where is george zimmerman? if his attorneys or his ex-attorneys, who never seem to have had a retainer with him never actually met him face to face, do not know, because they have seen him in whatever place he is, where he is, don't know where he is, and if the special prosecutor has not met with him face to face, and it would be hard to imagine that the special prosecutor would meet with george zimmerman without his attorneys present. and if they haven't seen him, that means that the special prosecutor is very likely to have not have seen george zimmerman face to face. that means that we are -- we do not know, we have no assurances that anyone knows where george zimmerman is. i am hoping that the state's attorney will step to a mic within this 72 hours and say how it is that we as the public can be assured that somebody is keeping track of george zimmerman, because the man is not charged with a crime at this point. so he's free to move as he pleases. they haven't heard from him in two days, and they want to br

george zimmerman calls 911 at 7:11. we're trying to find out where is it where all those things that trayvon has supposedly said to him, why isn't that recorded anywhere? that's george zimmerman's word and nobody else. and one more important fact. when you think about this self-defense claim, you've heard his father say his head was beat into the concrete repeatedly over a minute, and then his nose was broke. that videotape, i submit to you, was taken about 35 minutes later, and you know, they tried to enhance it, and try to find a cut on his head, but how bad is it, if they didn't even put a bandaid on it, piers? how much force was asserted? why didn't he go to the hospital if he was beat up that bad? it's one of those things, trayvon martin is dead. he is dead. and you are saying to everybody in the world, i had to kill him because he had busted my head and broke my nose. so we're trying to look at that and it doesn't appear to be there. we are not asking that he is convicted. we only want to have him arrested, so we

you also have this issue of george zimmerman. let me play quickly, kendall, what his attorney said this morning on the today show recording george zimmerman's whereabouts in all of this. >> i don't believe he is a flight risk. he is not in the area. i can't disclose where he is. he is where he won't be found. he is in contact with fdle. if it becomes necessary to turn himself in, i believe he will do it. i don't believe he will flee the country. >> we don't know if he will be required to turn himself in, if he is going to be charged. what do you make of the situation and i hate to use the word strangest because we're talking about the loss of life as we heard the martin family say but what do you make of these developments? >> it is so extraordinary. you kind of run out of words that his attorneys would be saying to the whole nation that their client is basically hiding. obviously if in fact zimmerman is in touch with fdle and prepared to cooperate with whatever the decision of angela corey is, that's a big plus factor and could

the developments over the last 24 hours is george zimmerman is m.i.a. i am sure you had problem clients yourself. how much damage is zimmerman doing to his case by calling someone like sean honnitie and the special prosecutor and setting up his own website as well. >> i think we don't know and won't know until he is in custody and they have a chance to question him and get a sense of his mental state. one of the tlingz that struck me, martin, is this case continued to unfold and clearly we have a situation here where martin doesn't trust the lawyers. et cetera not trusting their advice. >> zimmerman. >> zimmerman, sorry. a apologize. zimmerman, he clearly doesn't trust the lawyers, not even contacting them and obviously that brings into question what is his mental state and out there and missing in action and whatever the police thought they might be doing at the beginning of all of this and thinking they could just make this all go away, they really made it worse for the martin family and trayvon martin and zimmerman. this is an unusual situation to ha

i said then that trayvon's hoody killed him as surely as george zimmerman did. what i was trying to do was caution parents allowing kids to wear hoodies and in certain circumstances, particularly if they were minority young men was dangerous. but he never intended to hurt feelings and i never intended to hurt your feelings. i want to personally convey my deepest apologies to both of you. i am sorry, tracy, if anything i said added to your misery. >> thank you for the apology. your apology is accepted. let me just add one thing with the wearing of the hoody. i don't think america knows that in fact at the time of the incident when he initially made the call, it was raining. so trayvon had every right to have on his hood. he was protecting himself from the rain. so being a suspicious walking in the rain with your hoody on is a crime, then i guess the world is doing something wrong. >> i hear that. thank you for accepting my apology. on monday attorney ben krump, who is with tracy and sabrina right now, let's take a look at ben there, he will be asking the justice

