which made it a surprising choice for the kay bailey hutchison campaign that they would go after him on the case of cameron todd willingham and whether or not he should have been executed. neither of those surprising choices worked out for kay bailey hutchison. in the primary she lost to rick perry by 20 points and neither of those attacks by her seem to have carried over into rick perry's next campaign which is the one he's in now trying to win the republican presidential nomination. the candidates he's up against in this race are throwing a million things at rick perry in terms of his record, but day are neither explicitly nor implicitly accusing him of being gay and the cameron todd willingham case, in that case, frankly rick perry is all but wearing that one like a badge of honor. >> governor perry, a question about texas. your state has executed 234 death row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times. have you -- [ applause ] have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent? >> no, sir, i've never struggled with that at

the first was the morales famous rick perry gay hidden text in the kay bailey hutchison campaign website. remember this story? reporter for the austin american statesman found in the summer of 2009 that the kay bailey hutchison campaign website included a huge long list of terms that seemed designed to make her website pop on search engines. know how sometimes you google something and click on one of the search results the website that comes up doesn't actually contain the terms you searched for? that sometimes happens because websites have this hidden text you don't see as a user but that hidden text does get read and indexed by search engines. search engines hate the hidden text trick on websites but people do it anyway. in the case of the kay bailey hutchison website when she was running for governor against rick perry, aening mo the hidden text she had hidden on her website was the phrase, rick perry gay. she actually had rick perry gay up on the hidden text of their website twice. when asked about this, they said they had not done it but because of the computer resulted a lot of peo

. >> chris: last year, you endorsed kay bailey-hutchison for governor of texas again the incumbent governor rick perry who had been serving in that role for 10 year. you said westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. if rick perry wasn't right to be governor of texas, why should he be president? >> well i haven't endorsed anybody yet. i supported kay bailey-hutchison we'd been friends for a long time, since i worked in the ford administration. when she decided to run for governor, she asked me to support her and i did. it want any commentary on governor perry. >> chris: you clearly thought she was a better candidate? >> that's correct. she ran in the primary and lost. >> chris: why did you think perry was not as good a candidate as she was? >> i didn't know him the way that i worked with kay bailey. >> chris: not going to get anything on that. >> i'm trying to avoid that. >> chris: there's a lot of talk that you and the bushes really like mitt romney. >> i do like mitt. he's a very able guy whatted what he did with the olympics utah the winter olympics. and i though

just ask the billy hutchinson, an invisible campaigner -- ask kay bailey hutchison, an invincible campaigner, crushed in the primary. >> jon huntsman says he knows. >> we are going to win this state. we are going to win this primary, because this state, along with our entire country, is crying out for a common-sense discretion on how we are going to get this country moving again economically, what we are going to do about job creation. people are sick and tired of sideshows, sick and tired of the circus environment in politics these days. they what substance. >> do you really think he has a shot of winning? >> he is a believer, he really is. he is such a believer that they just change their campaign manager to put in a new campaign manager, which seems to be the pattern in the jon huntsman campaign. jon huntsman is getting a lot of mileage out of saying "i believe in evolution, scientists on global warming, call me crazy." that has made him a moderate. his tax plan eliminates deductions of all kind, which is bold and brassy and quite an orthodox by any standard. forget all mortgage, chocolat

forensics particularly it's kind of an arcane thing during the the republican primary process kay bailey hutchison actually did she was critical of a good governor initially she called it a cover up the dean of the tea party candidate called him a tyrant for his behavior with the texas forensic science commission however you know later it's an infamous thing they had some campaign conducted a focus group in which one member of focus groups said that he thought it was impressive it took balls to execute a possibly innocent man and so i think from there the campaign pretty much concluded that it wasn't much of an issue to make for a texas electorate so we'll see if it becomes an issue in this one i think the you know our film deals mostly with the science in the process and then the way that it's sort of not addressed in the in the political dialogue the former supreme court justice john paul stevens and also lewis powell both of them after they retired gave interviews in which they said both of them did were deciding votes in maintaining. stevens and yet stevens in establishing that powell in maint

