As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. But sometimes it can leave an impression that's impossible to articulate. And that’s what the picture above did for me.

We're so excited to have the subjects of that unforgettable photo — the Philadelphia family — on tonight's show.

According to his dad, Jacob has had a thing for Obama's hair ever since he became president. Every time Jacob would go to the barber he would ask for his hair to be cut just like the president's. So when at the age of five he had the opportunity to meet and ask Obama a question, his parents weren’t all that surprised when he said, "I want to know if my hair is just like yours."

Peter Souza - White House

Instead of simply explaining that yes, they're similar, the president bent over and let Jacob feel it for himself.

Hair is a complex and intimate topic within the black community. It’s yet another physical feature that makes us "other." Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart wrote an excellent piece about it:

“Thanks to the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, we African Americans are sensitive about our heads and our hair. A pat on the head, especially from someone white, would be patronizing at best. “Don’t let anybody touch your head,” my mother told me when we moved from Newark to a predominantly white town in New Jersey. I would learn at school that some would rub the head of someone black for good luck. And there were all sorts of put-downs for black hair — from Brillo to something not appropriate to mention in a family forum such as this. Thus, having your head touched is a rather intimate gesture that only family could get away with.”

Sometimes it’s still surreal for me to see the first daughters rocking some twists or cornrows. It gives me this odd sense of pride, knowing little black girls can look to Sasha and Malia just as I look to the first lady. Just as Jacob looked to the president.

It’s that familial connection that speaks to me in this photo. Capehart summed it up perfectly:

“Obama gets a bum rap for not talking more openly about race. What his critics don’t get — and what the Souza photo perfectly illustrates — is that the president addresses so much about race without ever opening his mouth.”

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George Zimmerman arriving at the John E. Polk Correctional Facility Sunday after his bond was revoked by a Florida judge in Sanford, Florida.

Yet another twist in the case of the killing of Trayvon Martin. George Zimmerman's defense team is now preparing for a new bond hearing, after Zimmerman turned himself in for a second time on Sunday. A judge ordered Zimmerman back to jail on Friday for misleading the court during his initial bond hearing.

Neither Zimmerman nor his wife mentioned at the original hearing that he had collected more than $200,000 in donations through a PayPal account on his personal website.

On the George Zimmerman Legal case website, his lawyer writes: 

“The audio recordings of Mr. Zimmerman's phone conversations while in jail make it clear that Mr. Zimmerman knew a significant sum had been raised by his original fundraising website. We feel the failure to disclose these funds was caused by fear, mistrust, and confusion. The gravity of this mistake has been distinctly illustrated, and Mr. Zimmerman understands that this mistake has undermined his credibility, which he will have to work to repair.”

Zimmerman also did not disclose that he had a second valid passport. He turned in only one at his bond hearing in April.

Zimmerman is pleading not guilty to second-degree murder charges for killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in February. His case has put a spotlight on Florida's controversial Stand Your Ground law, which allows the use of deadly force if a person feels his or her life is threatened or at risk for severe, bodily harm.

A new analysis by the Tampa Bay Times finds race plays a "complex role" in Florida’s self-defense law. According to its examination of close to 200 Stand Your Ground cases in Florida, "people who killed a black person walked free 73 percent of the time, while those who killed a white person went free 59 percent of the time." But the newspaper is careful not to draw any conclusions from this data, stating that the analysis does not "prove that race caused the disparity in cases with black and white victims. Other factors may be at play."

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The fight for women voters is on! And the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found President Obama leading Mitt Romney among women by 15 points — 53 to 38 percent. In 2008, women voters helped Obama seal the deal and win the presidency with 56 percent voting for the Obama-Biden ticket compared to just 43 percent for McCain-Palin.

While House Republican women try to win over women voters with their new Women’s Policy Committee, the Obama team is pointing to Republicans' record on issues like domestic violence, reproductive health, and pay equity. Just today, Vice President Joe Biden hammered Mitt Romney's stance on women's issues, saying that his policies will take us back to the 1950s:

I haven't even touched on Romney's social policy either. One that says a woman should no longer get to make her own decisions about her own body and her health, one that says it's OK for insurance agencies to charge women more for health insurance than men, to count pregnancy as preexisting condition. I know this sounds like fiction.

