rachel was loved. she wouldn't take on a client unless she could give herself over completely to them. okay, well, if you can think of anyone who wanted to hurt her-- ex-boyfriend, a client-- you can just give me a call. there's my card. special agent seeley booth. sure. let's go, bones. we have to go now, mr. mirza. can i have my hand back? i don't know how i'm going to get through this without rae. daisy: dr. hodgins, i'd like you to take a look at this. see the comminuted fracture at the distal end of the sternal body, just superior to the xiphisternal joint? she was really crushed. a blow this hard is likely the cause of death. it would push the sternum back into the heart. and if, in that second, the ventricle was filled to maximum capacity, the bone would pop the heart. the bone is like a pin in a balloon. more like a stick of dynamite in a balloon. given the amount of jagged edges on the fracturing, i thought... there might be some particulates in there. yeah, okay. i'll take a look. i'm hoping

everyone this is rachel, welcome, rachel, to the show. now, rachel -- is here to prove to her ex-husband, gathry, thate is the father of her 5-year-old daughter, fantasia, now, the story of rachel and gary's past is one filled with pain and sacrifice. because during their marriage, rachel was not only responsible for raising two special needs children, rachel says that gary cheated on her with six women. now, to ease her pain, rachel did admit she got revenge on gary and slept with another guy. but as is the case, that revenge play is why gary is denying baby fantasia, watch. >> when i first met gary i thought he was my soul mate. he waited two years to start denying my daughter, now he is my worst nightmare. he cheated on me six different times while i was at home taking care of his two sick children. yeah, i admit i cheated on gary one time, but there is no doubt he is the father of my daughter, fantasia, and she has no business here, gary goes and buys new clothes but gives me hand-me-downs for fantasia, he is hurting our daughter. >>

. >>> who is rachel jeantel? also, one of the 27 nfl players charged with a crime since the super bowl. >> despite the fact he has a fiancee and a baby and is a homeowner, he also has a means to flee and a bracelet won't stop him and not the $250,000. denying the bail. >> does the nfl have an image problem, or will the fans forgive as they normally do? >>> i want to begin with the teenage girl, rachel jeantel took the stand today for a second day and face add heated cross-examination from the >> you didn't have information from the news this was racially charged. >> no, i don't watch the news. >> okay. are you okay this morning? >> yes. >> you seem so different than yesterday, just checking. did someone talk -- >> is that a question? >> yes, did someone talk with you last night about your demeanor in court yesterday? >> no, i went to sleep. >> i went to sleep. i watched most of it, martin, live today and found it quite gripping because they have a 19-year-old not very well educated young girl, up against a super

. >>> who is rachel jeantel? also, one of the 27 nfl players charged with a crime since the super bowl. >> despite the fact he has a fiancee and a baby and is a homeowner, he also has a means to flee and a bracelet won't stop him and not the $250,000. denying the bail. >> does the nfl have an image problem, or will the fans forgive as they normally do? >>> i want to begin with the teenage girl, rachel jeantel took the stand today for a second day and face add heated cross-examination from the defense. >> if you thought it was just a fight because it was one you knew trayvon martin was planning to start? >> no, sir. he would have told me, sir, and told me to call him back or he'll call me back, sir. >> you didn't have information from the news this was racially charged. >> no, i don't watch the news. >> okay. are you okay this morning? >> yes. >> you seem so different than yesterday, just checking. did someone talk -- >> is that a question? >> yes, did someone talk with you last night about your >> you didn't have

. >>> who is rachel jeantel? also, one of the 27 nfl players charged with a crime since the super bowl. >> despite the fact he has a fiancee and a baby and is a homeowner, he also has a means to flee and a bracelet won't stop him and not the $250,000. denying the bail. >> does the nfl have an image problem, or will the fans forgive as they normally do? >>> i want to begin with the teenage girl, rachel jeantel took the stand today for a second day and face add heated cross examination from the defense. >> if you thought it was just a fight because it was one you knew trayvon martin was planning to start? >> no, sir. he would have told me, sir, and told me to call him back or he'll call me back, sir. >> martin savidge is outside the courthouse. martin, a rather dramatic change in the way that she conducted herself today. >> reporter: oh, yeah, absolutely, piers. that's what everybody nope 'tissed, she dressed slightly different but she had been advised. she sounded that way, too, with of course, the yes, sir. unfor