charles bolden was joined by senators kay bailey hutchison and anothert to announce the project. this is a half-hour. >> good morning. we're about the administrative nasa charlie bolden is about to announce the most powerful rocket in history. the administration is coming forth with the plan to flesh out what was passed in the nasa authorization bill a year ago. to plan forward that keeping the international space station alive until at least 2020. with a series of commercial rockets taking crew and cargo to and from the space station then allows nasa to get out beyond low earth orbit and start to explore the heavens, which is which is the job that nasa has always been tasked to do. this rocket is coming in at the cost of what not only what we estimated in the nasa authorization act, but less. the cost of the rocket over a five-to-six-year period in the nasa authorization bill was to be no more than $11.5 million. this cost is $10 billion for the rocket. the projected cost for the caps sule or what they call the mpcv, the multipurpose crew vehicle, in that time frame is $6 billio

so, i cannot say enough good things about the lady that is standing here next to me, kay bailey hutchison has truly been a leader in not only our space subcommittee, but as the ranking member of the full committee. she, in large part, has brought us to this day. kay is claimed to speak in a minute, but we want the -- is going to speak in a minute, but we want the explanation of the entire system to come from the number one person at nasa, the administrator. >> thank you. as i am wont to do, i have a disclaimer. there is press availability at 11:30 where the team responsible for putting this system together will be available to answer specific questions about the configuration, the schedule, and everything else, so i would defer to them. i'll give you a message i think is important and the message i want you to take to the american public and international partners. i want to thank all members of congress. the senator is right. i do not want to get in trouble here, but the queen bee of all of this has been senator kay bailey hutchison. she is another it is cotillion like me, so we have bee

sponsored by the republican kay bailey hutchison and democrat jay rockefeller. >> the fact that we havewaited this long is stunning enough. but we started this sometime ago. there isn't a single first responders organization in the country, not a single governor, not a single mayor, not a single magistrate, not a single -- everybody supports it. everybody supports it. >> on capitol hill though some republicans are blocking similar legislation on the house side, believing the new spectrum should be auctioned off the money to private carriers instead of given to first responders free of charge. they say giving it away is a missed opportunity to help reduce the deficit. bottom line, ten years after the towers fell, no unified modern system. things are better for first responders in new york and wherever the next disaster may strike but they are nowhere near as good as there could be nor as their surviving comrades tell us what america deserves. with me chief from the new york police department who recently testified to congress about the communications problem. thanks very much for being w

in the election race last year by both the republican challenger kay bailey hutchison, and also by theemocratic challenger that he beat. they know about it and the claim was made and the governor said, look n the case of this decision, and again, what the governor did was he signed a mandatory order with an opt-out provision for parents with preteen girls inoculated against this sex yul this sex yulely transmitted disease and he said he wanted to opt on the side of life, but the problem for perry in the debate is that it was seen as the christian conservatives and emerging tea party types as abridgment of parental rights and of course more deadly as crony capitalism, and it did not work in texas. the voters evaluated and re-elected him, but it looks like it is on a whole new stage. >> we will see how it plays out. wayne slater, thank you. >>> and michele bachmann's startling claim that this vaccine can cause mental retardation is causing a stir in the medical community. and we will break this one down, fact and fiction and how much truth behind her comments. >> they started as a week a

sponsored by the republican kay bailey hutchison and democrat jay rockefeller. >> the fact that we haveis long is stunning enough. but we started this sometime ago. there isn't a single first responders organization in the country, not a single governor, not a single mayor, not a single magistrate, not a single -- everybody supports it. everybody supports it. >> on capitol hill though some republicans are blocking similar legislation on the house side, believing the new spectrum should be auctioned off the money to private carriers instead of given to first responders free of charge. they say giving it away is a missed opportunity to help reduce the deficit. bottom line, ten years after the towers fell, no unified modern system. things are better for first responders in new york and wherever the next disaster may strike but they are nowhere near as good as there could be nor as their surviving comrades tell us what america deserves. with me chief from the new york police department who recently testified to congress about the communications problem. thanks very much for being with us. w

