hooker scandal hits the hill. the first member of the obama administration getting grilled this hour on the colombian prostitution debacle. the white house saying their staff is in the clear. why do they have to testify? coverup. john edwards' former top aide coming clean admitting he helped cover up edwards affair with his mist res mistress, rielle hunter. has presidential politics moved from behind the podium to on the stage? "newsroom" begins right now. we begin with startling new developments in a missing child case that riveted much of the world nearly five years after madeleine mccann vanished during a family vacation to portugal, british police came out this morning and say they believe she may still be alive. they released a new image showing how she might look. she'll be 9 years old in mid may. she was 3 years old when she vanished. investigators face blistering criticism for the way they handled that case. max foster is following the latest developments from london. bring us up to date. >> carol, what we've had is an update really on a british police investigation instigated by the british prime minister about a year ago. they are going through all of the evidence gathered by the portuguese police and british police and by private v investigators. 37 officers working on this full time. a quarter of the way through it and they say they found lots of new leads. let's look at the detail then of what they have come up with. this is suggesting the british police are calling for portuguese police to reopen this case. at the moment it's still closed. the british want them to reopen it. up to 200 leads they're talking about. things that could be investigated, gaps in the evidence, could be investigated by the portuguese police. 40,000 pieces of information is what they got and they're dealing with right now. 100,000 pages worth of evidence, carol. a huge investigation. it is still closed at this point. >> are the mccanns reacting in any way this morning, max? >> no word yet from the mccanns. if we bring up the photo, this photo we're told was put together in very close cooperation with the mccanns. that's their message today. look at this picture. if it's recognizable in any way, get in touch with the police. it's deliberately being designed to look like a picture that a child would have taken at school. it's a sort of picture that any parent could have on their mantel piece and encouraging people in portugal at the time, are there any ideas you may have that you haven't gone to the police with or people who since then might have seen a girl looking like madeleine mccann would look like today. >> max foster reporting live from london. new developments and new casualties in the colombian prostitution scandal. three more members of the secret service losing their jobs pushing the total up to nine. that's not satisfying the political blood lust. republicans turning up the heat and demanding the focus shift to white house staffers who also made the trip. senior congressional correspondent dana bash is on capitol hill where an important hearing gets under way in the next hour. tell us about that, dana. >> reporter: it will be homeland security secretary janet napolitano. this is the first time we'll hear from an administration official and an important one in public testimony about this scandal. i spoke yesterday, carol, to the top democrat and the top republican on the senate judiciary committee. when it comes to the republican, never mind the secret service, he wants to know more about the white house advance team. the white house counsel looked into it and is satisfied no one on the advance team to colombia did anything inappropriate. gop senator chuck grassley isn't. >> i'm not going to be satisfied until we get some independent look at this. >> reporter: grassley, the top republican on the senate judiciary committee, says he wants an outside probe. the homeland security department's inspector general should investigate there was there any misconduct in colombia by any white house staff. his reason? >> so that there's no political implications with it and the reason for all of this is this is a serious matter. this isn't just a case of prostitution being used some place. this is a case of national security and the protection of the president of the united states. >> with all due respect, he knows that's not going to happen. >> reporter: the judiciary committee's democratic chairman says he sees no evidence of white house wrongdoing and dismissed grassley's call for an independent investigation of the white house advance team in colombia. >> with all of the press that's down there, with all of the conference, the white house has been involved this thing would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country by now. the fact of the matter they weren't. >> reporter: until now outrage and disgust over the secret service scandal has largely been bipartisan. no longer. family party lines are emerging. >> let's get this out of politics. we're talking about the security of the president of the united states. i don't care if they're republican or democrat. i want our president to be secure especially when they are in another country. don't play politics with this. we'll get all of the facts. the facts will all be made public. >> reporter: speaking of facts being made public, that's another area where grassley is dissatisfied. he wants the white house to release information about its internal inquiry. >> the most transparent administration in the history, which they aren't, but it seemed to me that all of their methods and what they found out ought to be made public at the very least. >> reporter: senator grassley cold "john king, usa" that accusing him of playing politics is a cheap shot. tensions are going to be probably pretty high between these two lead senators at this morning's hearing which starts in just under 20 minutes. more broadly, of course, the main questions that a lot of senators will have for janet napolitano with regard to the secret service is whether or not this is was just a one incident or whether this is a cultural problem and this has happened before. >> i know you'll pop in and listen. we'll check back with you at 10:00 a.m. eastern. dana bash reporting live from capitol hill. at the u.s. supreme court oral arguments get under way in a critical test of an immigration law. at the center, arizona's immigration law. it raises the question of whether state laws can trump federal authority on immigration issues. critics say it's a racist law that relies on racial profiling. arizona says the flood of illegal immigrants has created a crisis for the economy and the public safety and says the law just wants to help federal authorities. the obama administration says the arizona law overreaches and creates more problems. in other news this morning, john edwards' former aide back on the witness stand today. andrew young testifying he helped the former presidential candidate carry up his affair with a campaign videographer. young claimed he was the father of rielle hunter's child. edwards is accused of using campaign contributions to hide his mistress. a jetblue airliner is forced to make an emergency landing after two