that's absolutely ridiculous. >> all right, daniel maree. thank you for joining us. that's all the time weapon right now, guys. "countdown" is next. ♪ >> which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? >> if i had a son, he would leak like trayvon. >> for the first time the president addresses the killing of trayvon martin. >> i think we all have to do some soul searching to figure out how something like this happens. >> to that end the prosecutor setting a tone unfavorable to the shooter george zimmerman. >> i can say that florida's justifiably use of force law stand your ground may or may not be the applicable law to this. >> trayvon martin referenced in the house. >> stand up for martin.

stand up for justice. stand up for our children. i'm tired, tired tired of burying young black boys. >> frederica wilson joins us. >> there is a difference of what did he. >> and mitt romney, what happened to trayvon martin is a tragedy, yet the idiocy continues. >> is it possible that it's a horrible accident. >> i think the hoodie is just as much responsible to trayvon martin's death as george zimmerman was. leave the hoodie home. >> one answer from lebron james and the miami heat. and g.o.p. burnout when she sees it. >> there is a lot of fatigue among our parties. they're tired of this. >> and one of the candidates touches the third rail. you might as well re-election reelect the president, he said. >> of what we have instead of

taking a risk of what may be the etch-a-sketch candidate of the future. >> the new york police nightmare. spying on liberals. fortunately the commission knows who the real victims are. >> it's pretty tough to go up against a wire service. >> a secretive and unaccountable international intelligence-gathering organization with a fighting power of a mid size army. >> the man who would succeed gabby giffords. and the dog who could not tell one family to another. look homeward now on "countdown." >> good evening. this is march 23rd.

the president addressing the killer of trayvon martin, and contenders lining up to make their own tributes. our fifth story, yet remarks to this case may have come from the new prosecutor who implied the infamous stand your ground law may not offer any defense to shooter george zimmerman. first the president. >> my main message is to the parents of trayvon martin. if i had a son, he would look like trayvon. you know, i think they are right to expect that all of us have americans are going to take this with the seriousness that it deserves and we're going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened. >> tracy martin and teresa fulton responding in a statement that read in part, the president's personal comments touched us deeply and made us wonder, if his son wore a

hoodie, would he be suspicious too. >> trayvon saved my life. at the age of nine he pulled me out of a fire went back in the house, got the phone, came back out and called 911. he saved my life. at his time of need i wasn't there to save his life, but i pledge my life to continue to push forward until we get justice for my son. >> activists marching and demanding justice for trayvon martin in the streets of st. louis. in florida students leaving high school to form a giant t.m. in the young man's honor. there has been immediate effect. norman wolfinger stepping down to avoid con picture of appearance. special prosecutor stepping in and stating law cited by police

for not having charged zimmerman may not have covered his case. >> florida's justifiable use of deadly force law including the recent addition to the law that people commonly refer to as stand your ground may or may not be applicable law on this. >> reporters asking city manager what temporary means. >> once i have a report that demonstrates to me--that shows me the actions of the police department, and how they formed this instance, that's temporary. >> george zimmerman's father, robert, defending his son and blasting the media. the media portrayal of george as a racist could not be further than the truth. at no time did george confront mr. martin. even the candidates of the g.o.p. nomination lined up.

newt gringrich with his condolence. >> while this is a tragedy,age it is a tragedy. they will seek justice. >> mitt romney what happened to trayvon martin is a tragedy. there needs to be a thundershower rowneeds to bea thorough investigation. >> the fact that law enforcement didn't immediately go after to prosecute this case is a chilling example of horrible decisions made by people in this process. >> frederica wilson, a friend of the martin family, making another eloquent plea. >> we demand justice for trayvon. we demand justice for all murder children. stay strong, sybrina and tracy stay strong. >> even fox news host feeling obliged to comment on the case. in some cases unfortunate leaving sean hannity scratching his head. >> is it possible it was just a

horrible accident? >> and geraldo rivera with his usual eloquence. >> i think the hoodie is just as responsible for trayvon martin's death as george zimmerman was. >> and my own son just wrote to say he's ashamed of my position. perhaps rivera's son also saw this picture of his father wear wearing a hoodie along side bill o'reilly wearing a hoodie to a mets game. and fox with its own gansta wear, to use the same words that riviera used. and then coming from the miami heat basketball team in a hoodie-upped tribute for trayvon martin. thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me.

