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the triple crown. we start this evening with what you might call president obama stepping into it today. it happened during an appearance. while trying to prod congress into acting on his economic agenda, the present not once but twice referred to the private sector in glowing terms. >> overall, the private sector has been doing a good job creating johns. the private sector is doing fine. >> it was a gift. republicans, including the president's opponent this november, wasted no time in pouncing. >> he said, the private sector is doing fine. he said the private sector is doing fine. i...

eve bash in the world on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning, everyone. so glad you could join us. it is friday, december 30th. i'm deb feyerick along with alina cho on this "american morning." >> thanks for joining us, everybody. up first this morning, mitt romney trying to steal the deal in iowa. former massachusetts governor is the front-runner now, a few points ahead of ron paul. with four days to go before the caucuses, romney is tweaking his schedule, planning to spend a lot more time in iowa over the next 96 hours telling voters this e...

Based upon the evidence she has presented. but you're right. think about this. think about it. the reason that i'm doing this reassessment, it's not fair to my family, it's not fair to my supporters, it's not fair to this campaign, it's every week, now three out of four weeks, on a monday of all days, we've been hit with another one of these accusations that we now have to address to basically prove, once again, i didn't do some of the things i've been accused of doing. of course it's distracting, and gets us off message. >> so much has been made about the fact that texts were sent at 4:30 in ...

Based upon the evidence she has presented. but you're right. think about this. think about it. the reason that i'm doing this reassessment, it's not fair to my family, it's not fair to my supporters, it's not fair to this campaign, it's every week, now three out of four weeks, on a monday of all days, we've been hit with another one of these accusations that we now have to address to basically prove, once again, i didn't do some of the things i've been accused of doing. of course it's distracting, and gets us off message. >> so much has been made about the fact that texts were sent at 4:30 in ...

Others on other networks and all over the internet are talking about this issue, it interferes with a message he is trying to strike. on the other hand, it is a different way of communicating to a different group of voters than he is communicating to with the flat tax argument. it was purposeful on rick perry's part. there may be some that wish he hadn't done it. it wasn't an accident. he is going to have to hope that karl rove is wrong. this is the kind of thing that will give a little spark to his campaign which has been flagging until that one last debate where he was very aggressive in goi...