Walker's Immigration Flip; Scott Walker On A Woman's Choice; Report: Hillary Is Ready
ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just hours from speaking to a pro-Israel lobby group before tomorrow's controversial address to Congress. Relations between the U.S. and Israel as strained as they have ever been as Netanyahu prepares to slam the Obama administration's nuclear talks with Iran just two weeks before Israelis head to the polls to decide whether Netanyahu should be re-elected.</s>CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: The LAPD is investigating the fatal shooting of a homeless man that was caught on video. This happened Sunday what you're watching right now. CNN has blurred the faces of the officers involved because we don't know who was involved this this shooting yet. Police say they tried to taser the man, but it did not work, and that he reached for an officer's gun and that's when police say they needed to fire three cops fired at him killing him. The police say they're going to review all video of the incident, including officers' body cams as part of their investigation. We'll stay on it.</s>MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: Got to show these images out of Florida, plane resting right on its nose after skidding 60 feet of the runway at Marco Island Airport. It is a private jet, took off at a nearby airport. During landing the reverse thrusters and landing gear failed. Of the nine people on board, one was taken to the hospital. Fortunately no serious injuries were reported. The FAA is now investigating. Hopefully I didn't take years off your life on that one.</s>CAMEROTA: No, I blame winter.</s>PEREIRA: Yes, absolutely.</s>CUOMO: And now you've said that this is why you sold the jet.</s>CAMEROTA: Occasionally this happens so I just got rid of the private jet.</s>PEREIRA: What was it about the luxury yacht, again?</s>CAMEROTA: I still have that one.</s>CUOMO: Too slow, had to walk too far to get down to the main deck where the jet skis were. Let's get inside politics on NEW DAY with John King. How are you, my friend? Happy Monday.</s>JOHN KING, CNN HOST, "INSIDE POLITICS": Monday morning, be a little bit more gentle to your colleagues.</s>CAMEROTA: Thank you, John.</s>KING: I want to ride on the yacht, though, Alisyn. Busy Monday morning to go "Inside Politics" so let's go there, with me this morning to share their reporting and their insights, Jonathan Martin of the "New York Times," and CNN's Peter Hamby. Let's go through a little Scott Walker then and now. Scott Walker, the Wisconsin governor is the ascendant candidate at the moment among the 2016 Republican hopefuls, placed second in the CPAC straw poll over the weekend, leads the polls in Iowa. I want you to listen. This is 2013, remember he's gearing up to run for reelection, what he thinks will be a very competitive reelection campaign in the state of Wisconsin. And he's asked about the undocumented, the estimated 11 million here in the United States and he's asked if they should be able to get a pass to legal status or citizenship.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can you envision a world where with the right penalties and waiting periods and meet the requirements where those people could get citizenship?</s>GOVERNOR SCOTT WALKER (R), WISCONSIN: Sure. Yes. I think it makes sense.</s>KING: Sure. I think it makes sense. That's October 2013 to the "Warsaw Daily Herald." Here he is on Fox News Sunday yesterday.</s>WALKER: My view has changed. I'm flat out saying it, candidates can say that, sometimes they don't --</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you've changed from 2013.</s>WALKER: Absolutely. I look at the problems we've experienced over the last few years. I've talked to governors on the border and others out there. I've talked to people all across America and the concerns I have is that we need to secure the border. We ultimately need to put this place a system that works.</s>KING: Now politicians should be allowed to change their position and to his credit he doesn't try to hide it. He says right there I've changed my mind. But in 2013, he was with George W. Bush and John McCain and Barack Obama in saying, sure, it makes sense, give people a path to some status. Now he has the Republican mantra of border security first.</s>PETER HAMBY, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER: It's a lot of Republicans were at that place in the beginning of 2013, obviously Marco Rubio led the Senate immigration bill, this was after they got clobbered losing Hispanic in the presidential election three to one. It's just one more example of Republicans bowing to the actual reality of Republican politics, which is that you really -- it's very difficult to be for path way to citizenship in the Republican primary. Jeb bush got booed for saying so at CPAC. But you are so right, we were talking during the break, if it was John McCain or Mitt Romney or sort of a perceived establishment figure, they would be getting drilled by this, but Walker has goodwill and credit with the Republican base. It seems like this is something he knows he might get a pass on.</s>JONATHAN MARTIN, "THE NEW YORK TIMES": But for now, though, he's going to have the scarlet A for amnesty branded on him and he's going to have it brand on him by folks to his right, Ted Cruz comes to mind in Iowa and he's also going to be held to account by folks like Jeb Bush, who are going to say you were where I was a couple of years ago until it was convenient for you politically to change. So he's going to get it from both sides on this. So let's see what kind of reception he gets after a bunch of direct mail and TV spots have rained down on his head over this.</s>KING: And when people starting to go onto other issues because that's again go back to that campaign. This is back in the campaign, again, it didn't turn out to be as close as he thought, but he was running against a Democratic candidate. Everyone thought it would be a 50/50 race. Scott Walker ended up winning a bit comfortably, but listen to him here, listen to his tone on what's he's talking about -- Scott Walker says he's personally anti-abortion but --</s>WALKER: I support legislation to increase safety and to provide more information for a woman considering her options. The bill leaves the final decision to a woman and her doctor. Reasonable people can disagree on this issue.