let s go out front captions by vitac www.vitac.com hi there, and good evening. i m brooke bolduan sitting out front with erin burnett. five days, we re five days away in the contest for the gop nomination, and as i mentioned a moment ago i know it s following. newt going after romney and perry going after santorum and everyone going after paul and bachmann is fighting very publicly with her now former iowa chief, but romney, he seems to be riding pretty high after a new cnn poll shows he hasec broen out of this dead heat and has first place pretty much all to himself. let s go straight to the ground there to our cnn political correspondent jim acosta. i know you spent the day following around mitt romney, his campaign, and you know, if i may, it looks like mitt romney has a little extra pep in his step. reporter: i would say so, brook. he has a spring in his step. he came to all places, the music man museum to talk to voters earlier today. he even threw out a refe
those intelligence reports related to unmasking requests and they reviewed them at the ns ahead quarters in fort meade, maryland, and the conclusion is there is no smoking gun here and there is no evidence that the obama administration officials did anything unusual or illegal. sources do tell cnn that they re calling on the white house to declassify those intelligence reports to make crystal clear that there is nothing alarming in the documents. of course, like you said, kate, it was just last week that president trump said that susan rice hasec broen the law. susan rice said there were instances when she would receive a report where a u.s. person was redacted and she would go through the proper channels to unmask the identity to get the context of the report and she never leaked information or did anything improper and that is what we re learning from house and intel committee sources now is that they have not seen anything improper about these unof course maing requests and now they