alone. let's get justice in this case. thanks for watching, "countdown" is next. >> breaking news, there will be a special prosecutor in the trayvon martin case appointed within the last hour by the florida governor. she is based in jacksonville, previously supervised home side prosecution in the state. her office also decided to prosecute a jacksonville teenager who had killed his 2-year-old brother as an adult. the boy was 12 years old. >> which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? >> i have come to the decision that i must temporarily remove myself from the position as police chief for the city of sanford. >> the police chief in the middle of the trayvon martin killing scandal takes a leave of

absence. the outrage does not. the mother of trayvon martin. >> my son was not committing any crimes. our son is your son. >> congressman john louis. >> there should be a sense of righteous indignation in america the same as we used to have. >> the florida stand your ground you. >> nothing's ever finished if the legislature, everything can always be readdressed. >> except the other florida case where a man chased an alleged burglar, stabbed him to death and was just acquitted of self defense. >> a florida state senator wants a special prosecutor. >> the president and the pipeline, how to say no, you're wrong, i approved the key stone project without really approval it. >> today i'm directing my

administration to cut through the red tape, and break through the bureaucratic hurdles and major project a priority. >> how come jeb bush didn't run for penalty. >> he not only thinks marco rubio should be vice president but that he is: >> at least he didn't mention etch-a-sketch. >> we're looking for someone who is an etched in stone candidate. >> he said i'm going to republican as a conservative. he didn't say i am a conservative. >> i'll be running as a can serve active republican. >> the war on women the victims rally, even the republican victims. >> i think planned parenthood does mammograms, they do so much of the health care, the preventative health care and if they are doing that, then we need to provide those services absolutely. >> and you want the job? the employer wants your facebook

password. senator blumenthal wants a law to forbid that demand. now on "countdown." >> good evening. this is thursday, march 22, 230 days until the 2012 presidential election. movement tonight in the case of trayvon martin, the 17-year-old gunned down by a watch captain. the story the police chief who decided stand your ground law meant the shooter would not be charged stepped down from his post today. with calls for that law to be amended following this tragedy and a fatal stabbing in miami. a call for a special prosecutor apparently heard by the state's governor, who appointed one tonight. that senator joins us. martin was heading to a

relative's home from a convenience store when he was shot dead on february 26 by george zimmerman. the shooter a frequent caller to police insisting he acted suspiciously then attacked him that he only fired in self defense after a police dispatcher told him not to follow the young man. a bag of skittles and iced tea all that was found on martin's body. this tribute in sanford and one tonight as well, many more are planned. also making plans son ford police chief billie. >> it is apparent that my involvement in this matter is overshadowing the process. therefore, i will come to the decision that i must temporarily remove myself from the position at police chief for the city of sanford. >> sanford police refusing to arrest george zimmerman for what many are calling murder, sanford city manager saying other law enforcement agencies federal and state are now taking the lead.

>> it's been turned over to the state attorney's office. the governor has asked law enforcement to assist. the united states department of justice is part of the process. >> now we have a florida state special prosecutor appointed within the hour by governor scott. naacp president our guest last night, approving that. >> while the wheels of justice are turning more slowly than the nation wants the reality is they are beginning to turn. >> though not fast enough for martin's parents. >> we need a permanent release. >> we want an arrest. we want a conviction. >> the same demand is being heard on the campus of virginia state university in richmond, at

miami gardens in florida, hundreds of students marching where trayvon martin went for his freshman and sophomore years. georgia representative john lewis weighing in showing how much farther this country has yet to come. >> it's a very sad and dark hour not just for race relations in the state of florida, but race relations in america. there should be a sense of righteous indignation in america the same way that we had during the days of lynching. >> mean time, florida's stand your ground that you police cited after passing on the arrest of zimmerman coming under withering criticism now police in miami saying they were stunned after a judge decided not to charge another man who claimed self defense after chasing down and stabbing an alleged burglar. the co author apparently ready to reassess his own work. >> nothing's ever finished in the legislature.

