and those without the guts to close them. >> and this, no he can't win by attacking any particular group but he can win by telling the truth. facebook.com/carolcnn. thanks for your comments. >> all right, thank you, carol. cnn newsroom continues right now with randy. >> hello everyone, i'm randi kaye. anyo rob blagojevich is being sentenced in chicago and prosecutors are asking for 15 years. the defense is asking for mercy while admitting for the first time that blago broke the law. he said, and i'm quoting here, i'm incredibly sorry. he will be the second illinois governor to go jail if he is

sentenced. we will let you know as soon as the sentence comes down. >> the new york district attorney investigating claims against former associate basketball coach bernie fine says the allegations are credible but no charges will be filed because the statute of limitations has expired. two boys accused fine of molesting them 20 years ago. bobby davis told the district attorney in 2002 that fine had molested him. fine denies all allegations. >> gave a rare tv interview to walters on tv where he said that some troops may have gone too far. >> nobody killed -- no government in the world kill its

people unless it's led by crazy person. i became president because of the public support. it's impossible for anyone in this state to be ordered to kill. >> do you feel guilty? >> i did my best to protect the people. i cannot feel guilty when you do your best. >> the u.n. estimates more than 4,000 sirians have been killed since the uprising started in march. >> one by one, they are speaking today to the republican jewish coalition meeting in washington. the only contender not making his pitch today is ron paul and that is because he was not invited. a new accuser against jerry sandusky. a 19-year-old man says that sandusky gave him whisky and abused him when he was 12 years

old. the incident involved more than touching and happened when his client was staying overnight for activities at second mile. second mile is the charity founded by sandusky. charges are expected in the coming weeks. >> timothy gieithner is giving thumbs up to a plan to tackle the european debt crisis. he met with sarkozy in paris today. tomorrow will be a gathering in br p b brussels. >> to countries that persecute gays and lesbians, they are told to get with it. secretary clinton said the rights of lgbt are universal.

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we have just gotten word that there has been an arrest in the murder of a 7-year-old girl just north of atlanta. he was arrested at the apartment complex where the victim lived. she was found dead three days after she went missing. police say she was savagely beaten, stabbed and sexual assaulted. the girl's father said he was overcome with grief when he was first told what had happened to his daughter. >> at first i thought it was a lie but when i got here, my whole world fell apart. they told me that it was true and they had taken her away. >> i asked the state of georgia that the person who committed this crime that they throw the full force of the law against him because they need to stop

this abuse against children. >> casey jordan is a criminologist and an attorney. you just heard that we got the news that there has been an arrest. the suspect here in this case worked at that apartment complex. what is this tell you about this suspect? is this a case where maybe if this is, in deed the right guy, that he may have been watching that little girl? >> it is possible. but the arrest of the suspect who was apparently worked at the complex is completely in keeping with what we predicted. he was very familiar with the complex. i happen to think that the location certainly was not random if this man worked there and that confirms it. but i think the child may have been random. i think this was more of an opportunity time. she left her play mate, went to get drinks, he saw her alone and took her apparently to a vacant

apartment. if he worked there he would know exactly where that was and i think she was in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong person. >> it doesn't sound like a case that the guy may have had reason to get to know the family or this little girl? >> i do not think that the picking on the little girl was very specific and targeted. i think it cough been targeted. the way this child was murdered, being beaten to death on the head and stabbed to death, it shows a great deal of anger. we call this a retall tory murder. it is not the sort of thing that a person tends to plan but fantasize about. if they are having a bad day for whatever reason, whatever child happens to wander into the path is going to be the victim. >> i was going to ask you about what would be going on in the

mind of somebody who could do this to such a young defenseless little girl. obviously this anger that you are talking about, it couldn't be focused on her or towards her but possibly something else? >> typically these sorts of perpetrators were abused themselves physically or sexually and certainly emotionally as children. they carry that anger around. they tend to stuff it down but in adulthood it tends to bubble up and come out. they tend to want to exploit the innocence and trust and vulnerability of a child because typically that's what happened to them. we don't know anything about the suspect at this time. but again the overkill of a 7-year-old child. a child is very defensive and pourless. it doesn't take many stabbings or blows to the head. we usually see the children strangled and killed in an easy way. the overkill shows pent up rage.

>> here is the question. this is a child. why leave the body there? does that tell you anything about the murder in this case, the killer in this case? really they cough taken the body and dumped the body and the family never would have found her. >> that simply indicates that it was an impulsive crime. a sign of disorganization on behalf of the killer. again, if this person had planned it. and the police said they thought there was a lot of planning. but i don't see it as planning as much as a premeditation of fantasy. a child could fit into a duff bag or a suitcase. this perpetrator, again, i suspect is a maintenance worker, knows where the dumpsters are, knows which apartments are vacant. did it and panicked. you see a lot of panic and didn't know what to do so perhaps put the child in a dumpster.

