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longer the elephant in the room, governor rick perry announces he's joining the republican party for president. >> he may be the republican front-runner but he was not feeling the love at the iowa state fair. he got heckled and laughed at over three words he said, words he may come to regret on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ing. >> oh, thank got it's friday. >> wait a minute. i've got to move my stuff. >> good morning. happy friday to you. it's august 12th. welcome to "american morning." up first, texas governor rick perry, the elephant in the room,...

And new they can affords it and divorce tones are seeing the numbers rising. >>clayton: people are no longer wanting to, fighting over who gets to keep the house, now they want to push it off on the other person because of the housing market. they are fighting to see who doesn't get to keep it. what did you think of this? >>dave: you have heard of senior pranks but have you heard of a high school student faking a pregnancy, all a prank, not a prank but part of a social experiment, her senior project, in washington, a student faked being pregnant for six months as part of the social experiment ...

Right now and laughing because it is an embarrassment. >> certainly is. so tell me, casey, what would you say, they may be watching you right now, we don't know who is watching us right now, let's say the president, the speaker of the house, the senate majority leader, they're watching right now and in their hands is the ability to make a deal and keep the check coming or let this collapse, have the government shut down, go into a political argument, talk to the leaders of washington right now, casey. >> i guess really what i would say is these little things that they're fighting over, that's ...

Solve the u.s. debt problem. this is just a step. an important step, but a step. >> all right. ed henry, we appreciate you this morning. thank you so much. >> you, too, t.j. the big budget deal. let's start off here it, calls for $38.5 billion in spending for the rest of the fiscal year. republicans originally called for $61 billion in cuts and democrats called that a little too much. one huge issue the two sides were fighting over was over funding for planned parenthood. republicans dropped their demands to change funding for the program while democrats agreed to bring the issue up for a se...

Conferences and planned parenthood became a major part of the fight. to many americans they were thinking this is about numbers and how much to cut. why did planned parenthood become a big part of this? >> that was a big talking point from the democrats to harry reid on down, you heard steve israel on your show, brought it up twice, why? democrats were trying to make this about women, about womens rights and republicans trying to steal that funding, that federal funding for planned parenthood that goes towards health services for women. one of the reasons maybe is political here, hard it to be...