george zimmerman has a gun. it's been reported in a holster in his bell. and that trayvon martin's reaction to that, you're going to die tonight. you're going to die now. this is the kid who has skittles and ice tea. >> right. so none of this is adding up to me. maybe i'm the only person who knows anything about a fight. >> i don't think so. not with the two o'donnell. when did he say that? if the father's story is correct, he has his knees on both the man's arms hitting him with the other arm. his body is so far forward on zimmerman's chest, that the gun which police have said is in a holster in his waist is behind him. so when does trayvon take a break from the beating to look behind him to see that he has a gun on his waist? how does he get his hands free? now moves it up from behind his back to the front of him and then shoots him in the chest. the logic is not making sense. >> we have more from the father. >> george is trying to get his head off the concrete. trying to move him into the grass. and in doing

he could not even contact george zimmerman. george zimmerman has not contacted him. he admits himself that he had not seen george zimmerman until since a week before the shooting of trayvon martin. that to me does not sound like a close friend, an uncle or anything else. and that is what we needed to hear him say out of his own mouth, and that's what he said tonight. >> jonathan capehart, joe oliver used to be a cn nflt nchltcnn reporters. he knows the tools of the trade. he knew what was going to happen when he came out publicly. we discovered tonight he did indeed work in the same place as george zimmerman, something i discovered in my investigation today. he thinks there's things about his relationship with zimmerman that he can protect and keep secret while he tells the world, trust my gut feeling and nothing but my gut feeling that george is telling the truth. >> right. and that's so not going to work, not under normal circumstances and certainly not under circumstances like this where there is a dead 17-year-old boy who was unarmed at the hands of someone who h

these are proxies for george zimmerman. and -- >> but importantly from an evidentiary standpoint they are claiming george zimmerman told me this. his brother says, my brother told me this. his father says, my son told me this. >> right. >> so this is high quality in terms of george zimmerman testimonial evidence. >> well, right, but what we have -- what you have to do in parsing what they're saying is you see a shift away from trayvon martin was pummeling so much that that was going to lead to my death, now that we see that the marks on his face and his back do not look at least from what we can see from grainy video to be life-threatening, that he is walking of his own volition, that there is now a witness who says he pops up, springs up right after the shooting and what he's on the top or on the bottom, we don't know but it doesn't look like he was within an inch of his life so now both last night and tonight you hear this new emphasis on he went for my gun, which is a kind of a legal tactical change which says even if he

capturing george zimmerman? >> we want to apprehend him, arrest him and bring him to the authorities so they can charge this man with first degree murder, he committed murder, he committed a hate crime, since the united states will not do their job, even though we're supposed to be citizens, we decided to take it upon ourselves in coalition with other groups, in coalition with with other black people who have had enough. >> you say you watch the to hand him over to authorities, he's not been charged at this point with any crime. so under what authority would you apprehend him and hand him over to anybody? >> the citizens arrest. he killed someone, and he's in hiding, anderson. the police department is protecting him, anderson. i have never heard in the history america where one was able to kill an innocent human being and then be protected by the police. >> why do you feel -- >> we decided to get involved. >> how do you say the police are protecting him, though. at this point numerous authorities are investigati

. >> george is not a racist. >> george zimmerman is not a racist, and this particular case is not based on race. >> he's color blind when it comes to any race. >> the conversations become about race and racism. why is this so important to answer that question? or is it important to answer the question, is george zimmerman a racist? >> no. i observe as a psychiatri kiatr do something interesting in the absence of facts. reasons, why did my husband leave me? he found someone younger? i didn't make enough money? was it my thighs? we invent answers and because we don't know we choose the one we're most scared of. in this situation, we don't have answers and have chosen the one we're most scared of. what concerns me is that kids across america are sitting at the dinner table with the tv on, and they're hearing a national dialogue and seeing people get fired up about something that could be wrong. and in doing so, they're making decisions about, did a guy shoot a kid who was black? or is there a whole race of people that hate us as blacks so much they can shoot us for no reason? that's what w