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tonight that wet may freeze. watch out for that as you drive around, especially after dark. i'm thinking there could be a ten inch snowfall amount near albany. 7 to 9 way up there into maine. on the warm side this is where the flooding could occur, especially on some of the expressways as you try to drive home. new york, probably an inch or two, but not that far west of the city, you will see the yellow area. here, two to four inches of rainfall just in the next 24 hours and that could call localized flooding and trouble on your way home. >> i'm glad you mentioned my hometown. thank you very much. it's been 70 years since the attack on a u.s. naval base in the pacific. nearly half of those killed that day were serving on the uss arizona. the man responsible for archiving the precious documents gives us his perspective on the

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bit. newt, we know, took a lot of heat from the right for his humane immigration stance. will it be a net gain for him? >> if he became the general election candidate, it would be. he has taken on a huge policy initiative to go after hispanic voters, and i think that it sure could help them. just a few percentage points of getting the hispanic vote could help him in the mountain west. places like colorado, new mexico, arizona. those are key states that chipping away at that could be very helpful. his pre-general election statements could hurt him. they might see this as a softening on immigration. it's a little early yet. >> you see him doing this outreach to hispanic voters. he is taking part in a spanish

language newspaper and online outreach for him. can he chip away at the support that president obama saw? >> you know, when you're working with the latino vote, there is something that is important with any cpeople out there. he has actually done that relationship building and i think that can help him. the problem that he is going to encounter is when you have to encounter the relationships with the rhetoric with the republican party in congress, with the rnc, and the things they have said and done over the years. that's going to be a hurdle for him. >> do you think his stance on immigration will help him? >> yeah, actually, i think it helps everybody. again, credit to newt gingrich on this. we need to have an honest conversation on immigration in this country. we need to have one where we can talk about what options are on the table and what we can do and

not vilify a group of people. his position has helped bring that around. i'm glad to see exit it could lead to productive discussions down the road. >> let's talk about the jewish vote. it's pretty small. just 2% of the electorate but very republican. today the republican hopefuls are paying their respects to the republican jewish coalition. who, if anybody, of these candidates, do you think has an inside track with these voters? >> that's a great question. republican candidates in general have the inside track due to president obama's stance on i n iran. he's not strong enough in the minds of many jewish voters and in the statements made by

defense secretary lion peneta. they have painted themselves into a corner. we're already seeing that in some places. jewish voters elected a republican to anthony's seat. you will see that grow in florida, new york, new jersey, massachusetts. they real will have an opportunity here as long as we reach out and talk to them directly. and we support economic policies that benefit jewish voters. >> do you think the jewish vote is up for grabs? >> it's just like the latino community or any other group. we don't take any group for granted. when you look at the relationships that the party has

built with the jewish community over the years it's a strong relationship. and it's been helpful in places like pennsylvania, an important battleground state. and new jersey which can be a battleground state in most years. it's a pivotal hook. i think it's a competitive community. i think they will continue to do well among the community. >> thank you both for today's fair game today. cnn has the most political coverage on television. ron paul will be in the newsroom. and at 5, newt gingrich and rick perry will be in the situation room. michele bachmann will be a guest and then donald trump will join pierce morgan. all of that and so much more today on cnn. before the break we asked you which president founded the march of dimes. the answer? franklin d. roosevelt.

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we're following a couple of breaking stories. first we want to tell you about the former illinois governor rob blagojevich. he has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. he was convicted on corruption charges including trying to sell president obama's senate seat. we do have ted rollins in illinois. as soon as we can get to him we will bring more to you. he doesn't have to report to prison for 90 days. another breaking story that we're following, jerry sandusky, we are getting word about additional charges and word that he was arrested yet again. susan is joining us live on the telephone with details, we hope. susan?

>> the new information involves two additional victims now known by as victim nine and victim ten. this comes from new information and testimony before the grand jury that has been investigating this case for at least a couple of years. and so, after the initial charges, the grand jury continued to hear testimony and that's how these additional charges came about. this information coming to us from pennsylvania's attorney general office. in this case they said it was similar to the other alleged victims and a pattern of grooming victims on the part of former coach jerry sandusky, starting with football games and gifts and went on to physical contact that escalated to sexual assault. now the grand jury says that victim 9 first allegedly encountered sandusky in 2004 while in that summer camp we have heard about organized by the second mile. the program run by sandusky

founded by him. in this case when the victim was 11 or 12 years old. the grand jury says that sandusky allegedly approached the young man, engaged him in conversation and said he was interested in spending more time with him. that led to allegedly taking the boy to a number of penn state football games, giving gifts and money. later the grand jury says that there were overnight stays at sandusky's home and behavior that included hugging, rubbing, cuddling and tickling. initially viewed as acts of affection but that escalated to alleged sexual assault. then the grand jury states that this victim was also assaulted in the swimming pool and ja cue zee at a hotel in the area at times when the pool was not occupied except for by these two people. according to the grand jury

presentment, sandusky said that he loved and cared for him and told him to keep what was happening a secret. now in the case of the second additional victim known as victim number 10, the boy was referred to by the second mile program in 1997 when he was about 10 years old at the recommendation of a counselor. he was having trouble at home this seems to fit the pattern of other alleged victims. sandusky allegedly approached this victim during a summer camp and later made arrangements to take him to a number of football games, went to tailgate parties and spent time at sandusky's home. the grand jury said there were wrestling sessions in the basement of sandusky's home that eventually led to incidents of sodomy on the boy. now victim 10 also detailed

incidents that occurred at a swimming pool on the penn state campus along with an encounter in a car where sandusky allegedly exposed himself and asked for a sexual act to be performed upon him. this boy allegedly received gifts and sandusky told him that he loved him. these four new charges are counts of involuntary dooefs sexual intercourse, two counts of unlawful contact with a minor. these are first degree felonies punishable by 20 years in prison and $25,000 fines. he is charged with indecent assault and endangering the welfare of children. he also faces one count of indecent sexual assault, two counts of corruption on minors, all misdemeanors, punishable by five years in prison. he was arrested today and due to be arraigned in front of a judge

