if it you re a republican, just sit down and watch the show. get some popcorn and a soda because it s fairly entertaining. this is p haing to them now. we ve had to deal with our own issues, now you ve got spitzer and weiner and mayor feeler, as i like to call him. they have to deal with all of this. comedy writers and republicans should just let this happen. yes. and we all know, of course, you re a republican strategist. these are democratic candidates, or democratic mayor and a democratic candidate. it is a lot more fun when it s happening to democrats than to republicans. i would say so. how do they regain the public s confidence? anthony weiner says he still can be an effective mayor, and bob filner says he still can be an effective mayor. kate, i don t think they regain the public confidence. anthony weiner seems to be determined to stay in this. he s got 40 more days to go. it s not unlikely that more revelations come out. the guy s got more sexting partners than most me
and this is where it gets interesting. because a lot of people don t understand, tamron, they don t talk in the sistine chapel. they vote in the sistine chapel. now they will go out and have a chance to talk and tomorrow there will be potentially four more ballots to see if we have a new pope. so from you being there and having covered this many times before, at least one other time before, chris, is this first vote really just kind of a feeler just to see where everybody stands? reporter: it absolutely is. i think particularly in a situation like this, you have 67 electors who have never been in a conclave before. it is also a chance for them to show a little at a boy to those they want to give some support to. the general feeling is that it gets more serious as we move into what is or the second day, when we will have indeed four votes. and then you ll start to see a winnowing down.
and gulf wars and recognizes danger when he sees it. the cable is still swinging and he jumps in front of it taking the full force of the rebounding wire to the face. i remember being hit with it. after that i don t remember anything until emergency people were around me asking how i was. doctors later tell him that if the wire had hit him a few inches lower it could have killed him. the corner of my eye right here is still sensitive. it looked like i had gone 12 rounds with a professional fighter. josh s injuries are far worse. when i hit the ground, i kind of knew my feeler was broke and arm was messed up bupt i didn t know my elbow was split wide open. it busted right in half. there are two bones in my forearm that are fractured and
number iowa and the price of gold suddenly falls and a glimpse into the future of war. time to play reporter roulette on this thursday. i want to begin in kuwait. at camp virginia with martin savidge where troops are getting ready to head hole. market? reporter: for those troops coming out of iraq, camp virginia is their first stop and the first step to get home in time for many of them to the holidays. they don t forget this is an important time and they are witnesses to history here. whether it is their first deployment or their fifth or sixth as it has been in some cases. they all know that being here at the end of this conflict is a moment that they will remember and a moment that historians will write about. also a moment that each soldier feels personally as they come across the border from iraq into kuwait. we had a conversation with a chaplain who has been up there and witness that had moment. and here s how he described it. i think it is awesome. the fact that we
longer the elephant in the room, governor rick perry announces he s joining the republican party for president. he may be the republican front-runner but he was not feeling the love at the iowa state fair. he got heckled and laughed at over three words he said, words he may come to regret on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com ing. oh, thank got it s friday. wait a minute. i ve got to move my stuff. good morning. happy friday to you. it s august 12th. welcome to american morning. up first, texas governor rick perry, the elephant in the room, is about to go on for 2012. perry says he s ready to toss his 10 gallon hat into the ring. we re going to have an announcement at 1:00 eastern time over in south carolina and then hop in an aircraft, come straight to new hampshire, and i hope you ll be watching your television set and listen to however you re picking it up on the internet or whatever. we ll have our announcement to give our intention