geese slam into the windshield just after takeoff. it's the second such bird strike on a commercial flight in less than a week. listen to the pilot as he alerts air traffic control that he's returning to the airport. >> jetblue 571 contact new york depart u departure 120.8. >> we got to come back. we hit two big geese. >> 571, roger. stand by. jetblue 571 make right traffic runway 1-6. >> would you like to declare an emergency? >> we are declaring an emergency. >> no one was hurt. an initial inspection showed no damage to the plane. new jersey's governor defending the decision to suspend two state troopers over this video. not unusual you think. it shows the police officers escorting a caravan of exotic luxury cards down the garden state parkway at speeds reportedly topping 100 miles per hour. >> it's a completely ridiculous story. shouldn't have happened. dumb thing to do. let me assure that it's not the last dumb thing that we'll see happen. >> the caravan included dozens of elite sports cars and they were traveling at those break neck speeds. one witness dubbed it death race 2012. in politics this morning, florida senator marco rubio is under police protection after his office said he received a credible threat. rubio's office says no details of that threat will be given, it's serious enough to prompt security at his washington office and at his home in miami. an investigation is under way. mitt romney fired up this morning after a five-state primary sweep. connecticut, delaware, new york, pennsylvania, rhode island all sewn up. two different kinds of campaigning going on. romney playing hard ball in new hampshire saying a better america starts tonight while president obama plays serious but funny on jimmy fallon's show. to cnn political editor paul steinhauser in washington. good morning, paul. >> good morning, carol. how are you? >> i'm good. let's talk about mitt romney's speech because it seemed he was taking playbook from the democrats frankly. >> he sure did in a way. this was an important speech because he was trying to pivot from a primary campaign to general election battle against president obama. he used that speech to do it. while the speech is getting rave reviews from some people, it also is interesting. you know every poll you've seen and i've seen indicates that romney has a problem identifying with middle class americans, average americans and the problems they are facing. in a speech last night he talked about single mothers who have to take two jobs. about grandparents who can't afford the gas to visit their grandchildren. he said help is on the way. he also talked a lot about fairness. that's something you hear president obama talk a lot about. take a listen to romney from last night and also the president from his speech yesterday as well. here you go. >> we will stop the unfairness of government workers getting better pay and benefits than the very taxpayers they serve and we'll stop unfairness of one generation passing larger and larger debts onto the next. >> we can't to keep tax cuts for the wealthiest americans who don't need them and didn't ask for them or do we want to make sure that they are paying their fair share. >> sounds similar, doesn't it? pretty interesting stuff. you'll hear more of that from romney. one thing about that gop fallon interview, i love the preezy of the united steezy. the president is on a youth tour for past for you days trying to shore up support among young voters. if his appearance on jimmy fallon last night, he was a hit. he found the perfect stage on late-night tv. listen as the president joins jimmy fallon on a slow jam of the news. >> the reason it's so important to keep down costs is so we keep college affordable. >> and the president knows his stuff, y'all. that's why they call him the pot -- it means person on top. >> jimmy, potus stands for president of the united states. >> he's the potus with the mostest. >> maybe obama didn't make his audience swoon but he's playing to a familiar tune. he's more likable than his challenger, mitt romney. the wild time in colombia cost nine secret service agents their jobs. at least one lawmaker says that's not enough. he thinks their boss needs a pink slip too. we'll have that conversation after a break. more than a technical foul. the nba slaps metta world peace with a seven-game suspension for throwing an elbow to the head of an opposing player. we'll talk that story next. 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"newsroom" back in two minutes. so the new orleans saints scandal got a lot worse. jeff is here to talk about that. we first hear allegations that the gm is listening to other coaches on the sidelines during games. >> you think it's just a football problem at that point. >> it's not. >> the fbi is investigating. right now the state police say they are investigating as well. this is a problem now that looks like it's going beyond football. new orleans saints already in trouble over the bounty hunting scandal now have to deal with this. to be clear, the general manager, mickey loomis denies the report from espn that says while he was in the super bowl at home games he could listen to the coaches of the other team talking and of course deciding what they're going to do on the field. calling plays, et cetera. loomis again strongly denies it. the team denies it. espn citing unnamed sources saying they couldn't determine if loomis listened to this. a spokesman said it never happened. yesterday reporters asked the interim coach about the report. >> it's ludicrous. absolutely ludicrous. it's impossible. i've never heard of it before. that's something from "star wars." when i heard about a wiretap, i didn't know what they were talking about. what are you talking about? this is ludicrous. and then to associate mickey with that. it's irresponsible. it's a shame. >> now to be clear, the accusations are this happened in the 2002, 2003, 2004 season before sean payton was there. and the former head coach is responding to the reports saying there's no way this happened. during my years no time during my tenure did the saints mickey loomis and i discuss monitoring opposing deep coaches communication nor did i have any knowledge of this. the nfl saying we don't know anything about this. the questions are how is someone else finding out about this and how is espn coming up with the report? >> maybe they will question them. i don't think espn will give up sources. the fbi is now involved because it's a crime. >> one question would be what's the statute of limitations on this. one expert says it should be five years which would fall outside of those limitations but if they are covering something up, how far back might it have gone or how recently has it been going on? >> we'll talk more about it later. thank you so much. now is your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. the question for you this morning, could america elect a nonchristian president? mitt romney is a mormon. he's been running for president since 2007, maybe many christians are not comfortable with his religion. on the campaign trail, romney has discussed what bonds him with other christians. >> i happen to believe that jesus christ is the son of god and m