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Voice. joining me now is karen desoto, criminal defense attorney. james peterson, msnbc contributor, director of african studie studies. and tim wise, anti-racism educator and author of the book "dear white america: letter to a new minority." it was incredibly difficult to watch trayvon martins father on the stand today trying to hold it together, trying to keep his composure under these conditions. and its something to etrange t being spent on contesting this one piece of evidence, whose voice ...

James peterson, msnbc contributor, director of african studies. and tim wise, anti-racism educator and author of the book "dear white america: letter to a new minority." it was incredibly difficult to watch trayvon martins father on the stand today trying to hold it together, trying to keep his composure under these conditions. and its strange to much time being spent on contesting this one piece of evidence, whose voice is on the tape? why is that important to the case, karen? >> its important ...

Speech that offers some hint that will generate some buzz about perspective run in iowa, in south carolina. most of this is happening behind the scenes. you havent yet seen many people take big steps forward in a way that kind of announces that theyre likely to run, unlike rand paul. i think rand paul has probably been the most aggressive on the republican side in that respect. >> shannon: yeah, and the filibuster. on the floor stand rand a lot of people that caught their attention sit around wa...

Presidency. aggressives will come back. supporters will say this is not -- what this administration is doing right now, not what the president said this is going to be like. >> things look very different on the campaign trail than when you do in the oval office. not the first president that has found that out. or that has continued something that they argued against on the campaign trail. the problem for the appeared mi administration, they are getting hit from the left and from the right, altho...

He says he believes a lot of it is merely politically motivated. >> from these investigations, has anything valuable been revealed that would, you know -- because everyone is looking to try to figure out, what was the legitimate reason, what was the way that they were able to clamp down on the leak, or is this a bigger issue of trying to intimidate potential whistle blowers and intimidate the media? >> he says that the decision to be -- the obama administrations decision, or the as a result of t...

Pushing for stronger gun control laws that the nra is not standing down. >> when we talk about standing down, what does that mean in the long term of policy? most people in this country and as weve talked about, over 90% feel that background checks are a normal and fine thing to have. is that something that they feel as if they need to stand up and fight over? because if 90% of the country and most of which those beingna members also feel that background checks are acceptable, why would they try...

Moments before the bombing. >> private equity. his resumé looks a lot more like mitt romney than it does scott brown. >> but the issue, the reason why hes a more attractive candidate than michael sullivan. michael sullivan is the other plausible nominee on the republican side, the former attorney general for massachusetts. his position is i will not challenge the legitimacy of gay marriage. hes by far the most culturally conservative candidate running in the race. the democratic party in massac...

Sets the clock ticking. you know, once you have him in custody, you have to get a complaint filed and you have to get the initial appearance where the mirandizeed, miranda is read to him. within, yo, as soon as practicable or however its phrased. i get all that. how can it be, how can it be we allow ourselves to get in a position where that all was put in motion, by the department of justice, or by assistant u.s. attorney, who, you know, well talk about whether he must have coordinated it with t...

Plus the images we have in the past couple hours of all the shards of the pressure cooker. were going to go through them one by one and see what they show us. and then, horror and tragedy. what is it like to hear your loved one has survived the attack, go to the hospital and find out its not true. and theyre them. gressive, yes. but theyre here. yes. are you...? there? yes. no. are you them? im me. but those rates are for... them. so them are here. yes! you want to run through it again? no, im...

Republicans who demand he be more involved and vote against it because hes more involved? also, when did the reflux response from the right, anything the president wants to do, obama care, higher taxes on the wealthy, gun restrictions, become thats an assault on my freedom? could it be because theyre losing the argument and have nothing else to say? and the passing of margaret thatcher at the age of 87 prompted reflections on her legacy. one of her most notable and least talked about achieve...