Even considering another bid and that does not sit well with a lot of republicans. Dana bash joins us live from washington. What will happen at 11 00 a. M. Eastern time dana . What will happen, carol, romney Martin Luther king ismitt romney will be on the phone with supporters to whether or not hes going to actually make a third run or not. You might want to ask why now. And the answer is, because over the even the past couple of days even hours, some some donors some important staffers in key states began to choose other candidates. He knows how this game works. Hes done it twice. Hes got to fish or cut bait for lack of a better way of saying it now he wants to actually do it. So why is he making the announcement this way, by phone . Thats a good question. Look, heres whats been going on behind the scenes over the past couple of weeks since mitt romney as you pointed out told some donors in new york that hes seriously thinking about it. If you talk to anybody who knows mitt romney they use the word data. He say data driven guy. Hes asked his closest confidents since beginning of time with him to gather data. Thats polling, information, from people who have been with him from since the last two elections in key states. To see what the genuine appetite is for a third mitt romney run. So hes been looking the that and crunching those number us. Of course when you run for president , its not just about numbers, its about fire in the belly. Do you really want to go through this again . Do you want to put your family through this againy so those are the things that hes been weighing. Hes going to do this by confidence call now. He wants to get the message out asap. One other thing i wanted to point out is that theres been a lot of talk understandably so about ann romney. Shes so often publicly said no no no i dont know how many ways i can say no hes not going to run. Ive been told over the past few weeks shes been much more positive encouraging him to do so. For various reasons, mostly because he and she and the relevant of their family know that this is something that he has always wanted to do. And if they see the data and hes gault the fire in his belly, theyre with him for a third time. All right. Dana bash stand by. If romney does throw his hat into the 2016 ring hes facing a slew of possible gop contenders. A lot of chatter throughout. Look at those heads on the screen. As for the democrats, cue the crickets the short list includes Hillary Clinton and joe biden. It just seems like its going to be a repeat of the gop primary, i should say . Well youre going have a much provided field, they believe its a much more established or credible field. You have an ideological split, the Tea Party Like ted cruz. The libertarian, perhaps mitt romney an ideological split in the field. Scott walker and a generational split. The younger guys. Rick santorum before i would take sarah palin and donald trump out of that i think theyre mostly trying to get attention. Ben carson former fox news contributor, bobby jindal, the governor of louisiana. There are at least two dozen republicans taking a look at this. As dana noted, mitt romney is still at the top of the pack even if he believes a decent number of had his donors or a decent number of his operatives he would start with a bigger or better insfrafrastructure than any other candidate. Mitt romney would say i think im better than jeb bush. I think i have a better chance over Hillary Clinton than anybody in the field. Just last night after president obama spoke at a democratic retreat, romney tweeted back to have a debate with obama. All signs point to that he wants to run. With the close of the inner circle who governor romney has talked to the last time and gone off to do his assessment. And were two hours of finding out what that is. Lets talk about some of romneys closest supporters and advisers. Gloria borger has talked with some donors. What are they telling you, gloria . Well i talked to a couple of donors who believe that romney will as one put it quote, lean in on this phone conversation to running. He knows hes got to make a decision quickly because hes going to lose the donors otherwise. Hes going to Lose Campaign staff otherwise. He just lost his former Iowa Campaign chief Campaign Staffer to jeb bush yesterday. But i think theres something more personal underlying this in talking to people who are close to romney. Yes, as dana points out is with him and because she is with him because he really believes had he should be president of the United States. You know about a year and a half ago, i interviewed them both in park city utah. I asked mitt romney if he would ever run again. This was after the loss. He said oh id do it in a minute. And i sort of couldnt believe him. And ann said huh . Because she clearly was not as enthusiastic. But if mitt romney really wants this and will do this their son sonnetagson tag romney would be involved. Its like the band is getting back together sort. Some people are scratching their heads about this but romney believes hes better than anybody else in the field. One thing he has on his side he believes hes been the nominee before. Hes kind of been to the super bowl once. Even though had he lost. He feels he can withstand the kind of scrutiny and the kind of campaign that will be ahead of him. Interesting. So you mentioned ann romney. Yes. And i want to remind people what ann romney said in 2013 lets listen. I feel like you know we did our best. We had had our turn. We gave it our all. I believed in it completely. I believe in my husband completely. And now i feel like its time to pass the baton on to someone else. So thats what she said in 2013. Gloria stick around, i want to bring bring