let's talk to aaron blake, "the washington post" political report who was there firsthand to see perryhe crowd this morning. aaron, first of all thanks for coming on. first time guest. i appreciate it. i've interviewed governor perry in the last year. i think twice. he's left the door wide-open for running. what's your take on this whole story? >> i think he's got his foot in the door right now. i think it's pretty clear he has designs on running again and really avenging what was a disastrous campaign in 2012. he's obviously retiring as governor. he gave the most well received speech at cpac so far. better than ted cruz, better than rand paul, as far as the crowd's reaction and that was despite the fact this was happening at 9:00 a.m. on friday when a lot of these guests were very tired, some of them even hung over. it was quite the scene, actually and i think that it got a lot of people looking at him possibly in a new light for a guy who had been kind of dismissed. >> aaron, he'll tell you, identii've had dinner with him. he'll tell you he was lousy. the cnbc debate the debate he co