pawlenty, the former minnesota governor joining mitt romney. appeared that they had a good chemistry and rob portman who spent time here with his wife and ann romney and governor romney and seeing paul ryan, scott walker. and we have seen ron johnson, the senator of this state, as well, spending some time with governor romney, too. thomas? >> certainly star power in wisconsin this morning. we'll check in later. peter alexander, thanks so much. want to bring in our political power panel. we have april ryan and white house correspondent for american urban radio. david goodfriend, a democratic strategist and former staffer to president clinton. david, scott walker has said that romney should pick paul ryan as a running mate. interesting there, though, as peter was pointing out that the governor did the introductions there. do you think, though, that he is going to be potentially in a run now? i mean, walker considered potentially this rising star.

do you think he should be somebody in the romney camp's contention for vp? >> i think a lot of people vying for that position. but you know, i grew up and went to school a few miles from where mr. romney is standing right now in wisconsin and i can tell you that the closing of the gm plant outside of janesville was devastating to that part of the state and the problem that mitt romney and governor walker and paul ryan all have in upper midwest is they all were against the bailout of the american automakers that turned out to be a huge success up and down the supply chain in places like wisconsin and ohio and michigan. and so, what they're trying to do is make this an argument about whether or not president obama can lead us in to the future when in reality people in that part of the world including voters in wisconsin who prefer president obama over mitt romney are saying that actually they fared better under president obama's policies. that's the challenge that these guys face. now, i'll only point out one

other thing which is in ohio where the very same policies put to a vote, same policies to recall scott walker, voters in ohio voted to overturn the policies. so if you look at what people prefer in terms of policy, not so much the person walker versus barrett, that seems to be favoring democrats and the president in the upper midwest. >> april, we want to welcome in hogi ridley joining the conversation. hogan, talking about wisconsin today, romney's campaign with a new web video using the president's words to hit him on the economy just like this morning in wisconsin. take a listen. >> of course the economy isn't where it needs to be. >> okay.

so as we have been talking about janesville which is where mitt romney is today, an unemployment rate higher than the average in wisconsin, but as david just pointed out, hogan, this is an area greatly improved from a high of unemployment of 16% in '09. just remind everybody the state did not vote for a republican since '84 so for voters there, why rock the boat? what does mitt romney have to offer them? >> that's a great question and polling shows right now as you alluded to i think in the tease that voters vote to keep walker in place and those same voters also overwhelmingly said they would support president obama in the presidential and mitt romney can't get too tied in a lost cause state. there's time to figure it out and people to talk to but he has the right crowd around him right now and if the recent election with governor walker and the

support of the folks from the contiguous states don't buoy him, cut bait and go to another state. >> it remains to see how it plays out. april, let's switch gears to immigration and "the new york times" reporting mitt romney was expected to roll out the immigration platform on thursday and preempted by the president. has the president finally found an issue to put romney on the defensive and put himself back on the offensive line coming to campaign conversation? >> well, i'm going to say this. mitt romney according to one of your competitor networks, they came out with a poll saying that mitt romney fared better on immigration than president obama but obama beat in almost everything else but the economy but you have to remember. for especially these last ten, 12 years immigration is a major issue and it's been a big problem so this is an issue that they -- that both sides of the aisle have to deal with but to be honest with you, it's to bring in the immigration debate

right now, it's very political to pull the hispanic vote to either side. >> all right. so remind everybody what mitt romney had to say. he has been asked by this reporters peppering him since the announcement by the president. and mitt romney was asked yesterday whether he would repeal the president's executive order in and for young illegal immigrants. take a listen to his response. >> would you repeal this order if you became president? >> well, let's step back and look at the issue. >> would you repeal this? >> well, it would be overtaken by events, if you will, by virtue of a long-term solution. >> would you leave this in place while you worked out a long-term solution or would you just repeal it? >> we'll look at that setting as we reach that. >> all right. bob schieffer there doing the very best to get an answer. >> good reporter. >> hogan, i'll ask it of david, as well, should he give a straight yes or no?

