america! (cheers and applause) oh, america! ooh! oh, lord, america! oh! america, you got a pretty mouth! i love your mouth, america! (laughter) that was awkward. anyway, what are we talking about? right, right. governor, it's day two and you're already cowboy boot deep in hay hitting on america. it's long campaign, man, you're going to have to dial backback the texas a notch. you're already at yosemite sam level. (laughter) you've got to dial it back to "walker, texas ranger" territory of course, whilest republicans joust for position, the president of the united states has the privilege and benefit of staying above the fray. months away from having to get his hands dirty with swing state bus travel. >> reporter: president obama goes to minnesota today, starting a three day, three state bus tour. >> jon: oh for (bleep)'s sake. (laughter) seriously? obama's back in campaign mode already? >> white house officials insist this is an official event, not a campaign event. >> the obama administration insists this is not a campaign trip. >> jon: right. no, it's not a campaign trip. i'm sure the p

. >> change has come to america, america, america, america. ♪ >> it ends with the tag line that saidn't know if mitt romney will be the republican nominee, but that will be the republican message, right? obama isn't working? >> absolutely, look, the president i think himself understands that he is running more against the economy and his record on the economy than he is against any individual republican. the history of presidential elections is that involving an incumbent is they are not fundamentally a choice. they are fundamentally a referendum on the incumbent and only secondarily between the incumbent and his opponent. what he needs above all all before 2012 is not to say we're all the way back but to be able to say we're moving in the right direction. and without that it's hard to structure an argument for him. >> one thing that obama has been saying on the clip, change, that theme that got him elected people will say where is it? he's reminding people he never said it would happen in the first term. >> hope and change. hope and patience. >> yeah, four more. >> we're just kickin

point about being out of the country and coming back in, what is it you see about america endowments -- about america? >> americao believe they are the center of the universe, and they clearly are not. i learned so much from just traveling. i grew up in school. european history, and when we look at that map, that was a place i was never going to see. somehow, that was over there. that was a fairy tale world. i know about america across and the perception of americans that we are allowed, we do not listen, we talk too much, and we are arrogant, you see the perceptions of people around the world, and i understand why they feel the way they feel. at the same time they love american culture. tavis: speaking of being out of the country and back in, when you were in the country, you spent time in new orleans. last time we were in new orleans when i saw you, and i was on youtube and saw the school video of these kids you ran into on the street. i will let you tell the story. >> that was real. people think it was set up. i was sitting at a cafe having a drink with some kids, and we heard this music, and i said, that sou

more than 95% of all illicit drugs that enter north america from south america have transited central america. 95%. what impact might that have on the region? here is a statistic from 2010, the last year we have a full statistics. in 2010, the homicide rate in honduras was 82 per 100,000 population. in el salvador, 65. guatemala, 41. to put that in some perspective for you, here in the united states, a society not known around the world for its passivism and a lack of violence, our homicide rate is somewhat below 5. more than 70,000 youth in the seven countries of central america and overwhelmingly focused on the number 3 of guatemala, honduras, and all salvador are calculated to be members of gangs. i say "calculated" because the gangs do not participate in an official censuses, and do not provide their statistics to local governments and institutions. but the calculation is about 70,000. the entire population of central america is about one seventh the population of the united states of america. if you play the statistical game and see what this would correlate to in the united states, it w

america." america." funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> union bank has put its global expertise to work for a wide range of companies. what can we do for you? america." and now, "bbc world news america." >> the final push. libyan rebels converged on the gaddafi's hometown, but still no sign of the leader himself. >> as you can see, forces are being pushed out. they think of the next few days they will be fighting the last big battle of this war for their revolution. >> think libya, think of lockerbie. among those found in libya is the pan am bomber. recovering from irene. the east coast shakes off the water and picks up the pieces after being hit by a deadly storm. >> welcome to our viewers in pbs in america. there are concerns that key members of colonel gaddafi's family have arrived in algeria. gaddafi is still at large and they are now within 20 miles or so of the last stronghold, his hometown of certain. we have this report. >> after many days of deadlock on the road to surge, the rebels are now searching ahead. behind them? towns and people getting their first taste of freedom in a generation. he remembers the bad food, the beatings, the murde