i learned that, you know, everything can always be readdressed. >> the state senator calling for legislative hearings into that law, talking to the miami herald: >> and that quote weird batman zimmerman with more time on his hands to consider his future, withdrawn from enrollment in college, citing safety for their students including him. for more on the story and the investigations, i'm jointly by florida senator. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you for having me. i appreciate it. >> f.b.i., federal democratic of justice, state attorney's office already involved, you called for a special prosecutor. governor rick scott appointed a special prosecutor tonight. is that sufficient? >> well, it's the first step in

presenting a powder keg from exploding not only in the state of florida but the country. i think it's an initial victory for the trayvon martin family that we will get somebody to take a close independent look at circumstances and hopefully eventually get to an arrest and conviction. >> the state's attorney, angela cory as i noted at the start of the show that considerable experience in prosecuting homicides, but in a controversial case that's still unfolding in jacksonville, she decided to pursue and got the court to treat a 12-year-old kid as an adult, to actually try him for the murder of his 2-year-old brother. is there enough independence from somebody who comes out of the state's attorneys office to satisfactory those that think there has been a wall of silence built around that case, that town and around george zimmerman? >> i think there is. i know a little bit of history about angela cory. she has a fine staff by way of

attorney wesley white. he's had experience in trying these type of cases. i would hope that she would rely a great deal on wesley white in prosecuting this case in sanford florida. >> that's good to hear. about they've lee stepping down temporarily today. what's your reaction to that and do you know why this is just temporary? >> i think that's just a bandage. i think based upon his prefers action that he ought to just step down completely. i think it's a lack of political courage on behalf of the city manager and the elected officials, and hopefully they will become more stronger and ask for his resignation as well as other resignations in that process in the city of sanford. >> my understanding is you're going to have a city hall meeting in sanford with the approval, what do you expect to have happened? >> once the new prosecutor gets

involved in this case and prosecutes it and gets a conviction, the city of sanford and the blacks in sanford will still be on that plantation cultural mentality. my goal is to have a fit in terms of coming in there taking testimony about what the conditions are in sanford to bring them into the 20th century. they need health care, jobs, homes, and i'm going to go there with other colleagues in the florida senate on several opportunities to take testimony so we can go back to tallahassee and file new legislation to improve the conditions and to bring them out of the plantation mentality that they've had for over 100 years. >> it is absolutely understandable why this case has been painted in racial materials. it's obvious to anybody who knows the details of it. is it becoming apparent to you with the reaction of the nation, not just the reaction in florida, but the nation's reaction that people see this in a secondary and even larger

context, that this is semi vigilanteism run amok and the i hadidentities and colors of the faces and the perpetrator where important have become in some places secondary because there's an idea just beyond the individual case that citizens of any color are not safe if there are laws that permit things like this to happen? >> that's absolutely true. in 2005, when i voted on the bill, i asked the senator what did this bill apply to. he said it applies to your home and your car. it does not apply to the common areas, and obviously you have vigilant tees as mr. zimmerman out and about who cannot be a police officer taking the law in their own hands and shooting and killing wrongfully a minor. >> i hate to use the word

vigilante because it almost implies that there was a reason for him to do what he did. he had neither law or reason on his side. senator, thanks for your time. >> thank you sir, i appreciate it. >> for more on this case and that stand your ground law which is the reason that george zimmerman has avoided being charged so far i'm joined by countdown contributor jonathan turley. let me ask you about a special prosecutor. is there hope that this was a really good move with angela cory and her staff being quite familiar with circumstances similar to the trayvon martin case, that it might be a value to advancing this and getting the state of florida and indeed the nation through this? >> i think it's a good move. this is the type of thing that special prosecutors are good at, in that they reset the scene from the prosecution and police side. you have someone coming in who

is not tainted by the earlier decisions in the case. wewe have a lot of mistakes made by the police. so, just bringing in somebody who's independent can offer assurance to folks that there's not this past dependency that you see in some cases. >> to the to the statute: >> does what we know about the factual of this case you justify sanford police department and prosecutor there and their decision to not charge george zimmerman, is it reasonable to use deadly force to prevent death or great bodily harm when the other person is unarmed?