in the area of state college and of course he also has that preliminary hearing coming up on the previous charges next tuesday. >> susan, let me ask you, obviously we know we have been following his statements. at times he has looked very uncomfortable in front of the camera or on the telephone. has he made any statement today claiming innocence or has his lawyer come out and made any statement on his behalf? >> i'm sorry the last part of your question was? >> has sandusky or his lawyer come out claiming innocence yet again after the charges? >> we're in the process of reaching out to his lawyer. that's the first thing we're working on doing to see about any reaction. certainly additional charges were expected by his lawyer. his lawyer said so pubically on a number of occasions. the attorney general's office said that it will don't meet with victims and they expected more alleged victims to come forward once the first series of

allegations were made public. >> and do we know, he is due to be arraigned this afternoon? do you expect he would stay in jail after this? >> that's an interesting question. as we know, he was freed on bail after the first round of charges. and that did raise a number of eyebrows on the part of a number of people. it was controversial. it was revealed that the judge in that particular case had some connection, having made do nations to the second mile program. so it is possible at this juncture that the prosecutors could ask the judge if they now believe could make an argument possibly that he is now viewed as a danger to other children allegedly, or that he is a risk of flight. it's very likely that his lawyer would say he is not a risk of flight. he is in the area, he is not

going anywhere and everyone knows where to find him. if there is any argument to be made, it will be on the fact that he is now viewed as a danger and either ask for an extremely high bond or no bond at all. >> thank you so much for your reporting there on the case of jerry sandusky being arrested again. we will continue to follow that. we are also continuing to follow what is happening in chicago, illinois, where the former governor has been sentenced to 16 years in prison. he will have to report to prison in about 90 days. he actually spoke in court this morning asking for leniency. he said i would like to take the opportunity to apologize to the people of illinois and to you meaning the jury and the judge. he said he never set out to break the law and never set out to kros tcross the lines. ted joins us now from chicago. what can you tell us?

>> the judge handed down the 14 year sentence, he didn't have a noticeable reaction. he put his head down a little bit and his wife put her head down but this was obviously something they were prepared for on multiple levels. before he walked up to the judge to talk to him at a side bar right near the judge's bunch, he turned to patty and looked at her and said are you all right? and she nodded, yes. the judge before sentencing blagojevich spoke for about 35 minutes. he talked about a number of different topics concerning the governor. at one point he said when you took the stand the jury did not believe you and neither did i. he knew that his children were a major factor in terms of it. i know the thoughts of children weigh heavy on you now but the same thoughts should have basically stopped you.

he said you're not being convicted of being a bad father. he said the damage that was done in this case was to the state of illinois. the erosion of public trust in government. the image of corruption, he says, from the governor's office, seeps into the fabric of illinois. he said you did that damage. as you reported, he has until february 16 to spend time with his family and then he will report to the bureau of prisons at that time. >> just very quickly, ted, how will this play in chicago? >> well a lot of people wanted a strong message sent by this judge, people who have followed this, because it comes on the heels of governor george ryan. blagojevich ran on a platform of ending corruption in office. and to be in the exact same situation, people who are really looking for the judge to storm

in, which he did. people like blagojevich and like him and got to know him through reality television. >> i know you're inside trying to get us that story. we appreciated that story very much. there you have it, the news of blagojevich being sentenced to 14 years even though he asked for mercy. >> did one of gadhafi's sons try to escape to mexico? shocking news up next.

welcome back. we are going to update you now on a couple of breaking news stories that we have been following. first of all, jerry sandusky has been arrested again following more charges against him from more victims coming forward claiming that he sexually abused hem. he was taken away in handcuffs. we are told he will be arraigned this afternoon. whether or not he will be freed on bail is unclear at this point. the other story that we are following is out of illinois where rob blagojevich, who you see right there, has been

sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption charges. he was convicted on those charges, convicted for trying to sell barack obama's senate seat after he left illinois. he doesn't have to report to prison for 90 days. apparently blagojevich did expect this. the prosecutors had asked for 15 to 20 years. before the sentencing he said i have nobody to blame but myself for my stupidity. now in today's globe trekking, a would be secret trip by a son of a late libyan leader gadhafi. four people have been arrested in the plot including a canadian, a dane, and two mexicans. we are here with details. rapheal, how did this all unfold? >> it all started in september and mexican officials say that's when they first learned about what was going on.

they're not telling us how they learned about it but they started following a group of people doing suspicious activity in mexico, namely buying property, opening bank accounts and falsifying documents that were allegedly to be used by the family to enter mexico under under assumed identities under mexican nationals. then they arrested a canadian woman in mexico city, who was allegedly at the top of this ring of people working to help the gadhafi family get into mexico. and a lot of people know about port of vallarta and mexico. >> is that where they were trying to go? >> no, it was a placed call punta and a lot of stars have been there. >> a beautiful four seasons hotel. >> a beautiful place in mexico.

allegedly the gadhafi family, he and his wife and children were trying to get there. the question is really interesting. why mexico? there have been invitations like venezuela to give asylum to the family but they chose mexico because nobody would think that they would be so close to the united states. >> do you have some sound of some people talking about this? >> yes. this morning it was talked about and he was talking about the kind of money that they were using to do this. let's listen to what he had to say. >> translator: the vast economic resources allowed them to charter flights and according to the information we obtained in our country, the criminal ring was transporting people between mexico, the united states, canada, cosovoa, and several middle eastern countries to

coordinate the routes and to transport mr. gadhafi to mexico. >> also, randi, we heard from his attorney who said that he spoke to gadhafi earlier today in the jail where he is and he says that he's grateful for the humanitarian protection afforded him by the country of nigeria but says that there's no connection that he has attempted to file restrictive measures placed on him by the international community. he doesn't address specifically the charges that were raised in mexico but he said he did not intend to leave najare. >> well, if he did, gloria

borger joins us next. stay with us.

