>> thanks for joining us. i'm cannily crowley. john king is off. the parents of a florida teenager whose death ignited outrage. also on the eve of the presidential primary, a rye alt check for rick santorum and newt gingrich. plus a big bank has a new way to help people stay in their homes even if they're facing foreclose. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we begin with the fatal shooting of florida teenager trayvon martin and the florida police department's decision not to arrest the person who pulled the trigger. this morning there was a message for trayvon martin's parents. >> if i had a son, he'd look like trayvon, and, you know, think they are right to expect that all of us as americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves and that we're going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened. >> cnn's john zarrella is in sanford, florida, where trayvon live and died. john, how are trayvon's parents reacting to the president? >> reporter: you know, candy, it was almost immediately after the remarks from the president that trayvon's parents had a statement of their own saying in part they were deeply moved by the president's remarks and adding, quote, we'd like to thank the president and the millions of people from around the world who have shown their support for trayvon by participating hoodie rallies, rallies or through social media. we're not only working to get justice for trayvon, but also to ensure that this kind of senseless tragedy doesn't happen to another child. and, again, they expressed their deepest thanks to both the president and the american people. candy? >> john, have there been any developments in the investigation? >> reporter: you know, in fact, we have several new developments to report. at this hour, right now, cnn is interviewing craig sonner. he has surfaced as the legal not representation but legal adviser to george zimmerman. now, sonner appeared on a local television station about an hour ago and he also said and told cnn that he has not talked directly to zimmerman about the events of the night, but he has advised zimmerman to stay out of the public, to take dealt threats against him seriously, but to cooperate with police. he is also saying, sonner is, that zimmerman has talked to the police on more than one occasion about the incident. so -- and sonner is also adding that, in fact, mr. zimmerman sustained a broken nose and a cut to the back of his head, and that we knew from the police report that came out earlier this week. also another development. he had angela quarry, a special prosecutor out of jacksonville, florida, appointed by governor rick scott yesterday to take over the state investigation of this case. her office is saying that they have two prosecutors and a homicide investigator already on the ground beginning to start to gather evidence. they're also telling us that they might not need to go to a grand jury, that they will have the authority to either arrest or clear or to take it to a grand jury any case against george zimmerman. candy? >> john zarrella in florida for us tonight. thank you, john is. after the president made his remarks today he briefly met with pastors who were at the white house who talked with the attorney general. we'll hear from two of those pastors in a few minutes. >> there are also important developments in the case of a u.s. soldier accused of massacring afghan civilians almost two weeks ago. they filed several charges against him. conviction on any one of them could bring the death penalty. what next for sergeant bales? >> reporter: well, candy, at this point there are two different tracks. you've got the investigation which continues. in fact, a u.s. official with the defense department has told cnn that there is a possibility that bales could face more charges as they continue to investigate, and then you have bales' attorney who is going to afghanistan to conduct his own investigation. meanwhile we do expect that an article 32 investigation will start up in seattle, tacoma. they'll be the lead from here on out and that basically is a preliminary hearing or what we would think of as a preliminary hearing on the civil side. that is the pretrial before the major trial. we expect that to get under way as well. it could take months, even years before this could get to a court martial trial. >> thanks. ted rowlands for us tonight. the taliban threatened all u.s. soldiers in afghanistan in an e-mail sent to cnn today. it reads we don't believe in the american courts and reject the decision of these courts. the perpetrators of these incidents are tens of american soldiers and not one of them. we will take practical revenge on every single american soldier. now on to presidential politics. a new a.r.g. poll shows rick santorum with a commanding 43% to 27% lead over mitt romney. newt gingrich is third with 20%. santorum already senses victory. >> we're excited that louisiana's going to hit the reset button. we're looking for someone who has the courage of their convictions, who's not going to hit the reset button, pull out the etch a sketch, and try to remake themselves. >> louisiana voters may hit reset