two days. >> i feel so guilty because i did not do that. >> he did not care. >> john fugelsang, nothing from you hereto, not even a phone call. mark lamont hill, professor at columbia university. >> i really did send flowers. >> you sent nothing, you lie. this is what i got from my colleagues, nothing. >> he came in thinking you'd be here. >> oh, blah, blah, blah. i'm not going to talk to you for the entire morning. kidding. let's get right to our "starting point" this morning. we have a major development to talk about that could complicate george zimmerman's case and could get his attorney into trouble. mark o'mara will let the judge know while he was originally pleading poverty in order to get george zimmerman out on bail and a relatively low bail it turns out his client has raised more than $200,000, that is exactly how much he's raised, $204,000 is exactly what he's raised in donations from a now defunct website he helped set up to pay his legal expenses, a major revelation because you'll remember at zimmerman's bond hearing the prosecution asked the bail to be set at $1 million. the judge said no, $150,000, because he'd been told zimmerman's family was pretty much broke. last night his attorney told anderson cooper he was surprised to hear about this account. here's what he said. >> i was talking to george after i was trying to shut down his full internet presence because of some impersonators and other problems with twitter and facebook. he asked me what to do with his paypal accounts and i asked him what he was talking about. he said those are the accounts from the money with the website he had and there was about $204,000 that had come in to date. >> chris francis guney is a reporter for reuters, done digging into zimmerman's past. nice to have you with us. we appreciate it. start with the money first it's interesting if you look back to the original comments that mark o'mara made before the court he actually hedged a lot on the money. i want to play you a clip of what he said about the financial situation of his client. listen. >> as far as his financial abilities, unfortunately this is a family of very short means. you've heard mom and dad testify that they are willing to assist by securing their house, whatever we can accomplish we certainly will. i will tell you that i truly don't know the specifics of some fund that's out there that's not being administered by me. i don't know what the amount is. >> so you know, that's sort of an i'm not really given the facts as they've been presented to me. it looks like -- there's a court hearing today. how do you think this plays a role into what happens next? >> it will be interesting to see what judge lester thinks of this, but it's really hard to tell. this is brand new information. >> ben crump of course is the trayvon martin family attorney and here's what he had to say about all this. listen. >> he knew, whether he communicated that to his attorney, whether his toesh solicsli attorney solicited that information or not, he knew the crux of the matter, he like his apology was insincere in his silence as well as what he said to the court. >> as a person who spent a lot of time digging into the who is george zimmerman, he's saying he's an insincere guy who continues to lie in a nutshell and of course that's the attorney for the other side. how would you describe george zimmerman? >> well in terms of the money in the website, i really don't know. i've got no information about that. as you'll recall in the bond hearing last week, several members of zimmerman's family, his wife, his mother and his father all testified that they didn't know how much was raised by the website. this was a question the prosecutors repeatedly asked of the family members, they said that website was controlled by robert zimmerman jr., george's brother, but what i learned in my reporting over the last couple weeks were a few interesting, new details about zimmerman. he got a gun, he got firearms training and got a concealed permit and got a gun in december 2009 after his wife had been menaced by a pitbull named big boy. he grew up in a mixed race household where two young african-american girls who were babysat by his maternal grandmother who lived in his house for about six years they were dropped off early in the morning before school, they ate meals with the zimmerman kids, went back and forth to school with the zimmerman kids h dinner and picked up by their mom and lastly, there were a series of break-ins and suspected break-ins in the neighborhood in the months leading up to the shooting in which young african-american were suspected or charged in the burglaries. >> one other thing i found surprising, zimmerman had an african-american business partner for several years and allstate franchise. what is surprising to so many of us is the narrative we have come to hear repeatedly is zimmerman racially profiled trayvon martin or possibly at the very most was a racist who hunted down a black man and shot him. some of the details are at the very least coming as a surprise to us. >> to me it seems a part of the public narrative there's something exculpatory about having black friends and working with black people. >> some of my best friends are black. >> that's what i keep hearing. >> i don't think it's necessarily exculpatory. it adds more pieces to a jigsaw puzzle with a lot of missing pieces here. >> what's his personality like,age anry person? he had some scrapes with the law, nonviolent but was he an angry, young man? >> i just want to answer your question first, when he was in hiding, his detractors defined him as a vigilante who pre-judged trayvon martin because he was black. in light of those charges information about his youth and his history i think is relevant to the discussion here. >> no question. absolutely. i agree. >> exactly right, adding pieces to a puzzle that seemingly for many people had a conclusion already in place. >> i think, will, to your point, you cannot, there are black people who racially profile black people. >> that's right. >> having relatives who are black does not mean that you cannot be a racist. we should make that clear from the get-go. i'm not saying george zimmerman is. i have no idea but there is also an error in pointing out if you have a black friend you're not a racist. >> to the conclusion i haven't made, we now have new information based on good reporting that rebuts some conclusions that were floating around out there. >> i don't know it rebuts. debris you're bringing more information that helps you paint a picture of a person that none of us really knows personally. go back to the prior acts in scrapes with the law, were they violent, was it a person considered, was he considered to be a loose cannon or was it sort of youth and just getting into scrapes? >> like so many aspects of this case and pictures of zimmerman, it really depends on how you look at it. he was charged with resisting an officer with battery, after he either shoved or pushed an undercover alcohol control agent, was attempting to arrest one of his underaged friends. his family members testified in the bond hearing that he didn't know that the undercover agent was actually a cop and thought he was, you know, just a regular citizen. restraining order was taken out against him for domestic violence by his former fiance, veronica zuazu, hope i'm pronouncing that right