a whole lot happening here in the cnn "newsroom." first, out of the penn state case, form arer penn state coach jerry sandusky arrested again following more charges. more victims have come forward claiming that sandusky sexually abused them on several occasions. he was arrested and handcuffed and brought to court. he is expected to be arraigned

this afternoon. he may or may not be released following that arraignment. also, in chicago, illinois, former illinois governor rod blagojevich has been sentenced for corruption charges for 14 years in prison. he was charged with selling barack obama's seat in the senate. ted rowlands was there and before the sentencing he said he wanted to give a final apology to his family. his life is ruined and political career is over. the judge said that that apology came too late. gloria borger is not one to minutes words. she asks, is the gop race turning into a circus? in her article she says, mitt romney had better start answering somebody's questions and do it soon. it's not enough that he's aligning himself with the

speckle of the trump's circus. all right, gloria, if you were the romney campaign manager, what would your advice be? i think we have it right there. >> that's right. it's not my job to advise campaigns but it's my job to cover them. what romney did today by releasing an ad in iowa, new hampshire, to tell people who romney is, he's talking about how he's been married for four decades, just sort of open the curtain a little bit, let people feel some affection or attachment for mitt romney would be a good thing. and then on another front, he's got to start taking on newt gingrich. newt gingrich is a real front-runner here and instead of calling newt gingrich a career politician, why not actually take on newt gingrich for what he did when he actually held power in the house of representatives. let the voters know a little bit about newt gingrich's history

and how controversial he is as house speaker and how some of his own lieutenants tried to overthrow him when he was speaker of the house because they felt he didn't do a good job as leader. because, after all, when you vote for a president, you are voting for a leader. >> let's talk about gingrich surging in the polls. do you think he can sustain this? >> i think it's really hard to tell. i mean, newt gingrich has been involved in politics for a long time. he's not a newcomer like herman cain. but the question everyone has about newt gingrich is his discipline and whether he'll be able to stay disciplined and on message enough to sustain himself throughout a campaign. also, whether he can get together the organization and whether he can get together the money. the key to his success right now is that he channels republican voters' anger towards president

obama with his passion. and so they like him in their hearts. with their heads, the question is whether they believe that he can actually beat barack obama or whether, in fact, mitt romney is the person who can do that. but mitt romney has to prove that to republican voters. >> so what do you think the key is, then, to getting to the top and staying there? the republican candidates have traded the lead more times than in a nascar race. >> that's a good way to put it. they certainly have. look, i think that at this point it's down to a two-man race. clearly between gingrich and romney. and i think both of them have to show republicans that they have sustainability, that they can sustain a campaign against barack obama and that they are plausible presidents. republicans want to win and they want to look at newt gingrich and say, you know what, i think you're a plausible president so you've got to show them the discipline that you can sustain a presidential campaign and win.

and he hasn't done that yet. >> we'll see if he does. gloria borger, thank you. and thank you, everyone, for watching today. continue the conversation with me online on facebook or on twitter. i'll hand it over now to brooke baldwin. hey, brooke. >> hi, randi. i'm brooke baldwin. quite a news day. a lot of breaking news to get to. let's begin now, happening any minute, newt gingrich expected to speak live in washington, d.c. according to these new polls, gingrich is now pulling ahead of his fellow republicans as we inch closer and closer to the iowa caucuses. keep in mind, ron paul, the only presidential candidate not invited to this event today in washington. and keep in mind, he's also going to be joining me right here in the cnn "newsroom" in the next hour. also, an arrest in the murder of the 7-year-old georgia

girl. she was kidnapped not too far from the playground she was on. she was later found dead. we got breaking news from police. they took a person in custody who worked at the apartment complex where this girl lived. sunny hostin is joining me in a matter of minutes. also breaking today, the former governor of illinois is headed to prison. rod blagojevich just sentenced to 14 years on corruption charges. he appeared in court today to beg for leniency, apologizing to his family. the judge saying essentially, too little, too late. blagojevich has 90 days to report to prison. we're going to take you live to chicago cominging up. into also breaking right now, former penn state assistant football coach jerry sand was arrested again today and charged with sexually assaulting two more young boys. sandusky was arraigned and a preliminary hearing was set for next tuesday.

so that brings the total number of victims to ten. sandusky already faces 40 charges involving at least 8 alleged victims. susan candiotti is joining me on the phone. tell me where, is jerry sandusky at this moment and what do you know about these additional charges? >> well, he's been arrested. i'm not sure of his exact whereabouts at this time. but we have to wonder whether this would be a surprise for mim given more charges were expected even by his own lawyer. we now know about alleged victims nine and ten. the first one said that he encountered sandusky back in 2004 and met him through that summer camp organized by the second mile. that's the program that sandusky used to run and founded. the boy was 1 # 1 or 12 years old at the time. he told the grand jury that he was approached by sandusky who talked to him, spent more time with him and that allegedly led to him going to football gifts,

getting gifts and money as we heard from other alleged victims. that led to overnight stays at sandusky's home and including hugging, rubbing, cuddling, tickling, and eventually led to sex acts, the grand jury says, in the swimming pool and gentleman kooz zee of a hotel in the state college pennsylvania area. then, according to victim nine, he says that sandusky told him to keep all of this a secret. in the case of alleged victim ten, he again was referred by the second mile when he was 10 years old and sandusky allegedly approached him at the camp and football games and spent time at his home. activities led to incidents where he sodomized the young boy

and incidents occurred on campus and in a car and asked for a sex act to be performed upon him. so all of this, brooke, in advance of a preliminary hearing and why is that happening? because at this stage it's the state's responsibility to tell the court that yes, indeed, we have enough information to proceed to a trial. >> susan, thank you so much. in the meantime, a new york district attorney says he cannot file charges against former syracuse assistant basketball coach bernie fine.

