when you talk about that video reenactment. sunny hostin said it best. juries love that type of evidence. they love that type of information because they re seeing this basically play out from start to finish. what you re seeing from the prosecution side, they re worried that that could bias and that could influence jurors as they head back to make that decision. also, when it comes to the information in trayvon martin s phone, which is still unclear what is in there, prosecutors don t want that evidence in. defense attorneys saying, hey, you had this evidence a long time ago. you made it hard for us to get to and hard for us to find and we want it in the trial. the prosecution saying they did not withhold that evidence and that they don t want it in this trial. what is their answer to the prosecution, george, the charge from the defense attorneys. they had this back in january and they refused or prevented under the discovery rules, if you will, the defense from even knowing that th
i talked to the mayor after i had been told there was a breakthrough in the investigation and he wouldn t go that far but he did confirm it was the lord & taylor video. that his briefing from the boston police commissioner about what they called, other sources called a turning point. and he said they were making progress and he was hopeful that there would be a definitive breakthrough quite soon. that was where the mayor stopped. the governor will be here fairly soon. we ll talk to the governor as soon as he gets here. governor duval patrick. tom fuentes is the former fbi assistant director, a cnn analyst joining us right now. what are you hearing? you have good sources. what is the latest information you re getting ob the status, the state of this criminal investigation into these two bombings at the boston marathon that killed three people and injured nearly 200? hi, wolf. i think what it shows is that it requires a great deal of meticulous work to put this together and that work
i can see the smoke. by then it was dark smoke billowing. crazy. it hit so quick. i saw the shooting flames and i got really scared. reporter: despite all this, thankfully no reports of injuries. bill, now, you know what a haboob is. bill: i have seen a haboob before. but this is a haboob. that has to range right near the top, would you agree? think about that. of all the haboobs we could come across, we came across that one. martha: we are easily entertained. how about the neighbor showing the reporters what she saw on her iphone. martha: that was john edwards, that was not a haboob. bill: a lot of our viewers sent us video pictures.
huge deal. set the scene. reporter: this is a big deal, wolf. a trip by the president of the united states to a war zone like afghanistan is extraordinary and this is only the third time that president obama has made this trip. it s been over a year. the last time he was there was in december 2010 and furthermore, at the presidential palace which is where he is right now for brief remarks with president hamid karzai and to sign the strategic partnership agreement with afghanistan to talk about the u.s. relationship with afghanistan beyond 2014. that s extraordinary. the last time the president was in afghanistan in december of 2010 he could not make that trip from bagram air force base which is about 30 miles or so north of kabul to the palace because of weather concerns, and certainly security is always a concern as the president is in the comfort of the air force base. if you look at past trip, wolf, the last one only lasted four hours and it s very late at night in afgha
and this is starting point. take me to new york i d love to see l.a. that s a good way to start your morning. good morning, everybody. that on not on my play list. our panel this morning, ron brownste brownstein s with us, he s a cnn senior political analyst, editorial director at national journal, will cain is with us, he s a columnist for the blaze.com and ben jones joins us this morning former obama white house special adviser has written a new book called rebuild the dream. how is that for promoting your book? getting it out early. happy to help. happy to help. we re going to talk not only about the book but also your resignation from the obama cabinet, i want to hear all the inside scoop on that. first, though, we got to talk about the tornadoes, that was an amazing nearly four hours, absolute devastation there. yeah, my hometown and not far from my hometown. it was pretty scary to see. i had buddies calling me saying they had to evacuate buildings in