Did it encourage him to pursue Trayvon Martin . Was it because he had a gun and thought he had the law on his side . Isnt it a fair question that none of this would have happened if this person had been unarmed . Was there something in his thinking, zimmermans about the law, something about the way he behaved when he pursued martin that resulted from this law that says stand your ground . Lets get to the next round in this debate. This public verdict on the Trayvon Martin tragedy. The battle over stand your ground. Perry bacon is an msnbc contributor and Political Editor with the grio. Com and radica jones is the assistant managing editor for time magazine. Tell me about what you think is the reason why the attorney general, eric holder who is in a somewhat political position but also primarily in a Public Service position, why he would be speaking as he has come out of talking about the trial of George Zimmerman, begin to talk about stand your ground, the law in florida . Well, i thin
Passed. So in that block of resolutions it could have been just gotten shuffled to the bottom and never found. It could have it could have been understood that it was completed. That the legislature had voted on it. Whatever happened, i have no idea. It would be total speculation. Well and the surprise here is the fellow at usconstitution. Net that somehow figured out that mississippi was not in full ratification. Well, were very glad you saw that movie, dr. Butra, and ken sullivan, you and dr. Butra, mississippi owes you a debt to the state and constitution. Thank you very much for joining us tonight. Its president s day. Going to the mattress, lets play hardball. Good evening, let me start tonight with this big one. Is barack obama going for it . Is he becoming one of the great president president s in history . Im talking to use his word, transformational. And is he using the countrys historic demographic shift to do it . Can he combine the new American Power of hispanics with the i
Bills for making it harder for minorities and young voters to vote. Who are you going to call . Colin powell or Reince Priebus, the field marshal of the rnc. James peterson is a director at lehigh, an engineer, and Clarence Page a columnest for the chicago tribune. Lets start with colin powell and what he said in his own words. He was speaking in raleigh, where he criticized republican efforts to limit voting. The news and observer quotes him as saying, quote, i want to see policies that encourage every american to vote, not make it more difficult to vote. It immediately turns off a voting bloc that the Republican Party needs. These kinds of actions do not build on the base, it just turns people away. You can say what you like, but there is no voter fraud. How can it be widespread and undetected . What it really says is we really are punishing you. Clarence page, youve been covering politics as long as i have. He only comes in from olump pus or wherever he reigns from, and everybody he
Positioning on immigration reform, his distancing himself from the triumphing over even triumphing over the hard often bizarre right wing of this country to do it. Are they on to something . Could this president be the president of our time . Tonight we examine on president s day just where barack obama intends to go. Where he intends to be once he, too, joins the pages of history and the lists of american president s. Ive got to machines political analysts to answer the question. Howard fineman and joy reid. First of all, i want to ask you both about these numbers here. These are numbers for the next election, 2014. Right now the democrats are about 17 votes shy of taking over the house of representatives. Theyre about five votes ahead of where they have to be to hold the senate. Can they do it . Can barack Obama Leave Office having won back the United States congress and then, of course, aiming toward the second goal of his greatness, getting the democrat to replace him, hillary or j
All americans to vote and participate in this countrys government . Or the party chair who supports bills for making it harder for minorities to young people to vole . Who are you going to call . Colin powell or Reince Priebus, the field marshal of the rnc. Who vastly reduced the number of black voters. James peterson is a director at lehigh, an engineer, and clarence page, a columnist for the chicago tribune. Lets start with colin powell, and what he said in his own words. He was speaking in raleigh, where he criticized republican efforts to limit voting. The news and observer quotes him as saying, quote, i want to see policies that encourage every american to vote, not make it more difficult to vote. It immediately turns off a voting bloc that the Republican Party needs. These kinds of actions do not build on the base, it just turns people away. You can say what you like, but there is no voter fraud. How can it be widespread and undetected . What it really says to the minority voter