out of puerto rico into -- as rick santorum heads into the next two primaries. somewhat the opposite for mitt romney trying to gain the upper hand. he's now in puerto rico, where santorum may have offended some spanish speaker, romney is courting them in their own language. jim a costa is in san juan. what's the latest from there, jim? >> reporter: candy, mitt romney is in puerto rico for a series of events. after rick santorum's trip to this island, the trick is pretty simple. don't get lost in translation. mitt romney is out to show puerto ricans he is speaker that i majority. >> if the majority of the p we realizo ricans wish to become a state, i will support that. >> reporter: romney has not only written letters to voters translated into spanish, he's running a radio ad featuring his bilingual son craig also in spanish. his arrival comes after rick santorum seemed to stumble over whether the predominantly spanish-speaking island should adopt english as a condition of statehood. should it be a requirement for this territory to become a state? imgts i think english -- obviously spanish is going to be spoken hire in the island, but this needs to be a bilingual country, not just spanish speaking. >> reporter: romney may have some explaining to do. at cnn's debate last january, the gop front-runner said english should be the nation's official language. the question, would that also apply to a puerto rican state? isms i think our position is the same, which i believe english should be the official language of the united states as it is. i had also believe in our schools we should teach kids in english. >> reporter: is rick santorum ready to be president? >> there's another supreme issue. take this tv ad that ran in ohio that attacked santorum's vote. >> a washington politician to proudly voted for the bridge to nowhere and liberal judge so the soto mayor. >> could it hurt governor romney, do you think, on this island? >> no, i don't think so. i think he's going to win, and i think senator santorum was hit by the language issue here, and i think the people of puerto rico will vote this sunday to give governor romney the votes to the national convention. >> reporter: just a few moments ago, mitt romney made some news whether puerto rico has to adopt an official language. he was asked about this question by local reporters at the airport here in san juan. let's play what he had to say just a few moments ago. >> i will support the people of puerto rico. if they make a decision they would prefer to become a state, that's an effort i will support. i don't have preconditions i would impose. >> reporter: already, candy, i can el it you the santorum campaign is seizing on the comments when mitt romney said he would have no preconditions he would impose on puerto rico to become a state. they are pointing out when he said english should be an official language of the united states, they are calling that a flip-flop. i talked about all of this just a short time ago, with ron brownstein. >> the question of how much impact it would have in ig noise, is up to question. the grooves are cut pretty deep at this point. mitt romney has won nonevangelical voters in every state there's been an exit poll except for georgia. santorum has beaten him among evangelical voters in nine different states. you can look down the contract at evan yell cal, college versus noncollege, affluent versus more working class, and you can have an educated guess. illinois is at the tipping point. it leans a bit in the romney direction, but not as decisively as the coastal states. it's enough to keep santorum in the game. >> it's interesting. the other thing i think we're learning from these entrance and exit polls is that the turnout really has mattered, but specification turnout. so if romney can't turn out his folks upstate, which i'm assuming is where he'll plant himself, and then santorum goes down to the rural and farm areas. this could be a toss-up place. >> it's closely balanced enough. states like maryland, 35% of the vote or less is evan jell ka. you have to think romney is a strong favorite, given that he's won nonevangelicals everywhere except georgia. there are strong favorites for santorum in all likelihood, then wisconsin, indiana, illinois, north carolina, that are kind of the battlegrounds where turnout is likely to matter a great deal. but again, i think with 41% of the vote last time being evangelical in illinois, you have to give the edge to romney. that managerial wing of the party that's pretty comfortable, but santorum is within reach. >> i know you wrote an article stronger but not secure as far as a description of where the president is. how does he get secure? >> i don't know if he does. first of all in a more polarized, it's harder. is it possible to be president of more than half the country, and whether we will see someone get to the 59% or so that ronald reagan did, but the key is obviously economic improvement. 9 big thing that changed in our heartland monitor poll we do every quarter is 60% of the americans say they expect the economy to do better over the next year, and that is the tail wind. you're also seeing an important separation, white collar americans are beinging more optimistic. they're beginning to see their 401(k)s improved, housing values improve, and the president ran much stronger, and likely will need the same pattern to resurface if he's going to win in 2012. so while the republican candidates battle each other, democrats and the obama campaign are trying to seize on what they see as an opportunity with women voters. cnn white house correspondent jessica yellin -- we're not surprised, they have seen this as a huge bonanza. how are they using it now? >> well, democrats feel that they increasingly have only advantage, the political advantage as they go after the women's vote. is a