that's sh"hardball" now. good morning. welcome "the ed show" from new york. the trayvon martin story has taken an ugly turn in the conservative media. they're desperately throwing out hypothetical excuses for the killer. this is "the ed show." >> i think the hoodie is as much responsible for trayvon martin's death as george zirmerman was. >> is it possible that it was just a horrible accident? >> tonight, the ugly reactions to have the killing of trayvon martin with professor eric michael dyson. the castle doctrine in wisconsin is just three months old and controversy is already erupting. >> my husband fired shots? >> did he hit anybody? >> yes. another young african-american kid is dead.

we'll bring you the story of beau morrison. vrnlts the president picks up a surprise endorsement and the secret service is investigating this comment at santorum event. >> pretend it's obama. >> richard wolf will weigh in. they're coming together on tim tebow. >> if that injury comes back, denver will find itself without a quarterback and in my opinion, it would serve them right. good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. the trayvon martin case has taken a different turn today. we have been witnessing outrage but now there's outrage because the right wing seems to be ginning up a gas to defend george zimmerman the shooter. >> shoultd be investigated to the fullest extent of the law and if he is criminally liable,

he should be prosecuted. i'm urging the parents of black and latino youngsters to not let their children go out wearing hoodies. i think it's as much responsible for his death as george zimmerman. >> what do you mean? >> when you see a kid, like my son, cruz that i constantly yelled at wearing a hoodie or those pants around his ankles. take that off, what's the insignificant identification, what's the instant association. it's the crime scene surveillance tapes. every time you see someone sticking up a 7-11, the kid is wearing a hoodie. you walk to the other side of the street. you try to avoid that confrontation. trayvon martin's, god bless him, he's an innocent kid, a wonderful kid, he didn't deserve

to die. if he didn't have that hoodie, that nutty neighborhood watch guy wouldn't have responded in that violent and aggressive way. >> this is classic example of a reporter injecting himself into the story. geraldo, there's nobody better than that. his take was so far off the mark, his own son objected. he tweeted. my son said he's ashamed of my position on hoodies. i still parents must do what they can to keep their kids safe. in an effort to create a unique take on the trayvon martin case, he's made a ridiculous comment. he's handed george zimmerman an absurd defense. to offer up the idea he was killed because of the clothes he was wearing is outrageous. there's more. here is what sean said about the case.

>> could this be a terrible tragedy? could this be a case where trayvon was running because he thought he was in jeopardy. he was in the neighborhood and we have a series of crimes. is it possible it's a horrible accident? >> it could be the the defense will come forward and say. it's a tragedy. he misunderstood. >> this is tragedy. this young man, we just don't know if it was an accident or somehow intentional. >> we know he wasn't doing anything wrong. >> he had no weapons. skittles and a phone. >> we don't know if it was an accident or if it was intentional. yes, we do know. even the shooter doesn't claim it was an accident. here is george zirmman on the 911 call. >> are you following him? >> yeah. >> we don't need you to do that. >> okay. >> does that sound like an accident? zimmerman followed trayvon

martin against the order of the dispatcher. here is another 911 call from one of the neighbors. >> you think he's yelling help? >> yes. >> what is your phone number? there's gunshots. >> someone screaming. i just heard gunshots. >> there's a black guy down. look like he's been shot and he's dead. >> here is the girlfriend's account of what happened that night. >> trayvon said what you following me for? then the man said what you doing around here? somebody pushed trayvon because the headset just fell. >> george zimmerman told police he was attacked from behind as he was walking back from his truck. everything we heard contradicts that. no one was claiming it was an accident. for sean to show it was an accident, shows a total disregarfor the facts the and a complete lack of respect for the family. there is another take on this story from lebron james and the

miami heat. james tweeted this picture of the team wearing hoodies with their heads bowed. today students at the arthur ashe middle school in florida made a formation of the letters t.m. this story is a long way from being over. get your cells out. i want to know what you think. was the shooting of trayvon martin a horrible accident. a for yes, b for now to 2622639. you can also go to our blog. we'll bring you the results later on in the show. i'm joined tonight by michael eric dyson. gentlemen, thanks for being here with us tonight here in new york on this story. what is about what geraldo said? >> it's interesting. we have been told that guns don't kill, people kill.

