the rachel maddow show is up next. good evening, rachel. >> looking forward to that live 11:00 p.m. eastern show tonight. glad you're doing that. >> thank you, rachel. >> thank you for staying with us for the next hour. rick perry, the governor of texas is running for president. rick perry started off the year by saying he definitely would not run for president. he then changed to thinking about running for president. he changed to not just thinking a about it, but he said he would talk about it for the first time in public this weekend. he wouldn't be announcing. today, the spokesperson confirming that rick perry will be talking about it in public and he'll be announcing that he's running for president on saturday night. now, the timing here is crucial. because saturday is exactly when every other candidate running for the republican presidential nomination is hoping to get their own good press about their really impressive campaign in all of their momentum and how excited everybody is that

they're running and what a great shot they have. saturday is the big ames, iowa straw poll. but instead of any good headlines about that about who wins it straw poll or any other candidate, everything on saturday will be dominated by rick perry's announcement that he is, in fact, running. notice also that the day we heard from rick perry's spokesman that perry will be announcing on the day of the straw poll, the day the leak came out creating its own cascade of rick perry headlines the day that the other republicans for president are debating in iowa. so anybody hoping for headlines out of the iowa debate, sorry, rick perry is taking up that room. anybody hoping for headlines out of the ames straw poll on saturday, sorry other candidates, rick perry is taking up that room. whatever you think about rick perry as a texas governor or as a person, rick perry is not to be underestimated as a candidate.

you don't get to be the governor for live as he has been by knowing your good manners. he's in this race, he's in it. if he's not in it to win it, he's in it to make all of the other candidates lose. because that's how rick perry plays at politics. not to be outdone by rick perry, however. i'm the only pundit in the whole country who thinks that sarah palin is running for president this year. but i'm sorry, sarah palin keeps acting like she's running. look what she did today. remember the one nation bus tour she did in may? the conceit of that bus tour was that it was really a family vacation. how your vacation was. you know, you gave your family vacation a name, you hired a chartered be us with a driver. you put a $13,000 vinyl wrap on the bus with the name of your

vacation with your signature on it and patriotic images of the nation's heartland. one nation bus tour was a professionally produced family vacation touring historic sites in america. the "i swear this isn't for me running for president wipg, wink" bus tour started back on may 29 in arlington, virginia. one of the interesting things is it petered out the week after it started. she announced today, quote, we're happy to jump on the bus for another leg of our one-nation tour. the family vacation is starting up again. and you'll never guess where the palin family is going on their vacation this week. quote, state fairs hold a special place in our nation's history and heritage so my family is honored to highlight one of them on one stop along the one-nation tour route. which state fair as the palin

family going to? is it idaho? is it illinois? no, iowa. the historic iowa state fair. iowa state fair is historic. just like the state fairs in the other 49 states are historic too. but the one that sarah palin is visiting this week, coincidence, the peak of the republican debate and the ames, iowa straw poll is the state fair that this week happens to be held in iowa. i don't know why anyone thinks that sarah palin is not running. the last big political event, the last biggest political event on mitt romney's political calendar as the republican front-runner for the nomination is when romney formally announced his candidacy in new hampshire back on june 2. remember that? sarah palin's family vacation one nation bus tour made sure that the bus was stopping in new hampshire that day to big foot that mitt romney event as well. the palin bus tour barreled

through tornadoes in massachusetts to make sure they were in new hampshire that day in time for a patriotic landmark clam bake five minutes from mitt romney's presidential announcement on that same day. mitt romney is and has been from the beginning a clear front-runner for the republican presidential nomination. while it has its advantages, it means everybody is out to get you. while it seems lineback the romney campaign is used to that from the other republican candidates or would-be candidates so far, today they got it from iowa voters as well. >> if we're ultimately not just this year but over the coming decades going to be able to balance our budget and not spend more than we take in, we have to make sure the promises we make in social security, medicaid, and medicare are promises that we can keep.

