special programming, it begins at 9:00 a.m. eastern. that is tomorrow morning. we'll be covering it all day long. so make sure you stick with cnn for up-to-the-minute updates and analysis from the best political team on television. and at 1:00, that's correct, wolf gets here at 1:00, right? 1 kplok to 6:00 wolf blitzer will be anchoring our coverage and the vote and of course as long as it goes on, wolf blitzer will be here because he's the man do this so make sure that you tune in tomorrow. cnn. i'm don lemon. i'll see you back here at 10:00 p.m. eastern in the meantime "campbell brown" starts right now. hi, everybody. we start tonight, as always, with the mash-up. we watch the big news all week in case you missed anything and here's what you may have missed, the week's top story gets even big therweekend. health care heading towards a historymaking vote in the house. president obama working the phones up to you very last minute. he delivered his closing

argument friday in virginia. >> right now, we are at the point where we are going to do something historic this weekend. that's what this health care vote is all about. we have heard every crazy thing about this bill. you remember. first, we heard this was a government takeover of health care. then, then we heard that this was going to kill granny. then we heard, well, illegal immigrants are going to be getting the main benefits of this bill. there has been -- they have thrown every argument at this legislative effort. if you believe that it's right, then you've got to help us finish this fight. you've got stand with me just like you did three years ago and make some phone calls and knock on some doors, talk to your parents, talk to your friends,

do not quit, do not give up. we keep on going. we are going to get this done. we are going to make history. >> and stay with cnn all weekend for the very latest from capitol hill. hillary clinton was in diplomacy overdrive this week trying to smooth over u.s. relations with israel. this is israel itself, saw a day rage on tuesday. >> reporter: earlier this morning protests broke out near those settlements in jerusalem's old city. mass palestinian protesters loing rocks. israeli police in full riot gear firing back with tear gas and stun grenades. >> reporter: there is little doubt that secretary of state hillary clinton has been as mad at the israeli government as she ever has been. but you wouldn't have known that today. >> we have a close, unshakeable bond between the united states and israel. but that doesn't mean that we're going to agree. we don't agree with any of our international partners on everything. >> reporter: she made her

concerns known in a pointed 23-minute phone call to israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu telling him the u.s. expected him to reverse the announcement expanding the building in east jerusalem and take additional steps to reassure the palestinians. >> netanyahu says the settlements will go forward. he apologized only for the timing of the announcement, which came during a visit from vice president joe biden. in rome, pope benedict broke his silence on the sex abuse rocking the catholic church in europe right now. his remarks did little to appease some of the victims. >> reporter: he did say was to use the opportunity of st. patrick's day to tell the irish faithful that he would be addressing the issue of child abuse within the irish catholic children. >> i have written a pastoral letter dealing with this painful situation. >> but many who were victims of that abuse andrew madden was repeatedly abused by a priest as

a child. >> reporter: as ireland celebrated st. patrick's day the senior cleric cardinal sean brady was saying sorry for his martcovering up abuse. last week brady admitted he was present in 1975 when two altar boys who had been sexually abused by a priest who were asked to sign oaths of secrecy rather than take their complaints to the peace. the sports world, breathed a sigh of relief this week when tiger woods announced his return to professional golf. he'll be playing in the masters beginning on april 8th. >> why the masters? well, because it is a tightly controlled tournament. yes, he loves playing there. yes, he's won it in the past. this, the fans to go there, are considered to be the creme de la creme. >> more than four months of the thanksgiving day night cared which outside of his home woods

said today "after a long and necessary time away from the game i feel like i'm reaf ready to start my season at augusta." >> it was just three weeks ago that woods said he had so much work to do to heal his family his return to golf was uncertain. >> i do plan to return to golf one day. i just don't know when that day will be. >> for pro golf and broadcasters, it could induce theme park quality thrills. ratings are up 93% when woods plays. >> there's a lot of good golf going to but not great golf that we see when tiger woods plays, so i think golf really needs to have him back. >> the president of cbs sports predicts woods' return will be one of the biggest media events in the past decade, in his view, second-only top president obama's inauguration. in hollywood, word of another troubled marriage, this time america sweetheart sandra bullock. capped off of what was a bad week of love. ♪