now we're being told that hoodies kill, people don't. we all have talks particularly those of us that are african-american, latino, how to address the police, authority figures. how they should dress. that's one conversation you can have. that's different than saying that's equally responsible for at the same time somebody commits a crime against you. there's streets i might not go down because they aren't well lit. if i get held up, it's not fought that i got held up. it didn't excuse an actual crime. >> how outrageous is it? >> it's extraordinarily outrageous. a hood and a hoodie. this is why lebron did it. this is why they have hoodie marches across the country. this is why people are saying we're going to dress in the hood. the unibomber had a hood. he was a white guy and escaped

noticed. millions of white people get up to go to the gym wearing a hood. the association between dark skinned black men. listen to what he said. a dark skin kid. he talks about his own son and association with that incriminality. you can tell your kids don't dress a certain way, don't speak a certain way. speak to the police a certain way because your life is at stake here. that's only because the police have been so outrageous in their assault upon black people. it sunt mean that dressing in a hoods ie is wrong. black people have been unduly assaulted and talked about in relationship to criminality and clearly george zimmerman sought him out because he was a black man. >> did geraldo do a disservice? >> extremely. now he is trying to let the shooter off the hook. he's trying to absolve us of

responsibility. it's like saying in the 1950s, if you wouldn't act so bereligion rent and white people wouldn't treat you horribly. we should be treated with a certain set of decent practices in this country. >> if i can jump on top of that. he did a disservice to the young man's parents. your son is dead, three weeks dead. the way you address that is you should have have dressed him better. it's ridiculous. you send your kid out to the corner store. he's dead. what geraldo has to say is it's your fault. it's equally your fault because you should have dressed him better. >> what do you make of hannity suggesting it was an accident. >> accidents happen all the time. that doesn't let the killer off at all.

>> a very intense subject. here comes talker with a different take and step ts in it. >> they were slow on the uptake to begin with. >> fox was? >> fox was. they acknowledged something has happened here. now they are trying to come up with an excuse. the horrible thing about this is they are coming up with all kinds of excuses because they believe the fact this kid could be innocent. >> this is the president today. it's gotten into presidential politics. the president was announcing the head of the world bank today. the candidate for that and he was asked a question about it. here is his response. >> i think all of us have to do some soul searching to figure out how did something like this happen. that means that we examine the laws and the context for what happened as well as the specifics of the incident. my main message is to the parents of trayvon martin.

if i had a son, he'd like trayvon. >> that drew a reaction from newt gingrich. >> what the president said in a sense is disgraceful. it's not quay of who that young man looked like. at some point we being americans, we have to talk about when things go wrong to an american, it's sad to all americans. trying to turn it into the a racial issue is fundamentally wrong. i really fientds it appalling. >> what do you think? >> i think the implicit message that newt gingrich is sending because it's a racial issue, it's not for all americans. i think all americans should be concerned about racial issues. what the president said is obviously true. if you listen to the tape, george zimmerman cited him as a young african-american. if you look at the reporting that's been done going up over the past three week, there's been other incidents with george

zimmerman has been accused. >> calling the cops 46 times since january of 2011. what about gingrich sf. >> the president was right on target. he acknowledged this was a problem. he said we should all do some soul searching. he took a chance to inform the nation, to use this as a teachable moment to say i as an african-american man he would like him. i'm the president of the united states of america, my son could look like him, be wearing a hood, not a thief and could be subject to the arbitrary exercise of lethal force. it's outrageous what newt gingrich said. >> i want to take a look at this picture of the miami heat. when was the last time we have seen athletes at this level make a statement like this. what are they saying, michael? >> they're saying we identify with him. that could have been my son. dwyane wade is saying that could

have been my son or me. i could have been walking on the wrong side of the treat, where i own a late model car and subjected to the same thing. >> how do we move forward from this? how do we just push this forward? >> that depends on what comes out. we try to keep our heads our shoulders. i think we don't let ourselves get too distracted by people that are trying to score a few political points looking for something to say when there's nothing to be said. >> great to have you with us tonight. remember to answer the question there at the bottom of the screen tonight. we want to have your share your thoughts with us on twitter. tens of thousands rallied in sanford, florida last night and officials are responding to the pressure. reverend al sharpton will join me. the right wing's radical agenda on women's health care is taking its toll. top official ls at the susan g.