but now is he beginning to open up on the president. >> change has come to america, america, america.ou. >> if i don't have this did you know don in three years, then there is going to be a one-term proposition. >> bill: all right. here now to analyze fox news correspondent juliet huddy. 48%. >> up from 7% to 10%. yeah. >> bill: the employment rate -- the unemployment went up 48%? >> in the last three years since obama gave his speech there at grant park. >> bill: if you look at it objectively, not a party one way or the other, pretty effective ad. >> it's a beautiful ad, very slick ad. takes obama's words and uses them against him and his passion, as you see there, that victory party in grant park there and uses it against him because this is essentially based, called the obama isn't working campaign. and it's called of romney sort of for ray out into the public life now. he has been behind the scenes as he has been getting criticized for. he has had since april 11th when he announced. he has had 34 events but most of them have been private fundraisers. he is getting out there now. a

america." america." funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> union bank has put its global expertise to work for a wide range of companies. what can we do for you? >> and now, "bbc world news." >> the headlines this hour. the uprising intensify its, the u.n. security council condemned syria's use of force against civilians. mubarak plead not guilty to charges of murder and corruption. >> a terrifying ordeal. the bank of japan takes action on a strong yen to secure the comp -- the country's economic recovery. >> broadcasting to viewers on pbs in america and around the world. >> hello, and welcome. the u.n. security council has issued a statement condemning the syrian government for using force against civilians. it accuses the president administration for widespread violations against human rights. tanks and troops of mutant -- have moved into this center of the city of hama. >> there was machine-gun fire and panic as the tanks moved in. activist videos on the internet said there were gunmen on rooftops to keep people off the streets. the tanks seemed to meet little resistance as they ground into the city center. residents said the attack was unprovoked. >> always of communications, landlines, telephones, internet's have been dropped completely. we start to listen to bob's and tanks. >> the action seems to put the government back in control. the 700,000 or so people seem to be more or less behind the uprising. even before the final assault, hama was already burying its dead. nobody knows who died today. >> the violent crackdown in sy

america. black america. any america except for the top. you know, tavis, i want to say about 1980, the top 10% to have population, the top -- the top 1% of the population had something like 2.5% of the income. disproportionate but now, the top 1% has 10% of the income. so in roughly a two-decade period, their share shazz grown four-fold. what that means is at the bottom the share has dropped off. so the richest people have gotten much richer but those impoverished have remained that way. many times you have seeing people doing the things we did in the depression, doubling and tripling up. mamas now have three generations living with them. young people graduating from college, 1/3 of them have nowhere to go in terms of employment. no jobs. no graduate schools. moving back home. one woman wrote a book "generation debt" talking about how so many young people coming out of college average about $30,000 worth of student loans, starting out shabblingd before they even begin. tavis: while african-americans are catching more hell than anybody else

america america last was created because we left russia we didn't want to be across by our noble modern day noble we're going to have to go . and leslie off the government. run to whether we like it or not the twenty twelve presidential election season campaign is upon us i know you say that president obama is finally starting to talk about it but talk isn't good enough for you is there anything though that any of these candidates can say to convince you that you might have a chance in the next couple years. i want results or an order i want the results before i rush and i'm not willing to be well i've waited for years over three years i don't have another year left but i'm going to live in a time when there are already millions of there that are losing it we cannot run our community any further than we are it's trying to run need to equal the people that built america related to america and made it what it was if not that no warning that only. a message is. well run we certainly do appreciate you sharing very sincerely what's going on with you i think you speak what a lot of people are going for a long run to taylor who's not only unemployed but he's also an advocate for the ninety nine er's. and whether or not you agree with the idea of the euro zone one thing is clear the distressed economy across europe is having a direct impact on chaos and violence on the streets of many european cities and we've been watching in london over the last few weeks a lot of people there dealing with a lot of people here are dealing with and as a result they're taken to the streets we've seen cars and buildings burned and we've also think even social networks and websites temporarily shut down so to what extent will this disorder spread it's a question more from this the resident thought that ask people in the center of new york city here's what they have to say. is

