taking his place is eric justin toth no who is wanted for child pornography. dental x-rays can double the risk of the most common type of brain tumor. doctors have 5,000 casees a year. driver can expect to pay 25 cents more a gallon for gas during summer. prices will be $3.95 on average. back to hardball. we are withdrawing as counsel for mr. zimmerman. we ve lost contact with him. up to this point we ve had contact every day. he s gone on his own. i m not sure what he s doing or who he s talking to, but at this point we re withdrawing as counsel. wow. welcome back to hardball. that was craig sonner, former attorney for george zimmerman.
witness, the man involved in the shooting. the victim is dead, which is the case in most street shootings, i guess, but we have no way to get around the attorney. the prosecutor is very respectful, according to the times today. correct? there s so much that we haven t seen that you would need to form a judgment about what happened here, and certainly a prosecutoorl prosecutorial judgment. ballistics would tell us the angle from which the bullet was shot. it could support zimmerman s story or contradict zimmerman s story. whether he was being rushed or not or whether he just shot him. the autopsy report from trayvon martin, where the bullet resides, medical reports from that evening on just how serious the injuries were. well, we had the head
because there s only one live witness, the man involved in the shooting. the victim is dead, which is the case in most street shootings, i guess, but we have no way to get around the attorney. the prosecutor is very respectful, according to the times today. right? right. very careful to say nothing. there s so much that we haven t seen that you would need to form a judgment about what happened here, and certainly a prosecutorial judgment. the forensics on the shooting itself. what would that tell you? it would tell us, what is the distance from which the bull he was the shot. what is the angel from which the bullet was shot. what would that tell but criminality? it could either support zimmerman s story or contradict zimmerman s story. whether he was being rushed or not or whether he just shot him. the autopsy report from trayvon martin. the angle where the bullet resides, medical reports from that evening on just how serious the injuries were. well, we had the head
captions by vitac www.vitac.com we re also learning that george zimmerman, the shooter of trayvon martin, will be speaking publicly within the hour, maybe within the half hour, we are told, he s going to be speaking. we ll have live coverage of that and his first public comments on television. george zimmerman will be making a statement. we ll see what he has to say. that s coming up this hour as well, but let s get to the other breaking news we re following. rick santorum bows to reality and says the presidential race, as far as he s concern side over. with with the suspension of his campaign he leaves mitt romney the clear path to the nomination and a november matchup against president barack obama. let s go straight to our national political correspondent jim acosta and he was there when he made his statement in pennsylvania. i know you ve spoken to santorum aides. what else are they saying? reporter: wolf, what they re telling me and i just got off the phone with
on that last point, president obama knows that times are bad this fall. he won t get reelected arguing, i ve done a great job. so he s making a different case right now, that if you re struggling, it s not because he s failed, it s because the system failed. the president made fairness the issue today. the republicans have stacked the deck in favor of the rich against the rest of us. obama clearly thinks it has a winning strategy here. plus the trayvon martin case, late this afternoon lawyers for george zimmerman said they are no longer his lawyers. they said an odd behavior on zimmerman s part. we ll get the latest from sanford, florida. more than 50 years after the cuban revolution, we have learned again how dangerous it is for anyone in this country to defeat obama. we begin with rick santorum tonight exiting the race. his campaign communications rick santorum is out. i want it look at something. here is what he said. your candidate in leaving the campaign, announcing it