and we're learning the bond hearing from his family at least they testified that she had been upset he was going out that night, jumped on him, scratched his face, drew blood, and that he picked her up and put her back on the bed. i don't know. i haven't seen all the facts in that case but that's what they said. >> he was made to undergo anger management counseling after the battery. >> that's correct, part of a pretrial diversion program. >> it will be interesting today as we head to court. >> you talk about the bond hearing the reason that's important, apparently he withheld information is because the judge to remand his bond hearing and bring him back in custody. >> we started that way. if he's worth almost a quarter million dollars -- >> it would have impacted. >> it potentially could have the impact of the bond. chris, thank you for joining us this morning, from reuters, filling in little pieces at a time. christine romans, good morning. >> republican leaders in the house are drafting the contempt of congress citation against attorney general eric holder, they claim he and the justice department obstructed their investigation into the fast and forrious gun tracking operation, that atf plan allowed illegal gun purchases in order to track weapons to mexican drug cartel leaders. hundreds of guns vanished, including one used in the killing of a law enforcement officer. former john edwards' aide andrew young on the stand for the fourth consecutive day. he admitted to using nearly $1 million in campaign buimoney to build his dream house in north carolina and not to cover up an affair edwards was having with rielle hunter. 9,000 u.s. marines are shipping out of japan. residents there wanted them out, angry over a string of criminal acts, outrage first sparked back in 1995 when three marines raped a 12-year-old japanese girl. half the marines will now go to guam, others transferred with hawaii and australia. ugliness from boston bruins after the team was eliminated from the nhl playoffs. the clincher scored by joel ward of the washington capitols, he was born in toronto to parents from migrated from barbados. some included racist tweets, the n word scores away, we lost to a hockey playing n word. he says he's not letting a few hateful twitter posts ruin the biggest goal of his career. the greatest player in nba history is now the proud owner of the worst team of all-time. the charlotte bob cats ended with a loss to the new york knicks, they finished the shortened season with the worst percentage in nba history. the bob cats won seven games. they lost 59. ford announced a 45% drop in profit during the first three months of the year mostly from losses in europe following the slowdown there in flat sales. check on the markets. u.s. stock futures trading slightly higher, almost basically unchanged right now. more uncertainty over global growth driving volatility in markets this year. last night standard and poors downgraded the credit rating of spain's government. next hour at 8:30 a.m. eastern the gdp report really important for investors, stay tuned for that. they're probably not showing up to work this morning, a group of co-workers hitting it big in the lottery. 48 city transit workers in philly hit a $172 million powerball jackpot. winning septa employees ranged from janitors to accountants and managers. the winning has created the buzz. >> about 1:00 this afternoon this buzz went through this 20-story office building. did you hear? did you hear? is it a rumor? and then people started fessing up. >> everybody's like excited. everybody's like, they can't believe it. you know, it hit right on the 11th floor. >> the winner is remaining anonymous and my wager is most, if not all do go back to work they want to remain anonymous and it's 48 people sharing $172 million, i'm not sure where the taxes come out there. >> still a lot of money. >> absolutely. >> i will call in from home, hey! one lotto last night so you might want to get someone to fill in for me. >> see you at work tomorrow i know when i win the lotto. >> christine, thank you. even the most jaded new yorker might want to look up at the sky today, the space shuttle "enterprise" will make its final trip hitching a ride on a 747 headed to its new home on the deck of the intrepid sea, air and space museum. it will take off from dulles 9:30 eastern time. athena jones is right there, has the best seat in the house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. as you can see the shuttle already mounted on top of that jumbo jet behind me. we just got an update from nasa, they've done a weather briefing and they are a go. sometime after 9:30 that flight will take off, head out to new york. the "enterprise" was the first shuttle but never flew in space. it was used for various approach and landing tests on the ground over the course of two years or so and it was rolled out back in 1976. also the enterprise had been originally meant to be called the "constitution" in honor of the country's biicentennial campaign but a write-in by "star trek" fans got them to change the name to "enterprise." you'll get a great view, folks down here in d.c. got to see that shuttle fly by all the monuments here. it will go up to new york, fly past the statue of liberty, fly up the hudson river, past the "intrepid" its future home and circle around and land over at jfk. there will be a private ceremony there, over the next few weeks they'll de-mate that 150,000-pound shuttle from the 747, put it on a barge and take that over to the "intrepid" and put it on a deck and build a huge pavilion around it should open sometime in mid-july, so definitely a lot of cool views people are going to get on the streets of manhattan. seems like pretty much anywhere you go you'll see it but it sounds like the west side will be among the best used. >> the coolest museums, i bring my kids all the time, they have a concord and one of the things that goes under the water, what do you call it? >> submarine. >> i'm still recovering from my cold, athena, you can fully understand. i was in dulles and it's really neat. >> i'm tell my wife to tell my 4-year-old the shuttle is going to fly up the hudson. >> you'll get to see it take off which is cooler. athena jones thanks, appreciate it. still ahead on "starting point," tuscaloosa rising, a year after it was ravaged by a deadly tornado and how they're remembering the victims of the storm. we're live up next. the secret service investigation is expanding, surprise, surprise, after a report that agents took strippers to a back room in a club called lips in el salvador. i'm stunned. the reporter breaking news on the story will join us, up next. if you're heading out to work check out the rest of the show on our live blog on our website, cnn.com/startingpoint. or chat with us on twitte twitter @starting ptcnn o or @soledadobrien. listen to mark's list "summertime." not in this economy. we also have zero free time, and my dad moving in. so we went to fidelity. we looked at our family's goals and some ways to help us get there. they helped me fix my economy, the one in my house. now they're managing my investments for me. and with fidelity, getting back on track was easier than i thought. call or come in today to take control of your personal economy. get one-on-one help from america's retirement leader. 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