celebration. march madness, you bet. kentucky fans burning couches, flipping cars, all after kentucky wins. go figure. i mean, really. there are reports more than two dozen arrests this morning as the wildcats get ready to play in the title game. it sounds like a disney movie. school kids find bags of sunken treasure. this is a true story. it s like a time capsule to the past bursting with gold and silver antiques. and we will be talking to the kids who actually found the loot. the next president of the united states! oh, bummer. whoa, there s really a big joke that s about to play out after this freeze. mitt romney being punk d by his staff. what does he see to his left? gop front-runner totally falling for an april fools day prank. we ll show you that reaction coming up later on in the program. up first, the parents of trail a trayvon martin their case to the justice department. but were overruled by the state attorney s office. thousands attended a rally and a con
whitney houston could have filled the stadium with a public memorial. instead she d have a private funeral in newark. her body was flown home yesterday. from a plane to the golden hearse to the funeral home. we re told houston s mother was waiting inside. jason, you just had a chance to speak to the pastor there. what did he tell you about the funeral arrangements? reporter: right. that would be pastor joe carter, john. pastor carter was very gracious. he allowed us inside the very same sanctuary, inside the church where the services will be held on saturday. when i asked him about the service, he told me he would be officiating over the particular service on saturday. i asked him what are the words that he s going to use to try to bring comfort to those who are going to come here to pay their respects. he said i m going to have to find a way to acknowledge the pain and acknowledge the pain that everyone is dealing with here but also to celebrate the life of whitney houston
campaign is holding an event in colorado, the gop front-runner will watch voting results from minnesota, missouri, and the centennial state come in from denver this evening. the shift to these states has also brought with it about a change in a strategy for mitt romney directing his attacks at other republican rivals. peter alexander is following the romney campaign from johnstown, colorado, and peter joining me to talk about this. it was all about knocking down newt gingrich before now. rick santorum is getting the treatment from mitt romney, correct? reporter: this was the one candidate who had avoided the romney attack machine. the romney machine had gone after rick perry, after newt gingrich consistently and now going after rick santorum as he appears to have some momentum heading into the three contests tonight. there was a barrage of e-mails sent to reporters like myself yesterday attacking santorum, one of them in a statement from the former minnesota governor tim pawlenty dis
of attacks on newt gingrich and that appears to be paying off. with me now, mel martinez, a romney supporter and now the regional chairman with jpmorgan chase. nice to see you. good morning, chuck. good to be with you. as you might expect the gingrich campaign is not happy with how members of the romney establishment if you will have gone after speaker gingrich. here is fred thompson yesterday on meet the press on what he calls the romney attack machine. let s just say that romney is the nominee. he basically is plays mr. nice guy until someone gets close to him and then he unleashes his attack machine. that s what happened in iowa. it s what s happening in florida spending millions of dollars. i think they spent $16 million on television ads alone in florida. do you agree with senator thompson that mitt romney s lead and now decisive lead is
newt gingrich hitting mitt romney, and defending himself that he s not a true reagan conservative. it s increasingly interesting to watch the romney attack machine coordinate thing. there are four different people by four different people that randomly show up. for those of us in the trenches fighting in the 08s it would be nice to recognize what we actually did, and not have them distort it. bill: former attorney general in the sunshine state, bill ka call um is wit maccallum. why do you think gingrich is the best man. i think he has the most knowledge, the leadership skills and the vision to be the president of the united states, and i think he s the one who has the best chance of beating president obama because he has good debate skills and he is very capable of sharpening the contrast. i think that s what is going to be required to say, here is a