julia yarborough is in tallahassee and julia, what do the protesters hope to accomplish today? >> well, good afternoon del. the march and really taking place here in tallahassee actually just wrapped up and the goal from hundreds of people around the state coming here to tallahassee is to keep pressure on lawmakers to repeal that controversial stand your ground law. it was enacted in 2005 by florida then governor jeb bush. the law gives citizens the right to stand their ground rather than retreating in a situation if they reasonably believe that that situation would prevent death or bodily harm. the organizers and participants of this rally want to make sure that people understand that that law could affect anybody regardless of race. they want to keep the pressure on lawmakers to say repeal this law and they want to make sure that if they can push that forward in florida, that they may be able to set the pace for moving forward in other states which have enacted similar laws since florida put that in place in 2005. del. >> and julia as you indicated this law has been on the bo

so we had many connections to tallahassee.and so that coupled with the fact that he would have his own standalone museum and library sort of appeal to his ego a little bit actually and he decided to donate his papers to florida state. apart from the museum, which is the first thing visitors see when they walk in we do have a reading room. when we go into the reading room i have some a cheerio from his senate and congressional days. we are currently in the claude pepper meeting room. this is our space for research, as well as the other political collection here at the library. right now going to start by showing you a few items from the collection that were created by senator pepper in conjunction with his fortunes with some former u.s. presidents and his time in the senate and the house. we are going to start with a box from series 431. this is his memoir series. we've got some telegrams that he sent while he was on the foreign relations trip to germany. when he was over, he noticed with some alarm the rapidity and rapid growt

. >> while visiting tallahassee, fla. with the local help of comcast will tv talked with christopher daniels about book "somali piracy and terrorism in the horn of africa". >> i felt this was a story that needed to be told. not many people had talked about somalia and in particular no one talked about the connection between piracy and terrorism. piracy and terrorism are two totally separate act. piracy is people going out and hijacking ships and bringing them in. terrorism is more land-based and political base of al shabaab is a major factor, they assassinate politicians and prevent the government from being informed in somalia. the pirates are not necessarily involved in politics. they are more doing it for economic reasons. those that the big differences but where they come together is they stem from the same problem which is that somalia hasn't had a government for 20 or so years. what they really have is a power-sharing agreement. they don't really have a government elected by the people. it is basically a group of el

the protesters and marchers here in tallahassee have a specific message for state lawmakers. they want to repeal stand your ground law that was inacted in 2005. speakers want residents to understand how the law works which could effect anyone regardless of race. the law gives citizens the legal right to stand their ground if they reasonbly believe making that decision would prevent death or boldly harm. stand your ground has been in the public forefront since the 2012 death of trayvon martin, the 17-year-old who was killed, and then the acquittal of his killer, george zimmerman. trayvon's parents are here, to stand against stand your ground. >> where do lawmakers stand on that issue? >> reporter: there seems to be a split in florida. right now the florida governor rick scott supports the bill. earlier state representative allen williams sponsored a bill to repeal that law, and it never made it past committee. as we know more than 20 other states have similar laws. so as far as lawmakers are concerned, very differing opinions on that. but these protesters want everybody to und

stop off in tallahassee to spend time with her.he had many connections to tallahassee and so that coupled with the fact that he was head his own stand-alone museum and library sort of appeal to his ego a little bit honestly and he decided to donate his papers to florida state. apart from the museum which is the first thing visitors see when they walk and we do have a reading room. when we go into the reading room we have some materials from the senate and congressional days. we are currently in the claude pepper meeting room. this is our space for researchers to come and view the collection as well as the other political collections housed here at the pepper library. right now i'm going to start by showing a few items from the collection that were created by senator pepper in conjunction with its this workings with some former u.s. presidents and his time in the senate and house. we are going to start with abe box from series 431. this is his memoirs series. we have got some telegrams that he sent to the united states senate while

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. >>> meanwhile, take a look at this, live pictures from tallahassee, florida, where a huge rally is under way to reform stand your ground laws across the country. we'll talk with the mother of jordan davis, who is taking part in today's protests, and there's new development regarding michael dunn, the man who stood trial for her son's murder. >>> also right now, new clashes and protests over the future of ukraine. this as the country's acting prime minister preparing to travel to the white house. we'll get insight on what could happen in that meeting from a former ambassador to russia. >>> and within the hour, nsa leaker edward snowden will appear at south by southwest in texas live by video link from russia. we'll take you to austin. >>> i definitely thought i wasn't going to make it. >> and take a look at this, a plane and a sky diver collide, sending them both crashing into the ground. they are both okay, but a lot of finger pointing here today and it's one of the things, one of the stories, around the news nation we're discussing. join our conversation on twitter. for hearburn?

