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gotten in during the spring or early summer. this guy held out for months and it suited him well. all of the other candidates were doing their thing out tearing each other down, right, but he for months of that time got to stay out of the fray, he got to enjoy all of the people imploring him that he ought to get in the race too because he clearly could win. >> why not? are you tempted? >> at the end of the day, for the next week i've got a legislative session i'm focused on and my hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind. >> are you tempted? >> i can't say i'm not tempted. >> i can't say i'm not tempted. my friend gretta van susteren interviewing rick perry four years ago. that was actually may of 2011.

it was not until august that year he got in. and even though he was beating mitt romney and newt gingrich and herman cain, as soon as he declared his candidacy it was interesting what happened to rick perry. he came in as the guy everybody thought would win. but once he started campaigning, there were signs in the ways he campaigned, signs in the way he conducted himself in the debates, in the way he talked to republican audiences, just signs that he maybe wasn't the candidate everybody expected him to be. rick perry four years ago was supposed to win the republican nomination hands down because he was going to be this swaggering, six guns, borderline secessionist texas tough guy governor candidate. but then he did finally get in the race and it turns out this is how he campaigned. >> the good news is that little plan that i just shared with you

doesn't force the granite state to expand your tax footprint. you know what i mean. like 9% in expansion. is he the best. i have fun with him. he is a great interesting guy. thank you, herman, for helping pay for the event tonight. everybody's got a slogan, right. mine's cut, balance and grow. get that. yeah. cut the size of this government, and balance that budget, and grow the economy. and it's pretty simple, actually. or you can stay in the old system that's out there. and senator, you know t the ones that want to stay in the old system, pay the lawyers, pay the accountants, all that money that's gone.

or, that. >> that. was rick perry in new hampshire in his 2012 presidential campaign when he tried to run four years ago. he had this great resume. on paper he was the perfect candidate. was definitely the romney slayer, but that was sort of how he campaigned. it was a disaster. a new disaster every day. >> about the two next wars. how do you feel about it? >> she asked about iran, afghanistan, and i try not to -- i try not to make a connection between -- excuse me, iraq, thank you very much. that will be on the front page of the -- something. iraq. >> when you see his appointment of two -- from my perspective

inarguably, activist judges, whether it was -- not -- sotomayor. >> those of you sitting in this hall who are going to inherit this country are counting on us. those of you that will be 21 by november the 12th, i ask for your support and your vote. >> the election was not on november 12th, it was on november 6th that year. and you don't have to be 21 to vote. you only need to be 18 to vote. don't listen to rick perry, kids. he has no idea what he's talking about. rick perry was an unexpected catastrophe in his campaign in 2012. even before he got to oops. >> and i will tell you it's three agencies of government when i get there that are gone.

commerce, education, and the -- what's the third one there. let's see. >> five. >> okay. commerce, education, and the -- >> epa? >> there you go. >> seriously. is epa the one you were talking about? >> no, sir. we were talking about the -- agencies of government, epa needs to be rebuilt. >> but you can't name the third one? >> the third agency of government i would do away with, education, the -- commerce, and let's see. i can't. the third one i can't. sorry. oops. >> that is remembered as the end of rick perry's campaign but it was not. that happened in november. he kept that going for a couple more months. the following month he put out an unintentionally funny super

anti-gay ad where he looked like a well-pressed marlboro man. after the oops thing was when he told kids in new hampshire they couldn't vote until they were 21. and until six days after the election. i mean, rick perry kept going long enough to come in fifth place in the iowa caucuses and then sixth place in new hampshire. this is after he had been the front-runner in poll after poll after he first got in. but when he didget in he just did a terrible job. by mid january rick perry dropped out four years ago, went back to being governor of texas and then four years later, despite that terrible experience in 2012 he decided he would run again. but even if you forgot about all of the other things about the way he campaigned, in 2012, honestly, that oops thing is unforgettable. one of the most indelible moments of the race. if you were bored by the campaign in 2012 you were entertained by oops. so, that's hard to get over.

