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good morning, everyone. it's wednesday, december 14th. i'm christine romans along with carol costello on this "american morning." good morning. >> good morning, good morning to all of you. good and bad news this morning for the gop front-runner newt gingrich. with less than thee weeks until the iowa caucuses his political director in the state stepped down after calling mormonism a cult. two gop candidates, mitt romney and jon huntsman are mormons. gingrich is already working with a bare bones staff in this state and meantime, gingrich opened a commanding lead nationally over mitt ro...

>> i've heard anecdotal about a lot of democrats planning to vote in the republican primary and cast their vote for jon huntsman. he appeals to independents, and i think also there's a protest vote against romney because in new hampshire the voters like to surprise. they don't like to be told who the front-runner is. they don't like to be told who to vote for. romney has already been there too long. they know him too well, and he lacks a real conviction in his beliefs. they don't like that. he's staled over time. doesn't have the option like john kerry did in '04 of going all in in iowa now an...

breaking news. the american embassy in kabul, afghanistan, coming under fire in an intense attack. word out of iran, the two american hikers convicted of espionage could soon be free. let's go ahead and start with the bold attack on america's signature presence in a war-torn country. rockets and machine gun fire aimed directly at the american embassy in kabul. gunfire coming from every corner of the building. take a listen. and we're now being told that it was a well-coordinated attack. i want to bring some more information straight from a man that i'm going to talk to now. he's ac...

these folks weren't rioting like we have seen the past several days. they were there to clean up. now the problem is that the violence, looting and arson has spread to sever other british cities besides london. also a nationwide manhunt for two brothers and their older sister accused much opening fire on a florida police officer, then robbing a georgia bank. you're seeing the three siblings there and authorities do consider them armed and extremely dangerous. all right. wall street did a bit of a u-turn yesterday and thank goodness it did. we don't know exactly what it's going to...

This conversation. >> we want to take our own look at who might be the next supreme court justice. a supreme close-up, if you will. a potential front-runner, u.s. solicitor general elena kagan. tom goldstein is an attorney who's argued before the supreme court and teaches law at stanford and harvard. you're part of this elite. you're part of the elite that everybody says no elites. no more ivy leaguers. we can promise i will not be a nominee. >> breaking news here. >> this is all about elena kagan. there's been the case for her and the case against her. why is she the front-runner at this poin...