primary, this time in louisiana, where there are 20 delegates up for grabs. we ll talk with amy holmes and the ragin cajun himself, carville. you re watching cnn saturday morning where news doesn t take the weekend off. captions by vitac www.vitac.com let s get started now with our main bar. our big story that we ve been investigating from all angles this morning, the death of trayvon martin. as the national fury grows, vigils and marches are spreading. demonstrators wearing hoodies and holding skittles are the symbols for justice for trayvon martin. there s been a ton of attention on whether or not george zimmerman was acting in self-defense the night he shot martin. his attorney is now speaking out, telling cnn things are getting out of control. this case is spinning out of control, and i don t think that, you know, whatever did or didn t happen that day, whether there was we know one thing for sure. there s a young man at the prime of his life who s dead. we a
voters rights argument and making it federal versus state issue in a way to sort of look past the fact it could very much just disenfranchise minorities and hurt democratic turnout? that is what a number of states are doing. frankly, that comment was very unfortunate on martin luther king s birthday. martin luther king marched on selma to make sure that all americans had the right to vote, and frankly, it was marching to ensure that the federal government got involved so that states couldn t prevent certain people from voting, and there s no question that these laws are going to prevent potentially millions of americans from voting, and it s disproportionately going to hit the groups that martin luther king was marching more, african-americans. 24% of african-americans don t have the kind of i.d. required in south carolina, and frankly in a lot of texas, minorities, the poor, the elderly, these are the disabled, the groups that
just one of the bizarre twists in the case now known as the west memphis three and it s not over yet. we have 30 seconds. you tell us you are ready for us to have this conversation. why congresswoman maxine waters is ready to unleash on the president and why the president s new promise to promote diversity has anything to do with her comments. we ask. camera three. it is right here, right now on cnn. good evening, we start with breaking news out of libya tonight. rebel forces say they have begun their offensive on the capital. the libyan government denies it. moammar gadhafi went on tv tonight to rally supporters and urge them to fight. straight now to senior international correspondent matthew chance who is joining us from tripoli. what s the latest? reporter: it got a lot quieter outside over the past hour or so, don. we have been hearing these intensive burst of gun fire, clashes between these rebels and the armed forces, the gadhafi loyalists that have been
in the break, i m reading a book called the children , which is the story of the 1960 and the beginning of the civil rights movement and what these people went through. unbelievable. absolutely unbelievable. and i don t know a lot of that history cause there s this barrier, imagined or not, there s this barrier, how many african-americans don t know the history of these guys and the american revolution? when we restore that history and we restore the truth about segregation and all of the nastiness there, whites and blacks can just knit together because we ve both been lied to, we really have both been lied to. steven asked the question before we took a break. great britain, 1772, out slavery, didn t have an impact even though the british didn t follow it. yes, in 1773, rhode island starting passing anti-slavery
builders. he is a he is an amazing guy because you can you know, when i get on and i say, here is what i think is going on. you can dispute that because that s my theme, but when we talk about history and you can produce the documents, and that s why i really believe david barton is one of the most important people in america to save america today because it is his opinion, but he ll produce the document to show you the fact. what was the relationship of our founders with african-americans? depended on where you were. if you re in the south, it s a different relationship, right. it was. glenn: but our founders, the ones that really put everything together, they came from a world where we don t even understand it. we re just, we re striving to get back to this place. yeah. glenn: are we not? we are.