good friday morning. i'm chris jansing. endorsements piling up for mitt romney. wisconsin could be rick santorum's last stand. mitt romney leading by seven points in that state. romney's super pac is pounding santorum again. s it's spending $3 million in wisconsin on ads. >> in 20 years in washington, santorum voted to raise the debt limit five times. and for billions of wasteful spending including the bridge to nowhere. santorum voted against national right to work -- >> i want to bring in chris hayes host of "up" and michael scherrer who wrotes for the caucus. good morning. >> good morning. >> this seems to be like a boxing match where one guy is on the mad and the count's go on with the ref but he keeps getting up. is santorum going to keep getting up forever, chris? >> it seems to me

mathematically, look at the delegate allocation, it is no longer really that possible for plaus -- it's possible but not plausible that santorum can get the amount of delegates to get the nomination. it is possible, though the possibility is diminishing he can prevent romney from getting outright number he needs before the convention to sort of make him go to the convention without a nomination. my sense is that inevitably the pressure that's going to mount from the entirety tof the establishment for him to drop out is strong enough that he's going to get out of the race before he hits that point. >> when you look at numbers, and the wisconsin poll, for example, michael, i thought what was interesting, 4 41% is evangelical. mitt romney won every single contest where evangelicals are less than 50%, lost everyone above 50%. michael, in its simplest form, is that what's going on in wisconsin? >> yeah. look, one of the things that rick santorum has been trying to do prove he can win somewhere

different. he tried that in ohio, michigan, didn't work. here we are 4 wisconsin trying to win in groups that are not southern highly religious evangelical kind of states and he's not been able to do that. i agree with chris, i think it's increasingly not a plausible scenario that he wins outright. i think what newt gingrich did over the last several days really sort of scaling back the campaign is just going to ratchet up the pressure on santorum, even more, because it does look like the establishment is just locked whole sale going to be endorsing romney. >> yeah, rubio, bush, now as we said, paul ryan. let me play a little clip of that. >> i believe that he's the right person for the job and i think this primary has. productive, constructive up until now, it's made the candidates better. we're entering a phase where it could become counter productive if it drags on much long. >> tipping point, that's what it's sounding like from the republicans here.

>> yeah. there's definitely a cost/benefit analysis how long it goes on. people feel it hasn't been constructive, for a lot of reasons. i think all of the kind of bayne capital stuff raised in south carolina is going to come back to haunt the candidate in the general election. the duration of time mitt romney has spent trying to essentially cater to the base of the party's going to make things more difficult in the general election. but at a certain point the big question is et cetera big money, big money from super pacs which is, in previous cycles, the way that candidates were eased out of the race is money drys up. we've seen that with newt gingrich and sheldon adelson on tape saying i'm cutting you off. if that money source cuts off for rick santorum, because they're persuaded, people writing the checks, time is up, it's hard to see how he goes on. >> do you see any possible way here? it does seem like all of the stars are aligning against him, wisconsin, his last stand, do you think, michael? >> well, you know, you can't necessarily say last stand.

look, in a few weeks we're going to come to pennsylvania, he clearly done want to drop out before his home state. he's got texas out there he thinks he can do well in. there are actual things that the republican national committee needs to start doing on behalf of the nominee, they want to do it on behalf of romney but can't until the race is over. >> let me ask you about the ad battle in wisconsin. talking about a radio ad. romney's super pac is running ads, hitting santorum for supporting planned parenthood and here is santorum yesterday responding to that. >> i find it sort of remarkable governor romney is running ads in wisconsin right now basically saying i'm not pro-life. governor romney contributing money out of his checkbook to planned parenthood while i was fighting those fights. >> why take a shot at him over social issues at this point, i wonder? why spend that money? >> i guess it's the strategy of hit him where you think they're strongest. he maybe thinks the romney people think they're strong on things like the economy and

everything else, might as well go for the kill on social issues. the ad you played at beginning is very interesting because one of the things that about santorum he's been able to ease himself out of, the anger at the bush years in the republican party, that the bush years the republican lost their way and became big conservatives and voted for earmarks, et cetera, santorum wears all of that baggage. it's been amazing to me how little he's had to answer for that. and it seems to me the smartest strategic move to hit him on that stuff in a republican primary. >> let's talk about wisconsin more because kelly o'donnell is on the campaign trail, once again, live from appleton, wisconsin. kelly, give us a sense on the ground, what's going on there? >> reporter: good morning, chris. we're at lawrence university where mitt romney will speak today and there will be 400 people here. and i've been able to talk to some students who are very excited to see that a figure of his stature is coming to their campus. and romney will be in very much of a general election mode based on what we've seen of the speech

