And her cell phone pings hundreds of miles away. Reporting begins now. Announcer now Shepard Smith reporting live from the fox news desk. Shepard smith President Trumps former fixer and lawyer and new accusations about the hush money payoffs to a porn star and a playmate. The top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee adam schiff says President Trump could eventually spend time behind bars. Theres a very real prospect on the day donald trump leaves office, the Justice Department may indict him. He may be the first president in quite some time to face the real prospect of jail time. Federal prosecutors filed a Court Document stating that President Trump illegally ordered his former longtime Attorney Michael Cohen to buy the silence of two women. That, it said, is a violation of Campaign Finance law. The president today tweeted its his lawyers mistake, not his. The actress Stormy Daniels and the playboy model Karen Mcdougal have both talked publicly about what they claim were sexua
what a turnaround. reporter: no kidding. we were down 507 points on the dow at the beginning of the day. that was on the brexit news that the british government will not pursue the brexit plan that was on the table. now the dow up 81 points continuing to move higher. the s&p 500 up 11. good news there. and nasdaq is up even more than that. look, we were talking this morning about whether the dow index would go into correction mode. not so now. the overall tone of the market is not that positive. people are talking about selling the rally rather than buying the dip over concerns about earnings and interest rates. lots of worries down here, not to mention trade, of course. the good news today is big tech stocks doing well. google saying they would move to close their google plus social network faster than expected. and that is helping those tech stocks move ahead. the ceo of course is going to
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
for facebook which shockingly they don t have yet. but the smart money is really on adding video chat possibly in partnership with skype. that s the video chat company that was just acquired by microsoft because that s something that it s almost surprising that facebook doesn t have. google has video chat. apple has it. but if facebook adds it, they ll definitely fill in a big hole they ve got. is this like mark zuckerberg trying to keep up with the joneses? probably not coincidence that they said as soon as google launched their google plus social network, facebook said oh, we ve got a big, awesome announcement so everybody come pay attention to that. the timing was a little suspect on that. is facebook as relevant as it was in 2004 at its inception? you ve seen the sale of myspace. they took a bath on that, a fraction of what it was originally worth. is that trend falling off, or is facebook still incredibly relevant? it is in my life. they continue to sort of evolve more tha
but they weren t ready to take it to the next level. i see so many people now using facebook and even google plus for professional purposes. it s mixing the social stuff with business stuff. there s really no end to possible up side here. of course, it could go the other way, too. dan ackerman, friend me. i will. appreciate it. new speculation out today about the royal newlyweds. will and kate may be looking to start a family after a comment the duchess of cambridge made this weekend. the royal superstars are on a tour of canada before heading to los angeles this friday. kate reportedly told an eager fan who wished the couple well in starting a family, quote, yes, i hope to. four simple words that apparently mean so much. ben fogle is nbc s special correspondent. hey, ben. hey, how are you? what struck me is big deal. what else is she going to say? no, i hate children? what you must remember is kind of twofold here. first, there was speculation for years, are they, around