chuck todd and peter alexander are in iowa tonight. abc s john carl in iowa for us tonight. we ll turn our critical edge on reporters in iowa and washington and especially the surge in negative reporting about ron paul. this the skeleton in ron paul s closet. this is from the ron paul newsletter. so you read them but you didn t do anything about it at the time. i never read this stuff. why did the press take so long to start examining the congressman s sometimes inflammatory record? i m howard kurtz and we re kicking off the 2012 season onsome reliable sources. happy new year to all of you. it s obviously not a holiday for much of the political press gearing up for actual voting of 2012 after a year of prediction and prognostication. after treating ron paul as an entertaining side show they reacted to his rise in the polls the same way michele bachmann, rick perry, herman cain and newt gingrich shot up in surveys by belatedly examining his record including ince
this is your a.m. wakeup call. . good morning to you, it is tuesday, november 22nd. i m carol costello. here are this morning s top stories. republican candidates gathering in the shadow of the white house tonight for the big cnn national security debate. it s the first test for newt gingrich as the front-runner. a new poll shows he leads mitt romney by 4%. giving up a lot of the blame, not much shame is the congressional super committee calls it quits. lawmakers announcing they cannot reach a deal to cut at least $1.2 trillion worth of deficit now even more painful cuts loom. part of a major highway between memphis and dallas reopened after an intense down pour washed it away yesterday. 88,000 cars and trucks sat on a 30-mile detour and more rain is on the way this morning. so let s check in with jackie gerris in atlanta. good morning. good morning, carol. yeah, flooding is going to continue to be a big problem across the mid south this morning. the rain continues to
recently served another president. as he confided to one of his closest advisers, after a private display of uncertainty, i can t let the people see that. i don t want the staff to see that. i get up every morning, it s a heavy burden. nia henderson has read the book, gives her a strong position. richard wolffe is a journalist and an msnbc analyst who has written extensively on the president s economic team. let me ask you about the book. we have all these weird embargo rules about what we can say. whatever you can say, this book, does it ring true? well, in parts it does read true. i mean, some of the things that have come out, we ve already sort of knew. i mean, whether it was about this whole idea of the white house as a boy s club, that is something that we ve already extensively reported on, here at the washington post, at the new york times, there had been pretty lengthy stories about this. of course, now we have anita dunn pushing back specifically on something she suppose
okay? he s the one chat charges in the book that geithner slow walks stuff. he s the one who undermined the president when it came to economic regulations, or on too big to fail, undermined volcker. he s the one who said there s no adult supervision? he hijacked the process according to all the people who worked for him. anyway, thank you. is this going to be an important book or unimportant book? it s going to be an important book at least in washington for one, two, three weeks. the things come in cycles. last week was cheney. this is the book of the moment now. nia malika hender sp. when we return, let me finish with luck. does the president have it? will he have it on his side in 2012? hey wrinkle face! that s what people could say if you re still using a liquid foundation that can settle into your lines and wrinkles and make you look older. covergirl and olay floats above lines and makes you look younger. can your anti-aging makeup do that?
walking the economic ideas. it s a bit like a criminal blaming law enforcement for being lax. okay? he s the one chat charges in the book that geithner slow walks stuff. he s the one who undermined the president when it came to economic regulations, or on too big to fail, undermined volcker. he s the one who said there s no adult supervision? he hijacked the process according to all the people who worked for him. anyway, thank you. is this going to be an important book or unimportant book? it s going to be an important book at least in washington for one, two, three weeks. the things come in cycles. last week was cheney. this is the book of the moment now. nia malika hender sp. when we return, let me finish with luck. does the president have it? will he have it on his side in 2012? what is that? oh, we call it the bundler. let s say you need home and auto insurance. you give us your information once, online. [ whirring and beeping ]