</s>KING: The bill leaves the final decision to a woman and her doctor. Reasonable people can disagree on this issue. Again, in the interview on Fox News Sunday yesterday he says when he is from a policy standpoint what you might describe as pro-choice he says he's doing it only because the courts require him to.</s>WALKER: We acted on the grounds that we have legally to be able to act under the Supreme Court's decision. We'll act that way at the federal level if we were at a position as well, but ultimately it's a life.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But ultimately it's her choice.</s>WALKER: Legally that's what it is under the guidelines provided from the Supreme Court.</s>KING: Is it me or does it sounds like during the reelection campaign his tone is a lot softer?</s>HAMBY: I remember during that -- that when that ad ran it was within the last couple weeks when he was running against Democrat Mary Burke he thought the race would be closer. I was told at that time that Walker was, you know, Burke was in his head. He thought this race was going to be very really close. He was sort of micromanage the campaign even writing his own ad scripts. This was him. That campaign spot was him sort of being a little afraid, cautious, taking that softer tone. Again, now that he wins back to Republican politics.</s>KING: He is trying to say in this campaign I fight with the unions, I stand with you. I'm the next Ronald Reagan. If he has a few of these position shifts might he not be the next Ronald Reagan? Might he be to the base the next Mitt Romney?</s>MARTIN: I would not go that far, John. There's no question that he's going to have some fodder out there that is going to be available to his opponents to challenge him. The question to me that you raised earlier is how much goodwill does this guy have? There comes to a certain point where because of his credentials on those fights against labor that the base is kind of tunes out some of this stuff. They don't want to hear it.</s>KING: They give him the grace.</s>MARTIN: Yes. He's not John McCain. He's not Bush. He's one of us and so he does get some of that grace. The real question looming here is how many of these they'll compile up before some questions do begin to loom.</s>KING: You can be sure it's not just the Democrats now that he is rising in the polls. All of the Republicans if they haven't already done this research they're working on it as we speak.</s>MARTIN: Literally right now.</s>KING: Let's shift to the Democrats. The "Wall Street Journal" has a story that says the Hillary Clinton campaign is telling donors to look for a roll out sometime in April. She's running, we've just been waiting for the official word. There's been a lot of debate. Let's look at her calendar. She's busy in the month of March, speech this week, foundation event for the Clinton Foundation, U.N. empowerment principals, Irish-American hall of fame, always a big event, the American Camp Association Conference. I know, Peter Hamby, you're on the board I think of the American Camp Association. So she is busy giving some speeches. The question has been when does she say I'm a candidate for president? There has been in the donor community the people say we need the signal so we can get out and raise all this money. Do we believe this it's going to be April as opposed to whatever?</s>HAMBY: I mean, if you talk to people around Clinton and there are not just layers of them there are generations of them, they have long been sort of hinting April at least for the last few months. There are people who want her to delay because they don't want her to take the slings and arrows of being an official candidate, but she does have to start raising money, official capacity and also signal to outside groups who need to, you know, get to their donors that they need to start raising money. What this story was to me also was a symptom of what I was just saying of a greater malady, which is that, you know, this is donors or advisors or whoever getting, you know, too far over their skis, you know, no matter how many, you know --</s>KING: They feel the need to say something and there's not a campaign out there telling them what to say.</s>MARTIN: Exactly.</s>HAMBY: Totally. It's wonderful. No matter how many, you know, disciplined advisors they bring in, you know, Robee Mook will be their campaign manager. Great guy, very discipline, like a real professional, but they're still going to have to deal with donors with loose lips and advisors and friends of the candidate.</s>MARTIN: She'll say something in April, the question is, is it going to be a full blown campaign announcement or is it going to be a nod to that in April? By the way --</s>HAMBY: How would she only do a nod like she's been exploring for a long time.</s>MARTIN: By the way, the viewers should know April isn't some random nice spring month, April also is the first month of the second quarter so she can get the maximum period of fundraising ability.</s>KING: You have that three-month period. When you file in three months it looks like a boom. I don't know she worries about. I don't know why anybody worries about that, but it is one of the old rules of politics. You time your things to be in touch with the campaign finance. Peter, Jonathan, thanks on a Monday morning. Alisyn, as we get back to you, one of the other stories we'll keep our eye on all this week is they have to get back into the Department of Homeland Security funding fight. They extended it for one week. And one of the big questions is, are people going to go after Speaker John Boehner? There's also grumbling about Mitch McConnell. We'll keep an eye on all of that one, one week ahead.</s>CAMEROTA: I think they're JUST trying torture you personally by extending it one week at a time. To keep you on --</s>KING: Reporting is fun, it's not torture.</s>CAMEROTA: That's great. Thanks, John King. Great to see you. Well, the city of Cleveland is triggering outrage with its response to a lawsuit by the family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was fatally shot by a Cleveland police officer. Why they say the boy is to blame for his own death.