tomorrow, but many other republicans have not. gall gallup's daily tracking poll now shows romney with his biggest lead over santorum in weeks, 46% to 26%. newt gingrich and paul far behind. gloria borger writes in a new column that it's time for romney's rivals to ask themselves an important question. >> the question is how do you know when it's time to lose and how do you go about losing. these people have worked really hard at this, and as you point out, rick santorum is probably going to win in louisiana, which, of course, is a problem for newt gingrich, i might add, and he could win his home state of pennsylvania eventually. he could win in wisconsin. i mean, who knows. but at a certain point you don't want to get blamed for helping the republican party to lose in the fall. soite's a very difficult question you have to ask yourself because there are no more power brokers who can come in the room and say, you know what? i think it's time for you to leave, those people are the establishment, they're not trusted. there are new power brokers, which are the big money super pac donors. now, if those people stop giving you money, that may force you into a different position and you'd have to get out, but it's really up to the candidates at this point. what's the best way to lose, how do you do it so you preserve your own political career, and what's best for the party, and think they've all got to be thinking about that right now if you're rick santorum or newt gingrich. >> surely they must be thinking about it, but it also strikes me that the two of them are so different personality-wise that they may have different ideas of how to exit. newt gingrich just shows no signs. i mean he can -- if he can pay for a plane ticket someplace, he'll go. >> and there are different ways of exiting. you can suspend your campaign and not get out of the race and take it all the way to the convention or you can do what mitt romney did in 2008 after super tuesday. he figured he didn't have much of a shot against john mccain, and he went out with a full-throated endorsement of him, supported him, and is now looking for the others to do that. although, as you know very well, candy, it's not as if the endorsements of mitt romney have been so enthusiastic. >> right. >> you know, jeb bush came out and endorsed him, but we didn't see a huge rally or anything. >> no balloons. >> no balloons. >> streamers, yeah. >> it's kind of like an arranged marriage. you know. not enthusiastic. >> gloria borger, our chief political analyst. thank you so much. it's exactly two years since president obama signed health care reform into law. still ahead, we'll set the stage for next week's legal showdown that could nullify it. but next, two pastors who are reassured by president obama's reaction to the trayvon martin shooting. >> he should know, he does know that if it could have been the son, it could have been the president himself. 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>> of course, no one know as what the justices are thinking. the big question is will they uphold the individual mandate, will they strike it down, do it in part. the justices have all the options in front of them. they could rule very narrowly on the facts of the case, limiting it to the fallout or offer a broad sweeping ruling that sets a roadman and precedent for how much power congress can have going forward. still it's important to point out even after these marathon public sessions next week, we're still not going to have the final word on the justices of the final outcome for probably about three months. >> and you get to go. >> i will be there. very excited. >> that's great. that will be fun. >> that's going to be fun to which. >> i'm a little jealous. as you might expect, the republican presidential candidates couldn't pass up the opportunity to slam the president on the eve of the passing of the health care reform law. rick santorum made it literally one of his stops in indiana. >> not only did he pass romney here, which is a government-run health care program that has insurance mandate, fines if you don't buy insurance, beating for the employer and the employee, and, of course, has all of these bells and whistles taos what policy you can buy, how you're going to buy it, who you're going to buy it from, just like obama care. >> that, of course, was rick santorum and not mitt romney, but i bet you knew that. senior cnn correspondent joe johns is in louisiana for oopsz tomorrow's republican prez kennke -- presidential primary. how much did they get on the campaign trail? >> reporter: well, candy, it was certainly one of the things driving the day, i think you could say that for a lot of reasons. number one, the in fact this is the anniversary of the president's plan, also the fact that the supreme court stake it up next week. kate talked a little bit about that. mitt romney in metairie, louisiana, kicked off the day talking about the health care plan quite a bit talking about repeal of the plan, replacement of the plan. he had an op ed in "usa today" this morning and he's really pushing really hard on this despite the fact that a lot of people say it's his