he's going to give. talking about economics in many ways, and he will address the president in some ways you might find surprising. talking about the president's work as a community organizer in very admiring tones, but saying that that time in barack obama's life led him to a place where he viewed government as the solution and business as the problem. so romney will try to counter that by talking about his desire to create an opportunity society. you'll also hear mitt romney talk about the fact that he had concerns growing up in michigan about being in his own father's shadow. you know, george romney was a successful car executive and governor and ran for president, and so he branched out. it will be a bit of sort of romney's journey to try to find his own way in finding a way to create economic security for his own family and learn about business. so it will give us a slightly different window. he'll be critical of the president but he will also say some things that you might find a bit surprising in talking about how the president got to

where romney thinks he is in terms of a governor earning philosophy. this is an important opportunity for romney talking about the numbers, looking to be comfortably up in wisconsin at a time when so many in the state are focused on the recall of the governor and the more local politics that have really been boiling here. we've been watching those ads that you mentioned on tv. they, of course, are coming during every commercial break. so people are really saturated not only with the rain outside, but with the political atmosphere of the moment. chris? >> i certainly get a lot of e-mails from the scott walker pro and con teams. thank you, kelly. by the way i should mention, since we're talking about barack obama in that same poll that has mitt romney up, the president leads mitt romney there by 17 points. i want to ask you about the president, because he asked congress to end tax breaks for oil companies yesterday. take a listen. >> it's not as if these companies can't stand on their own. last year the three biggest u.s.

oil companies took home more than $80 billion in profits. and when the price of oil goes up, prices at the pump go up, and so do these companies' profits. >> and then an hour later, michael, the senate votes it down, including four democrats, if you don't have votes why, do you go through the trouble of going to the rose garden and talking about it? >> well, look, i mean i think the rising gas prices, everybody knows that it's a painful thing and both parties are trying to figure out how to capitalize. each side thinks they have a winning issue. democrats think if they can sort of capture on this idea of profits of these sore of off billions of dollars in profits for big oil companies that's their magic weapon and republicans think they have solyndra, the keystone pipeline, this idea that the democrats aren't doing enough to produce domestic oil. and so you know, both sides are sort of going back and forth

trying to find that sweet spot with the electorate that will help them capture the energy, the political energy, of the gas prices. >> yeah, and i have to tell you chris, a great tweet from tom costello, gas prices take 6.5% bite out of middle class families' income, $2600 on a $40,000 income and new cnn poll shows 71% of people say they're affected by gas prices. so what's the president to do? >> well, first of all i think it's important that we note, empirically, it is a fact that domestic oil production is up in under president observe. it's the highest it's been in recent memory. we're seeing a domestic oil production increases do not decrease the price of oil, because it goes into the global market and the global market sets the price, right? i find the conversation of gas prices maddening. >> because republicans say drill, drill, drill, they blame the president for excel and it does seem to be resonating.

>> i think it does, but i think that's because people don't realize how much drilling we're doing. if you go to north dakota, unemployment there is 3%. we're pulling more oil out of the ground there than we have in years, we're pulling more oth oil out of the ground in the lower 48 than we have in years. it hasn't helped on the problem. the problem is that we sick cali talked about gas prices as opposed to talking about moving america to a different energy future. people make hand waving gestures for that. when legislation comes before congress, there's massive, you know, implacable opposition from the same, big oil interests who got their proxies in the senate to vote down the repeal of the subsidies yesterday. >> we're seeing here in the big box, which is the president, andrews air force base, marine one just landed, headed to air force one. he's going to vermont, doing fund-raising there. i can't remember the last time that a president went to vermont. let's see, 1995, bill clinton. >> yeah. well, look, i mean this is, you

know, part of what we're going to witness over the next, you know, six or seven or eight months is a battle waged with hundreds of millions and billions of dollars. you know as the president you have to go everywhere. you know they clearly sense that you know they need to -- he needs to touch down in a lot of places that maybe he wouldn't normally touch down in, just to make sure everything's all, you know, in line when it comes to sort of capturing the states that you need to capture. >> i think if you talk to people inside the obama campaign, they are worried about the tsunami of money they're going to face when you get to the general election through the super pac structures. republicans have had a dry run in setting up these institutions and using them in the primary. democrats have not. we've seen a huge imbalance in the amount of money being funneled through republican super pacs and the president's affiliated super pac. >> nobody's thinking the republicans are tapped out yet? >> they're not. sheldon addle don's sitting on