as more contraception, planned parenthood and abortion-related bills pop up at the state level. this new democratic video targets mitt romney before the illinois republican primary. >> mitt romney action he's wrong for women, wrong for illinois. >> reporter: it's all part of a push to appeal to women voters who in 2008 made of 53% of the electora electorate. that's 8 million more votes thain men. now the democratic national committee has a new women's institute to woo unaligned female voters, taking on a new urgency in light of the contraception and rush limbaugh controversies. according to pew polls before that fight, women's view of democratic and republican parties were evening, but now they have a more favorable view of the democratic party by 14 points. top democrats see a treasure trove of activity at the state level, which they believe will help drive women to the left. it includes this, the republican governor of pennsylvania backing a measure that would require women seeking abortion to first get an ultra-sound. he said this. >> i don't know how you make anybody watch, okay? you just have to close your eyes. >> some republicans say this is not where the party should be focusing its energy. >> whether it's contraception or people trying to bring the issue of pro-choice back into the mix, this is a losing issue for republicans. these cannot slide this farther to the right. >> romney cements to agree. >> i have something to say about some of the women that i'm hearing from, and we've been all across this country. do you know what women care about? this is what i love. women care about jobs. >> reporter: have the president himself says he believes women are not single-issue voters, but that the democrats have more to offer. the question is, whether they issues energize women voters. candidate, you can be sure that they will try to remind women that came up in the issues, and republicans will try to remind all voters it's all about the economy. so leaving the economy aside, the white house you have learned is gooding to further define its whole policy for contraception and insurance. >> that's right. two senior administration officials, two administration officials tell me that this afternoon they're going to update and put out new policy proposals, asking for feedback on how self-funded religious institutions should provide contraception and handle the contraception rule for their employees. >> if a church funds a daycare. >> and they provide their own hurricanes, how they should handle this rule. >> which says to me, they're still looking for the right answer to this. >> this was one of the outstanding issues they said they would resolve and continue to work on. they also clarified if you're a university, a religiously affiliated university and you're providing contraception and you object to it, then your health insurance -- that insurer has to pay for the health care. >> more later. >> i know. chief white house correspondent jessica yellin, thank you. some real-life drama for actor george clooney. he was arrested here in washington today. also an outbreak of apple mannian as the new ipad goes on sale. and plunging to earth. details of plans for a jaw-dropping 23-mile free fall. ok, guys-- what's next ? 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>> reporter: yes. as you mentioned, though, this was day three of his advocacy and activism here in washington on behalf of the people of southern sudan and south sudan. you know, he testified on capitol hill on wednesday, met with president obama on thursday, today he took that big step with this big act of civil disobedience. this was the scene outside the embassy of sudan this morning. >> we're going to protest and try to raise more attention to the idea of the sudanese government committing atrocities to their own people, innocent men, women and children. >> reporter: he joined activists political and religious leaders and his father nick clooney to protest an ongoing crisis. >> immediately we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into suiten before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. immediately. >> hundreds of thousands of people are caught between the fighting between the sudanese government and the rebels. massachusetts congressman jim mcgovern said the world was watching, and so was congress. >> we will be here again, and again and again until this government stops using food as a weapon. >> sudanese who are depending on you. >> the son of martin luther king junior demanded justice. >> this crisis is beyond epidemic proportions. >> reporter: the demonstration ended with ultimate multiple arrests. this is clooney's strongest stand yet. after he was released from custody, he says he has no plans to stop. what can we expect from you are? 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isms to some degree it's comparing apples and oranges that by this time the nomination was wrapped up. so anyone who says there is no enthusiasm gap, there is. there's a lack of enthusiasm this time. a lot of people who wanted someone else to come, they still hope polls really isn't an indicator of what we're going to be three or four months from now. remember, jimmy carter was kicking george w. bush all over the map, a 30-point gap for him. so the polls change. >> erick is exactly right, about you it strikes me as weird that mitt romney's very enthusiastic voters four years ago is the exact same number as right now. >> that's exactly right. that's one of the big challenges mitt romney will face. look, four years ago in a hard-fought democratic primary there were 78% of voters unenthusiastic about voting for hillary clinton, and 84% were unenthusiastic about voting for barack obama when they were in the middle of their primary. i think that translated well into the enthusiasm which ended up working in