♪ you're no good, you're no good -- >> anytime i'm on a bed and nothing but a dress shert and underwear next to the doll of the dora doll i thought this is classic. >> "it was my mistake to pose for them." >> "people" quotes friends of elizabeth's saying she was disgusted by the photos of rielle posing with her daughter's toys. >> elin and i have started the process of discussing the damage caused by my behavior. >> should i have never married you! >> stop it! >> a porn star, you screwed a porn star! >> sandra bullock had a horrible thing thon her and it has to do with her husband and a woman who has more tattoos than 20 drunken sailors. >> sandra bullock's husband jesse james was having an 11-month affair with a model. >> she won an academy award for

the first time and two weeks later the most devastating news. >> you just never know who marry. >> bullock's husband jesse james released a statement apologizing to his wife and children. and that brings us to the punchline. this is courtesy of david letterman, never one to let a few good die. >> listen to this, sarah palin out in arizona, is campaigning with john mccain. he's running for his senate re-election. they're campaigning together out there, and i thought, hm, well, yeah, there's an unbeatable combination. >> david letterman, everybody, and that is the mash-up. we're coming to the end of a crucial week for president obama's number one domestic priority, health care. former white house press second deedi myers has some advice for the current president, be more like the one she worked for. that coming up. dad, here, look at this.

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how do we know how big our hospitals need to be?, the census helps us know exactly what we need, so everyone can get their fair share of funding. we can't move forward until you mail it back. 2010 census. president obama spent much of this week racing to try and get enough support for the health care bill, but a prominent member of the last democratic white house told me that president obama needs to work on his approach a little. a sat down with former clinton press secretarydydy myers who says president obama should take a page out of political playbook by making a more personal appeal. take a look. >> i think health care will pass. i think it will pass because it's now the president's plan and he will ask members to vote for it and in the end, they will. and i think we'll look back and say the turning point was a couple of mondays ago when the president put out his own health

care plan and he made it his own. at that point he attached himself to a particular flan a much more concrete way than he had and now it's not the house's plan and it's not senate's plan, although there are obviously elements of that leftover who have to be worked through in this complicated procedural situation. but it was that moment where it became president obama's plan. i think at the end of the day that makes all of the difference in the world. i think if he'd done that a little bit earlier the bill might had passed earlier and we might have avoided some the procedural machinations that are going on now. the president has to own on. >> again in your piece, you write that the president in your view, needs to get back in touch. and i was struck by this line that you have. you said "people want to have a beer with him, they're just not sure he wants to have a beer with them." explain what you meant by that. >> well, i think that the american spriem reservoir of goodwill for this president. they like him. they think he's an honest person. they think he's mart. they think he has the country's

best intentions at heart, even if they disagree with him and think he's not always doing the right thing there, is this reservoir of goodwill towards him, i think thatf though he hasn't -- he's talked more than he's listened and he's a very good listener and think it would be great for him to spend more time, going out to the country and listening to people, hearing their individual stories, look at them in the eye, and really connecting with them on a personal level. even talking then about the stories. we heard him this week telling about the story who lost her health care because she could no longer afford her premium and has leukemia and now does not have coverage. i think that resonated not just in washington but are there similar people who have known who have had horrible, outcomes in the current health care setup. and they know that this is -- that it's not right and we have to -- i think that the president needs to, both, remind him of what's wrong and connect on a personal level and he can do both. >> well, your old boss, frankly, president clinton sort of trademark that, feel your pain, kind of moment. >> right. >> and i know that you're arguing, he should open up -- i