america needs is a balanced budget and an economy that grows and thrives and creates jobs, and yet, a malaise hangs in the air. america is a ship without a captain. instead of the president chastising job creators and preaching class envy, we need a president that will show us leadership. the president needs to accept responsibility for an economy that has worsened under his failed leadership. unemployment is up. gas prices have doubled. and this president will add more debt than all 43 presidents combined. america got a deal on august 2 but not a solution. what america wants is a solution, not a deal. i hope in the next six months the president will find it within himself to lead the nation. the courage to lead and embrace reform, the reform that is necessary to get this great country going again. thank you, madam president. i yield back my time. the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. hatch: madam president, i congratulate the senator from kentucky for his remarks on the floor and for allowing me this unanimous consent request. madam president, we're coming down to the wire here. we will soon be voting on a proposal that would couple some deficit reduction with an increase in the statutory debt limit. there are some positive features in this legislation, and the senate's minority leader, the speaker of the house, and the conservatives throughout the country should be commended for insisting on them. first, the president asked for a clean debt limit increase and conservatives refused.

america i don't know how to go far as far as hades but it definitely. me the wrong way but it turns out actually that the most hated person in america according to the poll right now is casey anthony big friggin surprise that she really the worst person in america are there other people you can hate she just got the most publicity for someone that you would hate right then octomom was second was that right i mean i don't know if that was their strengths or pratt was on the fact that. those b.b.'s is a crime against humanity maybe i don't know what when thinking about people that i hate i really don't hate anybody but one person i certainly resent i think might be asked and i'm not sure i completely understand how was career is so successful because even in a job that is really a lot of twitter followers he has a lot of what it would actually i'm sure you doctor on television right now seventy thousand dollars per episode i should have stepped into a good spot sure but that's one reason why don't you have a good point and no no i have i think we have a good point when it comes to his acting chops do not deserve that much money but at the same time he has a pretty smart because he caught on to a lot of these new tech companies before everybody el

america i don't know how to go far as far as aids but it definitely helps me the wrong way but it turns out actually the most hated person in america according to the poll right now is casey anthony big friggin surprise she really the worst person in america are there other people you can hate she just got the most publicity for someone that you would hate right right in our second was that right i mean i don't know about sarah's friends or pratt was out of the. b.b.s. is a crime against humanity maybe i don't know when thinking about people that i hate i really don't hate anybody but one person is certainly present i think might be asked and i'm not sure i completely understand i was career is so successful because even though yeah usually a lot of twitter followers he gets a lot of it was the reaction but you sure you got your job right now seven hundred thousand dollars per episode i should have kept going to. sure but that's one reason why didn't you have a good point and no no i have a good point when it comes to his acting chops we're talking about deserve that much money but at the same time he hasn't really smart because he caught on to a lot of these new tech companies before everybody else did he invested in them he's kind of ri

presidency and he says you know america america's future isn't going to come from cities it's going to come from washington it's going to come from the great plains and from middle america and i don't understand republicans have against offices office buildings in cities but that's how they want to know exactly what you just really areas based in those offices and city who is based there i missed what you say the job creators that republicans want to cut taxes for exactly i don't know it's just all baloney if you ask me right but the cities are really populated this is where the majority of americans actually live this is where life goes on and we have people here too i guess this is now and see the most republican. i don't know good luck to them with that one good but still at it i mean her movie theaters were empty when her documentary showed and she's still you know what now you see that is exactly why she still had it right i mean assure her and she's attention she's not just really running for president she's running to get you know a certain share because she's just like i think she can help and i think she she has to go to iowa even if she's not interested in run

