happy day, everyone. i m kat timpf and greg is off today doingnedoing wh whatever thing he does when he s off. i don t even ask anymore. but anyway, we ve hainn hedho some shows with some great guests over the past few months. so tonight, let s watch some of our favorites. enjoy. former ovorites. bill clinton hs a memoir coming out this fall m about his life after the whiteil house. needless to say,ife af it s a pp book. a new report claims that donald trump s spotify playlist includes suspicious mindrump s s by elvis. l hello by lionel richie. november raiionel vember rn by . meanwhile, president biden s playlist includes knockinking o ac heaven s door by bob dylan. according to a friend. d tige tiger woods is saying no to during preparation. the masters. no word yet if he llo word be switching to bluef but not having in order to. prepare for the masters. apparently some people apg for[laughparin the masters for eight years now . new images at a health caret event
intensified. the army shelling its own people as the arab world steps in to try to end the slaughter of civilians. and an all-out brawl at the mall. police with guns drawn, shoppers scrambling for exits. chaos after christmas on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. it s tuesday, december 27th. this is american morning. i m alina cho along with ali velshi. good morning. good morning to you. we re so glad you re with us today. there s a lot going on. let s get right to it. starting in iowa. it s the place to be this morning. five top republicans plan to visits hawkeye state today. not going for the corn. seven day rees main until the iowa caucuses. the first in the nation, a nomination is up for grabs. cnn political director mark preston is live in des moines this morning. mark, the week begins with newt gingrich trying to distance himself once again, not from someone else, but from his own past. reporter: yeah. from his own p
endorsements but a bit of a dark cloud on the horizon. more on that in just a moment, but, first, his fight for the gop nomination. a new nbc news/ wall street journal poll shows him with a commanding lead over mitt romney. the other candidates trailing far behind. paul steinhauser is in washington. paul, the same poll shows gingrich struggling in a head-to-head race against president obama. tell us about that. that horse race poll and two others indicate the same thing. way ahead in the horse race. look at this, hypothetical matchups next november. president obama versus gingrich and president obama against mitt romney. president obama 11 points ahead of gingrich. among all voters. but, basically, dead even with romney. so, the nbc/ wall street journal poll maybe an electable issue for newt gingrich. you ve seen the democratic national committee go after romney left and right over everything. not so much about gingrich. but yesterday, this is interesting, jessica yellin
good evening, everyone. i m john king reporting live from the history irk cspc hall in cedar rapids, iowa. breaking political story tonight. exactly three weeks before iowa casts the first vote of the 2012 presidential campaign. iowa conservative act innist who just signed on with the newt gingrich presidential campaign is quoted just before he took that campaign job as calling gingrich rival mitt romney s religion, quote, the cult of mormon. let me read you the quote. quote, there s a national pastor very much on the anti-mitt romney bandwagon, greg said, a lot of the evangelicals who believe god would give us four more years of obama to expose the cult of mormon. there s a thousand pasts are ready to do that. that was craig berman speaking at a voter focus before he took the job. he s hired as the gingrich iowa political director. cnn s making calls to see if he ll be allowed to keep the job. as we continue our weeklong iowa visit, a condition who has tirelessly visited e