and irish and german. former massachusetts governor republican mitt romney ready to take on president obama in 2012. on twitter he said he will announce his bid for the nation s top spot in new hampshire next thursday u. according to a new gallup poll he tops the list of the gop playing field. 17% of republican saying they would support him for the nominati nomination, following close behind is sarah palin with 15%. p aretive ron paul with 10%, former house speaker beginning give 9%. sarah palin is getting ready to launch a bus tour. some are calling it a kickoff to the presidential campaign. palin s staff prefers to call it a, quote, learning tour. nobody just declares that they re running for president. except ron paul. the former alaskan governor has a new house. she bought this 130i $7 million, 8,000 square foot home in
and welcome to american morning. it is friday, may 27th. the beginning of a long holiday weekend for many in this country. that s right. hopefully the beginning of some nice, calm, summer weather which we have not seen. we haven t seen. it s not going to be a great weekend for those in joplin, missouri. the search for the missing there continues. the state officials are releasing a list of 232 people who are still unaccounted for, a list they concede may not be entirely accurate. the death toll right now stands at 126. we re getting a look at some dramatic new video when just after the tornado struck. watch as aaron cox and his fiancee brook mckinsey watson race to find aaron s sister amid the destruction. let s take a look. look at this. oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh, aaron. oh, my gosh. right through here. i don t know i don t know where we are. i don t know. i don t know where to go. we have to keep going this way. don t step on any of this. c
the oscars are tomorrow night. and the king s speech has 12 nominati nominations, the most nominations of any films. jack and jill went up the hill. the movie is about how a speech expert helps the king of england overcome his stutter so he can speak to a nation at war. behind this story is another great story of a seriously late bloomer. at the age of 73, this screenwriter has earned his first oscar nomination for crafting the king s speech. and cnn s alan duke had the opportunity to sit down with him. alan, thanks for joining us. very interesting story. listen, david s idea for a script he had this idea for more than 20 years. what took him so long to write it? reporter: well, really he
the math isn t adding up and his problem just isn t the republicans. megyn: is this getting resolved today? we ll see key votes later today. right now at this hou hour, john mccain is on the senate floor speaking against this nominati nomination. then you have the conservative leaning democrat from nebraska, ben nelson, senator nelson indicated he is not going to support a bid to close down the voting and get to a straight up or down 51 majority vote on craig becker. i believe it was good times not different strokes. megyn: i thought she played the
like frankfurter before him, justice stewart did not provide substantive answers to their questions. when they wanted to know how he would rule, he appropriately declined as his predecessors had. 28 years later, 28 years after justice stewart came through this committee. they considered robert bourk s nominati nomination. this was a turning point and in my view remains a rock bottom moment for the senate and for the senate judiciary committee. without getting into the gory details here, it suffices to say that senator ted kennedy and the judge did not agree on certain matters of constitutional law. and kennedy s response was to savage, unfairly in my opinion, the results that the judge would