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Storm Taking Toll on Holiday Travel; Ferguson Prosecutor Faces Backlash; Protests Across the Nation; Officer Darren Wilson Breaks His Silence

Aired November 26, 2014 - 08:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

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DARREN WILSON, POLICE OFFICER THAT SHOT AND KILLED MICHAEL BROWN: I just felt the immense power that he had, it was like a 5-year-old holding on to Hulk Hogan.

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, ABC NEWS HOST: He turned around and put his hands up?

WILSON: No way. No way.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hands up.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We, the family, we have carried peaceful protests, but we do not encourage violence.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're looking at another police cruiser being torched.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In the recent history of our country, we have not seen anything like this.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Much more aggressive police response.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're still hurting. I feel like they just killed him again.

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CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, welcome to NEW DAY. It is Wednesday on November 26th. I'm Chris Cuomo, live near Ferguson, Missouri. We saw dozens of arrests and plenty of heated confrontation here last night, fewer than we saw Monday night, but it is hard to call this progress, Alisyn?

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Alisyn Camerota with Michaela Pereira here in New York City. We're monitoring developments across the country as we hear from Officer Darren Wilson for the first time, so we will bring you more on that in a moment, but first we do want to go, start with Chris, he's in Ferguson. And, Chris, it looks very quiet there at the moment. CUOMO: Well, look, it is early, but hopefully it is the promise of a

better to come. Make no mistake, the town of Ferguson does remain torn apart. People here are still trying to cope with a grand jury decision, being perceived by many as a rejection of the black community by the justice system. The Ferguson police station was the focus for many demonstrators once again.

Tensions built as the crowd swelled, as did the National Guard presence here. Protests started out peacefully, but a few bad actors pushed the limits. Violence ensued. Take a look.

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CUOMO (voice-over): More police in riot gear. More National Guard out in the open, but still, more attempts to tear Ferguson apart.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hands up, don't shoot. Hands up, don't shoot.

CUOMO: A police car set ablaze by a small group of agitators.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (inaudible) you will be subject to arrest.

CUOMO: Police using more aggressive tactics, making arrests sooner. Tear gas, necessary again, hanging in the air, as the scent of the moment.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are those that are stuck on violence that embed themselves with the peaceful protesters.

CUOMO: But all who hit the streets are outraged and what fuels their continued disobedience is obvious. President Obama says it's not just made up that communities of color don't always believe they're being treated fairly.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: It's rooted in realities that have existed in this country for a long time.

CUOMO: : Then came the next flash point, Officer Wilson saying the incident had nothing to do with race in an ABC News exclusive.

STEPHANOPOULOS: If Michael Brown were white, this would have gone down in exactly the same way?

WILSON: Yes.

STEPHANOPOULOS: No question?

WILSON: No question.

CUOMO: The officer says on that fateful morning on August 9th, he saw black teenager Michael Brown and his friend walking in the middle of the street.

WILSON: I said, hey, come here for a minute, and that's when he turned and said what the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) are you going to do about it, and slammed my door shut on me. CUOMO: Wilson said the teen hit him in excess of ten times, causing

minor bruising, and that there was a tussle over his gun.

WILSON: He's going to get this gun away from me, something's going to happen, and I'm going to be dead. So, I pull a third time and it finally goes off.

CUOMO: Wilson admits Brown runs away, but says it was his duty to give chase.

WILSON: My job isn't to just sit and wait. You know, I have to see where this guy goes.

CUOMO: Perhaps the most important point, the officer says Brown turned and charged toward him.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Some of the eyewitnesses have said, when at that moment he turned around, he turned around and put his hands up.

WILSON: That would be uncorrect - - incorrect.

STEPHANOPOULOS: No way?

WILSON: No way.

CUOMO: Dorian Johnson, Brown's friend and witness to the shooting, says he knows exactly what he saw.

DORIAN JOHNSON, WITNESS TO THE SHOOTING OF MICHAEL BROWN: I definitely saw my friend stop and put his hands up, then compliant after being fired upon, after already being struck with a bullet wound from Officer Darren Wilson's gun.