julia reports from tallahassee, florida. >> reporter: terrae sha day says she is giving her six youngren an early lesson in civics. as parent she says she stands firmly against florida's stand your ground law. >> these aren't multi-racial children, and these are some of the children that will be effected by the laws that don't -- you know -- that don't protect them. innocent children are getting killed, and there's no justice being served. >> reporter: florida governor jeb bush signed the law into effect in 2005. it gives citizens the legal right to stand their ground rather than retreat. opponents say the law is vague and can be ambiguously applied. >> we are with the defenders and stayed in the capitol for 31 days and 30 nights, trying to get our governor to address these issues. >> reporter: the law has been in the spotlight since the shooting death of trayvon martin and the equatal of his accuser. also on hand on monday the parents of jordan davis, who was shot and killed by michael dunn also in 2012, he claimed he shot in self-defense. a jury convicted him of attempted murder. ac

this case was being discussed in legislative circles in tallahassee and, in fact, two legislatures came to me to visit between rile and sentencing to discuss the facts in this case. one was senator gibson. mia johns and tony hill who she says came in to discuss the fact of the case. why wouldn't we think they were interested in the facts of this case because the case could influence law being discussed in tallahassee? my first question would be is this case coming up as you discussed the changes to the stand grournd law, warning shot provision, that comes up for discussion on thursday? >> first of all, you see how angela corey tries to tie two people to me whom one of the state representatives and -- both who work for the -- in the mayor's office. which has nothing to do with the legislature. and so -- the -- her case she is trying on the lee pieces of paper don't really talk about the threatened use of force bill that is on the floor tomorrow which is separate from the stand your ground bill. she doesn't call it by name but implies that the law, as it stands, is on the books to protect

heavy rain across the region south of the tallahassee area. we have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect right now. these thunderstorms have the ability to produce damaging winds, hail and even a chance for isolated tornadoes. these storms have a history of producing winds 65 mph and large hail that could take out windshields. this storm warning is in affect until 5:00 today. be careful if you're in florida. >> you can always get the latest information on the washington mudslide on our website. for updates 24/7 head over to www.aljazeera.com. >>> if in coming up a strong earthquake shook los angeles this morning. when we return on al jazeera america, we'll tell you why people say this was not your average california quake. >>> plus another round of elections are coming to iraq. the steps the government is taking to protect the process. >> a powerful earthquake followed by a hundred aftershocks rattled southern california late last night. the magnitude 5.1 tremor was centered near la habra in orange county 20 miles from downtown los angeles. t

reason and there is plenty that is counter intuitive, a closer look at suicide joining us from hall tallahassee, coauthor of families under fire. >> were you surprised that things like deployment didn't have much impact on those who decided to end their lives? >> yes, the first surprise of the study was that the increase and the suicide rate was equally as high among people who never deployed as those who had deployed. prior to that time we just thought it was a knee-jerk reaction. >> between male and female personnel? >> well, there are differences in suicide rates among men and women. and men have higher suicide rates than women could do. that's true in the civilian world as well as the military. the striking difference is the suicide rate of men who are deployed is roughly 50% higher than the suicide rate of male soldiers who never deployed. among women it's 300% as high among the deployed as among the never deployed. there seems to be something that is more highly associated, more distressing did deployment among women than men. this does not account for the substantial part o problem, buts

you had an impressive turnout in tallahassee.rmer state senator just said, the power of the nra, what hope do you have of actually getting the state legislature in that state to listen? >> well, i think that the hope we have is that today just showed the mass support. now we're meeting with legislatures. this is an election year. it is a statewide election where the gubernatorial candidates are going to have to deal with this and a district by district election. i think what has to happen now is translate this into a movement that just says to the legislatures of both sides of the aisle that they cannot have a state where people are now being victimized by this law. as we said at the rally this morning, there's not just on one side of the state. yes, trayvon martin and jordan davis' family was there. but you have a white male who was texting to his baby sitter in the movie theater that got in an argument with an ex-law enforcement office whole killed him and is using stand your ground. it has become an issue across the board. and

