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Jeb Bush not fighting mom on Palin comments
Last week, Barbara Bush and Sarah Palin got in a verbal spat after the former first lady said Palin should stay in Alaska. "I don't think the majority of Americans want to put up with the blue-bloods," Palin said in a radio interview on the Laura Ingraham Show last week. "With all due respect because I love the Bushes, the blue-bloods who want to pick and choose their winners instead of allowing competition."
Today on American Morning, Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida, responds to his mother's comments. He tells AM’s John Roberts why he loves his mom and what he thinks about Palin.
Tea Party favorite tapped to lead freshman class
Freshman Rep.-elect Kristi Noem, R, SD, hasn’t even been sworn into the 112th Congress, but she is already set to lead her fellow freshman representatives.
Noem and Rep.-elect Tim Scott, R, SC, were tapped Wednesday as Freshman Leadership Representatives, a position created this year. They will essentially serve as liaisons between the newly elected members and the House leaders.
This morning, Noem talks to AM’s John Roberts about her plans for the position and how she’ll work with Democrats. And, she addresses her association with the Tea Party, who supported her candidacy.
Murkowski takes her victory lap in final Senate race
(CNN) – Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska Wednesday declared victory over fellow Republican Joe Miller in the nation's last Senate race, saying the result of her write-in candidacy was a "miracle." "Against all odds, we as Alaskans together made history," Murkowski told cheering supporters in Anchorage. If she prevails in a potential challenge, Murkowski would become the second person to ever win a write-in bid for the U.S. Senate. Murkowski's statement was the climax in the state's bitter and prolonged Senate battle.
This morning, Murkowski speaks to American Morning. She explains why she's claiming victory and gives her opinion on Sarah Palin.
‘Mama Grizzly’ meets real bears in first episode of TLC series
Is it reality TV worth watching or just one big campaign ad?
Sarah Palin’s new reality TV series "Sarah Palin's Alaska" premiered Sunday night on TLC. The series, which features Palin and her family in their home setting in Alaska, has both political and entertainment commentators buzzing this morning.
Brian Stelter, media reporter for the New York Times, and Shushannah Walshe, Daily Beast writer and co-author, Sarah From Alaska, talk to AM’s Carol Costello this morning about the show.
Freshman lawmakers make Capitol Hill debut
Newly elected legislators made their way to Washington this weekend for new member orientation. For many of the nearly 100 new faces, elected office is a very new job. This incoming class of legislators has the largest number of newly elected members without prior experience in elective office.
Two of those newcomers talk to AM’s John Roberts this morning.
Terri Sewell, Representative-Elect, D, Ala., is the only freshman Democrat who has never been elected to office before, and the first African-American woman from Alabama elected to Congress.
Reid Ribble, Representative-Elect, R, Wis., is a retired roofing company owner. He has never been elected to an office before and defeated Rep. Steve Kagan.
Sewell and Ribble talk priorities, earmarks and Washington gridlock with AM.
Lifting gay ban during war poses little risk to troops, study finds
There's new evidence on the effects of lifting the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy that bans gays from openly serving in uniform.
The military can lift the ban with only minimal and isolated incidents of risk to the current war efforts, according to a Pentagon study group, which will deliver a final report to President Obama on Dec. 1.
The study worked off results of the surveys 400,000 active-duty and reserve troops took over the summer. About 70 percent of the respondents said the effect of repealing DADT would be positive, mixed or nonexistent, according to Washington Post reporter Ed O’Keefe, who has read the draft report.
He gives a more detailed look of what’s inside the report today on American Morning.
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