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into romney's leads in south carolina. time to play in all political roulette here. cnn politics style. we'll begin with jim an costas following team romney this charleston, south carolina. jim, it looks like iowa is out of now romney's you know, win column. the newly certified tally shows santorum actually won the caucuses by 34 votes. what's romney saying? >> that's right. that's a good question, brooke. we're not really sure right now, to be quite honest with you. our paul steinhauser told me a few moments ago that he got a call or that he called hogan gidly with the santorum campaign and the santorum campaign says mitt romney called rick santorum to concede the iowa caucuses. now, candy crowley has said she has heard from the romney campaign and they're saying no, we did not call rick santorum to concede the iowa caucuses. so i guess we just have to let the viewers decide. basically here's what happened. earlier this morning, an e-mail came out from the romney campaign that -- and it was a statement from mitt romney calling what happened in iowa "a virtual tie." a few hours later, the and tore rum campaign puts out a press release saying santorum wins iowa. we tried to press mitt romney on all of in this morning at this event outside of his office here in charleston. he had no comment on what happened out in the iowa caucuses. we did briefly catch up with him and talk to him about rick perry's dropping out of the race. i don't know if we have that sound ready. we'd like to play it. >> we do, jim. >> he only had some brief comments about rick perry. here's what he had to say. >> governor perry, terrific guy, terrific conservative. been a great governor. was great in the race. we're going to miss him on the stage tonight. >> how about this, final results in iowa? is it fair to call it a tie when santorum came out on top? it's been a big news day. can you give us a couple comments, sir. >> i've got to get through. >> so brooke, i don't know if you caught that. we were trying to. >> you tried. >> talk to mitt romney about the fact you're calling it a tie. but yet, you know, when you won, when it was said that you won the iowa caucuses by eight votes, he was out in new hampshire calling it a squeaker. john mccain was calling it a landslide sort of jokingly. so they were fully prepared to call that will a victory after they won by eight votes. now that rick santorum is ahead by 34 votes, it's all very confusing. i have to be honest with you. we don't have a straight answer on this one. >> so there's confusion over a concession. let's just take that out of this whole issue, right? we know matter of factually that the rick santorum did win the i an caucuses. tell me how that directly affects saturday in south carolina and the primary where you are. >> reporter: you know, what it does, i mean it doesn't really affect things a great deal in terms of delegate counts and that sort of thing. it sort of chips away at this air of inevitability that the romney campaign so carefully tries to craft out here on the campaign trail. their big argument is he is electable, right. so the before they were saying look, he's 2 for 2, he won iowa and new hampshire, no candidate has done that since gerald ford, no nonincumbent has ever done it ever. now that equation changes a little bit. and you go into south carolina. keep in mind he had a bunch of missteps up in new hampshire. remember pink slips talking about i like to be able to fire people even though that was sort of taken out of context. those were considered gaffes. he could afford to do that in new hampshire. now he's having a difficult week here in south carolina. but the margin of error is razor thin, brooke. he is only up by seven points in a politico poll behind by a point in an arg poll. going into tonight, all of the pressure is on mitt romney at tonight's debate. >> jim, i can't wait for tonight. it's going to be fascinating with the four guys on the is taken. thank you. let's continue the conversation. we go to des moines iowa. rick santorum claiming that caucus victory, those 34 votes. now more than two weeks after the fact. i just asked jim, shan, same question to you with regard to the signatures of this win and also just the reaction. what are you hearing from the santorum campaign? >> reporter: well, let me start with the second question first. the reaction. jim just mentioned he tried to press the governor, governor romney how can you call it a tie. i asked that same question to the chairman of the iowa republican party, the headquarters is right behind me. and he says unequivocally this is not a tie. this is a clear win for rick santorum without any doubt. now, let's just talk a little bit about how we got to this point. unofficial result on caucus night, right, brooke? because all of the different precinct chairs across iowa were calling in their results. they had two weeks to submit a form, a form that was the official document that said what we phoned in on caucus night is what our official numbers are. eight precincts didn't do that for whatever reason. the