barack obama's favor. now, erick is absolutely right, the election is still 1e6r8 months ago, but i think this does need to be a huge issue that republicans need to be worried about, because in a year where supposedly president obama is so vulnerable in the minds of so many gop voters, he's been such a disastrous president, why isn't they could not attract their supposed "a" team, and i think perhaps why is i've heard from some republicans that they don't even have their "b" team but their "c" team out there. i think that's a problemisms is it all that hard to translate what is clearly enthusiasm to unelect president obama in a second term and put it onto rom any? is that a huge leap for republicans, do you think? >> the problems isn't going to be republicans, but independents who lean republican who aren't enthusiastic, except for if they're not enthusiastic you have to to have the base come out. >> true, but you have to have something for people to vote for. romney has been running for five years, he can't get his gap up, he is a weak front-runner. a lot of republicans who will vote against barack obama, the supreme court decision on obama-care, will energize a lot of them, but the independents who lean republican want something to vote for, not just someone to vote again independents something that is on the campaign web page that's getting a lot of chatter on the internet, he's pledging to aggressively prosecute those who distribute pornography and, quote -- while they tend to favor -- that will change under a santorum administration this is not something that santorum is talking about on the campaign trail, but also getting picked up in an important arena sure to cause more conversation. here's a listen. >> rick santorum says if elected president, he'll crack down on internet porn. this could cause hundreds of california teachers their moonlighting jobs? you know how many teachers -- well, crack down on internet porn? you thought he was alienating female voters with that birth control thing? guys will be leaving in droves. >> you don't want your stuff showing up on one of the late-night talk shows. is this the chatter of the day, or is this more of santorum's seeming just too far to the right? pirchlts i don't think it's him being too far to the right as a lot of people on the right would tend to agree other than saying the obama administration hasn't done anything. they actually have been very good. i have to give them credit for that. >> but at the same time -- >> this is like gingrich saying he wants to go to the moon. people don't care about that. it plays into a stereotype of him not caring about the particular issues voters care about. he's playing to a stereotype. >> 30 seconds, maria, i'll give you a shot at pornographyisms two weeks ago we were talking about santorum and satan, and now we're talking about santorum and morn. this is why the republicans are suffering from an enthusiasm gap. this is not what voters care about. they care about economy, jobs, and growth, and president obama is talking about those things. >> maria cardona, erick erick n erickson, thank you. let's talk about jobs next timeisms xa ebbetly. pool-mageddon it's being called. and a 22-mile free fall. why the sky diver isn't afraid of dying. plus dramatic video of a small child being thrown from a carnival ride. how did it happen? 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carrie tumor runs the pool and she thinks so. >> i would ask for some clarity. i know the access board is almost afraid in some ways to put finite words on it, because they don't want to pigeon-hole people into certain ways, but i think there needs to be more clarity. >> the justice department told us the pool can use an affordable lift if that's all that's portable and easy, for now, but they should word towards one that's there all the time. that has hotels and public pool owners confused and crying foul. >> tomorrow you could put in a lift that's portable, but a fixed lift requires electrical grounding work, so you have to tear up a pool deck. this was notal all contemplated by the department of justice when they issued this further guidance. >> reporter: that guidance came out in january and caused an uproared. owners at public pools, hotels, spas, even cities and home associations have been scrambling. disability advocates say it's a civil rights issue. having a portable lift doesn't cut it. >> you hear from the hotel industry and hear from other folks. well, what's wrong with having a lift that maybe we keep in the closet, and if you're coming to swim, we keep it out for you. >> it's not inviting people with disabilities into your facility. if this were to be the case, if you were not to be open and inviting with any other minority in this country, it would not even be up for discussion. >> reporter: this is about access, but it's also about money, a big hotel, the university of maryland can afford a fixed lift, and work and manpower to install it. a community pool with a tight budget, maybe not. the justice justice department says they can apply for an exemption, so pools know what they should be doing. that decision will come right in the middle of swimming season i want it's not a surprise. >> this is part of the ada passed in 1990. >> a couple decades ago. >> this is an update, but it's the fine-tuning that has those individual businesses very worried. isms lizzie, thanks very much. appreciate it. call it extreme skydiving. a 70,000-foot jump lasting almost 40 minutes. that's only a warm-up for the main event. cnn's brian todd joins us with more. you're not the jumper. >> i'm a little envious, but i'm not the jumper. the cutting edge may not be in the hands of nasa, but with red bull of all places. they sponsor the project. it will test if a human can fly through the heavens in a suit, helmet and parachute and survive. later this year, felix baumgartner will travel up to the stratospheres. he did a test jump yesterday from 71,000 feet above new mexico, but on the main jump, he's going to attempt the longest-ever free fall from the highest effort altitude. 