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Pres. Obama: ‘If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon Martin’

President Obama made his first public comments on Friday regarding 17-year-old Trayvon Martin’s death, subtly bringing race to the forefront of the conversation in saying, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon Martin.” The NOW panelists - including The Hill’s Karen Finney, The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza, U.S. Army veteran Wes Moore, and former U.S. Attorney Kendall Coffey - discuss Martin’s case and the race factors in Obama’s comments.