southeast this morning and also through this afternoon we expect to see them continue to push towards tallahassee, northern portions of florida right through georgia and all the way towards the i-95 corridor where today a lot chillier than yesterday out there. 14 degrees less than where we reached high temperatures yesterday. birmingham was minus 20 and charlotte 25 degrees cooler than yesterday. that cool air is felt across the northeast as well. in albany we have a high around 29 today, 32 from the indictment high early on in the day. back to you, morgan. >> thanks so much jalelah. >>> parisians go to the polls today for the first round of local elections, and for the first time it's likely the city will be answers to madam mayor. from paris here's emma hayward. >> reporter: the state is the chance to run all this, one of the world's most distinctive cities. whoever wins this election in paris will make history. becoming its first female mayor. on the left want front-runner, socialist ann hildago and on the right ann marie. both campaigning hard to make their mark, but doing it differently. mor

. >> so, he and another gentleman went to tallahassee with guns, and they hired one of these rival escortshey had her in their presence, they pulled guns on her, told them to take her to their boss. >> a shoot-out followed. permenter shot and wounded his rival and was himself shot twice. he went straight from the hospital to a 12-year prison sentence. >> this is not somebody that you want to be messing around with. of course, karen, when she begins dating tim, has no clue about this. >> when karen learned the truth, she ended their relationship and started dating other men. >> tim, who is a very jealous guy, begins snooping around the house, going through her trash, looking through things, looking for clues. >> according to karen's friend, tim had found a used condom in karen's trash and was furious. >> this was not the first time that karen had had problems with tim in regards to her communicating with other male friends. >> i do recall one evening we were talking and karen said that mr. permenter had tried to choke her. and my response was that she needed to immediately contact the polic

joining us are, from tallahassee, charles figly, he's coauthor of families under fire. a handbook for systemic therapy with military families. amy nyberger miller, from taps, those left behind after military suicides, and in boston, ronald kessler, the principle investigator of the site for army study to assess risk and resilience in service members, and ronald kessler, let me start with you, once all of the numbers were crunched and the results apparent, were you surprised to find that things like deployment didn't have that much of an impact on who decide to end their lives? >> yes. the first surprise of the study was that the increase in the suicide rate was equally high among people who had never deployed as those who had deployed. and prior to that time, we thought as a knee-jerk reaction, and that's not the case. >> are there defenses, dr. kessler, been male and female personnel. >> well, there are differences in suicide rates among men and women. men have much higher suicide rates than women do. and that's true in civilian life and in the army. but in deployment,

mark strassmann is in tallahassee. >> reporter: in florida's gun-friendly legislature, lawmakwao alloweople in fire of their lives to fire a warning shot at their attackers. >> in florida, we believe in robust self-defense laws. it's worked. it's created a 42-year crime low. >> reporter: state representative matt gates points to the case of marissa alexander. >> i'm more interested in closing the loophole where someone would be punished more for missing with a bullet than they would be for striking someone with a bull net a self-defense circumstance. >> reporter: 11 state are considering bills to acopt or strengthen stand your ground laws but it 12 states are deciding whether to weaken or repeal them. >> i stand before you because i want you to see me as a mother, a hurting mother. >> reporter: sybrina fulton wants florida's law gone. as trayvon martin's mother testified before a florida senate committee, hundreds of protesters outside rallied in support of repealing it. george zimmerman, a crime watch volunteer, killed martin, claimed self-defense, and was acquitted of murdering the 1

. >> next from booktv's recent trip to tallahassee, florida, learn about the rare books and manuscripts from napoleon and the french revolution. >> the special collections room in this library, this is our main reading room where researchers come to interact with our materials. special collections and archives maintains an extensive rare book collection spanning back to manuscripts from the 1400s through 20th century publications. manuscript collections, like some of the material we'll see today from the napoleon collection, as well as southern business history, scientific history, the contraction of -- the papers of paul durack, a nobel prize-winning physicist, as well as university history, our heritage protocol program documents the long history of florida state united states and its predecessor institutions. in about the early 1960s, the institute for napoleon and the french revolution was established here at fsu as a institute in the history department for the study of the french revolution and particularly the napoleonic wars. one of the first professors associated with that progr