there are various ways of doing that. one we can raise taxes on people. that's not the way -- >> corporations. >> corporations. >> corporations are people, my friend. of course they are. everything corporations goes to people. where do you think it goes? >> it goes in their pockets. >> whose pockets? whose pockets? people's pockets. human beings, my friend. >> this is one of the moments that everything goes in imaginary freeze frame. you're watching it in color but you see it in black and white. you see it live, you know instantly, that moment is going to live forever. i wonder if there was a second angle on that. this is one of the things that will be part of mitt romney's political history forever. this will be part of what people say about mitt romney campaigning for president this year. one of the things that people will say about it is that mitt romney went to iowa and said

corporations are people! and the whole crowd laughed. it's not that it's just an unfocused group phrase, right? a phrase that did not survive focus grouping. it's not that he said something that sounded pro vok t eed prov sounded off message. the problem is that corporations are people, my friend, it hits a nerve. and it's a basic reason why, that corporations are not people and sometimes corporations are a lot more powerful than people and that can be a problem when corporate interests are the opposite of people's interests. this is not an obscure idea. this is not even a controversial idea. it is absolutely in some company's business to do mining and drilling in the cheapest way possible even if the way they do it causes pollution or damages the water supply in the area they're watering or drilling. child pornography could be in a

corporation's rational interest to produce and sell as much child pornography as possible. it's in wall street's financial interest to turn people's mortgages in a tradeable commodity that had nothing to do with whether or not if people were capable of paying back the mortgages. for years, hundreds of billions of dollars of corporate interest right there. rational corporate interest. it destroyed the economy when it all came crashing down. the corporations in the end did just fine. corporations, sometimes, quite rationally, act in their interest in a way that does not help people. corporations and human beings do not always have the same interests. because they are different things. >> corporations are people, my friend. we can raise taxes at -- of course they are. everything corporations there and ultimately goes to people. where do you think it goes? >> it goes down their pocket? >> whose pockets? whose pockets? people's pockets. okay. human beings, my friend. >> human beings, my friend.

corporate interests do redown to some very specific human beings' pockets. corporate executives, sometimes shareholders, titans of industry, private equity bare r barrons. there are people who do well in helping corporations get their way despite the cost to humans. there's a reason candidates like mitt romney should stay away from making that argument. he's running for president in pointing that out from the campaign trail as evidence of the immediate response from the john huntsman campaign. the immediate response to mitt romney's corporations are people moment in iowa, the spokesman responded almost instantly today, quote, was american pad and paper company a person/friend. the reference there is a company called american pad and paper called m-pad. when mitt romney was an executive at bain capital, they acquired m-pad for $5 million. after shutting down a handful of

plants and laying off hundreds of employees, mitt romney and bain capital turned that investment to a $100 million profit for them. they did the same thing with a company called scm. the mass firing became a campaign issue which led to devastating campaign ads against mr. romney hen he lost his run for senate against ted kennedy back in 1994. watch. >> romney's firm bought a company called scm, fired awe. some could reapply at a 25% pay cut. but many who were pregnant or older were denied jobs and romney made $11 million in two years. >> i would like to say to mitt romney -- if you think you can make such a good senator, come out here to marion, indiana, and see what your company has done to these people. >> we have no rights anymore. >> they cut the wages. >> we no longer have insurance. >> basically cut our throats. >> i would like to say to the people of massachusetts, if you

think it can't happen to you, think again. we thought it wouldn't happen here either. >> when that is the baggage that candidate mitt romney brings to his presidential run, getting rattled by hecklers and blurting out this statement is not going to be helpful to him. >> corporations are people, my friend. we can raise taxes. of course they are, everything corporations there goes to people. where do you think it goes. >> it goes in their pocket. >> whose pockets? whose pockets? people's pockets. human beings, my friend. >> let's just say, though, that despite the corporations are people thing, which i think will live in mitt romney's political history forever, i have to say, though, there's one other maybe pedestrian, maybe more shallow, but potentially more important short point to make about this here -- it's that insulting in any way. i mean this as a political observation that mitt romney is

bad at talking to people. mitt romney is bad at unscripted events. mitt romney is essentially running for president since he was the governor of massachusetts back in 2003. he's been running for president effectively for years now. and the formal campaign part of it, he's not very good at. he's very good at it. he's good at debates, much better at ads, campaign events, they look good. good font, colors, he's got the outfits down right. he's been doing this so long, that sort offor mall stuff looks good. they should. but the problem is mitt romney goes out in the wild and interacts with wild real humans. then stuff like this happens. >> corporations are people my friend, human beings my friend. >> that was today in iowa. but remember this moment earlier this year in new hampshire? >> i'll get right in the middle. see if i can get my arms around everybody here. much closer, much closer. >> oh, my goodness. >> that was her.