he has been charged of sexually molesting boys despite what he calls credible allegations. the statute of limitations has expired. the feds, though, are still investigating. also today, a emotional moments on capitol hill. as lawmakers hold this hearing on home-grown terror and the threat to the military right here in the u.s. who lost his son. this man lost his son when a gunman opened fire at the recruiting center in little rock, remember this, back in 2009. >> he took four rounds of ammo about two feet. on it it's the last line of it is, i will never leave a fallen

comrade. well, the army left him. >> his father is partially upset even though he had connection to terror groups. also this today. >> 1941, a day which will live in infamiliar me. >> today, aging world war ii vets, many of whom are in their 90s, they are in hawaii honoring the 2400 americans killed that day 70 years ago. the survivors association is dissolving and taking a toll on the few remaining members. and we are just getting started. we have a lot to talk to you over the next two hours,

including this -- right now the presidential candidates are in washington courting the jewish voters, except for one. i'm going to speak live to congressman ron paul about being left out and his harsh words towards donald trump. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. an actress in her birthday suit now claims a magazine doctored the pictures and the outrage involves a grenade. >> there's a big difference between topless and being news. >> cnn's sarah seidner spoke with her. some were left homeless, some didn't have families and some just too poor to have a funeral. people being buried in a mass grave. plus, alec baldwin kicked

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top of politics here. this is almost a wiff of pneumonia. this new poll, newt gingrich all

but forgotten in the presidential race until just a couple short weeks ago. he has stepped on the gas, blown right past mitt romney. this is a nationwide poll. this is a new gallup poll. 37%. that is 15 points ahead of mitt romney. lock, stock, and barrel. candy crowley, chief correspondent, here's the if. if you are a mitt romney supporter, what in the world do you think when you see this poll and you are 15 points behind newt gingrich? ? >> you probably think, thank heavens the elections are not today. there is time to turn this around and time to see how much of this is real and there is time, frankly, to change course. mitt romney so far has been so careful, so cautious. basically, his approach has

been, let everybody else fail. well, people don't tend to -- you can't win this by default. first you saw bachmann go up and then perry and cain and now you see newt gingrich go up. he's looking more real than the other three looked when they were at the top of the polls and we certainly are seeing people around mitt romney, both privately and publicly saying that you need to go after mitt romney more than the collapse of their own weight. you will see and mitt romney has seen this, you will see him engage with the media. he basically has stayed in this cocoon and not fought for it. people don't just give you the nomination. they want to make sure you have the passion for it. you have to fight for that top position. >> you're saying that the romney

camp is glad that the election is not happening today. the jewish coalition, the candidates are there in washington, according to the jewish vote, all of them i should mention except congressman ron paul. there is live pictures of gingrich speaking today. candy, you and i have talked about the unease among certain house republicans and painful memories of the newt gingrich speakership. you have molanari and peter king raising allegation. john boehner was asked about his own history with gingrich. let's play a piece of that. >> you were part of a group in 1997 that tried to replace newt gingrich as speaker. what was about his relationship that -- >> that was an inaccurate rumor. all right? so let's get to it. >> well, can you talk about the

strengths and weaknesses of his leadership? >> newt has been a long-time friend and my focus is on what the american people have sent us here to do. >> she's trying to ask a question. obviously there are -- >> good try. >> good try. >> my question is, how is the gop establishment coming along even with the prospect of the gingrich nomination? >> really cautiously. i think john boehner is emblematic of what people say. this was a very controversial man, newt gingrich. but in the end, brooke, here's what republicans want, whether you're in the middle of the party, whether you're a conservative, part of the tea party within the republican party. you just want somebody to beat president obama and they will get behind whoever that is. but it is a hard win for

president obama. you see folks on the other side. the romney people have lined up, the mainstream republicans saying, i'm for romney. people are waiting to see what the lay of the land is. let's remember, nobody has voted yet. >> i know. i know. >> people are still trying to figure out, how real is this? they are taking the pulse. can mitt romney put up a fight for this? that kind of thing. and there's enough enemies in politics to go around. you don't want to make them unnecessarily or recreate them unnecessarily. >> and you mentioned that you have the anti-newt folks and this is newt gingrich denying he was ever a seven-figured hired gun lobbyist.

watch. >> i'm going to be fully direct, okay? i was charging $60,000 a speech and the number of speeches was going up, not down. normally celebrities leave and gradually sell fewer speeches. we were selling more. i didn't have to deal with anybody. >> so was that newt gingrich boasting about raking in money for a speech in bluffton? has this man changed? >> look, everybody changes. i'm not inside his head but he is the same and this is very smart. he's very ambitious. he can be self-indulgent, very in your face. i don't suspect that the essence of newt gingrich has changed that much. the question is, is the republican -- you know, he fit so much of what he is right now fits into the core of the republican party wants right now. they want someone to go after president obama. they want a fighter.