mean you just said it, open up a little bit more. show his vulnerabilities, i guess. let americans see him sweat. how does he do that, though, specifically? >> well, i think, you know, during the campaign, he talked more about his own background, his own roots, about, you knows his childhood wasn't easy. you know, his early life wasn't always easy. and he talks eloquently about that in both of his books. and he talked a lot more about it during the campaign and i think there's a tendency on the part of presidents, oh, i think everyone knows that now and i don't need to keep reminding them but i think it's important to connect as a president in this age. >> and he doesn't do it often but he did do it monday in ohio. he talked about his mom. >> i'm here because of my own mother's story. she died of cancer. and in the last six months of her life, she was on the phone in her hospital room arguing with insurance companies instead of focusing on getting well and spending time with her family. >> now, it's kind of your point.

he certainly told that story before but in the context of this debate, if you're advising him, maybe it bears repeating. >> you know, and you know that story, and i know that story, but i -- i bet you most americans don't know that story. you know we assume that people pay as much attention to this all as we do campbell, and we also know that's not true. and i think to repeat it, and again to connect his own personal experience, people go, oh no wonder he feels so strongly that people with pre-existing conditions shouldn't be cut off or people who are uninsured should have access to quality care because his own family's gone through it. look, that's not only thing he needs do. he's done a whole lot of other things in this health care process really well. he's so good at making the rational arguments, explaining the complicated situation. but by making that final connection, emotional connection with people, i think he can just get it over the finish line and i think this week, seeing him do it, really it just underscores, a, how important it is, and, b,

that he can do it very well. >> dee dee myers, dee dee, always good to talk to you. thanks so much. >> thank you, campbell. president obama is proposing a sweeping overhaul to education and plans big changes to no child left behind. find out what's in store for your kids, secretary of education arnie duncan joins us. [ talking ] [ slap ] ♪ actually... [ slapping ] ow, ow!

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for the last few weeks, we had been focusing a lot on education. examining where the system is working and how it may be failing our children. schools and parents, making tough choices across the country. this week, president obama sent congress plans for a major overhaul of no child left behind. the name itself would be scrapped as part of the revamp of an education plan that became a signature of the bush administration. but this white house is facing criticism that its reforms will turn teachers into scapegoats. i spoke with education secretary arnie duncan, who explained what exactly is behind the shake-up. >> there are a couple of major changes, campbell, we want to make. first all we want to raise standards for all students and far too many places around the country due to political pressure, due to politic, not

what is good for the children, the economy. so we want to have a high bar. college and career-ready standard for every single child in this count row. secondly, we want to reward excellence. we think that are there phenomenal teacher, phenomenal schools, school district, even states, that are raising the bar for all children and closing their achieve. gap. under the previous law are there many, many ways to fail very little reward for success and we think that we can turn that on its head and learn so much in those highly successful schools. >> so you are getting a lot of pushback from teachers, particularly the teachers union, and i want to talk about that in just a second. but first, let me ask you about something more specific. president obama just applauded the recent decision to fire an entire teacher faculty from an underperforming school. this was in rhode island. it's a story we've been following closely on this show. and that sounds pretty punitive, to me. i guess, urn this new initiative, are we going to see more situations like that? >> you never want to see teachers fired or applaud that. i think what the president was

indicated it you have to have courage if those situations where it's simply not work for children, and that school has a long way to go. it has a dropout rate of more than 50%. 7% of students are at grade level in math. 93% are not. and so that community has to work together. and as of today, the union and the management are back at the local level, back to committed to bargain together. week that is very, very important. those decisions have to be made at local level. but what the president and i both believe is where you have dropout factories, where you have schools where the vast majority of schools, 50%, 60%, 70% are not able to graduate that's -- we have do better than that. >> now, again, getting more specific, under the existing law, failing schools have to offer students, either special tutoring or given the option to transfer out, to go to another school. and one of the criticisms is coming from former bush education secretary margaret spellings who calls the plan overall a mixed bag, but is critical, specifically, that your reform would no longer mandate those options.