>> do you agree with me on this position that in extraordinary day of comments about this nightmare that maybe the most actionable words relevant to this case were from that new special prosecutor. what are the implications of what she said and why she decided to say it? >> i think right now the political pressure, the social pressure is so think you could almost cut it. if at any point in this case there was a tipping point, this might be it socially. you have thousands of people amassing all over the country. you have the governor who is now going to convene a task force on this very law. you have state legislators and even lebron james is chiming in. i think the implications might be great. the report might come out this evening. abc saying early in the case the police actually wanted to press manslaughter charges but the state attorney declined. there was concern about a speedy

trial and they didn't have the goods. but i have not been able to confirm any of this but this is reports coming out from the local media. >> is there any case that--is there any indication that in is motion towards an indictment. i mean, if she's willing to come out and say this law may not apply at all to this case, that would seemingly be indicative of where she's going. >> it's my indication that they're going to be very careful with this. i wouldn't expect any rush one way or another. it's still pretty early. she's just, you know, step foot in sanford today. in the next days and week we'll see a motion but it won't be abe time soon. >> i've read the parents response regarding this case. what to your knowledge has been the community reaction to both what president obama said and how trayvon martin's parent responded to it. >> i spoke to one young man who

said he had a 17-year-old brother on his way to college, and he said he wanted to be a doctor. so he said that this case resonates with him because of his own family. this young man resembles trayvon martin. i think in the community the president echoed their feelings all along. their sons look just like trayvon martin. they look just like trayvon martin. in the community, the president's comments today echoed what they've been saying all along and why this stings so badly. >> last night the protest in sanford through your report and a couple of other estimates about 30,000 people. do we have an idea of what will continue by way of asystem assembliages. >> i believe there is supposed to be a vigil tonight in sandford. but monday, speaking with lawyers and people in the community, monday there is supposed to be the big one, they say, even bigger than the rally we had yesterday.

i'm not sure how you top 30,000 people especially in a town that only has 50 oh 50,000. but there is no slowing down here. you have philadelphia next week. d.c. detroit, miami, students are walking out. i think especially after what we we've seen with occupy wall street and now how easily people mobilize, this is a movement. this is a trayvon martin for justice movement. i don't see it slowing down any time soon. >> it's remarkable how little attention it got and then something achievable that is positive, that could not compensate for the young man's death and to the community, but what is it about this young man's death, is there something positive that we'll see from the protests and the everything about this. >> as the voices got louder, you actually start to see some action. you have the police chief stepping down after so many said

there was a boston investigation. you have the state attorney office who is accused of being in cahoots with the police. the people are reassured that there is action happening. but for so many nothing short of an arrest and then a prosecution. i think that's going to be the next stage of the game. if there is an indictment that's one thing. but the people want a prosecution. or at least some semblance of a fair course of action. >> tremayne lee. thank you for your time tonight, sir. >> it's a pleasure. >> we're joined by congresswoman frederica wilson congresswoman wilson knows the martin family and it's our privilege to have you on the program. thank you for comingen. >> thank you.

thank you for inviting me. >> you repeatedly stood up on the floor of the house and demanded justice for trayvon martin. do you think it's within grasp now? >> i would hope so. i think the voices are getting louder. people are distressed. everybody is suffering especially his parents. and it's a situation where we have to try to keep a lid on the schools here in the community here. so we're having prayer services to try to say to the people we're doing all that we can. and hopefully with all of these law enforcement authorities involved in the case now hopefully someone will say that he has to be indicted. until that happens it's going to continue, and it's going to snowball and get larger and larger. >> you mentioned the parents. i know you are in contact with them. have you been in regular contact

