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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 ....
Then oops, we deported your teenage daughter. a family is asking how the government accidently september a missing runaway teenager, 15 years old to colombia. even though she doesn t speak the language and doesn t know anybody there. that plus our political panel that will make you stai say get real. starting point begins right now. we start with the military this morning. bracing for sues mick changes and cuts. president obama will join leon panetta at the pentagon. lit happen later this morning. going to discuss the strategy for cutting billions of dollars from the budget. this is going to include these things. number one, no longer fighting would ground wars simultaneously. removing 4,000 troops from europe. and cutting at least 47,000 marines and troops within the next five years. the president s opponents say this is coming at a time when china s military is growing. when iran is growing its nuclear program and middle east is more volatile than any time before. ....