>> huh-uh. >> that lady is like -- huh? there's this standout moment from his campaign when he was meeting with a group of actually unemployed people in florida and he tried to charm them with this line -- >> i'm also unemployed. and i'm networking. >> in case you couldn't hear the unemployed woman speaking through at the end. you've got it, quote, a lot better than we've got it. right. not to belabor the point, but this is just from today. look at this. this is one of the mitt romney meeting the people pressing the flesh photos that went out about him on the campaign trail today. this is what it's like to be on the campaign trail with mitt romney talking to people who aren't expecting to be talking to mitt romney. look at the poor guy in the blue shirt. look at his feet and his face.

whether or not mitt romney is awkward as a human being, whether he's comfortable in his own skin as a person is irrelevant to his chances as a campaign should be except for the fact that retail politics, meeting people, shaking their hands, talking to people eye-to-eye, impressing people in person is a big part of how you win a presidential nomination. and mitt romney is an atrocio atrociously bad retail politician. more of a wholesaler, really. he's not the guy -- he's not the guy so much who sales things as a store. he's more like the guy who closes the store and fires everybody and sells the store to a private equity guy. there's more than just mitt romney news in 2012 politics today. there were a ton of 2012 presidential action today including one republican candidate for president who called out ed schulz and me off of the top of his head when nobody asked about us. he brought us up because he's

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♪ sometimes when we touch ha ha! millions of hits! [ male announcer ] flick, stack, and move between active apps seamlessly. only on the new hp touchpad with webos. rick santorum spoke with reporters today in des moines, iowa. >> if you want to return this country to 1775, vote for barack obama. vote for someone on this panel who can't beat barack obama. because it's the same thing. >> an argument never before made about the first black president of the united states. rick santorum made that sort of

inexplicable 18th century point about president obama today. he criticized mitchell bachmann for not being anti-gay marriage enough, uh-huh. then, then he randomly went after ed. ed schulz and also after me. >> have to remind americans what we're about. not ashamed of it. i stand in front of msnbc every day. if you can stand in front of msnbc every day and rachel maddow and ed schulz and getting the tape and saying this, guy is nuts. this guy just understands what made this country great. >> if that was an offer to do an interview on this show, i accept. honestly, it's always really flattering to be mentioned by any presidential candidate. it's flattering. i would admit. especially since no one asked rick santorum about us. we were on his mind. that said, mr. santorum, me to

you, i do not know what tapes they mean. getting all of the tapes. but i've never called you nuts. don't project that on to me. i've never called you nuts, ever, seriously. fwoog google it. joining me now is the newly relocated chris hayes and host of his own msnbc weekend show starting in september, welcome back to new york, chris. it's great to have you here. >> great to have you back in your home city. >> not going to ask you about rick santorum and what he can or cannot google. >> nothing to find out about rick santorum. >> i cannot research it. >> i can research it at home. but i can't research it at work. here's the 2012 question i want to know about you. what do you think texas governor rick perry's chances are now that we know as of today he's going to run. >> there's this interesting space in the republican field,

which is the space for someone who is plausibly insane and also not terrifying to the establishment. plausibly insane but not terrifying the establishment. romney has the not terrifying to the establishment locked down. the establishment loves him. he's a capital guy. michelle bachmann has the -- not plausibly insane. plausibly insame -- she has the plausibly insane card locked up. she articulates a vision that's quite outside the main stream of american life. >> you mean super right wing. >> right. you're right. that's unfair hyperbole. that's true. what i mean is complete ideological zealotry. she fears the establishment. romney has the establishment, can he convince people he's a total ideological zealot.

