quote, i know everything that went on, and you have trusted somebody you shouldn t have, end quote. afghan president hamid karzai announced his country s troops will be taking control of more provinces including parts of helmand province where many british troops have been killed in past years. it is considered a key moment in the drawdown of u.s. troops and the gradual pullout of nato forces. the recent nato attack in pakistan has enflamed already tense ties between that country and the united states. the pakistani foreign minister said today that the nato attack that killed dozens of soldiers plunged relations with the u.s. into deeper crisis. pakistan shut down two nato supply routes in response to that attack. now to the battle for the white house. republican newt gingrich has just picked up a key endorsement, just weeks before the new hampshire primary. the new hampshire union leader of manchester says the former house speaker is worthy of voter support on january
but the thing that sort of blew up in newt gingrich s face, i think, the discussion on immigration. he had a rick perry heartless moment with this. i think this is really going to impact him tomorrow. it s really going to impact him with grassroots conservatives. i can see both sides of the argument here. he was reaganesque, 84- 86, reagan signed a huge amnesty bill but i don t think he made that differential during the debate. this is one of the most substantive debates, we really were able to see a lot of different sides on the candidates on this side of the issue. ron paul did surprisingly well on a couple of different parts. perry talked more than normal. it was good. i think gingrich gingrich probably looked one of the best. dana, stand by. we ll get more analysis. the pictures, conditions are shaking hands in the hall. strong debate performance overall, but did he get in trouble with conservatives, his answer on immigration, saying we re nerve ever going expel the
clouds of tear gas in the streets of cairo again as police battle protesters, we ll take you right into the middle of the clashes, i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. a day after the republican candidates sparred and cnn s national security debate. mitt romney is back out there on the campaign trail. he picked up a new endorsement today in iowa. key conservatives have already held secret talks there. end of fining alternative candidate for the support. cnn joe johns is tracking the latest for us. joe. six weeks out from the iowa caucuses, if you take a picture, race for the nomination, it s clear as mud. the strangest thing of all in the volatile race, mitt romney and the within most republicans can believe is the president is not the person they say they re most likely to support. for the anybody but romney crowd, this had to be a rich moment. senator john thune, the true conservative, could have been a republican contender from president but decided not to
republican candidates gather in the shadow of the white house tonight for the big cnn national security debate. it is the first test for newt gingrich as front-runner. cairo bracing for a million-man sit-in. police beating demonstrators on the fourth straight day of violence, and now late word three americans have been arrested. is there anybody out there? nasa relaunching a program to listen for alien life, searching for signs, on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. it s tuesday, november 22nd. ali and christine are off this morning. i m alina cho along with carol costello on this american morning. so glad you re with us. glad you re with us. up first this morning, breaking news out of cairo. three americans arrested outside the interior ministry in tahrir square accused of throwing molotov cocktails. thousands of demonstrators are packed into the square for a million-man sit-in. a short distance away, our reporter says soldie
the imf, alexus glick, experienced on wall street and covering and she is the ceo of the gen youth foundation, will cain is the cnn contributor, cloudy with a chance of rain has been your forecast. anything that s going to part the clouds? i don t think anything will part the clouds until europe clears up, which might be a while. we re probably in for stable, slow growth, but there s more risk to the downside than the upside. let s talk about europe. just this week it became more difficult and expensive for spain to wore ro money. we re looking at bond yields and this is telling us there s potentially a funding problem in europe. explain why that is so important? europe is a quarter of global economy. european banks are interlocked with our banks. so we want them to fix this, but i wonder, they might need a new constitution before this is over and do they have the political wherewithal to get a new constitution? you think we had political problems on debt in this coun