that mortality rates in his second aren t that high if you exclude black women. i want to know, what s the hell. plus, new pentagon policy allows service members to request a transfer if they feel discriminated by gop state laws. i will talk to an army sergeant who transition it while in the service, about what this means for fighting forces. all that and much more is coming up. and a good sunday morning to you. i am katie fang. we begin this morning by going down to georgia, where this re-week will get a look at how republican in that state feel about donald trump s big lie. over the last four years we will see don terms fixation with the peach state. especially after refused to go along with trump s lie about the 2020 election results. of, course some say the trumps of frustrations played into the state electing two democratic senators. there is a razor thin majority in the u.s. senate. now, trump is going full throttle to replace the two men who stood up to. him endors
we ll look at big stories. give you interesting details and go inside information, only a worldwide news organization like cnn can bring to you every single day. we re going to talk to the leaders and newsmakers and also real folks and challenge some of the conventional looks and issues people are discussing today. the starting point this morning is about changing minds in iowa. just 36 hours before the caucuses begin, and it is a statistical dead heat for first place between presidential candidates mitt romney and ron paul, and that means the race for third is on between rick santorum and rick perry, newt gingrich and michele bachmann as well. the good news for them, more than 40% of iowan voters say their minds could be changed. got some breaking news to get to this morning. police are speaking to a person of interest right now in the los angeles arson spree. even as eight more fires were set overnight, surveillance videotape, show you this, shows the person officers want
they also met. what s also interesting, kyra, rick perry met with three of donald trump s children. you know, i spoke to michael cohen who is trump s top political adviser. i just got off the phone with him and cohen said he spent some time with perry, as well. they talked about the economy and jobs and talked about family. all topics we would expect to come up during the conversation with donald trump. what is the take away from trump? cohen tells me that trump likes him as an individual and also likes what perry has done in texas, as far as creating jobs and also to make it a pro-business state. but donald trump is not ready to make any endorsements yet. as i said, mitt romney will be in new york in a couple weeks to meet with donald trump. kyra? he hasn t ruled out his own presidential bid, right? no, he is leaving that on the table. donald trump, if he endorses in this presidential election and that person gets the nomination and, of course, he says he won t run. but
in america officially is 14 million people. the situation is getting dire. but i want to give you a bigger perspective. it s hard to live in the moment and make decisions. let s go back to the beginning of 2009. that s when president obama first took office. we were losing in excess of 700,000 jobs in the month that he first took office. through 2009, things looked to get substantially better. according to experts, the recession ended in 2009. 2010, boy, we were building in the beginning of the year and then started to lose jobs again. and then we started to get the shaky job creation record at the end of 2010 and into 2011. look at august. there s supposed to be a bar, either a yellow one that said we created jobs or a red one that said we lost jobs. but there s nothing there because we had zero jobs created. ken rogoff former economist for the imf. what does this mean? have we stagnated? clearly we re stagnating. the employment numbers have been getting weaker and weaker
and at 3:00, we ll talk to general russell honore. plus fredricka s interview with tiger woods. i m alina cho. see you in one hour. your money starts right now. i m ali velshi. no economic issue is more important to americans than jobs. here is the latest. we had a jobs report come out for the month of august, no new jobs were created in america in august. the unemployment rate, which was 9.1% before we got into this remains at 9.1%. stubbornly high. the number of unemployed people in america officially is 14 million people. the situation is getting dire. but i want to give you a bigger perspective. it s hard to live in the moment and make decisions. let s go back to the beginning of 2009. that s when president obama first took office. we were losing in excess of 700,000 jobs in the month that he first took office. through 2009, things looked to get substantially better. according to experts, the recession ended in 2009. 2010, boy, we were building in the beginning of the