chairman strawn said they either lost the paper or just didn't send it in for whatever reason. i have called around and identified -- i've identified all eight precincts and identified results unofficial results from four of them. and the numbers change a little bit. now, again, these are unofficial. these don't go with the certified totals because this is form, they won't put it on form but i spoke with a man named don lucas, county chairman that will contains where all these four precincts lie and the numbers that i got change a little bit and say that rick santorum still would have won by 59. again, i can't stress enough that these are not certified numbers but it's important because us as don lucas told me, brooke, every vote matters. he's a little bit upset with the iowa republican party that these numbers weren't included just because they were on a form. wanted to mention one last thing. don lucas does not support, does not endorse anyone. he's telling me these are the numbers that he phoned in, but didn't get them on the form, brooking. >> every vote counts. we're all going to keep that in mind as we watch the votes come in this saturday in south carolina. shannon travis, the man in iowa for seven months. you got sucked back in on a 9 degree day. i just checked the weather because you look chilly. >> 5 degrees, brooke, 5g degrees. >> chilly. thank you. next let's go to joe johns who is in beautiful charleston, south carolina with more on the surging newt gingrich numbers. we have the new number. let me just share them. the new poll numbers show him cutting into mitt romney's lead in south carolina. have you romney down four points from the first week of the month, gingrich up five points. he has cut romney's lead nearly in half. i imagine gingrich feeling a little better today. >> reporter: yeah, feeling pretty happy. you would think. i mean, a good day for him when you consider the fact, brooke, that rick perry got out of the race. he there he his support behind newt gingrich. what's not to like about a day like this. frankly the gingrich campaign is kind of in damage control right now. that's because marianne gingrich gave an interview to abc news and in that interview said among other things that newt gingrich wanted some type of an open relationship between himself, marianne and ca lis tas business sick who later became callista gingrich, the current wife of newt gingrich. that's kind of, if you will a mess. they're in damage control. two of the adult daughters of newt gingrich actually put out a statement talking about the fact that any divorce is a tragedy, a personal tragedy in other words. the implication beinging that abc ought to leave it alone though they never actually said that. so at a media availability down in beaufort, south carolina, i asked newt gingrich about these new revelations and listen to his response. >> look, i'm not going to say anything about marianne. my two daughters have already written to abc complaining about this as tawdry and inappropriate. both of my daughters are prepared to speak on the record with any of you who would like to talk to them. several other people who knew the situation are prepared to speak on the record. i'm not getting involved. >> reporter: so the question, of course, is how is all of this going to play out in the election and we'll probably know that on saturday. brooke? back to you. >> we will see saturday night. before saturday we've got huge, huge news. tonight, right? the gop contenders facing off for what could be the final debate. join john king and wolf blitzer for the southern republican presidential debate right here on cnn tonight 8:00 eastern only on cnn. we'll have more on our special political coverage ahead, including what impact rick perry's endorsement will have on this race, plus the u.s. navy making a big move near iran as tensions heat up. also, first ahead, then hands. now more body parts found near the hollywood sign in los angeles. investigators are revealing a theory now in this miss have i. and then the one and only dolly parton. joining me live this hour with a huge announcement. by the way, it's her birthday today. let's wish her a happy birthday. stay right here. east, there's so much to choose from. 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how long has he been did, that kind of thing? >> well, what they've said so far is that they think that this murder happened fairly recently. based on the condition of the body parts. somebody was killed and then brought to that area and perhaps buried. some of the parts were buried. now, how they were scattered around the small area. but still, how that happened and then obviously, the most kind of dramatic and macaque part of it with this human head found by these dog walkers, obviously, makes this a pretty compelling story. >> let's listen to what now the l.a.p.d. has said about the search and then i've got a question for you. >> we're thinking the torso would be awfully difficult for someone to carry up a hill like this. maybe from the top, but we also have people up above us on the hills coming down from the top. so if there's