julia grabo is in tallahassee, florida. good to see you.t were the protesters hoping to accomplish beyond getting the attention of the legislature there? >> reporter: well, good afternoon tony. that precisely is what the marchers and the rally participants were trying to do. they want to keep the florida stand your ground law in the public forefront. they also want to educate more citizens about exactly how that law works and it could affect anybody regardless of race and they want the florida lawmakers to repeal that law. the law came into effect under florida governor jeb bush. stand your ground if it believes that death would prevent bodily harm. the law is vague and can be applied ambiguously. the teen, trayvon martin who was killed in 2012 also on hand the parents of florida teen jordan davis. that teen also 17 killed by michael dunn in 2012 and dunn claimed he fired in self defense using the stand your ground law as a defense. this march and rally trying to persuade lawmakers to keep this in the forefront. it sets the substantially fo

on saturday it goes from tallahassee all the way through south carolina and north carolina and we'll this severe weather and coming up, the nation's weather, more for the pacific northwest. it does need a whole lot of rain. i'll have that coming up. >> all right, ginger. thanks a lot. >>> we'll turn to new jersey governor chris christie who was cleared of any wrongdoing in the new internal report commissioned by his administration on the bridgegate scandal that threatened to derail his political career and future. christie sat down with abc news for an exclusive interview and abc's jim avila is in trenton, new jersey, with much more. good morning to you, jim. >> reporter: good morning, josh. he is back and armed with an internal report written by friendly lawyers that says that he is, in fact, clear and he's back on the offensive today with an expected news conference and some of that characteristic bluster from governor christie seems to return, too, in that first post-scandal interview done by abc's diane sawyer. the in-house investigation cost taxpayers a million dollars and does

right now, i tell you what, everybody in tallahassee and everybody in jeb's foundation and around jebp like they are running in 2016. it's now up to jeb to figure out whether that is really what he wants to do. >> a sign hillary is gearing up too. a friend of hers put a quote out there saying she doesn't think hillary is running and that she is worried about her for running and we all know that clinton campaign doesn't allow something like to to come out. >> what is interesting, willie, there is somebody that is connected to the bush family that made a statement and got a stinging e-mail the next day saying these are the talking points and this is what you are to say and this person responded by e-mail, i don't work for jeb any more, but thanks any way. they are geared up. they are ready to go. now the question is jeb going to follow along? >> wow. that's fascinating and they will be on the stage as mike allen said later today. mike, thanks for a look at the playbook. appreciate it. >> have a great week. >> march madness is living up to its name this year. once again, what does that m

discussed herbert hoover and programs on the federal budget, harry truman's white house a visit to tallahassee, fla.. for the full schedule visit booktv.org. >> we are here today at the state library archives of florida, the middle of three stack boards at the archives. what you see behind you is a cubic foot box of those 45,000 cubic feet we have 30,000 cubic feet of state records from the legislative branch of government, judicial and executive branch. we have 15,000 cubic feet of records which fall under our manuscript collection, private donations from individuals everything from letters and journals to photographic collections. this is what is known as the patriot constitution of 1812. there's a lot of history behind this particular document. in 1812 a group of georgia settlers known as the patriot army invaded northeastern florida and they were operating with the assistance of citizens living in spanish florida. it was still a colony of spain and the motivation for the group of individuals, to come in to florida, from george and come in to florida and they were going to encourage citizen

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group of delegates met this is a site along the coast, a port city along the coast southwest of tallahassee. it's a very small area, but it was very important in the time and it was kind of a rival port city. so delegates came from west florida, east florida, and there were selected to serve on different committees depending upon the area of expertise. one of the major controversies surrounding the constitutional convention was the issue of banking in florida. quite a lot of articles in the constitution that attempted to regulate banking in what will become the state of florida. there was a very big interest among floridians from keeping a lot of outside of the state-controlled banks from establishing themselves in the territory. they were quite adamant about keeping land speculation to an unknown. and in effect the territorial government wanted to be the ones handling a lot of the land dealings. now, the document itself mobs, this is the first portion of it. a very long document. general looking at one of the top of it. the very top of it. and if we were to lay it out it would extend acros