with them in the last week or so? do you have a sense of their reaction to the overall reaction to the country. not just locally and particularly to this case but the sense of outrage that seems to be developing nationwide. >> they're just grateful. every time i have spoken with the mother, she starts out with saying, i just thank everyone for standing by us, sticking with us. this is this woman's life. this is her son. it's just so painful. then she has different aunts that i've spoken with, neighbors, friends. it's just such a tragedy. he was such a sweet boy. and they talk about how he he would baby-sit his little cousins. he called them his angels. you see--i mean, the pictures of him. it's just tremendous. we're just devastated. but this is not new to me. i'm very well read in the notion

of racial profiling and what happens to a black boy in this community. >> without a doubt, and in many communities. >> and in this nation. >> in this nation, correct. having said that, something that the president obama said struck me. obviously the remark of what his son would look like if he had had a son. but thinking about something else, and not to pick on geraldo herrerariver are a. it wasrivera, they were just stupid things to say. but if a kid is wearing a hoodie, there is something transcending about this case relevant to race relations in this country, and the remaining racism in this country. do you think something is emergingemerging that is even bigger than that. people are saying that it's time that we stop shooting our teenage children for no good reason, oh for mere suspicion and prejudice because one guy

wants to be macho because he thinks he's charles bronson or a cop. and the nature of the victim is natural. we all look like trayvon martin. >> well, i think that there is a real tension, not a perceived tension, but a real tension between law enforcement officers and black boys. mr. zimmerman was a pretend law enforcement officer. so that tension was there. so people like that they fear black boys, and they detest black boys. and they're suspicious of him. so he was acting on emotion that is in his heart. trayvon, he was just trayvon. and he murdered him. he needs to go to prison. he needs to go to jail. they need to indict him and arrest him. they also need to fire this city manager because he will not fire

the police chief. what does it mean, a temporary leave, a paid leave. so someone can do your work and try to clean up your city that you've messed up, then you come back? no. he should be fired and gone for good. >> there is another term for that. that's vacation. paid vacation. >> vacation, paid vacation. >> right. congresswoman wilson representing florida 17th. friend of the martin family. great thanks, and we hope this weekend goes well. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, kindly. elsewhere, republicans are really kind of tired of the presidential nominating contest. they're suffering from, quote fatigue. the observations of a democrat or journalist? no, that was michelle bachmann speaking. next. and i try to bring that to the show.

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abilities. as santorum was lining up his shot a woman yells presented its obama. then he shoots. today he began to back away from his own implications that republicans were better off voting for president obama than mitt romney. >> instead of taking a risk of what may be the etch-a-sketch candidate of the future. >> by this afternoon the calm had gone and senator santorum went on to coolly address those remarks. >> i've always said i would never vote for barack obama. are you kidding me? that's absurd. it's laughable. the idea that this gaffe is a joke. >> santorum fights on and tea party republicans have begun to call for everyone to get behind romney after a meet and greet with the romney. tea party dim demint the best

thing they can do is throw their support behind republican nominee which is beginning to look like romney. >> there is a lot of fatigue among our party. they're really kind of tired of this. they feel the vet something happening and they want to batten down the hatches and make a decision. i'm joining by politico joe williams. >> hi, good to be here. >> claims to reset the campaign. it's not even a winner take all. how can it reset the campaign. >> it can't really. the only thing that it will reset is the hope that rick santorum can continue on. i mean look, everybody expects santorum will take louisiana and take it handily giving us another narrative to have us talk more about the fact that romney can't win in the south. other than that it doesn't

really change the delegate math or that mitt romney probably has what in infect is an insurmountable lead. and it doesn't change the fact that rick santorum is exciteing nobody else in the party besides people who don't like mitt romney. >> does it matter to santorum that now the tea party republicans like demint bachmann, no matter how we'rely they're saying it, they're saying that it's time for everyone to drop out and get out of romney's way. it's not just establishment, but it's those who had positioned themselves for santorum, so to speak. >> it doesn't matter yet. if rick santorum does win louisiana, that gives him another impetus to say see, i told you, i can draw the conservatives that mitt romney can't. however, jim demint, michelle bachmann, pretty soon the trickle will turn into a flood.

