this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight, the battle over trayvon martin. was his death a crime or self-defense? attorneys for both sides will try to make their case tonight. motor city madman, ted nugent with a feeling it might get as heated as it did the last time he was here. whenever i ve done interviews with guys that are inclined to be anti-gun, they always go, well, nugent wants everybody to have a machine gun. what does nugent want? not even close. what do you want? what i want is the second amendment. we, the people, free individuals, to have the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense. find fault with that. ted nugent coming up later, but first the trayvon martin case. george zimmerman s attorneys join me now. gentlemen, thank you for joining me. you ve been leading this defense of george zimmerman for a while. let me ask you a difficult question. your client s been subjected now to national attention, the likes of which v
world. plus the reason i ve got extra security in my studio tonight. well, this is what happened the last time kathy griffin was here. oh, my god, what s going on? what are you what s happening here? one of the world s most dangerous men may be dead, but one of the world s most dang ru women is still firmly still alive and in my studio tonight. i have no filter no class, no voice, no decorum. just fun. brace yourselves, it s kathy griffin, take two. how many times have you been properly loved? this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. the death of dictator kim jong-il puts his third and youngest son in charge of one of the most dangerous countries on the planet, a country with a nuclear program and now an untested 20-something leader. no surprise that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says the united states will remain vigilant even though north korea has not made any unexpected moves. but how dangerous is that son, kim jong-un in jon huntsman says it
one of them is leading the republican presidential pack. the other is bringing up the rear in this hour. newt gingrich and jon huntsman are facing off in a lincoln-douglas stale debate in new hampshire, where the first in the nation primary is just 29 days away wp. with the calendar closing in, flying between gingrich and its nearest rival, we are talking about mitt romney. jim has the latest for us. jim? with the holiday ises the debate, it could be summed up as newty versus nice. but the real fight is with mitt romney and it is anything but nice. there is enough journalists swarming around newt gingrich under this pharmacy to givefully candidate a migraine. just enough room to talk with handful of voters and a parrot in the store. but the real squawking in gingrich s ear is coming from mitt romney who said the former speaker should give up the big money he earned advising the housing giant, freddie mac. one of the things that i think people recognize in washington is th
about his advice for perry and the state of the race right now. also, we re learning the back story behind ron paul s drama. he s getting flak for an answer to a health care question. turns out the scenario is similar to a real life death in his political family. and president obama s attempt to promote green jobs turns into a bigger embarrassment. first, the company he visited went bankrupt, now, it s been raided by the fbi and u.s. taxpayers may be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com right now, republican, rick perry, is trying to cover a lot of bases and burr niche his status as the front-runner. he s been reaching out to voters in a battleground state. a sign of confidence that his rivals are trying hard to tear down. jim acosta is covering perry s campaign in depth. he s joining us from richmond, virginia with the latest. wolf, the texas governor is not just running as
there are signs of deep trouble in the house of representatives. speaker john boehner is trying to rally enough votes for the debt crisis. his republicans in the red hold a substantial majority. at least 60 of their members shown here in yellow are affiliated with the tea party. they are pushing against a compromise with the democrats over here. they appear to have risen in revolt, once again. how many? we don t know. the speaker has to bring roughly two-thirds of them into his camp if he s going to outvote the democrats who are standing firmly united with his plan. it s a sign he doesn t have the numbers he needs, at least not yet. we ll cover the angles on this story, which is shaking the capital tonight along with other news, too. here is a look. if anybody kept his head and integrity above the budget brew ha ha, it s alan simpson. he may be the last reasonable man standing. the president s poll numbers, they are ticking down. even if there s an 11th hour deal, is mr. ob