rachel jeantel and the jurors have something in common. before this trial they were living their lives as regular women going on their regular way and now they are at the center of one of the most high profile racially charged cases of probably the decade and they have a lot of responsibility and pressure on them because of the role in this and i think maybe the jurors can empathize with the fact that, you know, their lives are changed now and they have a lot of responsibility in this case, too, just as rachel does. >> okay. good point to end on. sherry, angela and gloria, thank you-all very much indeed. >>> coming up a look ahead to monday's testimony. martin savidge is live in florida. who will take the stand, coming up. 'one size fits all'. it doesn't. that's crazy. we're all totally different. ishares core. etf building blocks for your personalized portfolio. find out why 9 out of 10 large professional investors choose ishares for their etfs. ishares by blackrock. call 1-800-ishares for a prospectus, which includes investment objective

rachel jeantel's testimony is incredibly important. being the last person to have any interaction with trayvon martin and being able to say, trayvon knew he was being followed, i think is a huge part and probably one of the biggest takeaways from this week was rachel jeantel saying trayvon knew he was being followed and tried to lose whomever this individual was. he said to her, "he is behind the." i think of the individual is able to take her testimony and drive home the point that ,rayvon was not the aggressor but the other way around, or if they're able to say maybe there for don west to say, maybe there is a chance that trayvon martin walked up to zimmerman and kind of picked a fight. i think there were some really inconsistencies of what took place. up until now, we have only had audio and a small amount of evidence for individuals to do on their own. ,> rachel jeantel's testimony that was probably the most dramatic part of the first days of the trial. the prosecution, as you would expect of her prosecution, was extremely confront

don west going up against rachel jeantel. don west was the guy who did the knock-knock joke as part of his opening statement. he is already coming in, to my mind, already with his credibility, and whether he is up to the task of doing his job. now he is very methodical, and plodding what he is doing, during the prosecution's questioning of ms. jeantel. he was hopping up, objecting, asking all sorts of questions. you know, he is doing his job as a defense attorney. but you know, i have to say if i were on the jury i would be a little put off by his demeanor. >> jonathan capehart, thank you for joining us. we'll continue with faith jenkins. a riveting 911 call from another witness in the case of florida versus zimmerman today. and later, the supreme court's decision today in favor of marriage equality. because of chief justice john roberts, she joins us now where she will be able to marry her partner, that is coming up. imp? a talking car. but i'll tell you what impresses me. a talking train. this ge locomotive can tell you exa

everybody ridiculed rachel for saying she heard wet grass. this same witness ridiculed hearing sneakers on wet grass, yet no one is talking about that, and i wonder why. >> mark, what about that? and also the defense attorney mark o'mara got the witness to admit it could be george zimmerman calling for help. i want to play that. >> you said that it was difficult for you to identify that screaming voice as that of george zimmerman, correct? >> yeah, i couldn't tell whose voice that was. >> have you ever heard george zimmerman scream like the person was screaming that night? >> never. >> would you consider those screams to be life threatening screams? >> yes. >> did it seem that it was the screams of somebody who was getting beat up? >> they were being hurt somehow, yes. >> maybe somebody who was having this done to them. >> it's possible. >> have you ever seen this picture before? >> yes. >> could those screams have come from somebody who was having this done to them? >> objection, speculation. >> mark, what do you make of that? >> i was wonde

don west going up against rachel jeantel. don west was the guy who did the knock-knock joke as part of his opening statement. he is already coming in, to my mind, already with his credibility, and whether he is up to the task of doing his job. now he is very methodical, and plodding what he is doing, during the prosecution's questioning of ms. jeantel. he was hopping up, objecting, asking all sorts of questions. you know, he is doing his job as a defense attorney. but you know, i have to say if i were on the jury i would be a little put off by his demeanor. >> jonathan capehart, thank you for joining us. we'll continue with faith jenkins. a riveting 911 call from another witness in the case of florida versus zimmerman today. and later, the supreme court's decision today in favor of marriage equality. because of chief justice john roberts, she joins us now where she will be able to marry her partner, that is coming up. falcon! (girl) we should do that. (guy) i caught a falcon. (guy) you could eat a bug. let's do that. (guy) yo

