>> guest: we manufacture our boxes right in cedar rapids, iowa. we kept everything right here at home. we are building 1000 of these right now that we will deploy it all of the stations, the first 1000 stations and we plan on keeping everything here. >> host: jack perry why are you here the capitol hill show to show this to legislators? >> guest: one of the issues with respect to broadcast television today is how do you enable is to play on the internet so it is as much a business issue as a policy issue so we are here to make sure that when anyone says boy we can't move broadcast television on the internet, we respond to that person by saying yes to canon here is how. we are here to make sure everyone inside the beltway knows that technology exists. >> host: what is the national association of broadcasters view of your product and are you using a lot of spectrum when you do this? >> guest: two great questions there. one, both the consumer electronics association and the n.a.b. are investors in our company so in getting their endorsement about do

>> guest: we're based in cede rabds -- cedar rapids, iowa. >> host: how many jobs associated with sync pac? >> we have 14 engineers running around our building, but as we become a more consumer-oriented business, we theoretically could create hundreds of jobs to manage the whole notion of tv over the top of the internet. >> host: where are your boxes manufactured? >> guest: we manufacture our boxes right in cedar rapids, iowa, so we kept everything right here at home. we're building a thousand of these right now that will deploy at all of the stations, the first thousand stations, and we plan on keeping everything here. >> host: jack perry, why are you here at the capitol hill show to show this to legislators? >> guest: well, one of the issues with respect to broadcast television today is how do you enable it to play on the internet? and so that is as much a business issue as it is a policy issue, so we're here to make sure that when anyone says, boy, we can't move broadcast television to the internet, that we respond to that person with saying, well, yes, you can, and here's how. so w

rick perry visited a roofing company in cedar rapids, iowa while unveiling a proposal for a six-month moratorium on government regulations. he told the crowd he will get america working again. >> i want to cut the payroll tax again to help families make ends meet. that's meant an extra thousand dollars in the pockets of american families. >> president obama reached out to world families still trying to recover from the recession. he hosted an economic forum in iowa, just about 12 miles away from perry's event. >> the president announced initiatives to attract more capital investment to farmlands, speed development and other renewable energies. his three state bus tour rolls into illinois tomorrow. >>> a man automobiled of attaching a fake bomb to an australian teenager will remains a u.s. jail. that ruling came today from a federal judge in louisville kentucky where authorities rested paul doug peters yesterday. authorities believe pete sers behind and extortion plot in australia two weeks ago. investigators say a masked man with a bat broke into 18-year- old madeline pulver's home an

. >>> presidential hopeful rick perry is about to step up to the mike and speak in cedar rapids, iowa does, we'll take it live. >>> go ahead and check the news across the country. autopsy results on mega church pastor zachary thames are inconclusive. had his body was found friday on the floor of a new york city hotel. tims founded a new destiny christian center in florida in 1996 after personal xrug strug ells that included attempted murder and drug addiction. >>> a chaotic evening commute in the bay area. transit police shut down all four b.a.r.t. stations in downtown san francisco in response to protests against b.a.r.t. officials for cutting underground cell phone service during police brew tal it protests. >>> it's not your average police chase. check it out. ft. worth, texas, cops following a stolen forklift. according to witnesses, the driver was veering across traffic, drinking beer and throwing his empties out at passing cars and his dog was riding shotgun. officers caught the guy after he jumped and tried to run. >>> gary gee dawn know's lawyers says there's no evidence again

he's in cedar rapids, iowa today. the republican field's shiny new apple, has also took some shots at ben bernanke, implying it would be treasonous to print more money. already the gloves are other betweenries perry and mitt romney. >> nigh jobs report not just spansed four years at governor, but also the 25 years i've lived in the private sector. i think understanding how the economy works is finally essential in the white house. >> i think oranges and apples, running a state is different from running a business. i would say look at his record running a state and mine, and then you have apples and apples. >>> thank you guys so much for being here. in one moment rick perry is charming, and then in the very next breathe, his 'hurling rhetoric at bernanke, at the president. to undecided voters, how will his comments come across? >> he's certainly throwing sharp el goes. he's saying we got rid of taxes, got rid of regulations and made it a good place for business to operate. so he's out there trying to draw contrasts. i