in chris, too. If youve ever met anyone who has ever worked on a president ial campaign there say fog hanging over them for quite a while after a loss. And i think that has to hit especially hard on the families. So i would expect somebody who had just gone through a multiyear process, devoted their life to something, and then didnt achieve the goal to keel a little discouraged. But, of course the romneys have had a come years to come back from that. Their heads cleared up a little bit. And as our cnn correspondents have said theyve looked at the data and future and see there may be a path for him. Theyre looking at that. And have an noneannouncement very soon. Thank you all. Romney is due to hold that phone call with a reporter. Less than two hours from now. Thanks to you too, gloria. Also coming up in the newsroom, say it aint snow. The blizzard in the northeast. Read for another dougs. Sara ganim is in portland this morning. Financial noise financial noise your eyes really are unique. 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Army Sergeant Bowe bergdahl was freed after the United States handed over five taliban detainees held over at Guantanamo Bay . Critics accused the white house of negotiating with terrorists but today the controversy mushrooms. Sources tells us that one of those detainees is apparently trying to return to militant activity. Cnns Barbara Starr joins us live from the pentagon to tell us more. Hi barbara. Good morning, carol. As you recall fees 95 men were sent to the prison nation of qatar that promised to keep an eye on them at the same time the u. S. Was conducting a Surveillance Program monitoring intercepting all of their communications. Apparently within the last several weeks one of them tried to make phone calls to former Taliban Associates u. S. Intelligence picked it up very quickly. They caught the call. Now, what does this all mean . Some in the Intelligence Community have said as long as we caught the problem, its okay. I will tell you that several sources tell me that there is considerable concern about this. It is not a good sign. They may have caught the communication, but this is not a good sign. Theyve had detainees do this return to the battlefield, shown that activity in the past. Its happened before but in this case of course its very distinctive because of that political controversy surrounding the five for one trade swap to get Bowe Bergdahl back. These five detainees from Guantanamo Bay all were suspected of fairly significant activity in operating with the taliban in afghanistan. Thats what got them picked up and sent to gitmo in the first place. So likely to see a lot of additional criticism from this from many republicans, in fact democrats here in washington. Wasnt someone supposed to be keeping an eye on these men . Yeah you know heres the deal the qataris promised and apparently have promised again to keep a very close physical eye on them. They are not allowed to leave the country, well they may be within the next several months that travel ban expected to be lifted it is that classified u. S. Intelligence Interception Program of their communications their email their cell phone traffic that caught this. So the u. S. Intelligence community was working very closely, we are told torsion try and make sure that all of their communications were monitored. One of them apparently felt they could get away with it. The good news is they got caught at it. The not so good news is these guys apparently still at least one of them has an interest in returning to militant activity. Barbara starr reporting live from the pentagon for us thank you. Lets talk some more about the weather. New englanders bracing for yet another round of snow. I used to love it when i was a kid. Now, when you get a car and stuff, its not the same. Its certainly not the same. Just when you can see the pavement fresh flakes are this way from falling john kerry should be prosecuted. The u. S. Secretary of state is actually facing a 50 fine for not clearing the snow outside of his mansion. In all fairness he was in saudi arabia attending the funeral of king abdallah. Sara ganim in maine with the answer. Good morning, sara. Reporter good morning, carol, guess what snowing again in new england. Nothing like we expected with blizzardlike conditions we saw earlier this week but it is a given amount of snow already on the ground here. I just want to show you, im in Portland Maine, downtown. Here they got about 27 inches of snow from the blizzard. Take a look at this carol, this is a lot of snow around on the ground before it started snowing today. There are snowplows of plowed snow stacked up. When we got here this morning, crews were scrambling racing against the snow trying to clear the streets. Trying to clear the snowplows with dump trucks trying to get the snow out of the city because 6 to 10 more inches are expected to fall between today and tomorrow with the potential, carol, with a third storm, another storm to come sunday into monday. All of this is significant, because when you get to that many that high of snow totals on the ground that leads to problems removing the snow. Plowing the streets, keeping everything clean, also rooftop safety concerns. And of course all of that on top of the potential for Power Outages with storms like this carol. Sara ganim reporting live from Portland Maine this morning. Still to come in the newsroom, a deadly hit and run. And a notorious rap mogul charged with murder. Yeah the rap mogul booked with suspicion of murder. Well tell you what happened in the middle of the day, according to sheriffs deputies. Right now, a former new England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez sits in a courtroom