CUOMO: Wilson says there was not anything he could have done differently to prevent killing the 18-year-old.

WILSON: He kind of starts to lean forward like he's going to tackle me, and I looked down my barrel of my gun, and I fired, and what I saw was his head and that's where it went.

CUOMO: After the verdict Brown's parents say they're profoundly disappointed.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I feel like they just killed him again.

CUOMO: The officer's response?

WILSON: I think those are grieving parents who are mourning the loss of their son. I'm sorry that their son lost his life. It wasn't the intention of that day. It's what occurred that day.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Is it something you think that will always haunt you?

WILSON: I don't think it's a haunting. It's always going to be something that happened.

CUOMO: The officer's response offers small consolation.

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CUOMO (on camera): There are those who say the grand jury has spoken, there is no indictment, that's it, it's over, move on. That's not going to happen, and not only because of what happened with Michael Brown and Officer Darren Wilson, but because of the issues that drive a lot of the outrage here in the first place and we're seeing that. The proof is in the protests, the emotion from Ferguson is reflected in what you're seeing across the country.

Thousands in New York, L.A., Chicago, Washington, Boston, Baltimore, and so many more cities are making their objections known as well, both to the grand jury decision here, and police tactics that they see where they live that they decry as unfair. Let's bring in Stephanie Elam, she's been in Ferguson all night, once again trying to make sense of the situation here. Stephanie, good morning.

STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Chris, and you're so correct. It's resonating across the country. The death of Mike Brown and then the lack of an indictment of Darren Wilson spurring many people to take to the streets across America.

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ELAM (voice-over): Sirens ring out in Ferguson, Missouri. Demonstrators facing off with police for the second night in a row.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Disperse now, or you'll be subject to arrest.

ELAM: Tensions coming to a boil as protesters overturn and set fire to a police cruiser after a day of relatively peaceful protests. Police and National Guard responding with a heavier hand than the night before, arresting 44 protesters, using hoses and pepper spray to disperse the crowd.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We will get justice by any means necessary!

ELAM: This as anger over the grand jury's decision spreads across the country.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What do we want?

CROWD: Justice!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When do we want it?

CROWD: Now!

ELAM: Demonstrators flooding the streets yesterday in about 170 cities nationwide, blocking bridges, tunnels and major highways from coast to coast. Thousands of protesters snake their way through the streets of New York City, jamming traffic, holding signs and chanting loudly.

CROWD: No justice, no peace. ELAM: Across the country, in downtown Los Angeles, protesters rally,

knocking down fences and blocking the 101 freeway with road blocks and debris.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do we want a revolution!

ELAM: In Oakland, protests took a more violent turn. News helicopters capturing footage of vandals, smashing windows, looting local businesses, and lighting bon fires. In Minneapolis, a moment of rage as a car plows through a group of demonstrators, running over a protester's leg.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He was honking and getting mad that people wouldn't move and then he just plowed through.

ELAM: According to authorities, the woman was taken to the hospital and is being treated for very minor injuries. The incident currently under investigation. In Cincinnati, 15 demonstrators arrested after scaling concrete barriers and briefly shutting down interstate 75. Denver police also responding to protesters trying to move onto their interstate, using smoke bombs and pepper spray to deter the demonstrators.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They said mace, pull out the mace, maced everybody.

ELAM: From Atlanta to Boston, the nation's capital, protesters taking to the streets and making their voices heard as authorities attempt to contain a growing sense of outrage across the country.

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ELAM (on camera): And back out here, live in Ferguson, I can tell you that there are 44 people that were arrested last night during protests and demonstrations. But when it got to the point that police said this was no longer a peaceful assembly of people, because people were throwing bottles, they moved in, cleared out the crowd, and it pretty much went along uneventful, even though we saw a few people getting arrested during that time, Chris.

CUOMO: I share your observation, Stephanie. Thank you for doing the hard work out there in those difficult hours. We'll see you soon.

