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jim acosta for us at the values voter summit in d.c.up, we'll certainly monitor his comments this morning. >>> also, take a look at how likely republican primary voters answered the question in a recent cnn wmur poll. is the country ready to elect a mormon president? 61% say yes. 25% say no. the poll was conducted from september 26th to this past thursday and has a sampling margin of plus or minus 6 percentage points. >>> and it wasn't too terribly long ago that republican presidential hopeful herman cain was seeing single digits in the polls and given little regard in his campaign for the white house. that was then. this is now. his political stock has risen significantly in recent gop polls and in friday at that same voters -- values voter summit, cain made fun of the so-called experts. >> three months ago, the pundits -- the political pundits said herman cain can't get the nomination. herman cain cannot win the presidency, because he doesn't have high-name i.d. he doesn't have aca jill i don't know dollars, and he has never held publ

jim acosta is there for us. what's happening right now?, wolf, i was able to pull aside here just for a few moments, dr. robert jeffers. the pastor of the first baptist church of dallas. he also gave a speech introducing rick perry and if you don't mind me saying, you've created a bit of a stir coming out of that speech because in talking to reporters, you said in pretty strong, plain language what you think of mormonism. you described it as a cult and you said that if republican votes for mitt romney, they're giving some credibility to a cult. do you stand by that comment? >> absolutely. that's not some fanatical. that's been the -- southern baptist convention has officially labeled mormonism as a cult. i think mitt romney's a good, moral man, but those of us who are born again followers of christ should prefer a competent christian that's why i'm enthusiastic about perry. >> what do you say to those voters who said religion as mormonism shouldn't be an issue. he's just as american as anyone else. >> i aglee and article 6 of the constitut

jim acosta joins us. what do you think? how did cain do? >> with all that talk about the 999 plan last night, kyra. i thought it was the plug for the 9:00 show. no, you could probably read the thought bubble coming out of mitt romney's head last night. he was basically saying i could get used to this because so much of the attention at this debate was focused on herman cain, the former ceo of godfather's pizza. probably felt like one of his own pizza because his rivals that table were turning up the heat. >> jobs, jobs, jobs. >> herman cain find out what happens to candidates who shoot up in the polls. they become big targets. >> when you take the 999 plan and you turn it upside down, i think the devil's in the details. cain's economic plan and sets rates at 9%. also create a new 9% national sales tax. >> if i think it's a catchy phrase. in fact, i thought it was the price of a pizza when i first heard about it. here's what we need. we need something that is doable, doable, doable. >> it will pass. it's not the price of a pizza. >> it was g

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the best it's ever been in many years and they're adamant to make sure it's there is that way or in acosta reporting them now during his chinese visit russia's prime minister vladimir putin gave an interview to the state broadcaster outlining the priority for the two nations who can set that up push for technological breakthroughs in aviation aircraft building are some of the areas where he wants to see the partners working together to read the full interview on our t.v. dot com. also online american police are accused of brutality at the occupy boston protest to vietnam war veterans were injured by officers and off two hundred people arrested. the jailing of you crying. former prime minister has sparked outrage on the streets of kiev and a lot of criticism from russia the u.s. and the e.u. you what he was given a seven year sentence for abusing her powers while signing gas contracts with russia she also have to pay two hundred million dollars in damages to ukraine state gas company. looks at the angry response. judgment day for ukrainian democracy this label of tuesday's events given by t

acosta the best in the business.et's talk about that bright future. marco rubio for those who don't know is a 40-year-old republican senator from florida. gop rock star on the short list as a possible vp candidate, even though he has ruled it out himself. but he appeals to latino voters and wouldn't this be a great way for republicans to have a chance at winning florida in 2012? >> no, they'll win florida, i think, anyway in 2012. i think rubio would help them win florida. but where rubio becomes a cost completely, not a smart move for rick perry to choose marco rubio because he has single handedly because of his views on immigration turned off many mexican americans. two-thirds of tlatino pie are mexican, mexican/americans. california, texas, arizona all those other places because he's not very popular out there. >> all right, reuben, thank you very much. you can read his op-ed column at cnn.com/opinion. if you like, join the conversation. you can even leave a comment for him. >>> coming up, a lady who doesn't look

you were talking to jim acosta about that poll. one of the questions, and this is republicans only, do you think christie -- you would you like it see him as the nominee. 42% say yes, 34% say no and about one in four were not sure. here is the interesting part. go to the next poll. they asked the same thing about sarah palin. republicans overwhelming there, two out of three say no, they did not want to see her run. and one other thing before skji dropped off, you were asking about that speeds up of the process. and i think that is part of the equation here. with iowa and new hampshire going right after the new year, for chris christie to form a campaign and get people in the early states by the end of this year, that's a tall task. >> absolutely right. one of the things that we've talked about again and again is the notion that tea partiers have been driving a the lo of the issues, a lot of the stanl stances. was that a factor for him in deciding not to run? >> you got it. you and i were talking about this just yesterday. and, yeah

