fight with lyndon johnson over medicare and the words he used was that it would compel all americans to spend their sunset years telling their children and their children s children how it was when men were free, and that is what it is like. and however, medicare has been sustained and approved, but the public sentiment lay ahead. one thing we have not gotten and what the president has been trying to do today which as you say is to make a clear understanding of what this bill is about. because lincoln said with public sentiment nothing can fail and without it nothing can succeed. so without it, he who encourages it, will continue. and so that is the battle of the louise ads with president clinton, and so that is the side that americans have to come down on. thank you, doris kearns goodwin. just a little past the hour, and the supreme court has upheld the sweeping health care reform law proposed by president obama. i m candy crowley. in a 5-4 decision, the court upheld the i
the party in south beach. guaranteed it is still going on this morning. he said it s the best day of his life. i wouldn t doubt it. hi, everybody, nice to have you with us this morning. welcome to early start. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east, good morning, everybody. it may be a good morning, it may not be such a good morning, depending how you look at things. the markets are down worldwide this morning after the ratings agency moody s downgraded 15 of the world s largest banks and guess who happens to be sitting in this morning. the woman who knows everything there is to know about this. can you boil this down and let us know what it means for us? it means that your stock investments got hit yesterday and the global economy is slowing and we re seeing the ramifications of that around the world. 15 of the biggest banks in the world, including five of the largest u.s. banks were downgraded by moody s. bank of america, citigroup, goldman sachs, jpmorgan stanley. and hsbc
two days. i feel so guilty because i did not do that. he did not care. john fugelsang, nothing from you hereto, not even a phone call. mark lamont hill, professor at columbia university. i really did send flowers. you sent nothing, you lie. this is what i got from my colleagues, nothing. he came in thinking you d be here. oh, blah, blah, blah. i m not going to talk to you for the entire morning. kidding. let s get right to our starting point this morning. we have a major development to talk about that could complicate george zimmerman s case and could get his attorney into trouble. mark o mara will let the judge know while he was originally pleading poverty in order to get george zimmerman out on bail and a relatively low bail it turns out his client has raised more than $200,000, that is exactly how much he s raised, $204,000 is exactly what he s raised in donations from a now defunct website he helped set up to pay his legal expenses, a major revelation beca