the former illinois governor is going to have an opportunity to speak before the federal judge announces the sentence. prosecutors want blagojevich to get at least 15 years for his conviction on corruption charges. a 19-year-old man says that jerry sandusky gave him whiskey when he was 12, then sexually abused him. sandusky s latest accuser claims it happened once inside an office inside the penn state football building. the man says he was a member of the second mile. that is sandusky s charity for disadvantaged kids. sarah ganim broke the story. there s a lot of new things in this allegation. first of all, we ve never heard that sandusky gave one of his victims alcohol. in this situation this man alleges it was in an office in this building and he was given whiskey while jerry sandusky talked to him about his life and how he ended up with the second mile and then he was assaulted. so i m going to speak live with sara ganim in a few minutes. his preliminary hearing is
unless there is strong action to fix the debt crisis there. well, right now on wall street, what are we watching here? traders closely watching how european heeders are taking on this challenge. the dow is currently up by 38 points. going to take a hard look at what this means for your finances as well as your retirement. what are we watching here? suicide bombers struck two cities in afghanistan today killing at least 58 people. the deadliest attack happened in kabul as worshippers marked a shiite holy day. the taliban suggests nato was behind the attacks to stir distrust between the sunni majority in afghanistan and the shiites. u.s. officials are now confirming a drone that crashed in eiran last week was on a reconnaissance mission involving both the cia and the military. now iran says it shot down the drone, but american officials say that the crew lost control of the aircraft as it drifted into iranian airspace. the sentinel drone, what does this mean? it has some of the
we re picking up new information and he s also getting a nut ew endorse. . i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. he s not just the new republican presidential front-runner, newt gingrich is leading the republican pack by double digits in several brand-new polls. a gallop national survey of registered republicans shows him 15 points ahead of mitt romney. 37% to 22%. less than a month away from the iowa caucuses. a new cbs new york times poll has gingrich 14 points ahead of romney. as former front-runners know, top status meepz extra scrutiny and he was grilled about some of his past positions by conservatives. this is happening as we re meeting right now. jim acosta is watching all of this for us. what s the very latest? he s getting tough questions. his poll numbers have been good but it has been said his own worst enemy is newt gingrich. the two may have come face to face. glenn beck turns up the tea party heat on newt gingrich rubbing his nose in his past su
other candidates a joke. it s the donald who s the one they re really laughing at on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com and good morning. it s tuesday, december 6th. ali and christine are off today. i m alina cho along with carol costello who s well rested on this american morning. thanks for joining us. i ve had four days of sleep. so watch out. up first, what s red, white and blue and can t agree on how to save you money? congress, of course. offering a proposal to extend the pay roll tax cut before it expires at the end of the year, but republicans are not on board. without a deal, pay roll taxes will rise costing millions of americans $1,000 a year. the clock is ticking and president obama is keeping the pressure on. my message to congress is this keep your word to the american people and don t raise taxes on them right now. now s not the time to slam on the brakes. now s the time to step on the gas. now s the time to keep growing the
a new week and new shake-up for the battle for the presidential nomination. newt gingrich is now the solid front runner in the state of iowa. but today his focus was on new york. and a meeting with donald trump. let s go to new york. there s jim acosta following this for us. what s the latest with newt gingrich the front-runner and donald trump? well, he is in the big apple and you can say he is singing new york, new york, start spreading the newts. he his message he is can win the republican nomination. he is willing to take this battle to all 50 states. at a news conference in new york, newt gingrich insisted he can go toe to toe with mitt romney in a 50-state battle for the nomination. even with a much smaller operation. we have all these articles about how businesses are getting leaner. how they are flattening their hierarchies. doing all sorts of things. have you people who work from home. you have virtual organizations. all of these cutting edge ideas. you have a gr