and newt gingrich is in your face in a way that mitt romney has not shown himself to be yet. so he has -- newt gingrich has those at tributes that right now is attracting that party that doesn't just like president obama. some are afraid of him. they see newt gingrich as a fighter and that's what the attraction is. he is out there. he can take an idea and put it into a couple of sentences and he is fierce and they need to see the same thing from mitt romney if romney is going to take this back. >> i have a feeling that there will be a great interview. >> it will be a great interview. >> that interview coming up in "the situation room." in the meantime, breaking news a short time ago. an arrest has been made in the brutal murder of the 7-year-old.

the suspect found at the girl's apartment complex. that's coming up next. also, the syrian president, bashar al assad giving the first speech since the bloodshed in his country. you're going to hear that coming up. [ male announcer ] going a little overboard with the holiday spirit? [ buzzer ] saving $50 on a no contract htc wildfire s from virgin mobile at radioshack. so right. ♪

finally today, a break in the case of a brutally murdered 7-year-old girl. police have made an arrest in the murder of jorelys rivera who was found in a trash compactor in suburban atlanta. >> we are here to announce the arrest of the man who is 20 years of age and resided at 12309 river ridge drive. we have had brunn under surveillance since last night as we continue to build evidence in this case. we reached a point this afternoon but we had sufficient evidence to obtain arrest warrants for the murder of 7-year-old child.

>> police say this little girl was stabbed, sexually assaulted, and then died of blunt-force trauma. her body was found in the vicinity of the playground at her own apartment complex where she lived in canton, georgia, an hour north of atlanta. i want to bring in legal contributor sunny hostin and former prosecutor of sex offenders. the suspect is brian brunn. what more do we know about him? >> we know that he was 20 years old and he was not only living at the apartment complex, he was also working there as a maintenance worker. he started working there november 7th. so a very short time. apparently he had no connection with the little girl whatsoever other than the fact that he had worked there and that he also lived there. we also know that the police had been looking at him since tuesday evening.

they had been conducting surveillance and just today they received some sort of additional information that led to his arrest. we know that and there were tests done and that somehow linked him to the crime but information is still coming in and police belief that he is the one who murdered the girl. >> the murder happened in the empty apartment before he essentially dumped her in the trash. the fact that he lived there and worked there, does that surprise you? >> it doesn't surprise me. we know from our experience that child predators covet what they can see. so this sort of stranger

abduction isn't rare but they do covet the children that they have access to. and that they are in close proximity to. the investigators have said that this was a planned crime, that this was a carefully orchestrated crime. so perhaps he had been watching this little girl, looking at this little girl. she was playing outside with other children at the time that she was abducted. she left the playground to go get something to drink, she told the other children, and she disappeared right after that. so i think there are so many lessons to be learned from this terrible tragedy and one of them is, you have to watch your children. because child predators walk among us. you had a lot of sex offenders, registered sex offenders also living in the community. that struck me as odd, brooke, because they are not supposed to live in close proximity to children, to schools -- >> they live among us.

>> they really do. they really do. i think people have this vision of child predators as sort of the boogie man, as monsters. they look just like everyone else. >> my heart goes out to jorely is' mother right now. it's sick. sunny hostin, thank you. former illinois governor rod blagojevich is about to spend a lot of time behind bars but he is he's not going to prison right away. a live report from chicago, next.

well, the former governor of illinois rod blagojevich is sentenced to 14 years in prison. he was in court today to beg for leniency. that did not happen. cameras were not allowed in the courtroom but ted rowlands was there. as you were looking over at rod and his wife when that sentence came down, what was their immediate reaction? >> reporter: well, there wasn't any visual reaction from blagojevich.

he put his wife down a little bit. his wife put her head down and was comforted by his brother. there wasn't an outburst by any sort of imagination. you have to think that they prepared themselves for this possible outcome. they were asking for three years. the prosecution was asking for 15 to 20. the judge gave him 14. blagojevich did have an opportunity to plead with this judge. he spoke for about 15 minutes to the judge. he admitted guilt and said this is all my fault and all of my stupidity. the judge said, i thought about your kids, i haa lot of crimina have kids and are good fathers. he said the biggest thing is the trust issue. the harm is the image of corruption from the governor's office seeps into the state of illinois and you did that damage. he'll be -- he is able to go home now. he will be back, though,

february 16th to report to the bureau of prisons. >> great. so i was about to say, he doesn't have to go to prison right away. he gets 90 days. why exactly is that, ted? and might that also mean that he we could see blagojevich pop in front of a camera sometime soon? >> reporter: well, he could. he has not come in and out of the courthouse through the sentencing phase which he did through the entire trial and talked to the media at great lengths. he's been using an underground entrance during the sentencing phase. we're not sure if he will address the media. so far, no sight of him leaving the building as of yet. >> all right. ted rowlands in chicago, thank you. and now this woman admits it was a bold photo shoot for this magazine but says she was not nude. even though when you look at the pictures, it looks like she was. you're going to hear what she says the magazine did and why

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hosni mubarak was ousted and now which way should syria go. descending into war, these here, these are government tapes shown today firing on opponents. now, at the same time, syria's president, bashar al assad is denying orders to kill. he spoke with barbara walters. >> do you think your forces crack down too hard? >> they are not my forces. they are forces not associated with the government. i don't know them. i am the president. >> but you have to give the order. >> no, no, no. >> not by your command?

