bachmann is the sort of surrogate that he s going to need to give those time of women voters to support him. we bring this to the next question with congresswoman bachmann yesterday giving mitt romney her full endorsement, one of his first rivals to do so. take a listen. i m honored here not only to introduce governor bob mcdonald a fabulous governor of the state of virginia but to also lend my voice and my endorsement to mitt romney as our president. all right, so, michele bachmann there giving that endorsement, mitt romney literally surrounded by women yesterday. his wife there as well, and sometimes we see new hampshire senator kelly ayotte with him. can michele bachmann help romney make inroads with republican women, with independents? what s really important to keep in mind about michele bachmann, what is great to point out, she represents a wide
gingrich is your best friend right now? in some ways, yes. these endorsements, i think ultimately endorsements don t matter that much, but these very tepid, grudging half endor endorsements certainly don t do mitt romney any good in trying to come out as the head of the republican party. as the nominee. so, i think in some ways you see not only newt gingrich but santorum still being frenemies of mitt romney. i think one of the things this will come down to is these guys have a lot of debt and you saw that happen with barack obama and hillary clinton in 2008. one of the reasons they came together was hillary clinton had a ton of debt, and she needed barack obama to help her alleviate some of that debt and i think in some waifs it will come down to that and these guys will have to get down to that. thanks to all three of you for your time and this morning. thank you. and the president once again will urge congress to take action on student loan interest rates from washington lehi
shot from the school where he was going to speak but a storm just went through and knocked down the shot. we re working to get that back for you. he will be speaking with juniors and seniors that are going to be graduating washington lee high school about student loans and his push to prevent interest rates from doubling coming up on july 1st. i m joined by heather smith, president of rock the vote. we can tell there is a major storm brewing over washington, d.c. in and around virginia right now looking at the skyline behind you. let s talk about the reason the president is trying to tract the youth back to his campaign for re-election. explain though how young voters are reacting to the president s message about student loans and the worries that so many students have around this country about the mounting debt that it takes to get educated. yeah, it s true. thanks, thomas. young people today as we look to the 2012 election are huge in number and can have a major impact on the outco
economy. rock the vote president heather smith. thanks for your time. that s going to wrap things up for me. i m going to see you back here on monday 11:00 a.m. eastern time. follow me on twitter @ thomas a. roberts. now with alex wagner is coming up next. i could see in that shot there with heather smith that storm over washington, d.c. right now. i m not sure we re going to get to see the president speaking to those kids. i will be drawing illustrations of him speaking. we ll break out the tell straighter. i know no bounds. we ll bring you the president by hook or crook. while we wait for the president s remarks, we ll examine what may be an even larger drag on the economy, debt. author and journalist timothy noaa lsts discuss the great divergence. meanwhile, the president is speaking now. we ll go to him live now speaking in virginia. after you graduate.
toss the head set fell. zimmerman says he was acting in self-defense and has never been arrested or charged, but martin s family and their many supporters claim that racial bias in the shooting and the investigation. so now the fbi has stepped in and the justice department has opened a civil rights investigation. cnn legal analyst sunny hostin joining me now with more on all of this. why don t we go ahead and start with trayvon s cell phone friend. i understand you actually have a copy of her sworn affidavit. give us the details, sunny. we ll kind of unfold the conversation from there. good morning, kyra. i do not have a copy though of the sworn affidavit but i did speak to one of the martin family attorneys this morning for at least half an hour, and she and i discussed this phone call. apparently trayvon martin on that night had been trading phone calls with a 16-year-old friend, a girl, and as they traded phone calls, one of the last phone calls, w was at abou 7:04. tr