bob and rachel met online. she caught a quick glimpse into bob bashara's life -- the money, the beautiful house, the luxury cars, lakefront living in a suburb of detroit. on top of it all, you're into a kinky lifestyle and i am, too. let's get the party going. >> we want to make it a threesome instead of a twosome. move here. that's what was going on at the time of the homicide. >> reporter: in her blog rachel said bob went to oregon to meet the woman. january 10, 2012, they are forming a bond to someday be master and slave. bashara, according to reporter santia's sources washunting in park to find the threesome a place. >> there is motive, reason and a deadline. >> reporter: when you connect the dots the wife, jane, is odd woman out. >> basically jane is in the way. >> reporter: we confronted bashara with the three-way series before his arrest on the solicitation charge. the math didn't work. it was one woman too many and that's why she's dead. >> no, absolutely not. >> reporter: that becomes the theory for mo

care lynn and rachel do what they can nor the families and make that are every member of their clinic staff write condoll lens cards and the sympathy for the tragedyity conveyed throughout every step of the process, care lynn and rash chyle made sure that the patient received of the best possible care and personal if you have please welcome care lynn and rachel: (applause) ism (applause) . >> hi. so on behalf of rachel and myself our i would like to first thank -- for offering this incredible honor. but more importantly we want to thank the san francisco general hospital foundation for the work you do everyday to support san francisco general hospital to help us to continue to pursue our wishes of helping those in need. so we we are here today because of and on behalf of daniel abraham. (applause) . and the entire small but mighty hematology, oncology division at san francisco general hospital. (applause) . >> rachel and i are proud to be part of this dedicated team team team and understand that between the patient with cancer, you must acknowledge and treat not just their bodies but

>> i think rachel's team was great, anderson. she stood fast. her testimony was consistent, and as you see, she through various attempts to i'm peach her, held her own. >> she seemed less combative in her testimony today than yesterday. did you or your colleagues prepare her for today's testimony or give her advice on what to do differently? >> no, she has her own counsel in this case, however, remember, yesterday she came at the latter part of the court day. so she was tired and most people sitting in court were tired and we went fairly late. so i believe that she was just tired. obviously, once she was given the chance to rest overnight, came back and she was a great witness. she was very respectful to the court and gave very precise answers. >> so, you're saying you nor mr. crump gave her advice about what to do differently today on the stand? >> no, as a matter of fact, i believe she was in the custody of the agents. we had no access to her whatsoever. >> do you feel the defense attorney john west was too hash with her today? >> well, i thin

rachel jeantel has been on stand for the past two days. do you think her testimony went well for the defense? because she was really billed as the prosecution's star witness. do you think it's worked in the defense's favor? >> well, you know, i think that shaefs she was a reticent witness, i don't think she wanted to be involved and waited so long and found out by happenstance. i was most concerned not with her testimony but the way she started with mr. crump's interview, off record without law enforcement there and more problematic, the interview, she's sitting right next to trayvon martin's mother when she's supposed to give her first sworn law enforcement statement and in that statement she didn't tell the truth on a number of issues. i think she didn't want to be there. she was reluctant and i think that reluctancy showed up in her testimony today and yesterday. >> and stressing in the court todd ant the presence of trayvon martin's mother during that interview with law enforcement, to you that says what? that there's potential that ei

we'll look at what rachel jeantel's testimony means for this. sunny hostin in atlanta and with me here is page pate. good morning. >> good morning. >> sunny, if the twitterverse is any indication, two tweets point othat. one says breaking rachel jeantel guilty of murdering the leengli language. what is your take on her testimony, sunny? >> you know, i think that's an unfair characterization of what's happening in the courtroom. yes, perhaps she is the most elegant witness that we've seen. but i think you understand that she is not a professional witness and not a detective and someone that has not testified before. she appears to be reluctant on the witness stand and that gives her more credible. i put a lot of people on the witness stand and oftentimes you see this. you see people being their authentic severals. people that can't be coached and people that are perhaps not the best type witnesses, but i tell you juries react to that. react to the altogethuthenty. she is being herself and she said some things that are not flattering to trayvon ma

