but you made a lot of money. was it a money-making effort? not remotely, and, listen, this is a deliberate strategy. the strategy in washington is to launch personal attacks, some of which you read, and to encourage the media to do it. a lot of folks in the media like to cover this like it s a hollywood gossip column. this politician versus this politician, who is up, who is down, who is mad but, sir, you re the one who is starting to choose sides against your own colleagues. what i m choosing sides with is the american people and what i think the focus should be is on obama care. is it working? you know what s striking? in the last two months in the course of this debate over obama care, democrats aren t defending obama care. they re not saying, hey, this thing is working great. they re not saying, hey, it s not killing jobs. they re not saying, hey, it s not forcing people into part-time work, it s not driving up health insurance premiums, it s not taking away people s heal
and good morning, everyone. it s friday, december 2nd. ali and carol are both off today. i m christine romans along with alina cho on this american morning. so glad you got the memo. i know. we re both feeling a lot like christmas this morning. up first, the countdown is on for herman cain. he s heading back home to atlanta this morning in the decision to whether continue his campaign could be in his wife s hands. cain says we will know by monday at the latest whether he s in or out of the race, and yesterday for the very first time, cain admitted that getting out is an option. he okay knowledged he did give money to the woman he said she had a 13 jeer-year affair with . his wife only found out about ginger white when the rest of us did. that is correct, and she was hurt that she didn t know about this friend that i was helping financially. she was aware of many of the other friends that i have helped. ginger white spoke to lawrence o donnell on msnbc last night a
with president obama and the first family, but he s with me this hour to explain more. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. he s come on through the rise and fall of michele bachmann, but this time, it might be different for mitt romney. newt gingrich is now posing a threat to romney s persistent high polling, opening up a new battle line in the republican race for the white house. joe johns the working the story for us. what s the latest between romney and gingrich? well, mitt romney has spent most of this campaign in a fairly comfortable position, but his organization is feeling the heat and the question now is how they re planning to row respond. newt gingrich at the head of the pack a month out from the iowa caucuses. a thing nobody planned for except newt gingrich. a new poll in the early primary state of florida showing 50% of likely republican voters saying gingrich is their pick for president. only 19% picked romney, who spent much of the campaign beh