into this breach comes rick perry. you can plausibly argue both. he can say extreme i'd logically and i'm comfortable with dudes with bain capital that we can raise some money around. that makes him formidable. there's two part of the coalition, the pollute-ocrats and the grassroots that they find something to agree on. >> that analysis combined with the fact that rick perry is a skilled politician. he's good at getting elected. >> terrible at governance. >> when's the last time that stopped anybody from being candidate for president? >> that's right, that's right. >> the way that he has handled the tactics of getting to the race, leaking the announcement on the day of the republican debate in iowa, that he's going to make his announcement on the day of the ames straw poll, thus big footing anybody else getting traction in iowa any time between now and the caucuses, these are the only news hooks in

iowa between now and the caucuses, that alone shows you how tactically aggressive he is. that's sort of the complete package. tactical aggressiveness, social conservative and being a money guy. i don't see anybody else who competes with him on those grounds. >> right. the biggest problem for rick perry the record in texas. and even in a republican primary, that's going to come back to haunt him. because texas, and i know everyone -- the conservatives hike to tell us it's the teachers' unions that are screwing up the state budgets. not a huge sector in texas and they have dire, dire, dire fiscal crisis right now. they're billions of dollars in the hole. so if you want to talk about responsible fiscal management, you have a sitting governor of a state in really bad fiscal shape. >> a grand campaign, a campaign to get perry as the jobs governor, because texas while being in atrocious fiscal shape, he will say, look, i've been a jobs engin when the rest of the

jobs has been draining jobs, we've been building in texas. >> but the answer to that is there are a lot of things that have nothing to do with rick perry. nebraska is doing well, north dakota is doing well. not because of the governors in that state. it's because of indodge nous thi -- indigenous things that have happened in those states. can perry stand up to the full national spotlight. i cannot tell you -- i've done reporting in texas. i know people in texas politics. there are so many people in that state that hate him so much. i'm not talking about liberal democrats, republicans, conservatives. he's almost unanimously loathed in the state of texas by the political class by the political spectrum. can he come bopping around the country when trailing behind you is this chorus of people talking about what a terrible job you've done in texas. >> what a terrible job you've done in texas. let's just name it. the oh things that the conservatives and the republicans say about rick perry

in texas is they personally have no confidence in him in terms of his intellectual capacity. that's what it is. you get unsourced republican and conservative quotes out of people who hate him calling him dumb as a bag of rocks. many people -- that's not my assessment. i don't know if he's dumb or not. that's not what conservatives say against him. in that environment, you have to look at the previous example of george w. bush. the liberal critique, but every conservative close to him said, you know what, he's focused. people think he's done, he's not done. he's a compassionate guy. people who know rick perry say the opposite. and my question is how important is that for his reputation? >> i -- i think there's two questions. one is how important that is in the primary and how important is that in the general? i think -- i'm not sure how important it is in the primary, to be quite frank. there is such a visceral emotional desire to deal a stunning rebuke to the tear tyranny that is barack hussein

obama that they will vote for whoever can beat him more or less. >> insiders don't -- >> it will hurt in the margins. at its core, if he can make a plausible argument, that will be the overriding concern. in the general polling, they have not forgotten george w. bush, they have not forgotten eight of the worst years in recent memory. things are bad. but a lot started in george w. bush. they forgot that. and they remember electing a somewhat downhome texas governor who almost destroyed the country. >> well, at this point, remember there was that one billboard that went up saying miss me yet? that was the picture. if rick perry gets the nomination, liberals will start to put up that billboard. >> we remember when we had this

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if you're one of the people in the world whose mood and world view rises and falls with the fortunes of the stock market. i didn't know it existed until i moved to new york. they do exist. if your mood is tied to the markets, i'm terribly sorry. you must have been a mess this past week. >> the dow plunged 630 points today after the downgrade. it's lost 2,000 points in the last two weeks, 2,000 points lost in two weeks. >> washington, welcome to the double a hole. >> the markets broke the losing

streak today bouncing back. >> closing up 429. >> the dow drops triple digits, down more than 500 points wiping out yesterday's rally. >> whiplash back on to the street driving the dow down by 519 points. >> wild fluctuations on wall street with the markets today going up more than 400 points. >> the dow industrialed traded at 536 today. >> the dow was up 423 points for the day. up 400 today, down 500 yesterday. up 400 the day before that, down 600 thedy before that. the dow changed directions every day for the last seven sessions. for the first time in history, this week, it closed with a 400-point change or more for four days straight. that never happened before. in the midst of all of this

chaos, it was an update, hooray. the market driving it up overall have changed. there's better than expect ed e unemployment benefits. not the best news in the world, but these days, it counts as good news. we will take it. to have goodish jobs-related numbers, driving the stock market up on a crazy day like today, that's a nice reminder that jobs are not a side bar. jobs are not abu teak issue for people concerned about the social implications of what's going on in america's economy. jobs are the economy. jobs are the central economic issue in the united states. even if you have no human heart about these things and you only care about the numbers, jobs. the central concern about the u.s. economy is whether or not we can solve our unemployment problem, the huge, scary unemployment problem.

