2012? should mitt romney may a play for iowa? can herman cain get control of his campaign? can rick perry get away with ducking debates. cover girl, rave reviews for hillary clinton on the cover of "time." and today on capitol hill -- >> i should ask a few comments on this wonderful article from "time" magazine, hillary rodham clinton and the rise of smart ç power. do you have any comment on that? >> i'm speechless, congressman. >> but we're not speechless. we'll talk about her next move with "time's" richard stengel. good day, i'm andrea mitchell live in washington with iowa so important in the republican race for president you might think the two leading republican candidates would be spend more time there but they are not. manager editor of post politics.com chris cilliza joins

us with the daily fix. do you think there is a play for mitt romney in iowa? could there be a knockout punch against rick perry? >> there's no question there could be a knockout punch. i think there is a classic high risk, high reward situation, andrea. the risk is that mitt romney spent $10 million in iowa in 2007 and 2008. he was there and basically lived there and he was there multiple days doing multiple events every single day in the runup to the caucuses and watched as a guy who didn't spent as much money and didn't have professional organization shot by him because there was some level of distrust towards romney among social conservatives that huckabee took advantage of. the concern is on the romney folks, they look at this polling and recognize if they can win iowa and win new hampshire, the race is probably over. but they don't want to go into that same trap that 2008 trap where they go in in a major way

in iowa, he doesn't win because of the same distrust from social conservatives and they he looks weakened heading into new hampshire. it's a very tough decision for them to make. and at the same time, the polling shows that romney could do well in iowa,ç although the caucuses are such a very particular kind of election that it's hard to game it. >> they absolutely are a particular kind of election. what we know from recent history in the iowa republican caucuses is that social conservative candidates tend to do quite well. what you see in the cnn time poll that we're showing, you have mitt romney the establishment business country club republican in the race and you have everybody else fighting for the tea party and social conservatives, you have rick perry, herman cain, newt gingrich, five people fighting for a share of that same social conservative tea party pie. if you split that pie up five

ways and mitt romney is the only guy in the kind of establishment republican territory, can he win with 30% of the vote? can he win with 25% of the vote? we don't know the answer to that yet and neither do the romney folks. that's why they are kind of -- keep teenager at arm's length but doing enough there in terms of organization in terms of visits to keep it as an active possibility. >> let's talk about herman cain, what do you make of the whole challenge of his campaign management? >> first of all, it was a great story. i think it really got at the heart of what we've been wondering, how ready is this guy for prime time? that story suggested it's a chaotic environment, my favorite part, a memo said don't speak to herman cain unless spoken to. okay. >> to his own staff, telling him -- >> to his own staff. >> this is not a great story for

herman cain but we knew there was something on the stanf levl going on because if you remember before herman cain became herman cain earlier this year, he lost his whole iowa staff, the head of the new hampshire campaign quit. that doesn't happen randomly. that doesn't happen for a cohesive happy campaign. now campaigns are -- they do tend to be tell pest uous even at the best of times, i don't think this is particularly unique that there's turnover but it does suggest there's a not ready for prime time feel for it and that's not a good storyline for herman cain as he continues to not lead but at or near the top of most polls we see. chris, thanks so much. >> see you later. president obama is battling a deadlocked congress and struggling economy and host of republicans wanting his job. robert gibbs told "today's" matt

lauer, he's not worried. >> i think what's going on in this country with frustration around income and quite frankly frustration around wall street, look at what everyone of the republican candidates want to roll back wall street reform. barack obama on the other hand is fighting for middle class and making sure we can send our children to college. i think that's a good contrast even in a bad economy. >> former deputy white house communications directser and vice president of global strategy group, jen, great to see you. >> great to see you too. >> i want to ask about the president's post pos tour, we've seen him on the campaign trip, he sounded down in the mouth, talking about the hope and change thing faded --ç you kno what i'm talking about. it almost sounded as though he himself needs to get pumped up about his chances. >> well, i can tell you andrea i traveled with the president in 2008, was everywhere he was on

the campaign trail, there's no question he has the fire in his belly, people will see that on the campaign trail. what's important here is that every election there's a choice and you you know this as well or better than anyone. what we're looking at is a republican platform on the economy that's focused on taxing the poor to give to the rich. it's focused on ending wall street reform. this is something i think the american people will start to question as they tune into this race next year. do you have concerns about occupy wall street and the continuing protests, the violence we saw in oakland which still needs to be investigated, but the possibility of excessive police force. could this really rattle your campaign? >> well, there's no question that people are frustrated out there. i think the sentiment represented by the protests is just that. people are frustrated that they can't make ends meet and they are being taxed at the same rate