>> he should or at least begin to give more details in to what he would do and bob did a pretty good job there of trying to pin him down on that. it was a brilliant move by the president the past week putting mitt romney in a box. if he says, of course, yes, that i stand with the president on this, he is going to alienate the conservative base. saying he's opposed to it, he loses the hispanic vote and maybe forever for the republican party. that's a serious issue to face. i think eventually both these candidates, barack obama and mitt romney begin to have to lay out some more specifics in to what they would do in this arena and of course immigration reform is a serious issue. very complex. even back when reagan was president and then mitt romney didn't have to answer that except i'm going to secure the border. now the president one upped him and mitt romney has to come up with a comprehensive plan that doesn't alienate the base. right now not sure if the

president is on strong footing relates to the naturalization of a mass group of citizens. >> david, let's get you on the record. yes or no. romney should have a straightforward answer on that and then your take on the president can combat the time of his campaign. >> yes. mitt romney should have a straight answer on this. it's a basic issue in this campaign. as for the president's actions, he's acting within the bound of law and frustrated with congress that simply will not tackle the problem and he's doing the best he can exec by executive order under existing law. president reagan, he negotiated with democrats and came up with an immigration reform plan that republican party in power today is not willing to compromise and driving them straight off a cliff. >> april, really quickly, though, as we talk about how it could push not only mitt romney to get on record about specifics as hogan points out for what he needs to state as a campaign specific on immigration, does it

also put him in a position to see marco rubio as that much higher on the short list for vice president? >> well, there are a lot of people on the short list for vice president. marco -- you know, marco rubio i think would be great but you have to look at the vice presidential picture as a whole. someone who's not just a single issue person and historically governors have been great for becoming presidents. this nation we have seen that. but you also have to remember there are other issues and, yes, ef the immigration issue and security issues. economic issues. but you have other people out there like portman who can -- who's touched almost every facet of government. and he's been in government. he's been in congress. he's been in the -- you have got several people who are just as appealing and not just because of the immigration issue but rubio is a good looking candidate, though, it were just on immigration.

>> thanks to all three of you for this today. mitt romney wrapped up in wisconsin a moment ago and traveling on to ohio with his bus tour. late they are hour, i'll speak to a young woman impacted by the president's new policy and ask you to stick around for that. president obama is in mexico right now for the g-20 summit. big meetings on the president's agenda and talk about the fiscal crisis in europe and the fate of greece after yesterday's historic elections there. a live report coming your way next. plus, the prosecution wrapping um its case in the jerry sandusky sexual abuse trial today. why one charge was dropped and a possible new strategy for the defense. wait until you hear this. are s, you'll get lost in an all-beef hot dog world. what was i supposed to wish for? why am i wearing a bow-tie? where did i leave my bicycle? after all, when you're enjoying the beefiest,

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europe has got to decide how bad do they want the thing to hold together and if they do it costs money. anybody's going to do a touchdown dance that seems like a dumb idea. all that happened is they didn't get sacked. >> that was former white house economic adviser austan goodsbee and financial problems are killing excitement here in the u.s. the dow jones opened in the red and stayed there most of the morning. s&p down, as well. the nasdaq up by 7. cnbc senior senior analyst joins me now. if it's not greece, it's spain. there are fears of italy potentially, as well. portugal. the global markets avoided a kas to to fee but how worried should investors be here at home moving forward? >> thomas, it's interesting.

