and erick erickson. erick, there's been so much focus on the long-term spending problem.t. our 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 the stock market, as if the debt ceiling had everything to do with it. for example, last friday, the stock market fell. the reporting out of washington, it was the uncertainty over the debt ceiling. the growth numbers came back horrible. they were expecting 1.6% growth. it was 1.3%. they were downgraded last quarter. there's a sense in washington that everything revolves around washington. it's always been about the economy. and it's going to keep being about the economy. if there's a bright lining, and a silver 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

they would view this deal and would they support this deal and we know you are not run, and we know erick erickson is against it and mitt romney, no, and newt gingrich effectively no, and he would like his own plan, and that means he does not like this plan, and jon huntsman, yes, and tim pawlenty no, and ron paul, no, and the texas governor rick perry who may get into the race said he supported the first plan and gary johnson of new mexico no, so, a resounding expression of no except for jon huntsman and you say what? >> well, i say that the republicans see this and they are boxed in with this deal come 2013 should they win and the bush tax cuts will expire on january 1, 2013, and the spending cuts and the sequestration goes into effect january 1, 2013 and see the republicans in congress boxing them in, but i have to disagree with at love the statements that the republicans and the dems and including paul are making. i see this as a win for barack obama maybe not on policy, but on politics. he is now managed to get the debt ceiling fight gone and managed to get tax reform taken up before

but to erick's point you must examine that. you can't stand here and talk about, you know, decrying stimulus funds, but you accept them. also in texas, the republicans control the house and the senate. so it's not like rick perry actually had to do it. if he wanted to say no to stimulus funds he could have said so but he didn't. >> is that the case, mimi? >> i would assume so. i'm just thinking about quality of life here and again what people are going to really see once reporters start digging into the way life is lived here, the poor air quality, the poor health care, we're way down at the bottom of all of those things. i hate to see it, you know, i hate to see texas dragged through the mud again, but i think that we're in for it. >> erick, how strong a candidate do you see rick perry as a candidate and who does he most immediately affect by entering? >> i think rick perry would probably be a strong candidate. he's going to have to wither a storm probably for the next couple of weeks. so people understand if he's a paper or a

but to erick's point you must examine that. you can't stand here and talk about, you know, decrying stimulus funds, but you accept them. also in texas, the republicans control the house and the senate. so it's not like rick perry actually had to do it. if he wanted to say no to stimulus funds he could have said so but he didn't. >> is that the case, mimi? >> i would assume so. i'm just thinking about quality of life here and again what people are going to really see once reporters start digging into the way life is lived here, the poor air quality, the poor health care, we're way down at the bottom of all of those things. i hate to see it, you know, i hate to see texas dragged through the mud again, but i think that we're in for it. >> erick, how strong a candidate do you see rick perry as a candidate and who does he most immediately affect by entering? >> i think rick perry would probably be a strong candidate. he's going to have to wither a storm probably for the next couple of weeks. so people understand if he's a paper or a

but to erick's point you must examine that. you can't decry stimulus funds but you accept them and also in texas republicans control the house and the senate. so it's not like rick perry actually had to do it. if he wanted to say no to stimulus funds he could have said so but he didn't. >> is that the case, mimi? >> i would assume so. i'm just thinking about quality of life here and again what people are going to see once reporters start digging into the way life is lived here, the poor air quality, the poor health care, we're way down at the bottom of all of those things. i hate to see it, you know, i hate to see texas dragged through the mud when it but i think we're in for it. >> erick how strong a candidate do you see rick perry as a candidate and who does he most immediately affect by entering? >> i think rick perry would probably be a strong candidate. he has to wither a storm for the first couple of weeks. if they see he's not a paper tanker he'll impact mitt romney largely because of the impact on someone like tim pawle

she's awesome. >> so erick, i'll let you go first. not going to run. people are starting to think, oh, my, maybe she's going to run. >> you know, i'll believe it when i see it at this point. it certainly looks like it. she'll have something on september 3rd which is the anniversary of her speech to the republican national convention. you know, i still say i'm not sure she's going to run. if she does run, its going to be a very nontraditional campaign. i've heard a lot of people for a lot of years say they're going to run nontraditional campaigns and that typically doesn't work out so well. she's probably the person who could do something different and still make a go of it, but she's going to be hard pressed to fight rick perry, michele bachmann and mitt romney's probably doing the snoopy dance right now. >> i'm not even going to ask what the snoopy dance would look like with mitt romney doing it. >> very stiff. >> i'm sure already i'll have e-mails and tweets saying why are you paying attention to sarah palin? >> i was tweeting while

so erick that's part present of media matters you understand the conservative media machine why can't obama shake this reputation as a free spender who has ballooned the deficit was a pretty thing i think for those to remember is that you have a republican. or a republican power base those in the house in the senate presidential candidates and then of course there were folks news that a vested a vested political interest in ensuring that americans think the economy is still headed south so that they can have you know you prove their electoral chances. of choice twelve and so it's really all very political so about a little over a year ago we saw the white house appear to kind of take on fox news but it seemed to backfire and since then they've they've backed off i mean as a communications strategist erick how should obama deal with the factual distortions and the fox news problem he seems out of i have been a firm believer for awards are not writing any well i go unchallenged and i think that the president it was it was a year a half or so ago when he called out fox news for a lot of

