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and good morning, everybody. this is your "wake-up call" for monday, december 5th. i'm christine romans, carol has the morning off. newt gingrich, the one to watch in the gop race in a new nbc marist pole leading the pack in iowa but mitt romney is still ahead in new hampshire. although his support has dropped from only a month ago, less than 30 days from the first gop nominating contest in january. he's taking some time off. atlanta megachurch pastor eddie long made that announcement yesterday. he says he needs time to work on family issues. long's wife of 21 years vanessa filed for...

and the lead economic adviser. and then mark sandy to tell us whether a deal with save the u.s. credit rating, and finally presidential politics. candy crowley in iowa with candidate, tim pawlenty. >> you can be both strong and pleasant and nice. those are not contradictory things. >> i am gloria borger in for candy crowley, and this is st e "state of the union." mitch mcconnell yesterday demanded that president obama get personally involved in the debt talks and he soon got his wish, and now there are reports this morning a plan is near. mitch mcconnell, thank you for being with us....

She made no detailed comments about what was going on when she came out of her hearing except to say she was putting her trust in god and that she hoped and believed she would soon be exonerated and soon be free. meanwhile, of course, the case continues. the ten americans now have a new team of lawyers, three haitian lawyers and also a dominican lawyer showed up today. he was the one in charge of putting together the haitian team. as he came into the courtroom he said to us that he had in his possession documents from the dominican government to prove that laura silsby and her team did have pe...