the u.s. is holding up relatively well come paired with the rest of the world even than china. europe as you said dodged a bullet. the least worst results in the election. they run out of cash roughly in july. spain is an epicenter with borrowing rates above 7%. the real issue is can the europeans as a continent carve out a deal in which they become more tightly knit, not just in monetary terms but political and fiscal terms? that is the big question and the only solution that drives them towards some resolution of this crisis. >> and again, people here at home need to understand this impact because of the euro zone being our largest trading partner. i think people are surprised to know that the eu and gdp is larger than that. >> collectively, yes. >> of the states but that obviously has a big effect and tie to the domestic economy

here. >> china is more dependent upon europe than we are. we have mexico and canada, all of asia. i wouldn't say we're immune to their problems. i think we may be slightly less vulnerable but if we had a catastrop catastrophe, if the euro were to break up completely, that would be like us in 2008. so this is big. this is important. right now they're limping along. >> right. >> the g-20, you will talk about that in a minute, trying to carve out a language to talk about solutions but they need to get far more aggressive to deal with the problem. some form of austerity to stem the tide here because we're by no means out of the woods here. >> talking about the g-20, the president is expected to speak with german chancellor angela merkle and their role and that's going to continue to be their role, to have the broadest shoulders, right?

>> they're the strongest economy in europe. everybody is considerably weaker. they have more money than anybody in europe. do german citizens want to finance what has been the southern europe, the peripheral states of portugal, greece, and ireland and may need another bailout. so the german people have to decide how much integration they want and willing to pay for it. remember when the soviet union dissolved, west germany effectively bought out east germany and they paid for that for over a decade so it's hard to know whether the germans having done it with the brethren will be willing to do it with everybody else on the continent. >> thanks so much, ron. >> thanks. in an hour, president obama meeting face to face with russian president vladimir putin. ahead of the g-20 summit. this is for the first time that they'll come face to face since putin regained the presidency. at issue, rush why's role in the ongoing crisis in syria. nbc chief white house

correspondent and host chuck todd live for us in mexico. we have seen the reports of russia's military preparing to send its marines to syria. on that news, what can president obama accomplish in this pretalk before the g-20 with vladimir putin? >> well, they have pretty low exec tpectatio expectations. they expect it to have awkward tlooers public body language and behind the scenes, the big push and trying to get the russians to agree to is to at least, you know, perhaps throw assad under the bus. if they don't want to topple the regime and may be what a lot of others that are worried about syria would like to see, an entire change and fully open elections. do you at least do what they did in yemen which is ease out the leader himself? and that's what're trying to get the russians to agree to saying you have the credibility. you can keep the regime propped up and helping get assad out and that possibly maybe the russians agree to do something like that,

playing to putin's ego. it is tough and clearly putin trying to send a message by putt ougt that announcement before this bilateral even takes place so, you know, i think expectations are rather low for what can get accomplished at this first face to face. >> the expectations are low but if there's a cold shoulder maybe from putin putting it toward the administration, does president obama then say, because, you know, everybody that watches the u.n. and follows it knows that russia and china are large obstacles. does the president say forget russia and china? >> well, i don't think they're ready to fully throw the russians and the chinese aside on this, considering first of all with china how important of an economic partner they are and with russia, you know, i think one of the pieces of leverage which could be interesting here is does putin want to deal with this american president or the

next american president? thinking about the rhetoric of mitt romney used about russia and putin in particular. so, that might be interesting there, how much of that is behind the scenes leverage for this president to say to putin, you know, hey, you need to give a little bit on this or you're going to make it easier for the world to sort of rise up against you, even in american politics where you have had two straight presidents try really hard to work with putin. thinking back to former president bush and this president of working with this current russian regime of putin and medvedev. i'm not sure if that's leverage but the other big issue is what's happened in europe and the president has added a one on one meeting with german chancellor angela merkle for this afternoon and that could be the message of stability is very important as far as the president's concerned for his own domestic politics. >> great to see you. thank you, sir. appreciate it. coming up jailhouse phone calls that put george zimmerman