rachel jeantel has been on stand for the past two days. do you think her testimony went well for the defense? because she was really billed as the prosecution's star witness. do you think it's worked in the defense's favor? >> well, you know, i think that she was a reticent witness, i don't think she wanted to be involved and waited so long and found out by happenstance. i was most concerned not with her testimony but the way she started with mr. crump's interview, off record without law enforcement there and more problematic, the interview, she's sitting right next to trayvon martin's mother when she's supposed to give her first sworn law enforcement statement and in that statement she didn't tell the truth on a number of issues. i think she didn't want to be there. she was reluctant and i think that reluctancy showed up in her testimony today and yesterday. >> and stressing in the court todd ant the presence of trayvon martin's mother during that interview with law enforcement, to you that says what? that there's potential that either sh

how is rachel doing as a witness? i would imagine she's been instructed to answer as little as possible, yes, sir or no, sir. >> yes. on kroengs that's exactly the way you're supposed to answer and today she's adding in sir and even mr. west in a sign of respect for the defense attorney. he's now boring in on probably the most important testimony. she said she heard trayvon martin say "get off get off." mr. west is pointing out this is inconsistent. >> is west being a bit combative anticipates few moments ago when he was pressing her on whether or not she could attest to the fact that trayvon didn't make some sort of physical motion towards zimmerman? >> i think his demeanor has been pretty patient, pretty good. but she's doing better today. and one thing i think is coming across that may be very difficult for the defense to shake. i think this witness is convincing the jury that trayvon martin was, in fact, being pursued by george zimmerman. now the separate question of whether it was trayvon martin who said "get off

we're talking about rachel jeantel. i'll call out a different moment of the day, selma maura saying there was a gunshot and after it the man with the black and red kt ja, the man on top moved. the man on the bottom did not, seems to establish, vinnie politan, that the person on top of the fight, the person in control was george zimmerman, and that will mean a lot in terms of can feel defense analysis. your take? >> oh, absolutely. if george zimmerman is on top and you have a witness with saying he has the red and black jacket, it's clear who is in control. how do you claim self-defense if you're on top of the person you're shooting. you have a gun, they don't have a gun. to me that was powerful, chris. what are you going to do with that danny? >> that's right, how dare you argue that in the first place. danny you're not arguing it, don't look so scared but i want to you explain it for everybody at home. if it is established that george zimmerman was in control, what would he have to do to use self-defense to get out of

rachel jeantel has been on stand for the past two days. do you think her testimony went well for the defense? she was billed as the prosecution's star witness. >> i think she was a reticent witness, i don't think she wanted to be involved. she waited so long and was found out almost by happenstance. i was most concerned with her testimony but the way she started with it, with mr. crump's interview, sort of off record without law enforcement there. and even more problematic was the interview with her when she was sitting right next to trayvon martin's mother, when she was supposed to be giving her first law enforcement statement. even in that statement, she didn't tell the truth on a number of issues. but i think she didn't want to be there. she was reluctant and that sort of showed up in her testimony today and yesterday. >> stressing in the court today about the presence of trayvon martin's mother during that interview with law enforcement, to you that says what? that there's potential that either she was changing her statements to the po

they may not be sure what to make of rachel jeantel. but they believe trayvon martin was followed, was pursued by zimmerman, and whatever else after that came about because george zimmerman ignored the dispatcher and went looking for this guy. >> because of the focus on jeantel, i want to play just a little bit of sound from it. let's take a look at this exchange with the defense attorney. >> of course, you don't know if he was telling you the truth or not. >> why you need to lie about that, sir? >> maybe if he decided to assault george zimmerman, he didn't want you to know about it? >> that's very retarded, sir. >> i'm sorry? >> that's really retarded to do that, sir. >> dana, there are some people who criticized don west for being really tough in rachel jeantel on how he questioned her. how tough to go given the age of the person on the witness stand and given the way that you as the attorney, as well as the person on the stand has to come across? >> i think as a defense attorney as it relates to each and every witness, you start off