. >> está mañana en san francisco erick quezada murió . >> víctima de cáncer . >> miembro fundador deasado como héroe y ejemplo humanitario . >> los desayunos y almuerzos escolares podrían subir 50 centavos de dólar y esto entraria en vigor en octubre . >> el aumento generaria 244mil dolares anuales para comprar más verduras y frutas frescas y mejorar las condiciones de los estudiantes de bajos recursos . >> la crisis económica de estados unidos llevo a miles de niños a vivir en la probreza lo que afecta en su mayoría a latinos y afroamericanos. >> más niños latinos sienten los estragos de la crisis económica . >> bajos ingresos a causa de la recesión y esto no discrimina raza o cultura niños viven en hogares pobres el desempleo a obligado a familia a modificar su calidad de vida . >> hoy me bajaron las horas y estoy entrando más tarde . >> guadalupe es madre soltera, tengo que saber en que voy a gastar y pagar lo principall. >> /,8 millones de niños tenían madres y padres desemplados y esto es preocupante para el cosnejo nacional de la raza . >> los embargos hipotecarios empeoran la

. >> so let's stack the gop field with cnn contributors erick erickson and alex castellanos.lot of people saying this is a three-way race. is that fair or is it way too soon to narrow it down that much? >> i don't think it's a three-way race yet. it's a two way race, romney and governor perry. we're not sure that michele bachmann is yet a top tier candidate. she's got something to prove. she can win it inside a coliseum in iowa, can she show suburban voters in ohio that she can be a general election candidate. >> erick, you made this in your bullet points, you contribute to our blog every day. and michele bachmann won the straw poll, but she may wish she had not. it is the single-greatest predictor of who will not win the iowa caucus let alone the nomination. strong support among conservative christians and the tea party, you seem to think that maybe there's a ceiling there. >> there may be. it's going to be interesting how she can perform in other states. we know that she can perform well in iowa. the problem is that in the last 30 years only three people have won the ames s

erick, where are you?re is my bodyguard. >> yay, erick. >> when he introduced himself to me, i said, you are my bodyguard? dude, i am from detroit. [laughter] who is going to protect you from me? it is great to be here. despite the difficult times in which we find ourselves, we embrace the challenges before us. just as the party of lincoln embraced the challenges that were born in civil war. to support union and the emancipation. just as the republican party in 1980 came together in the midst of a cold war to support liberty and prosperity. and the end of an evil empire. today, the challenges we face are equally daunting to some, namely those who believe that only government can solve our problems. we know better. we understand the democratic party is not progressive. the democratic party is regressive. [applause] this country was founded as a revolutionary experiment and liberty and self-government. the future of this country remains liberty and self- government. when the democratic party tells you that y

red state sufficient course led by our cnn contributor erick erickson.just being nice introducing him? . >> i'm introducing him. i'mtrigue very hard to stay neutral in this and give people my objective feedback of what i think of the candidates. i do like him? i like him a lot, he's a good friend but i like tim pawlenty and michele bachmann and herman cain and several of the others. >> we've talked about some grumbling and some happens every four years and this year feels in a higher volume. i want you to listen to governor perry. this is with our affiliate. >> my hope is that in four years, people can take a look at what the we've done in washington, d.c. and they know that i have made washington, d.c. less consequential in their lives. >> soft spoken there but that's an important message to conservatives, no? >> it very much is and that's way hear a lot. george bush wanted to go to washington to change the tone and largely the failure of changing the tone of washington. rick perry just wants to go to washington and make it less consequential. it's very

erick kanter has been joined at the hip with him -- eric cantor. john boehner brought a different style of management to the speakership. nancy pelosi -- her moment of truth was the health care bill. she leaned and muscled and pushed and persuaded. a majority of democrats, overwhelming, past the health care bill three different times. john vander promised not to be that kind of a speaker. but when a speaker loses a vote and the perception of power is power in washington, it is a weakened speakership. >> charlie cook said many house and senate members in the 2012, 2014, 2016 are going to lose their seats because congress has become a laughingstock over this. >> to pick up on what marks -- what mark said, john boehner -- the blandishments that worked in the past do not work anymore. you cannot do earmarks. what they worry about, some of these younger members, is a primary on their way. they are happy to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory because for them, it is a personal victory. >> who is in trouble? orrin hatch maybe? >> absolutely. >> that is

