good morning. welcome. i m soledad o brien. welcome to starting point. we are coming to you from manchester, new hampshire. we are coming to you live from the airport diner. five day ways from primary day here. our starting point this morning is something that you are bogey to hear on the combine trail today which is the future of the american military. just about four hours president obama will reveal his plan for a slimmed-down force that will no longer be fighting two full-blown ground wars. digging into the details and talking a lot about it this morning. also, mitt romney, does he have a tea party problem? they didn t go away in iowa but could new hampshire be different? we are going to ask the tea party favorite and romney supporter christine o donnell this morning. and despite the sparring back in 2008 in this very state, senator john mccain is now backing mitt romney. he is going to join thus morning to tell us why. then oops, we deported your teenage daughter. a fa
from your tax return. also, a limit on your charitable donations. the mortgage interest deduction, any kind of pairing back of that not popular with the real estate industry. they say it s important for a fragile housing market. martin, you mentioned that low-income heating program. some folks say this proves the president is serious. this a program to help people who don t have a lot of money pay heating bills. not popular with people in the northeast or people in his party. this would be parring back that program to what it would be in 2008, cutting a couple billion dollars. showing i think that the things this country has to do to stop all that red ink and stop the 14 trillion number from getting bigger are things we ll all feel in one shape or form. the areas he didn t venture are the three biggest areas, social security, medicare and
good morning. welcome. i m soledad o brien. welcome to starting point. we are coming to you from manchester, new hampshire. we are coming to you live from the airport diner. five day ways from primary day here. our starting point this morning is something that you are bogey to hear on the combine trail today which is the future of the american military. just about four hours president obama will reveal his plan for a slimmed-down force that will no longer be fighting two full-blown ground wars. digging into the details and talking a lot about it this morning. also, mitt romney, does he have a tea party problem? they didn t go away in iowa but could new hampshire be different? we are going to ask the tea party favorite and romney supporter christine o donnell this morning. and despite the sparring back in 2008 in this very state, senator john mccain is now backing mitt romney. he is going to join thus morning to tell us why.