december 3, 2007, tallahassee, florida police officer, donald poppy, is on patrol.car pulls ahead. the driver hits 65 in a 35 mile-per-hour zone. and he also hits a fence. the speeder, antonio givens, tries to volt. poppy responds, taser drawn. >> on the ground, now! >> givens drops his gun. and grabs for it. poppy fires at givens with a taze up to 50,000 volts. but givens isn't done. poppy goes for his firearm. as givens rises, his weapon in hand. poppy fires, twice and givens goes down. incredibly he's only wounded. given says convicted of attempted aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and sentenced to 11 months 29 days. more and more, police are relying on tasers. >> it keeps us from having to fight somebody hands on. >> detective jared mathern should know. he with two other officers are with the louisiana police force. they were uninvited guests who brought tasers who a wedding that went very, very wrong. instead after toast, the broom got a taze. and the bridal party got a shower of mace. >> what is going through my mind, is oh, my god, i'm suppose g

booktv and american history tv look at the history of literary life of florida's state capital, tallahassee. today at noon eastern on c-span2 and sunday at 2:00 on c-span3. you are watching booktv on c-span2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books. this weekend jonathan allen and amy partis discuss their book h r c:state secrets and the rebirth of hillary clinton followed by washington d.c. party of market's release. on our afterwards program george nash and eddie sleighs discuss the ideology of herbert hoover. ..

. >>> just down the road in tallahassee, plenty of dessert to go around.ida governor rick scott helped serve up slices as to what is thought to be the world's largest key lime pie. it took 6,000 key limes, 200 pounds of gram crackers and 55 gallons of sweetened condensed milk to measure out at 97 inches in diameter. i heard on another news report that tequila is more expensive because of a shortage of lime. >> maybe that's why. >> maybe that's why. it all went into the pie. >>> in new york a bit of a less appetizing competition. >> contestants between the ages of 5 and 14 brought their yuckiest shoes in hopes of of the winning the title for the 39th national rotten sneaker contest. jordan armstrong of new mexico got the top honor. she said she's worn the sneakers, the same ones for the last two years and she hopes that her feet can stop growing so she can wear them forever. >> why? why? >> hygiene, people, hygiene. did you see the duct tape falling off the other sneaker? >> i spent enough time in hockey locker rooms. >> are these people cheap or they just

. >> next from booktv's recent trip to tallahassee florida learn about the books and manuscripts from napoleon and the french revolution to >> in the special collections room in the library this is the main reading room where the researchers come to interact. special archives maintained an extensive rare book collections spanning back to the manuscript from the 14 hundreds through the 20th century publications. some of the material is from the napoleon collection and the business history and scientific history, the collection is one of the core collections into the university history it documents the long history of the florida state university and its predecessor institutions and in about the early 1960s the institute for napoleon in the french revolution was established here as an institute in the department for the study of the french revolution and particularly the napoleonic war. one of the first professors associated in that program was a gentle man by the name of doctor donald who is now professor emeritus and is a military historian whose specialty is the napoleonic era and th

so, because of that, in this area in red, from tallahassee toward orlando, right up into charleston, south carolina, we are under a slight risk for possible tornadoes, but it's more wind damage and hail along with some of the heavier downpours. it's out ahead of this cold front, and this will eventually move up into the northeast. it weakens. we're not going to see the stronger storms in the northeast, but still a lot of rain. middle of the country starts to dry out. temperatures look cool, in chicago about 41 degrees, 60 in the plain states and we have got more rain and mountain snow in the northwest. that >>> good morning. 5:19 the time right now. waking up to rain in the north bay, pretty heavy stuff over santa rosa. expect the showers to spread through the region today. by 8:00 san francisco, oakland you'll start to see the showers and by 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, that's when the heavy rain will start to push across the bay area. keep the umbrellas handy all day long. we're talking about a complete washout from the time the sun goes up to the time the sun goes down, the temperatures to

. >>> tomorrow morning opponents of stand your ground participate in a march in tallahassee, florida,n and the national action network and the parents of slain teenagers trayvon martin and jordan davis to call attention to the stand your ground law. >>> there are troubling new details about a growing racial disparity in breast cancer related deaths of women. the study found a widening racial gap in at least 39 of the american cities, the results of the study suggest that african-american women are not getting the same access to screening, testing and treatment as are white women. let's bring in dr. dara richardson-heron. she is a herself a breast cancer survivor. so i want to start out by saying the study showed african-american women are on average 40% less likely to die from the disease, more likely than white women. why did that disparity? >> well, you know, unfortunately many african-american women do not have access to screening. and not only that, when they do get appropriate screening, they're often not given the same level and quality of care and that's very, very disturbing.