for a second day, rachel jeant

rachel calls that into question. she also said she heard another deeper voice saying what are you doing here? that would have been according to this, george zimmerman. the big picture here, three weeks have gone by since trayvon martin had died and nobody had been arrested. george zimmerman hadn't been arrested. then this woman comes forward and interviewed by the family and he has a news conference that built the civil right action and activists to call and demand george zimmerman's arrest. the governor .ed to a special prosecutor and he was charged with second-degree murder. >> mercedes, what do you think of this going here? >> disasterous, absolutely disasterous. >> for? >> for zimmerman. here is someone you could have knocked out of the park and brought out those inconsistencies and said you lied when you said you didn't go to the wake because you were at the hospital. 1k3* now you are saying it is because you didn't want to see the body like that. frankly drive it home that you have an agenda here and this is wh

they may not be sure what to make of rachel jeantel. but they believe trayvon martin was followed, was pursued by george zimmerman. and whatever else after that happened came about because george zimmerman ignored the dispatcher and went looking for this guy. >> because of the focus on jeantel, i want to play just a little bit of sound from it. let's take a look at this exchange with the defense attorney. >> of course, you don't know if he was telling you the truth or not. >> why you need to lie about that, sir? >> maybe if he decided to assault george zimmerman, he didn't want you to know about it? >> that's absolutely retarded, sir. >> i'm sorry? >> that's really retarded to do that, sir. >> dana, there are some people who criticized don west for being really tough in rachel jeantel on how he questioned her. how tough to go given the age of the person on the witness stand and given the way that you as the attorney, as well as the person on the stand has to come across? >> i think as a defense attorney as it relates to each and every w

she is rachel jeantel. she is this young woman, 1 ye9 years aftyear s of age, going into her senior year of high school. she faced a full morning of grilling by zimmerman's attorney who tried to shake her testimony about her retelling of her phone conversation with martin in the days after she was killed. jeantel toned down some of the attitude that she exhibited in court yesterday, until this. let me play this for you. this explain with zimmerman attorney, defense co-counsel, don west. >> so you made the decision, then, not to tell mr. crump that you'd actually heard trayvon martin say, get off, get off, because you were in a hurry? >> objection. asked and answered. >> the word, in a hurry, is an additional part to that question, so i will allow it in the answer. >> yes, sir. because crump is not a law enforcer. >> so you weren't worried about telling him, first of all, the truth, or the whole story? >> first of all, crump is not law enforcement. he's not an officer. i knew that he was not an officer. so l

. >> rachel maddow who will have much more to say on the "rachel maddow show" tonight. i said it would be an all-star panel, thanks to all of you, as well as to pete williams. that's going to do it for me. i'm chris jansing. that's it for "jansing & company." thomas roberts next. >> our agenda coming up, the historic day we have been watching the past hour in the supreme court. >> the supreme court has declared the defense of marriage act, the federal defense of marriage act, unconstitutional. the supreme court has decided that it cannot take up the challenge to california's proposition 8. i must say, this is also a great way for the supreme court not to have to decide the issue of same-sex marriage. it gives them an off-ramp. >> and there we have it. that was nbc justice correspondent, pete williams, minutes ago, announcing two labtd mark decisions from the united states supreme court with unprecedented impact on gay rights in this country. right now we're looking at live pictures from outside the high court as the biggest crowd that we have seen so far this week is th

rachel jontell is on the stand. let's go back to it now. >> so this is -- >> i didn't want to see somebody cry. you wouldn't want to see people crime. >> of course. >> i'm not an emotional person. >> you knew then, when you had the meeting, it would be a tough one for her. >> yeah, i was the last one to even talk to her son. >> of course. you knew she would be very interested to know. >> and emotional. >> -- and emotional, because there were a lot more questions than answers at that point in the case. right? >> yes. >> so you wound up doing that, am i correct? that you met with ms. fulton? was that on march 19th? >> yes. >> did you tell her generally what you knew about the event? >> i told her a little bit. i just -- when i saw her i gave her the letter, and she didn't even open the letter. she just asked what happened. she wanted to know what happened that night. i had told her that tray von talked to me that night. >> were you trying to make it easy forehad to understand? >> yes. >> and she opened the letter. >>

