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good morning, everyone. it s wednesday, december 14th. i m christine romans along with carol costello on this american morning. good morning. good morning, good morning to all of you. good and bad news this morning for the gop front-runner newt gingrich. with less than thee weeks until the iowa caucuses his political director in the state stepped down after calling mormonism a cult. two gop candidates, mitt romney and jon huntsman are mormons. gingrich is already working with a bare bones staff in this state and meantime, gingrich opened a commanding lead nationally over mitt romney, but head-to-head with the president, well, that s another story. cnn political director paul steinhauser got your title wrong, paul. it s all good. you re the best guy at cnn. paul steinhauser, and you re here on this american morning. okay. let s talk about these polls. reporter: yeah. starpt with t staff with the numbers. brand new from nbc wall street journal numbers. the battl
house republicans attached unrelated projects to the bill that democrats don t want. the cut expires december 31st and without an extension the typical worker will get hit with $1,000 tax increase in the new year. newt gingrich has lost his iowa campaign director. craig bergman has stepped down over some comments he reportedly made about mormons. the des mois register says he called mormonism a cult. two of gingrich s rivals rather in the republican presidential race, mitt romney and jon huntsman are mormons. the faa says starting friday american airlines pilots can use ipads in the cockpit. the devices will replace hard copies of flight manuals and navigation charts. american says cutting out about 50 pounds of paper on every flight will save massive amounts of fuel across the airline. don t worry about distracted pilots. the ipads will not have internet access during flight. a federal safety board is calling for a nationwide ban on cell phone use while driving. that m
risks becoming mundane. a murder that doesn t even make headlines anymore. that should not be. so tonight we re leading off this broadcast with video of the death of this little boy. now some of you will say we should not show you this video. i understand that. it is sickening. it is hard to watch. it is horrific. but we believe what is even more horrific is dying in silence. murder that is then covered up by lies. lies from a dictator who says it isn t happening, a dictator who says we re not pulling the trigger on sniper rifle that s kill children. we re not shooting on funerals. he says it s not happening and yet every day in hundreds of homemade videos we see it happening. you will see it happening tonight. the little boy s only crime it seems was being at home in syria in the middle of a war being waged by a brutal dictator against his own people. a dictator who in the face of evidence that grows daily continues to die ni everything. we don t feel our people are being
out front tonight, newt on top. brand-new numbers out today, let s show you this, this started a week ago and has gotten stronger and more consistent. nationwide, this is what you re looking at here, gingrich holding a 15 point advantage over his competitors as you see, 37-22 for mitt romney. in iowa, caucusgoers there rival mitt romney at 17%. down in south carolina, gingrich 38%. gingrich still has a lot of critics inside his own party. among the most outspoken congressman peter king. i asked him whether he s happy to see the polls. i m really not. to give newt credit, republicans took back the house of representatives for the first time in 40 years because of newt. he s a very good revolutionary, he s able to mobilize forces, but as far as governing, as far as being a leader, he s too erratic, he s so self-centered. the time that he was speaker, there was one crisis after another, and they were almost all self-inflicted. he puts himself at the center of everything. and i