>> and a host of several thousand other things. >> black man have to have multiple jobs in this economy. >> and will cain, columnist at theblaze.com. no surprise to me george zimmerman has launched his own website to try to raise money for his defense i guess. >> and living expenses. >> clearly. he can't work, not going to school anymore, in hiding. i'm not surprised by that at all. are you? >> i guess not. george zimmerman's life totally changed over the last two weeks. regardless of his guilt or innocence i would imagine he's looking for some aid as well. >> trayvon martin's family have been raising funds for a legal defense because they have lawyers as well in this case, so this is not shocking. it happens in many other cases. we see it all the time. >> so on his website he has written this, "on sunday, february 26th, i was involved in a life-altering event which led me to become the subject of intense media coverage. as a result of the incident and subsequent media coverage, i've been forced to leave my home, my school, my employer, my family and ultimately my entire life." he goes on to say the website's sole purpose is to solicit donations to help fund his defense, if in fact that is needed. it comes out the same day special prosecutor angela corey said she'll not convene a grand jury in the case. mark, thank you for talking with us. >> good morning. >> this isn't an unusual or surprising thing to do. is this unusual for someone not charged with a crime to start think being raising funds for a potential defense? >> no, he needs an attorney now and he's doing the right thing. these type of cases, national cases are all-consuming. his lawyers will be working morning, noon and night and they need to make a living. the reality of it is for those who suggest let him get a job. he can't. his life is in true danger. there's been a rush to judgment by many and suggestions that he has done it without really all the facts coming in, so i think there's really very few alternatives right now other than to raise money. having lawyers is an expensive proposition and he needs them as early as possible. >> there's no debate over whether or not he shot and killed trayvon martin. that's a fact of the case. interestingly on his website he wrote as i was just reading a moment ago "i was involved in a life altering event" and calls it an "incident" as well. does that surprise you? >> no, sounds like his lawyers helped word it, can't make any admissions or confessions and there's no reason to expand beyond that. we all know in fact he was the shooter. the issue is legally whether it was justified or not under florida's law so no i think they guarded their words appropriately and i'm impressed with the fact that he was honest about it. he said he was using it for living expenses and just not legal expenses. he is simply saying he can't work so i think that it was a full disclosure of what the funds were intended for which was appropriate. >> as a defense attorney would you ever, ever advise a client, say it does move forward and he starts using the website as more than just a place to get funds, but also to have a conversation, which people often do on their own websites, here is my position, here is what i'm doing, where i can talk to my people. i imagine you would think that would be a disaster. >> of course, any time you talk those comments are going to be used against you. there are cases when you're going to want a client to talk, this is not one of them. this is a case where question need to wait for all the evidence to come out so we can better and fully assess what in fact happened and whether the acts fit into florida's law or not and i think there will be a substantial debate about is florida's law proper and the whole issue about people's rights to arm themselves and where they should arm themselves and when they can use those weapons, so this is going to not only deal with this specific issue but i think the debate will be far, far greater. >> clearly, i would agree you that stand your ground will be closely examined. angela corey decided not to take the case to the grand jury and many people, regardless of how their perspective on the case, have called her courageous for not doing that. explain that to me. why is that courageous? >> well, typically when you have a controversial case, high publicity case it's very easy for the prosecutor to hide behind the grand jury, and simply take political shelter from the decision of the grand jury, which she has done and always done apparently, she goes, i don't go to the grand jury. i fully investigate my case and then i make a decision about which charges, if any, to bring against the accused and apparently she's staying consistent with this as she has in previous cases. she announced early on she never goes to the grand jury and i think this is consistent. it would be easy in a case like this saying the people have spoken with the grand jury. she's choosing not to do that. the fact of the matter, though, is that she has got some very serious decisions to make. i think she's going to go ahead and do an exhaustive examination, far more than an investigation than a grand jury would be able to do, sitting and then listening to the evidence come in. >> mark, will cain. does the fact that angela corey decided not to go to a grand jury indicate to you one way or another whether or not she intends to bring charges at all? >> i don't think it indicates anything. i think that it's getting her the requisite time she thinks she needs to conduct a full and complete investigation. there needs to be tape enhancements, there's questions about when the "please help me" is on the tape, there's debate as to who was saying that. there's witnesses aparentally in some form or another who are out there. there is some enhancement that needed to be done and has been