we are following the cross-examination of rachel jeantel, the last. ern to speak to trayvon martin before he was shot. there's been a slight pause in proceedings. lisa, what exactly is going on now? >> i think they're talking about where their attorney can go and follow up questioning. i want to point out something i think was very important. he asked a number of questions about the text messages that she had exchanged with trayvon martin on his final day. there are a lot of them. there's been a lot of pretrial wrangling as to whether text messages on trayvon martin's phone could come into evidence. right now they are not in evidence but the judge said that could change depending how things went on trial. the defense very much wants to get those in. that's why they're delving into that area. >> lisa, it seemed as though mr. west as trying to imply that have a von martin's relationship with rachel jeantel was much closer than just friendship even though rachel had actually said he was actually having an intimate relationship with somebody else. >> righ

. >> rachel, it's me! rachel! >> exhibit b-5 creates an internet sensation sparking vigorous debate. some believe it's really leaked trial evidence. >> it feels real. like the shaky camera and the sort of awkward moments when they aren't saying a lot. >> many others think this is a sick and twisted hoax. >> this is definitely fake. there's somebody that's hit by a car you're going to keep a camera on your face and run to them? our instincts are to drop and help your friend. >> so what is the truth? >> well, i just got back from the funeral so i'd have to say exhibit b-5 is pretty damn real. >> wait, there's no way -- >> hi. i'm cindy and i played rachel on exhibit b-5. and i am all good. >> that's more like it. >> rachel! >> exhibit b-5 is a ghoulish take on prank videos. it comes from the creative mind of film director kyle rankin. >> i think people like to watch videos like this because it's similar to getting on a roller coaster. it's skirting death. that's why it's so popular. >> kyle has worked on many films

her name is rachel jeantel. she's the last person trayvon martin talked to before his altercation with george zimmerman on the night of february 26th, 2012. she was on the phone with martin, and the moments before that altercation, an altercation which ended with trayvon martin dead. george zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting and killing of trayvon martin. zimmerman has pled not guilty, claiming he killed martin in self-defense. rachel jeantel is in the unfortunate position of being caught in the middle of it. and even in direct examination, jeantel's testimony got off to a rocky start. >> and i know you grew up in a haitian family, so make sure that everybody can hear you try to speak as clear and -- >> can you repeat what your answer was, please? >> when defense attorney don west began cross-examination, what took place was an excruciating and at times, if i can editorialize, infuriating process by which the defense tried to impeach and impugn her. there's little doubt rachel jeantel

her age, immaterial. >> rod vereen, attorney for rachel jeantel. thank you so much for your time tonight. and let me say i think that the attacks that i've heard on rachel jeantel have been nothing short of offensive to any american that wants to see young people, teenagers, people that are minors do the right thing and come forward, no matter what happens in this trial. if people come forward, they out not be ridiculed. they ought not in any way be given the treatment this young lady was given. she has given a statement, and the central part of the statement has not changed that really deals with what happened in this case. whether the jury believes or not, we'll seattle. but to castigate her, to characterize her, to stereotype her and use all kinds of attacks i think is something that does an injustice to the criminal justice system, and only leads to what attorney vereen said, making people say i'm not going to come forward. i'm not going to help the system try to find justice because i will become a target rather than a help. >>> still ahead, i

they may not be sure what to make of rachel jeantel. but they believe trayvon martin was followed, was pursued by george zimmerman. and whatever else after that happened came about because george zimmerman ignore addis patcher and went looking for this guy. >> because of the focus on jeantel, i want to play just a little bit of sound from it. let's take a look at this exchange with the defense attorney. >> of course, you don't know if he was telling you the truth or not. >> why you need to lie about that, sir? >> maybe if he decided to assault george zimmerman, he didn't want you to know about it? >> that's absolutely retarded, sir. >> i'm sorry? >> that's really retarded to do that, sir. >> dana, there are some people who criticized don west for being really tough in rachel jeantel on how he questioned her. how tough to go given the age of the person on the witness stand and given the way that you as the attorney, as well as the person on the stand has to come across? >> i think as a defense attorney as it relates to each and every wit