>> first of all i'll say i've been a leading critic of both the so-called make my day laws or castle doctrine laws and the stand your ground laws. i've said for years that these laws are not necessary and that they produce these types of tragedies. politicians love them. they, you know, i find it somewhat annoying so his politicians falling over themselves today to say that they never imagined these problems with critics like myself have been saying for years that these laws in invite these types of problems. in terms of this case, no, i think that this is the police had grounds to arrest zimmerman that night just on the fact that they had an unarmed minor who is also physically smaller than zimmerman. you had a call in which he was asked not to pursue the individual. there is certainly enough basis there for an arrest. i've seen cases go to indictment

on less evidence, but having said that, you know, the police could say that zimmerman was bleeding at the scene. all right, we don't know the extent of those injuries, and they wanted to wait. he is not a flight risk. that doesn't explain the mistakes the police made. there's disturbing accounts of witnesses saying they were basically corrected by police. >> right. >> in saying things against zimmerman, statements by the chief that seem to be untrue once we heard the 911 tape 37 that's why i think that a special prosecutor is warranted. >> i mentioned this other stand your ground case in miami charged with murder after chasing a burglar and stabbing him to death tossed out on the basis of the stand your ground law. the miami police called it a travesty. are we seeing so much evidence come to pass about this law that this thing is going to get repealed in florida and elsewhere possibly where politicians are simply turning

with the wind at least the wind is blowing in the correct direction? >> the reason some of us have criticized the laws is that they are extremely ambiguous and solve a problem that didn't exist. the common law and existing law in most of these states gives ample protection for people in self defense even mistaken self defense. i would encourage people to look at the stand your ground laws or castle doctrine or make my day laws which were the first round here and we see the same type of cases coming out of those people shooting folks that come on knock on their doors and using a very high level of violence when it used to be that they would calm the police and just avoid the incident. with the gathers case, it shows exactly how dangerous that ambiguity is. in this case, he took meeting force with force literally didn't just stand his ground, ran and caught up with the guy

and proceeded to stop him to death. it's the type of interpretation unfortunately that the judge could excuse, according to the ambiguity of the law. so yes i hope people will reexamine this law and the castle doctrine law. politicians were very quick to embrace this, because it was so popular when they did it and this is what happens when you do impulse buy legislation. >> the appointment of the special prosecutor, is that going to conflict with what the democratic of justice and f.b.i. are doing? >> the justice democratic can continue in this case on one of two grounds first if they can establish there was a racial motive. they still haven't clearly established that. the zimmerman family insist he is not racist, he's a racist with many african-american friends and they contest it. i don't know where the truth will cult out on this, but the

justice department needs to establish that they have grounds to believe this was a racially motivated crime. if they can't do that and there's some debate about what the audiotapes actually show. >> right. >> they can still continue in the case if there is a request from the local police to assist them, and then they can offer some forensic help. this case is going to turn on forensics. i'm waiting for trajectory analysis and proximity analysis of the gunshot. where were the abrasions and bruises. all of that stuff the f.b.i. of course is legendary in how well it can do that, so they could continue to be involved. what we're all looking very closely at is whether they will continue this as a civil rights division case. they came in this much earlier than they usually do. usually they let the locals run a built and even indict, even try, because they can always come in with a civil rights

charge. here they moved very, very quickly, so we're all watching to see if they're going to complete their preliminary analysis. >> great thanks as always. >> thank you keith. >> the presidential race and the president and the president's partial support of the excel peep line, and mitt romney has gone all etch-a-sketch on the gas prices. he said they should be responded to with greater fuel efficiency and "i don't think now is the right time for us to encourage the use of more gasoline." he supported what is now president obama's position. oops.