accused of murder. Hernandezs defense team claims he was targeted by police because of his celebrity status. As soon as they found out that Aaron Hernandez, the celebrity Football Player the new england patriot, was a friend of odin lloyds, aaron never had had a chance. It was over. How does that play into his future . The prosecutors argue hernandez not only orchestrated the killing of his former friend odin lloyd but tried to cover it up. Today several key witnesses are expected to take the stand, including lloyds mother lloyds girlfriend. And a criminal scientist at the crime green. Joining me by phone, clark panel, he was a jury foreman in the panther trial. Clark, i want to start with you, tell me what it was like to sit on a jury in the rae carruth trial . Well it was very interesting and very enlightening to be able to sit there and listen to all of the different versions of what happened. And then try to sort through it with my fellow jurors to come to the conclusion that we did. Was it i mean did rae carruths celebrity status affect any of the jurors Decision Making . I dont think so. We had a mixed jury. I think it was like seven men, five women. All of us were locals. So we knew about the panthers. And we knew about rae carruth, but i dont think that that really played into the decision of anybody. What do you expect the jurors are feeling now as they sit through the beginning days of this trial . Well if theyre like me you know lot of us are like this i believe in the system. Once you get into a courtroom and youre told you can you hear certain things and youre told to disregard them thats hard to do. Youre told that you know you can take notes, but you cant take them home with you. You cant watch television. You cant read the newspapers, et cetera, et cetera. And, you know to have all of that coming at you right on the first day or two of the trial, to me it was very overwhelming. I was just kind of Walking Around in a daze for the couple of days i guess. I cant even imagine. So joey one of the difficulties of the attorneys in the courtroom is a, to make the jury understand where theyre coming from right . Yeah. And in this case especially for the defense attorneys. They want to paint a picture of Aaron Hernandez of this rich handsome football. In fact one of the lawyers said this is the picture of Aaron Hernandez. With his arm around his girlfriend smiling. This is not the picture of a murderer . Uhhuh. Hes the orchestrater hes the murderer this is the guy, but to remember that this is what the defense is doing, it goes to motive. And you never have to establish a or prove motive but inquiring minds want know. Why would he do this . Hes got everything 40 million, a fiancee, a beautiful child. Why would he do it . Does it make sense to you . If not, you cant convict. And thats the deal. For the other side for odin lloyd, right, prosecutors are theyre trying to paint a picture of odin lloyd as this drug dealer guy. Not this loyal son. I dont think its a surprise that lloyds mother is going to take the stand today, danny. Theres no question in every one of these cases, theres a subtle amount of character assassination that goes on involving the victim. Because after all, theyre not here speak for themselves. Its subtle sometimes not so subtle. But its critical to paint a picture not only of the defendant and who he is but the victim and who he was. Because jurors will make that decision based on that kind of relatability. And if the defense agrees showing that the victim was not the ideal citizen then that may affect the jury deliberation. Maybe not even consciously. Either side is doing it whether admitting it or not. So clark, did that enter into the rae carruth trial . I suppose that it did. It was a long time ago, so i cant remember all of the facts. But i suppose that the as one of the attorneys said you did their character assassination on the victim in this in the rae carruth trial. And, you know, she worked you know et cetera. And i dont know if that really made anybody emphasize or not believe that rae was the instigator of this. Right. Just to remind our viewer rae carruth was convicted of orchestrating the death of his girlfriend who was pregnant at the time. Clark, interestingly enough i used to be a prosecutor now a defense attorney. We always wondered you know what the judge admonishing the jury dont read anything dont review anything dont Pay Attention to all of the media crush youre getting over it. But you have analysis night after night, paper after paper, so the issue, clark, did that influence you or anything that the other jurors in terms of whether the media was covering it . Did you really follow the instructions that the judge gave the jury not to look at any of that stuff . I can only speak for myself. But i did. My wife was very faithful about getting the newspaper in in the mornings before ive had a chance to get up. And if there were articles in there, shed cut them out. If we were watching the tv at night, and something came up information or details about the rae carruth trial, then we turned off the television. And i have to think that the majority of the other jurors did the same thing. You know i never heard anybody say, when we were sitting around that hey, did you see the newspaper article, or hear what was on the news this morning. Well thats thats awesome. Im glad. Followed the judges instructions. Makes you feel better doesnt it . Yeah the judge admonishes the jury constantly dont follow that stuff. That makes it difficult. Were surrounded with information. My wife cut out all the articles out about the trial. He put them in a notebook for me so i could read what had happened. The swiss cheese newspaper. Last quest