and good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m matt lauer. guess who s back? hey, hey, well i had a nice week off of vacation. wish i was coming back to better weather, though. it s kind of a mess outside. for a lot of people. it s good to have you back here. thank you so much. ann curry coming up this morning we ll be talking about this breaking news in florida. where officials are keeping george zimmerman s whereabouts a secret this morning following his release around midnight last night. they re keeping the information secret for a very good reason. this is the guy who s been the target of death threats, before he was let out zimmerman was fitted with an electronic monitoring device that can track him anywhere in the united states. under conditions of bail, he must observe a nightly curfew. he s not allowed to have guns. and he had to hand over his passport. we re going to have a report on that coming up straight ahead. all right. and also coming
captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m matt lauer. guess who s back? hey, hey, well i had a nice week off of vacation. wish i was coming back to better weather, though. it s kind of a mess outside. for a lot of people. it s good to have you back here. thank you so much. ann curry coming up this morning we ll be talking about this breaking news in florida. where officials are keeping george zimmerman s whereabouts a secret this morning following his release around midnight last night. they re keeping the information secret for a very good reason. this is the guy who s been the target of death threats, before he was let out zimmerman was fitted with an electronic monitoring device that can track him anywhere in the united states. under conditions of bail, he must observe a nightly curfew. he s not allowed to have guns. and he had to hand over his passport. we re going to have a report on that coming
you univision and our political correspondent jessica yellin. immigration is on the radar today. i was down in tucson today. the police chief, roberto villasenor, we had an interesting conversation about the politics of immigration here and he said this about a political figure. i think you can make the connection. what i think i ve seen is that i see politicians just flip and flop over this topic. you can look at one politician that s saying something today, this year, and you go back in their record two, three years ago, and they were saying the exact opposite. i think that s just the nature of politics. you don t have a senator in mind, do you? i m not naming anyone, sir. i m kind of blending everything about all politics. but that s something i just can t understand. you have to pick a course and you have to stay the course. and i would say politicians, don t change with whatever you think the wind is going to bring
you. he says he has no particular politician in mind. there is a prominent one here whose tone on immigration was a lot different not long ago. i spoke with john mccain during the campaign and i clearly remember he told me during an interview he was for a path to citizenship and i m quoting here, and he even said, god s children, that he s changing his position, i mean, is it flip-flopping that chief villasenor was referring to? would say a majority support the new law. maybe times change. hard when you were the mccain-kennedy immigration bill and trying to get it done in the bush days. running to the right during a primary and having to contend with j.d. hayworth s position. that police chief is absolutely right. one place where we can say, americans want immigration reform. they want the government to act. and washington is being politically spineless. john mccain one of three
jim, he has many fans in this state. he has many critics as well. but his point is, i m going to keep doing what i was doing. if somebody wants to take me to court too, so be it. it s interesting, what he s been doing is supported by law. and this is what you do across the country. when you get somebody in your jail and you think they might be in the country illegally, you contact i.c.e. not in defiance of what the judge did yesterday. of course, joe arpaio as we say in the business is unavoidable for comment, so he s playing to his strengths. what s very interesting about this is he s just going to continue doing what he s been doing, including supporting a law which made it through the appeals process. the interpretation of our human smuggling law. i want you to listen to one of the law enforcement voices, before you weigh in. roberto villasenor is the police chief in tucson. he said his resources are better