america. we know that. but eight months on the job, no jobs bill for the american people. that is the negligent record of the republican majority. democrats have focused on our make it in america plan because america's innovation, invention, and manufacturing creates middle class jobs and is essential to the growth of our whole economy. on our agenda as you know, among a long list on our agenda, is a, a manufacturing strackture -- strategy, our competitors through the the world all have manufacturing strategies. and we need our own effective game plan to outproduce, outinnovate, outbuild, and yes, outinvest our come ps

america is business. since when has america not been a corporation? one can argue and i will say it again, that america was a corporation before it was a country. i hear the points you are making, but since america hasn't been a business? >> you are a cynical man and i understand what you are saying, but i see there has been a tension between the idealism that created our first democracy in the history of mankind. at the time of the civil war, there were six democracies on the face of the planet, but today there are 120 and they have been inspired by american exceptionalism. but we made a ton of mistakes but created a model for human beings governing themselves with institutions of justice and by the creation of informed public and the middle class and all of these things are the components of a good democracy. we lost our democracy in the guilded age in the 1880's and 1890's. they had trusts, steel trusts, oil trusts, sugar trusts, john d. rockefeller, richest man in the history of the world and it was said about him that he had done everything to the pennsylvania state legislature except for refine i

america america was created because we left russia we didn't want to be a crock by our noble modern day noble isn't. it and lest we all stick together. rhonda taylor is an unemployed woman who's lost her benefits and also an advocate for other ninety nine er's. all one thing is clear the distressed economy across europe is having a direct impact on chaos and violence in the streets of many cities and we've been watching one of the last few weeks where we not only seen cars and buildings burned and people taking to the streets we've also even seen social networks and websites temporarily shut down for us don't want us to sort of spread it's a question or harmfulness the president asked people in the center of new york city times square here's what they have to say. is your neighborhood next week let's talk about that because it is very different because we are much interested in what's happening in our how was. private. public. barbaric and i think unfortunately around the country we have situations where people are disappointed with leadership and various parts of the world and they're rising up and trying to do something about it whether you're in the middle east in europe you know fortunately we have an arrest here in the states but i could totally see it. because in taiwan most people very. fine fine like they don't want to have this kind of thing happen but if they were angry enough about what was going on do you think that would push them to the limit . yes yes sometimes like a lot election time he was going crazy but not too far. but there were demonstrations in creation but they were peaceful there with the burn the flag or you know but they will break from the story so why are these british people doing that right now. it's always you know some people started for political reasons and. break and still you know. you know in the old days people when they came on hard times just worked a bit harder tried a bit harder you know sort of. look where everybody expects on the plate you know if you go back in the street and look at the hundreds for example you'll see many of the same comments in the newspapers published in. the street with this group running the same course. so what can we do to change it if anything. whether or not you think building can happen in your city the bottom line is the rise of social media and the growing disparity between social classes could be a recipe for violence anywhere. and you know it is we're thinking about even preparing for how our own neighborhoods would handle the anger turning into protests and we think about the cities hardest hit you really can't look past some of the cities in the state of michigan and reginald keibler is a libertarian video blogger and you too commentator if you've seen any of his stuff you know we have a strong opinion about a lot of things going on in politics and the economy and right now he lives in flint michigan. that's right and although you know i read something online lately that america's fourteen most ready to riot the number one was detroit i know the author calls detroit the poster child for what is wrong with american capitalism now you're not far from there you're about sixty miles away in flint michigan certainly your city has felt the effects of the shuttered factories and mass layoffs paint us a picture of the view from where you stand. are saying thank you for having the situation in france is very similar to detroit and that they were those cities that were once automotive manufacturing powerhouses they both had general motors ahead of chrysler plants they had factories that relied on the automotive industry ergo and we experience it the industrialization of america when a lot of jobs went overseas but we had a big economic downturn in both the cities and the cities both cities have been ever since the top of the violent crime list for many many years and i understand how that offer came to the conclusion that detroit is most likely to be a city that would ri

