"new york times" opinion piece calling his former employer togsic atogs toxic and destructive. wolf blitzer is off. i'm candy crowley. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world with. you're in "the situation room." puerto rico isn't often a hotbed of american politics but certainly is right now sunday's republican presidential primary looming. 20 delegates are up for grabs and as mitt romney and rick santorum will be the first to tell you, every one of those delegateses koubt es counts. jim acosta is watching it unfold for us in san juan. you had the opportunity to see both of these candidates, jim. >> reporter: that's right, candy, and it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out, because naturally mitt romney has been given sort of the advantage here in puerto rico. s' got the endorsement of this territory's governor, luis fortunio but the governor welcomed senator santorum to the island when he arrived earlier this beak. i have to tell you what everybody is talking about here on this island is this language controversy that flared up when rick santorum talked to a puerto rican newspaper and said that the territory's adoption of english as one of its main languages would be sort of a condition for statehood. that immediately created a backlash, one of santorum's delegates announced he was withdrawing his support for the former pennsylvania senator, and then on his way out of the island, rick santorum said, well, he really didn't mean that. what he really meant is he wants english and spanish to be the main languages of this island. but this is also an issue for mitt romney as well, at the cnn debate in jacksonville, in january, mitt romney said english should be the official language of the united states, so the question of course goes, well, if english is the official language of the united states and puerto rico becomes a state of the united states, doesn't that also mean it would have to adopt english as its official language? we've been going around and round on that issue. another complicating matter for mitt romney, honestly, candy, is the fact he's run ads targeting rick santorum's past support for sonya sotomayor, when she was placed on an appellate court so that could be a problem for mitt romney here. the governor, luis fortunio does not agree with mitt romney on that issue. it's going to be interesting and sort of amazing as you said a few moments ago not only every delegate and state counts but even territories in the primary battle. >> jim manage in with us. i bring in senior political analyst ron brownstein into the discussion. let's take this one thing at a tile. first of all i didn't think of puerto rico as saner to uhm territory. i thought of it as romney territory. this whole language things seems to be an odd place to be dropping that. >> it has been mitt romney territory and as jim said we're worrying whose territory puerto rico is a statement about where we are. yes, i think it is unusual place for santorum to find himself in that water but not unusual in another sense. this has been an extraordinarily, increasingly diversifying country, extraordinarily white republican primary. 14 of the 16 states with exit polls, 90% of the vote has been white and a lot of that white republican vote are the elements of the white community most concerned about immigration, most concerned about assimilation, most concerned about issues like english as an official language and you've seen almost the magnetic pull of that, that constituency on both romney and santorum, and it gets a little more complicated when they get into states or territories that are diverse. >> jim, have you been able to see anything or talk to anyone that leads you to believe that puerto rico at this point is favoring one or the other? whose territory is it? >> well i mean if you consider the fact that mitt romney has the endorsement of this territory's governor, you might assume that is an advantage for mitt romney but as we've seen throughout this campaign, endorsements haven't always added up to victories for mitt romney, and that may be the case here, but i will tell you, though, there are signs of his organizational advantage, financial advantage, he is running spanish language radio ads here in puerto rico, touting the fact that craig romney, his son, actually speaks spanish. he also has a letter to the editor in the puerto rican newspaper that is in spanish, so he's really sort of blanketed the state in ways that rick santorum hasn't, but the fact that rick santorum invested so much time here, he spent 48 hours in puerto rico, when the illinois primary is coming up on tuesday, it just goes to show you that rick santorum is thinking about how every delegate counts in this race. he watched those other territories a couple of weeks ago go to mitt romney. those territories in guam and the mariana islands, they offset all of the gains that santorum had in the kansas caucuses. he learned from that mistake and that's why he came to puerto rico. the fact he invested so much time here makes puerto rico kind of an open question as to where this is going to go, when you talk to people on the ground here, you really hear two different sides. you hear people saying yes, mitt romney has an advantage here, but that sotomayor ad did not play well here. >> jim acosta on hardship duty in puerto rico. i know you've got to go. we appreciate it. let me follow up one thing on puerto rico. i remember it being important when hillary clinton, so we did this four years ago, it isn't the first time in the lime light. puerto rico is the gateway to illinois if you will. >> yes. >> that's what happens on tuesday, and it would seem to me if there's some startling result in puerto rico, and by that i mean that rick santorum wins, that then dominos in illinois? >> i think it will be surprising, having spent several days in a controversy about english only if santorum does win puerto rico and the question of how much in illinois is the question. candy, the grooves in this race are cut pretty deep at this point. mitt romney has won nonevangelical voters in every state there has been an exit poll except for georgia. santorum has beaten him among evangelical voters in nine states. look at evangelical versus nonevangelical, college