$21 billion. a few more to newt gingrich. >> what's 10 or 20 million? >> they think they're going to be outspent when you include $1.3 billion to $1 billion. they are leave nothing stone unturned in fund-raising. >> michael, you wanted to get in on this. >> don't forget that the democratic super pacs, ones that are align with democratic congressional candidates or the president have not done well. that's partly because the president had not sort of endorsed their existence for a long time. he finally did. but also may be that the kinds of money interest that chris talked about aren't either interested in donating to the president or more interested in donating to republicans and that's a big problem as they go into the general. >> we'll find out, aren't we? of course, watch "up with chris hayes" weekends on msnbc. before they head home for the weekend, supreme court justices will meet in a private conference room to vote on the

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let's take a look at other stories people are talking about right now. french police rounded up 19 people today in a crackdown on suspected islamic extremists around the country. officials say there's no known link between today's arrests and mohammed mira, the gunman accused of killing serve. sarkozy says there are more to come. bin laden on the run, he moved between five houses and fathered four children. that new information from his youngest wife who talked to

pakistani investigators. the 30-year-old said even though they hide, two of their children were born in a state-run hospital. update andrea yates, the mother in texas found not guilty by reason of insanity in the murders of her five children. 11 years later her attorneys are trying to get yate schs to go t church. her attorney said it would be the first step getting her back to a normal life some time down the road. fire officials say the wildfire in colorado is 45% contained but bracing for possible flare-ups this weekend because high winds, record heat, low humidity are coming back. residents of 180 homes are waiting for the go-ahead to go back to home. fire is blamed for two deaths. we've got a new look inside president obama's campaign machine this morning. well, republican candidates have to move their election sort of m.a.s.h. units state to state,

the president's election offices are establishing territory nationwide. richard lui is here with the money, the men and the women in the growing obama army. good morning. >> good morning. you have to pass through security first at h.q. and then into this, it is part dorm room, part silicon valley, part political brain trust and in the rare glimpse inside the president's re-election apparatus, notice the college penance for school spirit, sure, labeling team on key battle states. from those teams, marching orders, trickled down to events like this ohio neighborhood team convention two weeks ago with 600 volunteer leaders. that's just a fraction. "rolling stone" magazine says they want 20,000 all volunteer field offices at schools and coffee houses across the country. paid head count growing, over 500. 300 at h.q. in chicago, the rest

scouring the field. this costs 135 million just for operations up to february spent so far. that's more than all of the competitors combined which means they've have to do this, watch us over here on the map of the us. gop campaign teams start in iowa. during that race as you were alluding to, they have to pick m.a.s.h. units up, move to florida for that race and later back up to michigan while the president, what he'll be doing, is he continues to scoop up those offices that they leave. he keeps growing his campaign in all of these states, not just one or two. he can be putting two, three, dozens of brick and mortar bureaus across the country. you can see how this is happening. interesting inside picks here from obama's h.q. staff. what's this machine here? it makes buttons on the fly, in case you need a button. million dollar view, this is chicago's downtown from where they're at. finally, got a mascot sporting a new obama shirt. and they're selling that right now. a lot going on.

organizing it, they've got a new automation tool, it's called dashboard. >> i like your automation poll. >> i have a bunch of them. >> an art team doing that. >> nothing but the best. >> richard lui, thank you. let me bring in a national political reporter for the atlantic. we're having a joke. but this is serious stuff, obama election machine unprecedented. is that were we're -- they're wore ied are about falling further behind the longer they wait to get started to this infrastructure billing and organization, the further behind this incredible obama juggernaut they're going to be. we've seen the rnc put some of this in place, outside groups put some of this in place. romney campaign has not been a field-heavy or organization-heavy campaign. they've tried to run a nimble campaign but now that they've got to start prepping for the general election, i think

everybody's starting to feel like that's the case, republicans are feeling like okay, let's circle the wagons, present a unified front so we can do this nitty-gritty work. >> two lines here, one unified front and one is building that enthusiasm. let me play a little bit of the endorsement from marco rubio. sorry. we don't have that sound. here is his statement, there are a lot of other people out there that some of us wish they had run for president but they didn't. i think mitt romney would be a fine president and he'd be way better than the guy who is in there right now. i have to say, listening, molly to endorsements, i would not call them overly enthusiastic. >> yeah they maybe need to do work with coming up with nice things to say about mitt romney for the next seven months if they want to convince people they believe in him. it's true, it's not the most enthusiastic endorsement, however, i think text of the

