George Zimmerman apologizes in interview with Sean Hannity 
 
 "I feel like it was all God's plan," he told conservative talk show host Sean Hannity in Zimmerman's first interview since the shooting. 
 
 George Zimmerman told a national TV audience on Wednesday that he doesn't regret anything that happened the night he shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin . 
 
 Toward the end of the hourlong interview, however, Zimmerman backtracked on that statement. 
 
 "I do wish there was something, anything I could have done that wouldn't have put me in a position where I would have had to take a life," he said. "I do want to tell everyone I'm sorry that this happened. I hate to think that because of this incident, because of my actions, it has polarized, divided America. I'm truly sorry." 
 
 There were few surprises in the interview on Fox News. Zimmerman, with attorney Mark O'Mara sitting next to him, was calm, unemotional and accepted no responsibility for the violence that night. 
 
 "I am not a racist. I am not a murderer," he said. 
 
 He apologized again to Trayvon's parents. 
 
 "I would tell them that again I'm sorry. I don't have, my wife and I don't have any children. … I am sorry that they buried their child. I can't imagine what it must feel like, and I pray for them daily," he said. 
 
 Zimmerman, 28, killed the unarmed black teenager on a sidewalk not far from where Trayvon was staying Feb. 26. 
 
 The site was a few blocks from Zimmerman's town home. He told Sanford police he killed Trayvon in self-defense after the teenager knocked him to the ground and began pounding his head into a sidewalk. 
 
 Prosecutors say he's guilty of profiling, that he assumed Trayvon was about to commit a crime, began following him and then murdered him. 
 
 "I just think it's a tragic situation," Zimmerman told Hannity. "I hope it's the most difficult thing I'll ever go through in my life." 
 
 He was troubled by all the media attention, he said. 
 
 "It's surreal," he said. "I don't like that they've rushed to judgment the way they have." 
 
 Hannity also asked Zimmerman about allegations from a young woman who claims he sexually molested her when the two were children. The improper touching began, the unidentified woman said, when she was 6 and ended when she was 16. 
 
 The woman, who also accused Zimmerman of disliking black people, said Zimmerman was about two years older than her. 
 
 Zimmerman did not directly address the molestation claim. 
 
 It is ironic that the only witness who says he's a racist, Zimmerman said, also claims he molested her. 
 
 Although the shooting has prompted a great deal of public debate about Florida's Stand Your Ground statute, which allows someone with a reasonable fear of death or great bodily injury to use deadly force, Zimmerman said he had never heard of it before the shooting. 
 
 Zimmerman said he always carried a 9mm handgun, for which he had a concealed weapons permit, except when he went to work. 

 George Zimmerman appears before Circuit Judge Kenneth R. Lester Jr. during a bond hearing in Sanford, Fla., April 20, 2012. / AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel 
 
 (CBS) George Zimmerman will appear on the Fox News channel's Sean Hannity program at 9pm eastern time Wednesday. 
 
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 The first major interview with Zimmerman, who is charged with second degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, will take up Hannity's entire hour-long program, according to a statement from Fox News. 
 
 
 
 According to the statement, "Zimmerman will open up about what happened the night of Trayvon Martin's death and his experience in the aftermath of the fatal shooting." 
 
 Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty and maintains that he shot Martin in self-defense. 
 
 
 
 Long-time trial consultant and psychologist Amy Singer, PhD, who consulted for the defense in the Casey Anthony case, said Wednesday that Zimmerman's decision to be interviewed on national television while under indictment for murder is both rare and, in her opinion, ill-advised. 
 
 
 
 "You don't want to say anything that will come back and bite you," said Singer, president of Trial Consultants, Inc. "I guess what they're trying to do is damage control, but I'm not sure this is the best way to address rumors." 
 
 
 
 Indeed, according to the Fox statement, Zimmerman and his defense attorney Mark O'Mara will address "rumors circulating about the bail donations and hidden money." 
 
 
 
 On Tuesday, the Miami Herald reported that recently released jail phone calls between Zimmerman and his brother-in-law include Zimmerman referring to telling O'Mara about $37,000 in donations that he wanted to transfer out of his defense fund. O'Mara later told Judge Kenneth Lester at his client's bond hearing that his client was essentially broke. 
 
 
 
 According to the New York Times, O'Mara said in an interview that he did not recall having a conversation with his client about such a large sum of money. 
 
 
 
 Attorney Mark Geragos, who has represented such clients as Scott Peterson, Chris Brown and Michael Jackson, called Zimmerman's decision to do a televised interview "bizarre," but said that it isn't always against a defendant's best interests to speak out publicly before a trial. 
 
 
 
 "Sometimes it works because if the prosecution plays the interview you get your client to testify without being cross-examined," said Geragos. 
 
 
 
 Before he was charged with killing Martin, the former neighborhood watch volunteer contacted Hannity and spoke with him off-the-record. This move was among several that prompted his original attorneys, Hal Uhrig and Craig Sonner, to drop him as a client on April 10. 
 
 Zimmerman was arrested on April 11, more than a month after he shot and killed Martin as the teen walked back to the Sanford, Fla. condo where he was visiting his father. 
 
 Zimmerman was originally granted bond in the amount of $150,000. But in early June, Judge Kenneth Lester revoked the bond and ordered Zimmerman back to jail when it was revealed that Zimmerman and his wife may have lied about their finances at the bond hearing. His bond was reset at $1 million and Zimmerman walked out of the Seminole County Jail a second time on July 6. 
 
 
 
 Consultant Singer said she was surprised to learn O'Mara was allowing his client to do a televised interview. 
 
 
 
 "You just don't want to show your hand," Singer said. "He ought to keep quiet." 
 
 
 
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– In his first major interview, George Zimmerman will go on Fox News to be interviewed by Sean Hannity at 9pm today, reports CBS News. "Zimmerman will open up about what happened the night of Trayvon Martin's death and his experience in the aftermath of the fatal shooting," says a Fox statement. Zimmerman is out on bail and awaiting trial on second-degree murder charges in the shooting death of Trayvon. Zimmerman spoke off-the-record to Hannity by phone in April, one of the moves cited by his original attorneys for dropping the case, notes the Orlando Sentinel. Fox also felt compelled to address online rumors that Hannity offered to pay for Zimmerman's legal defense: "Sean Hannity has never offered to pay any legal fees or any fee associated with George Zimmerman."