as people making millions of dollars. so that's an issue. i actually expect that the president will be talking quite a bit about on the campaign trail next year. and it is really a fight that democrats should be ready to take on. if you look at the recent report that the top 1%, their incomes have gone up have tripled over the last couple of decades, that is startling. the unfortunate thing for republicans running on the republican side of the ticket, they are really gearing their economic plan towards them and not towards the people who need help the most. he is then aligning himself with the protesters in the sense of saying i identify with you? does that help rally the base? >> i think the issues that the president cares about deeply, that he's been fighting for since he came into office, whether it's wall street reform and now fighting efforts against repeal or just earlier this week he announced a new plan to help students who are struggling to

pay their student loans, these are issues that really touch on the frustration people are feeling. i think there's an alignment in what we can all be passionate about, what the president is passionate about and what many people are feeling. some who are protesting and some trying to make ends meet at home. that's one of the issues that will really be of focus next year. >> what about the super committee? we're going to be talking to members of congress coming up about the fact that the democrats are now talking max bach us, not clear that the republicans will go along with the tax increases, is this all or nothing, rolling the dice on avoiding the automatic cuts that come in the committee does not deliver by november 23rd? >> the committee has to put forward their plan by november 23rd. as you know, they need to vote it through by the end of december. i think it's a good step,

positive step for the democrats to put a plan forward. the president, as you know, released his detailed recommendations in what he would like to see happen earlier in september. i think the key point here is that money doesn't grow on trees unfortunately. we wish it did. it doesn't. there are tough choices that have to be made. revenues need to be a part of that. there are ways to gets to that. i think what needsç to happen now, both sides need to really be willing to sit at the table and we haven't seen a lot of willingness from republicans in congress. we've seen a lot of rhetoric, not a lot of willingness to sit at the table. >> getting back to what happened in oakland, i know you're not working with the white house at this point but with the campaign, do you think there should be an investigation as to whether or not there was excessive force used by the police? >> you know, i think that there is a lot of focus on the wall street protest right now and protests going on around the country. i'll leave that to local

authorities to determine. and of course, it is in everyone's interest to keep any of these protests safe and focused on the issues that people want to talk about. i think what's important is there's a lot that can be done in washington, a lot congress can do, a lot the president is already doing to address some of the frustrations that people are expressing through these protests. >> general psaki, good to see you, veteran of the obama campaign. thanks so much. are taxes going to be a deal breaker for the super committee? brady, vice chair joins us next. europe has a debt deal but lacks a lot of details, we'll talk next with the e.u. ambassador to the united states. four days after the devastating earthquake in turkey, rescuers have pulled a 19-year-old man out alive from the rubble. they say the rescue mission is winding down. death toll is now climbed to 535 people. what's better than gold ?

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reports from capitol hill suggest that super committee democrats are going for a bigger target in spending cuts and $1.3 trillion in new taxes. we're joined by kevin brady. thanks, congressman. reaction from the speaker was not so good, that in fact he was not impressed and did not think that was quote say reasonable number. what's your reaction? >> i think more importantly thaç the number is is the composition of this. i think the go big strategy is to go big on tax increases. our revenues are going to bounce back to 19% of the economy once this economy gets back in shape. that is about the area where we

need to be. certainly if we're going to be a pro-growth economy. i think the super committee needs to move away from tax reform, frankly they are not qualified and they don't have enough time to do it right. i think needs to focus on both discretionary income cuts or revenue cuts over the next ten years and also look at those out year numbers on social security and medicare. i think the market would respond strongly if we were tackling the drivers of our unsustainable debt. >> understandably members of the house ways and means company and dave kemp, don't want the super committee messing with taxes because they say they don't have the experience, this is what the ways and means committee does. there isn't going to be a solution with a tax component is there? do you think you can do enough on the spending cut side? >> no question about it. i think 1.2 trillion is a very small amount of spending cuts

over the next decade. and if you tie at least that amount of spending cuts with real reforms on social security, and medicare, both parties want, yeah, i think that's the right recipe. and our thought is, if they can do tax reform and do it right in this timetable, fine, but frankly most members of the super committee don't have the knowledge frankly or the expertise to do it. >> there are reports confirmed by nbc news that republican members of the super committee are talking about tax reform as a componentç and in particulars much as $200 billion in more revenue by broadening the tax base. does that appeal to you? >> it depends what the broadening entails. i think right now too many of the committee have been stuck on energy taxing u.s. energy companies or corporate jet owners, silly things. if they've got a serious plan that broadens it responsibleably, i think members will look at it.

