and good morning, everybody. this is your wake-up call for monday, december 5th. i m christine romans, carol has the morning off. newt gingrich, the one to watch in the gop race in a new nbc marist pole leading the pack in iowa but mitt romney is still ahead in new hampshire. although his support has dropped from only a month ago, less than 30 days from the first gop nominating contest in january. he s taking some time off. atlanta megachurch pastor eddie long made that announcement yesterday. he says he needs time to work on family issues. long s wife of 21 years vanessa filed for divorce on thursday. last spring long settled a lawsuit piled by four young men who accused him of sexual coercion. the u.s. and pakistan mending diplomatic fences after that nato air strike that killed two dozen pakistani troops. president obama called pakistan s president yesterday making clear the incident was not a deliberate attack on pakistan. both presidents agreed to stay in touch. le
door right there. and the table. and there s also a red chair. the problem is it looks as if that campaign ad was still what s the problem with that? what s filmed in the white house. the same room that he has used for a number of weekly addresses you can see screen left with the flag, it is against the sec rules to use government assets to campaign with. there could be peril here for the president. he could be in a replica white house. maybe. exact replica. could be disney. with a beautiful lamp behind him. unless he s on the set of dave that s true. this is hard to believe. this violates federal election laws. surely, there are experienced people in the white house who know these things. there are. but stop calling us shirley. that prevents the president from doing something like this. you re not allowed to use the white house or government assets to campaign as president. so obviously, they ll be looking into this. right. talk about assets, one of our
the united states is participating through nato and other auspices announced by another head of state, not the president of the united states. who is here participating in these meetings. in response to the u.n. security council vote. use the following phrasing. the united states military assets and other government assets would be enabling european partners and african and arab partners and enforcing the no-fly zone. a clear implication at least for the short term. in support of whatever missions are going be taking place.
these government assets? what is that doing in this bill that s supposed to be about clean budget practices? it s pretty easy. the governor thinks there may be a market out there for some of these old, antiquated power plants that need a lot of work to bring them up to epa standards, and the idea was they would try to put these on the market, see if there s any buyers, they re not sure there is. actually, the legislature is comfortable with this provision because we did put our stamp on it in the budget writing committee, joint finance committee by saying it has to come before the legislature before any of these purchases could be granted. so, you know, it is not as controversial as it sounds. but senator, when did you become comfortable with the idea that the government can sell these things at no bids, with absolutely no wids at whatever
in here for businesses to buy these government assets? what is that doing in this bill that is supposed to be about clean budget practices? it s pretty easy. the governor thinks there may be a market out there for some of these old and antiquated hour plant who is need work to bring them up to standard. the idea was they would try to put it on the market to see if there buyers. they are not sure there is. absent the legislature, they are comfortable because we did put our stamp on it in the budget writing committee by saying that it has to come before the legislature before any of these purchases could be granted. it s not as controversial as it sounds. but senator, when did you become comfortable of selling with no bids at whatever amount