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 clinches the nomination and he has been winning more than half. for senator santorum, he needs to win 70% of the delegate from here on out and only winning 20% of the delegates. speaker gingrich, the hill is even steeper. he needs to win 78% to clinch the nomination. congressman paul would need 83%. you see this here. if governor romney continues to perform, he would clinch. it might take awhile but he would clinch. the other candidates would have to do dramatically better. it makes it pretty unlikely in the eyes of most and a new poll shows romney with a 14 life point lead over santorum with newt gingrich running a distant third and ron paul at the back in single digits and might not be surprised by this, the talk on the trail is tough. >> i am somewhat experienced in the economy. i am not an economic lightweight. president obama is. we're not going to be successful in replacing an economic lightweight with another economic lightweight. we have to replace them with someone who knows how to run the economy. >> let's be brutally honest. there is one candidate that can never make this race about free because he is simply abandoned freedom when he was governor of massachusetts and he abandoned it when he promoted obama care in 2009. >> jim in the thick of all of this live from chicago. jim, very tough rhetoric. seems, number one, gov no nor romney can see a chance and store santorum in front of the statue of ronald reagan tough as well. >> that's right. whatever happened to ronald reagan's 11th commandment, shall not speak ill of another republican. it is hard to figure out which metaphor to go with, the uncivil war in the land of lincoln or the chicago way politics. and in the last 24 hours you heard rick santorum respond to the economic lightweight tag that mitt romney tried to hang on him by calling mitt romney a wall street finance ear and releasing a statement saying he has no core. earlier today saying as you mentioned a few moments ago saying he abandoned freedom and the rick santorum in i campaign isn't taking this lying down. they have gone after rick santorum as late as this afternoon with a web video they put out to reporters referring to a rick santorum statement at a town hall in moline, illinois, earlier this afternoon where rick santorum said i don't really think about the unemployment rate, i don't think it is important in this campaign, and the romney people are basically trying to turn it into rick santorum's i like being able to fire people and the only relief to voters in illinois is that the primary is tomorrow, john. >> that's an interesting way to put it, jim. i want you to listen to an interesting observation from governor romney about young voters. listen. >> i don't see how a young american can vote for, well, can vote for a democrat. >> jim, given governor romney's history, that's dicey, no? >> that was a bit dicey considering that mitt romney voted for paul and the massachusetts primary back in 1992 and the romney campaign and mitt romney have both said that of the because they were trying to block bill clinton from becoming the democratic nominee and it was an odd way of phrasing things and honestly it was another example of mitt romney having trouble turning his sights on president obama. he has been so busy fighting with rick santorum today he was supposed to go into this building behind me here on the campus at the university of chicago, john, to go after president obama's economic record, and on president obama's home turf, just a couple of miles from the headquarters of the reelection campaign and what really has been the talk of the political world and the talk of the primary is this very, very nasty battle, perhaps the nastiest 24 hours of this campaign so far, john. >> jim acosta in chicago. thanks so much. let's get perspective now. if you do the delegate math you can see, yes, romney hasn't clinched it, but he is so far ahead of the others. how big of gamble and how much backfire with santorum spending two days in puerto rico when he could have been in illinois and now he is down by double-digits? >> object why usually it didn't pay off for him. romney swept all of those. he got all of the 20 delegates. i think if you are the romney people, i talked to a senior advisor today that started calling santorum words like spoiler and obstructionist. the whole notion they take it to the convention and they believe he cannot get the requisite 1,144, that if he wants to play that game, at some point they're saying, look, you need to win 70% of the delegates. how are you going to do that? particularly they look towards april 24th, pennsylvania is up on april 24th, and they say if rick santorum doesn't win both the delegates and the popular vote, that's when people ought to say time to say good night. this is the romney people. >> given how the race has gone, let's get through illinois before we worry too much about april. i want you to listen to governor romney. one of the difficult challenges for the republican candidates and the one that says the best thing i can do is fix the economy, our statistics, and i don't mean they want people to be in pain but statistics show the economy getting better. governor romney acknowledged that today. >> i believe the economy is coming back by the way. we'll see what happens. i think it is finally coming back. >> he went on to say he thought it would come back stronger if we had a new president with different policies. how much more difficult from a communications standpoint does it make it that at least people may not feel it but at least some of the statistics are out. >> that clip shows that he has really taken a pivot on how he talks about the economy. it does get more difficult for him because he has to give the president some credit although he didn't say he