russia hypocritical calling for peace in ukraine while sending in weapons and troops. russia is doing nothing to stop these activities. reporter: president obama travels to europe today leaving big issues behind. veterans hospitals under scrutiny in need of new leadership and controversy about the release of an american p.o.w. in exchange for five top taliban leaders. so a full plate for the president here. a full plate for the president in europe. we told you who he s likely not meeting with, but he does have on his agenda to meet with ukraine s new president. busy trip. thank you, tracie. china has stepped up security in light of the tiananmen square uprising anniversary. military troops are also patrolling around the square. the chinese government is cracking down on opposition voices imposing strict travel conditions on political activists and critics. now, on june 4th, 1989, chinese
it was horrible. a kid shouldn t have to go through that. reporter: his family moved to jacksonville when he was in the sixth grade. they lived in a rental house but it was always a financial struggle, little to eat and constantly having depending on family members for help. a month ago with finals and ap tests ahead he found himself homeless again. his girlfriend s mother put him up three weeks and moved in with an aunt and uncle and through all of this he ended up with a 4.65 gpa and will graduate valedictorian. on june 4th. positive mind-set. i try to accomplish everything i need to do. i know i have everything to lose. i push myself. school is all i have. family is all i have. i m doing everything for me and what i have been through. i m doing it for my mom. reporter: he said he always wrote in his baseball cap every season never give up. he turned 18 may 5th and will soon get his driver s license. he loves calculus and plans to study civil engineering at florida state where
there. jimmy, to you first. in a facebook post sarah palin wrote this, defaulting on our national debt is an impeachable offense and any attempt by president obama to unilaterally raise the debt limit without congress is also an impeachable offense. why so much talk about impeachment here, jimmy? we ve been hearing that word a lot lately. i said back in june, on june 4th that i thought if we got to the point where we were at this debt ceiling crisis, if we had a government shutdown, blah, blah, blah, the next thing would be impeachment talk. so here we are once again having a conversation about impeachment. the interesting thing about former governor palin is, is she s putting in her mind putting the president in a box. what she s saying is if the president doesn t if the president raises the debt ceiling under the 14th amendment, he should be impeached. if the president does nothing, he should be impeached. so in sarah palin s mind, he should be impeached. that is not an unusual o
speak out against it, so that the leadership knows these guys are not going to move in any capacity and it gives them an excuse. which sort of sounds like that would help the overall bill it means there s less people sort of in that gray area. so now they know how many votes they have to get and where they re going to move forward on. that being said, best-case scenario this timeframe for this to come through the house, it still has to obviously come out of the senate. it s going to be probably in the early fall. and one aide told me specifically look, this thing is going to fall apart and break apart and come back together three to four times before we see it actually, when it finally gets out of the house. and for it to finally get out of the house, alex, it will have to go through some semblance of regular order. now he there s a lot of house committees that want top to have their hand in it we ll have do see what the house group comes up with on june 4th. and john boehner,s could h
i want to switch to the other proceedings we re following live. it is an extremely busy today on the legal front. because jodi arias, her case is back up and running. and, in fact, now we re looking at penalty phase. it is a sentencing phase broken into two distinct areas. she was guilty, she was found guilty of shooting her ex-boyfriend, travis alexander, and stabbing him 27 times as well as slitting his throat and not just a little, a lot, ear to ear. and now the jury has one more very big decision to make. actually two. first they got to decide how cruel that killing was. how cruel arias was. her actions when she did this on june 4th of 2008. this is what you call the aggravation part of the sentencing phase. and you re watching it transpire live right now in phoenix, arizona. in the last hour, miss arias began to cry. this was as the prosecutor juan martinez began explaining the kind of pain and suffering that