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good morning, everyone. its wednesday, december 14th. im christine romans along with carol costello on this "american morning." good morning. >> good morning, good morning to all of you. good and bad news this morning for the gop front-runner newt gingrich. with less than thee weeks until the iowa caucuses his political director in the state stepped down after calling mormonism a cult. two gop candidates, mitt romney and jon huntsman are mormons. gingrich is already working with a bare...

Penn state assistant coach jerry sandusky. this as penn state campus and local police are now shooting down assistant coach mike mcquerys claim that he went to the cops to report sandusky after he witnessed something in the shower back in 2002. investigators finally questioned mcquery last year after coming across an internet chat room post that said a penn state coach had seen something ugly and kept quiet about it. sweeping changes coming to immigration courts across the country. today, the de...

Government spending creates jobs. according to them when the government helps build roads, that doesnt create jobs or speed up environmental cleanup or hire some people or keep cops and firefighters on, but apparently its the only way to create jobs, according to them -- weapons and bases. they are now trying to keep military spending at an all-time high. in fact, the republican position is cut medicare, so we can keep having troops in west germany and japan, now very hypocritically announcing i...

police through a private entrance. her murder conviction overturned yesterday. knox sobbing uncontrollably when this verdict was read. so emotional, she had to be helped from the courtroom. her friends say the first thing she wants to do when she returns home to seattle is lie down on a green field. lets get the latest from becky anderson live in perugia, italy this morning. do we have a timetable for knox departure, becky? >> reporter: yes. we believe shes gone. its now mid-day local ...

>> i intended to sell most of the weapons but then what happened that night changed everything. >> officer hawkins drives into the parking lot unaware that an armed robbery is in progress. >> aubrey can see inside the store at this point. he is probably getting a sneak peek, he may have seen something that made him speed up. what he didnt know and we didnt know until later, one of the texas seven was in the parking lot with a police scanner, police radio, in communication with his six companions...

virginia. and elijah cummings, the former chair of the black caucus and analysis, and chris jeff free lund of digital. i am candy crowley, and this is state of the union. what a difference a year makes, or not so much. last year at this time, president obama was vacationing on marthas vineyard, and thats where he is today. last year he said -- >> a year and a half ago the economy was shrinking rapidly, and the economy is now growing. >> this year he is saying -- >> america will come ...

well, thats it for this edition of "reliable sources." im howard kurtz. were off next sunday when cnn will be providing live coverage of the dedication of the martin luther king memorial on the mall in washington. were back the following week with another critical look at the media. "state of the union" with candy crowley begins right now. an august of angst, at the battle of 2012 erode the presidents support. today, the summer slump with obama senior campaign strategist david axelro...

>> on this holiday morning. >> and weve got a lot of news. we begin with the weather. first a new wave of spring storms is pounding the midwest. in fact, some of the worst damage is in battle creek, michigan. a storm packing 80-mile-an-hour winds snapped trees, brought down a lot of power lines. in fact, across the state some 100,000 homes and businesses lost power. >> a violent storm hit the chicago area. ferocious winds uprooting trees and sending them on the tops of houses and cars....

Into a situation like this. but were making the best of it day by day and taking it day by day till its over. >> well, our hearts are with you, mr. sherwin. we appreciate you taking the time to speak with us. good luck in the rebuilding process. you know, the closeness of this community is remarkable. a lot of red cross shelters we go to and disasters like this, theyll partition off the dormitory if men, women, and families are separated. here everybody knows each other. everybody is getting tog...

Im quite confident like your prior guest matthew alexander that it made this much more difficult, it took much longer, and i think osama bin laden would have been found earlier but for the fact that torture was involved and what it did throughout the middle east. >> cliff, would you defend waterboarding on all the points liz cheney made? >> im going to defend my own position if you dont mind, ed, and start with this. >> sure, sure. >> that is to say, look. in this particular instance we do know ...