former economic advisor to the vice president, jared bernstein posted this chart today. in addition to making your jaw drop, it points out -- the big red mass there, points out that high unemployment is so high, not necessarily because of continuing layoffs, because they're not helping, unemployment is so high and staying so high because people who are already unemployed can't get jobs. individuals continuing unemployment. people who are unemployed are staying unemployed. the average amount of time people stay unemployed in america is at the highest level since ever, since the labor department started counting. the economy is stuck. people are not getting hired and fired in the economic circle of life. people are unemployed and staying that way. that's not just a tragedy for them, their families, and for their immediate communities, that's the tragedy of the spire economy. there are not enough working people to work and spending money to get us near moving again. whether or not we can solve this problem, the unemployment

problem is the key to our recovery which we need and frankly the world needs. one of the things you've seen recently is a blending, what should be two separate conversations, one conversation about what's going on in the market, concerned about what's going on in the economy. that's one conversation. but that conversation is being blended in to this discussion of a new supercommittee, part of the deal reached between the president and republicans. the super committee in congress is not supposed to be working on making the economy better. that's not what they're working on. they will not be working on economic growth or any of the short term emergency problems we have. they're not working on the overall strength of the economy. they're not part of the stated mission. all they're supposed to be working on is reducing the debt, the deficit, the spending cuts, that's it. that's the entire job. that's neat. the country does need to work on

that -- at some point. but in the middle of a jobs catastrophe, that's the only thing we're empowering anyone to work on? we're doing that now? ed if your house is on fire and you ask the firefighters to get out of the way because you have some rhodode in ndrons to plant. nice foundations can increase a home's value. that's nice. but if the house is on fire, maybe that should wait. in the parallel universe that democrats' proposals get created. this universe does not exist. if it did, in that parallel universe that democrats other than the president got through to the media, you may have heard about john larson's proposal if we were going to have a super empow empowered, super committee working on issues, why not have one working on jobs, instead of just reducing the debt and the

deficit. those are great, work on jobs. this would allow the congress to simultaneously consider our near term, high unemployment and our long-term growing debt challenges later this year. just like the deficit committee, all options would be on the table. congressman larson would like to tack on to the debt ceiling compromise language to create this new supercommittee focused on jobs tasked with eliminating unemployment within ten years, that's, of course, impossible. it's maybe impossible over any time frame. aiming at it might get us closer to it. shouldn't it be someone's job to try. congresswoman is trying. she proposed a jobs bill, an actual jobs bill that puts $2 million americans to work for two years doing things like school construction, park improvement. there would be teachers and

police officers and firefighters and doctors and nurses, yes, these are things proposed by liberals so they should be kept quiet but they're on point. rather than the rhododendrons. to let this out is from the great state of illinois and the first witness to the first gardening metaphor i used in a explanation on cable news. >> thanks for joining us. >> you want infrastructure and parks. employing people to work. how much support do you have and do you think you can get for this? >> we've had thousands of introductions to the jobs spell. but it starts with a simple

idea, rachel, if you want to create jobs, create them. that we'll need to stimulate the private sector to do that. this idea of putting 2.3 million people to work right away could lower the unemployment rate by 1.3%. it isn't everything. we have do better yet. it's a good start. it's at a reasonable price. we're talki ining about $230 bin over two years. that did you want count with people getting off of the unemployment and the benefits they need. that is direct costs. some of that goes to the sector. if they want to fix up schools all over the country, that can be done.