120,000 feet above sea level, more than 22 miles. the prell record for free fall, 102,800 feet. while he free falls, he'll try to set another record. no one has ever broken the speed of sounds accelerating with just the human body. they estimate he'll break that mark going 690 miles an hour. he was working on this project two years ago form the project got delayed for legal robes and it's now back on. here's part of our conversation. my first question is a two-parter -- are you nuts? and why the hell are you doing this? isms first of all, i'm not nuts. i think it's human nature. records are meant to be broken. i'm a very competitive person. to me there's nothing more challenging that this working on the red bull challenge project. >> reporter: sell his he as not afraid of -- he's also base jumped from the cronus towers in quu wa kuwala lamb pure. -- lampur. >> more power to him. but it's also quite a story about a guy who's a consultant. >> both these guys are great. the guy whose record he's trying to break is joe kitinger. he's a consultant on this. kitinger is actually a retired air force officer who made that jump of nearly so 3 those feet back in 1960. i spoke with him when we interviewed baumgartner. i asked him what is it like? >> he said distant and very hostile. no kidding. he talks about the high pressure suits with heat sensor advisers, obviously you can't do this in a regular suit. if he can pull this off later this summer, we think, it would be really summer. >> wow, yes, it will. thanks very much. it's a movie every young person should see, but many can't thanks for the "r" rating. the producer is seeking a rare exception. stories of heartbreak and humiliation if a new myo, but many of the young people who could benefit most from seeing it may not be able to because of its "r" rating. lisa has more. this "r" rating was controversial? >> it would instead. i tear up just watching the trailer. you get a glimpse of what it's like for kids being bullied. the debate isn't whether this is a great movie. the debate comes down to six words in the movie, and whether that should keep it from getting a pg-13 rating. >> as they say he's a geek. some people have told him he is worthless, so go hang hisself. i think he got to the point where enough is enough. >> a perkins boy, just 11 years old. >> the movie is called "bully" a documentary that tracks the lives of five students, two of whom killed themselves after being bullied, including 11-year-old ty field. the documentary's producer harvey weinstein says it's a movie every teenager, teacher, principal, should watch. >> i like them to be activists and stop this, and we can stop it. we can stop it on the school level. if we stop it there. we'll stop it everywhere. >> reporter: but many teens may not be able to see the move, because the motion picture soeshs of america has given the movie an "r" rating. more than 300,000 people have signed an online petition to get the ratings changed to pg-13. for the first time, former senator chris dodd, now the chairman and ceo of the motion picture association, and weinstein sat down together in the same room with cnn to discuss the issue. >> it's not a qualitative judgment. it's based on content, what language, drugs, sexual. it was designed by parents for parents. to give them some guidance, so they have some idea. >> reporter: the "f" word is used in the movie six times warranting the "r" rating, but weinstein says the issue is important enough for an exception. there is precedent. mpaa made an exception for another movie. >> the board overturned the decision. i mean, it got rated pg-13, because they thought it was important. we see the "bully" situation as its own war. >> reporter: but dodd says there are problems straying from the objective rating criteria. >> if you're going to make an exception, what do you do the next time? another great movie on the environment, the health care or some other legitimate issue that's well done for some reason -- >> reporter: dodd readily agrees it is a great movie, one that kids should see. >> you feel very passionate and aware of the impact. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: and feel strongly that kids should be able to see this, but the reality is you still have the rated "r" rating. that will make it hard for schools to show it. >> not necessarily. schools do it, for instance with "schindler's list" they were shown all over schools. schools made the decision and that's their callivities the city school board in cincinnati, we have 40,000 students, you know, ready to see the movie. it got rated "r" they pulled it. the archdiocese, said if it's pg-13, we'll do it, if it's r, it won't. >> you have the option of cleaning up the film, taking some of those words out. are you willing to do that? >> i think the movie loses some of its strength. >> the two men, longtime friends, agreed to work together to find a middle ground, but it will ultimately be up to an independent board. in the meantime, the movie opens at the end of the. he's hoping to get the rating overturned, still hoping for a happy hollywood ending. i asked harvey weinstein, why he decided to do this project. he told me he was once rated one of the ten worst bosses because of his temper, and his tough nature. that was something he was not proud of. so he says this movie is a little redemptive for him. he's also a dad. he haus four daughters, two of whom are teenagers, so this is an issue he's very familiar with and it's very real for him. >> it seems like there should be a simple answer in there someplaceisms hopefully they can reach a compromise. because in particularly in schools, because everybody says, you know, this can have a huge impact. when it comes to the debate over bullies. thanks so much, lisa. new e-mails obtained show just how attached bashir assad and his family are detached, including one racy message from a female aide. plus chilling acts caught on tape, a 3-year-old thrown from a carnival ride. lling to tell me you're giving me the silent treatment? 