george zimmerman is behind bars. we also know by her past that she grows very attached to the victim's families and they in turn grow very attached to her. many that continue to stay in touch from previous cases she's handled. >> and so in the meantime as we just heard, zimmerman's attorney talking about how he will formally request this bond hearing, in the meantime he is in presumably this jail in protective custody, one of the reporters throwing out questions about being threatened and i don't know if he was referencing within this jail, certainly probably from the outside. >> right. there are a couple of things we're worried about. this evaluation is handled by the jail and not so much by the attorney. the attorney may of course like to see that his client is being held in protective custody, but it is eventually up to the jail management here as to how he will be housed. what they will do is assessing him medically, assessing him mentally, i am talking george zimmerman, and they will make a determination whether

a friend and neighbor of george zimmerman is speaking out. i talked to frank taaffe, a sport time ago. frank, what's your reaction to george zimmerman being charged? >> anderson, i was stunned, but i wasn't shaken. i had prepared myself. and when i talked to george on monday, i ensured him that no matter what the outcome was, that, you know, i was there for him from the beginning, now and that we'll walk through this together. >> it doesn't shake your belief that he did the right thing? >> not at all. he did the right thing. i still stand by the fact that it's a self defense claim. i'll take that all the way to the courtroom steps. when we're leaving the courtroom and he's pronounced innocent. >> what is it that makes you so sure? >> based on the police narrative, the on the scene police officer, i read the police report over and over again. and when i talked to george on monday, i asked him about that night. and he couldn't go into specifics. so what i did was i read from the narrative the lines which included where the officer on the scene,

leading off tonight, george zimmerman on the stand. it's a well-known principle. defense lawyers don't let their clients testify but today in his bail hearing covered by all three cable networks, george zimmerman took the stand and told the parents of trayvon martin that he was sorry for their loss, that he did not know how old trayvon was and that he thought he was slightly younger than himself. the judge set bail at $150,000. also on trial is florida's stand your ground law. florida led the nation in implementing the law. now that governor rick scott has designated a task force to stand your ground, could it set the stand for repeal or revision? plus, republicans are discouraged about mitt romney's prospects and democrats plan to make them more discouraged. give up the romney is a flip-flopper argument and hold him to all of those right-wring positions he took in the primaries. and there's more fallout. three more agents are out. finally, let me finish with the number that will determine whether obama or romney gets elected this year. we begin with george zimmer

it was something that robert zimmerman, george zimmerman's father said in that same interview and i'm going to quote him now. in what happened after the fact of this incident, he said, quoting, i never foresaw so much hate coming from the president. have you seen any hate coming from the president in regards to this case towards anyone? >> i watched it like most people. i saw some of the comments that were made by a lot of people, including president obama. you know, my opinion doesn't matter but i didn't feel hatred at all. i think what's happened is whenever you have a wound like this and i'm sure mr. zimmerman senior, his understanding is that he has a son going through what george is going through, dtqi srár'terpreted from a pare perspective, just like trayvon's family when they are dealing with everything that they are dealing with, any little piece or failure piece of information has got to have an enormous stinging effect on them. but they are the parents involved. they are allowed their emotions. >> mark, when do you expect to have your first meeting with your client? >> 25 t

police have not arrested george zimmerman, the man who admits to shoogt george zimmerman. one of the host heated conversations about the trayvon martin case took place right on our air cnn piers morgan and a culture commentator. piers invited robert zimmerman jr. on the show, the brother of george zimmerman. he thought piers could have been tougher on him. and piers challenged him to come on the show. this is combative, but one of the most riveting conversations you're going to see about the trayvon martin case. >> are you saying that robert zimmerman invented his story last night? are you saying his father, an hour before the interview, was asked directly is there an estrangement and said there isn't. is everybody apart from you lying and are you abreast of more information than anybody else in america right now? >> one thing i noticed is obviously the zimmerman family is banding together to keep george out of jail for the rest of his life. so that's quite obvious what their motivation are to say what they're saying. and between robert, george and the father, and the atto

the story of george zimmerman is no different. when he finally does get his day in court, his defense loiawyers and prosecutors will have a mountain of evidence at their finger tips. joining me are sunny hostin and paul callan right now. i'm going to ask you two to play two sides of the fence on this because this case is going to be one of those the whole country watches. let me start off, first of all, with the question of defense. paul, let's talk about the evidence for the defense here. it seems to me there are a couple of points that are in the defense's favor to a degree. zimmerman's physical shape upon the arrest. the police said he indeed had a bloody nose, a bloody back of his head, the back of his shirt was wet as if he were rolling on the ground. this is his defense, he was attacked, put on his back, he was defending himself. secondly, his cooperation with police. he didn't try to run, get rid of the murder web on or do any of those things. are those the cornerstone of your defense? >> those are very strong points of the

