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>> they're not stupid. they're going to buy insurance later. they're young and need the money now. >> here the government is saying that the federal government has a duty to tell the individual citizen that it must act and that is different from what we have in previous cases and that changes the relationship of the federal government to the individual in a very fundamental way. >> there you had justice kennedy seeming very skeptical and that could be very important because liberals are hoping they can peel him away from the conservative block and win at least a 5-4 majority win but now that's...

Party. here as nationally, and then you have the other part of the party, tea party activists, evangelical christian side, dubious but not able to settle lastingly on one alternative to him. and the real volatility that half of the party, dubious of romney, cycling through alternatives from huckabee and palin who didn't run. and cain, gingrich and santorum. his advantage, rising very late, clear momentum. i don't any anybody would be surprised if he gets to the top here and almost too late for a candidate convincingry to be made out of iowa. but you still have two separate tracks in the race, ...

Rather than, looking for a candidate to set a direction for the party. some amorphous blend of -- the party knows where it wants to go. that's why so much of the debate has been about who is an authentic conservative? all of the candidates have risen and fallen among that morphed conservative block. inevitably what's happened, one or two things in their record comes up, clashing the group and the whole edifice comes down. a very difficult, being a republican, so far, at the presidential level, to convince the tea party side which starts off skeptical of the republican establishment that you ca...

we'll look at big stories. give you interesting details and go inside information, only a worldwide news organization like cnn can bring to you every single day. we're going to talk to the leaders and newsmakers and also real folks and challenge some of the conventional looks and issues people are discussing today. the "starting point" this morning is about changing minds in iowa. just 36 hours before the caucuses begin, and it is a statistical dead heat for first place between presidential candidates mitt romney and ron paul, and that means the race for third is on between rick sant...

will on the streets. journalists get a look at the violence syria doesn't want you to see. it is amazing to me how this guy has been shot this many times. i mean, he's superman. i have been shot three times. my fingers have bullet holes. >> did you hear had a? part man, part terminator. shot three times in a robbery. a marine pulls out the bullets with his own hands. and now he's talking about it from his hospital bed on this "american morning." good morning, everyone. it is thursday, december 29. this is "american morning." a lot going on today. let's get right to it. >> that's ...