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isms simon, thanks so much. cnn's erin burnett is going out front on the story. how much is this new ipad, which we could call a 3, so we just call it the new ipad, helping apple's bottom line? >> i mean, it is unbelievable. my sister and her four kids are at the apple store in grand central. they say it's packed. the kids are more interested in siri, the new automated part that goes with the new iphone 4s, it isn't on the ipad, but it's pretty amazing, candy, when you look at what this has done for apple, the ipad and iphone. the analyst firm, they have about 14 million i pads they say will be sold in the second quarter for apple. they think in the second quarter apple could sell 34 million iphones, and their estimate really on the iphone was recently only about 28 million. you're seeing an acceleration among a lot of analysts. what does it mean for the bottom line? candy, two numbers, $546 billion, that is the market value of apple, the most valuable company in the united states, which is just a stupendous thing when you think about it, more valuable than i 346789 ibm, more valuable than exxon mobil. and apple is just sitting on cash and they have god to decide what to do with it. one heck of a stash. >> it will be interesting to compare that to the revenue of some of the nations around the world. >> yes. >> but do you know what the next -- do we ever know what the next big thing is from apple? >> that's a good question. we were talking with some analysts today to try to figure what that is action especially with steve jobs leaving. some of the divine design guys i'll call them are still there, but they call this the new ipad, so some people are saying, what does that mean, what are you going to call the next ipad? is this a sign for something to come or not? that's the real question, but there's a real question. no one is concerned about that hurting apple right now, but it's been a long time, the longe time ever, actually, and soon with those market values so high, people will start to ask, what is next? >> "outfront" with erin burnett, maybe they'll call it the renewed new ipad. >> maybe that will work. >> see you tonight. a young girl is thrown from a texas carnival ride. lisa sylvester is monitoring that. >> media reports say the child was only 3 years old, and she was on the ride with her 8-year-old brother. video shows the girl starting to slip from her seat before being throw about eight feet down. she apparently met the height requirements, but officials say she was two young -- the girl suffered a consuggestion, but is expected to make a full recovery. and the videos who poked fun has lost his job. nbc miami says galen david, a 24-year veteran of american airlines was fired and fighting it. one of his online characters, the aluminum lady is like margaret thatcher's the iron ladyisms people on a rant creep me out. the woman that's running the flight attendants down in miami is probably the most ineffective person i have in the whole company. >> can we fire her? >> no, don't fire her. i like it like that. >> american filed for bankruptcy a few months ago, and plans to cut 13,000 jobs. an american spokesman didn't mention the videos when talking about the firing, but told nbc miami that david published the private details of passengers and promoted its competitors on his website. the rock band kiss has opened an entertainment complex in las vegas. the newcomer includes wedding chapel, a glow in the dark mini golf course, an arcade, cafe, and of course the largest kiss gift shop in the world. that's going to be a place for some serious fans, candy. >> thanks so much, lisa, appreciate it. the soldier suspected of killing 16 civilians is heading to a detention facility here in the u.s. we will hear from his attorney. syria's leader lives in luxury and gets advice from iran while his security forces carry out a brutal crackdown. there's an inside look of the al assad regime. and video smuggled out from one of the cuba's notorious conditions. you'll hear the appalling conditions and an american inmate who's been beating mercilessly. breaking news and political headlines are straight ahead. wolf blitzer is off. i'm candy crowley, and you're in "the situation room." the u.s. soldier accused in the massacre of 16 afghan civilians is on his way to a mill their detention facility in the u.s. right now. back in afghanistan, an angry you said hamid karzai is casting doubt on the u.s. version of events and on the u.s./afghanistan relationship itself. cnn's sara sid ner is standing about i in kabul, but we begin with casey wian in seattle. he has fresh details. >> reporter: that's right. candy, that accused shooter is expected to land in the united states at any moment, card to his lawyer. john henry brown, the high-profile seattle attorney representing the u.s. soldier suspected of gunning down 16 afghan civilians says his client is being moved from quat to a military detention facility at ft. leavenworth, kansas. though no charges have been filed against the still unidentified 38-year-old staff sergeant, it's clear his attorney already is laying the groundwork for a possible defense. the effects of three deployments in iraq. >> there's been a big problem with soldiers who have been previously deployed to both iraq and afghanistan, with concussive head injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder. i