who s joining us from the white house. okay kelly, we ll get to that in just a second. i m looking at news that i would like if for you to clarify regarding a call between the president and vladimir putin, it has to do with thwarting a plot? reporter: well, at this point, alex, what i can tell you is that white house officials say the president did speak with vladimir putin today. president trump is at camp david and we expect to learn from white house officials what their version of the content of that call will be. what they re prepared to say footbally. from the other side, the kremlin side, there have been some sort of threads of the conversation coming out from that point of view where from the russian side, they ve asserted that president trump provided actionable intelligence to clooun to thwart a terror attack. that s from the russia side. we just don t know anymore than that right now. it is notable that the president had a call with putin again because he had one just in re
dancing with local farmers in malawi. another leg of clinton s african tour brought her to johannesburg yesterday where clinton attended a reception hosted by south africa s foreign minister. what can i say? clinton will have visited seven african nations in all. i think she likes it out there on the road. footbally, check out this photo of mitt romney at a factory in chicago just yesterday. in a bizarre trick of photography perspective, it looks like that factory employee is biting mitt romney s fingernails. new york magazine jumped in way potential captain. whoa there, you re trimming my fingernails with your teeth. hey there, that s okay. you re a hard-working american. thanks, friend. anyway, it s entirely possible romney might actually have been saying that.
three children and their grandparents? a cop car out of control slamming into a packed restaurant stopping only inches from a firepit and tanks of propane on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. it s wednesday, december 28th. welcome to american morning. i m alina cho along with ali velshi. so glad you re with us today. good morning, alina. up first, remember newt gingrich s pledge to keep his campaign positive? forget about it. with six days to go before the iowa caucuses the former house speaker kicked it into slice and dice mode. listen to newt gingrich in the situation room with wolf blitzer challenging mitt romney to man up. and the massachusetts governor was willing to return the fire. mitt romney s the guy running the most ads attacking me, and he s doing it through this disingenuous, oh, gee, i don t control all of my former staff and millionaire friends. it s baloney. he wants to defend his negativity, show up in io
with fredricka whitfield. have a great day. the cnn presidential debate, tempers flair and we ll talk more on that. this morning after we re tallying the fight cards of the most tested debate of the election season. jim acosta is in las vegas where the candidates anted up and they threw down. jim, all must be nursing some bruises after that throw down. any winners? there were some winners and some losers and i think you re going to see in this piece we are talking about. this was, as a lot of people are calling it, fight night here on the vegas strip. for weeks mitt romney cruised through debate after debate and letting other top tier candidates take all of the abuse but that all came to an end in last night s cnn debate. anderson, you say that you knew you had illegal reporter: it was a wild west shootout on the las vegas strip and at times it felt like rick perry s last stand with an urgent strategy to take down mitt romney. you hired illegals in your home and
just need to know, what the percentage is of people that are mentally retarded who work for the organization, and are, are members of it. and one final thing, also, wondering what your plans are, how to spin it when one of your members does actually kill somebody. wondering how, if you ve got an actual pr-spinning routine planned for that? or are you just going to take it when it happens? voicemail recognize the voice? larry baxter from the geico ads. baxter says he left the voicemail after hearing about the slurs yelled at members of congress during the run-up to the health care vote. he said leaving the voicemail was stupid and doesn t blame geico for giving him the axe for leaving the message. footbally, illinois ex-governor rod blagojevich to