perry in a minute, but first, here's what perry said at a meet and greet session with voters in cedar rapids, iowa, last night when he was asked about the federal reserve. >> oh, the federal reserve, i'll take a pass on the federal reserve right at the moment to be real honest with you. i know there's a lot of talk and what have you about them. if this guy prints more money, between now and -- i don't know what you'd do to them in iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in texas. i mean, printing more money to play politics at this particular time in american history is almost treasonist in my opinion, because all it's going to be doing, all it's going to be doing. we already tried this. all it's going to be doing is devaluing the dollar in your pocket. >> all right. well, there are a lot of ways to unpack that. the first is that this is a built of ideological signaling in the farthest reaches of the right wing of the republican party, those who want us to return to the 19th century and gold standard. secondly, an interesting glimpse of what kind of rhetoric rick perry thinks republican vote

. >> roger joining us from cedar rapids, iowa. >> everyone is congratulating president reagan for the things that he done. i have one question about that. ronald reagan and alan greenspan moved social security, which was supposed to have been a protected amount of money, they moved it over to the general fund to give congress access to that money without being questioned. i would like to have someone respond about that and see why they believe that this was correct -- a correct thing to do. >> thanks for the call. your comments from iowa state fair. ron is from houston. republican line. good afternoon. >> i would just like to say, i am totally disappointed in the republican party because they are not the republican party they used to be. they have gone way too far to the right. i can't vote for them anymore because of this. . d it's troubling some of the things they say -- repealing the amendment. all of these pledges they are signing. it is just too much and i can't do republican anymore. >> julie is joining us on the democrats' line from bethlehem, pennsylvania. us. y name is juli i

host: cedar rapids, iowa, another kevin. democrat, you are on the air. caller: i live in iowa i just had seven feet of water in my house a few years ago, so i definitely know the feeling of disasters. the, i thought was a little bit outrageous as well, john, -- the comment i thought was a little bit outrageous as well from the gentleman. we have flood insurance and with a mortgage on our home. i did not have a mortgage at the time, so i did not carry flood insurance, but now i am forced to be covered because fema did come in and help me. in a sense, we should demand a some type of insurance for the areas -- 100-year, 500-year flood plain. obviously, the odds are less that what happened, less out there, but higher earthquake areas, it should be the same thing. nothing in this world is free. you're aare if democrat or republican, if you have not realized that, you have a problem. host: on twitter -- next up is riverside, california. tina is a democrat. caller: good morning, c-span. we all come together as americans in at times of disaster. i think we need

high marks for his first 72 hours of retail politicking in the hawkeye state, appearing in cedar rapids, iowaerday he was asking for his opinion on the federal reserve. the texas governor then invoked federal reserve chairman, ben bernanke. >> this guy prints more money, um, between now and the election, i don't know what y'all would do to him in iowa, but we'd, we would treat him pretty ugly down in texas. [laughter] i mean, printing more money to play politics at this particular time in american history is almost terriblous -- treasonous, in my opinion. >> reporter: talk of treason. well, campaign spokesman mark minor just sent out a statement in which he says the governor was expressing his frustration with the current economic situation and adds that most americans would agree spending more money is not the answer to the economic issues facing the country. meantime, former house speaker newt gingrich was back in the nation's capital touting a concept known as lean six sigma. in a speech at the heritage foundation, gingrich appear today contrast the way he handled the government shutdown o

my last update, we brought in a satellite feed of the texas governor, rick perry's rally in cedar rapids, iowaevent spokesperson who says that president obama's mismanagement of the economy has been a disaster and the number of people on food stamps is the example of the misery brought on by the administration. president obama will host his own economic forum about an hour away from cedar rapids later this morning. a part of his bus tour is about getting out of washington, getting with crowds, and shaking hands. while he was doing that yesterday, an iowa tea party organizer ryan rhodes confronted him about vice president joe biden's alleged comments combining tea partyers to others. >> what he said for us is that we need to take the economy to blame. considering about the consistency. >> yes. and the administration that they have seen out here. >> and now the white house is insisting that the president's three-day bus tour is not a campaign fling, but all of these appearances, they certainly show that the race for the white house is heating up. reporting live from washington, d.c., allison bur

