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Had beaten the homeless man was the son of a police officer in the department. and five years ago, two white men shot and killed an african-american young man, claiming self-defense, claiming that he was trying to run them over. as "the new york times" reported today, that african-american male died of a gunshot wound in his back. this is a terrible situation that continues to get worse. and tallahassee better get on their toes. they better lean forward. they better move down to sanford, florida...

Evidence there from the neighbor? >> okay. no. what you have is just people saying what they heard at the time but there is key evidence that could come in to both this criminal investigation and a civil wrongful death lawsuit if t is brought. keep in mind there are two joint investigations. doj and fbi. >> bill: on the record what we have and what i have got to run here. >> girlfriend heard that the boy was saying that he was afraid essentially that somebody was coming up to him trayvon martin ...

Washington post, eugene robinson. gentlemen, thank you for burning the midnight oil tonight. >> for you, ed, absolutely. >> michael, were here because of the gop primary rules enacted, which you led the rnc, thats why were working late. okay, given mitt romneys situation on the numbers that i just showed about favorability ratings and where people are going, is this a tenuous situation in maybe it is hurting the republican brand, what do you think? >> no, its not that. the process isnt hurting t...

>> a video going viral. sparking a new kind of movement. these occupiers, moving into a bank of america branch. protesting home foreclosures. but gary b says forget this move. make the move toward personal responsibility. >> absolutely, brenda. i like the one young ladys comment, bank of america took our home. 99% of those foreclosures came from people who took on too much home with too little income. as simple as that, and whether they did it unknowingly or fraudulently, someone has to step up ...

He grabbed the kid on the streets in dc saying who are you? that video broke the day he was on a cruise and he had to spend four days at sea without knowing the impact of that story. >> i think i was with him on that cruise. >> obviously i followed andrew on twitter. i eventually had to -- there is a way you can turn off retweets from someone so you dont see their retweets in your feed. he is the only person i ever had to do that with on twitter to save my sanity. anyone on twitter knows he woul...

From the media to the president at the press conference about this, well goet to that in a moment how can the republicans say hes an entertainer. that what is theyre saying. >> you know what this reminds me of, there was a moment in the campaign trail when a woman was spouting off about obamas a muslim and john mccain bumbled his response but he at least had the courage to say you know what, maam, we disagree but hes a good man. what will happen when romney has the same chance when faced twit th...

Low risk, little reward, as well. >> trey, isnt there a problem with regard to the vp states? in a sense, having had this quasi attack on women on all kinds of issues, wont you think whoever wins this nomination will feel almost obligated to engage with a female vice president because for the last six months, many people feel that will republicans have been very antagonistic towards women. >> absolutely, martin. i think that there are names being flowed around like governor nick kill haley from ...

Unemployment. they gave the credit actually to us, the u.s. consumer who account for about 70% of economic growth and also to businesses. >> another key economic number that weve watched, thats gas prices. there have been 27 straight days of gains. they actually dropped off .3 of a penny lower. still significantly higher than a month ago. >> absolutely. 70 members of congress yet pushed federal regulators to stop what they think is excessive oil speculation, whether or not it will work remains t...

Was on a cruise and he had to spend four days at sea without knowing the impact of that story. >> i think i was with him on that cruise. >> obviously i followed andrew on twitter. i eventually had to -- there is a way you can turn off retweets from someone so you dont see their retweets in your feed. he is the only person i ever had to do that with on twitter to save my sanity. anyone on twitter knows he would retweet all of the hate tweets he would get. >> that was brilliant. the way he underst...

Virginia where they backed off of actually mandating an invasive procedure, they finally had to back off of that. some politician there said his wife threatened him she would never talk to him again or something if he did this. the fact of the matter is, these republicans cant help themselves. theyve turned into a right wing party. its fanatical. its turning on the women of this country. when you have senator snowe saying what she did and she is a moderate republican, the last of the wonderful b...