jim acosta is in vegas. we'll talk to him about who is under the most pressure to perform well tonight. we'll be going live to las vegas to catch up with jim in just a second. >>> all right, meanwhile, let's go to senior political editor mark preston, also in vegas while we're waiting to hear from our jim acosta. mark, we have just been talking about these new polls that were released a few moments ago as we are preparing for the presidential debate tonight. okay. this is live television, folks. it's like a juggling act when you have about three live shots to get to in las vegas. jim acosta, are you in place? there we go. we got you. >> this is a, this is of no fault of my own, kyra. i promise you. >> did you have a late night in vegas, jim? >> listen, what happens in vegas, kyra. that's all i have to say. no. the lovely carol costello, carol had to move off and mark preston and i had to move in. this is live tv. we have to roll with the punches here. we got a little debate tonight, what do you think, kyra?

jim acosta.get easier when he stepped off the stage. our deputy political director paul steinhauser joining us from vegas. so, paul, cain says he misspoke about a possible terror swap for terrorists in guantanamo bay. that interview with wolf blitzer. critics saying this exposes a bigger weakness, in their words, of him. tell us about that. >> reporter: yes, some critics say maybe herman cain isn't ready for primetime. listen to how it started and how it played out throughout the day starting with wolf blitzer's "situation room." take a listen. >> did you see yourself as president authorizing that kind of transfer? >> i could see myself authorizing that kind of transfer, but what i would do is, i would make sure that i got all of the information. i got all of the input, considered all of the options, and then the president has to be the president and make a judgment call. i can make that call if i had to. >> now, i believe in the philosophy of, we don't negotiate with terrorists. i've been saying

paul steinhauser, walk away from jim acosta.mments did herman cain make with regard to the wall street protesters? >> he made interesting comments about the protesters making a lot of news lately and herman cain doesn't mince words and he talks about what he thinks and basically he said, what is the big deal here? he said, quote, i don't have the facts to back this up but i believe the demonstrators are planned and orchestrated to distract from the failures of the obama administration. don't blame wall street. don't blame the big banks. if you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself. and he said it in typical herman cain speech. so for all of the talk out there, people writing these kids off on wall street not having much effect on the candidates. they got the president talking about them which may raise their profile a little bit. >> okay. jim, thank you very much. >> you bet. >>> nba fans, the first two weeks of regular season will be canceled if they cannot reach a deal. the main sticking point is how to divide b

>> my name is francisco acosta, and this did come before the soup oe board of supervisors, a hile you were reviewing, someone did not pay attention and forgot to mention about the bonds linked to the library. for the people at home it is very interesting how our library system works. most people think the city has direct control or influence over who ever hits the library. at every meeting mr. scheffey will remind you that the people that control the library are friends of the library. we have supervisors and others who pay attention to what he says, but really did not do anything about it. my point is very simple -- when we deal with the friends of the library and whatever type of bonds are initiated by them, we have to be very leery. that is all i am saying. times have changed, and i know that with money comes a lot of power and corruption, but these days with what is happening all over the world, and what is happening in our nation, our city has to be very careful not to entertain the issuing bonds with entities like the friends of the library who have not done do justice to the co

jim acosta is awaiting rick perry's event next hour in graycourt, south carolina.talk about the flat tax plan. >> reporter: yeah, keira. there's political urgency for rick perry announcing this new tax plan. "the new york times" cbs news poll shows perry in fifth place with just 6% of the support of republicans right now. so he's hoping he can change all of that and really eject some energy to his struggling campaign with this new economic plan he calls cut, balance and grow. he'll be talking about it in an hour from now, but i want to go over some of the details of the proposal. he's talking about, as you just mentioned, an optional flat tax rate at 20%. americans could also stick with their current tax rate if they prefer that. he would also lower the corporate tax rate to 20%. he would eliminate the estate tax and taxes on long-term capital gains and dividends and social security benefits. he also says he would go after the deficit and hold domestic spending to 18% of gdp. but perry as he's announcing this plan has gotten off message. over the weekend he gave an

jim acosta is there.k perry talked about his views on immigration and he had some strong language about it. >> reporter: he did, don. this has been an issue for rick perry, ever since giving the statement about undocumented workers in texas. his republican rivals had given him all sorts of grief for it and rick perry said that he was talking about the drug war down in mexico and called it a clear and present danger. he said that you can't take military options off the table when it comes to dealing with that. what did he have to say? >> and let me say this about border security. i have lived and breathed this as a border governor. i've dealt with the carnage caused by traffic and drug and weapons and people. as a border governor, i know firsthand the failures of our federal border policies and i know the answers to those answers is not to grant amnesty for those who broke the laws to come into this country. >> reporter: you know, one thing that we did not hear from rick perry, don, is that he did not apol