endorsements may be less important for romney than just the fact. the fact you have rubio coming around and paul ryan coming around and george h.w. bush appearing with him yesterday, all of this is the republicans saying it's time to go. it's time to start looking to november. >> once they do pick a candidate, senator john kerry has talked about his concerns that president obama will get swift voted the same treatment he got in 2004. he wrote, i'm quoting kerry here, i know all too clearly that these guys will do or say anything to win. their multimillion dollar smear tactics were new in 2004. in 2012 we know their play book and shame on us if we don't tear it into shreds. join me we will stop the swift boating of president obama. what do we know about how the obama campaign team is gearing up to blunt the attacks. >> i think the parallel with the kerry campaign is very interesting and a lot of people have said that's what this election is going to resemble

where the republicans, as we've said, are not super fired up by mitt romney. what they're fired up about is president obama. they're enthusiastic in a negative sense and that's the situation democrats had in 2004. democrats may not have been enthusiastic by john kerry but enthusiastic about defeating bush and they found that wasn't enough. >> absolutely. good point. molly ball, good to see you. have a good weekend. for the first time, we're hearing from an eyewitness who claims to have actually seen the confrontation that left 17-year-old trayvon martin dead. the eyewitness claims to have looked out of the window the night martin was killed, saw two men on the ground, one on top of the other, followed by a gunshot. the witness' voice has been altered by cnn to protect their identity. >> then he was walking towards where i was watching and i could see him a little bit clearer. see a standing man and he was, you know, he didn't appear hurt

or anything else. >> joining me now is the managing edter of thegrio.com and msnbc contributor joy ann reed. back from florida. another piece of the puzzle. we don't know in this is a man or a woman, the eyewitness. where does it fit into the nairive? >> it's quite important. if this witness is credible what police will be looking for is whether he saw or he or she saw the hispanic man they report seeing coming toward them they identified them as being the bigger person, whether that person was on the bottom of the scrum or the top because the narrative that george zimmerman surrogates are putting out, he was on bottom of the confrontation with trayvon martin bashing the back of his head into the sidewalk. if he was on the bottom of the confrontation, how did he get up so quickly? did -- you know, anderson cooper ask him, did he throw someone off of him? he didn't see that happen. it seems to contradict the zimmerman narrative.

>> the zimmerman you mentioned, the dad talked about it, so did his brother. let me play what he had to say. >> george was out of breath, he was barely conscious, his last thing he remembers doing was moving his head from the concrete to the grass so that if he was banged one more time he wouldn't be wearing diapers for the rest of his life and being spoon-fed by his brother and there would have been george dead. >> very graphic description there. we now have this sanford police video and most people who look at it suggest that he done look like somebody who has take ain't beating, although his dad said, look, they're going to be medical records out there. is that what we're waiting for, to finally confirm or deny what they're claiming? >> right. you've got to assume police have photographic evidence. this is not evidence that the court -- >> do we assume that? >> if the crime scene was processed the way it should have

been, you think there were some photographic evidence. you see the issue of george zimmerman to fit what we know, few things we know, one of the things we know is that trayvon martin was found face-down in the ass, meaning you'd assume his feet were toward the concrete. figure out how george zimmerman could have his head at the concrete, it's a sidewalk between two yards. so he's got to get the head of george zimmerman to be toward the grass. so you see sort of a shaping of the narrative. you know, on their side, they're doing everything they can to try to exculpate george zimmerman but you see a shaping of that narrative, i think, in a lot of what you're hearing. >> is there a relationship between the sanford police chief who stepped down and george zimmerman? >> this is something that the reporters, including myself in sanford, were looking find out if there was a reason that compelled the police chief to come to the scene, something that is unusual. and the sanford pio did confirm the chief did come to the scene. the only thing we know is that