>> no. no one's command. there was no command to kill or to be brutal. we don't kill our people. no government in the world killed its people and this is when i became president. it's impossible for anyone in this state to be ordered to kill. >> do you feel guilty? >> i do my best to protect the people and not feel guilty when you do your best. >> now, a syria expert is telling cnn that assad is on another planet. he's clearly in denial and calls assad a madman. and now we're going to hear directly from the actress at the center of this firestorm. her name is vena malick and

she's on this cover of a magazine isi spy agency. sara sidner has been working this story for us all the way there in mumbai, india. we can't show the magazine cover, right? but the crux of the controversy, the fact that she appears nude or also the isi tattoo on her arm? >> reporter: yeah. i think it's both. both things combined have really stirred up this controversy, especially in pakistan. i mean, isi is an acronym that everyone here thinks of as pakistan's intelligence agency. they refer to it that way. and it certainly isn't the kind of image that pakistan wants for its government agency in a conservative nation. so the interior minister has actually come out and said something about this photo shoot all the way here across the border in india saying that what she did was wrong if, in fact,

these pictures are real and that they were going to look into it. now, what the government can do to her, i'm not sure. and what exactly kind of an investigation they might do, we don't know. but it certainly has sparked controversy there and she is very upset because, brooke, we talked to her today. she made some time for us. we convinced her to sit down and talk with us and tell us what happened. and she says there's a problem with the photo on the cover of the magazine. >> see, there's a big difference between being topless and nude. actresses actually went topless but they are covered like the way i was. they are great examples, as you can see. but i did not go nude. >> so you had bottoms on? >> bottoms on i had and they actually removed those bottoms by removed or whatever the technology is that they used.

>>. >> reporter: so basically what she's saying is that the images, at least the one on the cover, was photo shopped. she admits the images inside the spread were her and that she did agree to do these other photos which are quite racy and certainly turning heads, brooke. >> so she says that she's photo shopped. you've seen the pictures. what is "fhm" saying about these allegations? >> reporter: well, not only is she saying that she is photo shopped, she has now given them legal notice that she is planning to sue them for somewhere around $2 million because she says that they did this without her permission. "fhm" has responded saying that she knew everything, she was fully aware, and she was very happy with the photo shoot knowing how it was going to turn out. now they have served her notice saying they are going to counter sue her for somewhere around $5 million. so now what you have is a bunch of money sort of in the balance.

these two people, the magazine editors and miss malik herself fighting over this and you have pakistan saying, hold on, this is not how we want to be portrayed either. and then lastly, we talked to her today and through tears she told us the only family that she's known, she lost her biological mother and father in an accident when she was a young, young girl and the only family that has raised her went to the media and disowned her, saying this is not the way to act. >> my goodness. >> so she's in a real predickment at this time and upset by this. >> well, on a flipside, perhaps it generates buzz for the magazine for her and her as well. we really appreciate it, sara. back here at home, a staggering moment in california. the remains of just about 1700 people buried in this mass

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medicare guide and customized rate quote. this next story is just stunning. thousands of bodies are going unclaimed. some were homeless, many were poor. nearly 1700 bodies were buried in this mass grave that you see. many of them had been in storage for up to three years. the county says without family members stepping forward to claim these individuals, it's really up to them to provide a respectful and dignified burial. don is a los angeles county supervisor. don, when i first read this, i thought, my gosh, this is a sign of the times. people can't afford to claim their loved ones. is that the case? i know you all have been doing

this since 1996. >> unfortunately, it's an annual event that we participate in because these are truly unclaimed bodies. the average number that we do each and every year has not changed with the economy up or down. it's just a sad situation where we have the members of the county family, basically, individuals that are unclaimed after a period of time. i think by lauer obligated to keep the bodies three years. the families are notified if there's any contact within the first 30 days. there's a full investigation related to any criminal activity or whatever it may be. once again, as you said, almost 1700 individuals. what we try is to give them the recognition that a family would do or just the proper burial. >> sure. >> we have multiple religions out there as well as we actually today had one family member show up which is the first as far as i can remember. >> and what did that family

member tell you? that family member and also the family members of the other individuals that you tried to call up? you asked to claim their friends and family and they don't. what's their explanation? >> well, there wasn't much conversation other than the fact that they were unable to give their loved one a proper burial and i think it was a distant relative of some sort. not a father/son or a cousin/nephew or something like that. just their inability to pay. and once these families -- we find out that they are out there, we have three years to come up with the money and that's part of the process. but almost half, unfortunately, 7 or 800 of those today are strictly unclaimed human beings and it's -- as we go into this holiday season, we all realize how fortunate we are but it's not that way for everyone else. so we just try to give them the proper burial, the proper respect that any human being would deserve regardless we have

no ideas of demographics, race, or anything like that. >> i was going to ask who these people are. do you know who these people are or are the majority of them name snls. >> well, absolutely. we are able to identify them. but on the other hand, whether to chase down through our publiced a main straight for family members, that's the first process. first, the records are scanned for any kinds of criminal activity and then the attempt to contact family members. many cases, just, as i said, 700 of these folks today, we were never able to make contact with family. >> as we head, as you mentioned, into the holiday season, people are certainly pinching pennies these days. what is your message to those loved ones who perhaps might have lost someone this year but who may not be able to afford it? >> well, we would just ask that if there's any way possible,

that they are able to claim the human being that the body to make sure that they get the proper burial. but at the end of the day, through our public administrator and through the county, we feel it's a very important part of our responsibility to give these folks a dignified burial service. as sad as it is and as difficult as it is, we have been doing this for a very, very long time and just wish that family members would come forward if they are there and we're able to contact them. >> 1,639 bodies buried just in l.a. county alone. don, thank you for coming on. i appreciate that. we mentioned just a moment ago, breaking news out of chicago. former illinois governor rod blagojevich sentenced to 14 years because of the corruption charges that he faced. we just heard from him. take a listen. >> if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same, patty and i, and especially me, this is a time to be strong, this is