repeat that figure, more than 95% of all illicit drugs that enter north america from south america have transited central americaact might that have on the region? here is a statistic. it dates from 2010, the last year we have full statistics. in 2010, a homicide rate in honduras was 82 per 100,000 population. in el salvador, 65. in guatemala, 14,000. to put that in some perspective for you, here in the united states, the society not known throughout the world for its pacifism and a lack of violence, our homicide rate is somewhat below five. more than 70,000 youth in the seven countries of central america, and overwhelmingly focused on the northern three of guatemala, honduras and el salvador, are calculated to be members of yanks. eisai calculated because of course the gangs do not participate in official census. they do not register their members and did not provide their statistics to local governments and institutions. the calculation is about 70,000. the entire population of central america is about one seventh the population of the united states of america. if you play the statistical game and say, what wi

less cash you have more jobs in america and presumably more people in america able to buy apple products you know most of apple sells it outside of america because people in america can afford to buy apple products because steve jobs moved all the jobs overseas and speaking of apple having more money than the u.s. government on their books i think a good idea for america how they can get out of our debt situation and i keep their liquidity flowing to keep the government operating is has emerged from spain spanish banks fields we're not all go ask collateral so cristiana we're not told are the most expensive footballer in history has joined the european central bank on a free transfer sources say the authorities want this help on the sovereign debt crisis by kicking the can further down the road so he's joking of course but what is it actually we're not although could feasibly become the e.c.b. property after he was pledged as collateral for emergency liquidity support by spain struggling savings bank. thank you because in two thousand and nine one of the spanish banks that has since become bankia language re all madrid seventy six point

america? is that what makes america great? >> that's what makes america great? >> what are you not ashamed of? >> i'm not ashamed to be here. i'm not ashamed to be a blue-collar worker. and i'm not ashamed to be middle class. >> do you think there's an attack on the middle class in this country? >> definitely. we pay the taxes. we keep the programs going. nobody realizes that. >> what do you think of the political bickering and the focus of some of the radical governors putting out legislation, who attack collective bargaining? >> it's ridiculous. it's an insult. >> does it hurt america? >> of course, it hurts america. the right to bargain is an american right. no one should lose it. >> what we learn here on the streets of new york, and i'm four blocks away from my office, whether i'm in minnesota or wisconsin, in the middle of the country, or on the streets of new york, it's amazing how i find, rick santorum, americans who are not ashamed. americans who might love the country just as much as you do. and are willing to stand up on the street corner against those

that is not what made america great. america, america at the time of the russell -- revolution -- average life expectancy was between 35 and 46 years of age. to the time of jesus christ, and their average life expectancy was the same. we were an agrarian society 1800 years ago. then, america happened. america said know. we're not going to believe in top-down, kings have no rights, and people been subject to the king. we are going to believe in free people, and guess what happened? in 235 years,ife expectancy more than doubled,e went through an industrial revolution, and the poorest person in america today is richer than someone who was one of the richest 50 years ago. this is the dime and ms. -- and the dynamism of america. that will be over if barack obama is reelected and obama- care is implemented because they will put you in chains called obama-care, and you will be dependent upon government, and you will never break away. final comment -- margaret thatcher when she left said she was never able to accomplish what ronald reagan accomp

america, he said made in america, steny, mr. hoyer will be talking to us about make it in america and when he talks about the f.a.a. bill which we'll talk more about now. so, again, everybody's been inintensely involved in this discussion of debt. the american people's top priority is the creation of jobs. we have crossed the bridge this from that important discussion, interesting that it was something that the republicans did not have the votes to pass. proud of my members that they took the step to pull us from the brink of default even though they did not -- were not happy about the legislation but what was good about it was it's over and now it's time to talk about jobs and a person who has been a leader in beating the drum for make it in america, he'll tell you more about it, our distinguished whip, mr. hoyer. >> thank you very much, madam leader. let me suggest at the outset that talking about jobs is talking about the debt. the only way we're going to successfully deal with debt is to create jobs and economic growth in america. we know that but eight months on the job, no jobs bill for the american people. th