tax increases themselves are a nonstarter. >> and do you think we're going to ends up trying to find ambiguity and agreement by the republicans agreeing to some sort of tax reform that includes dynamic scoring and democrats saying that's okay, but we're going to call it a tax increase, agree to disagree but essentially come up with a compromise? >> you know, i hope at the end of the day we end up with a full recommendation, 1.5 trillion from the committee. i hope they are responsible cuts and again, i just think we're not asking a whole lot given this deficit crisis. i really beyond the numbers this decade, it's social security and medicare, preserving them for the long run, i think it really is what members of congress the markets will look closest that and they are focused there. >> do you in congress feel more pressure because of occupy wall street, because of the spreading

protests and anger at washington and frankly historic levels of disapproval of members of congress? >> not from occupy wall street. frankly it's hard to figure them out. i don't know they represent any movement necessarily. back home i think most lawmakers listening to their neighbors and communities in this frightening level of debt and very aneemic economy have clearly what worries and angers them most. >> thank you very much. thanks congressman brady. >> thanks for having me. >> the politico briefing, unlikely allies. you'll be surprised who's hooking up in a joint strategy. and tropical storm rina, once a threat to the florida coast is weakening off the yucatan peninsula. in thailand, flooding on the out skirts of bangkok killed

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in today's politico briefing, the president has an unlikely ally, rick perry. they are rolling out a new dnc video using the same argument perry has been making since romney, that he will say anything to get ee leked. ken vogel, they are obviously viewing romney as the front-runner, not in the poll numbers but at least the put tif front-runner as the real target. >> that's right. the obama campaign views him as the most viable republican presidential candidate. they don't want to face him. they would love to face rick perry. they are going to layoff him. the more acute motivation behind the strategy is that they want

to damage mitt romney. and rick perry has the same goal, works out well for them. the white house would like to see nothing better than a prolonged and bitter republican primary along the lines of what we saw between obama and hillary clinton in 2008. they think that will put mitt romney at a much weakened position headed into a general election with barack obama. >> of course mitt romney in the last couple of days played into their argument by going to ohio and waffling again on the whole question of the ballot issue. he does give them grist for the mill. >> that's right. the flip flopper narrative is one theyç want to entrench head into 2012 and one that hurt him in the 2008 republican presidential, the waffling on the referendum was a big one there. they want to drive home the point that he's very calculating and been thinking about running for office his whole life. they saw an opening during the

last debate when rick perry dusted off the whole line of attack that mitt romney knowingly employed illegal immigrants to work on his lawn. romney said no, why would he do that? because he knew he was going to run for office and they cited that as another sort of political piece of maneuvering. the other thing that they aligned on, the obama campaign and rick perry, was mitt romney's refusal to release his tax returns. as soon as rick per rery came out and called for him to do so, we saw the president's allies come out and do the same. it's a strange bedfellows here. >> indeed. thank you very much, ken vogel. >> thank you. >> up next, a deal in europe. what it means moving forward? the e.u.'s ambassador to the united states joining us. battleground pennsylvania, will it come down to the economy for president obama? this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. site.

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good economics news and abroad has world markets up today. third quarter gdp numbers showed 2.5%, no longer fears of a double dip recession. they hammered out a deal to rescue greece from economic disaster while stabilizing other country that may be on the brink of financial ruin. the ambassador is the european ambassador to the united states and you know all of the details. how real is this? is this just a band aid or is this really sub stantively a way to prevent greece from defaulting and the domino effect of other countries? >> i think it is a comprehensive plan. we have a lot to do on the details but this lays the foundation for a comprehensive determined response from europe to this crisis. we're looking at all aspects,

