first shook. we re live in turkey with the latest. and i m carol costello. president obama about to unveil a new plan to help young americans go to college without going broke. details on the president s proposal on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com all right. good morning, everybody. it is wednesday, october 26th, and welcome to american morning this morning. buying car? so sorry for carter evans. i m going to find out what the number one car was. we have commercial breaks here. e-mail. paper. any tough questions for me? write them down before you ask them to me on tv. how s that? what s the meaning of life? we ll get to that one. a busy morning for you. up first, new clashes overnight between police in oakland, california, and occupy wall street protester. police in riot gear using tear gas on the crowds in oakland s city hall plaza. look at pictures. fascinating. some protesters throwing paint at the cop. dozens arrested despite
i m team sprinkler. and congress people, they make a great salary, but they are so worth it, aren t they? i would double their salary if they left us alone. but what about a merit pay system? they are directors of the board. if the gdp goes up, their salary goes up. so pay them more if they do less? yes. we sit at the adult table. we get some adult ideas and fewer fart jokes. well, wait. i haven t gotten to bill yet. jesse, thanks for joining us. does congress get a bad wrap, or are they doing a tough job and they deserve what they are get ?g. well, i saw japanese politicians make far more. in fairness to the japanese, their campaigns are actually three times more expense si. > it is not as much the money
wife who james franco was. and then i had to have her explain why he and the girl were hosting this thing. but it was it was three and a half hours of watching james franco do his best james dean. james franco is a less attractive younger version of you. that s probably why i was so agitated. not only was i also was not nominated. i like the fact that they had the young group there. i was excited to see them there. it wasn t steve martin. it wasn t billy crystal. you have young actors to attract the 18 to 34-year-olds. weren t they more like younger actors pretending to be younger actors? they were kids at the adult table. it was like they were putting on a show in the 1950s. they gave hem a chance. can we get up and do that? that s not the argument.
logon to pulse.msnbc.com and cast your vote. we ll share your response later in the show. joining me now is michelle coddle, senior writer at national journal, margie o meara, a democratic pollster, and also maria teresa kumar, also on the national board at planned parenthood. thank you all. carly fiorina, will she be a woman s health advocate? look, carly fiorina has made no secret of the fact that she is running as a pro-life candidate and she was talking to was the republican base which wants their social issues dealt with. now, they will, because she is entering the adult table and getting more attention start being a little bit stricter about her facts, as you say, there will be fact checkers. what she needed to do last night get people to sit up and take notice of her. and i think she more than amply
reduced and that s going to happen naturally. there s a winnowing even before the first votes are cast in iowa. as you get fewer republican candidates, there will be more of a coalescing of support and i don t believe it s going to coalesce around donald trump. it s kind of donald trump versus most of the rest of the candidates. when do you think the winnowing process will start to happen? the winnowing? well, i think it s already happening behind the scenes. you know, if you can t get in the adult debates, your money s going to dry up, and that s happening to a couple of those candidates, maybe more than a couple, that were, as we say at the kids table debate on fox a few weeks ago. we ll see what happens at the second debate on cnn whether a different people get into that adult table versus the kids table. but that s going to have an impact. the donors have an impact. they can withdraw their money. and, look, staffers don t work