real americans want to talk about and real americans want to talk about getting back to work. it is fire say real americans want to talk about paying down the debt. absolutely. there s plenty of time to learn more about the candidates. there s plenty of time to learn and hear from the candidates when he goes in to the cities and the towns and hears from real americans about the issues, they re disappointed that the president has yet to understand where our economy, how to grow our economy and where these jobs come from. and that s our job creators. thank you for joining us. you re welcome. love to continue. up next, a hollywood superstar drops a million dollars in the presidential race. plus for us political nerds, there s something new to like about facebook. supreme court justice scalia speaks out for the first time since the landmark health care ruling. first, today s trivia question. which foreign capital is named after a u.s. president? tweet us. the first correct an
register on the website. an application will be located on the secretary of state s page and should be up and running next week. supreme court justice scalia told piers morgan no bad blood between him and chief justice roberts over the health care ruling. morgan freeman is helping president obama try to keep pace with republican jouds groups donating $1 million to the priorities usa super-pac saying that the president has done a quote remarkable job under historically difficult circumstances and newt gingrich hit it off with snooki last night on the tonight show. here s a quick look at how friendships are made. newt, snooki. snooki, newt. i know. what a deal. what up? saw interviews on the first book. really? congratulations on having two the new york times best sellers. thank you. trying to be like you. no. well. i got nothing after that.
didn t have that gun? no, sir. you feel you would not be here? i feel that it was all god s plan and for me to second guess it or judge it is there anything you might do differently in retrospect now that time has passed a little bit? no, sir. joining us this morning criminal defense attorney, former prosecutor ann bremner is with us. thanks for being with us. nice to see you. clearly it was a friendly interview. how would you measure and gauge how he did? it was a friendly interview. i always think a closed mouth gathers no foot. i rarely regretted my silence, only my speech. he did a few things that will haunt him in a trial. number one, he apologized and then al sharpton apologize and had so should spike lee because they did something wrong, well, doesn t it follow that he apologized because he did something wrong? that s number one. number two, he said he didn t follow trayvon martin but he told the dispatcher he did and saying it was god s plan and he
morning in philadelphia for that suspect as we speak. good morning, everyone. welcome to early start. it is 5:00 a.m. here in the east. also this morning, george zimmerman in his first on-camera interview since the trayvon martin shooting, he was asked if he has any regrets. you ll want to hear what he has to say. and is there tension in the u.s. supreme court after that health care ruling? you will hear what justice scalia said about any possible bad blood. that s in that cnn exclusive coming right up. up first this morning, breaking news from tanzania where more than 30 people have drowned, over 100 more are feared dead after a ferry with nearly 300 people on board sank. about 150 people were rescued. but officials say there s not much hope for the passengers still missing. there were also 31 children on board. you are looking there at pictures of a little boy being saved. there were tourists on board as well. it s not clear if any of them were americans. rough weat
that don t have to be spent by the state right now. how about that, joy-ann? what the supreme court basically did was make it easier for states to get away from this. before the health care ruling, which was of course mostly covered because it upheld the constitutionality of most of the affordable care act, but before that ruling, basically the states thought they would have to do it or risk their entire federal health care money. this way, they can sort of get out through door number three, that s a new door that s sort of the more conservative, that s open for them on the court. what does that do for you? do you think lynn s right about the way the hospital constituency can kick into gear? i predict most of these states in the end will sign on to it. if you look at the states on the list you just showed, they are overrepresented in medicaid patients. they are already paying huge bills. some of the states have 30%, 35% of their children already on medicaid. hospitals have always c