talking about greece and the banking system and leveraging on our crisis mechanisms and talkingç basically about preventing the situation from spreading o other countries, avoid the -- i think our leaders did a good job. >> are the other financial institutions and other countries protected even if something were to happen in greece? you're saying now that they won't be contagion. how that accomplished? >> we need to deal with the greek debt problem. the purpose is to bring the greek debt to sustainable levels. in doing so we are counting on important intervention of the private sector involvement. basically those who were to benefit from the greek debtor have to pay the greek debt, they have to commit to solving the situation. we are reducing this debt to 50% of the present level and in doing so, the private sector,

the banking system is going to put solid contribution. this is an important one. >> at some point doesn't greece have to deal with its own auste program and find a solution for what has been overspending? >> yes, as you know the greek government is taking courageous measure. >> against severe opposition. >> but still with the support of the parliament and being approved in the parliament. it is a very far-reaching program. the support to greece is not without conditions, it is with very tough conditions. what we're doing now is bringing the level of debt to sustainable levels. there's no point in having this debt at the level which is not sustainable, which we cannot control in the longer term. theç measures taken achieve th goal. >> and do you really think these measures avert the crisis and down the road we won't see again

greece topping on the verge of other countries, even italy, even france? >> all of the tools are on the table to prevent that situation. but last night they finished about 4:00 in the morning in brus sells, last night it goes far beyond greece. it looks at the banking sector. there was a lot of talk in the past few weeks about how fragile the banking sector would be. there will be measures to recap talize banks and provide them with more funding so they can do their job, which is to finance the real economy. we also looked at crisis mechanism that we have, right? we have created a number of mechanisms and facilities to help not only greece and portugal but countries that might need it in the future. we leveraged the amounts we had available up to $1.4 trillion if need be. it will be there. and i hope and seen this already, the effects of that

that the markets will reassured by the determination of our leaders to face any situation that may occur in the future. >> your a ray of good news. >> it's a pleasure to bring good news. >> there hasn't been that much in a long time. president obama says that if congress won't do it, he will. they are taking executive action on a series of issues as you've seen this week. will it help sell his jobs plan to the public? ed rendell is a political analyst and joins us now from new çyork. the president has been taking it piece by piece. we saw the student loan deal does this work? will it persuade people that the president is taking action when we've had so little action from washington? >> from a political stand pointd it's good. ever since the jobs bill speech which was a great speech sub tan tifly, putting to the republicans by telling people

every part of the jobs bill is something republicans have voted for in the past. he's been showing leadership and evidencing a strong message to the american people. things are breaking his way, the recent income disparty released by the cbo is shocking, the poorest 20% of americans, only 18% while the richest 1% had a 265% increase. that's backing up the president's plans. in terms of doing things by executive order, it creates an impression that he's trying his best and moving in the right direction. i think the president has got the wind behind him back on this issue. and i think congress looks absolutely pathetic in the 9% favorablety rating exemplifies that because they refuse to pass anything. >> what about occupy wall street and most urgently the

possibility that, just say possibility, we don't know what the investigation will prove, excessive police force. look what happened in oakland overnight. what's your response to that? you've been an executive, a governor. how do you deal with the fact this happened to an iraq war veteran? >> well, first of all we shouldn't pre-judge what happened because police say one version and demonstrators say another and the investigation eally did happen of the both sides have to show restraint. that confrontation shouldn't have happened. the police shouldn't have been out there with the riot gear and demonstrators shouldn't have been out there facing down the police. we've got to use reasonableness. mayor nutter in philadelphia is doing a great job dealing with the demonstrators and keeping lines of communication open and they've done a good job pretty much living up to the ground rules. we can have peaceful demonstrations but there has to be communication and communications breaks down

you'll see more and more incidents like that. it doesn't help the police but it also doesn't help the demonstrators. they are taking attention away from their central point. on the central point, a wide margin of americans absolutely agree with them. >> back home in pennsylvania, you've got a situation where the legislature and governor both support changing the electoral college. do you think this will go through or or some republicans cautious that changing the system will end up hurting them down the road as well? >> all but one of the republican congressman from pennsylvania have indicated the legislature they are against this proposal. they are against it for political reasons. we are ought to be against it for reasons that have nothing to do with politics. >> do you think that will kill it? >> i think so. it's a bad piece of legislation. why would pennsylvania unilaterally disarm if we do this, pennsylvania becomes a nonfactor in the presidential elect because everyone knows exactly how the congressional districts are going to break. there's not going to be any