and non-college and you can guess who has the advantage. illinois is fascinating. it leans in the romney direction but not as decisively as new york, new jersey, california, the coastal states. it's enough to keep santorum in the game but probably enough romney still has the edge. >> it's interesting because with the other thing we're learning from the exit polls and entrance polls when we have them is that the turnout really has mattered but specific turnout. >> yes. >> if romney can't turn out his folks up state, which i'm assuming is where he'll plant himself. >> right. >> up towards chicago, and then santorum to the rural and farm areas, this really could be a toss-up place which we originally thought oh, illinois, romney. >> absolutely. it is closely balanced. if you looked on the calendar, states like maryland, delaware, connecticut, new york, new jersey, california, 35% of the vote or less is evangelical. you have to think romney is a strong favorite given he's won non-evangelicals except georgia. you look at arkansas, kentucky, strong for santorum. wisconsin, indiana, illinois, north carolina, turnout is likely to matter a great deal. with 41% of the vote last time being evangelical in illinois, you'd still have to give the edge to romney. it has a big population that's more upscale, that managerial wing of the party that's comfortable with him, but again, saner sum within reach there. >> i know just quickly you wrote an article in the "national journal" this week stronger but not secure. >> yes. >> as a description of where the president is in this election. how does he get secure? >> i don't know if he does. first of all in a more polarized country it's harder for a president to get secure. the question is whether it's possible any more to be president of more than half the country, given how divided we are and whether we will see someone get up to the 59% or so that ronald reagan did. the key for the president is economic improvement. the big thing that changed in our poll, heartland monitor poll, 67% of americans expect the economy to do better over the next year than it is today and that is the tailwind lifting him. you're also seeing an important separation here, white collar americans are becoming more optimistic relative to blue collar americans. they're beginning to feel that they're seeing their 401(k)s improve, housing values improve and the president in '08 ran much stronger among white collar whites and blue collar whites and will likely need the same pattern to resurface if he wins in 2012. >> ron brownstein, thank you. >> thank you. it's been a year since the start of the syrian revolt and the bloody crackdown that has taken thousands of lives. even as assad's assault on dissents grinds on. this video said to be from besieged idlib province shows the ambush of a syrian tank but the regime continues to target civilians here, shelling in the battered city of homs, as the ground shakes, voices call to god and cry out in pain. homs has been the epicenter of this revolt and videos have shown many acrotrocities apparey committed by security forces. cnn has obtained some of the most disturbing footage yet, about a dozen family members apparently killed in one house in cold blood. cnn's arwa damon filed this report. we should warn you, it shows graphic violence. >> reporter: the men crouch as they move across rooftops. crawling through holes they smashed through the walls. it's taken nearly a week to get this far. to reach a house on the sectarian fault line that runs through homs. "we're rescuing the bodies of the martyrs" the voice on the video narrates. they've heard a sunni family has been killed. what they find shocking beyond description. the first body that of a woman. in the room next to it, bodies crowded into a back corner, as if they were trying to hide. the dead child's face, a mask of fear, blood splatters the wall. "let the world see" the voice ex-claims "look at this massacre in one house." he curses the shia, the alawats. the video shot in the neighborhood of sabib early in february. "oh look, people, look" he says, overcome with emotion as he curses the regime and the world. the camera shows more bodies slaughtered in the bathroom. suddenly on another floor a tiny -- the child cries out, clearly terrified. he comes into view, having to crawl over a body lying in the doorway. he must have been hiding for days. "don't be afraid. you're safe now. don't make a sound" one of the men tells the boy. it's not known who killed his family or why, but the men who found the bodies are sure this was a sectarian massacre carried out by thugs allied to the regime. >> arwa damon joins us from beirut. in the end you sort of answered the question that now it looks sort of increasingly like a sectarian war rather than a rebellion against the government, and in the end, does it make any difference? >> reporter: well, candy, what the activists are saying is that the sectarian undertones to all of this are beginning to increasingly rise to the surface, and they're very fearful that they won't be able to control people's desire to want to carry out revenge attacks. a lot of what we were hearing on our recent trib to babamed in homs and in baghdad before the sectarian blood letting there began and the phenomenon of kidnappings for troits, aloites kidnapping sunnis and vice versa and trading. doesn't matter if there are the sectarian undertones. it does when it comes to how the country is going to stabilize in the future, at the end of the day the population is going to have to confront these emerging devi divisions and that would be a concerning development. if the war in syria takes on a greater sectarian nature you can almost be certain it is going to have a bigger spill on effect to iraq, already dealing with sectarian divisions and lebanon, too, as well. >> and would it also make it more difficult, because we know that various countries are looking at ways to try to get aid to some of the rebels. if it becomes more of a sectarian fight, doesn't it give the world a chance to walk away from it? >> reporter: absolutely. it most certainly would be raising a lot of questions as to what sort of individuals is the world potentially arming or aiding, and that is one of the big concerns, as the international