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trayvon martin are going public today and lawyers say some of the calls led to his bond getting revoked and also led to her arrest on a perjury charge. kerry sanders is live in fort laider dale, florida, wh this. there's lots of ambiguity in the language that the callers are using. explain the significance and how prosecutors expect these to play out in the case against george zimmerman. >> reporter: well, you know, when you are in jail and make a phone call, that phone is recorded. the very first thing it says when somebody is calling in or out is this phone call is being recorded. in this particular case, george zimmerman is in jail. his wife is calling from various locations including from a credit union and dialing in at times the prosecutors say they're talking in code about a growing amount of money in a defense fund. this is because he placed that

paypal account on a website. so as the money is growing, they're discussing some of that money and, of course, discussing some other things, as well. the process here is that the prosecutors say that these recorded conversations reveal a conspiracy between the two of them to lie to the court about their assets. because the judge has to know how much money they have to set the bond. in this case, he set bond for $150,000. but after not revealing that they had more than $135,000 in this account but then later discovering it, judge was like, wait a second. you can't lie to the court. brought george zimmerman back in. who's still in jail and now brought, well, the prosecutors have brought shelly zimmerman, his wife, up on perjury charges. she was in and out of jail in about 37 minutes. but these phone calls all go to the heart of that. we're listening to them trying to put them in context, trying to look at what's really the most important part.

we have six of the calls. there were going about 145 more calls released today but defense attorney filed with the court saying that these calls are irrelevant, they're personal in nature and should not be released. now remember, in florida, just about everything that goes on in discovery is public record so while the judge is holding back those 145 calls for the moment, it's possible those, too, may become public in the coming days or weeks. >> nbc's kerry sanders reporting for us from florida, thanks so much. we take you to another court. the defense in the jerry sandusky trial about to get under way. the prosecution has wrapped so will the jury hear from the former penn state coach? that's the big question. plus, the president's new immigration policy, i'll talk with a young woman whose life could change forever because of the president's announcement. my bad.

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the defense team has the reins in the case and looks like mental illness is heavily playing in to the case. we have the very latest. john, the prosecution was swift. they've now wrapped up what their prosecutor -- their case is but how is the lawyer, the legal team, coming out for sandusky? what's their defense so far? >> reporter: well, the defense so far, the defense called the first witness about 45 minutes ago. it's a retired assistant coach from penn state, the same position that jerry sandusky held on the offensive line retired coach. he is now being led through what the daily schedule is of an

assistant football coach at penn state. and the various seasons. during the season, post-season, preseason, recruiting season. they appear to be going, trying to the defense in this case appears to be trying to say that the -- some of the memories or some of the accounts of the victims wouldn't have worked, that the times they say that they played racquetball and basketball, it would be times he would be in meetings or consulting with players. so that testimony is continuing. but as you say that they did win a little bit of a victory on friday. the judge they could present an expert witness, the defense, to talk about a personality disorder called histrionic personality disorder that they say could explain some of jerry sandusky's behavior and characterized by a pervasive pattern of excessive

emotionality and attention seeking. they say it explains some of the letters that he wrote dusky wro victims and yesterday he did present himself to be examined by a prosecution mental health expert. thomas? >> did they say it's a recent diagnosis, something that's come up in light of this case or something diagnosed decades ago? >> reporter: we don't know that. all we know is that they in the motion they argued they wanted an alternate explanation of these letters because the prosecution has presented them as evidence of grooming behavior, grooming these young men, but that they say there's an altertive explanation and they will be able to present in court. >> nbc's john yang reporting from bellefonte, pennsylvania, thanks so much. joining me from boston, former prosecutor wendy murphy and the founder of the victim advocacy and research group.

wendy, great to have you here. according to the national institutes for health, because i want more of the personality disorder and what they're talking about as john reports will come up in court, so this disorder is a condition where people react in a very emotional or dramatic way that draws attention to themselves. in your attention, how do you think sandusky's lawyers intend to make that defense work given the severity of the charges in this case? >> well, i think the short answer is it's not going to work, thomas. you know, the point that you made that this is a recent contrivance i think is going to immediately cause the jury to be at least dubious about it. in addition, you know, they're really suggesting this is a guy sending love letters to his victims wasn't necessarily abusing them but was ill, in order to have a disorder like this, you really have to behave like that toward all sorts of

