morning. ets it s going to go like that today. also joining us is jeff toobin the cnn senior legal analyst. thank you for joining us and hank of political strategist, iconic political strategist. nice to have you joining us. thank you. lots to get to. the afghan man who hijacked a car and then breached security, drove on to the runway in kabul just as the pentagon chief leon panetta was landing. that man has died. he died from burns he received after he lit himself on fire. we learned that he apparently was trying to run over a group of marines who had assembled to meet the defense secretary. the british soldier was also injured in that incident. leon panetta is in the capital and he s going to be meeting with the afghan president, harmid karzai and that comes days after a u.s. army sergeant apparently went on a violent attack and went door to door in the middle of the night killing 16 afghan civilians and most women and children. this morning, that suspect, a father of t
let s play reporter roulette. george how, let s begin with you. we heard that verdict read not even an hour ago. it sounded like a pretty emotional jury foreman, as well. tell us the verdict. guilty but mentally ill. that is the decision of this jury. as you mentioned, that sounded like a very difficult decision for the jury to reach. we will see hemy neuman go to prison but he will get mental illness treatment in prison. this was a case that happened in november of 2010 when hemy neuman admits to pulling the trigger killing rusty schneiderman after he dropped off his child to daycare. hemy neuman alleged he heard voices, that he heard voices from barry white and olivia newton-john encouraging him to pull the trigger. there s one thing that s really interesting. defense attorneys made this case. i ll quote the defense attorneys saying the gun in this case was in hemy s hand but the trigger i suggest was pulled by andrea sneiderma, implicating the wife of the victim and bo
today marks one year since syria s uprising began with a day of rage. it is clear the rage has not let up. we re keeping an eye, too, on afghanistan. defense secretary leon panetta just met with president hamid karzai as the u.s. soldier who is a kutsed of slaughtering 16 people is moved from the country. the washington monument is sinking. it s sunk a fraction of an inch since the quake hit last august. today the circus ends and the prison sentence begins. former governor rob blagojevich has left illinois and might not be back for quite some time. he s on his way right now to a federal prison in colorado to start his 14-year sentence. he was convicted last summer of corruption. zoraida zsambolin is with us. my pleasure. zoraida, his going away thing was kind of like he was a rock star rather than a corrupt politician. why is that? as i was watching it this morning, i thought the exact same thing. this guy still does what he does best, right? he has this rock star
a timetable on an attack on iran giving a series of interviews laying out how many days, weeks, months, who knows for sanctions to take hold. the pressure and the heat on that situation. attention pennsylvania. take a look at this. a little plane coming in and it is not a good story, folks. the landing gear, look, it s not down. wow. how did it end? you ll see this but you ll hear more about it in just a moment. wow. bobbi kristina speaking to oprah. that s right, whitney s only daughter. the first time she s opening up about her mom. whitney houston since her death, some are asking, is it too soon? just a month oprah nabs this big interview. is it too soon for this little girl well, 19-year-old young woman to be speaking. we ll talk about that and everything else. it s only one minute past 5 clo:00 up to date. it s all about the jobs story. we have the february numbers. just a few hours from now the official numbers coming out and expecting everything on your
aside by the judicial branch and that the final decision on pardons rested entirely with the governor. but it s primarily the governor s judgment that victims families and survivors were questioning. governor barbour, you ll remember, refused to come on the program to defend his decision. his people said no over and over again, by e-mail and on the phone, face-to-face when we asked our ed lavendera to try to get some answers from the governor. governor, ed lavendera from cnn. do you mind if we talk to you real quick? let me get my instructions real quick. let s get inside, first. reporter: will you give us a second? he wouldn t give us a second, but not before showing us what he thought of the questions. governor, can you talk to us about the pardons? let me get my business straight here. all right, stay where it s cold. can we have a minute to talk about the pardons? i don t think so. i m not so presumptuous as to predict what the supreme court s going to do