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Tragedy and learn from it. yeah, i think mr. crump there really seizes on what s most important. if people want to dance around what s going on here, that s fine, it s up to everybody s own choice, but you know, race played a role in people s perception of why this happened. and the idea now is what do we do with this? what are the dialogues to have? angela quarry is the florida attorney general in charge of the case. he didn t try it, but brought the charges. it is her case. she brought the charge. she says the racial concept was enough that we felt confident about bringing a murder charge, something we ll talk about this morning. confident enough to bring a murder charge on that basis but not to bring a charge that george zimmerman picked trayvon martin because of his race. there s a law on the books in florida for exactly that. they didn t charge him with that. why not if they were confident enough in that theory to bring a murder charge? something we ll discuss this morning ....
teen trayvon martin. he says his concern is for the boy s grieving parents. my main message is to the parents of trayvon martin. you know, if i had a son he d look like trayvon. meanwhile, more protests are planned in cities across the nation today. last night thousands rallied in sanford. that s the central florida town where martin was killed. protesters are calling for the arrest of the shooter, neighborhood watch captain george zimmerman. zimmerman says he acted in self-defense. 17 counts of murder, those are the main charges expected today for army staff sergeant robert bales. he is the m.a.s.american soldie accused in the killing of afghan civilians, most of them women and children. bales remains locked up at ft. leavenworth. the rutgers university student convicted of spying on his gay roommate says he wasn t trying to intimidate him. a jury convicted dharun ravi of bias intimidation and invasion of praf si ivacy in the case of clementi. ravi says he does ....
korea plans to launch a long-range rocket. why tensions are soaring ahead of a world nuclear summit. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com on this, the eve of a key gop primary in louisiana, rick santorum is charging hard. polls show him as a double digit favorite there, but santorum is also on the defensive today. he s taking a lot of heat from his rivals for hinting that reelecting barack obama might might be preferable to electing mitt romney. listen to this. you win by giving people a choice. you win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who is just going to be a little different than the person in there. if they re going to be a little different we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk of what may be an etch a sketch candidate for the future. strong words. let s go live to our senior correspondent joe johns. he s in louisiana. joe, i tak ....