i said then that trayvon's hoody killed him as surely as george zimmerman did. what i was trying to do was caution parents allowing kids to wear hoodies and in certain circumstances, particularly if they were minority young men was dangerous. but he never intended to hurt feelings and i never intended to hurt your feelings. i want to personally convey my deepest apologies to both of you. i am sorry, tracy, if anything i said added to your misery. >> thank you for the apology. your apology is accepted. let me just add one thing with the wearing of the hoody. i don't think america knows that in fact at the time of the incident when he initially made the call, it was raining. so trayvon had every right to have on his hood. he was protecting himself from the rain. so being a suspicious walking in the rain with your hoody on is a crime, then i guess the world is doing something wrong. >> i hear that. thank you for accepting my apology. on monday attorney ben krump, who is with tracy and sabrina right now, let's take a look at ben there, he will be asking the justice

we put on the father of george zimmerman, robert zimmerman. i was criticized for even daring to talk to george zimmerman, confidential at this point, and all i tried to get to is the truth. these are congressmen and women making statements without zero evidence to back it up in the most volatile situation that's going on. >> the point for them is not search for truth. the point for them is to hijack the situation for political gain. it may be mr. zimmerman's account of that night is 1200% correct and the facts will bear it out or it may be that he is guilty of everything his detractors accused him of. the .nobody knows. for members of congress and others in the media like you are going to cover in a little bit, to go out there and hijack this case for their agenda purposes, and i think erica is correct, the left only operates on argument. they need the divisions in order to push through their agenda. we are in an aelection year. they are exploiting their case for their agenda and for their political purposes to maximize the situation. >> we ha

george zimmerman's now former legal team. attorneys, representatives, whatever you want to call them. craig sonner and hal uhrig will be here to tell you why they said what they said yesterday, what it means for the case, and that they may end up still legal representatives for george zimmerman. zoraida? >> 39 minutes past the hour. >>> miami marlins manager ozzie guillen now suspended for five games after saying he loves fidel castro. guillen told "time" magazine, "i respect fidel castro. you know why? a lot of people have wanted to kill fidel castro for the last 60 years, but that [ expletive ] is still there." he expressed comments yesterday in miami. >> i'm very, very sorry about what happened, and i will do everything to make it better. this is the biggest mistake so far in my life i made. when you make a mistake this big, you can't sleep. you constantly think about it for four days. if i don't learn from this, then i will call myself a dummy, but not yet. >> guillen blamed the comments on bad translation. he was thinkin

george zimmerman's friends. we'll share that with you once we get it, but a very, very dramatic development in the trayvon martin killing. we'll have more on that coming up. also, the other breaking news story we're following, a historic moim moment on the campaign trail today, the republican presidential candidate rick santorum announcing he's dropping out of the race for the republican presidential nomination effectively means that mitt romney versus president obama, that general election campaign all, but officially starting today. we'll have the latest on what has happened on the campaign trail. stand by. w they'll live tomorro. for more than 116 years, ameriprise financial has worked for their clients' futures. helping millions of americans retire on their terms. when they want. where they want. doing what they want. ameriprise. the strength of a leader in retirement planning. the heart of 10,000 advisors working with you one-to-one. together for your future. ♪ [ male announcer ] get it now at red lobster

that would contradict george zimmerman's account. he says he was on the bottom when he had to shoot trayvon martin. then you have the police report. the next stage is we get him down to the police station. but on the site, they have a police report saying he had a bloody nose, cuts on the back of his head. then you go to the sanford police department video of george zimmerman appearing -- i think we have some of that video to roll now of george zimmerman appearing at the police station. and you don't see any evidence of a bloody nose. you don't see cuts on the back of the head. and very, very importantly, eugene o'donnell, you don't see any kind of blood splatter, and you would think, with a chest wound, a bullet chest wound against trayvon martin whose body is supposed to be on top of yours, you would think that george zimmerman would be covered in trayvon martin's blood. >> right. the totality of the evidence. and when you start adding the evidence together, what you're seeing is the control, who precipitated the events? as you lay

but now he is the man who is behind george zimmerman's defense. the man ahead of the -- the head of the o'mara law group in orlando, shep. >> shepard: trace gallagher who spent his days working in the orlando market as i did. one of the few things that we don't know yet, trace, is where this thing will be held. but history tells us they probably will ask for a change of venue and they might get it. this prosecutor from the jacksonville area which is, i don't know, a couple hundred miles away a possibility? >> i think it's an absolute possibility, in fact, shep. it will be the first thing they ask for because even earlier he kind of indicated that right now, today, that he does not believe the george zimmerman could get a fair trial in the orlando area. whether he gets a change of venue, we don't know. but it's the first thing they will ask for and it's very likely if you judge by the casey anthony case that they will get a change of venue in this case and it could be some six months to a year before it actually goes to trial. again, we expect in t