the dam will burst and santorum will have no other option but to rethink the possibilities, get a serious talking to from party elders, drop out completely of his own accorder or decide he'll continue on no matter what, and in that scenario he's probably going to do more harm to his future prospects than good to his present ones. >> any indication or a good guess about what demint and bachmann would say what they said now? did the two of them actually look at the turnout in illinois, that 24% figure and go, my god this is not burnishing our brand. this is putting people to sleep and/or burning them? >> well, if i were them, certainly, the primary, mitt romney won by double digits but there was a turnout almost at a record low. the brand is being harmed by the fact that mitt romney cannot put away two guys who have been defeated and defeated handily.

he couldn't put them away until illinois. but he put them away in illinois with a record low turnout. that has some worried. also, the longer this thing goes on, the more gaffes you're going to see, the more romney is exposed, the more the dnc ads right themselves. it's in everybody else's best interesting unless you're newt gringrich, rick santorum, ron paul, who say, we haven't found the one we love so we're going to love the one we're with. let's get it on. >> last thing about santorum and the remarks we might as well stick with what we have instead of taking the risk of the etch-a-sketch candidate for the future. is it fair to say his reactions on fox basically screaming this isn't a gaffe indicates how much of a gaffe it really was. >> you cannot call it a gaffe if you did it. if you did it and somebody else calls it a gaffe, it's a gaffe.

a lot of people were talking about it today. what is unfortunate is that rick santorum in the midst of all this trayvon martin controversial holds an event at a gung range. that's tone deaf to me and that was a slight campaign error because the vigils were proper. then somebody suggesting that he pretends that it's obama that he's firing at. that's awful and i think that to me spoke more volumes to the fact that he said barack obama you might as well stick with him if you're going to vote for mitt romney. >> to his credit he distanceed himself and called that a bad remark. but to his discredit, what he could have done was schedule that event for the shooting range and then said because of what happened we're not going to have this event or we'll reconvene at the the the i hop in a half hour. joe williams, politico, have a

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>> the latest in an ongoing investigation finds the new york city police department expanding it's secret intelligence operations to spy on liberal political groups around the country. ray kelly is dismissing nypd as

under attack that it continued to break these stories. the stories of nypd kept information on and plain clothes officers attended meetings of house keepers and nannies. when confronted. ray kelly went on the offense. >> we're sort of, you know under attack. the they've done over 30 stories and it's tough to go up against a wire services that has a certain template that it's sticking to. again, i would submit that they have not done their home work. >> again new york's finest is being beaten by new york's best. and then mosque crawlers spied on muslims in new york city and new jersey in colleges up and down the northeast. they're not the only one

critical of nypd tactics. an op ed article saying its time to police the nypd. the u.s. attorney general has voiced concern. kelly said that he's reading the wrong stories. >> eric holden said he only knows whey read in the newspaper. so it does come back to the associated press. eric holder had not gotten any n, but he said that he was disturbed by what you he read in the newspapers. >> matt, thank you for your time tonight. >> keith, great to be back. >> commissioner kelly claims the department of justice and the hand shoe consent decree give the nypd its authority to spy on whoever it wants and accuses the associated press of not doing research. what is mentioned in the sand hadshoe consent decree.

the guidelines stem from a lawsuit that goes all the way back to nypd spying on political dissidents. the rules were relaxed after 9/11 at the city's request. and commissioner kelly may be right, the monitoring of public events, going to public meetings, visiting public restaurant and monitoring through the ethnicity of the clientele, he may be right that that's all lawful under the new guidelines, but what we do know is that the fbi has some standing orders in new york not to accept certainly intelligence from these programs. it would prohibit them from retaining documents on purifiers-amendment related materials. from what we stand this has never been a question of what is legal or not, but what are the

policies of our nation's largest police department to fight terrorism in new york city. >> two of the people one journalist and one labor organizers for nannies and house keepers, we're down to looking at nanny and housekeeper organizers as threats to the security of new york? >> i don't even think that the nypd officer who put that in the file thought there was some sort of a threat, which is the point for why why we wrote about about it. it shows the counterterrorism tactics adopted post 9/11 you know, put entire groups under scrutiny. at times those tactics get turned on what would otherwise be lawful areas. the police department has an interest in knowing who is going to protest in our city. nobody wants the repeat of the violence in seattle or quebec. but when you see things like this with no allegations of wrongdoing, that piqued our interest.

