we have to make a decision in this country. not that moderates suddenly come to some sense of reason. but finally, to discover the diversity that s at the heart of the country. i hope we can do it. i pray we can do it. we need to. thank you so much for your wisdom, your perspective during these challenging times for america. that s going to wrap up the hour for us. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell, chris jansing and katy tur pick up our coverage next. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in new york. with my colleague chris jansing for a landmark moment in our nation s history. our teammate katy tur will join us in a moment from inside trump tower where donald trump has just talked about the prosecutor and judge who presided over his case and said he would have loved to testify. this is a scam. this is a rigged trial. it shouldn t haven t been in that venue. we shouldn t have had that judge. he should have allowed us to have an election
goes with his gut. i m glad eli property what happened four years ago, we played that sound byte of the president essentially saying, i don t believe in polls. i actually interviewed him four years ago almost to the day, the same day he rode down that escalator that your colleague ashley parker wrote about so provocatively in today s paper. here s what he had to say then about whether or not he believed in polls. and i m doing well in the polls. new hampshire, where they had a poll i was number 3. and nobody thinks i m running. that was from yesterday or two days ago. nobody thinks i m running. i do well in the polls. now that i m running, i m officially running, i think they re taking this very seriously. phil, which is it really? this seems to be a president who is hyper focused on poll polling polling, what it says about him, any measure of popularity. i have to believe that guy is telling the truth about what he really believes about polling.
you are talking about the ownervoters in your district. you are down 1% in the marginal of error. right the new york times cinema polling shows a dead heat. republicans are trump supporters. we know that those people are going to come home. they don t like answering calls. everyone is pretty fatigued from poll polling right now. the only reason this race is close is because my opponent is getting more money from california billionaires tom styer who wants to impeach the president and mayor bloomberg and running saying i m not going to take money from pacs. yet his entire campaign is run by super pacs controlled by nancy pelosi and these super wealthy billionaires from new york city and california. and they are literally trying to buy the race. it s a con job of epic proportion. my opponent has the most left-wing record in the state assembly. that s all we have to go on. he has a lot of rhetoric try
four-point, it makes sense if he s looking for some kind of backup plan for ohio where i haven t seen any poll polling. i think there have been a couple that show him ahead, but mostly he s been behind in ohio here. if there s anything showing him tight, they want to get in there. to virginia. the latest nbc poll has the president up by one point, 48%-47%. richard wolffe, of all the polls i ve seen, this is the one that concerns me the most. i ve got to say, the nbc polls have been the nbc polls have been a bit tougher on romney than some other polls. but i have yet to see a poll that shows mitt romney two, three points ahead in virginia. maybe it s out there. i haven t seen a lot of them. and this gets to the heart of the obama campaign s theory of demographics. that virginia has changed. just over the last four years. you know, we can argue about enthusiasm, but they say countervailing to the enthusiasm is the demographic shift in a place like virginia, i d be
romney built a major lead among republicans and the gop infighting has been nasty and brutal. is he ready to take on president barack obama? and already focussing in on a november matchup and his campaign is depicting mitt romney as an out of touch millionaire. will that strategy pay off. i m wolf blitzer? i m wolf blitzer? you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we re also learning that george zimmerman, the shooter of trayvon martin, will be speaking publicly within the hour, maybe within the half hour, we are told, he s going to be speaking. we ll have live coverage of that and his first public comments on television. george zimmerman will be making a statement. we ll see what he has to say. that s coming up this hour as well, but let s get to the other breaking news we re following. rick santorum bows to reality and says the presidential race, as far as he s concern side over. with with the suspension of his campaign he leaves mitt romney the