we have to make sure we do our part to put people to work and get things moving again. >> where would you get the $230 billion over two years to fund a program like this? >> that's pretty easy. i have the companion bill, the fairness in taxation act. which taxes as 81% of americans think with should, millionaires and billionaires. plenty of loopholes have been on the table for a long time that we've been talking about, the oil companies, the companies that get breaks sending jobs overseas. but you know, we could easily pay for it. america is not broke. i appreciate that you've been talking about growth as a way out of this economic recession we're in. all of the talk has been about cuts. if we have, for example, 5% unemployme

unemployment, we would be fine. there would not be any problems. so we need to bring down that unemployment number. >> the last week in economic and business news has been terrifying even to people who like roller coasters. the downgrade, the controversies surrounding that. and the way it's been treated both in the media and the political press in particular. are there signs to you that the shocks we've gone through may be enough to what we're going through in washington? >> i hope so. the six republicans that have been appointed to that super committee, all of them signed a pledge not to raise taxes. i hope that the fact that the new responsibility has been put on them. that they will have a different idea of how to move forward. but it is scary. people at all economic levels are scared.

i talked in the district with ordinary people. but retiree, someone close to 80 years old today told me he lost a quarter of all of his nest egg, his private nest egg, because of what happened. ordinary people in the stock market. and all of the other cuts that are on the table. >> january shikowski of illinois. thank you for being willing to stick your neck out and make a concrete proposal so it's a point of discussion for people talking about this issue. thanks for joining us to talk about it tonight. >> thank you, rachael. right after our show tonight, it's the ed show. ed is responding to the awkward moment when rick santorum decided to say he was going to run against me and ed for president. what it's like to be singled out

by candidates on the campaign trail. you heard my response. you're about to get ed's response. also, a program request tonight here on msnbc. a special live "last word" with lawrence o'donnell. you want to see this. ahead on the show, this guy, a threat to the west's vital national security interests, or is he a threat to whatever died to put that thing on his head?oe , we didn't even realize just how much natural gas was trapped in rocks thousands of feet below us. technology has made it possible to safely unlock this cleanly burning natural gas. this deposits can provide us with fuel for a hundred years, providing energy security and economic growth all across this country. it just takes somebody having the idea, and that's where the discovery comes from.

ending at the pentagon. it will raise money to benefit the families of police officers killed in the line of duty. on saturday, september 10, vice president biden will attend the memorial in pennsylvania in new york city. there will be an event in the spirit of hands across america. you might remember is a national charity event that captured the nation's attention.

the event and that one happening on september 10 is that people will link hands to form a human chain. the event on september 10, the human chain is intended to span the looent of the entire island of manhattan. down near ground zero, the hand-in-hand event is calling on people to donate their time to charity. the fire department in new york will be holding its own private ceremony at st. patrick's can theet ral. the fire department of redwood city will be hosting a memorial stair climb in which 343 fist responders will climb 1 10 flights of stairs. each one wearing a name tag of one of the 343 firefighters who died on 9/11. president obama and the first

lady will plan to attend memorial events at all three sites. the world trade center, pentagon, and shanksville, pennsylvania. on that day, on september 11 itself, it will open just for the family ies of the dead. the memorial will open for the rest of the country. if you would hike to visit the 9/11 memorial, you can make reservations on line. the link is posted onmaddowblog.com. i've been working with richard engel about a documentary, not about 9/11, but the decade since the attacks of september 11. a film about how america responded to the attacks and how the country has been changed because of it. we tried to tell stories in the documentary that you have not heard already or that we think can bring some new light to our national reflection on the tax and how we have lived since then. the documentary is called "day

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>> okay, best new thing in the world today. i've been so looking forward to this. all right, under the old soviet union, each germany had its own version of the kgb. its own state security force, they were called the stasi. after spying on their own citizens for 40 years, they fell behind the berlin wall leaving behind acres of files. they're houses in a huge archive. right now, an art museum is hosting an exhibition of the photographs in those files, including these?

these are not modern remakes. these are real images out of the files of stasi agents trying out disguises. were the people of east germany fooled by bad wigs, fake mustaches, by how much their spies look like an emo band in brooklyn? behold the stasi made homemade cut off shorts and the leather trench coats. these were outfits for spies, things they thought they should wear to blend in so no one would notice them. part of the stasi was to recruit or force each other to spy on each other. maybe they wanted to be obvious to instill a little clear to make it clear they were watching or super creepy. they tried to shred every file they could get their hands on. but they were stopped from shredding everything from the people of east germany who seized the buildings and the files to preserve them. the files are available to the