the damage and the cries for help. the claim their government is out to kill them. cnn s nick robertson with an exclusive story. to the rescue. what does this now mean for you? i will be able to pay my mortgage every month on time. go back to the basics. solving the mortgage crisis. we find out this hour. that and more right here, right now on cnn. i m don lemon and we begin with breaking news. a major shake-up in the battle for president. he said he had a ticket to ride after finishing third, but the trip is over for jon huntsman. a senior official told cnn huntsman is dropping out of the race for president and here s a detail you heard first on cnn. he plans to endorse mitt romney. cnn s political reporter broke this news for us and joins us now. when is the official announcement? reporter: the official announcement will be tomorrow here in myrtle beach at the sheraton hotel where there is a big gop debate. the official endorsement will be here. he is going to
less than one year ago on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. it s friday, december 23rd. i m deb feyerick an with alina cho on this american morning. good morning to all of you out in. so glad you re with us. up first, an early christmas present for 160 million americans. the house is expected to vote today on extending the payroll tax cut that divided washington for weeks. house republicans caved yesterday after a lot of arm-twisting by president obama who stead was the disgust of the american people that broke the log jam. boehner saying his side still wants a one-year extension but saw the political reality. we have fought the good fight. i talked to a number of members over the past 24 hours who believe that, hey, we don t like this two-month extension, we don t like this reporting problem in the senate bill, and if you can get this fixed, why not why not do the right thing for the american people, even though it s not e
they didn t do anything wrong. no law was broken. they are using background information. you are the first woman war correspondent in vietnam. i have one out there and the military have press conferences and try to get their message to the media. is this any different? particularly in vietnam where things were always going wrong as far as public opinion went there was a concerted effort to do that. the colonel s point here is that the general was break the law because psycholodgal operations is only supposed to be directed against the enemy, not against american citizens. my favorite media item of the week on this subject was in the huffington post by a former senator andrews from maine who says, he actually said it was an attempt at a military coo. he is a lefty of course, i suppose i don t have to tell you that. i think this thing hangs in the balance either there is a lot of back and forth we haven t
are threatening to do, and the military has to stop them from doing so, we have a new world. we do, and the military has to take a very big decision. do they begin to fire on those people that they have so far refused to fire on, shep? or do they decide that this is descending into the kind of chaos that egypt cannot stand? they may then take the decision that the way forward is a military coo. they may finally decide that they have to. they are forced by events to get mubarak out of there to say you can no longer even be president in name. it s a huge decision they may face tomorrow. bill: what sources told news organizations, including this one, all over the world today, prior to the speech, which came to something else. but what we were told by very good sources is that the president was going to resign and that the military was going to be given some sort of power over the government until an orderly transition could take place. that would have been tantamount to a military c
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