from the police. he i believe that maybe he was scared of the taser, you know maybe like he was hurt by the tears, and he just was looking for a way to to get away from the police. did you hear the officer say anything before he fired the shots? no not really. well craig joins me now from north charleston there in south carolina. craig. feidin santana also told you that he considered erasing this footage. think about where we d be without it but fearing his life could be in danger. why did he decide to go ahead and release this? a grart question alex and one of the first questions i asked him. a guy, 23 years old. he s a barber here in north charleston. this is the route that he takes to work every day, and he says that when he first saw and heard the confrontation, the incident whatever you want to call it he knew something was amis so he did what a lot of folks do now. he whipped out his cell phone and he just started recording. and he s being hailed in this are
kentucky derby today. what about the hats? we are going show you the perfect toppers for churchill downs. good morning. welcome to weekends with alex wi witt. the first big political rallies of the 2012 presidential race are torgting ohio and virginia, two swing state that is may be critical to winning re-election. mike vie carous has the preview. good morning. good morning to you, alex. this is the kick off of the obama 2012 campaign. the president and first lady are making two stops to ohio and virginia. they are not just swing states. they are swing cities as well. they look at the map and determine within the battleground states, what are the cities that voted for president bush in 2004 and voted for president barack obama in 2008? columbus, ohio and richmond, virginia are two such cities. you ll see a lot of visits from romney and president obama. the president and first lady started off today in cleveland then on to richmond. one difference you are going to be seeing,
this is the kick off of the obama 2012 campaign. the president and first lady are making two stops to ohio and virginia. they are not just swing states. they are swing cities as well. they look at the map and determine within the battleground states, what are the cities that voted for president bush in 2004 and voted for president barack obama in 2008? columbus, ohio and richmond, virginia are two such cities. you ll see a lot of visits from romney and president obama. the president and first lady started off today in cleveland then on to richmond. one difference you are going to be seeing, this is an official campaign event. there s not much difference between the events since president obama announced the re-election bid and what we have seen. the president is expected to sharply go out after mitt romney, name him by name. the president hasn t done a lot of it in a little bit of an oblique way. this is going to be a full-on campaign event. we might note, mitt romney is down
state states. the amicus brief i filed on the issue deals with that precise issue and there is lots of statistics and citation to even some of al lex s work in that brief so if you get a copy of the brief, it s replete with citations and statistics on that. when enforcement through attrition becomes acceptable, where does it stop? who is the next group? when senator pearce was building his coalition for sb1070, he granted to what to me, what i call anti-women anti-gay legislators proposing their legislation, which is now coming up, that if they signed on with sb1070 he would allow that kind of legislation to come through in the next session. of course he was voted out of office, but not just the economic issues. the morale issues we can anticipate anti-gay and anti-muslim legislation coming down the road. thank you for bringing it back to the moral issue. can i say one more thing? of course. thank you for the work you re doing and bless you in your passion and your
campaign manager was equivocating on the idea. when are we going to see him have his first campaign rally? i m not going to wager a date on your show. i think sometime soon. well, soon is literally hours later. cutter s boss, campaign manager jim messina made the announcement. good evening, everyone. welcome to the general election. we are announcing the president and first lady will hold their first two campaign rallies saturday may 5th. they will take place at ohio state university in columbus and virginia commonwealth in richmond. he called it a ramp up, not a zero to 60 moment. shortly after the call, a text message went out to millions of supporters. the news was on twitter and shared on facebook. the campaign is sending a message with the ohio and virginia picks. we can get to 270 electoral votes the old way. we are confident about the 2000 and 2004 path to 270 through ohio. we have our own map that gets us to the magic number through virginia. we ll show you ou