gave the president some credit here, but you can't be seen to be a republican candidate and voting saying, okay, the economy is not getting better or at least not acknowledging the fact that it is getting better. you can't seem to be rooting against an improving economy, so i think he has to say what he said today, that it is getting better. i would have gotten it here a little faster and certainly i will make it get better a lot faster if you vote for me, but it is the first time i think we have heard him really say that. >> speaker gingrich is not a factor in illinois. if we're having this conversation a week from now and he doesn't prove himself in louisiana which votes over the weekend, his reason for staying is what? >> adelson, the sugar daddy and i don't think he has much of a reason and in talking to the republicans today and newt gingrich if he doesn't do well in louisiana, will be able to see that historically and that's how newt gingrich thinks in terms of his legacy and history that he will be able to say, you know what, maybe i can be a king maker in this race and maybe i can be somebody who can make a difference for either of these two candidates, and so then he would get out. nobody is actually gotten to newt gingrich and spoken to him about that yet. >> illinois first and we'll deal with louisiana and that question. gloria, thanks for yum time tonight. as for president obama, he heads west in another attempt to soothe voters anxiety about gas prices. he will push the all 69 above approach that emphasizes domestic production and also alternative energy sources. high gas prices have become a regular part of the republican presidential candidate stump speeches. >> we also got to get the president out of his job and turn to somebody that will get america energy secure and independent and i will do that. >> the president who understands that whether it is coal or oil or gas, whether it is in the ground, that is not a liability for our country. that is an asset for our country that we need to produce. >> let's bring in our white house correspondent. we know this president or any president can only do so much especially in the short-term when it comes to gas prices. you have to take this tour after the president talking about this last week is proof they feel both that financial pain of families and political pitch. >> exactly right. john, you know we have seen the president making his case for an all of the above approach to energy and traveling to do butter we haven't seen this, a very concentrated, very visual series of stops and in each of these stops he is making he will either be touting his energy policies or he will be rebuffing republican criticism of them. first off is bolder city, nevada. he will visit a huge solar farm that powered 17,000 homes, and his message is that renewable energy which he has emphasized so much is worth while and can be worthwhile economically and then he is onto carlsbad, new mexico on wednesday where he will visit oil and gas fields on federal land and he will defend himself against republican criticism that he is essentially put the kabosh on drill by using it as a back drop and saying basically, hey, no, i haven't, and then also answering republican calls to drill more which he has done before and saying that if the answer was drilling more to get prices down, then prices would be down since domestic oil production is at an eight-year high. thursday he heads to curbing, oklahoma, his first visit to the state and this is key. this is where the southern half of the keystone excel pipeline will be built. this is him under cutting republican criticism of his delaying of the northern half and then finally on thursday what do you know, john, he heads to ohio, a key battle ground state where he will go to ohio state university and discuss energy related research there. >> goes to ohio once or twice more he will be paying taxes. see how that plays out. bri, thank you. >> calls for the u.s. justice department to investigate the shooting death of a florida teenager. he is african-american and the neighbor that shot him is not. you'll hear the 911 call next. what parents need to know and what they don't see in this viral video of airport security agents searching a three-year-old in a wheelchair. 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>> maybe both. i am not sure. there is someone screaming outside. >> in the background listen for the sound of a fight and a panicked voice yelling for help followed by a gunshot. >> is it a male or female? >> sounds like a male. >> you don't know why? >> i don't know why. i think they're yelling help. i don't know. just send someone quick, please. >> you think he is yelling help? >> yes. >> what is your -- >> there was a gunshots. >> you heard gunshots. >> yes. >> how many? >> one. >> the cries for help stop. whose voice was it? the answer could make the difference between a case of self defense or a deadly crime. >> who is that crying, trayvon. >> cries for justice for trayvon martin continue. demonstrations outside the seminole county courthouse. >> he could so easily have just been any one of us, so i feel like the reason you all are out here is because you all are affected the same way i was affected. >> not only did trayvon martin's parents fear about the conduct of the police, the congressman that sits on the judiciary committee wants eric holder to launch a federal investigation. thanks for being here. i want skeptical which congress tries to get involved in a local investigation. what convinces you that federal government needs to and the attorney general needs to get involved and the congress needs to keep an eye on this? >> you see an outpouring of sympathy and outrage by parents across america regardless of color or background. what they see is a child being in the line of fire. it is