and when rick perry decided to get back in he knew he would have to get over it, have an explanation for why oops happened. for why he was so bad in 2012 and why all of those other things happened and why it wasn't going to happen again. he did have an explanation this year for why he was so bad in 2012 but he wouldn't be this year. he had an explanation. it was an interesting one. >> there were two issues with me in 2011, one is i wasn't healthy. you all know the health stories, we're not going to -- it was what it was >> the second thing that was the problem in 2011 is that he overprepared. but the first thing and the main explanation rick perry gave to the press this year for why he did so badly four years ago is he said he was hurt, that he was physically unwell. he was unhealthy and it had all sorts of consequences for him. but he specifically had back surgery, at a bad time, and it went so poorly that it screwed up his campaign.

he said there, you heard him in the clip. you know all the health stories. that's what it was. right. the health stories were about not just the fact that governor perry had back surgery in 2011 and was in pain, the health stories that came out around his campaign that year were that something particularly sketchy happened around his back surgery. "vanity fair" reported around the time perry got out of the race that not only had rick perry had back surgery, he made this terrible and tragic decision to basically let a friend of his practice amateur back surgery on him. here's "vanity fair" from january 2012. the most intriguing explanation for perry's collapse has been circulating in austin for weeks. this suggests that the governor suffering from the after effects of low back surgery in july. six weeks before he announced his candidacy. his surgeon a friend fused two

of perry's vertebrae together and injected the governor for the the first time in the surgeon's career with two teaspoon fulls of stem cells cultured from fatty tissue taken from perry's hip. if the you have to explain why you can't tell iran from iraq, and why you think the name sotomayor sorts with an m and why you don't remember the date of the election and who is allowed to vote and you can't remember your own campaign platform when others are trying to help you and you give speeches you look like this, if you need a tough guy explanation for what happened back in 2012, well then, i had my friend give me amateur back surgery he'd never done before, that's a pretty good explanation. so when rick perry chose to run again this year, he explained that the only reason he did so badly in 2012 was those health stories. that health concern. that amateur back surgery.

that's what happened last time. obviously that was not going to be an issue this time so he'd be fine. well, now having seen rick perry campaign four years later, having seen rick perry campaign for president in 2015 i think we can safely say his amateur back surgery in 2011 wasn't the problem. >> joining me now former texas governor rick perry. do you want to make news on the real story, is donald trump right are you getting out of the race? >> you know, a broken clock is right once a day, so -- >> twice -- twice. donald trump was premature in declaring this year that rick perry was dropping out of the presidential race. rick perry went on fox news to say that he was -- still there, still working and he made a good effort in that interview to try to get back to his campaign talking points but donald trump ended up being right in substance if not on timing, and

tonight after losing his first iowa campaign co-chair to the donald trump campaign and losing his second co-chair to the rick son tor rum campaign, and then shutting down his south carolina headquarters earlier this week tonight after not paying any of hills staff for weeks, rick perry made it official and he became the first major party candidate to formally drop out of the race. >> when i gave my life to christ i said your ways are greater than my ways. your will is superior to mine. today i submit to you his will remains a mystery. but some things have come and become very clear to me. that is why today, i am suspending my campaign for the presidency of the united states.

we have a tremendous field of candidates. probably the greatest group of men and women. i step aside knowing our party's in good hands. >> his prepared remarks he was supposed to say we have a tremendous field, the best in a generation, departed there but said i step aside knowing our party is in good hands. rick perry was the first major party candidate to ever make a run for the presidency of the united states while also simultaneously being under criminal indictment. so maybe this year he's a special case, maybe you can't run for president while you're also fighting a criminal corruption case at home. that said rick perry is only one of a surprisingly large number of well known supposedly top tier republican candidates with presidential looking resumes,