why the change there? >> well, again, i think washington should be less involved and so those are great options. i think local educators can decide what's best option for their children, whether it's more after-school tutoring, whether it's choice. but for us to mandate, to be prescriptive here, i think that's fundamentally backwards. let those great teachers, great principals figure out the best way to help their children. >> but don'tu. >> other schools could be a piece of the solution but those decisions should be made not by washington but at local school level, at the local community level. let them figure out the best ways to help children. we cannot micromanage -- >> i hear that but at the same time don't you run a risk if there's not a mandate there and you're relying it to happen at local level that you will allow students get stuck at underperforming schools and then they have no option of getting out. >> well, campbell, that's exactly what's happened in the past is that those very low-performing schools, those dropout factories i talked, but nothing changed. nothing changed.

so instead of those bottom-performing schools, where there is chronic underperformance, you need to take dramatic action and do it now. and so we're trying to, again, fundamentally flip this on its head. schools that are getting better each year, we support those, but those schools were simply not working for children. we have to come with a have, are very different solution and do it way real sense of urgency. >> as you know the teachers unions have been very crit calf the claim. they're claiming, basically, they're being set up as scapegoats. the head of the second largest teacher union and this is a quote here "this appears to place 100% responsibility on teachers and administrators while giving them 0% authority to act." do you think you're doing enough, i guess, to support teachers in your efforts to reach this goal. >> that is hugely important to us and i think randi weingartenner is doing a great job. she's real reformer. district and states will be accountable for result. this is really shared responsibility, shared accountability that's never

true. >> that is critical coming from randi weingartner. >> i understand that. we want to give teachers the work conditions they need. they need more time to collaborate. they need great mentors who are making an unprecedented investment there and for the first time we're going to reward excellence. we're going to find those phenomenal teachers and make sure that we're recognizing them, we're rewarding them and learning from them. >> but can you do it if the teachers unions aren't on board? so we're going to continue to work to very, very closely with the teachers union. we have a great working relationship and i'm absolutely confident that we're going to do the right thing for children and the right thing for adults. we have do those two things together and that's what we're committed to doing. >> well, we all want to see you solve this problem, everybody. there's nothing partisan about this, i don't think. mr. secretary, i really appreciate you're taking the time to talk to us. best of luck to you. >> okay, thank you. what's the answer to this country's educational woes? i'm going to talk to one man who says he has the fix, but it does

cost money. would people be willing to pay more for better results when we come back.

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i'm don lemon at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. i want to give you an update on

tomorrow's crucial vote on health care reform. over the past several hours, president obama has lost vital support from fellow democrats on this health care reform bill. and as of right now 26 democrats are still undeclared. that means they have not said whether they will vote yes or no on the bill. but what we do know is that 32, 32 democrats have already announced that they will join 178 republicans in voting against the bill. if republicans can't persuade six more of them to vote no, defeat of that bill is assured. president obama and democratic leaders in congress have a lot riding on this vote. the outcome could effect, even define the rest of his presidency. mr. obama was upbeat but impassioned as he spoke to the democratic caucus about the historic vote before them. >> don't do it for me, don't do it for the democratic party, do it for the american people. they're the ones who are looking for action right now.

>> hey i want to tell you that cnn special programming begins at 9:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow morning, we'll be covering it for you all day long. this is the place to tune in, so make sure that you stay with cnn, up-to-the-minute coverage, analysis from the best political team on television. we're watching, all eyes are on washington tonight. we're watching it from here. we're going to have much, much more, live coverage, 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. those are your headlines. "campbell brown" continues right now. i'm don lemon. secretary duncan continued to push education reform this week, warning lawmakers that the u.s. is falling behind. with high school dropout rates now hitting 27%, the white house argues, closing the global achievement gap means raising standards across the board. but is the president's plan the best way to boost our failing schools? well, this week, i spoke to jeffrey canada, who is president and ceo of the harlem children zone, and also cnn political contributor, bill bennett about that, he's the author of the new book "a century turns."

