She actually wound up leap frogging into the main event and has done very well. i saw you looking left to right for brian kilmeade. he s joining us from washington, d.c. he wants to say hello. senator, congratulations on this in the polls. as you surge, as we look at the map the floor plan you re going to be right next to donald trump. we know he high fived awkwardly with jeb bush. he s winked and touched the shoulder of people next to him. how is that going to affect your approach that you re next to a guy who you have been sparring with for the last 24 hours and right up to the debate. i was last time too so it s not a big deal. i m there to talk about the future of america and issues that voters care about. it s not a personality conflict of anybody else. it has been for the last few days. he s taking you on about credit card issues by you re discussing today and you have taken him on about his multiple bankruptcies. i find it ironic donald trump
Will sign and we will send. when it comes to educating our students, the united states is falling behind again. just take a look at the latest test results. we have american students, they didn t make the top five for reading, in fact, they fell to 17th overall. when it comes to science, we came in 21st. the worst of all, math, where american students ranked 26. right. so why do our students keep ahe? michelle ree is the founder of students first and former chancellor of dc s public schools. good morning to you. good morning. certainly when you see the numbers, you have to have a strong reaction. what s the cause? why is everyone surging ahead and we re in the same place we were? the interesting thing when you look at these rankings is that the scores of american kids have actually remained pretty consistent over time. the problem is that other countries really are leap frogging ahead of us. these are countries that are not necessarily richer than us or
revolutionary biometric id for every one of india s citizens. also, the housing bubble caused the crash. will a coming housing boon finally power this anemic recovery? first, here s my take. what to do about syria? western military intervention looked fraught with difficulties. but the situation on the ground is a humanitarian nightmare and is creating greater instability by the week. i have been persuaded they might be a path forward. the pressures on bashar al assad s regime are mountding. it s running out of crash and faces a real military threat from turkey. these pressures could be combined with smart diplomacy to push assad out of power, but it would mean trying to work with the russian government rather than attacking it. the u.s. has been bashing russia for shielding assad, coddling an ally at the cost of lives, some is true, some false, but all is unhelpful if the goal is to oust assad. unless the united states intends to ask iran for help, russia is the only cou
eve bash in the world on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning, everyone. so glad you could join us. it is friday, december 30th. i m deb feyerick along with alina cho on this american morning. thanks for joining us, everybody. up first this morning, mitt romney trying to steal the deal in iowa. former massachusetts governor is the front-runner now, a few points ahead of ron paul. with four days to go before the caucuses, romney is tweaking his schedule, planning to spend a lot more time in iowa over the next 96 hours telling voters this election is about saving the soul of america and he is the man for the job. cnn political editor paul steinhauser live in des moines, iowa this morning. good morning to you. so romney is enlisting high-profile help on the trail today. isn t he? sure is. thinking here and across the country, iowa, chris christie. a lot of people wanted christie himself to run for the white house. in october he finall
Jon: right now republican presidential candidate herman cain is riding a tidal wave of popularity, leap frogging over other republican candidates in the polls, putting pressure on both rick perry and mitt romney. but are the mainstream media taking this guy seriously? fox news digital politics editor cries stierwalt joins us with a look at that. he has improved tremendously, especially sthaeupbs debate in florida. it was a crucial turning point for herman cain. he had gotten attention in a another debate, people liked him, the republican base responds to cain as a businessman and nontraditional politician at a time when republicans are looking for people out of the box. jon: but he has had shaky moments as well, especially when asked questions about foreign policy and that sort of thing. does it suggest that this is going to be primarily an election about domestic issues? well, everybody,