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And then the winner of the poster event, the kids who win the easter egg roll will get a poster at the end of the day. that comes from someone who is just 9 years old. so kids from all across the country really got to participate and get creative and contribute to this event. and, richard, what s interesting about today is that it s expected to be the largest easter egg roll yet with more than 30,000 people expected from all over the country. people submitted their entries online and basically it was a lottery and they were lucky and they got the tickets to come and attend and they ve actually expanded the hours as well. it started at 7:30 this morning and it s going to go until well past 6:00 this evening. it s like an easter disney lantd there at the white house. kristen welker is there to watch all of it for us. stand by because we are waiting for the president. and now a look at some other headlines for you. developing now in southern new jersey, 1,000-acre brush fire is ....
People are found guilty, sometimes they re not guilty. in each case they re locked up, charged, brought to justis. what we are asking for in this case is for our justice system to work the way the founders intended it. i m sure if you went all of the way back to, you know, 1776, you know, and you said to george washington, if a man kills a boy who is walking down the street what would you expect to happen? he would say to you we would expect for him to be locked up, charged, and brought to justice. that s all that we re asking for, for the very most basic rights. ben to be enforced. you re running a national organization. watching this stand your ground laws and where they are at across the country. in m. states in the double digits that have this law. what do you think will be the effect after this decision has been made to all of these other states that have these laws in place? you know, look, this is raised in very serious questions. the reality is this is a law ....
now, zimmerman s lawyer say that police did the right thing, you re alluding to the stand your ground law. according to that law police should not have arrested him on. i want to play clip from the today show. if you understand the law you understand the rush to judgment was the rush to afterwards complain that he wasn t arrested. the florida statue prohibits law enforcement from making an arrest under sixes where self-defense is claimed and it s not absolutely clear that the use of force was unlawful. if you claim self-defense and some of the forensics supports that it would be improper to make a defense. we heard one of the attorneys for the families say they should arrest him and let him prove in court that he s innocent. it doesn t work that thway in ts country. that s an extreme interpretation of this law. the founders who wrote the law and passed down there in florida say this is not what this law was intended to let happen in ....
That goes way beyond the castle doctrine, way beyond self-defense. this is the law that basically seems to have licensed a wild, wild west situation, where, you homicides triple on a yearly basis since this law was first put in place about five or six years ago. seven or eight years ago in florida. and that s a real problem. i think, you know, this law will get a much needed review and we will find several states that will go back, change these laws if not get rid of them completely. hopefully the country will also continue to push forward in this question about racial profiling. who is behind all of these law, ben, across the country here? well, look, look, you know, again and again you see the national rifle association pushing it. and our concern about these laws is that they ve licensed a sort of vigilanteism that we see in this case. ....
reporter: this government is deeply divided. as you saw that call today from the grand ayatollah, we re in a bit of a period of limb po in ts country. a couple of months ago there were elections, those elections have been certified and iraq is supposed to be having a new government. maliki, according to rules that are in place right now, could come out as the new prime minister here, as the new government is formed, but there are a growing number of calls in this country, including from some of his shiite allies, who want him to step aside, to have another person, perhaps even from his party, certainly from his political alliance to come forward. and i think we re seeing growing calls for that government to be formed and perhaps even for maliki not to be a part of it. you know, richard, the thing with maliki that i hear talking to folks is that he s a bit of a ....