a time to fight through adversity, this is a time for me to be strong for my children, be strong for patty, and this is also a time for patty and me to get home so we can explain to our kids, our babies, amy and annie, what happened, what all of this means, and where we are going from here. so we are going to keep fighting on through this adversity and see you soon. >> and that's it, rod blagojevich speaking with his wife patty. he has a couple of kids. he will be able to go home for 90 days before he has to spend the next 14 years in prison. still ahead, one of gadhafi's sons accused of hatching a secret plot to sneak into mexico. we're going to tell you how that plan unravelled. that's next. plus, a mother denied food stamps. so then what does she do? she pulls a gun at a state welfare office. that's a sign of the times here.

you're going to hear this ending and what her own kids said online during a seven-hour standoff. you're right back. [ male announcer ] going a little overboard with the holiday spirit? [ buzzer ] saving $50 on a no contract htc wildfire s from virgin mobile at radioshack. so right. ♪

moammar gadhafi killed and we have just learned today one of gadhafi's sons was planning to sneak into mexico but mexico stopped that. he planned to use false documents to get into the country and wanted to buy a number of properties to use as safe houses. mexican four people have been

arrested connection with this. i want to bring in nic robertson. how far did saadi gadhafi get with this plan? >> when we start looking at what the mexican military has said, they date this plot back to the beginning of september, which is right when saadi was running out of libya and it seems that he put this plan into place when he first arrived but we know what happened within hours or essentially days of arriving there. and he's been in najare. >> they say we are worried that

he's getting pretty comfortable and getting good has been getting more freedom and we're worried about what is going to happen to him then. but as far as the country is concerned, it's high surveillance, lock and key. nic robertson, thank you so much. i want to keep you in the loop. wolf blitzer just finished interviewing newt gingrich and rick perry we're working on getting the sound. we're going to hear what he says about mitt romney. plus, this is something that people have been talking to me about. alec baldwin gets the boot from a plane because he's addicted to some sort of word game, he even

tweeted me while this was going on. that is next.

if you fly a lot, you might be sharing a plane with a celebrity. sometimes it's fun and exciting. sometimes it doesn't go so well. >> i actually felt alec baldwin was turning off his devices and he just got a little angry. >> he was on his phone and

didn't want to get off the phone. then he was going into the bathroom and became a little bit ir rate and they had to remove him from the flight. >> okay. what are these passengers talking about? they are talking about that guy in the shades. they are complaining about him. alec baldwin forced their flight to be delayed because he wouldn't turn off his cell phone. the actor blames the addictive game, words with friends. he immediately started disting american airlines in his twitter feed. flight attendant on american reamed me out for playing words with friends while we sat at the gate not moving. no wonder america air is bankrupt. so i'm on twitter as well. i'm hearing what happened. so i picked up my phone, tweeted the actor myself, asked him about this words with friends game. he indeed tweeted me right back. you can see what his response

was. i remember it. three easy words. it's well addicting. i then tweeted him back and asked -- already, how long were you playing after the flight attendant told to you put it away? he's now deactivated his twitter account. in the meantime, american airlines said this extremely vocal customer got up, took his phone into the bathroom, quote, he slammed the lavatory door to hard, the kokpit crew heard it and became alarmed, even with the cockpit door closed and locked. the passenger was extremely rude to the crew. given the facts above, the passenger was removed from the flight and denied boarding. what was your response when you first heard about this? >> when i first heard about it, i think i was more surprised that his representative sent out a statement that actually

described what alec was doing rather than apologize to the flight attendant community but to the other passengers inconvenienced. i think the biggest issue here is not what he was doing on his device but the fact that the device was still on when he was asked to turn it off on an aircraft. clearly the actor is not in charge and he was insulting everyone for being asked to do something that we all adhere to do. >> you all hear it, turn off the device. i was following his tweets. calling the american flight atent dants retired school teachers from the '50s. how does he care to if even cares to do so? >> i don't think he cares to. it's controlling tweeting and you tweet from an hurtful place and without being able to act or

respond accurately or fairly. so it's very dangerous for celebrities to take the matters into their own hands. hopefully his representative can come behind this mishap and apologize on his behalf and not only to insult the flight crew because i suspect that he has to fly again. the flight attendant community is a very tight-night community, regardless of what airline you take. to insult them for doing their job i think is completely out of line and he or his representative should absolutely apologize for his behavior. >> devil's advocate, what if you're alec baldwin and says, i don't care, i'm a 30 rock star. i'm going to host "snl" again. >> i think alec baldwin has built his career and bandon bei being a bad boy.

i think when it impacts other individuals who aren't maybe not fans of 30 rock, that's when he's really crossing the line. really putting other people in danger. whether the door was opened or not, closed or not is not the issue. it's just the fact that he was negligent and then insulting the crew. so i think that he will lose some fans and certainly he'll lose the flight attendant community as fans. >> marvet, thank you very much in new york for me on that whole debacle. top of the hour. i'm brooke baldwin. let's take you live to the white house where president obama and canadian prime minister steven harper are expected to talk any moment. we heard about the president talking about this yesterday in osawatomie, kansas. we'll keep an eye on that event. also, our own wolf blitzer interviewing not just one candidate but two front-runners. as soon as we