As the original creator of the Violence Against Women Act, Biden also took issue with the House Republicans' new version of the bill that would leave out protections for immigrants, LGBT, and Native American women:

The Violence Against Women Act has become part of our popular culture. Businesses, everybody has embraced the notion that a woman has a right to be free of violence an intimidation on the street and in her own home, wherever it is. And these guys in the House just voted down our version, the continuation of the existing Violence Against Women Act. And they cut out big chunks. Folks, this is not your father's Republican party.

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Betty White (file)

America's golden girl Betty White endorsed President Obama on Friday. The 90-year-old actress says she usually stays mum on politics as to not offend any fans. But she admitted to the Associated Press that she "very, very much favors" Obama and likes "how he represents us."

Known for her animal rights advocacy, it turns out she's also an advocate for marriage equality. In 2010, she told Parade magazine:

"I don't care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that time - and there are gay relationships that are more solid than some heterosexual ones - I think it's fine if they want to get married. I don't know how people can get so anti-something. Mind your own business, take care of your affairs, and don't worry about other people so much."

White's impressive career spans over seven decades, including her role as Rose Nylund on the 1980s sitcom, "The Golden Girls." Below is a clip from that award-winning, groundbreaking show where the characters tackle the issue of marriage equality. 

Even in New Dehli, India, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton couldn't avoid questions about whether she'll run for president again. During the town hall meeting today, Clinton said she's hopeful that she will see a woman president in her lifetime, but she insists it won't be her.

I think that there will be an election that will elect a woman, but I think our political system is about the most difficult to navigate for men and women, but particularly for women. So we're going to keep trying to encourage that final glass ceiling to be broken.

When pressed about whether she'll be the one to break the highest glass ceiling in 2016, she said:

I'm very flattered, but I feel like it's time for me to kind of step off the high wire. I've been involved at the highest levels of American politics for 20 years now.

Just because she's adamant about taking a break from politics doesn’t mean everyone else has to stop dreaming.  

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have both rooted for Clinton to run in 2016. The tumblr "Texts from Hillary" gave us a glimpse of what she'd look like as commander in chief. And even her husband, former President Bill Clinton, says he doesn’t know what she will finally decide to do, but says he will support her either way.   

Now you can “follow” and “like” George Zimmerman on Twitter and Facebook.  Want to donate to his legal fund? You'll soon be able to do that on one of two new websites.  Zimmerman’s defense team launched the social media campaign to keep people updated on the case. While they admit it’s an “unusual” step for a high-profile, criminal case, his lawyers say they want it to serve as a way to keep fact from rumor and create a public forum for discussion.

On the website, George Zimmerman Legal Case, the defense team writes, “We do understand and acknowledge the criticism that this is an opportunistic move using the event of a tragedy for personal or firm gain. Rest assured, that if the controversy surrounding this matter subsided tomorrow, so would our efforts to address the perceived problems the way we feel is necessary.” 

George Zimmerman is facing second-degree murder charges for killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in February. Zimmerman's former, personal website was taken down last week. He had raised more than $200,000 in donations through that site — although none of that money had been disclosed during Zimmerman's bond hearing.  

At his bail hearing today, a shackled George Zimmerman wearing a jacket and tie took the stand and apologized to Trayvon Martin’s family. 

"I wanted to say, I am sorry for the loss of your son. I did not know how old he was. I thought he was a little bit younger than I am. And I did not know if he was armed or not," said Zimmerman, addressing Trayvon Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, and father, Tracy Martin, who attended the hearing. 

Judge Kenneth Lester set his bail at $150,000 and ordered Zimmerman to wear a GPS tracking device. He will be released from prison within in the next few days.

Before the bond was set, defense attorney Mark O'Mara dissected the prosecution's affidavit paragraph by paragraph, questioning one of the State Attorney's investigators about the details of what happened the night Trayvon Martin was killed. The sentence that received the most attention from O'Mara was "Zimmerman confronted Martin."

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The parents of Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton, and Tracy Martin, in the courtroom during a bond hearing for George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida on Friday.

O'Mara asked investigator Dale Gilbreath why the State Attorney's office chose the word "confronted." O'Mara said, "I want to now know your evidence to support the word "confronted" if you have any.”

Gilbreath acknowledged that another word could have been used, and O'Mara asked him to come up with "less antagonistic" words.

"Met, came up to, spoke with," said O'Mara. Gilbreath added his own words, "Got in a physical confrontation with."