who have tanked so far in the campaign this year. it's got to be a sobering thing today for these guys to see rick perry dropping out of the rails today, because as he says it's clear to him there's no point in him continuing, well it's got to be a sobering thing to look at rick perry if you are chris christie or rick santorum or lindsey graham. in the latest presidential poll that came out rick perry who just quit because of a hopeless campaign he is tied in the polls. with chris christie and rick santorum and lindsey graham. they are all at 1%. in the last poll before that lindsey graham was tied at zero percent. at some point you have to ask why is rick perry the only one quitting? or when a big name candidate gets out of the race everybody scrambles to pick up their voters. in this case it's a question whether there are any rick perry voters to be redistributed. one candidate is making a play for something that rick perry's

departure potentially makes possible for him. cnn has the next republican debate on wednesday. up until today there were 17 candidates running for the republican nomination. cnn decided to disqualify one of those, they decided they wouldn't allow jim gilmore into the debate or the kids table event. that got them to 16. cnn decided that of these 16 they would take ten and put them in the big debate and six of these in the second kids table debate. then after that cnn changed the rules and decided instead of ten they would take 11 candidates and put them in the prime time and five in the other debate. 11 and five. one of those five is dead politically speaking so the cnn plan is to have 11 candidates in one of the debate events and four candidates in the other, but they are not going to let that one other guy qualify for either. well, that one other guy is jim

gilmore. i think that this means that he would please like rick perry's seat at the kid's table on cnn wednesday. it's all the more ridiculous now that cnn is still splitting this weird giant field of candidates into a real debate and a kids table debate. really, 11 and 4? but there are a lot of weird things about the presidential race this year. as of tonight rick perry will no longer be one of them. lots more to come. at ally bank no branches equals great rates.

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i step aside knowing our party's in good hands. >> governor rick perry of texas, losing the thread a little but managing to drop out of the presidential race tonight at a speech in texas. the latest iowa poll from quinnipiac perry was at 1% in iowa. but so were three other republican candidates who show no signs of dropping out. chris christie is one of the three in the latest poll tied with rick perry at 1%. you know what, christie got potentially good news. one of the things looming for governor christie was the prospect of the criminal trials of former staffers in the bridge gate scandal. the trials were to start up next month. if you are polling at 1% on the brink of not making the debates having staffers go on trial in a corruption case from your administration is nothing to look forward to. the good news for governor christie that arrived today is that those criminal trials, the bridge gate trials that were

supposed to start have been delayed by the courts until march. so, those trials could still zre well be political kryptonite for governor christie but won't have the chance to derail his campaign until march. provided his presidential campaign still exists in march. as of tonight rick perry is the first to drop out. why him first? and who is likely to be next? joining us now is a senior editor for msnbc.com. thanks for being here. >> you bet. >> usually people redistribute the support of candidates who quit to other people who are very desirous of their supporters. i'm not sure there is anything of rick perry's to redistribute. >> everything you said in the first segment is true. he destroyed himself in 2012. this field is so large and split among so many and donald trump is so dominant that rick perry never carved out an avenue that was his. he is a conservative, christian,

there are many others who are both. >> when we saw starting to shape up the size of this field we thought 17, what everybody thought would happen was that it would be very hard for people to break out that everybody would be splitting small numbers. instead what we've got is 15 candidates splitting very small numbers. and two candidates who are popping. in poll after poll after poll now early states and national numbers ben carson and donald trump are the only people in double-digits. does that mean we should see rick perry as the first of a bunch who are going to leave? was he a special case? >> we are going to see others drop out. we have this unusual situation the money fight is different this time. we've got people being propped up by super pacs so they can stay in much longer. we have rick sanitorium, he's got a super pac that is going to stand behind him come thick or thin. you have others who were supposed to do well like scott walker, very promising guy, six