we talked about what really works in the classroom. >> welcome to both of you. jeffrey, let me -- let me start with you here. what you have created, let me just tell people, is, i think, many if not most believe is a model for how it can work. like the dream scenario. explain what you're doing and what you've achieved that the rest of america can't seem to. >> you know we've really decide that in some communities this problem is so devastating that you couldn't just start at middle school or high school, but you have to really start with families at birth when the problem begins and so we created something called baby college. we start with our families at birth, we stay with those children until we get them into our schools and then we also support kids into college and we're going to stay with kids until they graduate from college. so our authority is not just doing education, you're doing health care, you're making sure you're dealing with the social service issues that children have. you're looking at the academics in the cultural, in the sports.

you're really trying to deal with the whole child and we're trying to stay long enough so that we can make a difference for all the children in our zone. >> and i just want to tell people, your, your harlem children zone, 90% of your students were accepted to college? >> yep. >> that's amazing. >> and these, campbell, these are not kids who are in our charter schools, because we run charter schools and they'realt ninth and tenth grade but we also think that you have to work with the kids in the regular public schools. one of the things that i think is different about our post to education we believe in charter schools. create innovation and make sure that we're doing longer school day, longer school years and also work directly with public schools because so many our kids are in public schools and we think, both charter schools and public schools have to be great schools if this country is really going to fulfill its obligation to poor children. >> bill, i know you know about jeffrey's program here. would you want that nationalized? can that be nationalized? >> well, many of the elements are, we should obviously learn from what works and all of the

evidence is that, what mr. canada's doing works and it work effectively. i know one things he says and that is very important, that is consistency overtime. when we've looked at research in head start it's not very encouraging. there's a lot of intervention and then it stops in my own visits to schools and i have visited about more than 600 schools. you can send children to good elementary schools where they're doing the right thing for three, four years, campbell. and then if they go off to a middle school, where they slough off where the standards are not in force, where the adults don't take interest in them where they should, they could lose all of ground that they've gained. well it's this consistency over time. what we expect parents to do you should also be expecting your schools to do. >> you are nodding your head. >> i couldn't agree more. typically what happens is we deal with kids and we say they're fine and then we send them off somewhere and then you fine out two years later the kids are not fine. we think you stay with those kids. make sure they're in high-quality programs, where the adults are held accountable and

one of the issues that you get in trouble with around this. we believe if the adults don't deliver that they're the ones held responsible, not children and the families, but then you've got to stay with these kids, get them through middle school, get them through high school. get them through college and help them finish college and that's when we think that the job is done. >> president obama has said that he would love to replicate your model around country, but it is also very expensive. i mean you rely a lot on private fund, right? >> yes, we do. you know we felt like we had to just show this could be done and there was not a public-funding source that would really look at the total child and what the president has proposed and promised neighborhoods is to really have the federal government put up half the money, so other organizations won't have to raise as much private money as we do, but we -- but what we do with the private money is that we make sure that we're able to provide what children heed so if the state would only pay us for 2 1/2 hours of preenroll k through k.

using private dollars instead of just giving kids a little bit when they need a lot. >> so, bill, how do you deal with this? not every locality is going to be able to pull off what you've done is extraordinary, but how do you replicate this on a massive scale when it requires an enormous amount of private funding and given the current challenges we're facing? >> well, i think two things. it's important to point out this happens and where it happens because there are people who don't believe that kids in harlem are just going to succeed, they're not going to close that gap, and if my research is right, the gap -- there is no gap between the kids in your program and the white children, for example, in new york city. in many cases exceeding even better. the second point is money. and this is often about a contention when republicans and democrats, otherwise. the american people are prepared to spend money on education. what they're tired of, spending a lot of money on education that doesn't work. now, we have some sense of what works. mr. canad's program works, the kip schools work, there are some