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built quickly while study continues on the northern route. >> right now a company called transcanada have applied to build a new pipeline to speed more oil from curbing to state-of-the-art refineries down in the gulf coast. today, i'm directing my administration to cut through the red tape break through the bureaucratic hurdles and make this project a priority. >> if the president was hoping that would be seen as bipartisan, he was mistaken. >> the only recent action the president has taken on energy involved lobbying senators personally and successfully to prevent construction of the key stone pipeline. >> the president sold the southern route as the environmentally friendly portion of pit. there may be no such thing. the oil is not traditional crude, but is heated sludge because of the extreme methods needed for extraction.

it is more likely to cause leaks. there is strong evidence that tar sands pipelines frequently spill more: >> in fact, since transcanada's initial key stone one pipeline began operation in june, 2010, 35 spills were suffered, 11 in the first year alone and that would be 100 times as many as transcanada projected. for more, let's turn to white house correspondent, thanks for your time tonight. i'm assuming the president just got to say why no, i didn't stop the key stone xl pipeline, they're building it now. >> i think that's exactly what he wanted to say. i think that's why he did the event today. you have to acknowledge to some respect that john boehner's right, the president's been schizophrenic somewhat on this issue. he did lobby to build the southern portion and now he

wants to seem like he's doing something on the issue of gas prices, so he goes and he does the exact opposite with respect to the domestic portion of the pipeline. he's all over the map. >> speaker boehner was all over the president today saying this did not need the president's ok. is he correct on that point? >> that's trickier. there is bureaucratic red tape, but this isn't a controversial portion. the real controversy has been rerouting it from canada through nebraska. that's what the speaker has been hammering the president on and was the sort of big disagreement towards the end of december. now what the president did was punted on that issue and picked it up for good reason. the environmental lobby is deeply skeptical and the president would take a real hit if he did it. >> the president's speech today seemed to be a continuation of a mixed message saying the

president can't control the price of gas and yet here again, he seems to be taking steps as if a president can troll the price of gas. >> yeah, and it's like i said, there's a con value looted message there. obviously, you can't on one hand argue you're helpless and on the other hand stage something to make it seem you're doing some proactive. this administration has never been anti drilling or anti domestic oil production. it is at its highest level under this president offshore drilling instituted reforms in the gulf, but he got it relatively fast back on its feet post the gulf spill. he's someone willing to piss off the environmental lobbyists so to speak. he has no control on the gas prices and so this is obviously stage craft today. >> is there some political calculation in the reelection campaign that some people are in

the mood to punish the president for high gas prices anyway and he needs to be seen doing something about it even if there is no cause and effect line that can be drawn? >> sure. i was talking to a couple of people in the white house and on the campaign. they fully expected the president to take a hit over the issue of gas prices and it happened. the president was up in the polls and suddenly all of a sudden, we saw that he had taken a bit but they think it's a momentary dip that people will understand eventually that there's little he can do and because of events like this will maybe start to consider that he's trying to do more. yes, this is a political move. >> sam stein, thanks for your time. >> speaking of politics and gas when mitt romney tries to he race his image as the

etch-a-sketch candidate an image where romney is anti gas.

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job, they want to see your facebook password. a senate proposal to make that illegal, coming up.

>> before the etch-a-sketch comment, things were good for mitt romney. in case you're wondering why jeb bourbon doored romney instead of throwing his hat into the ring, jeb bush loves him some marco rubio. on wednesday, governor bush led the wave of establishment begrudgingly endorsing romney. it was sent into the times like an ad. it may have been a way to push florida senator rubio into the race as the vice presidential

nominee. governor bush made quite a claim: >> possibly by padding the story of how his parents left cuba. jeb bush may want to turn this upside down and shake it up. like every republican on the fox news email talking points list, he has been criticizing the president on the price of gas. this seems to contradict a previously held belief. he said high prices are the result of market forces and said:

>> for more, let's bring in andy kroll. was there a vote and they changed the meaning of the word orator while i was out? >> the republican party likes to rule by royal decree, and so when jeb bush wants to name someone the greatest orator in the republican party he can just go ahead and do it. you've got to also remember that this was a party whose establishment and leading candidate is mitt romney and whose last president was george is our children learning bush. it's not that high to get the orator of the gop. >> he said best orator of american politics today. is it a default position by a republican that that necessarily is all republicans fill up the first half of the list and best democratic is number 501 or

whatever? >> i don't even think they're considering the democratic party here. >> all right. i don't know who the runner up is, but may be he has a point. marco rubio has said he's not interested in running for vice president. is jeb bush trying to push him into it? >> without a doubt. jeb bush is watching his party alienate one of the biggest growing demographics, hispanic volar. jeb bush has been writing and talking about this for years. he is watching these voter be alienated. getting marco rubio into the race would mend fences. marco is not going to do it. i'm in touch with people on his staff. they see him as a bigger superstar than a vice presidential candidate possibly with an eye to a running for the presidency in 2016. >> looking backwards to this quote of romney, another one from the past contradicting his

current position, is this pory timed vis a vis the etch-a-sketch comment, is it not? >> it couldn't be worst not only the etch-a-sketch comment the debate about president obama, whether he can impact gas prices, the fact that the republican party is hitting him up and down, newt gingrich especially if anyone is still paying attention to him about how he's a president who wants people to pay $4 or $5 at the pump for gas. the timing is catastrophic, if anything. >> what he outlined in that interview, gas prices are the result of market forces, use alternative energy, never assume gas will be cheap again. this is the obama point of view on it, isn't it? those quotes are an obama election campaign versus romney just waiting for the editor to show up? >> not only is it straight from the obama campaign playbook, it's a reflection of reality. the oil industry has admitted.

this is a tough oil era. we can't get oil out of the ground cheap anymore. it's tougher to get tar sands deep water drilling out in the gulf of mexico, gas is not going to be cheap. it's going to be more expensive because it's harder to get this oil. romney recognitioned that in 2006, just as president obama does today. >> you know what else is going up? the value of etch-a-sketch job closing 141% today. is speaker bane invested in etch-a-sketches? >> he's going to now start plugging mr. potato head. you might want to look at hasbro stock. i don't think so, but they're kind of a shadowy outfit. >> thanks for your time.

>> one general in the war on women claims there isn't such a thing, it's all political theater, coming up.

>> the father of the transvaginal ultrasound said the war on women is just political theater. coming up next. theater.

>> the agreement with that position belonging to the governor of virginia is so profound senator attempts to defund planned parenthood supporting bills like the protect life act and no taxpayer funding for abortion act which there ain't already. senator seems to have something of a change of heart. >> i think planned parenthood does mammograms, they do so much of the health care, the preventative health care, and if they are doing that, we need to provide those services, absolutely. >> by the way she's retiring. earlier this month funding was pulled from parenthood. the susan g comb men still reeling. the chairman of the board for the cure and the c.e.o. are

among the latest of a flock of top executives to resign. that board chairman has been looking to distance himself since the planned parenthood controversy rereputed. there are calls for the woman who started the charity in memory of her sister. >> approval rating dropping, voighters pulling support from the founder almost the creator of the preabortion transvaginal ultrasound. he claims the war on women in a fabrication. >> it's false and it's been political theater from the democrats for a couple of months. >> you've been covering the story, good to see you again. >> thank you. >> let me start with governor mcdonald. political theater he says. this would be political theater that features and opening act of transvaginal ultrasound. how does he say with a straight face that there's nothing to attacks from women on the right.

>> honestly it's a political theater for the democrats put republicans up to an unprecedented number of laws. the minute they took over the house of representatives started passing laws to limit womens right to abortion, to defund planned parenthood. they brought this on themselves, doing this for the past two years. finally people are paying attention and they don't like it. >> when you hear it sort of traipsed around the borders saying there's a lot of crap going on, we have to do something about it, you know she's retiring, but one of the implications when somebody stands up, does it encourage others to pay attention, does it encourage republican women who are associated with the republican party with the conservative movement to stand up for an agenda instead of a political platform. >> historically, she's tried to

have it both ways. she clearly thinks just a few wees after she voted for the blunt amendment, thinks that if she wants to go out the door not ass anti woman candidate but the fiery woman whose health care is taken away candidate. right now the denial of the federal funding to plant parenthood is directly hurting texas women. if she wants to go home and have her legacy celebrated, she's going to have very angry women to deal with. >> we thought that the susan g komen controversy was over and now comes word that for at least of the last month their chairman of the board has been considering a leave of absence. he doesn't want a thing to do with anything like this and after negotiations, he simply walked out. could that by itself just be a continuing waving flag to women