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no justice. >> no peace. >> no justice. >> no peace. >> no justice. >> no peace. >> we are tired of going to jail for nothing and others going home for something. we love our children like everybody else love they children. we may not have as much as others have, but we have each other, and we're not going to let nobody take our children from us. >> msnbc's reverend al sharpton led an emotional rally in sanford last night. tens of thousands of people shows up to fight for justice for trayvon martin. it was a crowd committed to a peaceful demonstration. i'm joined by reverend al sharpton. first of all, are condolences to

you and your family for if loss of your mother. >> thank you. >> i think it speaks volumes about you as a person to put yourself ahead of your personal a wing wish for loss of your mother. you really put people first. it was a really honorable thing you did. >> thank you. basically, i'm not going to sap it doesn't hit me hard. i think that's what my mother would have expected of me. i think it would have been not in her wishes if i didn't. the other thing ed is that tuesday i'm going back on sunday to sanford and tuesday i'm flying over to alabama to preach her funeral and do her burial. i'm burying my mother, which is painful. i thought about the mother of

trayvon had to bury her son. it is at least natural for a son to bury their mother. it's unnatural for mother and father to bury their son. the pain i feel is nowhere near the pain i believe they feel. i wanted to be there. >> what did you see last night? >> i saw tens of thousands of people gathered in the town it happened in a very peaceful way. angry, but not one incident. 30,000 people, not one incident saying all we want is justice. all we want is fairness. play the game by one set of rules. why wasn't this guy arrested? >> you talked about violence. why did do you that? >> i wanted people to understand we're not violent and that we're not disruptive. in fact, that underscores why they should not have suspected that trayvon was violent. if these amount of people could come in this town, in the town he was killed and not be violent, why would you look at him and say he looked suspicious

because to some people 30,000 people gathered, there's going to be a problem. there wasn't a problem just like there wasn't a problem with that one young man that afternoon. >> what do you make of what geraldo said about the hoodie playing a part in the death of trayvon martin? >> first of all, i think that people have the right to wear whatever they want to wear. let's start there. i think that's what the hoodie demonstrations are saying. if geraldo is a lawyer, let's get down to the weeds of what he's saying. in the statement mr. zimmerman made, he didn't say he was threatened by the hoodie. he said he was a suspicious guy. he's standing around. he's looking at apartments. geraldo has a sign to fear to the hoodie. others have a sign to fear. that's not what zimmerman said. he said the person was that he

never mentioned the hoodie till he was asked for a description. they're trying to divert it away from what he said by saying what they are saying. to say that we should tell our kids don't wear hoodies. don't wear black shoes or white socks. you cannot adjust to other people's bias. >> how important was it for the president to say what he said today? >> i think it was very important. i think it sets a tone. you have people all over this country that are marching and concerned. in a multiracial diverse way. the president should have addressed it as he has every time we've seen a national concern. it seems that to politicise it, he had nothing to say about this until he came tout attack the president. what happened to my sympathy goes to the family like a couple

of weeks ago when we made this story national. what about let's have due process and see where the facts lie. when the president says let's find out what happened, he did not prejudge it. all of a sudden it becomes politiczed. this is showing the brazen opportunity of some of republican candidates. >> last night at 9:15 it was announced, and this is why the rally was going on, the state attorney stepped aside. yesterday at noon, after a meeting, the police chief stepped side. are the wheels of justice in motion? are you confident there will be an arrest? >> i think we will win ultimately because i think the people are demanding that in this country. none of these wheels started turns until people started doing what we're doing. >> i have to ask you about the laws on the book ons a number of