We're also going to be joined now by Anthony Gray, he is an attorney for Michael Brown's family and we've spoken to him before, and it's good to see you, Counsel Gray, thank you for being with us on NEW DAY this morning.

ANTHONY GRAY, ATTORNEY FOR MICHAEL BROWN'S FAMILY: No problem, thank you, Chris.

CUOMO: All right, so let's deal with what's out there, Counsel. You just had Officer Darren Wilson give his account. The main first point, the headline, is he feared for his life, he thought one more blow from Michael Brown, who was attacking him and came at him in his car, might have knocked him out or killed him. Your client, Michael Brown's mother, says I do not believe his account, that he could be afraid for his life because of my son. Is that true?

GRAY: Absolutely. It absolutely makes no sense whatsoever. At the point that you're in a car, and you're trapped inside, I can half way go along with the notion that you feel somewhat compromised. But now you outside of the vehicle, you have a weapon, you have someone who is injured, who is bleeding, whose blood is on you. At some point they lose enough blood, they lose consciousness. So the notion that you think the only option that you have is to shoot and kill someone who you can see is unarmed, is absolutely absurd. There are other avenues, there's takedown techniques. He could have used a weapon as an impact instrument. He could have done other things other than shoot and kill Mike Brown Jr. He wanted to do that, and he did what he wanted to do, not what he had to do.

CUOMO: He says that, you know, his answer, according to his descriptions would be, you're giving me credit for being able to think in something that was a reflexive situation. I saw his hand going to his waistband and in the car he went for my gun, and the forensics do bear out that there was reason to believe that Michael Brown was at least around his gun in the car, and that all went to why he was afraid for his life. Your response?

GRAY: It's all laughable to me. First of all, you pulled the gun out, and you're going to pull out a gun, and point it at an unarmed person who you are also saying that you have his arm in a grip. So, who's to say who is fearing for whose life at that point? Mike Brown Jr. doesn't have a right to fear for his life, and defend himself from your weapon?

It doesn't make any sense, and look at his statements before he got lawyered up. Before he was prepped, before the grand jury, look what he said. He didn't say he pulled it out. He said the gun fell off the holster, and to assume that now we have a free gun somewhere in the car, and they both make a grab for it. That's what his first statement was. Then he tells a quite different story to the detective that interviewed him. Then he tells an even larger, embellished story in front of the grand jury.

Every statement he makes is larger and larger, and then you want to talk about charging somebody with perjury. You look at his statements, you look at the physical evidence, they don't line up, period. They don't line up.

CUOMO: So the big question becomes, Counsel, why did the grand jury believe him?

GRAY: Because they didn't have him cross-examined. It was a friendly environment. He was able to just go and just tell his story freely. There were no hard-hitting questions. The inconsistencies that I see between the three statements that he made, nobody pointed them out, so quite naturally, you know, and then there's no recommendation to charge him with anything.

You put in front of a grand jury a list of charges and you don't suggest which one matches the case that you want to bring? Everybody knows if you don't make a recommendation to a grand jury, that's an indication that you shouldn't indict, and they took the cue from the prosecutor as the way it was given to them.

CUOMO: You know, there's so much pressure that's been put on an indictment was needed here so this could go to trial. A lot of legal experts, as you know, Counsel, being one yourself, say that this would have been a really hard case for prosecutors to win, that may feed in to why the prosecutor's office was somewhat reluctant apparently here. What would have happened then if it did go to trial but it wound up being a not guilty verdict?

GRAY: You know what? Then we would have had the judicial process, and the full adjudication of this officer, the cross-examination, the direct examination, the inconsistencies vetted out openly in the courtroom. And if a jury then decided they didn't want to convict him of whatever charge was put before them, at least they would have had a charge that the prosecutor was saying that fit the case that the prosecutor was presenting. And if they came back and said, you know what? We reject your recommendation to convict him on those charges, you know, I think we can accept that as a people, and I think that's reasonable.