he was critical of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and told our jim acosta and others that morm ononism is cult. >> you created a stir because in talking to reporters, you said in pretty strong plain language what you think of mormonism. you describe it as a cult. and you say that if a republican votes for mitt romney, they're giving credibility to a cult. to you stand fwby that comment? >> absolutely. that is the historic position of evangelical christianity. we have officially labelled mormonism as a couple. i think those born again followers of christ should prefer a competent christian to a competent nonchristian like mitt romney. that's why i'm enthusiastic about rick perry. >> what do you say to voters who say religion, his mormonism shouldn't be an issue? he's just as american as anybody else? >> i agree he's just american as anyone else. >> reporter: and mormons do say they are christians. >> a lot of people say they are christians and they are not. they do not embrace historical christiani christianity. i believe as christians we have the duty to prefer and se

jim acosta is looking at herman cain. a lot of us are asking the question, can herman cain go the distance? >> he's been written off as the unromney or flavor of the month. a lot of republicans are starting to ask the question. could herman cain somehow become the next president of the united states? herman cain is no long shot anymore. latest cnn poll shows the upstart gop contender right on the heels of front-runner mitt romney. >> thank you. >> for many conservatives, the sudden surge is as simple as 999, cain's economic plan which replaces the current tax code with one that taxes individuals and corporations at 9% and add a new national sales tax at 9%. >> it's bold. it's dramatic. >> but grover norquist cautions against creating new revenue streams for the government. >> you've got one needle in your arm drawing blood. that can hurt. you put in two more and you can really begin to move to drain the blood out of a person or the income out of people's pockets. >> reporter: cain argues consumers could take steps to avoi

later, jim acosta gave jeffers a chance to clarify his controversial comments. >> if you don't mind me saying, pastor jefferss, you created a bit of a stir coming out of that speech. in talking to reporters, you said in strong, plain language what you think of mormonism. you described it as a cult and you said if a republican votes for mitt romney, they're giving some credibility to a cult. you stand by that comment? >> absolutely. that's not a fanatical comment. that's been a historic position of southern christian ee advantage gelky. i think mitt romney is a good, moral man, but i think those r of us who are born again followers of christ should always prefer a competent christian to a competent non-christian like mitt romney. >> what do you say to those voters out there who say that religion as mormonism shouldn't be an issue in this campaign? >> i agree he's just as american as anyone else. >> and mormons say they're christian. they believe in jesus christ. >> but they do not believe historical christianity. and i, again, please that we have a duty to select christians as our leade

jim acosta, thanks so much. coming up in the next half hour, we're going to hear from ron paul who also addressed the values voters summit. >>> demonstrators are back in the streets today to the occupy wall street protest. they are now in their 22nd day. the protest started in new york and they have spread to a dozen other cities now coast-to-coast including portland, oregon, austin, texas, washington, d.c. susan candiotti with us. saturday has been the biggest day so far for these protests, right? >> that's right. and here in new york they are planning something different. what's different? instead of just being in that part near wall street that we've seen so many times now because we're now entering the fourth week, believe it or not, now the group wants to expand its base of operations here in the city. so they are going to move to set up a second location in washington square park which is up the street. it's also in the heart of the new york university campus which could attract more students certainly. it

jim acosta explains. >> reporter: during a series of events in florida, marco rubio admitted what is of his own family story. his parents did not come to the u.s. after fidel castro seized control of cuba in 1959 as his senate web bio once stated. it came in 1956 as his corrected site states now. >> does it change anything? absolutely not. >> i was raised by exiles. >> reporter: a democrat leaning political action committee called american bridge 21 cst century says the dates do matter, suggesting in this video rubio is not really a cuban exile because his parents left the island before castro took over. rubio referred to his family as exiles in this cnn interview last year. >> it's hard to be a political when your exiles are raised by exiles. >> reporter: the senator insists his parents are exiles because they couldn't go home. >> they spent the rest of their lives, my mom is still alive, separated permanently from the nation of their birth. that makes them exiles and immigrants. >> we hold republicans accountable. >> reporter: this was revealed in an exclusive interview with cnn, h

gin acosta was right there. he was heavily urged to run, he was flattered, the pressure came from people of high stature, in the end it wasn't enough, why? >> reporter: well, john, answering that question should take a couple of minutes but chris christie, who never is at a loss for words held court in the news conference room for an hour and listened as every reporter in the room basically poked him with a stick, trying to get at why he was not going to make this decision to run for president. he was asked about whether or not it was that compressed primary calendar that all of the republican conditions are looking at right now. he was asked about his weight, whether or not his health might be an issue. he was asked whether his views as a republican are just too moderate for the party. but in the end chris christie said you could not get around one issue, he's only been in office 20 months, john, and he has things to accomplish here in new jersey. he say his wants to take on things like education reform. so gov

