he'll be in dubuque. >> close to the president.g 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 iowa. proximity 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,

. >> jeff, you were in iowa for three day, covering rick perry from waterloo to dubuque, how did votersespond to him in the heartland of america? >> voters responded pretty well. in one respect, because they're looking for someone new, like the energy he brought in. they like the leadership qualities, you heard that in again and again interviews. he looks like a leader. i think they also saw rick perry's biggest challenge may be rick perry himself. he was free wheeling, he was unscripted. that got him into trouble, really, in the first day of his campaign. a lot of e eablishment chamber of commerce mainstream republicans worried about his swagger, a lot of enthusiastic hard-core republicans think it's fine for now, but when it comes time to pick a president, i'm not sure that he will be as strong as he looks right now. in the opening going, they like what they saw. not as many people compared him to george w. bush as we like to say back here. sure, he sounds like him a little bit. if you look into it a little more, he does not remind me of the governor bush who you and i saw in 1999 in

. >> reporter: and this morning, the area's largest newspaper, the dubuque "telegraph herald" welcomed the president with this scathing front page editorial. it challenged the need for today's rural economic forum in peosta, iowa, and asked, "wouldn't it be cheaper to fly your hand-picked participants to washington?" while the white house continues to deny this trip is about the 2012 campaign, this bus tour comes amid signs that he lacks strong support in the heartland. according to nbc/"wall street journal" polling data over the course of this year, only 37% of rural midwesterners approve of the president's job. well, brian, in an interview with cnn conducted earlier today, the president put himself in the shoes of a voter who might decide to vote him out of office. he said this, he is the president, we may think he has good intentions, but we are impatient and we want to see things move a little bit faster. >> nobody said it wasn't going to be tough out there. chuck todd in iowa. chuck, thanks. >>> then there is this note from the campaign trail, and perhaps confirmation that campaig

he held a similar event in dubuque, iowa, yesterday.nity to talk a lot about business regulations. calling them a strangle hold that the obama administration has implemented too many problematic restrictions on big business. so we're going to hear a lot from him on that today and tomorrow in new hampshire. >> carrie dann, thank you very much, appreciate that. >>> new developments from aruba. authorities are planning on launching an extensive search for a maryland woman who disappeared there two weeks ago. aruban prosecutors says the man she's vacationing with had a travel insurance policy that covered her. 50-year-old is being held by police while they continue to investigate. what do you think about this insurance policy? >> reporter: parentally there were two insurance policies. one on giordano and one on gardener. those are usually taken out for things for the cost of your airfare, the hotel, other problems if say you get delayed because of illness or there's a hurricane in the area. but in this case, what might have happened is that

got confronted with the tea party activists and he was greeted with a scathing editorial inç the dubuquepay r where they said that the money that went to organizing the speech went to flood relief. >> practical concerns for what they are facing there in the midwest. chuck todd, thank you. >>> and now let's bring in washington post white house reporter david nokamaura. is he saying the right things? >> well, i was not on the bus tour, but i was with him last week in michigan to a factory when he hammered home the message of bringing home jobs and at least the ideas of new proposals for folks in the midwest who are in communities who need jobs. he has been more aggressive in the last week or so than he was probably in the weeks leading up to this in sort of getting the message across. he was criticized as chuck todd said from some of his own supporters that he was not strong enough, and he is aggressive for not blaming congress for this and some are calling for him to call congress back in the middle of summer to get the jobs bills going once he has some for them toer can, but he said, no,

he had a lunch with business leaders in dubuque, a setting of a couple dozen republicans generally and they asked him specifically what he would do on controlling entitlements and he just sort of gave a broad brush, you know, conservative view but he didn't give many specifics. he wouldn't even commit to, you know, raising the retirement age which a lot of republicans have, so i think he knows he has to get up to speed pretty quickly and especially before the three debates in september, you know, it's going to be critical for him to see how he responds to those. because he is a few months behind here. >> week one of our new latest candidacy, we'll continue to watch it, appreciate your help. >>> still to come, the latest example of crime by flash mob is alarming to watch. the local police chief is hoping the video will go viral and he's here to tell us why. >>> there are grumbling about the president from two critical constituency, blacks and latinos. we'll talk about policy differences over jobs and immigration. helps defends againl constipation, diarrhea, gas and bloating. with three

obama was here, his new ggop rival was campaigning in did you pu dubuque iowa 12 miles away, hammering away the obama campaign. he better not commit what's called an act of treason. >> what's going on? >> treason, treasonous has gotten thrown around in politics for years. but when a guy running for gop candidate for president hurls the word at a government official, some are asking has the rhetoric gone a little too far. >> just in the race and he has plenty to say and just as quickly stepping over the line. going after the chairman of the federal reserve with words that once and some say even now would be considered a vicious personal attack. >> if this guy prints more money between now and the election, i don't know what you all would do to him in iowa. but where i come from, we would call that treez nouasonous. >> one tweet sads rick perry's comments were unappropriate and unpresidential. and a top gop strategist said this -- >> you have to watch that line between acceptable and colorful political language and becoming extremist. no one wants a scary extremist in the white house fro

. >>> riding along with the president is wolf blitzer and wolf joins us from dubuque, iowa.xclusive interview with president obama that will air on "the situation room." have you been on the bus, wolf? >> i've seen the bus and ali is right. it's impressive. i was not inside the bus but yesterday i did see both of those buses and they were scary looking when they drive by you in the motorcade. look. you got to protect the president. he has to be in constant communications with his adviser area national security team. a bus version of air force one or marine one for that matter. ali is right, it's very, very cool. >> i think that -- as you know, wolf, voters are frustrated with the president. they are frustrated with republicans because no one seems to have come up with any sort of big, bold jobs plan. when you talk to people listening to the president on his bus tour, are they satisfied with what he is saying? >> reporter: no. people want more action and that is why the president is going to come up with some sort of plan. i don't know what it is but i'll ask him about it. in