morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. good morning, alina. good morning, everybody. welcome to american morning. it is tuesday october 25th. i m alina cho along with carol costello. ali and christine are off today. up first this morning, presidential politics as texas governor rick perry trying to one-up herman cain s 9-9-9 plan and get back the good graces of gop voters. this morning perry will unveil his economic growth plan that includes a flat tax. cnn deputy political director paul steinhauser joins us from washington with more details. he has this 20% flat tax, but taxpayers is actually opt out if they like their tax rate better? reporter: yeah, and banking on most americans not liking the way they have their taxes right now and hoping for some of that 9-9-9 that boosted herman cain from an afterthought to a front-runner in the gop nomination. yes, basically this morning the texas governor rick perry unvams his plan. cut, balance and gr
arrest people without any reason and hold them without charge. these just the beginnings of where that goes. the bottom line is syria is under turmoil and the government has been pushing back, pushing back. they ve release add number of political leaders. and some say by releasing political leaders, about 250 or so, they were therefore suspending the emergency laws to do that. so it starts to get a little bit muddled. the government is trying to insist all these problems will are being caused by outsiders, foreigners, armed gangs and not the syrian people. if you talk to people in syria as we have and as reports have been trickling out, it seems to be just the opposite of course. so we re watching that situation right now. it seems to be or is the most violent situation in the middle east, except, of course, what s happening in libya. but it seems to be the most volatile in terms of protests that point. we want to know if you know
missile capable of reaching the u.s. as early as 2015. the new york times on sunday ran an article detailing a classified memo that defense secretary robert gates sent to the white house nthat memo gates raises concerns about iran s nuclear program and whether the u.s. has policies in place to deal with it. secretary gates supposedly did not like seeing his classified memo leaked to a major paper, although there s been speculation that he himself might have leaked it. he pushed back, calling the paper out for serious mischaracterizations about the memo s content and purpose, he wrote the memo was not intended as a wakeup call or received as such by the president s security team, rather, it present add number of questions and proposals intended to and orderly and timely decision making process, there should be no confusion by our allies and add ser varryes that the united states is properly and focused
missile capable of reaching the u.s. as early as 2015. the new york times on sunday ran an article detailing a classified memo that defense secretary robert gates sent to the white house nthat memo gates raises concerns about iran s nuclear program and whether the u.s. has policies in place to deal with it. secretary gates supposedly did not like seeing his classified memo leaked to a major paper, although there s been speculation that he himself might have leaked it. he pushed back, calling the paper out for serious mischaracterizations about the memo s content and purpose, he wrote the memo was not intended as a wakeup call or received as such by the president s security team, rather, it present add number of questions and proposals intended to and orderly and timely decision making process, there should be no confusion by our allies and add ser varryes that the united states is properly and focused
going for that or with the president in general. up to 130 is the other number we have heard. do we know of the people on board, again, not exactly sure, like you said, the numbers might be all over the place, but how many aboard were part of the polish government? the polish government itself actually you mean like ministers and people such as that? ministers or how big was the polish delegation? polish delegation was about 88 people and we believe that inl collude add number of not only the president, his wife, ministers, of aides, undersecretary and at least one maybe more army generals. and so quite a large number of the polish presidential corps i guess, people who would normally in thhis office and working wit