and then kirk nurmi, puts on the brakes, we're going to slow things down a little bit, give jodi arias breathe. >> the prosecution had painted jodi as a self-serving, calculated liar. so nurmi immediately went into operation image repair. >> you were asked several questions about taking personal responsibility and how you blamed everyone else. >> he said jodi had been brave to testify at all. >> were you forced to testify? is it. >> no. >> did you do so with the idea that the lies you told would be called into question? >> yes. >> the truth is, jodi arias had to testify in this case. she is claiming self defense. there's no videotape and there's no independent witnesses. the only way you get to argue self defense is with some evidence of it. and the only evidence of self defense in this case had to come from one place and one place only. jodi arias' mouth. >> arias had a lot to explain. like writing the victim a personal note. and delivering it at his memorial. >> you write that "travis, you're beautiful on the inside and out." did you mean that? >> yes. >> this letter and other things

arias, once again, answering questions from her attorney, kirk nurmi. no getting around it.life with travis alexander. her ex-boyfriend, the man she admits to killing in self-defense, she says. 27 stab wounds, slash to the throat, one bullet to the head. we're going to pick it up live here in a moment. first, here is a snippet from just this morning. >> when he grabbed your arm and bent you over the desk on june 4th, 2008, and had sex with you, did you view that as a mistake? >> no. >> how did you view that? >> just by then we were engaging in all kinds of activities without any boundaries and so it was just something he wanted to do and something i was fine with. it was a way for him to release his anger. >> a way for what? >> for him to relieve his anger. >> you were fine with it because it was an alternative to violence? >> objection, leading. >> is that what you're telling us? are you telling us that this was an alternative to anger? >> yes, to it escalating. >> sunny hostin, former federal prosecutor, cnn legal analyst for me in new york. and holly hughes, ladies, welco

her own attorney, kirk nurmi.utor juan martinez, if you follow this at all last week, he forced jodi arias to break down on the stand, to admit she told lie after lie after lie, after killing her ex-boyfriend travis alexander. killed him. 27 stab wounds, a slash across the throat, two bullets to the head. within just this past hour, defense attorney nurmi launched that redirect, redirect examination, he's trying to take the sting out of the damage that martinez caused. let's begin in and listen live to the jodi arias trial. >> after we broke up, he promised he would change and, you know, he wanted me to move down there so he paid for me to move down there. and so i, you know, he would still take me out, we would go on dates and that kind of thing. he wanted to spend his birthday with me. so those are just things that i felt we were kind of just testing the water to see if maybe we could trust each other again, or that kind of thing. so when i saw him, i mean, i knew we were still, like, not together, still single,