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george zimmerman explains why he pulled the trigger on trayvon martin. >> reporter: george zimmerman in shackles took the witness stand at his own bail hearing to make his first public statement about shooting trayvon martin to death. an apology to martin's parents. >> i wanted to say i am sorry for the loss of your son, i did not know how old he was, i thought he was a little bit younger than i am, i did not know if he was armed or not. >> reporter: the statement contradicted what he told the police dispatcher minute before the confrontation in february. >> how old would you say he was? >> late teens. >> reporter: george zimmerman's lawyer called an investigator to undermine the prosecution's charge that zimmerman was the aggressor. >> reporter: bail conditions requires zimmerman to report to authorities every three days and to wear an ankle bracelet with gps that can monitor ever move. the parents for martin's parents are outraged. >> george zimmerman's parents only have to put up $15,000 they get to be with their son. sabrina and tracy martin would give their lifes to get trayvon

he wants us to feel sorry for george zimmerman and recognize how tough it is for george zimmerman that he canted walk knack 7-eleven without being recognized. un-freaking-believable. how about this, mr. omera? how about how tough it is not to be able to walk into a 7-eleven without getting shot and killed? how about this mr. omara: how tough it is, do you think, never to be able to walk intoxa 7-eleven ever again because you are dead? how tough is that? honest to god. what an idiot. but you know what? justice will be done in this case now. an arrest has been made. the family says that's what they wanted. they are happy with that decision. i think we all the should be happy with that decision, trust that the right decision will be made. >> that's not enough. now, we have got to move on and we have got to move on to challenge this stand-your-ground law at the same time and make sure this doesn't happen again and get rid of that kill-at-will law down in the state of florida. and one final clip here and women take your calls at 855-55-press. john soltz was in a program in new york. great g

of george zimmerman in court. moments ago his father testified he saw scars on the back of his son's head and his face was swollen after the incident with trayvon martin. we're going to keep an eye on this breaking story all day long, but we also wanted to take a little bit of time to dig deep sbeer our brand-new nbc/wall street journal poll. it's a snapshot of how the campaign is shaping up. i want to bring in our pollsters. gentlemen, welcome to you both. jay, let me start with you. president's six-point lead. i'm going to show some breakdowns here.ç the gender gap is 12 points. obama and romney tied among men but there's a 12-point lead among women. a very large lead with the hispani hispanics, sitting at 69%/22%. why shouldn't the obama campaign be feeling good this morning? >> certainly they should be feeling good. with hispanics, that's important. with independents, when you have over 80% of the republicans going for the republican guy and 20% with democrats you're leading with the independents. it's not a

hoy en noticias telemundo cargos enfrentara george zimmerman. devuelta a la vida sanos y salvo los nueve mineros perúanos que permanecieron varios dias atrapados bajo la tierra taxistas mexicanos ahora convertido en blanco de ballas en california la falta de dinero podría cerrar puertas a una parte de su historia telemundo noticias empieza ya buenas tardes, empezamos en la florida donde george zimmerman ya esta detenido, quien mato a travon martin tres meses de investigaciónes dieron su fruto, ya george zimmerman está bajo arresto pasará su primera noche en la cárcel, tras entregarse a las autoridades en rueda de prensa corey afirmo que mañana se presentará en corte donde será instruido de cargos. se peleara arduamnete si el abogado insiste en que este disparo en defensa propia >>el abogado afirmo que el cliente se declarará no culplabe. se mostró preocupado por encontrar un juicio no imparcial. >>este disparo mortalmente contra el joven cuando este se dirigia a su casa. este dijo que habái sido atacado y por eso se defendio >>el cas