other schools that work very effectively. what i think duncan is trying to do secretary duncan, i should say, and i hope what he's trying to do is to say that the money should follow the effectiveness. and that people, for example, if they want money from the federal government, they need to do things that we know are effective and accountable. the american people, if you poll them, are glad to pay more for education just like most parents are, if they think it will work. and if you can show them it will work, they'll open their checkbooks. >> so to that point then, because let's take this a little bit more broad now, i think you're right about what he is doing with this overhaul of no child left behind. they are certainly angerring many of their supporters in the democratic parent by going down this path. >> right. >> what -- i mean what's key? what is their sort of biggest hurdle that they have to overcome here that you think has to be changed for us to really see any progress here, bill? >> you're asking me? >> yeah. >> well, i think, arnie duncan, and i'm sure this isn't pleasant for him, he's made some enemies that i've made and folks mainly

in the teachers union, not the teachers but leadership of the unions. part of the measure of effectiveness of teachers is houtkids are doing. you've got to link that up and this is what duncan has been insistent on and if you do the right things by kids you will see those results and then as a lot of us believe and i think this is what arnie duncan believes those teaches who are doing a great job should get better compensation, more compensation, but stop protecting the 5%, 6%, or 7% who are dragging our kids down. >> do ahgree that? >> i think that mr. bennett has really named the core element that has to be changed if we're going to have schools be successful. you know there's this fantasy that there are no lousy teachers? you know, there are lousy teachers like there are lousy doctors, there are lousy journalists, there are lousy everybody. we've got to make sure that we reward effectiveness and there is nothing more effective than finding teachers, letting our teachers really than we care about those who are going the extra mile, producing results. and look, the president is not saying fire all the teachers.

even most of the teachers. he's saying, let's fig ire out how we can tell which teachers are working and which teachers aren't and make sure that we spread the good teachers amongst all of the schools and bad teachers don't get concentrated in the really poorest schools in this country and that's been going on for 50 years in this nation and that has to change. >> well, we will certainly be following this closely to see if it does. jeffrey canada, it's great to have you here. you're a fantastic example for us, as we go through this process. bill bennett, always appreciate your time. a fabulous discussion. thank you, both. >> common ground, campbell, really interesting common ground. >> i know it's so rare. i love it when it happens. >> okay, thank you. coming up, a truly shocking documentary, why contestants on a fake game show were willing to give each other electric shocks. they say television made them do it it.

why would game show contestants be willing to give each other painful and potentially deadly electric shocks? well, they say the power of television made them do it. the whole thing was part of an experiment shown in a french documentary called "the game of death." where contestants believed they were giving dangerous electric shocks to other players. actually, those victims were actors. but the disturbing results were all too real. randi kay has more. >> reporter: it's called "the game of death" and it's torture to play. on this french game show, contestants pose a

question, but here's the catch, if their fellow player gets the answer wrong, he's zapped with increasing amounts of electricity, as much as 460 volts. the more wrong answers, the more voltage, the more pain. the audience shouts for more punishment. some contestants are reluctant, but are swayed by the audience, demanding higher voltage. but here's what the audience and contestants don't know there is no electricity, no pain inflicted. the players tortured for their wrong answers are really actors hired to play the part. their screams of agony, fake. in fact, this really wasn't a game show at all. but in an experiment about how far some people are willing to go to inflict pain on a complete stranger. >> amazingly, only 16 out of 80 refused to inflict pain on the others. >> they're in a situation where they have to act quickly. they can't stop and think about what is the right thing do. they have to act right now.