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jim acosta has been covering governor perry's rollout.>> that's right. the voters here in south carolina got a sneak preview of rick perry part two today and while some of his supporters are hoping the squeal is better than the original, parts of the governor's message may sound like a rerun. this was supposed to be the day for the new and improved rick perry. the texas governor was armed with a radical new plan that he says would balance the budget by 2020, change entitlement programs and give americans the option of a 20% flat tax on their income or stick with what they already pay. >> this is a change election and i offer a plan that changes the way that washington does business. >> it was also a changed perry barring a page from the herman cain marketing playbook. the texas governor used props to illustrate the simple choice. keep the reams of paper representing the current tax code -- >> the best representation in my plan is this postcard. >> or switch to a tax form that fits on a postcard. >> taxpayers will be able to fill this out

jim acosta is here with what could be a very challenging test for cain tonight.l pounce on herman cain tonight. >> i would think so. carol, the poll you just showed was just the perfect example of how republicans are becoming like vegas oddsmakers. they are starting to see mitt romney as the safe bet for the gop nomination and herman cain as a bit of a long shot and part of that is because of herman cain's outspoken style. take his most recent comments on immigration. it is likely to be the subject of tonight's debate. >> when i'm in charge of defense, we're going to have a fence. >> reporter: herman cain says these comments on immigrants crossing the border did not cross the line. >> 20 feet high and barbed wire on the top and it's going to be elect electroi electroified. and there's going to be a signen the other side that says, it will kill you. warning. mr. cain, that's insensitive. no, it's insensitive for them to be killing our citizens, killing our border agents. >> reporter: the outspoken conservative businessman says he was only kidding. >> it was a joke

fifty percent in the first tough of the year to more than one hundred thirty billion dollars more in acosta has the details. this comes after two decades of debate and even though it's not a done deal it's definitely headed there and possibly some store in the process most of the c.i.s. countries have signed on and those include armenia valorous kazakhstan kyrgyzstan moldova rochelle forces ballast of tickets than any crane the country's still thinking about it and could i say why john respect the son answered the man assad and they're expected to make a decision the by the end of the year now and most certainly union with the former states has been bottom or putin's priority since announcing this kind of the see in the upcoming presidential elections the prime minister says that will cancel export and import duties on certain groups of goods but at this time as a raise concerns especially with the government considering creating a new regime you are some say is intended to compete with the european union and the fact that the e.u. started with free trade now has some isomers on alert inter

in acosta reporting there now the west can do little else but watch china and russia strive for global leadership that's the view. a senior research fellow at the skolkovo institute for emerging market studies in beijing. currently when people talk about what you and also. the relation between china and russia. they usually focus on the economic cooperation i think. for this two countries to form even closer union. in the in the international affairs. political cooperation geographically speaking china and russia has every reason to actually need to form a closer pact certainly the united states as well as the european countries and the developing countries there would be concerned about this change in both economic and political landscape the war but i don't think of you could do anything to reverse this trend indeed this. will have the potential to change the war on the mentally. in not only in the morning call me about also in the political. landscape of the war. and we've got plenty more on the deals being made added meeting in our business update in about fifteen minutes time. chi

is moving acosta reports the situation is more a reflection of ill informed panic and the current economic environment. switching your savings from and national currency to a foreign one may seem like a sign of panic but that's not the case in russia since the ninety's when hyperinflation made it impossible to put prices in rubles many people use the euros and he was dollars instead lots of russians still have their savings in foreign currencies partly because they don't trust the ruble stability and when there is any hints of financial turbulence people rush to convert which is what's happening now but analysts say that's making the situation worse the ruble weekend against the dollar at standing its worst quarterly depreciation in suv years it's lost fourteen percent in the past two months but it's nowhere near the two thousand and nine financial crisis when the russian currency it lost a third of its reality last month transfers reached their highest level in sioux years equal to four and a half a billion dollars they had a brush essential bank says the google has been in a gradual deva

in acosta reporting there during his chinese visit russia's prime minister vladimir putin gave an interview to the state broadcaster outlining the priorities for the two nations putin sat down to forty four of the logical breakthroughs in an aviation aircraft building are some of the areas where he wants to see the partners working together and you can read the full interview on our feet. also online preview the american police argues the brutality of the occupy boston protest to be out now war veterans were injured by officers and out two hundred people arrested. hamas officials have agreed a prisoner swap deal with israel that secures the release of over a thousand palestinians in exchange for jew or soldier gilad shalit has been held in captivity in gaza for five years let's now cross a live near who is in tel aviv for more. paula fouls and in exchange for one so i want to face of it the deal seems one sided why was it agreed then. well this is a deal that has been on the go for five years ever since the israeli soldier gilad shalit was taken captive back in june two thousand and six now