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this was a smart move by george zimmerman or george zimmerman's family to have someone so even tempered, so well respected. >> it's also important dynamic that as a legal analyst he's media savvy. that could bode well for him as they move forward in what will be a very highly publicized legal process. you did something with all the media that mark o'mara did, he's clearly very media savvy, although, frederirickafredricka we may see a gag order in the case. many don't want the case tried in the court of public opinion. this is a very new judge that's been assigned to the case. but i wonder if we'll be hearing from the attorneys as this process continues. >> all right, sonny hostin, thanks so much. always good to see you. >>> all right, adopting can be a tough road for any wanna-be parent. but it's especially hard for the gay community. one man is working to change that next. [ man ] when i went to get my first new car, my dad said to get a subaru because they last. ♪ he drives a legacy, but i'm nothing like him. i got the new impreza. maybe i should have picked a different color... [ m

information that george zimmerman had said to you or simply your impression of george zimmerman is suffering from that mental state? >> i'm not going to make any comments as to whether -- that's just speculation of what he's going through because of everything he's endured at this point. the primary thing was that all of a sudden things went dark. he wasn't contacting me anymore. he wasn't calling by phone. he wasn't sending text messages. on saturday i talked with him. there was some little thing we had to resolve and everything seemed fine on saturday. then something happened on sunday and of course we learned that there was a website that was set up. which was fine that he set it up. i had lined up a website designer to do it and we'd set up a bank account because i didn't think he was going to be able to do it. but it was better that he was able to do it himself. it keeps me from being involved with his money. that's something lawyers don't want to do. is have their hands too much in their clients' money contrary to the lawyer jokes. we want to keep the quickest way to get disbarred is t

what would mom want to ask george zimmerman? >> i would ask him that i understand that his family is hurting, but think about our family. that loss, our teenager son, i mean it's just very difficult to live with day in and day out. i'm sure his parents can pick up the phone and call him, but we can't pick up the

, george zimmerman no puede portar armas de fuego, no puede ingerir alcohol ni armas controladas, ni tampoco puede estar en contacto con la familia de al víctima. >>> george zimmerman dio una breve declaración para los padres de trayvon martin. >>> quiero decirles lo sientio por la pérdida de su hijo, solo pensé que era un poco menor que yo. >>> las disculpas no fueron bien recibidas. >>> los padres están devastados, solo 9 días después del hombre que mató a su hijo, sale libre. >>> hoy fue la primera vez que los padres de trayvon martin se ven cara a cara con el acusado de matar a su hijo. >>> familiares de george zimmerman testificaron a su favor. >>> absolutamente, ni es un riesgo para la comunidad. >>> se dice que george zimmerman tuvoivision ed notunivision@@no de la ira, en otro incidente, una novia dijo que la había atacado, el juez dijo que determinaría otra audiencia para ver si george zimmerman puede salir del estado. >>> tenemos opciones, pero es una decisiónision @@fícil de ha tenemosunivis@@quenoticiunivised univision@@noticiero univision fotos exclusivas de

nbc has learned she will bring charges against george zimmerman. attitudes about this case vary widely by case according to a new washington post abc poll. here are the numbers. among whites 5% say the shooting was justified. these are judgments people are making about what happened. 38% say the shooting was unjustified, 38% among whites. 56% of the whites surveyed in this poll say they don't know enough about the case it make a judgment. among blacks, just 1% say the shooting was justified. 1% opposed to 5% of whites. versus 80% who say the shooting was unjustified. and 19% said they don't know nuf to say, just 19% are holding bab judgment. how is this case viewed differently through a racial person.ç managing editor and founder of the grio.com and joined by ron reagan. david, let me talk to you about this. does this result by the washington post polling unit surprise you? does it square with a sense of the way people have talked about this case? >> doesn't surprise me at all. what is driving the passion behind this case for african-americans ar

george zimmerman expected in court this hour. there's a real possibility we'll get to hear new evidence in the case. the big question this morning, will zimmerman be allowed to leave jail until his trial? >>> thanks but no thanks. trayvon martin's parents turning down an invitation to meet with their son's killer. their attorney this morning calling the request "self-serving." >> no nonsense and fast talker. inside look at the former vietnam vet presiding over the case today and healing the community. sanford this morning watches and waits as they pull together and try to move forward. "newsroom" begins right now. >>> we want to take you right now to the criminal justice center in sanford, florida, to courtroom 5-d. we expect george zimmerman, the man who shot and killed trayvon martin, to walk into the courtroom any time. with him will be his attorney, mark o'mara handling this case pro bono asking the judge to post bond and to walk free heunl his second-degree murder case goes to trial. angela corey will fight to keep zimmerman