oh, my god. you all right? there s a madman and hollywood rampage caught on tape. a crazed gunman firing into cars. we ll talk about what set him off on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com and good morning, everyone. it s monday, december 12th. wow. december 12th where has the year gone? carol is off. i m christine romans. and i m ali velshi. good to see you again. haven t been here a while but come back into much news. tell me your abu dhabi in case you missed it, republican front-runner newt gingrich must have felt like everyone was ganging up on him because they were. calling the palestinian an invented people. this is a propaganda war in which our side refuses to engage and we refuse to tell the truth while the other side lies and you re not going to win if you re afraid to stand firm and stand for the truth. you stand firm and speak for the truth but you don t stand for israel. if bb netanyahu what s to say what you say, let h
mitt romney on the defense. we are just three weeks away from the first presidential contest of the 2012 campaign, and the attacks are in full force. let s be candid. the only reason you didn t become a career politician is you lost to teddy kennedy in 1994. wait a second. now wait a second. that s wait a second. paul steinhauser is joining us from des moines. gingrich survived. how did he do it? exactly, kyra. listen, newt gingrich, the reason he jumped in the polls and surged the last couple of months is because he has been doing very well in these debates. we saw it again saturday night. as everybody suspected, newt gingrich now that he is a front-runner here in the first state to hold a contest in the caucus of primary calendars, we knew he would come under attack. he did. from mitt romney and from the others. but he seemed to have the measured response each time. now, this squabble that you just played over the debate saturday night has been continuing between
that s according to a pr firm hired by the aau firm hired to take care of this crisis. dodd denied the allegations when confronted but the aau saw fit to tell dodd to leave his post and not return. george howe, they must have found something to force dodd out. do we know what that was? reporter: don, at this point that does seem to be the case. in fact, we are learning new details as we examine the time line of events. how long did this group know about these allegations before making the call to contact police? now, what we do know is that two men spoke publicly to espn outside the lines to share their story about the alleged sexual abuse that happened back in the 1980s when the men were teenagers. what we learned is that a third person may have also contacted that group with similar complaints but it all goes back to the timeline. on november 7th and 8th, this group apparently received anonnous e-mails about a source only known as shrimp breath. again, it took a little ov
over to panamanian authorities before boarding the plane. iran will not hand over the unmanned american spy plane it claims to have. a general is quoted as saying nobody returns spy equipment to the country of its origin. u.s. officials have not officially confirmed the drone shown in this video is american. although the pentagon does say a cia drone is missing and not yet recovered. los angeles police have identified the man in this terrifying video. it shows 26-year-old tyler brem shooting into cars on sunset boulevard in hollywood friday. apparently at random. they still don t know what motivated this rampage in which brem wounded three people. responding police officers shot brem, who later died at a hospital. was it basketball night or fight night? a cross town rivalry in cincinnati turned violent on the court with just seconds left at last night s university of cincinnati/ga cincinnati/xavier basketball game. a cincinnati player threw a punch at a xavier player, d