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His perception of michael flynn and his involvement in this case. its difficult to know because the president still has not spoken out publicly himself on this matter. reporters have been given the chance to ask him about it at a couple press conferences and have not maybe because they were friendly news outlets to the president, to the white house. this really is not going to be settled until we hear it from the mouth of the president himself, whether thats on twitter, whether thats in a questi...

Behind me. >> so the hospital isnt given an update and havent since friday but you had a chan to talk exclusively to her neurosurgeon. what did you learn from him about her prospects and her condition? >> reporter: right. i sad down with dr. kim, the head of neurosurgery here. he said they have been pleased every day with her progress. every day they have seen her do something that indicates that she is getting better. and i also spoke with congresswoman wasserman schultz, debbie wasserman schul...

It a lot more than what the president has advocated. certainly well have some disaxwremts, but i do think we can all move forward together, get people back to work and actually produce a better future than the president talked about. >> last thing on that tone and on the tea party response that ms. bachmann gave last night, is there some way you think -- not even overshadowed but in some way competing against the official gop response, her tone was certainly different from the official gop respo...

Its a mixture of lamb. a lamb mixture. >> lamb mixture? we dont have that in the south. the dirtiest hotels. im sure youve been in some in your life you thought were nasty. now we have the nastiest. according to trip adviser the grand resort hotel in pigeon forge, tennessee, you do not want to check into that place. now, the hotel is actually defending -- let me show you the list we have on the screen. number two on the list. judged by people who write in to trip advisory. but jack london inn ...

>> and as we mentioned in the last hour, the facts were mostly all in order last night, just like the civility. not only were the speeches pretty civil last night but they also got most of the facts right. still our fact checkers here at cnn threw a few penalty flags as we were going through the addresses. lets start with president obama. as you recall a big part of the address was devoted to the presidents called for a sputnik moment with investments in education, innovation and infrastructure....

Whos had too much or at least more than you should for this time of the year. well talk more about that when i see you again. kiran is like, me, me. atlanta too. >> way too much. its only january. all right. thanks, jacqui. >> thank you so much. weve been telling you this morning about gabrielle giffords supposed to be moving from the hospital to rehab. weve gotten new guidance about that. were expecting it 8:00 eastern time. now were told its sometime this morning. want to be clear weve been ...

Need to turn on the front, the back, the inside to know a doughnut is bad for you. congresswoman gabrielle giffords expect to check out of intensive care sometime this morning into a rehab fa tilt at the tirr hermann memorial center in houston. cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us this morning. yesterday we were hearing more details about concerns with the fluid on the brain and now theyre talking about the upgraded condition and transferring her. sounds like big progress made ov...