powers try to debate and continue to remain divided on how to tackle the situation in syria. the opposition is very splintered at the microcosmic level, yes there's a certain degree of organization but as you move on up, you really see that beginning to disintegrate, and one of the big challenges has been finding viable opposition leadership to speak to, when it comes to trying to determine what sort of aid should be sent in to syria and so far really, candy, all political efforts, all diplomatic efforts have fallen fairly flat. >> arwa damon in beirut, thank you so much. walking out the doors and wl blowing them wide open. a former goldman sachs executive calls the company toxic and more. the controversy over contraception goes equal opportunity. proposed regulations on men and viag viagra. first rush limbaugh, now bill maher. are liberals getting a taste of their own medicine? o [ male announcer ] say goodbye to "ho-hum," and hello to "whoa, yum." use campbell's cream of chicken soup to make easy enchiladas, cheesy chicken & rice, and other chicken dishes that are oh...so...whoa. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. 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 one. agents, when it comes to insurance, people feel lost. that's a dead end. don't know which way to turn. this way. turn around. 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one client is the state of california. goldman sachs helps the state sell bonds. a spokesman for the state treasurer says there are no plans to alter the relationship but says "the state of california is not a muppet when it comes to bond sales and a relationship with banks." the california treasurer's office adds that even though it's a goldman sachs client, it hires independent financial advisers to help make decisions. in the bigger picture, though, former federal reserve chairman paul voelker says there's a dramatic change from firms focusing on profits and away from clients. mary snow, cnn, new york. the latest casualty in the firestorm engulfing conservative radio talk show host rush limbaugh, may be the liberal comedian bill maher getting heat from republicans and democrats for his own recent inflammatory comments. lisa sylvester joins us with the details. like a goose and gander story. >> bill maher and rush limbaugh couldn't be further apart on the political spectrum but they're both under fire for comments they've made recently and raises the question, when does comedy go too far? for bill maher there's a thin line between comedy and controversy. maher used a crude obscenity to refer to sarah palin, a tweet during tuesday's primaries took direct aim at the south, "toothless tuesday, too tight to tally." maher has taken on gop candidate rick santorum whose children are home schooled. >> he wants them locked up in the christian madrassa, the christian family room, not out in public with reason. >> reporter: even for comedy it's out of bounds, sher ye jacoby says is. >> making fun of a candidate's family or religion is downright nasty and calling women names that no woman should be called, then you've crossed the line. >> reporter: republicans are holding up maher as a counter example to rush limbaugh with. limbaugh used derogatory names to refer to college law student after she spoke out in favor of women's access to birth control. >> it makes her a slut, right, makes her a prostitute? >> advertisers have since been fleeing limbaugh's show and in that controversy's wake bill maher. he recently gave a $1 million campaign contribution to the pro-obama super pac. now there are calls for the money to be returned and david axelrod a key player on president obama's re-election team has backed away from an appearance on maher's show. >> you've got him as now a clear supporter of president owe bamo gave $1 million to the super pac that promotes president obama. that makes him a bigger target. dave axelrod who was supposed to be on his show is no longer because he may be too hot to handle. >> maher has shown no sign of backing down and on his march 9th show defended free speech, even when it comes to rush limbaugh. >> i don't like it that people are made to disappear when they say something or people try to make them disappear when they say something you don't like. that's america. sometimes you're made to feel uncomfortable, okay? >> right, thank you. >> maher remains a bull's eye for the right, limbaugh for those on the left. we've reached out to priorities usa action, the super pac that received a $1 million check from bill maher and as of now there's no indication the group plans to return the money. hbo, of course, is a sister network of cnn. >> hard to put this all back in the bottle, the conversation, the public discourse has become cruder and cruder as we go along and just harder to pull it back back. >> a lot of harsh receipt recognize going back and forth. >> thank you so much. it's a mission that brought george clooney to capitol hill and to a white house meeting with president obama, and finally got him arrested. you'll hear from the actor and activist himself. plus thieves will always go after jewelry or electronics, but why are they now targeting a popular brand of laundry soap? you're in "the situation room." while the republican candidates have been hammering one another at every opportunity, the democrats are joining in now. vice president joe biden went on the attack this week, slamming the gop rivals by name. this comes as democrats beef up their campaign operation in the key battleground state of ohio. dan lothian got a close look. >> reporter: as you pointed out, republicans have been so busy now trying to get that republican presidential nomination that the democrats have been able to get that advantage especially in the state of ohio, where they have canvassing, opening additional field offices and as you pointed out vice president biden flew in to toledo to hammer away at the president's opponents, directly by name, but republicans in the state of ohio say that president obama faces an uphill battle there. in fa polian, ohio, a quintessential middle american town of about 8,000 people. >> i'm calling this support of president obama's re-election campaign. >> reporter: the push to get president obama reelected heats up. volunteers