But this situation was not that. It was just give you every and anything we can think of, even the stuff that's irrelevant. They had a witness there who they knew did not see anything. So what was the point of bringing that person before the grand jury? I don't get this data dump technique, putting all this information out there, most of which is irrelevant, and then you say, you guys decide which one of the four charges you have an option to do. You decide if any of this fits. Quite naturally they're going to say, I'm totally confused. And I'm not going to, you know, acquit. I'm sorry, I'm not going to indict.

CUOMO: So, Counsel, what are you going to do? Not going to indict, of course, that was the decision. The question now is, what are you going to do? There was some suggestions made during the press conference yesterday that we still need, you know, you were saying from your point of view we still need to have everything here, put out in the open so people can judge it, the system can make the right kind of decision. How are you going to do that?

GRAY: Well, it's not going to be my authority nor power to get that done. We are now resting and looking upon the federal investigation to continue, it's ongoing. We are hopeful that at least that process would, you know, be a little bit more thoroughly vetted, more fairly presented. We don't know what's going to happen, but I can tell you this, just like with the state investigation, the federal investigation will be a direct reflection of the prosecutor's attitudes and how they present their evidence, and what evidence they present, and what evidence they look at as well. 60 witnesses, Chris.

CUOMO: That's a closed process, also, and you know the bar is very high for a federal investigation.

Counsel, let me ask you something -- tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Is there a message from the family what they want people to keep in their heads and their hearts on Thanksgiving? GRAY: As it relates to this case, I think that this family has

already issued a public statement, they're disappointed, they feel like the system has let them down.

To the public at large, the call has always been the same, to remain peaceful and to remain calm. Quite naturally there are people out there that have their own agenda. We make it very clear that those that go contrary to what our call is, they're not with us. They have their own agenda. We cannot associate their behavior with this family, when from day one, we've been calling for peace, non-violence and calm.

So, if somebody goes against that, f we can't control them, but you need to understand the public at large needs to understand that they are not with the Brown family and they're not in line with the Brown family's pleas.

CUOMO: Counsel, thank you very much. Appreciate having you on NEW DAY, as always.

GRAY: Thank you, Chris.

CUOMO: Let's get to Alisyn and Michaela in New York.

CAMEROTA: OK, Chris, we'll be back with you in a second.

But there is another story to tell you. There's a monstrous storm that's ready to hit the East Coast, just in time for the busiest travel day of the year. Snow and rain are set to make a mess of the Thanksgiving getaway. It's a race against the clock for millions of travelers.

Let's get right to meteorologist Indra Petersons. She's keeping track of the forecast for us live at LaGuardia's Airport. How is it looking?

MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: Is her smile fading?

INDRA PETERSONS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Things are transitioning slowly right now. We're starting to see some delays. You can see the boards here behind me generally most flights are on time right now, but this is just LaGuardia, let me show you one of our weather maps where I can show you we're already seeing an hour and 40 minute delays out towards Philadelphia.

What are we talking about? Visibility issues, also in through Florida, half-hour delays towards Miami and Ft. Lauderdale.

Let me take you outside and show you why. It's not whether the rain or snow arrived yet, it has to do with the fact that it is gloomy, very low cloud ceilings, and visibility is an issue as well.

But, of course, it's also about the snow that's expected to come here. Just a few hours ago, temperatures were in the 50s and in the next hour, they're expected to drop into the 30s. If you know anything about weather, easy, we know what that means,

rain turns into snow. So, the major cities, the major hubs, D.C., New York, Philadelphia, Boston, are all expected to switch over to snowfall in the next few hours. So, it's a race in the next few hours to get out before everything changes and heavy snow comes our way.

Still crossing my fingers to make it out, guys.

PEREIRA: All right.

CAMEROTA: Great.

All right. Indra, thanks so much.

PEREIRA: Ahead here, the chief prosecutor in the Michael Brown case is facing criticism over how he handled the shooting of the unarmed teenager. Is Robert McCulloch the reason Officer Darren Wilson was cleared? We're going to take a closer look.