people and you can't just send letters like that to little boys. so i don't think the jury is likely to take this in as serious evidence. i think the defense is desperate. this comes across as desperate and i think the jury will think, hey, they have an expert willing to testify to this for money. that's how it feels, why. >> in your experience, has this ever been through profiles of sexual profiles and ever come up in your experience in court before? >> what a good question because, indeed, when you see this kind of behavior, number one, it is typically connected to females, seeing the root word. it's typically tied to woman and it is widely disfavored as offensive to women as a class. that said, when you see sexually aggressive behavior, if you look in the manual, it's not just that you seek attention but

sexualized attention and the defense is going to make a point of that. the problem is you tend to see it from girls who have been sexually victimized as children. if they start acting out for the purpose of gaining attention as teenagers and adults you often see them diagnosed with this disorder because it's an expression of their suffering that they seek affection in all the wrong ways because they have been victimized. i have never seen it used to explain the violent behavior of an offender, never. >> day one of the defense. see how it plays out. attorney and former prosecutor, wendy murphy. thank you for your time. i appreciate it. >> you're welcome. here's other stories. this morning a coroner will perform an autopsy on the body of rodney king. he was found dead sunday at the bottom of his swimming pool in california. in 1991 you recall remember four police officers caught on videotape beating king. the acquittals of the police officers led to the nation's worse race riots.

toronto investigators are trying to determine what caused a stage to collapse before a radiohead concert. take a look at this. the band's drum technician was killed when the roof was collapsed to death. they were shattered by the loss of british native scott johnson and another man was hospitalized with that accident. facebook paying $10 million to a lawsuit as part of a settlement. it was brought by five facebook users. they allege that the site violated california law by publicizing their likes of advertisers on certain features. well, on the heels of the executive order that the president announced on immigration, the president has picked up a key endorsement. an emmy-award winning talk show host and leader of the hispanic community. >> i came to this country when i was 12 years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed with their support i and a lot of

hard work i was able to pursue my dreams. president obama wants everyone to have the chances i had. >> that is christina considered to be the latin oprah giving that announcement and endorsement there. while the solution and announcement is not permanent, the president's order paves the way to work legally in the borders, get documentation they otherwise would not. joining me is a woman who entered the country from the dominican republic at the age of 9 and a student in massachusetts. it's great to have you here. you have been in the u.s. as i said since the age of 9. after the announcement last week, how do you feel for yourself, for your future knowing what the president wants to do? >> thomas, thank you for having me. i'm very optimistic with the president's new policy. i feel that finally my dreams

might come true. going to be able to work, get a license and continue with my education and apply for scholarships that before i wasn't able to apply for. >> the pew hispanic center estimates 1.4 people under age of 30 stand to benefit if the president's executive order. republicans and mitt romney's campaign they have said that the president was strictly motivated by politics in all of this. do you feel that this is just strictly politically motivated and are you worried that because of the timing of all of this it might be a day late and a dollar short for your continued desire to receive scholarship money, further your education, have a better few cher here in this country? >> i feel that the president's policy was a great step forward for us and whether it was a political move or not we are definitely going to take advantage of these opportunities. and we're going to continue to

move forward and keep fighting because eventually we would like to get the dream act passed, as well. >> you say it's a first step. and the romney camp has been critical of this. this is more of a stop gap measure and doesn't solve a problem which could provide a long-term solution to young people just like yourself in this country. as a first step, as you say and refer to this being, what do you see as a second step and something that does provide a long-term and viable solution? >> well, like i said, we're going to continue to fight. the movement is growing stronger. eventually we intend on passing the dream act, and fighting for the rights of all immigrants in our community. >> you recognize why some people may draw umbrage with a plan like this. coming to this country at 9 years old, tell me how you feel about being an american.

>> i feel that, you know, i have been here for about 13 years now. i feel like i am an american. i want to contribute to my community. i want to be able to work and help those that have helped me throughout the long battle that we are continually fighting. i feel that this opportunity will allow us to contribute to our country and in the long run, you know, become educated and keep on helping out in our communities. >> it's great to have you on this morning. you have a great story and we look forward for a bright future for you here within this country and see how it plays out. thanks again. >> thank you. boy scout policy protest. i'm going to speak with a once proud eagle scout and renouncing his rank over the scouts anti-gay policy. plus, ann romney going for the gold. details coming up.