explain the benefits of his signature health care law. a factory worker. >> i've had people that have hung up on me. >> reporter: a laid off elementary school teacher. >> we're getting positive feedback. >> reporter: the chairman of the state's democratic party is taking nothing for granted. how critical will ohio be in this election? >> we pick presidents. as simple as that. >> reporter: ohio picked president obama in 2008 by 51% and the ground operation across 88 counties that helped him win never folded up shop. >> we have a stronger infrastructure today than perhaps in 2008. >> reporter: they have a president with low poll numbers in a still struggling economy. this nbc news marri imarist surs 49% disapprove of his job, 45% approve. state republicans say mr. obama is vulnerable. >> $4 gas prices, obama care and the failed stimulus, things don't look good for president obama up here in ohio. >> reporter: they're pushing that theme of a president who has failed to improve their lives. as the obama campaign launches what's expected to be the most aggressive effort ever in the buckeye state, the president flew to dayton for a basketball game and what amounted to a political lay-up. >> heartland is what it's all about. >> reporter: two days later the vice president arrived in toledo where he delivered a high profile attack on the president's republican opponents. >> if you give any one of these guys the keys to the white house, they will bankrupt the middle class again. >> reporter: in a state with more than 800,000 jobs are tied directly to the auto industry, the obama campaign is taking credit for a dramatic turnaround, and supporters like the state's former governor, are using the bailout to draw a sharp contrast with republican front-runner mitt romney, who favored a managed bankrupts. bankruptcy. >> i believe it will have serious problems in november as he presents his record to the people of our state. >> reporter: republicans argue the president has big problems of his own in this state, and on that list is enthusiasm. >> you can throw all the pep rallies and campaign stops you want, but you can't get the enthusiasm back that the president had in 2008. >> reporter: so what you're seeing from republicans now is that they're targeting young voters, the independent voters and here is their message, whoever the republican presidential nominee is, will do a much better job of fixing the economy and getting the unemployed back to work. >> republican white house hopefuls aren't only taking aim at president obama on the economy, this weaniey're reactie situation in afghanistan. wolf blitzer spoke about it with mitt romney. >> is it time to start getting out of afghanistan much more quickly than president obama has in mind? he wants everyone out by the end of 2014? >> it's certainly time on a regular basis to review our mission there and see what progress we're making and not to make decisions based upon some actions by a crazed gunman. we don't determine our foreign policy based on something of that nature, but of course, from time to time we have to assess what the process is there. i'm very disappointed that the president has not, over the last year or two, talked about what's happening in afghanistan, what progress is being made, what setbacks there are, describing a timetable that makes sense, describing why his timetable makes sense or not, as the case may be. my own view is we have to listen to the commanders on the ground, hear what they have to say. we'll hear input from general allen in a few days. let's hear their rorpeports ande what prospects we have for having a successful mission of turning over as soon as possible the responsibility for the security of afghanistan to the security troops there. >> so do you agree or disagree with gingrich that the mission may not be in his word, "doable"? >> well, there's no certainty in a matter of foreign policy of this nature, of course, and one recognizes that, as one goes into a conflict, but one, over time, collects information to see what progress is occurring, what setbacks are occurring but you don't make an abrupt shift in policy because of the actions of one crazed, deranged person, but of course, you assess your prospects over time, again, given the input of the people closest to the action. at this stage to say we're going to throw in the towel without getting the input of general allen, or actually making trips to afghanistan and meeting with leaders there and meeting with our commanders there and troops there, that wouldn't make a lot of sense. i'm more deliberate when it comes to the lives of our sons and daughters and the mission of the united states of america. >> after testifying to congress and meeting with president obama, george clooney is arrested. the actor and activist talks about the mission that brought him to washington. plus one of the hotte estes targets for shoplifting rings is a popular laundry detergent. 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>> yes. drug dealers have realizes i can take this $10 rock and have you steal something worth ten bucks or i want five bottles of tide instead. once they steal those, then they can turn around and give them to me and i sell them for $6 a piece. now i have $30. >> reporter: police have arrested 18 people in one ring for stealing detergent. >> it's very easy to not know what's going on. >> why is it so easy to not see it? >> you are engaged in your activities. if you are with your children you are managing your kids. >> reporter: the thieves acted like nascar pit crews, staging unascended carts in the aisles and move through quickly, grab the tide and pile it up and throw their jackets over it and be out of the door. >> reporter: now cvs is placing security devices on tide that triggers alarms. police expect to make more arrests of members of that theft ring soon. they have devoted several undercover detectives to taking it down. we spoke to the detectives on how they infiltrated the rings. it's fascinating. >> unbelievable. it really is. president obama pays tribute to the british prime minister with a state dinner and much more. up next, jeanne moos on how they are starting to sound just like bffs. ok, guys-- what's next ? 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