a chance that it's up there, hopefully we'll find. who knows what we're going to find up there. we'll send our crews through here and told them to look for anything that might be a clue to this case. >> so andrew, we know that the head was found in a bag as he mentioned, no torso. how were the hands and feet found? >> well, the feet were found in a shallow grave according to my law enforcement sources. and then the hands were nearby. and one of the things that they're trying to figure out, obviously, in addition to looking at this crime scene is some of the other elements of this, which is were there any people that saw anything on either hiking and this is kind of the heavily traveled area, certainly during the day. and in the neighborhood. does anybody remember anybody driving through quickly or getting out of there. then there's the whole thing about was there somebody who had a loved one who was missing and then calls in. so there's a lot of things that are happening behind the scenes. you know, besides some of the things that are going out obviously during the search out in the hills. >> when i think of, though, a severed head, i think of gang violence, cartel violence. we hear of heads being found on the texas border, arizona maybe. but near the hollywood sign? can you try to explain that? >> well, yeah. it's a place that you really wouldn't think that would be kind of a likely burial ground for this. i mean it certainly conjures up a lot of images. obviously, this it is hollywood. so people have a pretty broad imagination. one thing that police have said is that they think the reason why the parts were buried or somebody tried to bury them was to get rid of any identifying factors. you know, one of the things that the coroner's office now is looking at is going to be the dental records and the fingerprints. >> prints. >> you run dmv records or look at a criminal past. so even though yeah, it definitely kind of strikes you as incredibly ma coabre, there are these elements, was it a hit, something else, time will tell. >> i know a final question questioning a lot of people. when is this about brad pitt's bodyguard being questioned? why? >> you know, i have not heard that. and the question, i mean, if somebody -- if he was and again, they've questioned a lot of people in the neighborhood in the area. so it's hard to say exactly why. but you know, one of the first things they did day one was canvass the entire neighborhood as well as anybody who had been you know, hiking in the area. so, whether it was him or many other people, i'm sure you know, they had detectives all over the place the past few days trying to get something, anything, that will help them solve this case. >> andrew blank steen from the l.a. times, thank you so much. very macabre story. rick perry out of the gop race. he quickly threw his support behind newt gingrich this morning. so in a state gingrich must do well in, what impact does perry's endorsement have in south carolina? 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you know what, a day, two days before the primary? >> reporter: yeah, it's an interesting question. i asked the campaign about in this morning. they said they were going to go all-in in south carolina and then halfway through or you know as the primary is approaching they leave. frankly they wanted to avoid an embarrassment to finish in last place. that's what polls showed after huntsman left the race that perry was going to be the caboose in the republican field here. he went out with a flourish endorsing newt gingrich. he does not have a warm relationship with governor romney. he does have a good relationship, brooke, with speaker gingrich. so you know, will this have an impact here in south carolina? i actually think it might. a lot of voters do like governor perry didn't think he was electable in the end. but this is a tightening race, and anything around the margins helps. this is much more helpful to speaker gingrich than huntsman's endorsement was for governor romney, brooke. he was at least worth five or six points in the polls, popular with some evangelicals. that could help newt gingrich in the end. this is looking like a dogfight between newt gingrich and mitt romney as we head into tonight's esdebate here in charleston. >> you bring up gingrich and romney. at least we know perry and gingrich have one thing in common. they very much hammered mitt romney questioning layoffs at bain capital. i remember your reporting about rick perry calling him a venture -- a vulture capitalist, right? is that the mark rick perry made on his campaign? >> it's one of them. i mean, rick perry had a major impact on this campaign in several ways. first was by getting in the race in august. he flattened michele bachmann in iowa. he's the first real threat to governor romney in this race because had he such deep pockets. he had an executive profile and he frankly had conservative credentials romney did not. it made them react to a challenger in a way they hadn't before. from the debate the other night, rick perry was the guy who got mitt romney on his heels about his tax returns. that