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♪ dot-com narrator: offer applies with enrollment in freecreditscore.com. this coming weekend mark it is 43rd annual pride march in new york city and two guests are raising awareness of the boy scouts. famed "star trek" actor george takei will ride in a uniform alongside jennifer tyrrell who's outed for being gay. he says i was a boy scout and i have wonderful memories of my boy scout days and not everyone is proud of third scouting past. retired multimedia journalist was a member of the eagle scouts and he has decided to renounce his rank because of its anti-gay policy. great to have you here and i understand you recently mailed some of the materials back to

the boy scout as you describe as the history of troop 500. why did you decide to do that now? >> in doing our spring cleaning, i found this wonderful battered suitcase and flipping through the pages, so many memories came forward and as i was looking at all of the different things from how to cook different recipes to who earned what merit badges, i just did not feel wonderful about -- as wonderful as i should have about it. i felt so disappointed that in the past 20 years since i earned my eagle scout rank scouting turn eed its back on the peoplet should be embracing. >> you say that the boy scouts are supposed the stand for what's right and what's just. they haven't done that for the last decade. worse, there haven't been enough eagle scouts encolluding me who have stood up for what we learned in scouting. that's not scouting's failure

but our failure. have you discussed with this other scouts and eagle scouts like yourself and do you hope there's a bigger pushback for solidarity and ask the boy scouts to reconsider what modern times may dictate? >> it's interesting. for the past decade i have been ashamed of my scouting and people come up to me saying, hey, i'm also a boy scout, too, or learned of other eagle scouts and so many of us cowed in to not doing what scouting told us to do, do what's right and just. and right now, scouting's policies neither just nor right and hoping there are more eagle scouts out there who really have nothing more than just taking the right moral stance on this. come forward and say, scouting, please change. we are scouts. we want this to change. >> you know, if the scouts were to go ahead and look at this policy and decide that, you

know, they have a big process to review policies. coming up in 2013 but if they were to decide that they wanted to go ahead and reform late their thoughts on this, would you regret the fact you decided to renounce being an eagle scout? >> i firmly believe, yeah, one of the things they said to us coming up through scouts is that once an eagle, always an eagle. and i think that this is one of the things as an eagle scout that you need to stand up for what's right and that's really i believe that scouting is a -- scouting is a private organization and i think it's those from within that will be able to bring about the greatest change. it's the people who are scouts, that grew up with scouting that need to say, what is currently going on is not right. >> naka that that thain yell, thank you. >> thank you, thomas. commander in chief on film. now time for the sidebar.

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the muslim brotherhood is claiming victory in egypt's election. the country's military leaders say the move today to issue a new constitution is temporary and they will hand over power to the official winner at the end of the month but there are still skeptics over the future balance of power. nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel has the latest from cairo. >> reporter: egyptian state television says nearly all the votes have been counted and that early still unofficial results show that the muslim brotherhood's mohammed morsi will be the next president of egypt. that means for the first time in egypt's modern history, this country will embark on islamic democracy, a new experiment, a potential radical change for

this country. many egyptian women and christians are worried about sweeping changes that could come into effect if the muslim brotherhood goes ahead with its promises to implement islamic law. the muslim brotherhood is vehemently anti-israel, not pro-american. this could represent a big change in this country. the egyptian military is also very worried about the muslim brotherhood so last night here in egypt as the votes were being counted and showing that mohammed morsi was in the lead at the time, the military took a preemptive strike, radically curtailing the powers of the future president, saying that the president would no longer have the power to declare war and peace, that the military reserves the right to write the constitution and that it is the military who can appoint or remove senior military officers. a power struggle is now under way as the muslim brotherhood will try and exert its authority

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