months ago, the support of the koch brothers, he is tanking as well. there is no rhyme or reason to why these people are flat except for trump and ben carson who is an outsider. >> in terms of governor walker one of the reasons i have been fascinated with this poll is not just because rick perry has to quit and others are worse off or tied with him in the poll. but it is specifically scott walker, the last quinnipiac iowa poll had walker in first place in iowa. this next one he dropped 15 points now in tenth place. is there precedent for that sort of thing? i'm trying to find a precipitating event in the scott walker near history that tells us. is it just that trump's taking all of his numbers or are something smells >> trump is devastated everybody in this field except for ben carson. walker i think suffered by the fact he came in very strong last february, gave that great speech in iowa to the freedom foundation, did very well, excited conservatives, had a

good solid record as a republican governor of a blue state, he pushed back on labor. good credentials, then we found he has no charisma and he was ill prepared. he was not prepared for the spotlight to be on him that early. he dropped out after a couple of embarrassing statements, went back to learn some history and foreign policy. by then he'd slowed down. the momentum was gone. ted cruz, stronger candidates, better for the long haul. have a ton of money and he basically lost his place. and he had a chance to redeem himself at the last debate and didn't. >> host of reporters notebook on shift, beth, i did not -- i knew that rick perry was going to get out. i did not know late on a friday at this point in the race but the next person that drops out let's come back and do this again. thanks, beth. we have exclusive new polling tonight from the democratic side of the race that

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speech in dallas on monday. bobby jindal really did just tell cbs that donald trump shouldn't make fun of carly fiorina's appearance since he looks like a squirrel is sitting on his head. the republican race for president this year is so nutty and swerving so unpredictably right now if it were a car and you were a cop you would pull it over and breathalyze it. on the democratic side that race starting to weave in and out of its lanes. i can give you hot off the presses polling from the brand new msnbc marist poll, one interesting new angle on what's going on among the democrats. this full poll is not going to come out until next week. we have an advance look at the matchups they polled on for hillary clinton and joe biden versus a few different top tier potential republican candidates. so as you can see, there is hillary clinton on the top, there is joe biden on the bottom row. the bottom line from what you

can see, the big headline is in these general election matchups, democrats beat republicans every single time in every matchup. but again, in this new poll it's brand new from nbc telemupdo marist. we're getting this tonight. vice president biden who is not running for president at this point, vice president biden beats every potential republican candidate by a larger margin than hillary clinton does. they are both winning against trump or jeb or cruz but biden wins by more. and there's honestly no point in speculating whether vice president biden is going to get into the race. he made more than clear he hasn't decided. so, by definition if he doesn't know then nobody knows. but if one of the things that is affecting his own decision making process whether or not to get in is the prospect of his own viability as a candidate, the question of whether or not he could win, polling like this which shows him beating

republicans more than hillary clinton does, polling like this has to be seen as a nudge. there are two other things to watch for here. one is the other democratic candidate who is happily completely confounding pundits in the beltway press and that is bernie sanders. bernie sanders is fresh off of this new iowa poll that put him for the first time leading the field in iowa. that comes after three straight polls in new hampshire which also showed bernie sanders leading the field in new hampshire. after all of that, bernie sanders the vermont socialist is heading south, he spent today in atlanta, tomorrow he's going to do three appearances, three town hall meetings in a row, in south carolina. he is going to do those three events in south carolina, along side african-american studies professor cornell west. so, the pundit class has this easy dismissal. he can't compete for the democratic nomination for real

balls he can't compete for black voters. that bernie sanders could never compete as a democrat in the south. bernie sanders' campaign is not conceding those points that the pundits keep making. bernie sanders has started testing those today and tomorrow. so watch that. watch bernie in the south. the other thing to watch on this side is the news we got from the white house late tonight about vice president biden's week next week. you know the republican debate is wednesday night. tonight, after 7:00 p.m. eastern, this late announcement from the white house is that the morning after that republican debate next week, vice president biden is hitting the trail, going to michigan to deliver remarks on the economy, and then later that same day he is going to do another public event in columbus, ohio. maybe vice president biden is not running for president. but he's not saying he will not run for president. and the day after the republican debate we now know he is going

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>> we're going to start with a blast from the past. what if i do this. >> it's a flamingo. i have two other animals. we did a thing about the washington zoo during that earthquake and the animals, there was detailed description of how the animals behaved. so the players, re-enacted. >> okay. >> then you remember how a couple weeks ago i came in wearing a clown jacket. >> oh, yes. >> i found the rest. it's all here.

