we have live pictures right now from the white house. president obama is about to welcome the wounded warrior project soldier ride. this is a bicycle rally to help those wounded at war restore both their physical and emotional well-being and it brings awareness to those that have faced this battle of the physical damages of war. tamron hall will have more on the event at 11:00 a.m. eastern right here on msnbc. to politics now and you may remember him as a one-time democratic nominee for vice president and white house hopeful or maybe even as the father of a love child with the one-time staffer. john edwards is also a heck of a trial lawyer and the 60-year-old is back in a north carolina courtroom for the first time since the scandal. back to his legal roots representing a family in a malpractice case today. the tribekka film festival just kick offed in new york city and two documentaries with political tie-s in.
steve: thanks very much. soldier ride got started on this program fine years ago. on this program nine years ago. gretchen: they ll kick it off a little more than two hours from now. in the meantime, the judge judge napolitano says eric holder should pursue civil rights violations in the zimmerman case but not against the person you think. steve: cops across the country may be tracking your car even if you didn t do anything wrong. what s that about? details ahead. amen we re going to spread easy down the road i go to benefit cancer research i rode across the atlantic. crossing an ocean with your body as the motor, it hurts. so my answer was advil. [ male announcer ] paul ridley chose advil. because nothing is stronger on tough pain.
relief coming up in many of these areas as we head into the weekend. let s head to brian. brian: honoring service members with the wounded warrior kickoff into high gear with a program we always tell you about. it s called soldier ride. nick krause, cofounder and wounded warrior jason who took wounds and is now fighting back to get the message out. welcome, jason. great to see you again, nick. you started here in 2004. where are you heading today? being a big loop around new york city. starting right here. brian: all wounded war skwrors will get together all wounded warriors will get together, hop on bikes and take over the city? saturday you have more riding and friday. that s right. go to our website and you can join us.
brian: what s going to be happening during our show today? people are going to be gathering here? we re going to rally here. we ve got a bus full of warriors, about 40 more warriors who will show up with bikes. about 9:00 we re going to kick off and ride through the city, over the brooklyn bridge. jason, you yourself are a wounded warrior. a year into your deployment you got injured by a roadside bomb? if it wasn t for wounded warriors influencing me during those first initial days it would have been an exponentially worse situation. then step by step every year they helped honor and empower me one way after another. brian: we love talking about soldier ride. we re going to make an announcement behind how to get ahold of wounded warriors. the place is going to be packed. we ll have free food. jason and nick, we ll check in with you in a little while. back to you, guys. what s coming up next?
that is the expectation, wolf. there have been no changes to his schedule. he is here at the white house today where he s had some meetings and been briefed on the latest in the boston bombings where he s really trying to carry on with at least some of the plans that he had in place for this week sort of signaling that what happened in boston on monday isn t going to stop him certainly and shouldn t stop americans from proceeding with their lives. he ll be hosting some bicyclists part of the wounded warrior project soldier ride. today, he ll be meeting with democratic senators offsite at a restaurant in d.c., as he s met so often with lawmakers recently. but the headline coming out of the white house right now, wolf, is a letter addressed to president obama that contained a suspicious substance and that s all that we re being told, was intercepted at an offsite mail processing facility. this is a mail facility run by the secret service where they get all the mail addressed to the whi