all of those things lead people to respond to the situational queues. >> reporter: the show is part a documentary airing on french tv, which examines what its tv called tv's mind-numbing power. and the striking willing humanness to obey orders. when it was over and contestants were told it was all an experiment, some said they didn't even think about it. they just followed orders. others said they were worried but did not want to spoil the show. so they acted against their own principles when ordered to do something extreme. >> everybody is torn. nobody thought that this was a lot of fun or something they enjoy doing. but they could not find a way to stop themselves from going along with it. >> the blind obedience in this case is being compared to the behavior of german soldiers ordered to commit atrocities insisted nazi concentration camps. in fact the show's whole premise is based on an experiment from yale back from the 1960s, which used a similar method.

in the yale experiment, the people inflicting the painful shocks thought the electricity was real, too. that didn't stop two-thirds of them from giving the maximum shock available, 400 volts. >> most people will in fact act in this horrendous way and press the shock levers that they think is delivering very dangerous, if not, lethal electric shocks to another person. the moral there is not that people are horrible or that we're brutal or sadistic individuals, the lesson is, really that in certain circumstances in the right situation, the average, typical, well-adjusted person will act in these horrendous ways. >> reporter: one added element in the french game showcase, contestants had to sign a contract agreeing to obey orders, to them there was no turning back. randi kaye, cnn, new york. remember that runaway prius that we were all talking about a

while back? toyota now claims it found "significant inconsistencies in that driver's story. "was this a hoax? we'll have that story next.

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california man's claim that his prius sped out of control along a san diego highway. the automaker says jim sikes' runaway prius story just doesn't add up. ted rowlands has more. >> my car, i can't slow down. >> you can't slow it down? >> no. >> reporter: when jim sikes called 911, he claimed his 2008 prius was accelerating out of control on a san diego freeway. but toyota now says they don't see any evidence to backup his story. sikes said, while trying to pass another car, his accelerator stuck and, despite putting all of his weight on the brake, the car would not stop. engineers from toyota and the government said they've looked at the car and there is a build-in mechanism that is in perfect work order. that should have stopped jim sikes' prius. >> we're not going to judge mr. sikes. the information we have from our investigation is inconsistent with the account that we've heard from the driver of the

car. and -- >> reporter: would you drive his car after looking at it. >> i drive one everyday and i've driven it for 70,000 miles and i would drive mr. sikes' car tomorrow. >> reporter: to hammer through the point that they think sikes' car is safe, toyota called a press conference in a stadium parking lot complete with cars to show how the override system in the prius works. >> right now i'm doing in excess of 50 miles an hour and slam on the brake and see if this override system actually works. and it does come down. i put my foot on the gas the entire time but it killed -- it basically killed the motor. >> for more than two days, engineers, side by side between nhtsa and toyota went through this automobile, disassembling, reassembelling it, putting brakes on it and spending more than two hours trying to duplicate what was claimed happen without success. >> reporter: according to toyota, the data they were able to pull out of sikes' car

revealed that he used the brake in excess of 250 times during his 23-mile ordeal. basically, they're saying, that data recovery doesn't back up his story. sikes, however, is maintaining that his story is absolutely correct. last week when we interviewed him i asked him pointblank if he was lying. here's what he said. someone who is a bit skeptical is saying oh that guy in stoits trying to sue toyota or is just looking for attention. what's the reality? >> no, there's no attention. in fact, i can't believe the number of calls we've gotten and we're just trying not to answer the phone. you know i've only talked to a couple of people. not asking for money from anybody. i'm just telling the story. you know we don't need the fame from this. >> reporter: jim sikes does have an attorney after toyota's press conference, he released a statement saying that he'll have no comment until the government's investigation is complete.

