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we have abby huntsman and ryan lizza.ouder this morning after the killing of 17-year-old trayvon martin by george zimmerman. the strong emotions which has gone national spawning rallies from los angeles to st. louis to charlotte, north carolina, all coming home last night to sanford, florida. take a look at the pictures. thousands gathered not far from where on the 26th of february, trayvon returning with a bag of candy and iced tea was shot dead. sanford's police chief temporarily stepped aside but did not step down. the attorney for trayvon's family addressed the crowd with some inspirational remarks. >> you don't know what you're doing tonight. you just don't know what this means. it is a movement. it is a movement. it is the trayvon martin movement for justice and it won't stop until justice is done. >> democratic congresswoman fredricka wilson from florida joins us now. welcome to the program, first. so your thoughts after attending that last night and what was happening there and how people are feeling this morning?

. >> this is ryan lizza's playist, beck, "e-pro."e back to breakdown the contests happening tomorrow. first, though, other stories making headlines. carlos is back with that. >> new israeli air strikes targeting palestinian militants in gaza. palestinian office shultz shuls saying three people were killed today including a teenager. three deaths have been reported since they began on friday. israel's minister of defense, the air strike says it's a response to barrage of rockets being fired from gaza into towns in southern israel. when it comes to israel's confrontation with iran, former head of them say they shouldn't rush to attack iran's nuclear facility. the mayor warns it could set off a regional war. on cbs' "60 minutes" he says there's still more time for diplomacy. >> you have said publicly that bombing iran now is the stupidest idea you've ever heard. that's a direct quote. >> attack on iran before you explore all other approaches is not the right way, how to do it. >> dagan says a nuclear armed iran is not an israeli problem

joining me today, the huffington poet's sam stein, ryan lizza, from the associated press kasie hunt andsin congressman paul ryan says it's time for the bruising primary season to come to an end. what better way to bring it to a close than with a half-hearted endorsement of mitt romney. this tuesday, all eyes will be on wisconsin that will hold an election to recall its governor. i want to play for you, my friends on the panel, this paul ryan endorsing mitt romney on fox news. let's hear that. >> i think this primary has been productive. i think it's been constructive till now and made the candidates better. we're entering a phase where it could become counterproductive if this drags on much longer. that's why i think we need to coalesce aroundern mitt romney and focus on the big task at hand which is defeating barack obama in the fall. >> ben is, basically paul ryan is saying

msnbc and time magazine senior political analyst, mark halprin and one of the best in the business, ryan lizza start with you, how many times could i say, could this be it for mitt romney. but could it be if he wins ohio? >> i think it's not enough, but if he wins massachusetts and vermont and virginia and ohio tennessee. >> that is a lot. >> if he does that and a western state as well, the conretentional wisdom in terms of momentum, delegate total will make it all about over, if he loses ohio, i think we go on to illinois in a couple of weeks. and either way, whatever happens, worse case/best case, he is the odds on favorite to be the nominee and he probably will be. >> i'm going to bring in ryan here. we look at the polls, the ohio poll romney is at 34%, a 5% gain and santorum is at 31%, a 5% loss. how did this happen for santorum? i mean, the electorate, economically in terms of the demographics favors santorum, but he seemed to have gone down in the lead and not done a good job of messaging. >> let's look at this for a second. santorum has no right to be in the position he is in. i mean, h

joining me now are chuck todd, nbc news political director and post of "the daily rundown" and ryan lizza, named alec baldwin's favorite journalist in the print world. >> i didn't know we were going to discuss that. >> it means you're not steven baldwin, that we know. >> alec did not choose his favorite tv -- >> political director. that's okay. >> but you're mine, so -- >> i want to go to this thing that santorum just said about -- you know if we don't nominate the conservative, we lose. we always lose if we don't go with the hard-core conservative. how accurate is he on that one? >> well, it depends on what you define as -- bush versus mccain? yes, they chose the conservative in that case -- >> the more conservative. >> the more conservative guy. but dole, they chose -- if you look at knit terms of when the final two were there and the party went with the more conservative versus the more moderate, there's a case to be made that at the time, whoever the more moderate one was, would go on to lose. dole, mccain, to some extent george h.w. bush in '92. certainly ford/reagan. i see where he'

joining the panel now is one of the best in the business, "the new yorker's" ryan lizza, looking around. who could we be talking about? let's talk about this super tuesday, this march towards super tuesday. which i've sort of started calling stupid tuesday. rick santorum is making the case that he actually won michigan in terms of delegates, because he and mitt romney are tied. but is this not just sort of a long, painful exercise to watch mitt romney become the nominee, ryan? >> wait, before i answer that, i have to thank michael steele on behalf of journalists everywhere for giving us the gift of the long republican primary season. if you haven't been thanked already -- >> you had it with clinton/obama, we figured -- >> we thought that was once in a lifetime. we were ready to give up the business. >> we never thought people would make the same mistake twice, but they did. >> the santorum campaign has a case here. they haven't been as good -- i remember the obama people in 2008 were so good at getting it driven into the press' head in 2008 that this is about delegates, it's about deleg

ryan lizza from the new yorker, u.s. army veteran wes moore, former "uss attorney kendall coffey. just a short time ago, the president made his first public comments about the shooting death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. >> if i had a son, he'd look like trayvon. and you know, i think they are right to expect that all of us as americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves and that we're going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened. >> karen, i want to talk to you. you've been covering this beautifully over the course of the last week. we'll be talking about it later today you guest host for martin bashir at 3:00 p.m. >> thanks for that. >> the white house had come under some, i don't know if fire is the right word to use, but under pressure to have the president comment on this. "the washington post" had a really interesting article i thought today discussing the fact that eric holder had been effectively their emissary thus far on this post skip gates, the president has been reluctant to wade into racially tinged waters. what did you make of the statem

ryan lizza, you're a capitol hill denyizan.exhaustive account of what went down during the debt negotiations. i want to pull the take away here is what's undeniable despite all the furious efforts to pedal a different story that obama managed to get his closest allies to sign off on what he wanted them to do and boehner couldn't. but what do you make of that statement? >> that sort of captures the fundamental nature of the two parties right now. we have a president with a more idea logically diverse coalition, more moderates in the democratic coalition than in the republican coalition. and who was willing to go pretty far to the point where a lot of liberals who now see how far obama was willing to go are not very happy about it and boehner who seems to be a dealmaker, someone that wanted to get a deal who absolutely could not because of the rightward drift of the republican party. and you know, it's not even -- i disagree about the personality between obama and boehner being significant. i think personalities and whether polit

ryan lizza from the new yorker, u.s. army veteran wes moore, former "uss attorney kendall coffey.st public comments about the

ryan lizza, let's talk about impact of this. >> he contradicted romney with the second statement. >>d. here it is. >> it was an unusual day on the campaign trail. mitt romney and his campaign wanted to talk about his victory in the illinois primary but debate over this iconic children's toy, the etc etch-a-sketch. >> the press is following him around. look, i'm going to run on the same issues in the general election that i'm running on here in the primaries. a little bit different than what eric said in cleaning up the quote. the real etch-a-sketch is what's being erased is mitt romney's original idea of running on the terrible economy. we have better economic news this morning. and that i think in the long run will be the big problem for his campaign is his original message is disappearing as this economy improves he's having a tougher time making the case against obama. >> why do you think this keeps happening? every time the romney campaign should do a victory lap and a big win, a nice easy great win to be gloating about, there's something that undermines it. >> well, this stole t