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Longer. we're shooting ourselves in the foot when we're on the cusp of an economic rebound, and that hurts people like senator hagel where you have a domestic political situation really in a way jumping into a national security question. >> if the president backs down again, what signal does that send, in a word? >> yeah, we -- the white house hasn't said he is nominated, so it will be an interpretation whether he is "backed down" or not. i think we have to instead of looking at the president, is he backing down, it's more how do we fix a polarized situation in the united states? we're about t...

from the usgs. some turkish agencies putting the number at 6.6 magnitude so still some discrepancies between the numbers but it's not important. either way it is a major earthquake. we are expecting aftershocks. many of those could be just as strong or stronger than the actual earthquake. this thing struck just about an hour 20 minutes ago, 1:40 in the afternoon local time there in turkey. the most up-to-date information we have for you puts the epicenter of this quake about a dozen or so miles from van, turkey. you see it on your map there, in a rural area where the epicenter is cal...

morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning it is friday, october 14th. welcome to "american morning." it's a good morning on many levels. >> the tigers won. >> that's what i was going to say. the rangers are one game away from clinching it, and i kept think, well that means the tigers could still win. >> did you see the sixth ining? crazy. a single, a double, a triple and home run in one inning. i don't think that's ever happened in baseball before. the double kareemed off third base. the only reason it turned into a double and that was the turning point. >> there...

Said of his own experience, it's one of those things in your life you can never prepare for fully and that you hope never happens again. let's talk about that showdown in the streets of bangkok. thai troops intensifying their push to clear crowds of anti-government protesters. let's go ahead and take a closer look at the crisis. thailand is located in southeast asia. bangkok, its largest city, is where the unrest is going to right now. let's take a look. these are protestors known as the red shirts and they began protesting in the cap it will. they want the prime minister to step down claimi...

Fought general motors over its forced closure. he says when dealerships stood up, gm backed down. >> general motors realized that he couldn't handle all the arbitrations. it was probably too expensive and there was probably some dealers that they shouldn't have cut anyway. >> shannon: well, a new study predicts that when tax refunds arrive this year more americans are actually going to get out there and spend. a slight departure from the more thrifty behavior in recent years. joining us, brenda buttner. >> tax time. usually that is the last thing you want to hear but sometimes it is good news ...