spiraled into a very, very big story and finally again, his final impact right here on the race could be these votes around the margins, do they help rick santorum, do they help newt gingrich in the final reckoning. ultimately, the biggest impact is on rick perry himself because he really hurt himself nationally in this race through his debate performances. and that oops moment will frankly go down as one of the most embarrassing moments in american political history to be quite honest. so if he does want to run for president again, which i can tell you they will not rule out in 2016 or 2020, he's got to kind of burnish that brand a little bit over the next few years, brooke. but he's got a lot of work to do on that front. >> and then there were four. this debate tonight in a couple hours, it is goi to be huge. peter hamby in south carolina, thank you. by the way, the debate tonight 8:00 eastern. now to this. young woman extremely smart. beautiful. she was a scientist at a cancer facility. she had the whole world in front of her. up next, this young woman was who the to death and her family is pleading for your help. plus a video has surfaced online that shows the vicious beating of a taken boy in chicago. coming up, we're going to show you the video and we're going to talk to you about the posting of these types of vicious videos online. murder mystery in houston. the victim young, beautiful, very, very smart. a molecular scientist studying at the m.d. anderson cancer center was shot to death sunday night as driving home while talking to her ex-boyfriend on her cell phone. her family pleading for help to find her killer. >> i'm just begging any person that shows anything about who might have done it or what are these people because my family is devastated. and what i can say is very hard and i can't see my parents and i don't want to see any parents be in this situation and we need to get these people off the street. >> sunny hostin is on the case. sunny, do police have any idea why someone would want to kill this young woman? >> well, it doesn't appear that way, brooke. it truly is a murder mystery as you mentioned before. so much so that the family has gone public and is asking the public to help with any potential leads. they have followed certain rumors. it was rumored she was sort of a champion of women's rights and had spoken out against the iranian government and so police thought perhaps that this killing had singh to do with those activities. but her family is saying she was apolitical and that that is incorrect. the police also learned of an assault that she reported in 2010 against someone that she referred to as her best friend and that he allegedly had forced her to kiss him, kiss her against her will. well, he was never charged with that. and so that sort of takes that lead away. and then finally, they found her cell phone and her purse in the car. and so many are saying, well that excludes a robbery attempt. so far this really truly is a murder mystery. >> what about the ex-boyfriend? has he been ruled out? >> well, i don't think anyone has been ruled out at this point. interestingly enough, she was talking to him on the phone when this occurred. but police are saying that they've interviewed him. they have -- they don't find him to be suspicious, but i think at this point, brooke, they are still going to continue to follow any and all leads. >> the as you mentioned, she was on the phone with the ex-while driving. could this be a simple case of road rage? >> yet another theory, right? we sort of thought that was the theory when the hollywood publicist had been shot down and gunned down several months ago. but there is no evidence to support that are theory either. and so this family is really asking the public, anyone that is viewing this segment today here on cnn to please reach out to houston police and help them out. >> second case, we're going to show this video. it's certainly been making the rounds online. take a look. 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[ bleep ] [ bleep ]. it's horrific to look at. we should point out the boy being attacked in the red pants is 17 years of age. police say he was lured into this alley by a 15-year-old girl. half a dozen surrounding him beat him up, robbed him of his shoes, his wallet. seven teenagers, seven have now been arrested. and what are the charges they're facing? they're pretty serious. >> it defies logic, doesn't it? it's remarkable. one teen was charged as an adult. i want to mention that teen happens to be the son of a cook county sheriff's deputy who clearly should have known better. rest, the 15-year-old girl, two 16-year-old boys, 315-year-old boys are all cited in juvenile delinquency petitions. they all face a count of robbery and aggravated battery including the teen who recorded the video. people need to know if you're part of this conspiracy, even the videographer gets charged. >> rahm emanuel, chicago mayor, he's commenting. take a listen. >> to all of us should be a wake-up call about a value system which is those kids doing that to another child is wrong. it is not