i'm live tonight from tallahassee, florida, the state's capitol, where earlier today my civil rights organization, national action network, and other groups came together to rally against the stand your ground law. thousands came out today, and we'll talk about it later in the show. but we start tonight with breaking news. bridget kelly breaking her silence. on the eve of a pivotal court hearing, nbc has obtained exclusive new video of kelly, the former christie aide who sent the e-mail "time for some traffic problems in fort lee." nbc's michael isikoff caught up with bridget kelly and her lawyer. >> bridget? hi. mike isikoff with nbc news. >> excuse me. >> i just want to ask a few questions. how you holding up? >> i'm okay, thank you. >> can you tell us how difficult an experience this has been for you? >> i'm not going to comment. >> would you say that there is more to the story that people haven't heard? ? . >> also today we learned the federal investigation into the bridge scandal is expanding to include one of governor christie's closest political allies. federal prosecutors hav

al sharpon will lead a stand your ground rally in tallahassee, and parents of tray von martin and davise there? >> president of chile will be inaugurated and next sunday, boston hosted saint patrick's day parade. gay and lesbian parade can march for in that prayed for the first time in 20 years. mexico won a key battle in the bloody drug war. the government is confirming the death of the knights of templar drug cartel. adam rainey has more from mexico city. >> in western mexico t it comes a little two weeks after the government announced the arrest of "shorty" in spanish, the head of the biggest most powerful criminal organization notice world. now that they have announced the killing of moreno, the government is trying to show that they clearly have control of this ongoing drug war that's been carrying on for several years. it's also a way to try to show the previous government that being inefficient, the previous government said they killed morino in 2010. they said people involved in the fire fight and witnesses could assure it. now, we see that just wasn't the case. morino was a mys

i'm live tonight from tallahassee, florida, the state's capitol, where earlier today my civil rightsnal action network, and other groups came together to rally against the stand your ground law. thousands came out today, and we'll talk about it later in the show. but we start tonight with breaking news. bridget kelly breaking her silence. on the eve of a pivotal court hearing, nbc has obtained exclusive new video of kelly, the former christie aide who sent the e-mail "time for some traffic problems

earlier today in anticipation of lawmakers' return to tallahassee, hundreds took to the state capitol for the first time ever, a moral monday in florida. a movement that started in north carolina to push back against that state's right-wing overreach has now spread to florida. and in florida, protesters today spoke out against republican lawmakers' refusal to expand medicaid, efforts to curb voting rights and florida's stand your ground law. following the tragic deaths of trayvon martin and jordan davis. but this session florida lawmakers are poised not to repeal stand your ground but expand it, or as they say, clarify. they're going about it in an interesting way. if you ask lawmakers why they're looking to expand the state's very controversial stand your ground law to include a so-called warning shot exemption, they say it has something to do with this woman, marissa alexander, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing what she says was a warning shot at her abusive husband. late last year a judge ordered a retrial saying the jury received the wrong instructions and this su

. >>> live pictures right now, tallahassee, florida, the official launch for the self defense campaign. black clergy and citizens are joining together to challenge what they say are judicial biases against people of color and the poor. among those attending today, the parents of trayvon martin and jordan davis, two black teenagers both killed in florida. jordan davis's mother will be tamron hall's guest coming up at 11:00 eastern here on msnbc. >>> senate democrats will be pulling an all nighter to bring attention to climate change. lawmakers planning an overnight talk-o-thon for the issue, headed by senators boxer and whitehouse. don't call it filibuster, however, there is no legislation up for debate. >>> coming up, sarah palin can still bring down the house. >> i do not like this spying, man. i do not like oh, yes, we can. >> oh, but can she help the republican party win a national election? and what new lessons can we learn about the future of the gop after cpac? >>> and after the break we'll talk to congressman greg meeks about the situation in ukraine and how the president is man

adviser to the florida democratic state democratic house party operation and joins me now from tallahasseesteve, great to see you. >> congratulations, i couldn't be prouder of you. >> thank you very much, appreciate, it man. let's talk about florida i14. lots of interesting things about this, not least of which is that alex sink was a former gubernatorial candidate and now trying to get into the house. tell us a little bit about the district that she's running in. >> well, it's a quintessential swing district. pinellas county used to be fairly republican. obama carried it twice and alex sink carried it, a district that could really go either way. alex in a lot of ways is the perfect candidate. it's a district that generally is sort of fiscally fairly conservative, socially fairly moderate, suburban district, a decent number of retirees and she fits sort of the right mode of a non-ideological pragmatic problem solver and if you look in pinellas county recently, democrats elected a mayor in st. petersburg which crosses over part of this district so a very similar kind of platform so i suspec