robert zimmerman is the brother of george zimmerman. he gave this interview saying he claims his brother told him. however, following the interview, the attorney for george zimmerman says the two have not spoken in years and that he was just trying to get on television. >> so there is that. that they haven't spoken in years. even if the story might be true, even if he got it from george. he is repeating george zimmerman's story. >> we think. again, the attorney representing george zimmerman said they have not spoken. and that is guy who is in contact with the china every day. >> if george zimmerman himself is trying to say, we were in a fight. the person who walks into the sanford police department in that video clearly was not in a fight. he clearly did not get his nose broken. he did not have his head bashed against the concrete. we're spreading this as misinformation as people who want to believe george zimmerman for some reason or want to believe against trayvon for some reason are believing. and we're seeing more and more of them f

george zimmerman was carrying a loaded gun. joining me now from miami, it's kendall coffey, former u.s. attorney, and criminal defense lawyer, and lisa bloom and author of the new book "think" let me start with you lisa. what do you make of these reports especially of the former coworker says zimmerman had a jekyll and hyde personality. >> i think this is important information. we want to know more about both of the people involved and this does not shed any positive light on zimmerman. there was a homicide of a 17-year-old minor. it was incumbent on the flois do an investigation that would have led to this information. this is the kind of thing the police should have looked into in the investigation that they should have done. >> kendall, another quote from this coworker said "zimmerman loved being in charge. he loved the power." does that say anything to you? >> it helps us understand what happened that night. he wanted the power and the ability to use a gun. and when you put the other pieces together, i think we are really s

who was george zimmerman? was he this overly aggressive self-appointed neighborhood watchman or a concerned citizen, protecting his community after a rash of burglaries? >> he's got his hand in his waist band. and he's a black male. he's coming to check me out. he's got something in his hands. i don't know what his deal is. >>> george zimmerman hasn't said anything publicly about the shooting trayvon martin beyond what he's said to the police. he's married and he's a registered democrat and is licensed to carry a concealed weapon. according to sanford police records he called 911 pretty regularly. 46 times since 2004. he was arrested about six years ago for assaulting an officer and resisting arrest at a local bar. zimmerman was enrolled at a local state college but he was asked to withdraw and the martin shooting. he attended a four-month long program at the sheriff's office and zimmerman's father said there's more to his son than the public realizes. >> the majority of the people who have seen the picture of

including george zimmerman's. george zimmerman is saying that trayvon martin attacked him but none of the evidence seems to indicate that trayvon martin was the initiator. all of it seems to go -- all of it, put together, not little pieces -- seems to go to the fact that george zimmerman was the initiator. >> we see george zimmerman in handcuffs. does that indicate that was he arrested? >> yes, he's in a state of arrest. that's correct. but interestingly enough, the state of arrest occurs not just when you're in handcuffs, but when the law enforcement officer deprives you of your right of free movement, you're under arrest. the thing i want to mention that is likely relevant in this case, deals with the distance that the weapon was discharged from trayvon martin. in other words, if a struggle ensued and the weapon is pressed up against the body of the individual who is shooting is burn marks. forensics can prove unequivocally the distance in which a weapon was discharged from a person. >> and the angle of the bodi

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>> george zimmerman took treyvon's life profiling him. my son did not deserve to die. >> we're going to -- i interviewed the parents earlier. we'll play that later. a florida legislator who co-sponsored the law and defends it and doubts george zimmerman's claim he fired in self-defense. also, something that may factor into a civil rights allegation, allegation that's george zimmerman uttered a racial slur while on the phone with 911. we enhanced the audio. you can decide for yourself though. we'll play for you uncensored in a moment. first, the breaking news which happened just moments ago in sanford, florida, where david mattingly joins us live. sanford city commissioner passed a no confidence motion in the local police chief. what does that mean? does it mean anything? >> reporter: anderson, this was a no confidence vote. they voted 3-2 in no confidence in the city's police chief bill lee. this is really a nonbindsing vote. it demonstrates to the police chief that he no longer has the support of the city commission here. and what it is