. >> there's a big thing, big subject in america today called america's decline or america's competitiveness, that's wt thepresident spoke to in his state of the union. and all kinds of people are debating this subject now. it has to do with the rise of china and india and the economic growth of those emerging nations. it has to do with the fact that technology s no respect for boundaries which we are discovering in the middle east right now, right. >> absolutely. >> where do you come down on that in terms of america because you're leaving america. >> yh. america h ha great natural resources, huge amount of land and that's been extremely important in its growth. but it also has respeed science and innovation. and we see great growth areas. i mean california and in the boston area in particularly and i think america recognizeds the importance of human capital. i think that's intellectual capital and the generation of ideas. but it needs more nurturing. i mean science education in the u.s. is not up to scratch. >> what does that mean not up to scratch. >> it'just not generating enough educated

that is not what made america great. america, america at the time of the russell -- revolution -- average life expectancy was between 35 and 46 years of age. to the time of jesus christ, and their average life expectancy was the same. we were an agrarian society 1800 years ago. then, america happened. america said know. we're not going to believe in top-down, kings have no rights, and people been subject to the king. we are going to believe in free people, and guess what happened? in 235 years, life expectancy more than doubled, we went through an industrial revolution, and the poorest person in america today is richer than someone who was one of the richest 50 years ago. this is the dime and ms. -- and the dynamism of america. that will be over if barack obama is reelected and obama- care is implemented because they will put you in chains called obama-care, and you will be dependent upon government, and you will never break away. final comment -- margaret thatcher when she left said she was never able to accomplish what ronald reagan ac

america today. first, we calculate that more than 95% -- let me repeat -- more than 95% of illicit drugs that entered north america from south america have 95% transmitted america. here is that statistics from 2010. in 2010, the homicide rate in honduras was 82 for every 100,000 in the population. el salvador was 65%. to put that in perspective, in the united states, a society not known for its pacifism and lack of violence, our homicide rate is somewhat below 5%. more than 70,000 youths in the seven countries of central america are overwhelmingly focused on the no. 3 . they are calculated to be members of gangs. i use the word calculated because gangs do not participate in official census or register their members. the calculation is about 70,000. if you play the statistical game in the united states, it would be half of a million gang members on the streets of the united states. ladies and gentlemen, central america in a very real sense, is a victim. is a victim of geography. will be located between the large continents of south america and north america. it is a victim of the fact that there is a large demand for a particular and

america. that's in love with america. >> perry just inferred president obama is not in love with the united states of america. you know, folks, this is the same garbage with heard from sarah palin and all the tea party attack people in country. i think there's an element of racism every time they claim the black president doesn't love this country. he comes from the country club that says president obama is other, not like you. perry also wants you to know he's pro-business. >> i'm a pro-business governor. i don't make any apologies about it, and i will be a pro-business president. getting america back to work is the most important issue that faces this country. being able to pay off 14.5 or $16 trillion worth of debt. that approximate big black cloud that hangs over america. >> that black cloud perry -- perry makes bush look like a moderate. he thinks that social security and medicare are unconstitutional. he doesn't like the 16th or the 17th amendment, and he suggested texas might want to see seed from the union. radical rock star ted nugent wore a confederate flag t-shirt at his inauguration. perry wants

shape now than it was before america spent a lot of money and people who got bad money ok better off but the overall situation is much worse america's quadruplet instead america if you take in the consider things that they guaranteed they printed huge amounts of money you know the world has gotten worse the world hasn't gotten better but they should the us will default that's why people are moving away from us government bonds because everybody knows that the us is in serious trouble and the debt situation is getting worse and worse not better and better. and time great came too late to hit europe's stock markets which have already taken a hammering this week that had by the euro zone and america's debt difficulties i mean all the e.u. leaders criticize the u.s. rating agencies blaming them all double standard saying they will create a european one in response r.t. ten who bushel has worn out from brussels. we use downgrading trust in the rating agencies. the agency admitted a two trillion dollar miscalculation when deciding this downgrade they claim to have the world's best minds working for them really surprised people here because most know that america's