At the beginning of the hearing, Zimmerman's wife and parents testified by phone on behalf of Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder for killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

Queen bee of reality TV, Kim Kardashian, says she wants to run for mayor of Glendale, California. That's right America, Kim Kardashian may make her mark on politics. In an un-aired clip on her sister's show, Khole and Lamar, Kim explains her five-year plan to buy a house in Glendale — or as she dubs it "Armeniantown" — to establish residency and then run for office.

According to E! News, at least two Glendale politicians have said they would support her run. But being mayor is a serious commitment. The term would last one year. Or in reality show terms, 293 more days than her marriage to basketball player, Kris Humphries.

Trayvon Martin (File/The Martin Family); George Zimmerman (File/Orange County Jail via Miami Herald)

It's been 40 days since George Zimmerman shot and killed an unarmed, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. On Tuesday, a grand jury will begin meeting to decide whether Zimmerman should be indicted and face a trial.

This week, Zimmerman bolstered his defense team by adding a new attorney: Hal Uhrig, a veteran criminal defense lawyer. If you're from the Orlando-area, you may recognize Uhrig. He worked as an analyst for a local news station during the Casey Anthony trial. A former Gainesville, Florida police officer and former Florida assistant attorney, his breadth of experience contrasts that of his co-counsel, Craig Sonner, who has never represented a client facing a homicide charge. Sonner will forever live in Last Word infamy after skipping out on our interview, leaving Lawrence O’Donnell to question an empty chair.  

This week, Zimmerman’s new defense team made the media rounds to explain what George Zimmerman says happened the night of February 26. This morning, they appeared on CBS' This Morning, where both Uhrig and Sonner maintained that their client acted in self-defense, citing Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, which allows a person to use deadly force if he/she feels in danger of great physical harm or fears for his/her life. 

Then Uhrig said this: "We're familiar with the shaken baby syndrome: you shake a baby. The brain shakes around inside the skull. You can die."

Shaken baby syndrome is a serious form of child abuse that according to the National Institutes of Health usually affects infants and children up to age five. 

Uhrig went on to say, "When someone’s pounding your head into the ground, and you've already had your nose broken, you can be in reasonable fear for great bodily harm, which is what the Florida statute calls for. And if you think you’re about to lose your life or to be seriously injured like that, you’re absolutely entitled to take the necessary action to stop it."

Host Charlie Rose followed up by asking, "Are you saying that's what Mr. Zimmerman said — he thought he was in fear of losing his life and so he shot Trayvon Martin?"

Uhrig responded, "I can confirm that without telling you any specific words, that’s exactly what he thought."

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (file)

There is a plethora of legislation out there right now that would make it more difficult for women to get abortions, or even a prescription for birth control. So many, in fact, that we didn't get the chance to talk about all of them on last night's show. 

The New Hampshire House of Representatives, this week, passed an abortion bill that would require a 24-hour waiting period before a woman gets an abortion. It would also require doctors to warn patients that having an abortion puts them at an increased risk for breast cancer. But the truth is there is no connection between having an abortion and breast cancer. The American Cancer Society says, "At this time, the scientific evidence does not support the notion that abortion of any kind raises the risk of breast cancer or any other type of cancer."

Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, lawmakers are working on the Women’s Right to Know Act that would require a woman who wants an abortion to have an ultrasound 24-hours before the procedure. But it doesn't stop there. The doctor would have to ensure that the woman can see the screen, describe the fetal heartbeat, and approximate the fetus' gestational age. The woman would then leave with two copies of the ultrasound. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, who supports the bill, was asked during a press conference on Wednesday whether forcing the woman to watch the ultrasound went too far. His response: "You just have to close your eyes."

The Pennsylvania bill doesn’t specify the kind of ultrasound the doctor would have to use, so it is possible that in some cases a woman would have to undergo a trans-vaginal ultrasound — a procedure that even Virginia's Republican Governor Bob McDonnell called "invasive" and had nixed from his state's ultrasound bill.

According to a new Quinnipiac poll, the majority of Pennsylvania voters — 64 percent — oppose trans-vaginal ultrasounds. While 47 percent oppose ultrasound legislation in general, surprisingly, more men than women are against it. And 51 percent of men oppose it, while women are split 45-45.  

In case you missed it, check out last night's segment about women fighting back where we interviewed Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen on the Violence Against Women Act and Ohio state senator, Nina Turner, who came up with a creative way to combat legislation in her state.