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"usa today" and author of "best seat in the house." welcome to both of you. david, i guess this isn't a huge surprise. this masters is this tightly controlled event and the last time that you were here you sort of predicted that he would use this because it was such a perfect place for his return. explain what you meant. >> yeah this is a venue unlike any other big place in sports. you think of vip, chalets and all of this corporate signage. you will not see this. no place on the grounds to ask people for a water bottle, please take off of the label. none of that kind stuff. sports in its most pure and they really sort of hold that to be near and dear. ul not see tabloid, media crash from the gates. ul not see people holding up signs. when tiger shows up to play at masters he'll be in the most protective environment to make his entry back into the sport. >> they obviously know that. >> of course. >> christine, i was a little bit

surprised by today's announcement. you believe in shows he is a fraud. explain what you mean. >> well, that's the screaming headline. yeah, by the way i agreely andf completely with david. it makes perfect sense for him. what i'm referring to was his announcement that we all watched 25 days ago, where in the 12th minute of a 13 1/2-minute speech, campbell, as you well remember, tiger sort of saying you know i will come back to the game, one day. i don't know when that day will be. i don't rule out that it will be this year. boy, you hear that and you look at this broken man, and you took him at his word as did many columnist and i think many fans and then to hear that one day is in fact 25 days away, wow, that was fast. i wish him well. i think it's a terrific recovery. but is that real or is that a fraud and of course that's what i'm asking. >> does she not have a point there, david. >> absolutely no question that

was a point. i came on and i talk about it. i was pretty convinced not until 2011, the u.s. open in june. much later. i'm sort of wondering what happened and the only thing that i can think of is he and his wife elin came to the understand. whatever situation their family would end up in they've reached or on the cusp of reaching and i'm hoping she gave her blessing and said yeah, go back to work. >> so both of you talked to me about the kind of event this is going to be, media event. i know, christine, you've already got credentials -- you both have credentials to cort event. >> yeah. >> but, christine, you said you decided to get there even earlier than you had planned once you found out that tiger was going to be there. i mean, why? is that going to be that much of a zoo? >> i think so. i don't know what david thinks, but i will get in on monday and that was my plan with editors at "usa today." and, campbell, while the atmosphere while david describes so well, controlled, pristine and beautiful inside. on the outside it is going to be a mob scene and the hoody martha story 2003 which i think is a

big deal, no women members still at augusta national but that's going to look like a picnic compared to what we'll see in the tabloids and the paparazzi waiting outside of the gates. >> i would anticipate camera lenses poking basically out of every bush, every shrub throughout city of augusta. >> but usually hold press conferences before? >> this is something that started in the tiger era. before like myself, journalists, make themselves available but when tiger woods came out there were so many people that wanted this. the crush basically became these press stage coverages. maybe late monday afternoon, tuesday, wednesday. start playing them on thursday. we can anticipate tiger will probably do something tuesday afternoon, that's his tradition. i'm wondering to go in, some time open press conference before the masters. get all of that stuff over with and when he shows up at augusta national it's all about the golf. i'm wondering if that tactic may be implode by him. >> quickly, guys, how will he

play? he's had a lot of time off here. how does he get his game back? >> well, that's question. you know tiger when he was missing a lot of time after his father passed away he missed the cut at the next big major, the u.s. open. you know i think tiger will be ready. but that doesn't mean he's going to win the tournament, and of course i know everyone in tv land wants to make sure that he makes the cut and plays onto the weekend but i would imagine a little rust but tiger is still the best golf arer in the world when he gets into it. >> but tiger woods' never broken 70 at a masters in the first round. his lowest score ever 65 so i think a lot of people when he first comes find out he doesn't go lights out and shoot a great score are going to say, wow, he must be really affected by this. i think that he'll get more and more comfortable out at the event. i don't know if he'll win but i wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he improves every day. >> appreciate it, guys. >> thanks a lot. we'll be right back.

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thanks for joining us, everybody. we will see you back here on monday. have a great night. okay, hello, everyone. don lemon here at cnn world headquarters here in atlanta. i want to give you an update right now on tomorrow's crucial vote on health care reform. this is a place to be. you want to watch. over the past several hours, we need to tell you that president obama has lost vital support from fellow democrats on his health care reform bill. as of now, 26 democrats are still undeclared. thatns