morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. good morning, alina. good morning, everybody. welcome to american morning. it is tuesday october 25th. i m alina cho along with carol costello. ali and christine are off today. up first this morning, presidential politics as texas governor rick perry trying to one-up herman cain s 9-9-9 plan and get back the good graces of gop voters. this morning perry will unveil his economic growth plan that includes a flat tax. cnn deputy political director paul steinhauser joins us from washington with more details. he has this 20% flat tax, but taxpayers is actually opt out if they like their tax rate better? reporter: yeah, and banking on most americans not liking the way they have their taxes right now and hoping for some of that 9-9-9 that boosted herman cain from an afterthought to a front-runner in the gop nomination. yes, basically this morning the texas governor rick perry unvams his plan. cut, balance and gr