kay bailey hutchison. what would it take to hire people? a simple example. if you let in tourists, they spend a lot of money. one of my guests calls them walk stimulus program. why not complete the twice as many tourists as we do? we make it very hard for people to come to this country and visit. the more people who come here, the more jobs there are in the hotels, airline, everything. yet we're alone among countries that make it very hard for people to be tourists. >> interesting stuff. thanks. don't miss his gps prime time special. restoring the american dream, getting back to work. this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. right here on cnn. talking to business leaders about how to create jobs in america. >>> still ahead, seaworld orlando set to fight the federal government before a judge over employees put in hazardous situations which led to the death of the trainer of the killer whale. >>> and this man was saved by strangers. he speaks out for the first time. >> that car could have blown up at any time. just how brave they are. it's crazy. i'm forever in

kay bailey hutchison has truly been a leader not only in our space committee but now as the ranking member of the full committee, and she large part has brought us to this day. kay is going to speak in a minute, but we want the explanation of the entire system to come from the number one person at nasa, the administrator of nasa, general charlie bolden. >> thank you, senator. as i am wont to do, i have a disclaimer to start with. since i am the administrator and not the expert at nasa, there is a press ability that i think 11: 30 where bill and the team that is responsible for putting the team together will be available to answer specific questions about the configuration of the schedule and everything else. so i would defer to them. i'm going to give you a message that i think is important and a message on want you to take to the american public as well as our international partners, and i do want to thank all the members of the congress. the senator is absolutely right. i don't want to get in trouble here, but i think the queen bee and all of this has been senator hutchinson. she's a mot

thinks that rick perry does not know how to run a campaign should look at his race against kay bailey hutchison. as a sitting, incumbent governor, he ran against the establishment, against kay bailey hutchison, and embraced the mantle of the tea party. it was a masterful display in how to run a campaign. he is a very effective campaigner and he has proven that over the last decade in texas. that will be a potential challenge for his opponent in this race. i do not think he should be underestimated. host: alex isenstadt with us. thanks. we appreciate your time. later, we will turn our attention to the middle east, a book called the "king's counsel." it is a firsthand account of what happened in the middle east, including jack o'connell's relationship with the late king husain. the associated press is putting together an incredible series of investigations looking at what has happened since 9/11. several hundred people were arrested. 9/11. thousands since. the "washington journal" continues on this sunday morning. we are back in a moment. >> watched more video of the candidates. see what politica

i watched the kay bailey hutchison debates closely. ts if you were at the yale debating society, but on television -- no, i mean this in this way. i watched as kay bailey hutchison got caught in legislative ease. he's very disarming in using, taking advantage. i noticed he could turn the twang up a bit to disarm and brush off a criticism, be deflective and say maybe you just don't understand how we are here in texas. >> maybe you don't understand -- >> yeah. >> stop it. >> it's important, mika. >> no. no. >> you have to say i understand you have a problem with us that want to succeed from the union. crank it up. that guy was a good looking rascal. i did what i had to do. it works. whether you are in the panhandle of texas -- >> reporter: the southern candidates that have run for candidates have used the twang. it's always been amazing to me. bill clinton would dial up once in awhile. you want to sound folksy and less washington. turn up the accent. >> i would know nothing about that. i'm just a -- well, i'm a simple country lawyer. >> r

rick perry defeated senator kay bailey hutchison believed at the time to be the most popular republican perry defeated her soundly in the primary and went on to win the general election as well. perry's folks have said for more than four years that that relationship between perry and his former chief of staff and him going on to work for merck had no bearing on his decision. they say everything was above board and have long denied that. hasn't affected him in this campaign or the last election here in texas. we'll see how this issue continues to kind of fester over here in the presidential election. >> yeah. something, ed, that the viewers couldn't see at home was really what happened after the debate where a lot of tea partiers jumped ship and now they're backing romney. you think we might expect to see more of that after the debate? >> that's one of the things we brought up with the dallas tea party activist that was in the story there, she had just flown back here to dallas. i said, that explanation on the hpv issue, how did that go over? did he win people over in that hall? she didn

