this is a state a couple o weeks ago herman cain was leading it. then we have florida, 43%. you would think if you re mitt romney, justin you d want to fill up at least two to three of these states, and according to what we are seeing it s not being done. there is a lot of campaigning to be done before our first caucus in iowa. there is a lot of money to be spent on television. once voters start going to the polls and caucuses and voting i think you ll see the numbers will change a little bit. newt gingrich has caught momentum at the right time, and i think it s a grit way to end thgreat way to end the year. he s picking up some of that herman cain support, at least in south carolina, that s where herman cain was. i think that s what is really going on right now.
he s picking up herman cain support. the president is right, he s been at this a longtime, he ran back in 08. everybody thought he was going to be the frontrunner in this case and he simply is not. do you sense there is desperation and panic in the romney camp right now? i m not sure. i don t think there should be desperation in the romney count. we ve seen different candidates, donald trump, michelle perry, herman cain take the lead at different times. we are within weeks of the first caucuses in iowa. it has to give the romney campaign comfort that they still have a pretty significant lead in new hampshire. that will be the second state and the second primary state. martha: a lot of people are saying the republicans are unsatisfied and the polling now, both of those mean, romney and gingrich and it raises the
iran says the drone was an rk-170. that s one of the most secret drones in the u.s. military and intelligence arsenal, essentially a stealth drone, flies undetected, gathering intelligence and targeting information. what is the u.s. say something so far the u.s. is using the alternate aplooins lines in afghanistan to issue a statement is only saying the uav which the iranians may be referring to may be a u.s. unarmed reconnaissance aircraft that had been flying a mission over western afghanistan last week. the operators of the uav lost control of the aircraft and had been working to determine its status. that is what the u.s. is saying about all of this, a loss of flight controls before the drone went down. but what the u.s. isn t saying is that it was shot down or one of the highly classified drones. the key question is do the iranians have their hands on classified u.s. intelligence technology? let s talk more about the pentagon s concerns. how concerned is the pentagon a
and good morning, everyone. it s friday, december 2nd. ali and carol are both off today. i m christine romans along with alina cho on this american morning. so glad you got the memo. i know. we re both feeling a lot like christmas this morning. up first, the countdown is on for herman cain. he s heading back home to atlanta this morning in the decision to whether continue his campaign could be in his wife s hands. cain says we will know by monday at the latest whether he s in or out of the race, and yesterday for the very first time, cain admitted that getting out is an option. he okay knowledged he did give money to the woman he said she had a 13 jeer-year affair with . his wife only found out about ginger white when the rest of us did. that is correct, and she was hurt that she didn t know about this friend that i was helping financially. she was aware of many of the other friends that i have helped. ginger white spoke to lawrence o donnell on msnbc last night a
the herman cain support, that some of the conservatives are looking at quick rich more gingrich more. it may be in part because of the controversy cain has suffered over the past two weeks. but gingrich himself has, you know, some history there. he s been married a few times, and he openly admitted to cheating on his wife, could have been two wives, i m not sure. is that going to come back to haunt him? because we ve heard romney and perry repeatedly stress how they ve been married to the same woman their whole lives, huntsman the same thing. does that come back to hurt gingrich or prevent him from winning? it s not new. people know about that, so it s not new news coming out. newt gingrich has been married three times. they know that. he s dealt with it, he s talked about it, he hasn t run away from the issue at all. he realizes that it is, in fact, out there. but remember, most people in this country have been divorced and married again. ronald reagan was divorced and married aga