and reagan ran that insurgent campaign in 1976, and people were saying, why don t you get out of the race? you have no chance of winning. and he fought. he won 11 states in 1976. i might add just parenthetically, that if we happen to win illinois, that will be the 11th state i ve won in this election. keeping them honest, ronald reagan did lose in 1976. but his spokesperson believes in a different outcome in 2012. they put out a memo called santorum path to delegate victory. and the candidate has been promising victory for weeks. we re doing great. we re in this race. we re in it to stay. we have won in the west, the midwest, and the south. and we re ready to win across this country. we feel very good that we re in a position to still win it right out. and if we have to go to an open convention, we like our chances just as well. we are going to win this nomination before that convention. well, obviously, we re in this to win. we re going to come out with illinois and a
they have lines you can call in before you take your kids on a trip. get me up to speed on the elderly. didn t they change? they did. we re talking limited screening, too. people over 75 at a couple of airports, four, can keep their shoes on, a light jacket, they can go through the metal detector or screening device to try to avoid that pat-down. this is part of eliminating the pools of risk as the tsa calls it. a kinder, gentler trip for the rest of us. thanks so much, lizzie. it s the top of the hour. i m ashley banfield. time to get you up to speed. several big developments in the investigation into the florida teenager trayvon martin. that case is going to a grand jury in seminole county, florida. and the department of justice and the fbi have opened up their own investigation into this case. last hour the martin family attorney said the teenager was on the phone with his girlfriend just before he was shot. the dots have all been connected. arrest george zimmerman
second coming of reagan 76. and reagan ran that insurgent campaign in 1976, and people were saying, why don t you get out of the race? you have no chance of winning. and he fought. he won 11 states in 1976. i might add just parenthetically, that if we happen to win illinois, that will be the 11th state i ve won in this election. keeping them honest, ronald reagan did lose in 1976. but his spokesperson believes in a different outcome in 2012. they put out a memo called santorum path to delegate victory. and the candidate has been promising victory for weeks. we re doing great. we re in this race. we re in it to stay. we have won in the west, the midwest, and the south. and we re ready to win across this country. we feel very good that we re in a position to still win it right out. and if we have to go to an open convention, we like our chances just as well. we are going to win this nomination before that convention. well, obviously, we re in this to win. we re going to
inside four weeks until iowa. a brand new poll showing newt gingrich as running away with it. now his past used by conservative critics. more disturbing allegations against jerry sandusky. another man saying he abused him and gave him alcohol as a boy. i have been excused of being a tramt traitor to both sides. a woman goes from wall street protester to wall street professional on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com all right. good morning, everyone. it s wednesday, december 7th. ali is off today. i m christine romans along with carol costello on this american morning. welcome, everyone. welcome and good morning. up first this morning, newt gingrich threatening to run away with the republican race. his bid for the gop nomination going gang busters. it s beginning to look like a gingrich juggernaut. look at the latest gallup poll. among republican voters nationwide, 37% now say gingrich is their choice. he leads mitt romney by a whopping 15
relationship for services rendered. what they are argue is he cared a lot, he cared about the $150,000 a month he was getting. all the character witnesses that testified for him, they don t stack up to much because those people were in hospitals when they were taking care of him. and conrad murray was mailing to his girlfriend. he knew of he wasn t supposed to have it. if they push that argument too hard that would be my only criticism of the prosecution. they don t have to proffer that he was money hungry, insensitive. there is a lot of evidence showing that this guy was otherwise a compassionate guy who gave to the poor, who didn t care about money. now, they don t have to prove that so why go there. i think it takes the sting away about character witnesses