diane swonk, old friend, chief of messere, aux financial. we re talking about the middle class. who represents the middle class in this country. the democrats are trying to make the point with speeches by president obama in the last couple of weeks. democrats are the party of the middle class. republicans are the party of the rich. republicans obviously are struggling with that themselves. david, what s your sense of how republicans are thinksing themselves and who in this country represents the vast majority of people, the middle class. i don t think anybody is doing a very good job of it of the president gave a speech in kansas a week ago in which he tried to stake out this ground. he gave a very good assessment of problems facing middle class americans. his descriptions were really weak. the president s main idea seems to be to have higher taxes on those who earn a lot and to use that money to expand public employment and hope more public employment will create a broad
in connecticut some 215,000 people remain without power, more than a week after that freak october snowstorm. connecticut light and power is promising 99% of their customers will have electricity by tomorrow night. this morning the governor said that a 99% threshold must be reached. anything less than 99% restored number is unacceptable. we ll get a live update on the swan the situation in connecticut later. five of the republican candidates spoke at the annual ronald reagan dinner end des moines. mitt romney and herman cain were no shows. rick perry drew applause with his plan that would freeze the pay of a lot of federal workers. until the budget gets balanced i m going to impose an across the board pay freeze for congress and all federal employees pay outside of the military and the public safety areas. iowa s first in the nation presidential caucus is on january 3rd. across america now growing anger at big banks and their rising fees and some of those banks co
career qantas grounded all of their planes because of a labor dispute. a lawyer for missing baby lisa s parents just got the boot. the parents of the missing 11-month-old girl cut ties with one of their attorneys. it came just hours after the couple cancelled a scheduled police interview with the baby s two half brothers. baby lisa disappeared from her home on october 4th. the st. louis cardinals are the world series champions. they defeated the texas rangers 6-2 in game seven of one of the most exciting world series in years. the cards third baseman david freese was named the most valuable player. more now on our top story. afghanistan. for u.s. troops it is one of the deadliest days there since the war began ten years ago. our nick walsh is in kabul. nick, what more can you tell us about how this happened? reporter: well, it appears that this incident was caused by a suicide bomber driving an explosive laden vehicle into a convoy in the center of kabul. a clarificatio
and welcome to american morning. it is friday, may 27th. the beginning of a long holiday weekend for many in this country. that s right. hopefully the beginning of some nice, calm, summer weather which we have not seen. we haven t seen. it s not going to be a great weekend for those in joplin, missouri. the search for the missing there continues. the state officials are releasing a list of 232 people who are still unaccounted for, a list they concede may not be entirely accurate. the death toll right now stands at 126. we re getting a look at some dramatic new video when just after the tornado struck. watch as aaron cox and his fiancee brook mckinsey watson race to find aaron s sister amid the destruction. let s take a look. look at this. oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh, aaron. oh, my gosh. right through here. i don t know i don t know where we are. i don t know. i don t know where to go. we have to keep going this way. don t step on any of this. c