achilles' heel. why? because he had a very similar plan in some ways to what the president of the united states put in place when romney was actually governor of massachusetts. so his rivals have been hitting him very hard on that, including rick santorum, of course, blasting away on this notion that there are a number of ways the obama plan and the romney plan are very similar. do we have that sound bite? can we listen to it? we don't have it. well, but generally, though, candy, you can say that this is the kind of thing here in louisiana that the candidates believe people are paying a lot of attention to because in so many ways, health care is a very personal thing to the voters out there. a lot of people expect it to sort of drive the election as we move toward november, candy. >> so the gremlins are getting both you and me here today, joe, but we'll carry on. how prominently has health care played on the campaign trail before we reach this anniversary moment? >> reporter: well, it's fascinating how much rick santorum has really been pushing this as an issue, not just for all the reasons you typically hear, but he makes the case that the obama health care plan is a symbol of freedom taken away from americans. he's been trying to sort of drive that message home. obviously romney has been trying to figure out how he's going to talk about it. but it's pretty clear from just the primary exercise that we've been going through from state to state, this is something that everybody expects to go head to head with the president of the united states, whoever turns out to be the nominee. it's a huge issue, as i said, a very personal issue. people see this as a question of who do you trust, the government to take care of you or private companies. and there's also that question of big government versus small government. all these things sort encapsulate themselves around health care and that's why people pay so much attention to it. >> sounds a lot like the arguments we heard on capitol hill before they passed it. >> that's right. >> so it continues. now onto the supreme court. joe johns down there in louisiana. a big primary down there tomorrow. thanks, joe. serious first lady now banned from traveling to europe. her accounts are also frozen as the eu shuts out the president's inner circle. she'll still be allowed into britain where she was born but the eu is clear. mrs. assad met this week with families of those killed by the opposition, showing her support for the syrian regime and in leaked e-mail she jokingly calls herself the real dictator. here's cnn's brian todd. >> reporter: her name means supreme in arabic. in the past they called her their princess diana. the your peen union now calls her under sanction. they're banning her from traveling to eu countries, freezing her accounts in the eu. >> i cannot say to you in strong enough terms how much we are concerned about what's going on in syria. >> reporter: it's to put more pressure on assad's regime to stop. but a man who once worked with her on her charities believe it stems from a recent release of private hacked e-mails between the assads and their inner circle. cnn and other media organizations have obtained mm of those e-mails. >> very clear lit outlines what many people behind the scenes knew that during one year was completely standing by her man and not only standing by her man, the president, be shar all assad buying things online. >> reporter: ordering $16,000 wof worth of candle sticks and tables and chandeliers, doing this while her hometown homs was being pummeled. in one e-mail she boasts she is the, quote, real dictate never her marriage, a different side of her than she displayed in earlier years. born in britain, educated at the best schools there she was a social superstar, spearheading charities that sought to improve concerns for women and the poor, deftly balancing that as a first lady with three children. now they say she's an enabler of her husband's atrocities, corrupted by the system around her. hue did that happen? >> in order to carry it out, you have to carry it out through these corrupt people and that in itself corrupt as what you're doing. >> we tried repeatedly to get response from syrian officials in the u.s. to the sanctions and to the reporting of mrs. assad. we've gotten no response. candy. >> fascinating. you tell me this analyst that appears in your piece says that when he was working with mrs. assad, she tried to corrupt him. >> that's right. he said when he was working with her charity in syria at one point, someone who was with that charity tried to get him to take a bagful of money, $125,000, left it right in his office. he never heard what it was for, let alone why it was left in his office. he thought it might have been for a project, that they were trying to pay him in advance. he never knew what it was for. he turned it down and tried to get some additional outside funding from his own project. he said from then on they basically cut off contact between him and asma al assad. he's out. >> i bet there are lots of stories like that. thanks so much, brian todd. coming up president obama and his republican opponents weigh in on the tragic death of florida teen trayvon martin. people with a machine. what ? 