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love. vladimir putin is suggesting john mccain is nuts. mccain responds on twitter saying, dear vlad, was is something that i said? on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com and good morning to you. it is friday, december 16th. nine days left before christmas. can you believe it? >> have you finished your shopping? >> i have two gifts bought. >> and that means no. good morning, everybody. i am alina cho. welcome to "american morning." the last critical debate ...

bit. of course, newt gingrich at the presidential debates and the rivals, they exchanged jabs, engineer jeers and some jokes last night. even though there had been 723 presidential debates you always get something out of these things. maybe the line of the night. listen to who rick perry decided to compare himself to. >> there are a lot of people out there, i understand it. a lot of folks who said tim tebow wasnt going to be a very good nfl quarterback and people stood up and said, wel...

Recognize the partnerships since the federal defense of marriage act remains the law. those partners will not be allowed to live on base while the service member is deployed. and they will not have access to information. the same rules will apply to same-sex couples as heterosexual couples in terms of public behavior. the uniform military code prohibits public displays of affection and makes fraternization subject to punishment. >> thank you, jennifer. a moment ago, we said tech firm solyndra an...

Recognize the partnerships since the federal defense of marriage act remains the law. those partners will not be allowed to live on base while the service member is deployed. and they will not have access to information. the same rules will apply to same-sex couples as heterosexual couples in terms of public behavior. the uniform military code prohibits public displays of affection and makes fraternization subject to punishment. >> thank you, jennifer. a moment ago, we said tech firm solyndra an...

Could not ask people to lie about themselves and still meet the standards of the military code. but that was a signature moment, it took a year and a half for the pentagon to come along, but the chairman of the joint chiefs made a difference, i think. >> no. i cant agree with you more. that was a turning point moment when the chairman of the joint chiefs, admiral mike mullen, hes a very eloquent man, and a lot of credibility with members of congress, just said, this is wrong. we teach one of the...

Infidelity and politics almost seem to go hand in hand, and the revelation from former california governor arnold schwarzenegger is the latest in a long line of political sex scandals. just this month, nevada senator john ensign retired in the wake of an extramarital affair, and also ex-president shall candidate john edwards and david vitter, and president bill clinton and newt gingrich and that is more than a handful right there, and i could go on and on, but there are many others, of course, s...

an exclusive island unlike anywhere he has ever been. rikers island. until friday at the earliest, dominic strauss kahn will be a guest in an east river compound reserve for criminal defendants and convicts. its a world away from the swanky manhattan hotel where he allegedly forced himself on a maid saturday and brought himself an array of sex crime charges. reichers houses 14,000 inmates, give or take, and employs some 10,000 guards. its made up of ten separate jails, most of them b...

>> joe, with the exception of al franken, the senators on this list, jack reed, joe lieberman, john mccain, i mean, come on. >> theyre pretty tough guys. >> whats your sense of this? >> my sense is that his subordinates thought it was illegal, thought it was against the military code and had real kerns and according to this article, when he raised questions -- when they raised questions and objections, they paid for it professionally. they paid for it militarily. so i think -- sure, whether hes ...

Content of the piece in terms of some of the things that were being said off the cuff. >> i had members of my family saying why do you keep talking about the military code? why dont you address the substance of what he said? because in this instance, the substance of what he said just doesnt matter. do generals to privates grouse about the commander in chief from the revolutionary war through the good war of world war ii? of course, they do and they deserve to blow off steam at the stupid politi...

Meeting right now? >> im sure they are debating the strategy, how well it will have to work in order to achieve what we wanted to. without a question, the president made a decision, i thi think, in letting them know, one, we have a general that broke the military code. where you go into someones room and senior to you and you might let them know that you dont like the cut of their jib. when you step outside, you -- you dont talk about him and demand the same of your troops. general mcchrystal br...