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CUOMO: There has been a sharp focus on the prosecutor who brought the Ferguson case to a grand jury. His name is Robert McCulloch, and he was heavily criticized even before the grand jury ruling and the criticism has not let up. He has defended the process and the result but many are asking, is the prosecutor the reason Officer Darren Wilson was cleared?

CNN's Ana Cabrera joins us following that part of the story.

Good morning.

ANA CABRERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you.

Bob McCullough, as you know, has been at the center of controversy from the very beginning. His father, a police officer, was killed in the line of duty. He was shot by an African-American man and that's one reason protesters had recommended a special prosecutor be appointed in this case for fear of bias.

Now, McCullough has said he would be fair. He insisted he would be fair all along. Now that the grand jury decision has come out, there are still many questioning whether the prosecutor's office did the right thing.

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CABRERA (voice-over): St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch under fire --

MICHAEL BROWN SR., MICHAEL BROWN'S FATHER: We're still hurting. It's basically, I feel like they just killed him again.

CABRERA: -- facing fresh criticism for his handling of the Michael Brown shooting case and his announcement of the grand jury decision after dark. Tension that had been building for hours erupting into chaos, causing

some to question the timing.

JAMES KNOWLES, MAYOR, FERGUSON, MISSOURI: Waiting for the announcement last night was wondering what the wisdom or the thought process was behind waiting until that hour. I don't know that it would have been any better. I think ultimately those who wished to create disruption were bent on doing that.

CABRERA: Others left wondering about the grand jury process.

GLORIA J. BROWNE-MARSHALL, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW PROFESSOR, JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE: He said that there was a problem with the evidence conflicting testimony. That's up to a jury in a regular criminal proceeding to decide the credibility of the witnesses.

CABRERA: McCulloch admits this case was handled differently than others, including remaining neutral and calling every single witness to testify, even Officer Darren Wilson.

ROBERT MCCULLOCH, ST. LOUIS COUNTY PROSECUTOR: In this case, we thought -- I thought much more important to bring in the actual witness.

CABRERA: McCulloch defended himself in our interview on September 24th. And he hoped releasing testimony and evidence to the public -- also unusual -- would ultimately prove that his team was fair. And McCulloch didn't shy away from discussing how the media may have made his job harder.

MCCULLOCH: The most significant challenge encountered in this investigation has been the 24-hour news cycle and its insatiable appetite for something, for anything to talk about.

CABRERA: But even as facts continue to come out and people hear the complete story for the first time, many members of this community still lack trust and confidence in a system that's supposed to insure justice for all.

MICHAEL JOHNSON, FERGUSON RESIDENT: You got a whole bunch of young people feel like the system don't work for them. So, why should they obey a system that don't work for them? Why?

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CUOMO: It's a big question they're dealing here on the ground in Ferguson. Let's bring in Chris King, managing editor of the "St. Louis American" and Paul Callan. He's CNN legal analyst, criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor.

Gentlemen, it's good to have both of you here.

Alisyn is going to help out in the interview. Thank you very much, Alisyn, for that.

Chris King, this came down to a special prosecutor, that was the big ask from the community. The prosecutor doesn't say no to that, the governor does. The governor said no. Why isn't there more talk about that decision, more onus on him?

CHRIS KING, MANAGING EDITOR, THE ST. LOUIS AMERICAN: Well, there was a lot of talk about it. Under the state of emergency, Governor Nixon had an opportunity to appoint a special prosecutor. McCulloch, who's very brazen and very confident, he threw it right to Nixon's face and said, hey, it's your move, get rid of me.

Nixon didn't respond to public pressure. Nixon is pro-law enforcement. McCulloch is very pro-law enforcement and didn't want to get involved in a police shooter case.

CUOMO: Paul Callan, one question to you and then I give to Alisyn. You said something earlier, this is what happens in a grand jury when you have an officer-involved shooting is that the prosecutor stays neutral.

