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less than one year ago on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. it's friday, december 23rd. i'm deb feyerick an with alina cho on this "american morning." good morning to all of you out in. >> so glad you're with us. up first, an early christmas present for 160 million americans. the house is expected to vote today on extending the payroll tax cut that divided washington for weeks. house republicans caved yesterday after a lot of arm-twisting by president obama who stead was the disgust of the american people that broke the log jam. boehner ...

Is iran, and it's nuclear ambitions. some want to bomb iran, but have they even thought what the consequences would be? finally, which republican candidate said in new hampshire he doesn't care what the rest of the country thinks or fears? that's in the sideshow. we start with newt gingrich. joan wall somebody editor at large for salon.com and david corn is from "mother jones" and an msnbc political analyst. one of the more ridiculous answers at last week's cnbc republican debate. asked about his ties to freddie mac, newt gingrich said they paid him to offer advice as, quote, an historian. let...

Libya. this guy can't remember the departments he wants to get rid of. this guy wants to bomb iran after all we've been through. >> here we go, governor. by the way, even when you the mayor of our great city you read the newspapers.ç let's listen to some of the more notable blunders by some of the republican candidates as they have gone into the dangerous areas of american history and politics. >> we know there was slavery that was still tolerated when the nation began. we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the united st...

Nonmilitary presence say cia security contractors or others staying on? >> well, first of all,ç let's put it in a perspective. george bush, not barack obama signed a status of force as agreement where we committed to remove our troops by the end of 2011. president obama ran on that issue and reaffirmed that position in february of0b!mhh . this not a surprise. we do have interests in continuing securityç ties and training functions with the iraqis. significant diplomatic presence. forces, probably private contractors to protect our diplomatic missions and our diplomats and aide workers who...

Along through the decades. that's how it went. now if you put these two charts together this is what it's going to look like. middle class income shrinking, executive pay, whoa. here it comes. we had a president in office now who seems to understand the problem and at least as a candidate he wanted to do something about it. >> washington where george bush handed out billions of dollars of tax breaks to the wealthy few over the course of 7 1/2 years. john mccain promises to make those same tax cuts permanent. >> heck of a graph isn't it? tells the story. i know the president still says that the...