decided to curry favor. greta: with his intellectual abilities, looking at the constitution, precedent, but if he s paying attention at all to what s going on outside, listening to the crowd, that s a very different situation. greta, is job is to duty right thing. he didn t do the right thing. that s why they don t have elections, they re in there for life, because they re not supposed to be influenced at all. in theory, they shouldn t be reading newspapers. they should be doing what s right. i have no doubt as a human being that he read the papers and says, you know what, i m going to do something that s going to shock people. man, am i going to be popular in washington and georgetown. greta: do you think he wants to be popular? yes. greta: that s so unlike my impression of what the court has been historically. i guess that s because i m a lawyer, have respect for the courts, to think that a chief justice would be want to be popular with the crowd in
campaign season for quite some time. any chance of a santorum upset today, a santorum surprise? it s hard to say at this point. i m sure there will be other surprises down the road when we all jump up and down and say mitt romney looks weak once again. this one does seem to be winding down. the question is can the party unite around him even if he gets the nomination earlier than people may have expected? let s talk about this with jen, though. i saved the best for last. sarah palin going rogue, co-hosting today this morning. the former governor poked a bit of fun at herself, reading newspapers in teases, making notes on her hands. she gave tina fey a run for her money. here s how she responded when matt lauer asked her about mitt romney becoming the nominee. anything is still possible. there can still be a bit of a shake-up, but the numbers are what the numbers are. he does seem to be obviously the front-runner. you didn t answer the question. are you happy with that?
taxes on people with over 250,000 and we were just talking about this. most of those falling in the small business category. interestingly enough. a lot of those are known as sub-s corporations. so maybe they are companies making $250,000 passed through to their personal income tax. it doesn t mean they are keeping $250,000 in their pockets. they are reinvesting in their business. the government is saying small business we want you to driver the economic growth but they don t give us an opportunity to reinvest. martha: these come to a changing american life or experience. one of them is the american bookstore. you think about reading newspapers less and going 0 online. it s presented to you in a certain way. you are missing that experience you get when you walk into a bookstore of i came in to buy this book, then i found myself in the history aisle and i walked out with three books.
it doesn t mean they are keeping $250,000 in their pockets. they are reinvesting in their business. the government is saying small business we want you to driver the economic growth but they don t give us an opportunity to reinvest. martha: these come to a changing american life or experience. one of them is the american bookstore. you think about reading newspapers less and going 0 online. it s presented to you in a certain way. you are missing that experience you get when you walk into a bookstore of i came in to buy this book, then i found myself in the history aisle and i walked out with three books. we are getting news that borders cannot find a buyer. they are in deep financial straight. closing down and selling to barnes & noble. i wanted to play this clip from you ve got mail. i started helping my mother after school when i was six
outside of buckingham palace. well, we ve done it before so we ll do it again. it will certainly be. a lot of die hards out here today. very excited. a lot of anticipation before the royal wedding. back to ali and christine in new york. i m still fascinated by it. camping out in the woods is one thing. camping in front of buckingham palace, a little noisy at nights. i wouldn t go camping in the woods. speaking out on katie couric s departure from cbs. a hint of what she said, it involves reading newspapers. return to our top story this morning. deadly tornados in the south. now some 159 people are dead in these twisters. jacqui jeras will be here to break it down for us and tell us what to expect as this storm system keeps moving. [ thunder rumbles ]