america esque? >> what is captain america? >> team america, that's what i meant. >> by the way, according to the internet movie "database" the name of the movie is untitled national thriller. not catchy. >> it will be called geronimo, but then they will worry about that it should be called operation geronimo or something like that. >> here it will be called killing osama and in other countries it is called the second avenger. >> it may well be called president obama saves the world. i am done. >> are you really? >> yes. >> okay. i believe you this time. >> thanks. >> just sit there. don't go anywhere. coming up, clive owen is dead -- set against meeting me for drinks in the park. almost had you. his loss really. it is the story we didn't get to last week. gwenyth paltrow opens her mouth and stuff comes out. we report. you throw up. >>> is wiki sickie? according to its founder wikipedia is slowly dying and nobody wants to edit the gazillion pages anymore. he told the seventh annual conference, quote, we are not replenishing our ranks. it is no

america would be my first choice. we would try him here. now that of course is a big deal, because most conservatives don't want terrorism suspects tried in america. so, you know, hey, mitt romney, surprisingly moderate stance on that. a stance that lasted for three days. the bomber standing trial here? that was monday's position from mitt romney. today's position is this. >> i mean, guantanamo always serves a useful purpose in settings like this. >> maybe when he said bring him here on monday, maybe mentally he was in cuba. i don't know. back in december 2007, mitt romney told a crowd in college station, texas, quote, i saw my father march with martin luther king. a few days later, he had to take it back to "the new york times" saying, quote, i did not see it with my own eyes. in 2002, mitt romney was pro stem cell research. i will work and fight for stem cell research. a few years later, against stem cell research. in the end, i was persuaded that the stem cell debate was founded on a fall premise. on health care, he was sure in '07 that what he accomplished in massachusetts, i'm proud of what we have done. that will be a model for the nation. a few years later, he says what works in one state may not work in another. of course, the ultimate goal is to repeal o-obama car, which is basically the massachusetts plan. he said in '07, i'm not in favor of privatizing social security. three months later, privatize social security. he says, quote, you can have personal accounts where people can invest in something that's better than government bonds. then the auto bailout. he famously wrote an op-ed before president obama bailed out the auto industry. it was titled, you can see it here, let detroit go bankrupt. once president obama's auto bailout was successful, mitt romney's campaign team ran to "the new york times" to say about the bailout, quote, mitt romney hads idea first. you have to acknowledge that. idea first. you have to acknowledge that. idea first. maybe mitt romney is done forever in this campaign. make rick per maybe rik -- maybe rick perry is the front-runner permanently. but how do you square the perception of his plausibility as a nominee with the fact that he still has not come up with a way to deal with the biggest problem of his candidacy from the last time around? this is the one thing he has to get right. and he's doing just as bad on it this time around as he did last time. how can a campaign that fundamentally flawed, and with real competition now, plausibly win this nomination? joining us now is matt visor, who has been following the campaign of mitt romney. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> and the romney campaign worried about the flip flop charge? do they see it as a perception that might have cost them the nomination back in '08? >> a little bit, yeah. you have seen on health care he may have changed a little bit on health care but not completely. he defended the massachusetts plan, and i think a major reason for that is because of the flip flop narrative that they came out of 2008 with. and i think they feel too that the election will be decided on the economy and jobs so that's the point they are stressing more than any other. but there have been some other issues that people will bring to the forefront as well. >> i think everybody candidate would love it when voters at large thought about their concerns about the economy and jobs, they thought of their candidate. everybody wants the economy and jobs to be their message. but the question here for mitt romney and message discipline and whether he is doing things that distract from that message. do you expect they will try to keep him more scripted and less out in the wilds among other humans in order to try to keep it more focused? >> i actually think they want him out, you know, out more. you saw this a little bit with the -- in iowa at the state fair. the interaction there where romney made the point of corporations are people too. which is probably not a great line for the general election, but during the primary, it's not as bad as you would think. and i think having him in those moments where he shows some passion or some sides that you don't always see from him, i think there's also the perception that everything with him is scripted. so i think in moments where he's out