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i'm waiting. friday night news dump time. producer wendy mcneil, welcome to the program. making your debut as our person who shows off the things. >> yes. i'm the rookie on the block. >> exciting to have you. tell us who our first time player is. >> rachel, tonight we have linda from houston, texas, baby. a nurse, a mom of a 6-year-old, and by the way, her 6-year-old is a huge fan of the show. huge fan. and she loves dr. who. meet linda. >> it's nice to meet you. thank you for being here. >> nice to meet you. thank you for having me. >> i was told when we got you to be our contestant that you watch the show really, really, really late at night. >> i do. i am a night nurse, and i take my lunch break about 3:00 in the

morning, and that is when the replay is on. i time that the way so i can watch you. >> i am an insomniac so sometimes i'm also watching the rerun of this show at 3:00 a.m. but for no good reason. you are doing it for a good reason. i'm doing it because my clock is wrong. linda, it's great to have you here. and this is going to be fun. you probably know how it works. three multiple choice questions if you get at least two right you will win this piece of junk, wendy, show everybody. >> this piece of junk, the cocktail shaker but for these purposes more of a shot shaker. >> can do you know harm. if the you get them all right, we will have another prize for you which you may or may not want. but this is it. >> yes. we are so close to halloween they could be used as costumes. the story is in 2011 an earthquake hit washington, d.c. and there was this detailed news report about how the animals at

the local zoo were reacting. there wasn't video of it so the rachel maddow show players had fun re-enacting how they thought the animals were feeling. >> that's how we documented the response to the quake. so those could be yours. we'll also bring in the disembodied voice of steve beenen, the man who determines whether you got the right answer. hello, steve. >> good evening to both of you. >> hello. >> all right. first question, linda. ready? this is from tuesday's show. tuls's show we reported that the ceo of one of the largest airlines in the world had suddenly resigned in the wake of a federal investigation into a top appointee and political ally of chris christie. it's reported one subject of the investigation is whether the airline basically bribed this christie guy putting in place a nonstop place between new jersey and this man's vacation home. which major airline just lost its ceo over this potential

chris christie scandal? was it delta airlines, united airlines, american eagle airlines, or american illegal airlines. >> i believe that was b, united airlines. >> steve, did she get that right? >> let's check tuesday's show. >> united airlines allegedly created a new route, a non-stop flight route, between newark airport and columbia, south carolina, specifically at the request of david sampson to pak his trips to his vacation home easier. >> the correct answer is united airlines. >> well done. also that sound clip giving away i don't know if it's route or route. we'll leave it at that. second question is from wednesday's show. we reported that one of the presidential contenders is not doing great this year, picked up

a patron saint recently in the form of a popular late night talk show host. this host has been running a campaign on his show to try to get this candidate up above his current zero percent in the polls to maybe 1%. unfortunately this campaign doesn't seem to be working. he is mostly polling at zero. but which talk show host and candidate are we talking about? is it a, conan o'brien and lincoln chafy, b, stephen colbert and rick santorum, c, jimmy kimmel and rick perry or d, jimmy fallon and jimmy jindal. >> i believe it's a. >> conan o'brien and lincoln chafy. steve? >> let's check wednesday's show. >> one of the candidates who cannot get in gear at all has picked up an unlikely patron saint in the form of a late night comedian conan o'brien. >> i'm taking a short amount of

