interestingly enough, the research shows that women who exbit what eric erickson called generaltivity tend to have more orgasms. i'm sure that really fascinates you. >> yes, it does. >> caring about the bigger picture ismportant, having a good attitude. >> take a look at this. this is an arc and this i a staircase. >> the old paradigm view of aging is the arc, you are born, peek at mid life and decline to decrepitude. and then you mound in terms of spiritual ground of growth, emotional growth, brvegging wiser. -- becoming wiser. and that isrue. i show in my book how you can do that. we're fine nears. now the average person lives 34 years longer than our great grandparents d it's a whole second adult lifetime that has been added on so why not do everything you can to make the most of it. a third of it goes, we have nothing to do with it. it's genetic, laid in stone. that means 2/3 of it, we can decide with our choices how well we want to do. >> your father had an issue with depression. >> all of the fonda men had undiagnosed depression, yes. >> is that an issue for you? >> well, i thin

eric erickson. you guys have been standing by listening. you saw us. we were caught off guard.hen you look at the results, are you surprised by the bachmann results or anything on the list there? >> you know, not really. i would say the tim pawlenty organization, a really good organization. i expected him to be a little closer. the bachmann team had a lot of energy. a lot of passion. the ron paul folk had a lot of energy and passion. i was surprised it was that close. i think the biggest surprise is that rick perry is a write-in candidate, he was able to top mitt romney and newt gingrich. >> it is interesting. we're going to be talking to debbie wasserman schultz who is the head of the democrat party, a democrat in iowa for a republican straw poll. what might be the strategy behind that? what is the president looking at toward these results, at these results? what he might have to do in the upcoming days? >> well, first let me congratulate the state party chairman on a fine turnout. i'm sure that he has worked very hard to get such a large and enthusiastic crowd of people to sh

eric erickson joining me in atlanta. to you, eric.break i asked if this really where the tea party gained respect in washington? do you think because of the process many democrats feel they got nothing. republicans got what they wanted and the tea party had a big influence to push people further into their corners where they won't negotiate with each other? >> it's interesting you say there is a feeling that the tea party got most of what they wanted. people on the right disagree with you. it's a talking point. >> why would they disagree? >> when you look at this i think that's the myth of the democrats and republicans are pushing. for example, the way it's structured. the bush tax cuts are planned to go out of phase they could decouple the middle class tax cuts and fix the alternative minimum tax which they do every year to free them up for tax increases and be revenue neutral. interesting to see how they do bush tax cuts, with the language. a lot of tea party people want to see that. as for respect, it's funny. the same conversation

waiting for rick perry, this event was held at the red state conference put on by our very own eric erickson, but they could have called this the red meat conference because rick perry was dishing out the red meat and the conservatives in this crowd were eating it up. there really were some -- electable tea party conservative and that is if you listen to a lot of people hat that this cone what rick perry brings to the show. >> governor perry is leading one early primary for another state, we're talking about new hampshire. mark, what is perry up to in new hampshire? >> well, you know, don, this is his first introduction here in the granite state, just about an hour or so, right behind me, he's going to address 100, 150 people. you can tell that the campaign operation is very sharp, it's put together very, very tightly. tomorrow he will have two events before jetting off to iowa perhaps to heal some of the words by not going to the straw poll. but how serious is rick perry about running for president? he's going down to south carolina but we expect him back later in the week. we're told by hi

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current governor of texas, former governor of massachusetts as the have to strongest candidates, eric ericksonpresident. he's caught the attention of a guy who knows something about running and winning the presidency. listen here. >> what i would say is go take a look at his record when he was governor and look at my record when i'm governor. then you got some apples to apples. >> i wish rick the very best. as the process goes on, we'll see whose background and skill most fits the need and the needs of the country at a critical time like this. >> hold on. remember that for a second. that was not what i wanted to hear. that was perry and romney essentially saying i'm a better job creator. we'll come back to that. but governor perry also caught the attention of a guy who has a history of winning the presidency, listen here. >> he's a good looking rascal. he said, you know, i'm going to washington to make sure that the federal government stays as far away from you as possible. while i ride on air force one in that marine one helicopter and go to camp david and travel around the world and have a g

let's doe bait the perry factor with cnn contributors eric erickson and alex castellanos. alex, if you get on the global warming, a good issue with the republican base, but look at this gallup poll. do you believe increasing earth's temperature is due to human activities? 352% say yes. natural changes 43%. so a majority of americans say humans are contributing to global warming. governor perry clearly questions and disputes that. if you look at breakdown bipartisanship it gets fascinating. global warming seriousness. is it exaggerated? 22% of democrats say. so 43% of end participants and 67% of republicans. so what governor perry is saying has clear appeal to republicans. but is he risking his potential support among independents and even conservative democrats by saying that? >> in all these issues you have to say what he believes. that's what he believes. it's even worse if you're inauthentic. but that's the concern about rick perry, one is that he appeal to the base but in a general election he could become george mcgovern. or even barry goldwater. candidates with inten

the person behind that blog, eric erickson is a contributor here at cnn. a lot of people have been looking to this speech as some kind of indication to what the texas governor is going to do. earlier this week, we learned that he was going to make his intentions clear. now we understand that the governor of texas is going to throw his cowboy hat into the ring in this race for 2012, this very crowded field for 2012. you know, he did give an interview for our friend mark halperin over at "time" magazine earlier this week indicating some of this. some of that video is now on the timemagazine.com website, in which perry says he has basically come from the answer no, no he does not want to run, to now saying yes, he is in the race for president president. >> tell us more. he's done pretty well, you look at texas, you look at jobs, 9 unemployment rate there in texas. pretty good stats coming into this race. >> that's right. this is going to be the rick perry message for the coming days. it's going to be his economic message down in texas. in the last two years,

and erick erickson. eric, there's been so much focus on the long-term spending problem. problem right now is a weak economy, it seems like. >> you know, anderson, it's been frustrating for me, during some of the conversations on the debt ceiling during the past two weeks. journalists in washington focused on congress like the debt ceiling had everything to do with it. the reporting out of washington, was the uncertainty over the debt ceiling. the growth numbers came back horrible. they were expecting 6.6% growth. they were downgraded last quarter. there's a sense in washington that everything revolves around washington. it's always been about the economy. it ago going to keep being about the economy. if there's a bright lining, and there's not really one, is most of the problems in the stock market are about europe and other places. >> cornell, for president obama, this is a huge issue. he's been talking about a big job push. how much can he really do? i mean, where do you see him going with this? >> well, i'm going to agree with my friend, erick, before i attack him. we

. >> tricia erickson, thanks for being here. eric marrapodi, nice to have you here.the campaign trail, i'm sure. >>> still ahead, a deadly heat wave in the south, tropical storm in the caribbean, and long hot summer is taking its toll. when we come back. [ man ] they said i couldn't win a fight. but i did. they said i couldn't fight above my weight class. but i did. they said i couldn't get elected to congress. but i did. now i'm trying to make it in music. ♪ sometimes when we touch ha ha! millions of hits! [ male announcer ] the new hp touchpad. get it now for $100 off, starting at $399.99. ♪ >>> well, we can't let you go tonight without talking about the weather of all things. specifically the deadly heat wave that has been just burning up a huge swath of the country in the midwest and the south. and it just keeps on going. dallas, look at this, has been at 100 degrees or more for 33 straight days. and there's no relief in the forecast. in the last few days a high school football coach and two players there have died from heat during summer practices. might be time