it s been more than a month since the 17-year-old unarmed black teenager called trayvon martin was shot dead in sanford, florida. the shooter, george zimmerman, has claimed that he killed the teenager in self-defense. but an extended and newly released surveillance video is now raising serious questions about the veracity of zimmerman s story. here are new angles, never seen before, showing george zimmerman handcuffed, being brought into the sanford police station four hours after what he claims was a life and death struggle that ended in trayvon martin s death. yet the tape seems to show no signs of the injuries that zimmerman s father and lawyer claim that he sustained. alleging that trayvon martin attacked him, his nose and slamming the back of his head against the sidewalk. attorneys for both sides are weighing in on the release of that video. there absolutely was some misleading the public when they said his nose was broken, there was blood on the back of his head. the
let s get right to our political panel. joining us from washington. msnbc contributor john capehart, opinion writer for the washington post. you know i m coming back to jonathan. and joining me in new york, the senior political writer for politico and msnbc contributor tow toure. i m going to start with you. gingrich is down there in louisiana stumping hard this week. so is santorum. who will be the last guy standing come the end of saturday? well, it depends on whether we re doing the short game or the long game. for the short game, rick santorum is pretty well favored to come out of louisiana with a win. the republican policy polling survey showed, i think it was 12 to 14 points up. i think mitt romney s people know that he is not doing very well there. they re not building up expectations. i think that math is math and i think that mitt romney has a pretty big delegate lead. is it over until it s over? no. it does matter. he is up by about 300 delegates.
is such a focal point of the discussion. all right. toure, maggie, jonathan jonathan. it s john. john capehart. thank you for being with us today. coming up, a preview of the president s trip to south korea. [ female announcer ] did mr. intern forget how his boss takes her coffee? just cover your bases. bring her the all-natural sugar in the raw and the all natural, zero calorie sweetener stevia in the raw. then learn that she doesn t drink coffee, just tea. it s only natural. oh! [ baby crying ] what started as a whisper every day, millions of people choose to do the right thing.
only one comes out. we worship god. i am a gun owner but my wife owns more guns than i do. rick is a great guy. he is completely supportive of women. john. he s not here so i m calling you jonathan. if we re dumb enough to nominate him, we should expect he ll move back to the left. hello, mike, we re to you. i don t care what the unemployment rate will be. i do care. i believe the economy is coming back, by the way. i m going to die, i want to still be me. you all. i m not trying to pretend like i m from louisiana. a chance to respond to a question. i didn t get a chance to respond. instead of taking a rick of what may be the etch a sketch candidate.
beginning. it is common sense to allow people to defend themselves. and to have to, when you re in a position where you re being threatened, there is a life threatening situation to have to retreat and put yourself in a very precarious position, defies common sense. that was then governor jeb bush of florida. he and his fellow republicans were ecstatic when the law passed. and as typical, they use fear and rhetoric about personal freedom without balancing second amendment rights with the safety of our communities. one florida state attorney who opposed the law even said that they decided to fix something that wasn t broken. how do we go from one state to 30? who was the typhoid mary for this horrible outbreak? try not to be surprised. the usual suspects, the coke brothers, the nra, the american legislative campaign, and remember this? these are the same people who stymied gun regulation at every point who funded and ghost write these laws and others that have become a cor