different states around this country. is this wake up call for leaders in communities all across america to examine these castle laws? we're going to carry a story in a moment about another tragic situation that took place in wisconsin. >> definitely. these laws are wrong. these laws can lead to trying to justify some very criminal and unsavory acts. i don't think this applies in this case. the fact that he could use this law and misuse this law means they should not be on the books. >> thanks for being here tonight. shoot first, ask questions later. it's self-defense wisconsin style. another young man is dead because of it. stay with us. [ tom ] we invented the turbine business right here in schenectady.

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the homeowners wife called 911. >> i need an ambulance. someone was in the house. >> are they still there? >> my husband fired shots. they were in my back hall. my husband fired shots. >> he did. did he hit anybody? >> yes. is it a male or female? >> male or female? >> male. >> where did he hit him? >> where did you hit him? >> in the chest. >> is he still breathing. >> is he breathing? >> i don't know. >> no, no. >> the homeowner was not charged in the death of beau morrison because of wisconsin's castle doctrine law. here is the county district attorney. >> i believe under the circumstances that the homeowner acted lawfully in self-defense. >> the law presumes home homeowners are justified when using deadly force. he was not an intruder.

he was just a kid that made a wrong move and that mistake cost him his life. let's turn to wisconsin's state senator chris larson and john nickels, washington correspondent. good to have you us tonight. senator, the castle doctrine, had it not been passed into law in wisconsin, would the man that killed beau morrison be in jail tonight? >> there would be an investigation. unfortunately, every murder is tragedy. what makes the murder of beau morrison more tragic is there going to be no investigation, no justice for his family because this law razz signed in the last year. if this was not signed, there would be an investigation and justice brought. it's unfortunate that we have this in wisconsin as we have trayvon martin in florida. it's unfortunate that you said, shoot first and squ questions

later. it's more ask questions never that these laws are on the books. we can do better. >> how strict or how loosely is it written to give somebody the liberty to use a firearm? >> we had a long debate on this earlier in the last year. what's really frustrating is we try to point out how insane this law was. i got to a point where i was using humor saying the worst game of hide and go seek ever. all it takes if somebody is in your home and you decide, you feel threatened, that somebody is in your home and you kill them, there's no investigation. the only amendment that we got, this was only three amendments we got by democrats the entire year gave the exemption, then you are not. if an emt or firefighter is breaking in, you are exempt if

you feel threatened. >> what's the reaction with this? >> people are upset. people in washington county are upset by this. there's going to be a demonstration this sunday. there's also an ongoing petition in order to try and overturn this so called castle doctrine law. people are upset and rightfully so especially with what's been happening in florida. this mirrors that exactly in our home state. >> john nickels and the nra are big boosters of the stand your ground law in florida. they are pushing it in a number of different states. what can you tell us? >> there's a huge connection between the florida law and the laws that have been put on the books in other states, including wisconsin. when the florida law was passed back in 2005, the nra lobbyists went to meet with the american legislative exchange council to make the florida law a model for

other states. that model was used in wisconsin. it happens that the assembly majority leader in wisconsin sits on the alec task force that promoted this law nationwide. he also was a primary advocate for this law in wisconsin. we see a direct connection from florida to wisconsin. we also saw a similar debate. >> i was told by the former florida lawmaker there was not one incident that pushed the lawmakers to make this law a law in florida. is that the case in wisconsin as well? there was no outcry. it all came from alec and the nra, is that right? >> that is absolutely true. before this law was passed in wisconsin, district attorneys, sheriff, newspaper editorial boards and responsible legislatures said this law is a

bad idea. in fact, on the floor of the legislature there were legislatures who begged republicans to reconsider and consider amendments that would at least require some reasonable sense of threat. they were shot down at every turn. the fact of the matter is it's a very, very similar situation as regards to how the law was developed and how it was passed. you see that connection with the nra and the american legislative exchange council. >> that's the thing that's troubles to me. this isn't coming from the people. this is coming from the corporations. this is coming from a group that claims it has a lock on the market when it comes to knowing what the gun laws should be in this country. what we're seeing now is dead people around this country when people have the cover of the law to end up being in situations like this. is there going to be outrage in wisconsin as there is in florida, john?

