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toss the head set fell. >> zimmerman says he was acting in self-defense and has never been arrested or charged, but martins family and their many supporters claim that racial bias in the shooting and the investigation. so now the fbi has stepped in and the justice department has opened a civil rights investigation. cnn legal analyst sunny hostin joining me now with more on all of this. why dont we go ahead and start with trayvons cell phone friend. i understand you actually have a copy...

All of these negative reviews. it shows he doesnt really get it. >> i want to push back on this idea that obama cant do anything about the price of gas. i agree the tools are limited and we believe in a market mechanism and all of the rest. but first of all, when oil hit $145 a gallon on july 14, 2008, bush announced that we were going to lift the offshore drilling moratorium through an executive order and proceeded to drop over the next few days and months, almost 50%. that really plummeted aft...

and of course baritunde thurston who i said was a little fun-timidating, one of the most fun guys around but you really understand this world. for people who are watching this, before you change your channel because you dont know what south by southwest is or you dont care, why do we care that were here? >> we used to think of the internet as a separate space, as a different place. as a culture, distinct from the rest of the world. its too big for that now. the internet is not some oth...

what you may not have heard yet is its also probably the worlds biggest interactive digitalfest cal. foursquare got its kickoff a few years ago. twitter really exploded here at south by southwest. cnn has a presence here every year. im here with two guys when i really, really like. i tweeted that ive got a man crush on mario armstrong. i think i said it was a tech man crush. and of course baritunde thurston who i said was a little intimidating, one of the most fun guys around but you r...

>> all right, so sir, lets talk about it. how much of the price at the pump, how much of that would be affected if we were to open up, say, 700,000 barrels from keystone coming down from canada? >> let me give you two points that are very important. the first one is about 76% of the cost of a gallon of gasoline is directly tied to the cost of crude. so if we want to bring down the price of gasoline, we have to bring down the price of crude oil. in the middle of 2008, you may recall then presiden...

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Than the most liberal democrat. i think it speaks to the level of partisanship. >> weve been talking for so long about how divided this congress is and how its been so did i feel to get things done, but sometimes, you wonder is it more about what theyre saying? is it more about their talking points or a reality. it looks like when you examine their votes, we are far more divided than we were ten years ago. >> get away from the press releases, the talking points and we are a divided nation. presi...

gasoline prices jumped 3 cents a gal just overnight to a national average now of $3.61. that makes 16 straight days of higher prices. and experts say were heading for $4 a gal gas by summer if not sooner. president obama seized the political warning signs and knows the attacks already coming. this afternoon in florida he tried to stay ahead of the curve. >> since its an election year, theyre already dusting off their three-point plan for $2 gas. and ill save you the suspense. step one ...

Obama administration was $1.83. it came down from $4 a gallon under george bush, yes, it was $4 but the day it started on its downward trajectory, oil prices and gasoline was july 17th of 2008. you know what happened that exact same week, that was the week that george bush said hes pulling the moratorium on off-shore drilling and opened up drilling off the coasts and oil prices started to tumble from $145 a barrel down to $33 a barrel in january of 2009. >> the rnc sees trouble for the president...

>> the fastest you can get going there is probably 130, 145 miles an hour. >> one afternoon he envits his mom along for a ride. >> as soon as i get in i regretted it. i really dont know what i was thinking. >> he hasnt told his mom about the cameras hes rigged on the dashboard. >> i mounted one on the windshield facing back and one in the back of the car facing forward. >> even before the car reaches the track, rosemary starts to squirm. >> oh, my goodness. oh. >> just calm down. >> instantly sh...