by just making a few calls, as he's done, by sending the signals that he clearly is tallahassee based on joe's reporting, he can get people who would support him to wait. as one person said, he's the one who doesn't have to sell himself. and he staffed up a little bit, too. more and more formal, visible signs of what jeb bush may be contemplating. >> he's certainly getting out and talking a will the a ing ine phone calls telling donors i'm thinking about it, basically asking them stay on the sidelines, let me think about it. jeb had a foundation for florida's future from '94 to '98 that ended up running his campaign in '98. he still has a foundation and they are still gearing up from everything i hear for a run in the future. so maybe it's not formal but certainly people around him think he's running. like mike said, he can wait. >> it doesn't take much for him to ramp up. >> good piece by alex burns and maggie haberman. >> appreciate it. >> coming up, "the dog" is if the building. chris russo with a preview of major league's opening day, whatever he wants to talk about. >> dogs and c

the rally begins in tallahassee. this law has gotten lots of attention.testors hope to accomplish? >> the main focus here in tallahassee that is protestors and those leading the group want to keep attention on the stand your ground allow, signed into law in 2005. attention on that law, giving citizens the legal right to stand their ground rather than retreat if they reasonably believe that making that decision will prevent death and bodily harm. this has come to the forefront because of the 2000 death of trayvon martin. his parents are expected to be here as well as the parents of jordan davis. the 17-year-old was shot and killed my michael dunn. dunn claims he fired in the teen at self defense. a jury convicted him only of attempted murder. incidentally, another participant in today's rally, family members of emmet till. you may recall that that 14-year-old was killed back i have not 1955, accused of whistling at a white woman, so a large gap in years here, but his death helped spark the civil rights movement, so an interesting mix of people who will be

. >> my name is john greenwich and we are here at the state library in tallahassee. today we are here to talk about some of the early florida constitutions. the first document i have here and it's very special that we have this here at the archives right now, it's on a loan from the florida historical society and cocoa. this is what is known as the patriot constitution of 1812. there is a lot of history behind this particular document. in 1812, a group of georgia settlers known it as the patriot army invaded northeastern florida and they were operating with the assistance of citizens who were living in spanish florida. at that time florida was still in colony of spain and there were independence movements that had originated in the late 18th century and early 19th century. ..

host: that's just a portion of our weekend look at tallahassee, florida part of c-span's global contentehicles as it travels around the country. you can check it out all weekend an book tv and that you saw airing at 11:00 on the west coast on c-span 3's american history tv and check it out at any time at c-span.org/local content. >> i think what happens to hoor as the depression deepens and remember people didn't know it was the great depression at on day one. they thought it was probably a typical cyclical event. but when that pattern did not hold and when the depression deepened hoover found himself facing increasing pressure from the left for greater expenditures and he started to hold the line against that and became very much a fiscal conservative and the gold standard republican in the last year or two of his life and that perceived ridge itty on his part is part of the reason he got attacked as supposedly not doing anything. he was quite the activist at the time including policies -- on the other hand he was valiantly struggling against a total status turn such as he saw coming i

. >> the location of tallahassee is fairly unique. it is not on a river, nor is it -- nor was it when it was built on the main highway or anything. it is right in the middle of almost nowhere. the biggest problem facing oflahassee is our lack armored sector businesses operating here. we don't have any large industries. industry in the traditional sense of the word. we have two large industries here, government, state government, and universities. our biggest problem is trying to diversify that economic base. love seasons have that one company or two companies that are really there and they go to the big companies. we don't have that. .e'll see and aetna we have a high magnetic lab, which is one of the world's largest magnetic labs. we have a great airport. to attract elements this. we are doing that. that was one of the first things that i focused on when i became mayor. it is attracting businesses to the city of tallahassee. we are getting there. >> c-span, 435 years bringing public affairs offense from washington directly to you. pu

