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Governor romney is the one candidate that president obama consistently tries to hit and get out of the way. that lets me know he is scared of him. it also lets me know governor romney has got a good fight in him and the one president obama doesn't want to have to go against. time now to put the candidates' statements from last night to the test, truth or twisted? "washington post" fact checker glen kessler is on the case for us. good morning. >> good morning. >> all right. let's start with the front-runner, newt gingrich, who made this claim last night. >> i balanced the budget for four stra...

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 before the iowa caucus, the front-runner, newt gingrich playing defense on his conservative values a...

We had the first tax cut in 16 years, the largest capital gains tax cut in american history. unemployment dropped from 5.6 to 4.2%. we balanced the federal budget for four consecutive years, paid off $405 billion in debt. i insisted on strengthening the intelligent budget and the commission said that was their term. and the gingrich was the only increase in intelligence spending in the '90s. the single numbers. when i came speaker, the congressional budget office said the ten year deficit projection was $2,700,000,000,000. when i left later, they said their surplus projection was two trillion,...

We had the first tax cut in 16 years, the largest capital gains tax cut in american history. unemployment dropped from 5.6 to 4.2%. we balanced the federal budget for four consecutive years, paid off $405 billion in debt. i insisted on strengthening the intelligent budget and the commission said that was their term. and the gingrich was the only increase in intelligence spending in the '90s. the single numbers. when i came speaker, the congressional budget office said the ten year deficit projection was $2,700,000,000,000. when i left later, they said their surplus projection was two trillion,...

We had ron paul on earlier saying look, the problem isn't what you can do with taxes but what you've got to do is spending. he said perry's plan to try to address getting the budget in balance for the year 2020 is too late. he says he will do it in his third year. what about you? >> i'm wrobel not as confident as ron paul is. it's possible in five to seven years to balance the budget. we did it fastener the '90s. and i remain the only speaker of the house in the lifetime to balance the budget and paid off $405 billion in debt. we did it in part by controlling spending. in part reforming big en...