toss the head set fell. zimmerman says he was acting in self-defense and has never been arrested or charged, but martin s family and their many supporters claim that racial bias in the shooting and the investigation. so now the fbi has stepped in and the justice department has opened a civil rights investigation. cnn legal analyst sunny hostin joining me now with more on all of this. why don t we go ahead and start with trayvon s cell phone friend. i understand you actually have a copy of her sworn affidavit. give us the details, sunny. we ll kind of unfold the conversation from there. good morning, kyra. i do not have a copy though of the sworn affidavit but i did speak to one of the martin family attorneys this morning for at least half an hour, and she and i discussed this phone call. apparently trayvon martin on that night had been trading phone calls with a 16-year-old friend, a girl, and as they traded phone calls, one of the last phone calls, w was at abou 7:04. tr
you have no chance of winning. and he fought. he won 11 states in 1976. i might add just parenthetically, that if we happen to win illinois, that will be the 11th state i ve won in this collection. though ronald reagan did lose in 1976. but his spokesperson believes in a different outcome in 2012. they put out a memo called santorum path to delegate victory. he s been promising victory for weeks. we re in this race and we re in it to stay. we have won in the west, the midwest, and the south. and we re ready to win across this country. we feel very good that we re in a position to still win it right out. and if we have to go to an open convention, we like our chances just as well. we are going to win this nomination before that convention. obviously we re in this to win. we re going to come out with illinois and a huge surprise win. i guarantee you that we will win this nomination. here s where it begins to fall apart. governor romney has a 2-1 advantage in delegates so
polls in illinois close in less than an hour. we are in countdown mode after a couple of bruising weeks on the campaign trail and two major losses to rick santorum, of course in alabama and mississippi. mitt romney has to prove he can seal the deal tonight. 69 delegates in the state. it is the second-largest delegate grab to date. to get to the magic number of 1,144 needed to clinch the nomination, mitt romney needs every win he can get. we ll go through the delegate map in a minute. it is a little more come plifktplifk pli krichlt. can romney made in-roads with traditional evangelicals and tea party supporters? we ll get all that information font from our exit poll. two, will santorum surprise? the latest poll actually shows rick santorum down by 14%. even if he wins a close second he could spin it as a win because he was so far behind when you looked at the actual poll data and he was outspent by romney 7-1 in the state. number three how low can you go? this is the
line as well, doesn t it? yeah, yeah, yeah. santorum s closing pitch, a poke at the former illinois senator who now lives in the white house. you have a particular obligation to write a wrong here in the state of illinois. there are 54 delegates at stake tuesday in the state of illinois. a look at the math shows you time is running short for anyone else trying to stop governor romney. you need 1,144 to clinch. governor romney is 519, not halfway but look how commanding the lead is. senator santorum is second and gingrich 139 and romney with a big lead. if you look at the remaining delegates, 996 allocated to date. that leaves just shy of 1,300. we re almost to the halfway point in the delegates awarded and illinois will get closer to that. if you are behind romney, you re running short. mitt romney is the leader now in the delegate chase and he has right now 49%, 49% of the delegates needed. the average win is winning 57%. if he wins 49% of the rest of the way, he clinc
ago. the shooter is still a free man. the family said it was murder. that and more right here, right now on cnn. good evening. i m don lemon and thank you for joining us. we are going to begin with a developing story that is a turning point for the u.s.-led mission in afghanistan and could starlt bringing the men and women there home much sooner than we thought. in a matter of weeks or days. the tragic story of army staff sergeant robert bales played out last weekend, but tonight he is on u.s. soil. his attorney arrived in kansas to prepare for his first face-to-face meetings with his client. he is suspected of killing 16 afghan civilians including nine children last weekend. he could be charged in connection with the deaths as soon as this week. standing by for us, dan, let s start with bales attorney. this story has been advancing over the weekend. for several days we had no idea of the name of the suspect while the military kept his name secret. now we know who he is.