. >> this weekend, we take a look at the history and literary life of tallahassee. saturday at noon eastern on c-span 2. the first meaning of a presidential panel created to help young people make better financial decisions. e on u.s.-afghan relations. we will re-air marco rubio's comments on economic growth. on the next washington journal, the aclu to discuss edward snowden's appearance in austin, tesxas. take your calls about the budget proposal for the next fiscal year. is live on journal" c-span every day at 7:00 eastern. a presidential panel created to help young people become better money managers and better equipped to make financial decisions met for the first time on monday at the treasury department. speakers included education duncan, white house adviser valerie garrett. this is two hours. >> it is great to have you here with us for the first meeting of the new advisory council on national capability. a warm welcome to the members of the council. we are grateful you have agreed to serve. the subject is a priority for the administration and we look forward

for "cbs this morning," mark strassmann tallahassee. >> it is time to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. politico says a bill to fight sexual assault in the military passed the senate unanimously with 97 votes. legislation by senator claire mccaskill prohibits the accused of using good military behavior as a defense. >>> all-nightmare thon talks on climate change. senators adjourned a short time ago, more than two dozen speakers called for action after talking for about 15 hours. there are no plans to bring a climate bill to the senate floor this year. >>> former terrorist bombmaker testified in the new york trial of osama bin laden's son-in-law monday. appearing by video from a secret location in england. prosecutors are trying to use his testimony against the son-in-law who is charged with conspireing to kill americans. >>> prosecutors are focusing on the business meetings of the port authority. the latest development in the scandal surrounding a traffic jam near the george washington bridge. >>> video appearance by edward snowden at south by southwest

. >> the history and literary life of florida state capitol tallahassee saturday at noon eastern on c-span2 and sunday at two. >> president obama met with irish prime minister today in the oval office discuss a variety of issues including immigration and ukraine. >> it is wonderful to have him back here in the oval office. this is one of my favorite times of year because i am able to a join with our friends from ireland to celebrate the incredible bond that exists between our two countries. think it is fair to say that there are very few countries around the world where the people are strong. we also share these family ties. i want to once again thank the people of ireland for the incredible hospitality. i started the meeting today congratulating on the economic progress that has been made over the last several years. obviously ireland was hit hard by the financial crisis. it required some very tough decisions. we have now seen ireland emerge from its assistance per gram in a much stronger position on the global stage in a global markets . the consequence, really well-positioned to start bu

. >> this week book tv looks at , e regulatory life of florida tallahassee. >> the veterans affairs secretary testified for the administration's budget request of $1674 billion. this is a little more than two hours. >> i would like to thank you for being here. thank you for tackling some enormous problems in this enormously difficult period facing our veterans. if there is anything i have learned in the year and three months i have been chairman of this committee is that the cost of war is much, much greater than i think most americans perceive. we are dealing now with hundreds of thousands of men and women who have come home from iraq and afghanistan, are dealing with traumatic brain injury and ppsd. and those are tough illnesses to deal with. the numbers are extraordinary. that's an issue we will focus on today. just the magnitude of that problem. hundreds of men and women -- thousands of men and women dealing with ppsd is a huge problem. we have seen 2,300 families, 2,300 individuals suffer wounds in war that make it impossible for them to have kids. how do we respond to that? we have seen

right now in tallahassee trayvon martin's parents as well as jordan davis another armed teenager who are uniting to march and rally against the law. also there nicole olson the widow shot and killed by a police captain at a movie theater. welcome, gentlemen. >> good morning, carol. >> first question, the florida legislature has no intentions of tweaking stand your ground and nra back bill expanding self-defense statute failed through a house committee. joey will this latest rally really make a difference? >> you know, carol, you would certainly hope so but to your point i think there's large public support in florida for your stand your ground law. in fact they did a poll that suggested 60% of floridians did, in fact, favor the law and only 34% that opposed it. in addition to that, carol, as you know, the governor appointed a task force a couple of years ago which came out with its recommendations last year as a 19 member task force where it was led by the lieutenant governor, herself an african-american woman a number of people on that task force, politician, members of the communit

booktv and american history tv look at the history and literary life of florida state capitol, tallahassee. >> the freedom of information act's only budsman testified at a senate judiciary committee about how the law should be updated and government information could be more accessible to the public. they argued against claims that government agencies are ignoring the requests for next. a second panel includes witnesses representing journalists and advocates for open government. this an hour and a half. >> i apologize for being late. once or twice a year the chief justice brings in the -- called the judicial conference with chief judges of all the circuits as well as some others, for a meeting, and a number of us come and briefly answer questions, and i was there if the attorney general others, and ran a little later. but i wanted to have this hearing, and i will stay here as long as i can, and then i think senator franken will take over the gavel, but we're going to talk about the freedom of information act, all of you refer to it as foia. and as we stream what we do here, i would hope th