difference. the winner will pick up four or five electoral votes and we'll be like new mexico. secondly, why do this in pennsylvania and not in texas? is it because democrats have carried pennsylvania the last five elections and republicans have have carried texas? if we do this,z sense, let's do it in every state in the union to be fair. >> what about pennsylvania, you have a situation where barack obama is at risk the not carrying pennsylvania. he's upsidedown in pennsylvania. >> i said four weeks ago if the election were held then, mitt romney would carry pennsylvania. but i am as a democrat i'm more confident today. the president has found his voice on the populist issues and public agrees with him overwhelmingly. 66% of republicans believe that millionaires should pay more taxes. i think the president has found his voice and found an issue, looks like a leader. i think he's heading in the right direction. and the republican presidential candidates are going to have to

carry a huge burden on their back and that's the republican congress. i'll have to leave it there. good to see you again, ed rendell, former pennsylvania governor and speaking of pennsylvania, one of ed rendell's old friends and supporters congresswoman allison schwartz joins us now. pennsylvania is front and center in a lot of ways. let's pick up there on the president's approval rating, the job rating in pennsylvania in september, not good in terms of 54 believing he deserves a second term -- rather 54 disapprovaling and only 44 thinking that the president deserves a second term. how do you turn that around? >> i think we are turning it around. there's no question that it's pennsylvania has always competitive as you know and we'll be watching and working hard on this. there's no question that the president and democrats in congress have been very clear about our agenda and that is growing this economy, expanding opportunity for jobs. helping businesses where we can

to be able to do that and making the necessary investments that are the proper role ofç government to do as an infrastructure and education, i believe in southeastern pennsylvania, innovative industries will grow for the future. pennsylvania is always competitive and i certainly do believe that we're going to see a strong showing for president obama in the re-election. it's always work as you know. >> congresswoman, in a number of states we saw democratic congress members did not want to show up with the president on the campaign trail recently. what is your sense monday colleagues as to whether democrats are running away from the president? >> every member of congress has to act the way they think works best. a number of those members are coming to washington to vote so their regular schedule requires them to get on the road. and the president has been coming to pennsylvania a good bit as we expect him to continue to do. i think that really the issue for us is and i think we are on the same team here, what we're

hearing from a constituents, certainly from mine and in southwestern pennsylvania, again, they want a focus on how we work together and find common ground and how we actually grow this economy. we're great and resilient country and our economy is one that still is the largest in the world and we want to keep it that way and keep growing. that doesn't mean what the republicans are doing which is really have no agenda on jobs as you know. i think we're very much on the same page as democrats in congress and the president occasionally will disagree with the president. that's our job too. >> one of your jobs is to be on the foreign affairs committee. you just had secretary clinton testifying there. there seems to be a feeling of anger at hamid karzai and his suggestion that pakistan, they might side with pakistan rather than the united states. secretary clinton was asked also about being willingç to negotie with the haqqani network, that

attacked our embassy in kabul. this is what she had to say. >> we want to fight, talk and build all at the same time. part of the reason for that is to test whether these organizations have any willingness to negotiate in good faith. there is evidence going both ways to be clear. >> i suspect that you and your republican colleagues on the committee might have similar views about our attitude towards pakistan and karzai. are you all satisfied that we should be talking or reaching out to the haqqani network. >> i think we have to put this in context. secretary clinton has shown great strength and just over there and being very clear with the pakistanis that we actually have full expectation they are going to work with us and corporate with us. when they go as the president showed in his great leadership

and we were going to go after those who would hurt us, and we deal with bin laden, that was decisive and clear. no mixed messages there by any means. that's important going forward. the secretary said we're all on the same page. clearly going forward this is a complicated part of the world. we need pakistan corporation in intelligence and making sure there aren't safe havens for the terrorists either going into afghanistan or coming after us. we need obviously better leadership from afghanistan. i think you're right, there's always a hesitation and i think there should be in ourç engagi in any kind of situation with groups we consider potentially harmful to us and certainly terrorists. that said, the secretary was clear that being able to engage and enabling the afghani leadership to engage in those

