prime minister david cameron. mostly business, anyway. after they caught a game in the ncaa basketball tournament, president obama welcomed the british prime minister and his wife in a ceremony fit for a king. right now they're meeting in private on world issues tough to talk about. iran, syria, the debt crisis. stop me any time. they will be honored tonight at a state dinner as well. in a little over an hour from now, he and the president will be stepping into the rose garden for a news conference, and you'll be seeing it live here on cnn, so stay tuned. also in the news, secretary leon panetta is in the eyes of the storm. he will be visiting with troops and governors and tribal leaders in afghanistan. he won't see the rebel who went on the killing spree there. military investigators want to know if alcohol was, in fact, a factor in the cold-blooded shootings of those 16 afghan men, women and mostly children. toxicology tests on the suspect are not yet complete. authorities are said to have presented some probable cause, though, and that keeps the accused killer locked up pending trial in a military court. for more about that, stay tuned for my interview with a former military prosecutor. that's coming up just a little bit later on in this hour. switching gears, you just might not think of the deep south as rick santorum country, but maybe you should. the ex-pennsylvania senator is savoring his sweep of the tuesday mississippi and alabama in those primaries. you know the polls did not predict it. they didn't. and rival newt gingrich was desperately trying to prevent this. that didn't happen, though. anyway, gingrich is still saying he's staying in the race, and mitt romney, gingrich says, is, quote, not much of a front runner. mitt romney came in third in the south but he did win last night's caucuses in hawaii and there are some delegates there, and he still enjoys a huge lead in the only race that really matters so far, and that is the big one, the delegate count. gop delegates is really what matters. syria is said to have answered the cease fire proposals from a high-level u.n. envoy and it does not look like the answer the u.n. was hoping for. the general met with syria's president over the weekend representing not just the world body but also the league of arab nations. yet the syrian ioo onslaught ju keeps continuing. 60 people have been killed today across that country, many in the stronghold of idlib which reportedly has fallen now to government forces. investigators in switzerland want to know what caused a bus crash that killed 28 people and most of them were kids. 11 and 12-year-old kids. the bus was on its way back to belgium with 52 people on board when it slammed into a highway tunnel. another two dozen children were hurt in that crash and rescuers spent hours trying to get everybody out of the wreckage and then, of course, tending to the injuries. after george clooney is not on a movie set but he is on capitol hill today and he's testifying about the violence in sudan and south sudan. this testimony comes today after he returned from a trip to the region. he visited the yuba mountains where villagers have fled to caves just to try to stay alive. he talks about the sudan armed forces. >> these are war crimes when you're innoceskrim na-- disch bt civilians. super packs are pouring millions of dollars into presidential campaigns. in fact, a majority of voters want them outlawed altogether. 69% want to do away with super pacs. 25% want to keep them. but independent voters are moreau posed to them than any other and that's right across the board. romney's view of planned parenthood is raising a few eyebro eyebrows. a reporter talked to him about balancing the federal budget and here's what he had to say about that. >> my test is pretty simple. is the program so critical that you borrow to pay for it. obamacare is easy. planned parenthood, we're going to get rid of it. >> an aide says he means cutting funding for planned parenthood, not shutting it down since it is not a government organization. just released 911 calls revealed the chaos aboard an american airlines flight last week when a flight attendant reportedly snapped. 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>> reporter: i think we are focusing because it's not every day you get the opportunity to hear from president obama and hear from prime minister cameron during a press conference like this. there is so much going on right now especially with the recent "new york times" report about an accelerated withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan and it's during the visit with the prime minister. we're going to be paying close attention to what they're saying in this rose garden press conference. but yes, there is this big event tonight, the state dinner. i don't have the guest list or the menu, but we do know that rory mcilroy will be one of the guests, he tweeted that, as well as david lewis of whom president obama is a big fan. >> i'm not going to read anything into it. i'm going to let that one ruminate for a while. both president obama and the british prime minister are set to be together in the rose garden, setting up the mics, podiums and all the rest. talking about iran and the gs and the upcoming summit, too. afghans are outraged. they're calling for an open trial against the u.s. soldier suspected of going on that awful killing spree a few days ago. but that is not going to happen, at least not the way they want it to. so what is going to happen? 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>> as far as his competency, this is a similar issue to any civilian trial you're going to have. there is going to be a ton of evaluations done by psychiatric exper experts. we've seen this play out over years now with the major hassan trial. that trial has been going out since november of 2009. the major issue of that case why it's still pending is because of strik issues. so they're going to be psychiatric experts from the prosecution most likely saying that he is capable and able to stand trial, understanding the consequences of his action. and at the same time we're going to have the defense putting forward their psychiatric experts, getting him evaluated, and somewhere coming to common ground and making sure he is able to stand trial to assist in his own defense. >> what's the focus right now, steve? i'm sure they're trying to figure out a lot of things since we are so early in this developing story. but what's the focus in country right now of people who are actually involved with the legal process? are they more concerned with processing csi, the crime scene, and from getting evidence in country that they're going to need to present at trial, or are they more focused at dealing with him and determining what kind of defendant he may end up being? >> right now they're very interested -- i would say most interested in gathering all the evidence that they can in order to prove the case. i mean, that's always going to be the main issue in any criminal action, especially one like this where it's involved in a foreign country, in afghanistan, where evidenciary procedures are quite different. it's different in this environment because you're not dealing with somewhere in the states where you have all the resources at your disposal to be able to preserve evidence. the thing about this case, too, physical evidence is important and that's what i'm speaking to right now. but we also have a lot of civilian witnesses, so it doesn't look like in this particular case it will become an issue regarding evidence. that comes to the next point. where is this trial going to be held? most likely it will be held in afghanistan, and the reason for that is because the eyewitnesses are all in afghanistan, which also presents some other complicated factors. >> oh, you led me right to my next question, so i'll make it a twofer. you mentioned the witnesses. we all know when you're in a circumstance like a war and you're trying to deal with collecting evidence in theatre and gathering witnesses in theatre, they don't speak english. and even the best translator can make mistakes which can sometimes lend to the defense. how do you troubleshoot that and get ahead of that, and at the same time, is this going to placate the afghans who want this public trial in afghan? they may not get trial justice, but they may get american justice in their country. >> you just put the finger on why this trial will most likely be in afghanistan, the reason being if we were to take the soldier back to the united states, there would be a huge uproar. they want public justice, they want justice in the country in which the crime was committed. as far as translators and such, yes, that's obviously a big issue. nevertheless, the translators are going to be vetted to make sure they're highly qualified in order to translate specifically. in other words, you can't just get any local afghan to translate. these are going to have to be certified individuals who we know we can trust based on prior experience or based on their credentials. so the afghans are going to be made to feel they are involved in this process. while we understand justice must be served and will be served, we cannot forget the anger, that the public perception must be good. if it is not, it will become an absolute nightmare. >> i am so glad thadt i had a chance to talk with you about that. i have personally experienced the local translator and how lethal it can be if they have an agenda. there are just a whole can of worms that can be opened up at every stage. david, i hope you'll join me again. >> thank you. glad to be there. the mortgage crisis. consider this. for those of you who have not refinanced your home -- are you ready? 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