know there's been a lot of controversy about this particular base in washington not treating those illnesses. we do know he had a concussive head injury. we know he was injured in his leg severely, and i am somewhat confused to why they would send him back to afghanistan. >> i'm confident there's sufficient screening going on prior to repeated -- or during repeated performance. and while we're not perfect, we have made tremendous progress on that, and i'm confident the system is, woing overall, yes. >> reporter: before dug deployed from ft. lewis mcchore, the soldier was first told he would not by going, then sent. one former military attorney questions brown's strategy of publicly discussing the case. >> with all due respect, i think that's ill advised. you don't want to say anything at this point where you'll over-commit. >> brown says he only has had one conversation with his client, a and did not discuss the shooting or recent reports that alcohol may have been involved. we asked if his client has expressed any remorse. brown would not comment. brown also says because of the highly political nature of this case, he's very concerned about his own safety and the safety of the soldier's wife and children. they remain under protection at joint base lewis-mck40rd tonight. thank you. afghan president karzai met with the families of the 16 1i68ance allegedly killed by the u.s. soldier. he made it very clear he is not happy with the u.s. response to the shooting. cnn's sara sidner was at that meeting. she joins us live from kabul. president karzai made a serious allegations against the u.s. today. what did he say? >> reporter: well, he was sitting and listening for more than an hour from villagers who were very angry, saying they believed there was more than one u.s. soldier involved in this, and he said based on what you're saying, there is more than one u.s. soldier involved in this, kind of reiterating what they were saying. but he also said that the relationship between the united states and afghanistan is, and i'm quoting here, we're at the end of our rope, is how he put it. so you can see there is a great deal of frustration on his part, and he was referring to many of the things that have happened in afghanistan over the past three months. we're talking about not only this incident, but the past incidents with the burning of the koran, and the picture showing u.s. troops allegedly urinating on dead afghan bodies. a lot of frustration there. and he was also very clear on how upset the afghan officials are and his government is about how the u.s. is handling the investigation, angry that they sent the u.s. soldier out of afghanistan, who's accuseds in massacre without allowing afghan officials to interview him. here's what he said about that. >> the afghan investigation team did not receive the cooperation that they expected from the united states. therefore these are at questions we'll be raising very loudly and clearly. >> reporter: noup, we understand mr. karzai spoke with president obama thor, and he spoke mostly in pashtu, and he said the president was upset with him over this new demand that this transition from having nato forces be in control to having afghan forces be in control by 2013, as opposed to 2014. candy? >> sara, we've been hearing reports of compensation for the victims' families. have you heard anything about that? >> reporter: we know that the families have said, we don't want your compensation, we want justice. that was said over and over again, and then we asked mr. karzai about that as well. what have you heard? he said at this point we're going to reiterate what the victims are saying here, we had don't want jurisdiction -- excuse me -- we don't want compensation, the government doesn't want compensation. they want justice. what justice they're looking for is having this u.s. soldier to be brought back to afghanistan and tried right here on afghan soil. is that going to happen? if you talk to american officials and heard from his attorney, likely that will not happen. >> sara sidner, also an amazing reporter in kabul for us tonight. tang you. now moving on to syria, where thousands of e-mails are giving us a stunning look inside syria's ruling family. while his security forces have carried out a blood where crackdown, president assad has been getting advice from iran and enjoying a lavish lifestyle all detailed in 3,000 e-mails that cnn otained from sources in the region. we cross-checked many of the addressing as well as timing of of speeches and family vacations. here's john vause. >> a worker in today mass can you managed to smuggle out the e-mail addresses and passwords of the syrian president and his wife. so for the past 12 months, it seems that syrian activists have monitored the regime in real time. the e-mails first leaked to "anderson cooper 360" giving extraordinary insight into the life of the first family as the regime moved to brutally crush an uprising. it revealed some of iran's influence over syria's president. just before bashar al assad delivered a speech, e-mails are saying a political adviser encouraging assad to use powerful and violent language. in that speech, assad them promises to crush the opposition with an iron fist. there are also e-mails from this man, according to his facebook page, he's the damascus bureau chief for two networks. two is he offers advice to the aide who passes it on to assad. on christmas eve, he writes don't blame al qaeda for a recent attack. i even received call from iran and hezbollah, he wrote. they advised me not to even mention al qaeda. this would be a serious tactical media error. and then two days later with arab league monitors on the ground, he e-mails the same aide -- we they'd to take control of public squares, at the same time groups affiliated with us will fill the squares. we