they were both at the same time at seminal state college, chief bill lee was at the time the associate dean of students for the college of criminal justice there at seminole state and you had george zimmerman a student at seminole state itself. a statement from the college said he was not a student in the program that bill lee was covering and was not in any of bill lee's classes. i did put in a call to bill lee to find out if they ever met if they knew each other at all outside of class. i haven't heard back as of yet. >> we have talked to a lot of people from the head of the naacp and across a wide swath of the community who said if anything good comes out of this it may be a conversation. some bad things seem to be coming out, the tweets are getting out of hand. we saw spike lee, you know, apologizing and giving some money to family who he inadvertently retweeted an address that was not the address of george zimmerman, the similar thing with roseanne bar though

it was an actual address. is there a message people need to dial back as well? >> seeing citizen investigation happening, right? everyone can get out a lot of information online and disseminate it without thinking, without eight filter, without an editor on twitter. people trying to figure this crime out but that's just muddying the waters even more. >> it's good to have you back. thanks for your reporting down there. we really appreciate it. let's talk money, shall we? a clash of the tech tightens. google is trying to take a bite out of apple's dominance in the commuter tablet market. cnbc's mandy drury is here. >> in order to overcome sluggish sales of tablet computers powers by android software, google will sell tablets directly to consumers through an online store like rivals do according to reports. reports suggest google is not going to make devices it self-. it's got existing partners like samsung or south korea and they

are going to be responsible for hardware. google tried to do a similar thing you might remember, with android powered smartphones back in 2010 when it offered the nexus but that effort was scrapped after only several months. >> you either have the new high-end ipad or go to the prom apparently because there are new numbers out that, you know, obviously, i don't have teenage kids but i was shocked by this the average family in america spends with a high school student $807. >> boy or girl, right. >> numbers last year for the prom, according to a survey by visa. $807 is what the average family spends. this, of course, chris, includes clothing, transportation, tickets, pictures, flowers, you know, you name it you've got to have it. it's a special night and echb wants to splurge. >> save your pennies. no help from capitol hill to stop your employer from asking for your social media passwords.

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we'll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils and that's a huge breakthrough. that's good for our country's energy security and our economy. good morning, i'm thomas roberts. agenda next hour the truth of the trayvon martin. we'll have melissa harris perry sound off as a new witness and george zimmerman's brother speak out. mitt romney on the verge of wrapping it up. endorsements rolling and he's looking good ahead of wisconsin. polls show him trailing behind president obama. black leaders react to confidential documents from the national organization for marriage and its goal of dividing gays and blacks. we'll talk about that, chris. >> thanks, thomas. some are goofy, some bizarre, but they all beg the question, what were they thinking? >> the economy on stimulus. any questions?

any questions? >> they're the most over the top campaign ads of the republican presidential primary. to help us go through them, reporter for the national journal. matt, good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> the goldfish ad we saw from herman cain's sick of stimulus group. what is going on with this bizarre campaign? >> i don't have any questions, but you know this is an -- >> don't mess with that little girl, matt. >> i sure won't. >> she looks tough. >> very much like the daisy girl ad from back in the '60s. this ad was online, obviously very low production value. and sense they don't want to spend a lot of money on ads and they don't want to spend a lot of money to push them on television, you make an over the top ad for the internet for youtube so it becomes a viral hit or in a rare chance gets picked up by the networks like we're talking right now. >> i get the impression if if

starts getting sent around to people, they pay more attention than they might even if they were on television. >> absolutely. >> several ads have a common theme. take a look at these. >> americans put our head down and getting it done. >> we will get our country working again. god bless you. god bless the united states of america. >> the one who will restore liberty, ron paul, the one who can beat obama and restore america now. >> you know, you say some of the ads take a page straight out of transformers director michael bays' play book. what do you mean by that? >> it look likes movies. the -- >> i do feel like i should stand up and salute or put my hand on my heart. >> they're patriotic. what's more patrioting than jets flying or seeing scenes from the olympic games or the berlin wall being torn down? they look like movies, they tap

into our patriotism. this weekend rick santorum came out with the ad obamaville that looked like a hitchcock scary movie. they look like movies. people love watching movie trailers and these politicians are trying to tap into that. >> talk about that rick santorum ad i got the feeling it looked like depression era scenes. i wonder, you know, when do you know you're pushing it just a little too far into the unbelieveabilty range? >> yeah, that's why i call it over the top. they have em tri streets in two years apparently our streets are be deserted, children's laughter absent from the world. it's very hyperbolic, but i guess that's the point of the ads. >> there is one ad in particular that generated huge attention when it hit the airwaves. let's watch that one. >> we can do this. we can take this country back. ♪ i am america one voice united we stand ♪ ♪ i am america

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