in 2010 he went up against kay bailey hutchison, senator, one of the most popular republicans in thisupposed to lose. then along came this tea party and as you heard bill miller in that piece talk about, he latched onto that movement early. whether the tea party helped him or he just saw it had the political kind of thermometer there, having the right pulse and understanding what to latch onto. he grabbed onto it early and it's helped out tremendously. >> certainly seems that way. i know you'll be watching the debate and see how he performs along with us, 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cc. ed lavandera, thank you. >>> students in maine are having a tough time with math and reading, almost one-third not up to grade level standards. one school district thinks that ipads are the solution. find out who's getting them, next. [ nurse ] i'm a hospice nurse. britta olsen is my patient. i spend long hours with her checking her heart rate, administering her medication, and just making her comfortable. one night britta told me about a tradition in denmark, "when a person dies," she said, "someo

charlie bolden, nasa administrator, kay bailey hutchison, and bill nelson, two senators instrumentaldo this. in fact, the much-awaited, perhaps some would say overdue announcement of the next generation rocket, the one that will replace space shuttle and take astronauts to steroimars. $18 billion spread out over five years until the first vehicle flies. they did unveil an image, a sketch of it. and it will look to some degree very much like a space shuttle. it's going to have a giant elk attorney general tank in the -- external tank in the middle, liquid fuel. on the side, there will be two boosters like a space shuttle. they may be solid. they may be liquid boosters. so in essence they may go back more to an apollo era kind of technology. and an orion capsule which they are working on would be on the top of this rocket. so, you know, ultimately, kyra, this announcement could be, could be as big as the announcement of the shuttle program's creation or perhaps the announcement of humans going to the moon back, you know, when kennedy made his announcement. but we're going to have to wa

but during the press conference today, brooke, senator kay bailey hutchison said that this will ensure the leader in space exploration. >> so if we're talking beyond low orbit earth, john zarrella are, are we talking mars? >> yeah, we're talking an aft roid probably first. the plan is by 2017 a lunch unmanned, one launch a year, 2025 astronauts go to an aft roid and in the 2030 time frame, that's when we have plan ares to put astronauts on mars. if all goes well. 2030 is a long way off, brooke. you'll probably still be around. i may not be. >> i was just sitting here wondering, hmm, who's going to be covering that? hopefully you will be and i'll be right along your side, john zarrella. >> there you go. >> we do have some sound from that news conference. let's roll that. >> i don't want to raise the hopes that everything is going to go exactly in a box by an outline that has been put forward because we are pushing the envelope. we're going to the next iteration of space leadership, and this today i believe is the commitment that america is making to assure that we're not going to be the

he handedly defeated senator kay bailey hutchison in texas. >> you have been living in texas for a longrnor for a long time. what we're seeing now, because all of us are paying attention to him, much more closely now, that is what you've seen over the years? do you see some different parts of the governor right now as he seeks the republican presidential nomination? >> reporter: you know, what's interesting, and i think we'll start hearing a lot, and the dallas tea party activist you heard from in our piece brings up the same point, there's a lot of small issues, like the hpv vaccine issue, a lot of controversies that have been festering for i long time in texas when it comes to rick perry. the question is, as more and more start getting attention will it add up to something? it hasn't in texas during his time as governor. he's been re-elected over and over, the longest-serving governor in texas history, but there's a lot there that people are anxious to see get more scrutiny and a closer look. after all of that adds up, it will be interesting to see what effect it will have. >> he wasn

rick perry, yes, he drubbed kay bailey hitch -- kaye bailey hutchison but he has spent his career in a basically one-party state where -- and he's running in a primary where people are very concerned that someone they nominate can then appeal to a general audience and independents. gwen: there were moments when it sound more like a book club keebt to me than a political debate. >> you said in your book, now you're saying that -- were there whoppers flying around there in had >> oh, many. even by the standards of presidential be debates there were a lot of them. rick perry talked about how one person had lobbied on -- him on the h.p.v. vaccine was a desperately ill, diagram woman. in fact he had never met this woman before -- until after he had signed the executive order. mitt romney said he had changed a line in his book when he didn't the gwen: and it's going to be a long campaign season the now we move on to the last in this week's "haven't we been here before" series. despite the obama administration's most vigorous efforts to head it off, palestinian leader mahmoud abbas presente