You can't mean that as a general proposition, Paul, because that's not usually what happens in a grand jury of any nature. The prosecutor is usually using it as a tool, driving the process, and it's usually out to make a case. This was different. He said he was staying neutral but by staying neutral, was he putting too much on the grand jurors?

PAUL CALLAN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: I want to be clear about this, and I think there's a misconception that every grand jury in America handles things a certain way. Grand juries in America, there's a different grand jury in practically every county in America. So, there are thousands of them. And how cases are handled are a decision made by the prosecutor and the judges in that county.

So, it's kind of hard to generalize about this. I was talking earlier about in Manhattan, which is one of the busiest criminal jurisdictions in the United States, all evidence is presented to the grand jury and there is a neutral charge given by the prosecutor.

Now, I've gotten that from the top officials in the Manhattan district attorney's office.

In other places, this is not done. And, by the way, even in Manhattan in a normal case, the prosecutor looks at the case and says these are the witnesses that I believe and these are the witnesses that I believe I can get a conviction with, and he relies only on those witnesses to convince the grand jury to indict.

So, he does make a decision in a normal case, and then he kind of pursues that position before the grand jury. That wasn't done in this case, of course.

CAMEROTA: Gentlemen, I want you all to hear one hour ago Michael Brown's parents were on a morning show and they were asked, Michael Brown's father was asked what he would have done if he were on the grand jury, what question he would have asked Officer Wilson.

Here's his response.

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MICHAEL BROWN, SR., MICHAEL BROWN'S FATHER: Why?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why did this happen?

BROWN: It's my biggest question, why. Why did you choose to wake up with a chip on your shoulder and do what you did to our son?

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CAMEROTA: Paul, the parents will always believe that it was Officer Wilson who was the aggressor. Do they stand any chance of a civil suit now?

CALLAN: Well, they can file a civil suit for money damages and just to give you an example in the O.J. Simpson case, which everybody remembers. There was a finding of not guilty in the criminal case, but there was a subsequent civil case filed. I was involved in it, that's how I know about it. And in fact, a different result was reached by the jury in the civil case.

So, they could file a suit for money damages but it's an uphill battle, because there's been this dismissal. Sometimes, you get a quick settlement because, you know, the state will want to avoid the controversy. So I think we'll see that happen. They probably will file.

CAMEROTA: Chris King, is there any talk of what the parents will do now?

KING: No, it's really their decision to make with their attorneys. I'm staying out of that.

CUOMO: You know also, Alisyn, what Paul is talking about the civil remedy, a lot of people are talking about, you have a higher standard of proof, but you have an adversarial process. So, they feel and you have an open process and I think that's what they're looking for here.

CALLAN: You don't really --

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CUOMO: Why isn't open? You get to do depositions, you get to confront the other guy?

CALLAN: I'm not sure it's a higher standard of proof. It's kind of the same standard of proof. In civil case, it's preponderance of the evidence which means it's more likely than not.

CUOMO: Preponderance of evidence.

CALLAN: And that's pretty much the same as probable cause. So, it's kind of the similar standard that was applied in the grand jury.

CAMEROTA: All right. Gentlemen -- CUOMO: Probable cause, two versions of the events, then you go to

trial, at least in a civil determination, they're going to make one, right?

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CALLAN: No, with probable cause, the grand jury is supposed to decide it's more probable than not that Officer Wilson committed the crime. So, it's the same standard.

CUOMO: Right.

CALLAN: It's just ever so slightly more probable that he's the person who committed the crime and then it goes to trial to see if you can prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. So, it's kind of similar to the standard in this civil case.

CAMEROTA: Chris, are you satisfied with that?

CUOMO: Nope, but go on. We got more to do.

CAMEROTA: I knew that.

Chris King, Paul Callan, thanks so much.

CALLAN: Thank you.

CAMEROTA: All right. We've heard from Officer Wilson for the first time. Now, we're analyzing it from a legal perspective. Does he sound credible? What about his story actually got the grand jury to exonerate him? Our legal experts will break it down for us, ahead.

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