tolerable. >> it is so wrong, but sunny, you're a mom. kids have phones, right? you know, a lot of these people are making these videos, posting them on the internet. what does this indicate to you? has the value system gone awry? kids crying for help? why are kids doing this these days more and more? >> it's a nationwide epidemic. i think children and adults are sort of leading their lives on the internet exposing themselves for everyone to see. and there's this trend i think where teens are bragging online. they're sort of this bravado going on that goes along not only with criminal behavior but young people, right? i think it's a convergence of so many cultural dynamics that it's sort of what's happening now in our society. and it's so -- as i mentioned earlier, it defies logic that someone would chit a crime and then videotape themselves on youtube for everyone to see, including police investigators because this becomes then the prime piece of evidence in the case against them. and so it's shocking but i also want to mention it's just not specific to chicago. we're seeing it all over the nation. i spoke to some law enforcement friends of mine today, and they said they look at youtube when they're investigating each and every crime because more and more, they're finding evidence of crime on youtube. >> i'm glad you point out not only those guys we see throwing the jabs but the videographer facing charges, as well. that's a wake-up call. sunny hostin on the case. >> important to know. and coming up next, one of my dreams come true. actually the dreams of many people on my staff. look at her, dolly parton, the country music legend, the movie star, the multimillion dollar businesswoman and dolly parton, happy birthday. happy birthday. she's making a huge announcement today on the other side of the break. so, this is delicious okay... is this where we're at now, we just eat whatever tastes good? like these sweet honey clusters... actually there's a half a day's worth of fiber in every ... why stop at cereal? bring on the pork chops and the hot fudge. fantastic. are you done sweetie? yea [ male announcer ] fiber beyond recognition. fiber one. hey, i love your cereal there-- it's got that sweet honey taste. but no way it's 80 calories, right? no way. lady, i just drive the truck. right, there's no way right, right? have a nice day. [ male announcer ] 80 delicious calories. fiber one. ♪ what started as a whisper every day, millions of people choose to do the right thing. there's an insurance company that does that, too. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? and now i love nashville. i got to spend the last two the new year's eve there reporting live for cnn. there is someone else who loves nashville. i think you know who she is. i'm making a dream come true because i'm about to talk live to doey parton live on cnn. nice to meet you. happy birthday. >> thank you. >> i just want to share with our viewers who you're sitting with there to your left. this is the ceo of gaylord entertainment, collin reed, and i know, dolly, you're a serious businesswoman, you're a musician, actress. tell me what you're doing in nashville today? >> well, today, i am here with mr. collin reed for us to make an announcement because we're going in partnership to build a family recreation area across from opryland and we're very excited about it. so we're going to be bringing more family entertainment into nashville. i've always wanted to work with them. and, of course, the grand ole' opry is my home. i love nashville. i've been here since 1964. but working with collin is just a perfect marriage we think since weise kind of have the two biggest parks areas in tennessee. >> and collin, let me just jump in. dolly parton. >> jump in here. >> as the dolly parton work husband i suppose as she's sort of calling you. >> yeah, he's my work husband. >> collin, your company is gaylord entertainment operating the famous historic grand ole' opry, opryland resort, we saw absolutely devastated by the storms in 2010. here are some of the pictures. i know that was a very, very tough time. i've talked to people in nashville about it. nashville is a tough town though. you've come back, renovated. what do you want people to know about your city? >> nashville is one of the fun plays on the planet. right, we did have a terrible flood. and the city is back. tourism is alive and well. and what we're about to do is just going to bring hundreds of thousands of more people to this wonderful city and for everyone that's listening toing this little program today, you know, in about a year, year and a half, you can come and you can just experience some fabulous stuff in nashville. >> okay, dolly, to you. i will let you know, dolly parton, i tried snagging an interview with you when you were here in georgia filming your movie joy full noise with queen ledee fa. the plot have centers around people who bounce back from tough economic times. i know a little bit about your childhood and growing up, you know a little bit about that, don't you? >> i absolutely can. it's also one of the reasons we're excited about the project