joining me now cnn contributor and democratic strategist marina cardona. along with anna navarro. welcome to you both. good morning. expectations among gay rights advocates might be dampened yesterday by justice sonia sotomayor, the justice questioning whether this was too soon in asking why not let the continue to experiment with same-sex marriage and figure out where it wants to go. what does that mean to you, maria cardona? well, i think first of all, carol, it would have been a lot easier to bet and win on who the next pope is going to be, than try to figure out what the supreme court is going to do in terms of trying to figure out the case. i will say this, justice sotomayor is nothing if not methodical. and she often takes positions that are contrary even to her own to play devil s advocate and make sure that every single angle of this case is being
something we all didn t, mainly winning really does take care of everything. bill glen from marketing arm, a research firm, said in usa today maybe that s not true for everybody. tiger woods could win every tournament for the rest of his career, but there are going to be people who will never forgive him. the ad said winning is everything, but for tiger, it might not be the only thing. consumers see tiger woods truthfulness, ranked 2,735 out of 3,000 celebrities. tiger in the same company as mike tyson and kim kardashian. talk back question today, does winning trump everything? facebook.com/carol cnn, and tweet me @carolcnn. are a bit under sizedost s then this will be a nice surprise. meet the 5-passenger ford c-max hybrid. c-max come. c-max go. c-max give a ride to everyone it knows.
dan simon, cnn, san jose, california. fabulous advice. have you filled out your brac t brackets yet? mine are in and so are those for the other cnn anchors. you can following how we re doing, go to cnn.com/brackets. that will take you to our leader board in the cnn bracket challenge. fascinating, right? two very important votes happening right now on capitol hill. cnn s dana bash is as always manning capitol hill. the ryan budget about to be voted on, dana? it s being voted on as we speak. and this is something that we do expect to pass on a party line vote, as it has the past couple of years. so this is the first in a couple of votes that the house is going to take before they leave town for two weeks, carol, for spring break. the second vote is perhaps the most interesting and noteworthy for people wondering if the government is going to keep running. remember, the government officially runs out of money on the 27th of march. the answer is, we anticipate yes. the second vote we
this morning in israel, rockets fire, a cease-fire wobbles, and president obama s visit highlights the enormous challenges as they re trying top broker a piece deal. earlier this morning, president obama met with mahmoud abbas, the president of the palestinian authority, and this morning it s the palestinians who are blamed for the latest tension. it s believed a fringe militant group fired at least two rockets from gaza. they crashed into southern israel, causing no injuries, but still dealing a blow to mr. obama s push for israeli/palestinian peace talks. cnn s john king, our chief national correspondent, is in jerusalem. good morning, john. reporter: good morning, carol. look, the question now is how further does the rocket attack complicate the peace process, the lack of a peace process, really c really, the effort to get a peace process going. hamas controls gaza. it may have been a fringe militant group, but hamas controls gaza and any militant group that would do this would
kids into schools that are performing at level or better and everything is great. but it s not a completely utopian society. it s not a perfect world, so that probably won t happen. but, again, i think the bigger issue here, being they re covering it, people are going to be concerned about the violence, especially the gun violence on the streets of chicago, affecting schoolchildren, which you and i have reported on, and how do you keep those children safe, and how do you cherry pick which neighborhoods they should go to and from? tough decisions. don lemon, many thanks. the idaho man who s accused of slapping a toddler and uttering a racial slur on board a delta flight to atlanta last month, he gets his day in court. his name is joe ricky hundley. his lawyer says he was distraught over his own son at the time and wants to be forgiven. cnn s nick valencia was in the courtroom. reporter: defendant joe ricky hundley accused of allegedly slapping a 19-month-old and using a racial slu