>> and your investigation found the nypd might have an intelligence division monitoring occupy wall street. >> that's an intriguing question. the commissioner testified before the city council last week, and was asked specifically about this. he said he couldn't for sure how much money was spent infiltrating occupy wall street but the majority of the intelligence they came open source from the internet. interestingly enough, two website have obtained how many land security documents that said we don't want to collect intelligence from occupy wall street. >> the associated press is far more powerful than it used to be when i was with upi. it will help new york city defeat al-qaida as well. thank you, matt. >> thank you.

>> the staffer wounded along side gabby giffords, next.

>> he was with gabby giffords when she was shoot a year ago. critically wounded himself. he takes her seat. ron barber joins me. ?ñ?ñtt every weeknight if you're only watching countdown on current tv you're missing two hours of our political lineup. >>it's our job to bring you stories that other people aren't bringing you. >>unlimited, unfettered. >>check out "the young turks" with cenk uygur. >>you can't beat that, it's such a winning issue.

>>step into "the war room" with jennifer granholm. >>never ending enertainment. >>the young turks at seven countdown with keith olbermann at eight and the war room at nine. current tv's prime-time lineup weeknights starting at seven-six central. only on current tv. >> the been 14 months since the shooting that wounded gabby giffords and took the life of six otherwise. ron barber was acting as an aid announced this week he would be running for a full congressional term this fall. mr. barrber will join me in a moment. you'll recall the moving house floor. barber announced that he would be running the june special election to fulfill her term. and then announced with the support of ms. giffords and her

hustled be running. this is not the case for the august primary in which two candidate have declared their intention to run and say despite barber's announcement to run they will remain in the race. joining me now former congressional aide to gabrielle giffords, ron barber. thank you for coming. >> thank you for inviting me. >> you said you would not run for the full term. what thanked your minted. >> i never intended to run for any political office. i had to set up the business of putting together a campaign staff, opening an office, getting on ballot. we had 18 days to gather signatures. we ended up with 71 signatures so i felt it was a ground swell of support for my candidacy. then i went around the district and met with different people

from different communities. as i was going around the district i kept getting asked by people well, aren't you going to run for the congressional two seat. toyed give it consideration, which i did. in the indiana it was a decision i had to make in consultation with my doctor and my family. this is a huge decision for all of us, certainly from my family. and last weekend on saturday and sunday we got together, and the decision was that they would support me running, and i declared my candidacy on monday. >> was there conversations with congressman giffords and mark kelly. >> yes, they had both asked me to run for both seats. i ran, as i indicated for the congressional district eight. then later they encouraged me to run for congressional districts two.

i have their support and i'm glad of that. >> you still have fatigue and ptsd oh symptoms which would be expected with such nearness to the event chronologically. how are you feeling now? >> i feel really well. not only in terms of ptsd but physically. i have to check myself out closely before i even announced the first race. i wanted to make sure that i had the stamina and the stability in every way to get the job done. my doctor and i met and looked at my situation and determined that i had it. one of the things that has been remarkable getting into the campaign over the now first six weeks is the energy i've gotten from people who have come to support us, and i really feel energized. as far as the ptsd is concerned that is under total management and control. one of the things that i learned, and i would really want to say this, one of the things that we have to do is make sure that people with ptsz get