everywhere that there is an assault at every level on women's rights and that this is sort of like an ongoing thing rather than a milestone of the past? >> at komen, they got into this because they were interested in fighting breast cancer and now are leaving because the organization has been highjacked by tea party candidates. whatever it started out being right now it's irredeemably politicized and harming the access of low income women to health care. i wouldn't be surprised if people who were interested in raising money or awareness of breast cancer think it's too late, because plant parenthood has been punished. >> one of the last big stories that state senator in i'd dough who insinuated that women used incest or rape at excuses to get

abortions. the legislation that he sponsored mandating ultrasounds there has apparently been stalled. is there some sense of the tide turning in the conservative attack on women that perhaps the majority of the population woke up? >> idaho is not known as approaching act i.v. you had hundreds of women show up thousands signed petitions. they made their voices heard. what happens is that now the legislators are running scared. very similar laws have passed quietly in other states for the past 10 years really in the past two years have intensified. pennsylvania a similar law was shelved, idaho this proved to be political poison. women are paying attention and having their voices heard. >> thanks for coming in. >> the aclu considers a demand that to get a job you have to

let an employer open your private mail, the senate wants to make it illegal to hand over a password to your facebook account.

>> recapping the headlines from the trayvon martin story the protest in sanford florida the crowd 30,000. earlier tonight, just before show time. the florida governor appointed a special prosecutor who a state senator said her office was probably going to be productive and has experience in cases like this. a positive development today. also, the police chief of sanford, florida has taken a leave of absence. request denied, an unsettling trend asking job seekers for their facebook log in information to scrutinize their private on line behavior. in response to recent reports about this practice, connecticut senator richard blumenthal is proposing a bill to make that illegal. while applicants can deny it

there are those that can't say no. >> employers have always been able to view the public accounts of prospective employees on facebook twitter any other social networking sites. applicants are being pressured for access to their private information. the aclu weighing in saying people are entitled to their private lives: >> for more on that, joining me now, the director of the aclu's speech and technology project. where did the idea come from that your facebook isn't private? >> some people think the idea facebook privacy is already and oxymoron, people are

exhibitionists and equate privacy with secrecy. when we talk about privacy we talk about not keeping things secret from everyone but having control over our information. people use facebook the way they react with people in their lives. i have different information available. it's understandable why employers might be tempted to get access to this, just like to see what dvd's are in your closet. >> there are variations to this, having to friend the h.r. manager in order to get the interview. >> again there at least the facebook user has the option of controlling that person's access. when we talk about demanding a password not only does that vital the privacy of the job applicant but hundreds of that pepper's friends. once the interviewer cap log in as me, they can see things that my friends have chosen to share with me and not others. >> the legislation to major

illegal to request this as part of a job interview process is new territory, is it not? >> i think senator blumenthal deserves praise, making a good faith effort for the law to catch up with technology. we support this legislation and i would urge the senator and others to keep in mind that today's social media landscape is shifting, and so whatever legislation they do should take into account that facebook isn't the only platform people will be using in two years or four. they need to understand that there will be more and more opportunities for employers to vital privacy. >> certainly there is a halfway point between the desire for privacy and some inside information or wondering if there's going to be a scandal that's going to appear on line. sears and other companies use some sort of intermediary process? >> i didn't find the explanation

plausible. they say they wanted to have access to people's facebook pages so they can see if their circumstances have changed and if the job shows up, they'll know it's just the right job for them because they've been monitoring the facebook pages. i wonder this they've been requiring this information and would hire if they didn't provide it. >> does this touch in the other vague area like when your emails and other on line communications belong to your company and when they do have access to them. >> there is a lot of ignorance about that. do you know what your employer's policy is for this? >> i think to be very safe. >> yes, i do. [ laughter ] >> employees should be careful about their use of their employer's property. it gets more complicated when your email is stored off on a cloud. there are good arguments made when employers should not go after that information. i think peopl