that we're doing because it's also in addition to it being a good business venture for us, it's going to be providing a lot of jobs for other people. but yes, i can totally relate to the theme of the "joyful noise" movie because i grew up as i say you knew to a family of 12 children, a farmer's daughter. poor people. people having to work for a live. i most definitely related to the theme of the movie people falling on hard times. but we had a joyful time doing that movie in atlanta. and it's out now. it's been out for a week and so hopefully, people will get out and see it. it's very uplifting. that's what i'm kind of about whether it's at dollywood or singing songs or touring, it's all about making people feel better. >> something else that makes people feel better is music. i love music. you create amazing music. i do this segment each and every monday. we call it music monday, interview all these different artists. i know the schedules are busy and hectic, i always try to get their take on current political events and the climate. we're hosting this big debate on the in south carolina. if i may throw a political question your way because i'm you have a bunk of fans in south carolina, have you had time to follow this presidential race? how do you make -- it's shaking up, there's now just four candidates. >> well, i actually don't comment too much on politics. i just like to invite the people to south carolina to come on down to our park because i don't care for politics. that much. i pretty much keep my stuff to myself because i just wish they cared as much about us as they should. >> i will continue and throw you this other question. i asked a bunch of people on twitter to send me a question to send to you. this tweet comes from eva rose. she says yes, in all your years in the biz, who is one person you have wanted to work with but haven't gotten a chance to yet? who is that one bern. >> well, that's really a hard question to answer because usually if i'm really burning to work with somebody, i'll try to seek them out. but some of my favorite people, i always would like to do something with johnny depp. i've always liked him and i know he's a musician. he got discovered playing in a band on a movie or something. that's what i heard. i think he was a bass player or something. i love watching him on screen. i thought maybe he could be my son in a movie. maybe we could do music or something together. i'm sure at some point i'll get a chance to meet him. i don't have any burning thing. usually those things just fall into place. i've worked with some wonderful people in my life. >> i know have you. i do want to ask back to your big announcement today. tell us, when is the big park open? >> well, we are hoping, collin and i are hoping that we could get it open as late as the fall of next year. 2013. but they're telling us it might be more like the spring of 2014. is that what you're hearing, collin? >> we're going to -- flowing our little whips to get them moving. >> we want to get it on. we're doing it as fast as we can and, of course, you know the first lap of it is like water and snow park. then we're going to be expanding doing a lot of wonderful things in that area. so we'll get it open quick as we can. so we want those people coming into tennessee. >> final question. then i'll let the two of you go. my executive producer angie massey is a dear friend of mine. her favorite song is "jolene." would you mind taking us to break with a couple notes? ♪ jolene, jolene, jolene ♪ ♪ i'm begging of you please don't take my man." hit it, collin. at least you can do this or something. >> you just made someone's day. dolly parton and collin reed, thank yo thank you. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. >> thank you. in its class that adapts to conditions as they change, now all you have to worry about is what you accomplish when you get there. ♪ "the situation room" with wolf blitzer is coming up in a few minutes, live from south carolina. wolf has a little preview. wolf blitzer, what a day in political news. whew. >> for political news junkies like us, it's a great day. there's a lot of news. it just so happens sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. on this day we now know for sure -- -- that rick santorum actually won the way caucus two weeks ago. i interviewed him exclusively here in carlston today. my interview is coming up in the next hour. we're going to play all of the interview, including what he says about rick perry, the decision that rick perry had to drop out, some of the issues facing newt gingrich, issues raised by his second wife, so there's a lot to discuss. we have all our political analysts, all our reporters. in the 5:00 p.m. eastern hour, you know who's here in south carolina? and he suggested he's getting ready to have 134 sort of extraordinary endorsement, guess who i'm talking about? >> what, one of the four candidates that's about to get an endorsement? or someone else? >> do you remember a candidate herman cain. >> we're talking about stephen colbert and herman cain, the big rally tomorrow? >> well, we're not talking