okay to have a neighborhood watch but not a neighborhood vigilante, and the question has to be whether this young boy's life was taken and his civil rights denied and in effect an investigation. at this point not knowing what will happen going forward has been waged if you will. no lie detector test, no detaining of mr. zimmerman, seemingly no extensive review of eyewitnesss who heard the shots, no analysis at least to date. this happened in february. this is now march 19th. no analysis of that 911 call. was it the young boy's call for help? a young boy who had nothing but candy in his pocket who was legitimately there and being judged because he wore a hoody? the question is did you see him in the act of a crime and the final acts is that the law enforcement and this has happened all over the country, law enforcement has said do not follow him. stay in your car. we're on our way. that would have been the appropriate vehicle to be able to address this young boy and no parent should send a child for canned and i a drink and wind up preparing for a funeral. >> in terms of a jurisdictional issue, sounds to me like you obviously don't trust how the sanford police handled this. why shouldn't the next process not florida attorney general, the state level to look at this first? do you think you should come straight to washington as a potential civil rights case? >> working with the congress woman in that area, kareen brown, outraged and been with the family members and other leaders and i want to emphasize parents of all kinds have called upon and let me say this. i believe the investigation does not need to be mutually exclusive. let the sanford police show us what they can do. i believe it is important to move that evidence if you will up to washington dc, and we welcome the attorney general. this happened february 26th. it is now march. they had a long enough time to see some of the failures of the investigation to say we'll take a look at it. not even a major investigation will take a look at this family is in pain. i frankly believe as i indicated this deceased child, this active child that baby-sited for people, that played football, that had all of the life before him, every parent right now in the united states is probably wondering can i send my child out no matter what their background is? i think the justice department needs to be the final protector of the people of the united states of america. >> and this has become for better or worse a big story getting a lot of media attention, and the family is out there. mr. zimmerman, we tried to reach his attorney and get someone to speak for him. he is presumed innocent. i assume you agree with that? >> absolutely. >> here is what his father wrote in a letter. he would not last to discriminate for any reason whatsoever, the moo he had aportrayal of george has a racist could not be further from the truth. i want you to listen here. the issue here is the police department and their preliminary investigation and what they're saying is that under florida's self defense law they don't have any evidence to charge. let's listen to the police chief. >> based on the facts and circumstances and the stories that have been reported, i can certainly understand how they would jump to that or make those assumptions. i can assure you that the sanford police department is conducting a fair investigation no heart what the color of anyone involved in it is. >> sounds to me like you don't trust the heef. >> there are a lot of state laws, and i am quite familiar with florida's very strong self defense law, very strong self defense law and i am also aware that you have to question the motives and/or the tactics of the perpetrator or the individual who shot the gun. we now have a deceased boy that cannot testify for himself. i don't believe even with this law that there was an extensive review of mr. zimmerman's actions. the sanford police have to take some responsibility. they told him to stay put. we have had these kind of cases across america. the reason why i suggest that this is a civil rights case no matter what background the individual has, civil rights belong to all americans, is that sometimes a federal law has to say the protection of this child's life is superior to state law and federal law trumps state law in terms of protecting his life. did he have a civil right to walk on a sidewalk? that young boy was not caught behind someone's homecoming out of a window, attacking someone, he was walking along a street. do we not have rights of americans, free access, free movement, the first amendment guarantees us that. i believe it is a federal case. i believe it is a case where we respect police authority and at the same time citizens have to be protected as well. >> we hope you keep in touch with the attorney general's response to your letter. thank you for your time. a deadly shooting in france prompts fears of attack here in the united states. new information about precautions being put in place and the duchess of cambridge speaks and the world listens. we'll review her first official speech as a royal next. to make it more beautiful, and more durable. you'd use edge-to-edge gorilla glass for a stunning display in a more compact form. and you'd choose an intel® core i7™ processor for maximum processing power. everything that you could ever want in a laptop. introducing the dell xps 13 ultrabook™ everything. and more. ♪ welcome back. >> hello there. >> hi there, john. good evening, everyone. some important developments to catch you up on today in the syria crisis. human rights groups say at least 30 people died today and rue terz reports da mass cass saw the heaviest fighting of the uprising. russia urged syria to call humanitarian troops and u.s. the confirms it contacted iraqi officials to make sure iran isn't using iraqi roads or aerospace to