there and not scripted, i think it helps them a little bit. the downside obviously is the gaffs or are things that catch him offguard and we've had a couple of those so far in the campaign. >> i was on that specifically, i have seen just in watching clips of him today from the last i think 48 hours, i saw him sort of yell at a woman. you've had your time, madame. now i'll have mine. he also yelled at a guy. you're not the boss of me. and he seems to be very easily -- he doesn't seem angry. he seems sort of frustrated and patronizing toward people who confront him. and i guess there's a way that the campaign could see that as an asset if he seems like a boss figure. do you know what their thinking is about those types of interactions where he yells at people? >> i think, you know, like the iowa thing, you had a similar exchange there as you've had over the past two days in new hampshire during the town hall meetings, where he does show some passion. and i mean, it's still to be seen sort of how that comes across. if comes across as him being too bossy, i think it's a negative. but if you see it as the campaign often does as showing passion over his issues, and sort of over jobs and the economy and the balanced budget amendment, which i think was the exchange you're referring to in new hampshire was over that. so i think if he's showing passion over those issues, i think the campaign sees that as an asset. >> there's a test of this. remember they turned the corporations or people thing into a campaign ad. if they turn you're not the boss of me into a campaign ad, then we will know that you're right, they can turn it into an asset. but, matt, let me ask you also if you have seen following the romney campaign any visible change in the campaign and its strategy in response to this very large rick perry surge. >> not at all, actually. and it's interesting. and it will be interesting to see what they do and when, if anything, in regard to rick perry. mitt romney joked today that the only thing different today about him is he changed his shirt. that they are not changing their strategy, they are not recalibrating it all with rick perry seemingly surging in the polls. and it will be interesting to see if that's -- if that turns out to be a mistake. but i think their hope is that rick perry falters himself. i mean, rick perry has already made some comments that maybe have not gone across well. so i think the romney campaign hope is that he continues to do that. about you we'll see. i and of course we have them on a debate stage together shortly. >> hoping that your opponent messes up is never a confidence inspiring strategy, but it is often the best one. matt visor, reporter for "the boston globe." i really appreciate your taking the time to talk to us about the campaign trail. >> thanks for having me. >>> more on come on the hurricane set to barrel up the east coast. the latest track on that. >>> also new research that is undoing all of the patently dumb beltway common wisdom about the tea party and its strength and its membership. the subtitle of that research from tonight's show is why this man, tito the builder, will not be going to his state's legislature. that's coming up. >>> once the republican party picks its presidential nominee, maybe one of the other people running for president will get picked as the vice presidential nominee. but that's not always the way it works. sometimes there are people who are just running for vice president from the beginning, and that is sort of how it feels this year. in fact, the vice presidential party sweepstakes almost seems as interesting as the presidential contest. the front-runner for vice president so far are chris christie, republican governor of new jersey. the main strike against him at this point is that so many influential republicans seem to want him to run for president, that as vice president he could overshadow the nominee. then there's marco rubio, the brand-new tea party shiny new thing senator from florida. in a year when the republican party's seemingly murderous intentions toward medicare might be their biggest political liability, mr. rubio just satsd saddled himself with a big ugly flip flop on medicare. a statement he made about how important medicare was to him. how medicare saved his father's life. how medicare was very important to his family. and how we need medicare in america. >> america needs medicare. >> the very next speech that marco rubio gave that got lots of national attention was this week at the reagan library. and in that speech, he described programs like social security and medicare as moral sops that weaken as a people. >> these programs weakened us as a people. >> his political skills maybe not proving to be all that skillful. what would he run as, the guy who says medicare saved his father and family but it's also turned you weak and helpless? so who else is in the top tier of the vice presidential sweepstakes? bob mcdonald of virginia is there. the great milk toast hope. the moderate-looking, vaguely vice presidential seeming governor of the great commonwealth of virginia. the gop has been marketing him as their counterpoint to president obama since the night of president obama's first state of the union address, when they chose him to deliver the republican party's response after he had been in office less than two weeks. bob mcdonald rose