glen hubbard is a fine fellow. i'll take a look at his quote.e people say that and just because they say something doesn't mean it's true. if the people of massachusetts don't like it, get rid of it. right now they favor it three to one. we all agree with repeal and replace and i'm proud i put together a plan that said what of i am going to replace it with. >> your plan is not going to do anything. >> and joining me is the author of the brand new sex thriller called "it's classified." nicole. and lori is with us. good to see you both. >> thank you. nice to be here. >> i say that because it's the first female president, the first -- it was in episode one and she has an affair in episode two. >> something like that. >> i haven't read it yet. >> i know. i don't want to ruin it for you. >> good to see you guys. all right. you got the two frontrunners here right now. this has been up and down. we just had michele bachman on. herman cain, mit romney, 9-9-9, romneycare, do you think anybody scored points? >> the liberal rick teak against the republican

. >> your chief economic adviser, glen hubbard who you know well, he said that romney care was obama care. how would you respond to his criticism of your signature legislative achievement? >> we have less than 1% of our kids that are uninsured. you have 1 million kids uninsured in texas. 1 million kids. chris christie said the problem with obama care, he spends an extra trillion dollars and raises taxes. raising taxes is one of the big problems something we didn't do in massachusetts. >> note the christie name dropping there. he cited his venture capitalism experience. >> some might say because of your past employment with bain capital of more of a financial engineer, breaks down businesses. >> my background is quite different than you described. we started staple's. we started the sports authority. we started bright horizon children centers. we started a steel mill in a farm field in indiana. >> meanwhile herman cain found out with surging poll numbers comes scrutiny and attacks. specifically on his 999 plan. which would eliminate the current tax code and replace it with a 9% flat t

. >> glen hubbard, who you know well he said romney care is obama care. how do you respond to his criticism of your signature accomplishment. >> we have less than 1% of kids uninsured. you have 1 million kids in texas. >> some might say because of your past employment as more of a financial engineer. somebody who breaks down businesses and destroys jobs. >> my background is quite different than you described. we started staples and sports authority. >> reporter: he defended t.a.r.p., the bail out fund that is unpopular with tea party conservatives. >> we could have had a meltdown wiping out the american people. action had to be taken. was it perfect? no. >> my top priority is nine, nine, nine. jobs, jobs, jobs. >> reporter: herman cain found out with surging numbers came scrutiny, specifically with the nine, nine, nine plan. the current tax code is replaced with a 9% corporate tax. >> i thought it was the price of a pizza at first. >> when you take the nine, nine, nine plan and turn it upsidedown, the devil is in the details. >> how many people are for a

. >> governor romney, your chief economic adviser glen hubbard who you know well, he said that romney care was obama care. and romney care has driven the cost of small business insurance premiums up by 14% over the national average in massachusetts. so my question for you would be how would you respond to his criticism of your signature legislative achievement? >> the great thing about running for president is you get the chance also to talk about your experience as a governor. and i'm proud of the fact we took on a major problem in my state. >> what d you make of the question and the answer right there? >> well, the question was really foolish on perry's part because he's opening himself up to all the criticism that is available to the republicans and certainly to the democrats on health care in texas. one out of every four people in the state of texas is lacking in health care. and they didn't get around to talking about that until the end. then perry spends all this time talking about asking for waivers from washington for medicaid. he'd gotten 15 of them and still didn't provide h

. >> governor romney, your chief economic advisor, glen hubbard, who you know well, he said that romneycare was obamacare and romneycare has driven the cost of small business insurance premiums up by 14% over the national average in massachusetts. so my question for you would be how would you respond to his criticism of your signature legislative achievement? >> i'm proud of what we were able to accomplish. i'll tell you this, though. we have the lowest number of kids as a percentage uninsured of any state in america. you have to highest. >> i'm still speaking... >> i'm still speaking. i'm still speaking. we have less than 1% of our kids that are uninsured. you have a million kids uninsured in texas. a million kids. >> ifill: of course, that was governor rick perry of texas who was taking on mitt romney in this interesting candidate-on-candidate duel they had as part of the debate. >> what governor romney did there is political jujitsu. the quote/unquote romneycare plan in massachusetts is anathema because of its mandate. he turned the tables and went after governor perry to try to compare