reached out to mortada asking if the e-mails were his. so far no reply. shortly after the arrival of monitors, apparently they share this youtube video with one of the his closest advisers, mocking the monitors' failure to spot regime tanking. the reply? laughter and oh, my god, this is amazing. the e-mails show how the regime learned of the presence of international reporters in homs. last month they were killed as a makeshift media center came until heavy shelling from government forces. some of the most interesting insights into the assad e-mails are personal. last november, as the syrian military ramped up the attack on homs, first lady al assad seemed more concerned with the latest harry potter 2k6d, e-mailing a friend she asks, are you coming around the 2nd or before this if so, can you bring the harry potter deathly hallows part 2? this past year she appears to have been spent much of her time online, shopping for expensive jewelry, art and furniture e-mail boutiques in london and paris. assad apparently last month e-mails the lyrics to a country western song. 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>> the most strikingening in these documents, and i should say that it's -- they provide an amazing opportunity to get inside the head of osama bin laden before his death. the most striking thing was how worried he was that al qaeda had tarnished its image so badly in the muslim world by killing so many muslims in the midst of its jihad against the united states that he wrote in one document al qaeda should change its name and rebrand itself. i found that fascinating. al qaeda leader brooding in his compound, isolated from his colleagues, clearly worried that his organization was going in the wrong direction. >> he sort of treated it like a corporation. there was talk about vice amirs action this kind of thing. is that in keeping? >> it's always been bureaucratic. they had bylaws, vacation policies, more generous than the policy at cnn, for instance, so this is a piece of bin laden, as david wrote in the post today, and i'm, you know, writing for cnn as well, you know, this was a guy who wrote a 48-page memo to his deputies, with very micromanagement kind of instructions, but the other thing that was striking to me was they were very concerned about the drones program in pakistan. >> the unmanned missiles that the u.s. sends over into pakistan. >> rightisms has done quite a bit of damage. in 2010, when bin laden wrote this memo, there were 118 strikes, so he was very concerned. he was instructing his followers to move away from afghanistan, to move into remote regions that he's family with. he was concerned about his son, who was also in this area, telling him that he should, you know, hide in tunnels to avoid drone strikes, so the picture emerges of an organizational life support that had very big goals, but very little means to do it. >> i was going to ask you, david, sort of a double-pronged question, that is they didn't seem to have the wherewithal to carry out thinks giant plans to shoot down the president's plane, et cetera. if you would also comment, one of the thinks, and maybe it's because i'm a political junkie, what struck me was his summation of joe biden being inexperienced and it would be all chaos in the u.s. when he would become the president, seemed a very naive look at the american political system. >> i think he was naive. he spent an awful lot of time watching television in that compound in aaabbott bad. he notes that obama had successfully rebranded it, they're calling it not the war on terror anymore, but the war on al qaeda, and that puts us on the defensive, so i think he was focused on obama. his comments about biden were surprising, in the sense that biden has had far more experience on the senate foreign relations committee and generally than obama had. totally plugged into the global grid following everything on a daily basis. >> i agree. it was just all weird disconnect, it seems, just following and not knowing so much. let me ask you, peter, just as our closing question here, a couple months, the one-year anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden. there was a lot of tension at that time that al qaeda would launch some kind of retaliatory attack. in what shape is al qaeda now? and should we expect that the anniversary of his death would bring any more than his death did in terms of retaliation? isms the organization is on life support. that's what they documents show. that was well understood by the leaders of al qaeda itself. sure, somebody opportunistically may try to do something, but it's not going to be a big deal. it's unlikely to succeed. >> david, have we done it? is al qaeda gone? >> al qaeda is down, as peter is one of the world's real experts says, it's on life support, but they documents do show that o m osama continued looking for iowas to get the united states. in one of the documents he talks about asking the brother to find someone who could travel easily in the united states. he was always looking for that seam that might allow him to conduct a spectacular attack. the capacity to pull it off obviously very limited, down, but not out. >> david ignatius, great column, people should read it, and peter bergen, great article on cnn.com. i've kniffin everybody their reading assignments for the evening. thank you both so much. monster twisters barrel through parts of michigan, leaving homes and buildings in their way, but leveling homes and buildings, but the worst may be to come. plus new po templeal legal trouble for google. ahead, details on the major priefer sis investigation that could be unfolding. i am loving this greek yogurt. i like yoplait. it is yoplait. but you said it was greek. mmhmm. so is it greek or is it yoplait? 