i just think that we're we're heading in the wrong direction but what about those rachel who say that maybe if we had this kind of stuff before nine eleven there wouldn't have been a nine eleven. it's hard to know whether there would or wouldn't have been a nine eleven i mean going back in history of us not a leg that is a very difficult thing to do and there have been a lot of changes in our sharing of classified information since nine eleven that's one of the things that makes us vulnerable to these kinds of leaks one of the problems before nine eleven was there is not enough information sharing among people who had different pieces of information but could not access and have to really put that the tapestry together so there's been a push to share much more information now possibly we'll review some of those procedures they'll be certainly questions raised about the number of defense contractors who don't work for the government but do have these top level security clearances i don't expect to see a lot of changes a lot of substantive changes in the actual surveillance not unless t

. >> rachel! >> it sparks vigorous debate. some believe it's really leaked trial evidence. >> awkward moments when they aren't saying a lot. >> many others think this is a sick and twisted hoax. >> this is definitely fake. >> rachel! >> if somebody gets hit by a car, are you going to keep your camera running? >> our instincts are to drop and go help your friend. >> what is the truth? >> well, i just got back from the funeral. >> wait, there's no way -- >> hi, i played rachel on exhibit b-5. and i am all good. >> oh, that's more like it. >> rachel! >> exhibit b-5 is a ghoulish take on prank videos. it comes from kyle rankin. >> i think people like to watch videos like this because it's similar to getting on a roller coaster. it's skirting death. >> kyle has worked on numerous films including the battle of shaker heights and the post apocalyptic thriller nuclear family. >> i like to keep writing, and i want to challenge myself to do something i haven't done. so building up to a very realistic car hit i thought would be pretty co

watching a live picture as rachel jeantel is now taking a break from the stand. one thing that's critical to know, this happened actually during a side bar, the jury was asked to leave the room. there's an issue here with this tape. with what is said on this tape. and it is the tape of the interview that young woman gave a year ago to the prosecutors as they investigated this case and put their case together. and it's all about what words were used and what was being identified as the speaker that young woman could hear during the confrontation with george zimmerman and trayvon martin. want to bring in sunny hostin, cnn legal analyst as well, this is really critical stuff. this is the kind of thing that can really bias a jury and they need to get this down before the jury is able to make sense of the stuff we're trying to make sense of. >> i think that's right and that's why the jury was asked to leave the room, of course, because these are legal matters at this point. these aren't factual matters. it's -- they're going to determine whether or not the tape is goi

that's exactly what has been happening to rachel. we are watching this show, right, as if it is a movie, right? we're watching it like "law & order" and "csi" and all these things and saying, this is my inter entertainment. this is a young girl who lost her best friend while she was on the phone with him and didn't go to a funeral. they twist that into a lie they told. i don't know how many 19 years old can go to a funeral and see their friend lying in a coffin with their friend they were just on the phone with. >> what we see in popular culture, expectations certain kinds of bodies will experience certain things. an overweight dark skinned black woman's friend being dead, isn't that what she expected out of life? since those are the stories we tell, we think that is the story she expects to live. >> there's also a deeper historical problem here. first of all, this is a case where it's clear we are not as far along the post civil rights yellow brick road as we think we are. >> lots of evidence of that this week. >> a kind of fantasti

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at first rachel jeantel became emotional when questioned about why she lied. she said she was in the hospital and couldn't go to her friend's funeral. >> i didn't want to see the body. >> reporter: she told the prosecutors martin used racial slurs to explain the man following him. creepy. jeantel told martin to run, but then the phone went dead. when she called back, martin said he was still being watched and then confronted. he said, why are are you foll following me for? calling trayvon, vavon. then i heard trayvon saying, get off, get off. >> reporter: then the tone of her testimony changed when cross examined by defense team and at times having -- >> i had told you -- you listening? >> reporter: the 19-year-old admitted she lied about her age. claiming to be 16 at the time of the shooting because she didn't want to be questioned. she said she didn't call police to tell her account because she expected police to contact her like they do on the tv shows. then, there is the issue of the audio recording the witness made with attorney ben crump. he played pub l