spoke on the george zimmerman about this. how is he telling us things that may or may not happen when he too has not spoken. they're not telling a consistent story. they're spreading inconsistent information. and this is not helping america at an incredibly difficult moment. >> if i could just point out two things. one, brian williams through his rock center show, they are trying to get robert zimmerman on the show. are you aware of that. >> that's not the information that i had 30 minutes ago. >> okay, maybe news has taken over for you. secondly. you tweeted this on the 19th of march. new slang. you're zimmermaning me equals you're killing me. that's a pretty serious responsible piece of journalism, isn't it, toure? >> in the first days, in the first weeks of the situation what many people were doing, what i was trying to do is to pile on and to say hey, look, this guy is not doing the right thing. this guy has harmed somebody in our community. some people miscon trued that. but this is an incredibly serious situation. >> so

and george zimmerman is a free man. trayvon's parents are at the rally tonight. >> trayvon was your typical teenager. trayvon did the typical teenager things. george zimmerman took his life profiling him. my son did not deserve to die. >> we're going to interview the parents earlier today. now, in a moment a florida legislature who cosponsored the law who defends it, but doubts george zimmerman's claim he fired in self-defense. and something that may factor into the federal civil rights investigation. allegations that george zimmerman uttered a racial slur while on the phone with 911. we have enhanced the audio. you can decide for yourself that we'll play uncensored in a moment. but first, the breaking news that happened in sanford, florida, where david mattingly joining us live. the city commissioners passed a no confidence motion in the local police chief. what does that mean? does it mean anything? >> well, anderson, this was a no confidence vote. they voted 3-2 in no confidence in the city's police chief, bill lee.

there is no visible injury towards george zimmerman. there is no visible evidence trayvon, some attack led to imminent fear of death or great bodily harm. >> one other thing, are you trying to get dispatch and medical records to see exactly who attended to george zimmerman in the police car. it would seem to me the emt or paramedics whoever were there, should have a record of that. have you seen those records? >> i'm glad you mentioned that. what america needs to know and the public needs to know, as they are getting information, that's when the family is getting information. all this stuff being leaked, the family is getting it at the same time as the public. there has been no investigative information given to the family by law enforcement at this point. >> you don't even know who attended to george zimmerman in that police car? >> no. we don't know any names or who attended. what we do know, ed, there was more than one officer on the scene. one of the other officers who wrote a police report did not even mention george zimmerman's in

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he's down and according to what zimmerman told police trayvon then got on top of george zimmerman and is banging his head against the sidewalk. so, the question for jurors, if it comes to that, is what was in george zimmerman's zimmerman's mind when he pulled the trigger. under in florida's stand your ground law f he had a reasonable fear of death or great bodily injury he was justified in pulling the trigger. witnesses have told us they heard the screams. the screams went on more than a minute. so there was a fight that lasted longer than a minute. if you believe george zimmerman's account to police, he was on the ground getting beat up for a minute. so that's what's important in today's "orlando sentinel" story. >> let's go to the question that i asked. did the police leak that information to you about the marijuana? >> the story identifies the source as law enforcement sources. >> so you are a police reporter. you have been around them a long time. this is a standard procedure, as you know when they find themselves in trouble on a case. they start to leak stuff to you police report

speaking of the 911 call, this is from george zimmerman's 911 call. many people at cnn have listened to this and we've had the sound enhanced but there's no consensus whether or not he used a racial slur. take a listen. >> i have not listened to this portion of the tape at all. i just want to hear it raw right now, if you can play ten seconds. >> which entrance is he heading towards? >> the back entrance. >> all right. did we hear it? i didn't hear it. >> i didn't hear it. but my ears are bad. >> let's do it one more time, because i think we cut it off at the end. play it one more time, please. >> i have not listened to this tape at all. i want to hear it raw, if you can play ten seconds before it. >> he's heading down towards the entrance to the neighborhood. >> okay. which entrance is it that he's heading towards? >> the back entrance. >> okay. that was it at the very end. the sound has been enhanced, again. if you hear it, some people say he's saying f'ing coons. does that change it in any way? >> of course it does. you know why? when you have a cr