about that exactly, but herman cain is here in charleston. he told me a couple weeks ago in washington in "the situation room," he's got some sort of extraordinary announcement he's going to make, so i have to hear what he has to say. maybe he'll make the announcement in our 5:00 p.m. eastern hour. rick santorum at 4:00 p.m. s. herman cain later, a solid two hours, all looking ahead, most of it at least, looking ahead to tonight's debay here on cnn. >> we'll look for news to be made in your show. thank you so much. as the race heats up in south carolina, is the republicans getting ready to battle in the debate tonight. >> the obama campaign releasing its first ad in the election season. brianna keilar is standing by a different kind of house, as in cinderella's castle. she's? disneywort where the president was visiting today. she's next. we fast-forward here. tomorrow is the eve of the south carolina primary. that means last-minute swings through key districts, candidates shaking hands, kissing babies, as many diners and parking lots as they can before the polls open, but there is something else happening in south carolina tomorrow. it's a rally, not just any rally, it's the rock me like herman cain rally, and it's hosted by this guy, stephen colbert, late-night political sati satire. >> there is one candidate out there, who has not run a single negative ad -- herman cain. a man who shares my values that's why i've said a vote for herman cain would be a strong notion to me that i should run. he's asked his fans to vote for cain, but people, i'm concerned, though, if more of you are learning about the elections process from stephen colbert, than, say, from me. but it stings, i'm not going to lie. in the midst of our fantastic coverage, from the fine state of south carolina tomorrow, we're going to talk to one of the organizers of this colbert rally. really? we want to know what exactly colbert is trying to do in his home state. political pop s. following the president today, his stination disneyworld. we can see him there in a minute. there he is, on main street usa, the magic kingdom, president obama in the land of mickey mouse, but this was no have a indication. he was pitching a plan for increasing u.s. tourism, and now, he did not sing beings be our guest" as the disney song goes. >> today i directed my administration to send me a new national tourism strategy focused on creating jobs some of the america's most successful business leaders, some of whom are here today have signed up to help. we're going to see how to make it easier for foreign tourists to find information for visiting america. >> brianna keilar, why disney world as the backdrop, brianna? >> reporter: that's right. you may hear some noise. that's because a parade is going by the rose garden outside cinderella's castle, brooke. this is florida, let's be honest, it's hugely important political. the president won florida in 2008. he's hoping to hang on to it this year. also, he's got in uncanny knack lately for popping up in states where republicans are duking it out. remember iowa caucus night, we talked about this. he spoke to his supporters there virtually. here he is in florida, which has the republican primarily later this month. later next week he'll be in nevada, which has the caucuses after the florida primary. >> while the republicans are still sorting out who to take on the president in november, the obama campaign released the very first ad, actually his clean energy record. here it is. >> billionaires attacks president obama with ads that fact checkers say are not tethered to the attack. s. america's clean energy industry, 2.7 million jobs and expanding rapidly. for the first time in 13 years, our dependence on foreign oil is below 50%. president obama kept his promise to toughen ethics rules and strengthen america's economy. >> i'm barack obama and i approved this message. >> this is add number one on energy. why not issue number one, the economy and jobs? >> reporter: clearly the president and his campaign here trying to push back on the issue of solyndra, which as you know, brooke, outside grooms, outside republican-backing groups have hit him for the bankrupted solar power company which had hundreds of millions of government loans, so this is sort of the defense, the push-back. it will be a big issue in the primary. republicans will hit him, and he's trying to get his message out there before more americans form an opinion about it. >> all right, breaux ana keilar in disneyworld. thank you. before i let you go. mark wahlberg is now saying sorry for the comments he made about 9/11. in a recent interview, the actor says he was scheduled to fly on one of the hijacked planes, and insin waits he could have prevented it from crashing. he said if i was on the plane with my kids, it wouldn't have went down like it did. there would have been a lot of blood, and then saying we're going to land somewhere safely. he's apologizing, to suggest i would have done differently than the passengers on the plane was irresponsible. i deeply apologize for the

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