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be right back to you. thanks, gloria. when it comes to the race for the president, 2012, a lot of republicans look like they re running but no one really is officially in this race. so joining us from new york to talk about the gop race, our cnn political contributor and republican strategist ed rollins. ed, good to see you as well. thank you. now, you and i recall in 2008 you had at least a dozen republican candidates who had declared, you know. alan keyes, rudolph guiliani, ron paul, john mccain, fred thompson, i mean just to name a few. why hasn t anyone declared yet? there is no great advantage to jumping in the water first. you try and time the time that you get your media scrutiny and get that momentum. the difference is it was john mccain s to lose last time. traditionally the republican party is kind of a front runner, sort of the establishment candidate. i think that s all out the door this time. i think this particular candidate who comes out of this is going to be th
pretty hypocritical of republicans to claim to be anti-government control except when it comes to things their silly little book tells them are wrong. this is from michael. this is the right time. this issue has gone ignored for far too long. eva says, no. why is congress debating this in the first place? it is just a stunt to procrastinate from dealing with real issues. and from maddie, if not now when? we can t be pushing it back just because another issue occurs. please allow the conversation to continue. i m looking at your responses and of course will be weighing in myself. facebook.com/carol cnn. thank you so much. all right. it s been a while since we ve played this but we ll bring it back. it is the cnn challenge. joe johns has agreed to be the first player. so get ready to test your trivia knowledge right along with him. joe, you ready? if i don t know the answer i m going to tell you i can t hear the question. oh, no, no. you can t cheat. here we go. first question. whe
overdose june 25th, 2009. he has pleaded not guilty, telling the judge he s an innocent man. opening statements likely to be delivered the first week of april after jury selection is complete. the trial is expected to last about six weeks. as we ve seen in the past, cameras in the courtroom do have the potential to really slow down the process but the judge says he wants the cameras to be used in the least intrusive way possible. we ll see how that goes. we ll see how successful he can be with that. good luck with that. yes. my favorite story is about the little darth vader who meets the big darth vader. give us the details about that. my favorite story, too. yes. 6-year-old max page, the pint-sized darth vader from volkswagen s super bowl commercial, got to meet the real thing in new york. we re talking about james earl jones who provided the voice for darth vader in all the star wars movies. max was on american morning today and told us, told cnn what surprised him about