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>> it doesn't mean hotter than normal, about you it means that summer may arrive sooner. i think right now we're almost into spring, with spring being a 2, 2 1/2 month season, we could stay 80, 90, 100 degrees, maybe eight, nine months all way into october and november. could be a very long summer. probably not hotter, but certainly longer. >> chad, thanks so much. shocking words from an american jail inside cuba. >> the conditions here are subhuman, and the food is unfit for human consumption. we have secret video smuggled out of the one of cuba's most notorious prisons. that's just ahead. shocking chants from the band as naa tournament here. your cat can enjoy wi, the delicious, satisfying taste of gourmet gravy every day. fancy feast. the best ingredient is love. in your breakfast cereal, what is? now, in every box of general mills big g cereal, there's more whole grain than any other ingredient. that's why it's listed first. get more whole grain than any other ingredient... just look for the white check. a little bird told me about a band... ♪ an old man shared some fish stories... ♪ oooh, my turn. ♪ she was in paris, but we talked for hours... everyone else buzzed about the band. there's a wireless mind inside all of us. so, where to next? ♪ now something you probably have never seen before. we have obtained video struggled out of the cuba's prison, showing appalling conditions, including an american inmate. our brian todd has been digging into this. quite a story. >> it is, candy. this could be the first look ever inside a cuban prison at least for a broad are audience, a courageous dissident took a rick and got an inmate to take a risk in filming it. a so-called bathroom mired in filth. the toilet, a hole in the ground. the food described as worse than animal feed. >> the food is unfit for human consumption. >> reporter: grime so thick in one cell it's almost black. decaying sinks, leaking sewage all around. the cuban government doesn't want you, the red cross or anyone else on the outside to see this video, an inside look at the maximum-security prison. wet got the video from a cuban dissident and cannot verify the authenticity. the prison houses critics of the castro brothers and others convicted of criminal offenses. some inmates give testimonials. there's apparently at least one american here. the man who i.d.s himself as thomas moore says the conditions are subhuman. >> i'm sing you would out for abuse. i cannot count all the times i've been beaten mercilessly, then robbed of my few meager possessions. >> reporter: more described in the video as jailed on drug charges shows bruises on his legs and walks with a cane. >> hello, mom action dad. he uses the frame of a chair that he uses to sit over a toilet that's broken. in another clip, at the narrator says he came in healthy. a dis didn't journalist who we got the video from says it was shot in late january with a camera smuggled into the prison. >> we monitored what they say. we watched the video with frank calzone, a >> for response to any of these accounts we got nothing. we also could not get response from cuban officials in havana or at the u.n. or to the video to calzone's comments. >> why would these prisoners take a risk of appearing in this video? >> because the only hope a prisoner has in cuba, north korea, iran, exequatorial new guinea is for the public to know about their plight. it forces the comment not to mistreat them. >> calzone says some of the prisoners might be mistreated now but in the long run he says the cuban government knows the outside world is aware of these people and might spare them some of that. he says if he hears of any of the prisoners being mistreated after this he'll immediately sound alarms with the media and contact representatives to pope benedict xvi traveling to cuba. overall detentions have increased this year. opposition members have gotten more visible. they've spread their word around to spread activities with social network and the government has felt threatened by that and incarcerated more people this year. we've tried to get response from the cubans. but gotten nothing. >> far from the middle east but similarities. >> the u.n. point man on the escalating syrian crisis demanding unimposed access to humanitarian relief. our lisa sylvester is monitoring that and some of the other top stories in the situation room right now. lisa, what do you have? >> reporter: hi, candy. kofi annan says he's quote doing his best to try to find a peaceful solution just days after holding a meeting with syrian president bashar al assad. the government says in letters to new u.n. officials that terrorists are behind the slaughter despite new reports of deaths, shellings and arrests just today. according to the "wall street journal," google is being investigated here in the united states and europe for bypassing the privacy settings of millions of safari web users. it could mean trouble and fines for the internet search giant. the a google spokesman says they will cooperate with anyone who has questions. at an ncaa basketball game. >> he's a fresh man but about as cool as they come right now. no facial ex tropical depression whatsoever. >> members of the univefrsity of southern mississippi band were chanting "where's your green card" at an athlete of hispanic descent. the player says he ignored it when it happened and accepts the apology. candy? >> wow. even at a ball game. pretty amazing. thanks so much, lisa sylvester. appreciate it. some unusual allies on capitol hill. ahead an exclusive look at how they crossed party line toss support each other and are doing things their counterparts cannot. i want to be a volunteer firefighter. when i grow up, i want to write a novel. i want to go on a road trip. when i grow up, i'm going to go there. i want to fix up old houses. 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