done on the videotape when he was being processed or walked through the port of the jail. there's a lot of things that need to be taken into consideration and then those facts need to be plugged into florida's law. and so there's a lot here. then she has to determine do the actions, can they prove a case in good faith, they have ethical obligations, can they move forward in good faith? there's a lot going on here. >> mark the grand jury date was set by the previous d.a. she didn't actually set this, so she really wasn't obligated to take it to the grand jury. >> exactly. i mean it could have been canceled anyway, but that's exactly right. norm wolfinger, the state attorney for that circuit initially had it set through his assistant state attorneys when she assumed the case it was her case. this is her ball game. she'll make the decisions she deems appropriate and i think we have to take her at her word. she's a tough prosecutor, without question but this is consistent with what she's always done. she is going to go ahead and take the hits and take the responsibility for whatever the decision is and moving forward appropriately. >> no with no grand jury, no first-degree murder, that's off the table. does that surprise you? >> no, there's no first-degree murder here. that would require premeditation. if we see charges come down they'll be man slaughter in one form another and whether there be an aggravator because of the age of trayvon. if we see a charge come down it will be in the manslaughter category, which is still serious in florida because you have a firearm, used in the commission of a death so we have very serious gun laws especially if a death ensues. >> mark najame, cnn contributor and defense attorney, nice to see you.. appreciate your time. >> my pleasure, good morning. >> thank you. coming up we'll talk to darrel parks, an attorney for trayvon martin's family, that's up later this morning. first a look at the headlines, other stories making news. christine, good morning. >> good morning, soledad. five terrorist suspects with alleged ties to osama bin laden soon could be brought to the u.s. to face charges. the suspects have been fighting extradition from britain for several years, claimed they'den treated poorly in an american prison but the european court of human rights has ruled against them. an fa-18 hornet slammed into an apartment complex in virginia last week, several people including two pilots were hurt. we look at the pictures, amazingly no one died. one witness describes a pilot landing on her patio. >> the pilot is on your patio? >> yes, and nobody's here! and i've been calling and calling and there's no ambulance. >> is the pilot conscious? >> yes, he is. the last i saw him, he was. >> okay, so he's no longer on your patio right now? >> he's still on my patio, but they told me to evacuate and there's other guys there helping him. my neighbors are there helping him. >> the u.s. navy is compensating people affected by the crash, paying for housing, meals, clothing, and counseling. minding your business this morning, stock futures are pointing higher today as wall street tries to erase a four-day losing streak, the worst patch of the year. alumin aluminummaker alcoa first to report for the january to march quarter. facebook purchased instagram, photo sharing app for $1 billion, $1 billion, not bad for a company that's been around less than two years. instagram has only 13 employees, still hasn't turned a profit, but it does have something facebook wants, has more than 30 million users, and it has a technology that a lot of folks like. another mega millions lottery winner claimed their share of the $656 million jackpot. maryland lottery official also hold a press conference to announce the winning ticket holder in that state has come forward. the winner plans to stay anonymo anonymous, the second out of three mega millions winners, the final one in illinois has not come forward yet but the first two i'm pretty sure, anonymity is a good thing when you landed a couple hundred million dollars, soledad. >> yep, yep, yep. christine, thank you. here is an outrageous story, videotape of a guy basically mugged, disturbing to watch, in baltimore, maryland, st. patrick's day, a guy visiting from out of town being robbed and clocked in the face, then he's stripped naked and all of these people are just standing by and laughing and watching even though they eventually called police, they were filming the scene. the video went viral and there have been certain bloggers outraged seeing the guy attacked and the nerve to shoot the whole thing and post it so it goes viral they're using freeze frames to help identify the individuals especially the guy who punched him in the face there, trying to see if they can do that. some of that they said was outrage the bloggers because they felt like here you have a white tourist and young black people around him, and they feel like it's not getting the same sense of outrage that the trayvon martin case had got, even though you know obviously he did not die. >> who posted it? put down the camera and help the guy. who posted it? >> it's one of its most offensive things about the story actually as much as it is they're beating the hell out of him, how many stood there watched and laughed and did nothing? >> to me they were active participants in trying to humiliate this man. it wasn't like a bystander who didn't jump to n to help. >> apparently he poke up the next morning, was drunk, didn't know what happened to him, couldn't tell the police how it happened until this showed up online. >> of course with the various bloggers, the police arrived on the scene looking after him. second thing is, he wasn't killed. >> of course. >> so when people are sitting here looking at cases and what happens, it's a difference between somebody is sitting here gunned down who is dead and someone who has an opportunity to actually go after those individuals, and they should be using facial recognition to determine who actually was in the video. same thing happened -- >> people should be outraged. >> and the flash mob things that took place as well in montgomery county. >> there's a time and place for that behavior, fraternity hazing. >> and you're joking. >> sure. >> i'm a grown man, somebody hit me for some lettuce, we have a problem. >> how did we get on to fraternity hazing. >> trust me, we have a problem. >> moving on, still ahead on "starting point" this morning, a boy with a teddy bear, women with their faces covered, the first look at osama bin laden's widows and children under house arrest. also newt gingrich basically conceived the race to mitt romney, doesn't drop out though. why not? 