that who would have to cast a vote if we ever put it before a vote which we stopped doing around military intervention. what are you thinking as we hear that? let me ask you. because obviously this is a humanitarian tragedy what s going on. we have a dictator turning on his own people. civilians and penning them in and slaughtering them basically. so you are getting increasing outrage internationally. and as people as that sort of crystallizes into a desire to intervene or help the question is going to be how do you do that and to whom do you direct that help? so what s the contact group? what s the friends group? you know, secretary clinton s talking in those terms and so forth. who do you see? i mean, we hear about the syrian national council. i guess, which is largely a group formed of exiles and so forth. who who do we direct the help and intervention to? right. we are hoping that we would have a decision out of the
will on the streets. journalists get a look at the violence syria doesn t want you to see. it is amazing to me how this guy has been shot this many times. i mean, he s superman. i have been shot three times. my fingers have bullet holes. did you hear had a? part man, part terminator. shot three times in a robbery. a marine pulls out the bullets with his own hands. and now he s talking about it from his hospital bed on this american morning. good morning, everyone. it is thursday, december 29. this is american morning. a lot going on today. let s get right to it. that s right. good morning, everybody. glad you are with us. i m alina cho. up first, dramatic shift in the political landscape with five days to go before the iowa caucuses. just look at this brand-new c cnn/ time poll. mitt romney on top in iowa now. followed closely by ron paul. newt gingrich plunging and rick santorum suddenly rolling right to the top three. gingrich now 11 points behind romney. he s
one is that congress is just so reviled, i mean, they have an 11% approval rating. it s probably, you know, too high by that estimation, and if you look at poll numbers on who is better handling the tax situation and whom do you trust on taxes, the president s numbers have gone up. i think this fall he s won the debate framing the millionaire s tax against the payroll tax, and and now this two-month this argument over the two-month extension kind of crystallizes in in the view of most people who is being reasonable and who isn t. those 100 tea party people in the house keep looking for ways to get things done that they want to do, and they keep looking for must-pass bills to do it on, and and tie themselves in knots doing it. they really want to have tough means testing of medicare. they really want to change environmental rules. they really want the keystone pipeline. it s not that they are putting poison pills in there to prevent the president from doing
numbers have gone up. i think this fall he s won the debate framing the millionaire s tax against the payroll tax, and and now this two-month this argument over the two-month extension kind of crystallizes in in the view of most people who is being reasonable and who isn t. those 100 tea party people in the house keep looking for ways to get things done that they want to do, and they keep looking for must-pass bills to do it on, and and tie themselves in knots doing it. they really want to have tough means testing of medicare. they really want to change environmental rules. they really want the keystone pipeline. it s not that they are putting poison pills in there to prevent the president from doing anything. they want things that just are going to blow up deals because they want them. and and boehner, the speaker, does not have the power to go against those 100 in his own caucus, and what the president
closer but there lies the divide we re addressing. and i think there are other poll numbers that bear on this, too. one is that congress is just so reviled, i mean, they have an 11% approval rating. it s probably, you know, too high by that estimation, and if you look at poll numbers on who is better handling the tax situation and whom do you trust on taxes, the president s numbers have gone up. i think this fall he s won the debate framing the millionaire s tax against the payroll tax, and and now this two-month this argument over the two-month extension kind of crystallizes in in the view of most people who is being reasonable and who isn t. those 100 tea party people in the house keep looking for ways to get things done that they want to do, and they keep looking for must-pass bills to do it on, and and tie themselves in knots doing it. they really want to have tough means testing of medicare. they really want to change environmental rules. they really want the keystone