rachel told investigators they were going to bury skylar. when they couldn't, they left her body here on the side of the road and covered it in branches. the other girl's name hasn't been made public, since she's charged as a juvenile. but skylar's father says she is the same girl who told him she had picked up his daughter for a joy ride. investigators searched that girl's car after rachel schoeff's confession and found skylar's blood. >> what was your daughter's friendship like with these two girls? how close were they? >> inseparable. they were together all the time, especially the one that hasn't been named yet. she had just gotten back from vacation with her a week before this. she had been best friends with her since she was 8 years old. i mean it's sick. >> remember those friends who helped and comforted the family? it's almost beyond comprehension, but dave neese says one of them was the unnamed alleged killer. >> she was finding out from us every week exactly what the cops knew. because they were telling us what they knew. of course

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"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. happy friday. >> happy friday. exciting stuff in california. >> yeah, we've got a bunch of it live. >> i'm glad you have some of it live. >> we might be having a live wedding on the show in five minutes. >> i'm going to go watch it right now. >> thank you very much. thanks to you at home for staying with us the next hour. i'm not kidding. we have some expected breaking news to report at this hour. same-sex marriage is breaking out all over the state of california. as we speak. 23 days early. just a short time ago, unexpectedly, a federal appeals court in california issued a one-sentence order unexpectedly clearing way for same-sex marriages to resume in that state immediately. and it caught everybody off guard. you'll remember it was wednesday morning that the united states supreme court in that 5-4 decision ruled that the proponents of california's ban on same-sex marriage, prop 8, those proponents of that ban had no legal standing to bring their case to the supreme court. the ruling

lawyers have wrapped up questioning of the big witness, rachel jeantel. the judge has allowed her to leave for the day. she does remain under subpoena and may be called back to testify. lisa bloom joins me now. right now we're hearing from a technician from t-mobile. >> that's. his name is raymond macdonald. senior management. i assume this is probably a regular part of his job. he has to go into trial when phone records are at issue. here are our phone records, they're legitimate. >> here he is now. >> in this case these are the phone records that are so important between trayvon martin and rachel jeantel. they were on the phone all day either talking or texting according to her testimony. >> that was pretty brief given how long we saw rachel jeantel. i want to play an excerpt from the back and forth, more heated exchange between rachel jeantel and the defense attorney. let's play it. >> trayvon got hit. >> you don't know that, do you? >> no. >> you don't know that trayvon got hit. >> he claims he had. >> you don't know that trayvon at that moment didn't

i just think that we're we're heading in the wrong direction but what about those rachel who say that maybe if we had this kind of stuff before nine eleven there wouldn't have been a nine eleven. it's hard to know whether there would or wouldn't have been a nine eleven i mean going back in history of us not a leg that is a very difficult thing to do and there have been a lot of changes in our sharing of classified information since nine eleven that's one of the things that makes us vulnerable to these kinds of leaks one of the problems before nine eleven was there is not enough information sharing among people who had different pieces of information but could not access and have to really put that the tapestry together so there's been a push to share much more information now possibly we'll review some of those procedures they'll be certainly questions raised about the number of defense contractors who don't work for the government but do have these top level security clearances i don't expect to see a lot of changes a lot of substantive changes in the actual surveillance not unless t

this one about a transcript taken from rachel jeantel. listen to this. >> according to this transcript you just saw, when mr. de la rionda said can you tell who was saying that, you said i couldn't hear trayvon, trayvon. >> i couldn't hear. read the next page, sir. >> could you tell who was saying that? i could of heard trayvon. >> i couldn't. >> here is what this says. >> trust me, they messed up. >> all right, mark. this is critical potentially to the case. she says trust me, they messed up meaning she was misquoted in that earlier transcript. are jurors likely to believe that? >> look, could of does not establish this case beyond a reasonable doubt or her testimony beyond a reasonable doubt. could have is ambiguous. it is maybe yes, maybe know, beyond a reasonable doubt is the standard. could of doesn't cut it. i think during the same exchange it comes up later she says she could hear wet grass. i can't imagine that the jurors are going to find her to be credible and this case, this will be the cornerstone of this case. i think the sta