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>> well in that interview he was acknowledging governor romney's delegate lead but he went on to point out that just because the odds are against you, doesn't mean that you stop fighting for what you believe in, and newt is determined to keep fighting until one candidate has 1,144 or if nobody gets to 1,144 to go on to the convention and make the case individually to the delegates on the floor. newt has a particular brand of 21st century conservatism, an individual oriented conserve serve ticconserv conservetism, what the american people voted for and wouldn't have gotten in the race if he didn't believe that was a unique perspective and a unique vision for the country, and he's determined to keep making that vision, and one of the ways that he is going to keep making that case is by talking about the republican party platform. it allows newt to both influence the future of the party and the future of the country, but also keep the focus on ideas, where he, and if there's been one consistent pattern is that when newt is talking about gold ideas and big solutions he's doing well and some of the more typical back and forth of the campaign, sort of pettiness of it doesn't, it hasn't served us very well so this is both a tool to affect the future of the party and affect the future of the country but also get us back on the ground where we've had more of an advantage. >> there's the change, right, in what the message of the last couple weeks. i think when we talk to you and the rest of the people in the gingrich campaign a couple weeks ago it was what you started your message, taking this to a floor fight, fighting mitt romney from getting 1,144. with newt saying "i think platforms matter and the party is about more than just a presidential campaign" it's about ideas, you've shifted, you've become sort of like a ron paul campaign. am i wrong? you're an advocacy campaign about issues important to you and i have to think for guys like you personally, joe, that changes your job. >> no, we've always viewed our mission, and -- it's never been a job for anyone on the gingrich campaign. it's always been a mission, is to advocate for a particular vision for the country, and it is -- i'll give you an example. we're not normal i guess political consultants on our campaign. lot of us are policy people, and newt is one of the only people -- is the only person in the race that identified that amidst all the talk about controlling health care costs with bureaucracies or with 15-member panels on obama care, the greatest driver downward pressure driver of costs in medicine is medical break-throughs so newt is the only one who talked about we need to fundamentally overhaul the food and drug administration because it acts as a bottleneck. >> in your mind it's all about the ideas and every time you've had big ideas that's helped new the polls. >> that's been -- >> what about his tone is much more conciliatory when we heard him over the weekend, and yet as you well know, senator john mccain, who is a mitt romney supporter, has said this has been terrible, is not hurting republicans' chances, this does not help them down the road as it heads into november. how is it possible to undo the damage that newt gingrich has wrought upon mitt romney, assuming that mitt romney will in fact be the noment know? >> it's funny to hear that from senator mccain seeing as how he had the nomination wrapped up in a couple of weeks in 2008 and senator obama and clinton kept going for months and he ended up getting beaten pretty decisively. i don't think there's any evidence that an extended primary hurts the general, eventual nominee. >> i don't think there was any point at which hillary clinton or barack obama were calling each other liar or some of the things newt gingrich has called mitt romney. >> do you remember the red phone ad? >> i do, very effective ad. that was as bad as it got, a very effective ad but i would argue and i think others would join me in this and jump me in and tell me if i'm wrong this has been nastier. is there a way to undo calling someone a liar? i got to imagine that's going to appear in on ad. >> or loser or the pious baloney comment. >> newt gingrich's focus has been on the future of the country, where it needs to go. that's what newt is going to keep talking about, whether it's throughout the rest of this primary, as he fights for every vote because every vote means a vote for more conservative platform and more conservative gop and in the general election as well. >> i don't begrudge you joe. it's not our job to push newt out of this race. >> let him stay in forever. >> if he wants to advocate for issues, i think it changes the job for joe and some of the guys working for us. >> thanks, joe, we appreciate it. nice to talk to you. >> sure, thank you. >> i'm still rooting for him. >> still ahead on "starting point," got this incredible videotape to show you from a school bus after the driver nearly dies behin