will be moved by mother's grief, the real question is will they be persuaded by a mother's voice recognition when it was a matter of just a few second and it is going to be a matter of contradiction when the other family gets on the stand during the defense and says the voice screaming for help bass the voice of george zimmerman. >> might you also hear from the brother, as well as the father. >> i think it is expected the uncle will testify. the defense promised that. and one or both of the parents of george zimmerman will testify

i'd like to bring in now legal analyst lisa bloom, faith jenkins, and kendall coffey. thank you all for being here this morning. >> thank you. >> thanks. >> lisa, i want to start with you. dr. nakasone testified for the defense. why is he now a state witness? >> my belief is he's here to tee up the testimony of trayvon martin's mother. because for all of the science and elaborate techniques he has at quantico, there wasn't an efficient sample for him to reach a conclusion as to who was screaming on that call. what he said at the end of this direct testimony is the perfect person to identify is people who knew him. not just conversationally. but somebody who heard a variety of tones of the speaker's voice. that seems to me to be pointing towards trayvon martin's mother. who said previously to law enforcement that's my son's voice on that call. and my guess that would be a witness coming up very soon for the prosecution or perhaps their very last witness before they rest their case. >> and faith, one of the things i found interesting about this morning's testimony is tha

joining us is seema ayre and kendall coffey. day eight, who came out ahead? >> i think the defense is pushing forward hard and fast and that is why strategically the prosecution is putting trayvon martin's mother at the end. although she is a fact witness to corroborate the 911 call, their position it is trayvon's voice, she will evoke sympathy, plus the autopsy will be very, very damaging to the defense case, seeing mr. martin's dead body. >> kendall, day eight testimony done. if you agree with what seema is saying here, could they turn it around on friday? >> well, i think, actually, it was a pretty good day for the prosecution. i think the forensics are something that juries find fascinating and they undercut a couple of contentions. the lack of martin's dna under the fingernails contradicts the defense theme that martin was viciously beating him, slamming his head against con kreempt i think those kinds of elements were helpful. i agree that friday is critical. the prosecution hopes to end dramatically and their hope is that the jury, which will be moved

people in florida like their guns. >> kendall coffey, thank you. wow.oming up on "morning joe," we'll continue the conversation. we have the moderator of "meet the press" david gregory joining us, tina brown, neil bush, the son of the 43rd president to inspire volunteer president and baseball analyst al leiter ahead of tomorrow's all-star game. up next mike allen is here in the studio with the top stories in the politico playbook. first bill karins with a check on the forecast. >> the well advertised heat wave has arrived for areas of the east coast and going to spread across the country. this will easily be the hottest week from coast to coast across our nation. you expect it. this is the peak of the heating season in the smack middle of july. the jet stream has retreated far to the north up into canada. we have two domes of very hot air. one over the rockies and one right over the east coast. there's actually a cut off low keeping texas cool with new mexico but that's the exception. so for today, day to get to the pool, the beach, the lake, temperatur

joining me is msnbc legal analyst kendall coffey.see the not guilty verdict coming, especially when we had those two questions from the jury, one being about an example of the evidence list and then when they came back for clarification for the manslaughter verdict? >> when i heard the question about manslaughter i thought this jury or somebody on this jury is considering manslaughter. recall, thomas, there was no follow-up. the judge said, get back to me with a more specific question about manslaughter. the jury never did which suggested to me at that point that they weren't seriously considering manslaughter. whatever our reactions may have been to the verdict, i don't think it was anything like the shocker that we've seen in some other high-profile cases of acquittal. >> kendall, speaking from your experience in the state of florida and watching how this case unfolded as it did and the prosecution and how they executed what their they're ris were or some people would say they didn't execute the theory properly, could they have don

>> joining me now, criminal defense attorney and arise news legal contributor, seema iyer and kendall coffey. we have a rest until jurors get back into the courtroom tomorrow but jurors got to see the interview george zimmerman did with fox news in which he says he knew nothing about florida's stand your ground law. but yesterday we heard testimony that conflicts that. take a look. >> what can you tell us about how long you spent as part of that course covering ideas like self-defense and stand your ground. >> right. self-defense is an affirmative defense. it is a big self-defense. it is not one of those things are you going to just whisk through in a day or after you teach it you're going to neglect from bringing it back into the classroom. so it was something that i constantly iterated. >> so carter claims zimmerman got an "a" in the class, he was a good student. how much do you think that that helps the case for the prosecution? again, when we talk about college, we're going back decades. this was 2010 for zimmerman's college. this was not that long ago before the shooting. >> it is a bla

attorney kendall coffey, whom we welcome and you wish you a happy fourth and thanks for being here. > of the state's case so far. i had on seem ire last hour, who you have debated this case. she thinks they have done a poor job defending itself or presenting its case. what do you think? >> i think the prosecution has done a good job with what was never an easy case and what has been undercut by the dpangt that prosecution witnesses have brought out on cross-examination gave aren't points for the defense. i think what the prosecution has establish sod far, two things that are important, one is that it was zimmerman who was pursuing trayvon martin. perhaps even profiling in the sense that he thought he was a suspicious guy and they always get away. the other thing that prosecution has establish sod far is that zimmerman's injure police probably not serious and zimmerman may have overstated them by saying his head was repeatedly smashed into concrete. >> yeah. okay. let's talk about what we heard in court relative to the dna evidence that was prevented. this witness -- let's listen to th