there >> there is outrage. chris turner referred to the law as barbaric and said that she will introduce legislation to overturn it. there's not just outrage, there's action in wisconsin. >> all right. wisconsin state senator chris larson and john nichols, thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you. rick santorum visits a shooting range. a supporters a crack about the president and now the secret service is involved. >> pretend it's obama. >> richard wolf on the latest example of anti-obama ugliness. the latest stunt in the republican war on women. live ultrasounds in the idaho state house. now terry o' neil are here with the latest. tim tebow hasn't even taken a knee as a new york jet and

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that's not all. >> the biggest affiliate new york city just cancelled its annual gala because we're not certain about our ability to fund raise in the future. they've donated about $250,000 says she's closed her checkbook. >> i stopped giving to komen because it no longer represents who i thought komen was. >> joining me tonight terry o' neil. this is not good news because this organization did a lot of good things as well. because they got into the political arena, made some bad choices, followed the wrong people, it turned off a lot of women and now look where they are. >> it did. there's going to be some time before a new organization that actually is nonpolitical comes forward to take up the work that

susan g. komen foundation used to do. >> they did great work, did they not? >> they did and they were nonpolitical. they were finding a cure for breast cancer, and they made it fun. they had the pink ribbons. that was always a wonderful thing to do. the problem is, and i think this is why they are continuing to bleed some of their best executives is they have not renounced their turn to being a political advocacy organization specifically, a with a vendetta against planned parenthood. when you go after planned parenthood, you're going after low income's women's access to a whole range of services. as long as they are moving down that road, they will continue to lose donors. in the meantime, people who want to donate to breast cancer charities, real breast cancer charities will have to spend

some time trying to figure out where to put their money. >> how is this organization, if they are, going to recover? >> nancy needs to resign. people don't have faith in her ability or willingness to stop using the komen foundation as a political advocacy tool. they need to replace all of their top people. they need make credible commitments that they will act like a nonpartisan charity without regard to any of the political winds that might blow. >> the war on women continues on a state level and every state. let's go to the state of idaho. a live ultrasound demonstration took place this week at the idaho state house. here is what was said. >> is it scary when you get an

ult ultrasound, intimidating? >> no. >> the bill made no exceptions for rape or incest. it's been put on hold. is this another sign the radical right wing agenda is losing steam? >> i think it is losing steam. when it resorts to tactics like that, you got to figure that they have a sense that they have hit a wall. they really -- these ultrasound bills are completely out of step with what people want. that awful display is completely irrelevant to whether it's okay for the state to pass a law requiring a noncon century usual, medically not appropriate costly procedure before women can exercise her right to have an abortion. it's ir relevant what one woman

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nameth called into a local espn radio show and blasted the jets. he called it a publicity stunt. >> i do not agree with this situation. i can't agree with it. i just think it's a publicity stunt. i really think it's wrong. i don't think they know what they're going over there right now. you know the owner of the team says they're not interested in peyton manning, and that's good, but meantime they end up being interested in tebow? come on, this is crazy. >> if you think joe willie is mad about the deal, what until you hear what pat roberson said. he took criticism of the deal to a biblical level. he implied it could serve denver right if peyton manning got injured. >> i think the denver broncos treated him shabbily. he won seven games.

he brought them into the playoffs. peyton manning was a tremendous mvp quarterback, but he's been injured. if that injury comes back, denver will find itself without quarterback and in my opinion, it would serve them right. terry. >> well. >> wow. hoping for violence. that's not very christian. he should stick to pushing obama con spir ri theory. rick santorum is in damage control mode after saying president obama would be a better choice than mitt romney. richard wolf joins us next to tell us if rick santorum can recover. ok, guys-- what's next ?