group of jews in israel supporters in america whose views are backed by millions of dollars actually erick that is a flat out lie a center for american progress called out eric bolling on the comment that even offered to send fox news a copy of the report just in case they were confused he had wondered why eric bolling would make a claim like this on air. or the v.p. at center for american progress and editor in chief of think progress tell you why he was a guest on our show on monday night. it was the program this network if you could go to the funders and say stop funding this a then what does that accomplish all that stops these five individuals from operating and producing the propaganda that they are producing every day which then starts the cycle of people using it on fox news all. the washington times the national review radio outlets like rush limbaugh and michael savage and politicians that's right it's the worst kept secret in town ochs knew without spread a lot of phobia how many of these so-called experts on muslims and islam mentioned in this report often appear on their show

it seemed to backfire and since then they they've backed off i mean as a communications strategist erick how should obama deal with the factual distortions and the ox news problem he seems out of i've been a firm believer for a long time and not writing any go unchallenged and i think that the president it was it was a year a half or so ago what he called out news for a lot of it was i think it really set them back on their heels the right wing has such an enormous communications infrastructure with the word their way to your network and having the most powerful cable show out there in the country that their ability to it's a lot of the american people is almost a match and it's got to be pushed back so i want to go back to you know kind of both i guess both sides of the approval ratings i mean obviously some of the lies that kind of just a will to fire for conservatives but looking over kind of a progressive stand a lot of progressives have been very disappointed with this administration and they were expecting a public option. an immigration reform climate change bill and kind of an ey

democratic strategist erick annuity and brian darling oh mr human events contributor to red state dot com and director of government studies at the heritage. welcome you all let's get started. that's official it's official there cheney has a new book out in my time he's bashing rice tenent paul he wanted to attack syria. this this is the probably the most aggressive guy who ever got five deferrals from from the draft that i've ever heard of in my entire life here he was in an interview with n.b.c. not only admitted to work right seemingly to brag about this in your view we should still be using enhanced interrogation yes no regrets no regrets should we still be broader boarding terror suspects i would strongly support using the again if circumstances arose even though so many people have condemned it people call it torture when you think it should still be a tool yes. and then george w. bush in his book decision points basically so the same thing he said three people were waterboarding and save lives so is it time to convene a war trying to work crimes tribunal and try these guys for

deadly exchange killed four on the south korean island there let's get more from antiwar campaign erick sidorov kid joining us from oregon tonight thanks very much for being with us mr soros kid on r t international no why is this exchange of fire happening now when only last month we heard the both state for making efforts for dialogue and indeed discussing ways to resume the sort of the stalled six party talks over nuclear disarmament on the peninsula it seems kind of schizo phrenic well we've seen this history over the past decade or for the past twenty or thirty years where peace seems to get a little bit closer and something happens to make people pull back i think you're dealing with a point in which the united states is planning major military operations with south korea next month and generally these things that happen just rely on those military exercises or just after our there is discussion in the united states about cutting the military budget for example and all the sudden we have both where our. allows people to say we can't do that we need to reinforce these matters and c

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here to go over the numbers, cnn contributors erick erickson, editor of redstate.com.st james carville is with us again. thanks for being here. let's take a look at this poll, because it's kind of interesting. we have -- we polled republicans choice for a nominee in 2012. without giuliani and sarah palin in the race. you see here, perry 32%. romney way behind, 18%. bachman 12%, gingrich 7%. paul, 6%. on down the line. let me start with you, eric. is there a new front-runner here and is his name rick perry? >> gloria, it's shaping up for that way. i'm still not convinced yet. i think we need to see a few more weeks of polling. this is a big bounce out of his announcement in charleston and then through new hampshire and iowa. he hasn't been in any debates yet. i would like to see his performance in the debates that's where things got held up with fred thompson and he came out with big bounces. he has more staying power than wes clark. there's a cnn debate, an nbc debate coming up. if he can stay on top, then he's the front-runner and it's not a bounce. >> well, james, cl

erick, where are you? there is my bodyguard.ntroduced himself to me, i said, you are my bodyguard? dude, i am from detroit. who is going to protect you from me? it is great to be here. despite the difficult times in which we find ourselves, we embrace the challenges before us. just as the party of lincoln embraced the challenges that were born in civil war. to support union and the emancipation. just as the republican party in 1980 came together in the midst of a cold war to support liberty and prosperity. today, the challenges we face are equally daunting to some, namely those who believe that only government can solve our problems. we know better. we understand the democratic party is not progressive. the democratic party is regressive. [applause] this country was founded as a revolutionary experiment and liberty and self-government. the future of this country remains liberty and self- government. when the democratic party tells you that your decision and your property and your liberty must continue to be housed within a large