treatment and services early on as i did. we have a lot of veterans coming home from iraq and afghanistan who go far too long without evaluation and treatment. that's wrong and unacceptable. one of my goals when i go to congress will be to fight hard to make sure that veterans get the kind of treatment early on they need to get better. >> is another one of your goals in the wake of the trayvon martin shooting in the past month, a more vigorous discussion of gun control and rules and regulations in this country? >> well, i really think as we look at what happened, and it's a terrible thing that happened to this young man and his family. my condolences and my heart goes out to them. having been involved in a shooting incident myself, i know how shattering it can be, christina green, younger than trayvon, was shot and killed on the ground with us. the issue coming out of florida is not so much about guns and

gun control but the law in florida which may well had been misinterpreted or misapplied in this case that allows people to, quote, defend themselves. i'm glad the governor of florida has appointed a special investigator to look into this case. so far it does not appear that the facts have been properly pursued and justice has yet to be done. the family is suffering terribly, but the least thing we can do is make sure we have a thorough investigation of whether or not this law was properly applied. it appears it might not have been, and we need to know better. >> ron barber, great congratulations on your improve the health and good luck. >> i appreciate it. >> fridays with thurber next.

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>> james thurber loved dogs. he wrote about them. drew them. envied them thought them superior to men but did he not think of them infallible. he didn't even think his own dogs were infallible. in this, one comes off badly. and publish first in the sunday new york sometimes and then in 1948 in the "beast in me and other animals." the thurber dog who had severe problems telling one human from another. part one of look homeward genie. by james thurber. the moot and momentous request of whether lost dogs had the power to get home from distant places over strange terrain has been argued for years by dog owners, dog haters and others who don't know much about the matter. in the natural history of nonsense sides with the cynics that believe that the lost dug doesn't have any more idea where he is than a babe in the woods

like pigeons, wrote mr. evans, dogs are thought to have a supernatural ability to find their way home after hundreds and thousands of miles of strange terrain and then dogs show up at the door step that baffle master who is have abandoned them from afar before but set to stories are the lost and found columns which offers the rewards for the recovery of dogs that apparently couldn't find their way back from the next block. there evanmr. evans touches on the suspect of a minister caught alone in a parlor with an irritable dog. i don't know about dogs that are supposed to return from strange and distant places like an indian scout or locomotive engineer but i'm not ready to write them off. skepticism is an useful tour of the inquisitive mind but it is

scarcely a method of investigation. i would like to see an expert reporter set out on the trail of the homing dog and see what he could find. i happen to have a few haphazard clippings on the subject but they're unsupportive of any convincing proof. the most interesting case is that of bosco, a small dog that is reported to have returned to his house in knoxville tennessee, in the winter of 1944 from glendale, california. the setting for the world distant record event 3200 miles in seven months. it's in a book by mr. rourke. he got his tip, but in a letter mr. vincent said to me he had some doubts that the truth of the long trek through towns and cities and over rivers and

deserts, the dog belonged to a family named flanagan. he does not question the sincerity of their believe that the dog that turned up on their ponch was bosco. identification had to be made on markings and behavior. the long-distance record has to be set down as a case that would stand up only in a court of lore. far-traveling dogs have become so common that editors are expected to turn over their activities to society editors. with headings like this rex, a bull terrier, returned to his home after a four-month trip to florida where he was lost last friday. weremr. and mrs. thompson's daughter is due home for summer vacation. for the sake of a fairness two

clippings of cats. mr. black stamford connecticut to atlanta georgia 1,000 miles. the homing dog when "lassie come home" portrayed a young collie returning to his master through terrain and darkness and storm. this $1 million testament of faith, this un unconscious memorial may have started evans remark. i suspect that evans has not owned a dog he assumes that the dog does not come back from the next block because it can't find its way. if it this reasoning were applied to the thousands of men who disappear from their homes every year, it would exonerate

them of every flaw except disorientation and this is too much of an explanation for man and beast. for the dog as it does the husband, the dog that does not come home is too large afield of research for one investigator, and so i will confine myself to the case history of genie. genie was a small scottish terrier whose nature i observed over a period of two years her jaw was skimpy. her haunches frail. her forelegs slightly bowed. she saw dimly and she had a strained uncomfortable appearance of a woman on a bicycle. genie adjusted locally to everything including weather. rain was a hand raised against