niagara falls on a tight rope. around a million young immigrants who are in this country illegally are feeling more secure about their futures this morning after the obama administration unveiled changes to its policy that it says are fairer and more efficient. athena jones is in washington talking about this with us. so, athena, how is this news being received on capitol hill? reporter: hi, randi. well, reaction from members of congress was swift, and we ve seen a lot of it. democrats are celebrating the announcement and republicans are blasting the move and questioning the president s authority to make it. mr. senator, can we have your thoughts on immigration reporter: senate minority leader mcconnell refused to answer shouted questions about the obama immigration policy, but the reaction from other congressional republicans was strong. texas congressman lamar smith, chairman of the house judiciary committee, calls the move an amnesty that would encourage fraud an
landing today at the big apple. if you re flying into jfk today, you could get an interesting look. i just gave it away. you can watch those pictures over and over again. a piggybacking 747 and a shuttle? sweet stuff. let s get started off the top of the hour here. up first, a six-figure shocker in the trayvon martin case. legal experts say it s something that could land trayvon martin s killer george zimmerman back in jail. zimmerman s attorney mark o mara told anderson cooper that he just found out his client has over $200,000 in online donations, but the judge was told zimmerman had very little money when the bail was set this wee week. he asked me what do with his paypal accounts. i asked him what he was talking about. and he said those are the accounts that had the money from the website he had and that there was about $200,000, $204,000 that had come in to date. i don t think judge lester will believe i misled him. i told him what i knew at the time which is exact
be cut down and turned into scrap metal. it was halfway on its way to being junk. in march of last year japan had its giant earthquake which triggered a giant tsunami. in the tidal wave disaster, the ghost ship slipped its moorings and along with five million other tons of debris, the ghost ship ended up out in the pacific ocean on its own with no crew, no controls, no lights, it s just been drifting around in the pacific ocean on its own for a year. the problem with the ship floating around out there, the ocean is big, but there s a chance it could run aground somewhere. there s a chance as it flooded but busy shipping lanes with no lights or communication equipment that somebody could hit the ship.
explain the answer. as you saw the answer from the president in march of last year. what about this? bring in the panel. jonnah goldberg, from national review online. juan williams, columnist with the hill and fox news analyst and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles, we ll start there. what you saw with sebelius was classic definition of a gaffe in washington. a washington gaffe when an official accidently speaks the truth. she was right when she said this is double counting. when you cut the bill by half a trillion and it won t but assume it does. you can either set aside and redeuce the debt, which is the amount you have to borrow from china or spend it on another entitlements, which is what the bill does, give healthcare to billions of people who don t have it. one or the other.
explain the answer. as you saw the answer from the president in march of last year. what about this? bring in the panel. jonnah goldberg, from national review online. juan williams, columnist with the hill and fox news analyst and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles, we ll start there. what you saw with sebelius was classic definition of a gaffe in washington. a washington gaffe when an official accidently speaks the truth. she was right when she said this is double counting. when you cut the bill by half a trillion and it won t but assume it does. you can either set aside and redeuce the debt, which is the amount you have to borrow from china or spend it on another entitlements, which is what the bill does, give healthcare to billions of people who don t have it. one or the other.