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The web site "the huffington post". thats five times the web sites projected annual revenue. the deal puts arianna huffington in charge of all content on aol. oh, boy. gretch, over to you. >> sarah palin decided to weigh in on the presidents response to egypt. in an interview with the christian broadcasting network that airs tonight. and shes stealing a page from hillary clintons 2008 campaign book. >> this is a 3:00 a.m. white house phone call and it seems for many of us trying to get that info...

Put it on the economic data. so clearly theyre sleepless there at huffington post this morning because they worked on this deal all night long. $315 million. she will be the president. it will be the huffington post media group. >> shes of course the co-founder. what is, whos the real winner out of this whole deal? >> thats interesting. well have to see. i mean, at this point theyre both saying that they are winners. aol is really trying to, you know, beef up its content. it also has map quest, ...

Remain relevant, lost subscriber base and have huffington post which have 26 million unique viewers every single month. these two together, interesting, a very interesting combination. then you have huffington post, tech crunch and gadget patch.com. tease are all parts of the new names that aol has bought over the past months and years as its trying to cement itself as a content provider. patch.com, by the way, is this really -- 800 different local sites that sort of fill in the place, martin, w...

What hes saying is there is more we can do together. i think hes sincere. weve had two of the most important businessmen in the last 25 years, the head of g.e., founder of a.o.l., come on board the administration to promote experts and job growth and the president is saying, i know i can do a better job. we need to work together or america will not be well-served. this was sincere. the chamber feels it was. the statements that the chamber has been taking will say, we can work with them. megyn: t...

Thats amazing when you look at the pictures. close to two dozen homes in the area had to be evacuated. officials say about three cars are still burning. they had to call out i think 200 emergency officials responding to that. they say that the fire should be out by this morning. next on this "american morning," aol is betting on the news. deciding to purchase one of the most popular news web sites out this. also, former president george w. bush was scheduled to make a speech in switzerland t...

Huffington, shell have complete control over all content on aol and their many platforms and we put some of the platforms right there. suddenly, this very leftie owner of the huffington post is in charge of a great big chunk of the on-line world. >> when i saw that, i was curious to think it was amazing that newsweek sold a few months ago for a dollar. kind of hard for me to believe its worth $315 million but apparently, thats what it was. whats interesting is the media transformation that were ...

New group will have a combined 117 million unique visitors a month in the u.s. and 270 million around the world. christine romans, anchor of "your bottom line" joins me with more on this story. first, why did the transaction happen in the first place? >> the transaction happened to aol could really cement its relevance in an online world that it once dominated. i mean, it invented, you got mail, and now is trying to become increasingly relevant in a time when its own subscriber base declined. ar...

Its a serious question. >> you know, the truth is that the people and im sure previous presidents would say the same thing, whether it was bush or clinton or reagan or anybody, the people who dislike you dont know you. >> they hate you. >> even -- the folks who hate you, they dont know you. >> thats true. >> what they hate is whatever fun house mirror image of you thats out there and they dont know you so you dont take it personally. >> no, you dont ever? >> no. >> quick comment, dana? >> well, ...

Firefighters quickly realized they could not control this blaze. everyone in the area was safely evacuated. and the fire was allowed to burn itself out. in whats being called a merger of visions, aol has announced it will buy the online news site the huffington post for $315 million. its the latest high profile media site acquisition by the struggling internet giant. huff po as its known was founded in 2005 with just about $1 million investment. it now reaches about 100 million visitors each m...

Got nothing except a cold when they watched the game outside on a jumbotron. >> our next guest is hitting a high note with america for her version of the national anthem, that is. she beat out thousands of contestants with this wonderful performance. watch. >> ♪ o say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly ♪ >> that was all part of aols national anthem contest for the super bowl. and the best part is she didnt even know she was entered. and she joins us now. good morning. >> go...