see george zimmerman in handcuffs. was he arrested? >> yes, he's in a state of arrest. not just when your handcuffed but when the law enforcement deprives your right of free movement, you're under a state of arrest. dealing with the distance the weapon was discharged from trayvon martin. in other words, if a struggle ensued and the weapon is pressed up against the body of the individual is shooting is burn marks. forensics can prove unequivocally the distance in which a weapon was discharged from a person. >> and the angle of the bodies once -- >> absolutely. and that's part of the information that i'm curious that the police department has not been more forthcoming with. i'm curious to know how far he was when the weapon was fired. >> jose, a viewer sent something in to us about a florida statute. says expressly pro hints police from arresting someone who had a reasonable fear of great bodily harm. police may investigate but the agency may not place that person -- arrest that person with probable cause. is that true?

and he said to george zimmerman why are you following me? and george zimmerman said what are you doing around here or words to that effect. does that jive with what george told you? >> no, it doesn't. and again, i can't -- because of what has been released and what hasn't been released, that's more information that i can't talk about. but that does not match george's version of what happened. >> as you know, this group -- the new black panther party has offered a reward they say for the quote, unquote capture of george zimmerman. is he concerned for his safety right now? >> that's why no one knows where he's at. he should be concerned for his safety. you know? i now have to be concerned for my safety. not just for myself but for my friends and family as well. yet i wasn't there. i didn't pull the trigger. all i'm doing is standing up for a friend who defended himself because he truly believed he was about to die. >> joe oliver, i appreciate having your voice on the program tonight. we're trying to learn as much as we can. and it's important

he thought it belonged to george zimmerman. the couple had to go to a hotel to get away from all the threats and the media. david and elaine mcclain, you're looking at them there. >>> deadly wildfire caught on tape, like a drive through hell. their 13-year-old child captured the drive through billowing smoke and burning trees. very frightening stuff. they are all safe and sound, thank god. just a few moments, the family with their three children are going to join us live to talk about that great escape. >> lots of smoke there. >>> republican front-runner mitt romney picks up two more endorsements. marco rubio announced his endorsement. george h.w. bush announces his endorsement later on today in hugh houston. >>> rupt mert murdoch is taking steps to create a -- we already have one, espn. news corp. could launch a national sports network later this year. >>> the jetblue pilot that had to be wrestled down midair is now facing charges for interfering with his own crew. we're hearing new details about his midair meltdown as well. h

taffy, you know george zimmerman. what is he like? >> george zimmerman is a very congenial, admirable person. he was very, very kind to everyone in our community. and i really appreciated and so did the rest of our residents in our neighborhood that he stepped up and took over the position as neighborhood watch captain to ensure the safety of all the residents in our community. >> you say he actually stopped a potential burglary at your house a couple weeks ago before the shooting? >> that is correct. >> and were you surprised that he was carrying a gun? were you aware he carried a gun? >> i was extremely shocked to the fact that he was carrying a gun, yes. >> what shocked you? how did it shock you? >> the lethal weapon. it wasn't george. as i said, he was a very congenial man. amiable man. the use of a lethal weapon, a deadly lethal weapon as a .9 millimeter that he used was very shocking to me. it just didn't fit the person. >> have there been burglaries in your neighborhood? what is the neighborhood like? >> i have lived at twin la

new reaction from george zimmerman hours after shot trayvon martin to death. and a new closer look at zimmerman's reported injuries. a forensic video expert will join us with the questions he said sanford police must answer. also, if prosecutors have the option to file charges before the grand jury convenes, will this tape push them to make the decision? kendall coffey will join us. >>> members of congress have a simple choice to make. they can stand with the big oil companies or they can stand with the american people. >> president obama pumped up about gas prices, demanding congress strip big oil company of tax breaks. will the price at the pump prove more of a make or break for the obama administration? >>> and it is one way not to worry about the gas prices. 40-state mega millions lottery has turned even nonlottery players into big dreamers. hi, everyone. i'm going to get you started with the "news nation." sanford police have released their surveillance video of george zimmerman to nbc. now, it shows zimmerman getting out of a police car in handcuffs and