time and making it my mission to help lincoln chafy get from zero percent all the way to 1% in the polls. >> the correct answer is a and linda is right again. >> well done. all right. last question. this is for all of the fake zoo animals, linda. as hosts of the first two republican presidential debates fox news and cnn both said they only wanted to let ten candidates on the main debate stage. when cnn made a late change to their inclusion rules, they also decided they would let the 11th place candidate into the main debate as well. this is going to be 11 people on stage instead of ten. last night we reported the name of the candidate let into the cnn main debate though he is in 11th place in their own rankings. who is it? rand paul, marco rubio, chris

christie, or deez nuts. >> well, i don't think it's d. though that would be hilarious. i believe it's c. >> chris christie. steve? >> let's check last night's show. >> by rights that same rule change that let carly fiorina in should have pushed chris christie out of the debate since now under their new rules he is no longer a top 10 candidate, he is 11. but seeing that as the eventual outcome of this new rule change that they made, cnn decided they would fudge it more, and let chris christie in the real debate too. >> the correct answer is chris christie, and linda is right once more. >> give linda the excellent news. >> yes, you have won the fabulous shot shaker and the paper animals. >> well done. hopefully those will be handy for you at halloween. will you please give your

6-year-old our kindest regards. >> i will. her name is katie. she loves you. >> katie, we have an internship ready for you in approximately 12 years. thank you, great to meet you. >> thank you, great to meet you. >> if the you want to play the most awesome game in basic cable news, e-mail us rach rachel@msnbc.com. we would love to send our office junk to you. normally at this point i would send you to prison amle now. there's still more of the show to come tonight including an incredible personal story from one of nbc news's toughest most unflappable reporters, we had a camera there. it was amazing. that's next. if you love shrimp like i love shrimp, red lobster's endless shrimp...

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so you know who jim miklaszewski is. mostly people call him mik. the nbc pentagon correspondent. a visible steady rock solid part of the nbc news gathering team for three decades, one of the most recognizable reporters on tv. in 2001 when the 9/11 attacks happened jim miklaszewski was live on the air from the pentagon where he had his office. and where he was when the pentagon was hit by that plane that day. today in shanksville, pennsylvania, at the opening of part of the flight 93 memorial there, jim miklaszewski was part of that program today. at that event he gave an account i had never heard him give before of his own reporting experience he saw that day. honestly it was stunning. just take a minute. this is not a long piece of tape but just hear this, particularly

today and because of who he is and how solid he is. this is worth seeing. trust me. watch. >> as massive and solid as that total concrete structure pentagon is, the entire building shook, windows rattled. my immediate thought is we are under attack. i jumped up from the chair, looked out the window to see people running from the building. after a couple of hours i walked out the mall entrance, closest to the crash site and in to what i could only describe on the air as a war zone. there was a gaping hole in the side of the building, a ferocious fire fed by thousands of gallons of jet fuel. medics attending to wounded, medevac helicopters. while overhead, two air force f-16 fighter jets were crisscrossing the sky at a very low level.

an air force colonel stand next to me, looking up and saying to no one in particular, "my god, we're flying caps, combat air patrols over the nation's capital. at first rereceived sketchy numbers of casualties, the court yard in the middle of the pentagon with its majestic elm trees has always been a refuge from the daily grind of the pentagon. on 9/11 -- -- on 9/11, it became a makeshift morgue. 120 people at work in the pentagon were killed. >> nbc news chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski is as solid as they come. one of these reporters who

himself sometimes seems like he's built of concrete and steel. that was him speaking today in shanksville, pennsylvania on the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. "weekends with alex witt" starts now. developing now, a possible break in the phoenix highway shootings, but it may not answer some of the biggest questions. a live report ahead. somebody had to be first. rick perry is number one in the republican field but it's not exactly what he'd hoped for. >> never seen anything like it. but as far as -- i feel terrible about it. >> we'll tell you what happened when presidential contender donald trump joined jimmy fallon in a skit spoofing the billionaire. it's hard to believe a stunning loss in the u.s. open for tennis superstar venus williams.