romney but he had some comments in a speech that he was giving yesterday because he was in cedar rapids, iowaontroversial remarks that hasn't been necessarily sitting so well with some of his republican colleagues. he came out and criticized the fed chairman ben bernanke saying it would be treasonness if ben bernanke printed more money. take a listen. >> if this guy prints more money between now and the elections, i don't know what y'all would do to him in iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in texas. i mean, printing more money to play politics at this particular time in america's history is almost treason in my opinion. >> treason which is punishable by death, by the way. treason in the united states is punishable by death. former white house spokesman george w. bush says perry's comments about bernanke are unpresidential. >> people honed in on what he said we would do them down in texas. listen, he's been on the campaign trail for one day. news flash to governor perry, every single thing you say is going to be parsed and pundits are going to be talking about it. >> get ready. >> n

host: cedar rapids, iowa, another kevin. democrat, you are on the air. caller: i live in iowa i just had seven feet of water in my house a few years ago, so i definitely know the feeling of disasters. the, i thought was a little bit outrageous as well, john, -- the comment i thought was a little bit outrageous as well from the gentleman. we have flood insurance and with a mortgage on our home. i did not have a mortgage at the time, so i did not carry flood insurance, but now i am forced to be covered because fema did come in and help me. in a sense, we should demand a some type of insurance for the areas -- 100-year, 500-year flood plain. obviously, the odds are less that what happened, less out there, but higher earthquake areas, it should be the same thing. nothing in this world is free. you're aare if democrat or republican, if you have not realized that, you have a problem. host: on twitter -- next up is riverside, california. tina is a democrat. caller: good morning, c-span. we all come together as americans in at times of disaster. i think we need

john in cedar rapids of iowa writes. of course not, many will buy perry's look and high energy. not apply. karen writes on facebook. let's vote him in because texas has only 8.2% unemployment and 10% of all jobs are minimum wage. that sounds like a solution america needs to the economic crisis. read my lips. no new texans. dee writes judging by how much this man is hated by every facet of the left wing, including most of the comments here, i say, yes, i'm buying what he's selling. nothing i love more than seeing loony lefties go crazy over what anybody on the right says or says or thinks. i say to rick perry do, not back down. mia says buying. i wouldn't take it if he was giving it away. carl says no thanks, jack, i'll pass. don't want to overfertilize my lawn and oscar writes perry is an incompetent narcissist from a backwards state. i predict he'll be our next. you want to read more on this, go to my blog, cnn.com/caffertyfile or through our post on "the situation room"'s facebook page. >> jack, thanks very much. and to our viewers, you're in "the situation room." happening no

iowa, population 1300. it sits behind cedar rapids and madison. mayor, good to talk to you today. >> yes. >> do you think the president can do anything for your town without the cooperation of congress? >> i don't think if he can do anything for our town. we've got -- we're pretty much established right now. our economy is good and our housing is good. right now we've got 14 houses being built right now. and our population keeps growing. so i don't know if we can really help him help us. maybe we can help him. >> i think a, you might be one of the very few politicians in this nation who says hey, everything is pleasantville in my town. in what way do you think you could help the president? >> well, maybe we can give him some pointers about what to do to pass into congress to get them to -- so they aren't butting heads all the time. maybe we can help him stir up the economy. >> what kind of advice would you give the president? >> well, you know, tax breaks are good. you've got to work with the small businesses. and you got to work with the farmers.

doing that this morning, a roofing company here in cedar rapids and in dubuque later in the day and one other stop. he'll be here in iowaximity to the president, the backdrop from his are event this morning, he's going to do a tour of a roofing company and the backdrop, lots of talk about job creation and employees here in eastern iowa. doing his best to keep the manufacturing and building sector doing its best. >> all right. carrie dann, another busy day on the trail with the newest candidate in the race. rick perry. thank you, carrie. >>> well, michele bachmann's family is spilling some secrets. why was she late to dinner on sunday? >>> plus, the president feeling the heat on the road. his face-off with an angry tea party member. that's all next. >>> first, today's white house soup of the day for dthose over there, they're having minestrone while the president's away. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc.nks to t from capital one, we get double miles on every purchase, so me and my lads earned a trip to san francisco twice as fast! we get double miles every time we use our card... i'll take these two... .