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>> you know, he's been very good at that. the last time i was proud of our president is when he went down to phoenix for gabby giffords. happied to be in africa at the time but i happened to catch it. it's what i want my president to look like, to act like, to sound like at moments like this. i thought he was great. >> and will you give the republicans a little credit? i thought they were also measure ed, and while this is tragic you have to behave. i thought everyone acted like leaders. >> it's a sad occasion. it's something you don't celebrate and something droinlt want to politicize either. i think they were all respectful of the real tragedy of what it was so applaud everybody for kind of lifting the tone and not puts it down into a political sense. >> something this tragic could possibly happen tlanld's no politics in it. >> the last time the president got involved in a case like this, there was pushback with the boston case, with the harvard professor. this time i think his tone was pitch perfect and it was striking the republican candidates did not try go -- you know, create a contrast with him. everybody understands that this is a tragic case and also that we have to let the investigation play out and see where it leads. >> in the case of boston and the professor and the policeman, the president came out and seemed to blame the policeman and it started this uproar. this, today was -- >> everything was powerful. >> absolutely. let me talk do you a little bit about louisiana coming up we have a louisiana poll. this is arg showing rick santorum, 43%, romney, 27%, gingrich, 20%, paul, 6%. i guess my question is how much does this one matter? >> look. demog gra fi trumps momentum as it did in the democratic race. both candidates are holding surf, we talked about this befor before. louisiana is a state dominated by evangelical christians, social conservatives. rick santorum in all likelihood is going to win ichlt it doesn't change the basic dynamic. mitt romney will stay ahead. on the other hand mitt romney is not strong enough to driving him from the race and if santorum can stay in the race until may, there are a lot of events -- >> this could go on. this could go on. >> i'm sorry. >> no, no. >> she's just over there doing this. >> these are interesting sequencing issue. pretty much after louisiana, everything that comes up through late april are states that are more coastal and affluent. they're romney states. but when you get to may, if santorum has not lost his credibility, you're back to places like arkansas, indiana, north carolina, texas, where it's going to be very difficult for him. the demog gra fi is very much on it. we've got a pretty clear divide in the republican electorate at this point. >> and you're loving it. >> oh, absolutely. keep it going on as lodge as we can. what you're seeing is you have this contested primary going on. you're not seeing any enthusiasm level going on. what we just say in illinois, it with us the lowest voter turnout in 70 years, so that really has to worry the republicans out there if this does go longer is the enthusiasm going to wane or are they actually going to be able to build bridges? i don't know. >> one of the side effect of negative advertising is boot suppression and think all of the negative advertising is having an effect. first i want to go to erin brunet brunette "outfront" is coming up. what's the latest? >> well, it looks like -- i have a memo from the house financial committee, candy, and they say they have proof back in the final days of mf global which was the biggest bankruptcy case since lehman brothers that $200 million in customer money in segregated account was moved into another account. now, that could be -- depends on the exact specifics here -- against the law and they have an e-mail that said it was per j.c.'s instructions, j.c. being jon corzine. candy, we've talked a lot about the mf global organization and nobody linked to the financial crisis has gone to jail. does this mean that john core zion could go to jail? we'll talk to an expert on that. this could be a huge development in the case of jon corzine. >> i was going to say, i may be wrong, but didn't jon corzine deny this repeatedly when talking to congress that he ever took segregated funds, that is, funds that belonged to the stockholders and moved them anywhere. >> that's right. he said he had never done any such thing. this e-mail is from his treasurer, quote, per j.c.'s instructions. we're going to find out because as i said this really could be very significant for the normal new jersey senator and governor jon corzine. >> and i know you're covering the trayvon martin story as well. we'll see you at the top of the hour. thanks. then after the break things could get a whole lot more exciting. we'll explain in our moment you missed. we always hear about jobs leaving america. here's a chance to create jobs in america. oil sands projects, like kearl, and the keystone pipeline will provide secure and reliable energy to the united states. over the coming years, projects like these could create more than half a million jobs in the us alone. from the canadian border, through the mid west, to the gulf coast. benefiting hundreds of thousands of families throughout the country. this is just what our economy needs right now. do about medicare and social security... security. that's what matters to me... me? 