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recover from a big mistake. at an event in texas he suggested president obama would be a better choice than mitt romney. >> you win by giving people the choice. you win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country not someone who will just be a little different than the person in there. that etch a sketch candidate for the future. >> mitt romney responded right away. >> i'm really disappointed in rick's statement. obviously, he endorsed me three years ago when i ran for president. he had no problem call megaa real conservative, a solid conservative. now he's in the race, it's all about rick. it's not right for the party or the country. this kind of rhetoric suggesting that we're better off with barack obama than one of the republican nominees, i think it's almost a mistake on his part.

>> rick santorum also seemed to realize his comment was a mistake. he tried to mop things up. i would never vote for barack obama or any republican and to suggest otherwise is prepos te rous. i was making a point there's a huge enthusiasm gap around mitt romney and it's easy to see why. romney has sided with the obama health care mandate, cap and trade and wall street bailouts. for more on all of this let's turn to richard wolf. who is the biggest loser this week? the king of the etch a sketch or the guy supporting president obama? >> that's a tough one. that competes the race to the bottom. rick santorum made a mistake because there's no one more evil for republicans than president obama. actually, his bigger mistake was to tell the truth. the build up to all of that rift was that mitt romney was out there saying he's going to run as a conservative rather than saying i'm a conservative and

i'm running for president. he had a point, rick santorum. this is a man, mitt romney, who is on tape saying i'm a progressive. now he is saying i'm going to run as a conservative. if only rick santorum could get out of the mode of being a fox news pundit and run for president as a presidential nominee, at least in style, then he might not have got himself in this trouble. >> secret service investigating something that happened at santorum vent today. it was at a shooting range when one of his supporters said this. >> pretend it's obama. >> bulls eye. >> santorum did not hear the comment. but he responded to it later. >> it's absurd. we're not pretending it's anybody. we're shooting pistol. it's a very horrible remark and

i'm glad i didn't hear it. >> what does it say about this incident and santorum supporters and the people hanging around republican candidates? >> think what happened toward tend of the john mccain campaign. we'll see the same thing again. brace yourself. this kind of ugliness will come o out. it will the be more vocal. what kind of candidate goes and has an vent at a shooting range. you're asking for trouble. >> no doubt. newt gingrich is playing the muslim card. here is what he had to say about the president. >> i think it is very bizarre that he is desperately concerned to apologize to muslim religious fanatics while killing young americans and exactly the same period where he's waging car against the catholic church. >> does it bother you that some people think he's a muslim? >> it should bother the president. whooi does the president behave in the way that people would think that? why do they believe that?

it's not cause they're stupid. it's cause they watch the kind of things i just described to you. >> is it the president's fault people think he's a muslim? >> the only thing that's bizarre is that newt gingrich thinks he isn't stupid. he ordered the assassination of bin happen den and newt gingrich is portraying this president as someone that apologizes to radical muslims. it's nonsense. why do people think this president is muslim? it may be because of his name. it may be because there are neem have been fanning this propaganda, this covert attempt to undermine this president from the beginning when he was a candidate and it's been extremely hard for people that want to believe the worst to assume that this president is hiding something. as colin powell said, there's nothing wrong with being a muslim american. they are americans first. just happens this president isn't muslim.

>> santorum is leading in the polls in the louisiana primary. if he wins, it just strokes his ego. >> better to win than to lose. it doesn't change the narrative and the republican establishment saying this is all about rick now. he's not team player. the pressure is on him. he can hang on for a while but the pressure is on thot him to out. >> that's "the ed show." the "the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening. i'm getting out 30 seconds earlier tonight. that ought to tell you how bad i want to get to the weekend. >> are you going to be fishing? >> i'm not, but i'm in serious preparation and that's just as important. >> i've been tieing flies and untieing them like ready to get out on the river. i know the feeling. have a great weekend. >> i'll be hooking up my spoons this weekend. how is that? >> very good. thanks to you at