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and ham per some fertility treatments. details ahead on "news nation". hillary clinton just back from libya, afghanistan and pakistan and now facing capitol hill, forced today to defend our worst allies, one of the people who joined her on the trip with a richard stengel. i spoke with rick about this week's cover story. hillary clinton and the rise of smart power. >> rick, you traveled with the secretary and talked with her about smart power. how does she define using smart power in an era where the u.s. is disadvantaged economically and doesn't have the leverage it used to have? >> it's a good question. she defines it as a combination of traditional hard power which is military power and soft power, which is the power of our ideas as well as finances. the mixture of the two is smart power because as she says, the u.s. cannot do the kinds of things it once did. we used to go to other countries

as you know and say here's what your national interest is. let us tell you what0w to do for you. now we have to listen to how they perceive their own national interests and accommodate them. she was doing that last week in pakistan. she was doing it in afghanistan. she was doing it even in libya because we're trying to listen to what people want in those places and figure out where the u.s. can fit in. >> the state department was very sensitive about the fact that in a sort of off the record moment but was captured on camera and you were certainly there when she was first notified that gadhafi might have been captured and her response was so immediate. you quoted that response. what did she say? >> she -- she used a little bit of levity, she said, we came, we saw, he died. ceasar's classic line from the play. we came, we saw, we conquered.

it was a couple of days after we had been there, people were relieved that the situation had resolved itself. one of the interesting things about secretary clinton is that because she's a mixture of a politician and diplomat, you find her talking about things and in occasions that you wouldn't traditionally have a secretary of state doing. for example, that was at a moment when she was doing television interviews with both american media and local media, something that secretaries of state, at least in so far as dealing with local media is concerned, didn't really do before. >> in fact she was doing it in pakistan where in her four visits to pakistan, tough audiences, phase faced a lot of criticism and she pushes back. your polling indicates that she still would beat the republicans, would doç better than barack obama in head to heads, are you pur sueded there's no political future not

this cycle but down the road. >> i wouldn't never say never. and nobody has made a statement that she will never be interested in elective politics again. as she would say and in fact her husband has said, that because she's not in the direct line of fire the way president obama is, that doesn't affect -- it's easier to be popular. and that doesn't take anything away from her. but i do think that is a sign of the times and that part of the reason for his relatively lower popularity is that the buck stops with him. when people are unhappy they blame the president. >> at the same time you did real reporting here. you went back in your magazine cover. what happened with libya? how did she put that coalition together? how she went head to head with the russian foreign minister and persuaded them to abstain at the u.n. that made it possible for barack obama to then as president go ahead and join the

nato force and take the action? do you think there's resentment from the white house? i was talking to an old clinton hand who said in any primary context, all the way if you go back to the carter people, they still resend the teddy kennedy people from the 80s. these are high level staffs. there is that residual distrust. >> i'm told the same thing. the piece was written by and reported by a man who did a great job of reporting. once the decision was made to be involved, i don't think it was leading from behind. it shows that the secretary of state was in there engineering the agreement and talking with the arab league and getting the russians to abstain. to me that's not necessarily leading for in front, but linking arms with everybody and bringing everybody forward. the u.s. did a good job in that respect and to go back to the

original question, there is rivalry, but again, that's as it has been between the state department and the white house. >> exactly right. it's a great cover and she is a fascinating character. a most interesting personality in the administration outside of the president of the united states. thank you very much. >> thank you, andrea. >> what are political story will be making headlines in the next 24 hours? that's next. guinea pig: row...row. they generate electricity, which lets me surf the web all day. guinea pig: row...row. took me 6 months to train each one, 8 months to get the guinea pig: row...row. little chubby one to yell row! guinea pig: row...row. that's kind of strange. guinea pig: row...row. such a simple word... row. anncr: there's an easier way to save. get online. go to geico.com. get a quote. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. [ male announcer ] humana and walmart have teamed up to bring you a low-priced medicare prescription drug plan. ♪ with the lowest national plan premium...

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>> which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours. msnbc contributor joins us. what are the candidates doing? is it all about the granite state? >> it's often all about the granite state. rick perry will officially file his candidate papers in new hampshi hampshire. mitt romney will be there and ron paul will be there. it's rick perry we should focus on because he is must not gotten

a foothold ever in new hampshire. some numbers suggest he is doing okay in iowa, but really struggling he was at 4% in new hampshire and struggling to get any kind of food hold there. this suggests he is going to play seriously there. they are sandwiched in between and represent the better opportunities, but he can't totally tank in the granite state. >> that probably at least suggests that new hampshire residents and republicans are not in a texas frame of mind. it's a hard sell. >> no question. >> so far at least. we will see how he does tomorrow. thank you very much. follow the show online and on twitter @mitchell reports.

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