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the triple crown. we start this evening with what you might call president obama stepping into it today. it happened during an appearance. while trying to prod congress into acting on his economic agenda, the present not once but twice referred to the private sector in glowing terms. >> overall, the private sector has been doing a good job creating johns. the private sector is doing fine. >> it was a gift. republicans, including the presidents opponent this november, wasted no time in ...

eve bash in the world on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning, everyone. so glad you could join us. it is friday, december 30th. im deb feyerick along with alina cho on this "american morning." >> thanks for joining us, everybody. up first this morning, mitt romney trying to steal the deal in iowa. former massachusetts governor is the front-runner now, a few points ahead of ron paul. with four days to go before the caucuses, romney is tweaking h...

Based upon the evidence she has presented. but youre right. think about this. think about it. the reason that im doing this reassessment, its not fair to my family, its not fair to my supporters, its not fair to this campaign, its every week, now three out of four weeks, on a monday of all days, weve been hit with another one of these accusations that we now have to address to basically prove, once again, i didnt do some of the things ive been accused of doing. of course its distracting, and get...

Based upon the evidence she has presented. but youre right. think about this. think about it. the reason that im doing this reassessment, its not fair to my family, its not fair to my supporters, its not fair to this campaign, its every week, now three out of four weeks, on a monday of all days, weve been hit with another one of these accusations that we now have to address to basically prove, once again, i didnt do some of the things ive been accused of doing. of course its distracting, and get...

Others on other networks and all over the internet are talking about this issue, it interferes with a message he is trying to strike. on the other hand, it is a different way of communicating to a different group of voters than he is communicating to with the flat tax argument. it was purposeful on rick perrys part. there may be some that wish he hadnt done it. it wasnt an accident. he is going to have to hope that karl rove is wrong. this is the kind of thing that will give a little spark to hi...

Jobs. >> you think that rick perry should stick to his flat tax or some other economic issue and not reopen the birther issue. that was a mistake? >> what we are focused on here in ohio is talking about the number one issue on the hearts and minds of people. if we are not talking about those issues candidly, we are off message. i have a white board that has those five or six words on it. if our candidates arent talking about those issues, at least for the people of the state of ohio, the republi...

Said. not just politicians, or people if my administration, but independent perts who do this for a living have said this jobs bill will have a significant effect for our economy, and middle class families all across america. but if we dont act, the opposite will be true. there will be fewer jobs, and weaker growth. >>alisyn: but, we should just say this is 180-degree turn from what he said in june, i am not concerned about a double dip recession and not worried and we do not think that will hap...

They needed to inspect. the democrats can distract and play politics all they want with what joe barton said but they cant play politics with whats actually happening and i think the american people are going to care much more about whats happening. >> and at a time when tony haywards in the chair, the presidents numbers on leadership are going down, the handling of this spill going down, joe barton did do the democrat as big favor yesterday. >> sure, he did. he distracted the day, took us off m...

In washington is poison. is poisoned. it is a toxic atmosphere. off message. president trump turning a policy speech in ohio on infrastructure into a campaign style rally, a political event on the taxpayers dime. >> you saw those beautiful pictures and that wall looks good. its properly designed. thats what i do, is i build. one democrat said we want to get rid, we should get rid of our second amendment. in other words, get rid of it. thats really -- could be right about that. so were going to...

Presidents agenda in play today, these tweets clearly taking everyone in washington off message including the presidents aides? >> reporter: thats right, jake. so much the president could have been focused on plenty of news coming out of the white house including that the president is going to be meeting with vladimir putin on the sidelines at the g20 including the controversial health care vote. but instead, the president is taking at the media and doing it in a very personal way. president tru...