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it s the top of the hour. i m gary tuchman in for suzanne malveaux. let s get you up to speed. george zimmerman has a status hearing just a few minutes from now. he s not expected to appear in court for it. he also has a bond hearing set for next week. zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of trayvon martin. zimmerman says it was self-defense. the affidavit says he quote profiled the teenager and disregarded a police dispatcher s order not to pursue him. thousands of syrians shouting against the government are testing the cease-fire that went into effect yesterday. so far day two is relatively calm. we are hearing though about small clashes and some civilian casualties. syrian forces and rebel fighters are for the most part keeping their promise to stop shooting at each other. north korea s long-range rocket launch was a big failure, but world leaders are worried about what could come next. the u.n. secretary-general believes north k ....
gw toye, feet first that s how we re going to start? little confusion? i have a really hard time reading today. i thought you didn t know who they were. one of the guys on the crew is actually in the band. political comedian, brejohn fugelsang and brett o donnell, presidential campaign adviser and will cain is a columnist with blaze.com. nice to have all of you with us. no surprise, i think, about the charges yesterday. there was sort of a flurry that, in fact, george zimmerman would be charged and then there was a sense that maybe it wasn t coming immediately and then there was a 6:00 pm press conference held by the special prosecutor. i would say i m a little surprised. his former attorneys suggested they had some kind of exculpatory evidence that they had sitting out there. i thought they would it that would preclude charges. i guess i meant there s a sense that there were rumors that charges were about to happen. second degree is a little bit of a su ....
cnn saturday morning. it s sart, march 24. george zimmerman s attorney. he speaks out. 100 years after the titanic disaster, thousands of items salvaged from the wreckage are up for grabs. and in the race for supremacy, which political party comes out on top, democrats or gop. the 2012 tweet states right now in the cnn newsroom. big day in louisiana. 20 delegates eight stake. rick santorum is ahead. santorum and gingrich are addressing a leadership conference. the former not will attend a couple of rallies later in the day. we ll now show you a video showing rick santorum shooting a rifle as part of his campaign stop. listen carefully to what somebody is saying in the background. all right. it might not have been very clear for you but the woman is in the background heard saying pretend it s obama. rick santorum was quick to slam that comment. no. we re nothing that s a horrible, terrible remark. i m glad i didn t hear it. the secret service has confirmed it ....
You are and a lot of your colleagues and friends? how does that bring us to this point where so many are selling out or closing out? guest: well, 70 s percent our costs are feed and of that, half is corn. so, what is indirectly happening with the mandate, our costs have been going up incrementally each year since the rfs was established in 2005 and then in 2007. we are looking at 40 percent of the corn crop taken off the table and mandated to go into the ethanol industry. the rest of us livestock producers, the export market, et cetera, we compete for the other 60 percent. so when you have a year like this with the drought in texas and, you know, the weather events that have affected the corn crop, today, another 2 percent decline in the corn crop, we are seeing, you know, we cannot control the weather but we can control what the government mandated and what we are asking for is just a ....
Sake, has president trump really delivered for america s farmers as much as he says he has? despite claiming to do all he can, president trump s policies aren t doing much to help them. trump won 62% of rule voters because of a widely held belief that they are the america he promised to make great again. what has he done for them so far? not much. for example, trump is happy to boast of the burdensome regulations his administration has rolled back for farmers but he revoked the farmer fair practice rules that protected farms against the worst abuses of agra business. big meat business pay farms to manage poultry and livestock but the companies squeeze farmers on costs threatening their lively hood. the rules sought to level the playing field and help farmers stay in business. now, no more. livestock producers are losing market share in some key countries because trump is tearing up trade deals with the rest of the world. after trump pulled out of the ....