it among the tea party conservatives and some of the other blogosphere conservatives and guys like erick erickson is very unhappy with this deal and that is why they have to move it fast. any delay could make the house vote very precarious at the end. that said, steny hoyer, and john boehner at the end of this one, and basically it could cost to leaders their job, but on this one, they will have some backup votes. they will know at the end of the day when one is -- when you are the democrats promising 80 to 100, that is a lot of back pocket votes that john boehner can have and i think it will get through, and it is going to be a close vote, but they will have 10 to 15 and each party of sort of like in case of emergency votes. you know, the break-glass-here if you need this vote, and they will is have a few of those votes to get through, but i will tell you what the whip operations have told us that they need a big vote out of the senate. i agree with andrea, it is not as influential as it used to be, but having the big vote out of the senate certainly helps. it would hurt if it came out

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erick, to you first, how much has perry complicated the chess?'s complicated a good deal. take this evolution creationism comment. iowa is wholly unrepresentative of the typical republican field. it's a wonder that either party has relied on it to be the first caucus. but the creationism comments, the global warming kmentd comments, those help perry in iowa. it forces the other candidates to decide whether they're to the left or the right of him. in new hampshire, let's not forget that dave carney is from new hampshire, knows how to win races in new hampshire, and then he announced in south carolina. and after that, you go to florida where he's already ahead in the polls there. >> so you help governor huckabee to his big win in iowa back in the last cycle. if romney spends more time out there and you have this essentially being the chess, and there are the other candidates, but this is the state of play at the moment. is governor perry is shifting other people's strategy, what's going to happen? >> governor perry's got a straightforward texas two

it among the tea party conservatives and some of the other blogosphere conservatives and guys like erick erickson is very unhappy with this deal and that is why they have to move it fast. any delay could make the house vote very precarious at the end. that said, steny hoyer, and john boehner at the end of this one, and basically it could cost to leaders their job, but on this one, they will have some backup votes. they will know at the end of the day when one is -- when you are the democrats promising 80 to 100, that is a lot of back pocket votes that john boehner can have and i think it will get through, and it is going to be a close vote, but they will have 10 to 15 and each party of sort of like in case of emergency votes. you know, the break-glass-here if you need this vote, and they will is have a few of those votes to get through, but i will tell you what the whip operations have told us that they need a big vote out of the senate. i agree with andrea, it is not as influential as it used to be, but having the big vote out of the senate certainly helps. it would hurt if it came out

and erick erickson invited us to come to atlanta from redstate. we had nothing to lose at that point. i spoke to the people at re redstate. i will never forget that i truly felt home. these were heem who thought like me. these were people who saw where i wanted the country to go. these were people that had energy i knew felt like we could move the country and they were going to help us do it. what i did i told all of you my story. i told you what i wanted. i told you it wasn't be being republican and. it was about conservative. we're no longer about republicans and democrats and we're about conservatives and about people that understood liberty and we're going to fight for it every step of the way. [applause] i told them that i wanted every state in the country to show what d.c. should look like and we were going to start with south carolina and it was going to be the best state in the country. you right now are in the best state in the country. [cheers and applause] but more than anything, what i said is, i want the people to understand the power

next was erick. before you go, let me pick in other name. richard spicer. are you here? come downtho the center aisle. >> a good evening. i am a lifelong resident of your district. i appreciate the opportunities for conversation and your sincere effort to get the opinions and thoughts of your residence. i will push back a little bit because i know you have been put charged with a great task. i just want to make it clear to you and it to your staff that when you say things like special interests and sacred cows, i understand that. but the residents who are struggling are not sacred cows or special interests. they are everyday people who live off of social security, medicaid, and food stamps. the you understand that we are not sacred cows that the way other people are, we're trying to live our lives. please do not see us as another special interest or sacred cow. if that is not clear enough, we are having an event in los angeles to try to portray that livelihood that we are living on september 22 at city hall. in by somebody from your staff to come here some more stories o

earlier on "american morning," erick ericsson said a perry candidacy could spell trouble for front-runnerte behind a guy like rick perry and he will probably be able to get into a position to make it a one-on-one race with mitt room know in much case mitt romney doesn't stay as competitive as he has been. >> on saturday, perry will be in new hampshire and south carolina at the same time other gop candidates are battling it out in the ames straw poll in iowa. >>> politicians like rick perry and michele bachmann have been taking a lot of heat in blurring the line between religion and politics. are they going too far? joining us from baton rouge, louisiana is tony perkins and organizer of last weekend's prayer vigil hosted by rick perry and jonathan merit is also with us, from cross point church in georgia. welcome to you both. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> tony, let's start with you. your organization is supporting a values voter bus tour. on board, republican candidates santorum and pawlenty and maybe bachmann. with the state our country is in how much should religion play into poli