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the block grant? the idea these are the same people with the same priorities is equally ludicrous out of santorum's mouth as the suggestion that he vote for barack obama. >> we also had your old boss, his chief of staff, writing previously ahead of the republican national committee saying, you should just be telling everyone that's running for president that they should publicly support whoever the republican is. so clearly, there must be some traction here in some way? >> oh, i don't think there's any question. it's one of those things that candidates say when they're tired and frustrated. things have been going on forever, for a while. thought he was going to win. talking about the fact it's going to go on for another forever. >> it's only march. it's only march. >> woody allen said, eternity is a long time. especially when you get towards the end. that's what happens in this kind of thing. >> yeah. and just your -- >> well what you're seeing, and when i worked for governor rendell we had to deal with senator santorum. you're seeing vintage rick. he does get very sanctimonious and whiney and it is, why isn't it about me anymore? the thing that mitt romney has to worry about or is concerned about, advisers, how far to the right is rick santorum staying in this race and going to continue to pull him, as he's still trying to figure out what exactly his message is and what he is for, eye to the general. mitt romney has the eye to the general. washington issing through hard primaries and rick santorum is going to continue to pull him further to the right. >> and could win more than any republican loser of, are rick santorum. what will he leverage that into? >> more than a speech on the convention floor. >> come back. i have a feeling, rich, democratic strategist, and let me read this -- political analyst and -- thank you all. >> you need an acronym. >> now here's -- here's kate bolduan. the latest news you need to know right now. >> my title's a bit shorter. breaking flus to bring you from florida. for the first time you're hearing from a legal adviser to george zimmerman, the neighborhood watch guard who shot and killed 17-year-old trayvon martin last month. here's what craig soern, his legal counsel, tells florida's wofl. >> under a lot of stress from the situation. being very concerned about the grave situation that he's in, and, you know, there's a young man who's now deceased, and in this situation. so he's very concerned about that. he has, by my counsel, been very cooperative with all the investigations done by the sanford police. i've advised him to stay out of the public eye as much as he can. i can't say as to where he is, because i don't know and i don't need to know. >> some question who initiated the con flact ultimately led to trayvon martin's death. are you comfortable, are you able to say what george's version of events is, or if he perhaps sustained some injuries that would tip the scales in one direction or another? >> i do know that he did suffer a broken nose, and he's got an injury to the back of his head, which should have required stitches. i think he was delayed getting to the doctor and didn't actually have stitches put in, but he did sustain injuries to his head. >> other headlines, the u.s. plans to hand over $1.3 billion resuming military aid to egypt. pouring into egypt. secretary of state hillary clinton will waive the conditions egypt was supposed to meet as it transitions to democracy. these are testy waters. the debate on whether to resume had been intense on capitol hill, but the state department says egypt made more progress in the last "16 months, than it has in the last 60 years." the pope is in mexico. you can see him here arriving just minutes ago. he'll be meeting with president felipe calderon and presiding over a mass this weekend. next the pope heads off to cuba, there to bring hope to the communist nation once officially atheist. finally, the long-awaited film "the hunger games" is sauf to an impressive start. entertainment weekly reports the film took in almost $20 million during midnight showings across the country. the seventh highest midnight total of behind three of the "harry potter" films and the three "twilight"s. a book series i have yet to read and have to read it before i see it. always my rule. >> me, too. we might be seeing it actually on videotapes. cd or dvd. >> whatever they are. >> and now the moment you missed. today president obama announced his nominee to head the world bank. dartmouth college president jim yung kim. >> today after a careful and thorough search, i'm nominating dr. jim kim to be the next president of the world bank. >> kim has quite the resume. a senior official at the world health organization, a trained physician and apparently a break dancer.