country and quite frankly the biggest national security threat it faces the congress has to reach a deal. if they can t it s embarrassing, avoidable and our accounts of losing the aaa rating isn t even worth keeping count of anymore because washington is simply too dysfunctional to govern. today both speaker boehner and president obama said they want to avoid a shutdown. there should be no conversation about shutting the government down. that s not the goal here. what i will not do is to create a habit, a pattern, whereby the full faith and credit of the united states ends up being a bargaining chip to set policy. the truth is, though, both sides are okay with a shutdown if they don t get their way. boehner says the house will pass a budget bill this week that defunds the president s health care law. that s obviously a nonstarter, won t go anywhere in the senate and the president is making political hay out of it. imagine a situation in which
have been lost. the dune is way back, there s already been a deck with a big barrier wall that s crashed, caved in. reporter: the storm left thousands of people without power and caused many schools to close across new england. some districts, however, including boston, were criticized for remaining open. and the snowfall has caused many towns to see red, that s red as in deficit. many snow removal budgets are depleted and others say easy winter last year resulted in a carryover surplus that will ease the pain. for those who are keeping count, 11 days now before the beginning of spring. kelly. kelly: david, thank you. a lot of people really wreaking from the havoc going on there, thank you. jamie: some new numbers at the end of the week showing a drop in the nation s unemployment, but is the job market really rebounding? what does it mean for the millions who are still be looking for work?
rolling out a new strategy saying he can no longer capture the delegates needed to clench the nomination focusing on keeping romney from sealing the deal by june. here s the latest delegate tally in case you are keeping count: mitt romney out front with 495. sane for rum, 252. newt gingrich has 131 and ron paul has 48. what does the gingrich strategy mean? joining me for a fair and balanced debate brad blakeman and former democratic congressman from texas, martin frost, thank you both for joining us. happy st. patrick s day. brad, i m going to begin with you. is this a good strategy for newt gingrich? might be good not for newt gingrich but for mitt romney. the proportional races are
conversation she reportedly had with one of her husband s sex abuse victim. and pakistan s prime minister re-evaluating his country s relationship with the u.s. after a nato air strike killed two dozen pakistani soldiers. the state department ramping up the damage control, on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com and good morning to you. itis tuesday, november 29th. ali is still working off the turkey. i m carol costello along with christine romans on this american morning. good morning. and the new bombshell rocking herman cain s presidential campaign. the woman claiming a 13-year affair that ended just eight months, just as cain launched his presidential bid. the accuser, an atlanta businesswoman, told waga about the alleged affair. it was pretty simple. it was uncomplicated, and i was aware that he was married, and i was also aware that i was involved in a very inappropriate situation, relationship. i m not proud. i didn t want to come ou
good morning. happy thanksgiving. this is the day you ve been waiting for. carol costello, thursday, november 24th. ali and christina have the day off. so glad you re with us. i have all of the fattening stuff laid out for me already here. it s already here. they ordered in thanksgiving dinner for us at 3:00 a.m. the turkey is crusty now. still edible. the stuffing is quite good actually. first up this morning, one thing we re very thankful for, our brave men and women in the military serving here and overseas. we have about 20,000 troops in iraq right now but the forces are flooding out as a december deadline for withdrawal approaches. thousan thousands sent to kuwait waiting to be reassigned or sent back home. happy thanksgiving, martin. reporter: good morning, carol. happy thanksgiving to you. it is a happy thanksgiving especially for those soldiers gathered here at camp virginia. let me tell you why. we re located about 20 kilometers south of the border with iraq.