a campaign for him when irahe rn for governor against kay bailey hutchison. i think his record in texas is exactly the record we would need in the united states. but i am not sure he is the right candidate yet. there is a lot to that. at this point four years ago, i was the nominee. and i was running against hillary clinton for you see how accurate those things are. >> which is said you cannot be nominated. what is it about the republican party that would prevent that from happening? >> i said it would be difficult to be nominated. we would have to be truly desperate. which, maybe we are, i do not know. >> about the party. >> is the organization of the primary system. it is a big party and has all kinds of facts and senate, far right, right, conservatives, moderates depends on where you are if you're running a primary like new hampshire. it is one thing they will be economic issues. if you run n/a caucus like iowa, is going to be social issues and still have enormous impact even if the net -- if the economic issues are important, they still forced a vote of m

. >> she did endorse him in 2010 in his very heated primary against senator kay bailey hu h hutchison whether sarah palin was basing her own decision on whether rick perry was in the race. we see no indication she is going to get in and we see indication from this comment and a few others she might be leaning towards endorsing him. that would help him with the tea party wing of the party. however, there's some thought maybe that's not where he needs help. he needs help with the more mainstream centrist parts of the party so we'll have to see with what sarah palin does. it will be key to see whether she remains a force in the republican politics. >> absolutely. thank you very much ken, great reporting and appreciate your being here. >>> nearly 50% of african-american teenagers are out of work. how does president obama's plan aim to help those who are hardest hit by the jobs crisis? >>> plus crisis in egypt, israeli diplomats were forced to leave cairo this weekend. the fragile peace treaty hangs in the balance. [ male announcer ] one-hundred-nineteen data points. this is what we can ga

but they are or were senators susan collins of maine, kay bailey hutchison of texas, barbara mikulski of maryland, judy biggert of illinois, diana deget of colorado, barbara lee of california, and nita lowey of new york. we are also joined by some of the wilson center board members, and i want to recognize our chairman, joe gildenhorn, and by a number of ambassadors. colonel youse smith of the bahamas, louis harold joseph of haiti, and the ambassador of iraq. welcome to all of you. it's a pleasure for me as the first president of the wilson center who happens to be a woman to host the first woman to lead the i.m.f. in its 66-year history. this is not the first glass ceiling christine lagarde has shattered. prior to becoming the i.m.f.'s managing director, she served as france's minister of finance, the first woman ever to become finance minister of a large industrial country. she was head of the european arm of the international law firm baker mcmcmckenzie, eventually becoming its first female chair. she is also, to my knowledge, the first person ever to be on the cover of "forbes" ma

i campaigned for him when he ran for governor gevpbs kay bailey hutchison. very strong supporter of his. i'm a good friend of his. i think his record in texas is exactly the kind of record we need in the united states. but i'm not sure he's the right candidate yet. there's a lot to that. at this point four years ago, i was the nominee, i was going to run against hillary clinton. you see how accurate those are. >> you said you wouldn't be nominated. what is it about the republican party that makes that difficult. >> i didn't say i couldn't be, i said it would be difficult. we'd have to be truly difficult. >> but what about the party? >> it's the organization of the primary system. the republican party is a big party, like the democratic party, it has all kinds of factors in it, far right, right, conservative, moderate, depends on where you are, if you're running a primary like new hampshire, it's one thing. it's going to be economic issues that define. if you're running a caucus like iowa, it's going to be social issues that still have enormous impact even if

that will solve this economic crisis, but they are or were senator susan collins of maine, kay bailey hutchison of texas -- [reading names] we are also joined by some of the wilson center board members and i want to recognize our chairman, and by a number of ambassadors, a good friend of mine from the united arab emirates, cornelius smith from the bahamas, [reading names] it is a pleasure for me for the first president of the woodrow wilson center as a woman to host the first woman to lead the imf and its 66-year history. this is not the first glass ceiling she has shattered. prior to becoming managing director, she served as france's minister of finance, the first woman ever to become finance minister of a large industrial countries. she was head of an international law firm and eventually becoming its first female chair. she is also, to my knowledge, the first person ever to be on the cover of "forbes" magazine and featured in "vogue" in the same month. that was funny. [laughter] she took the helm of the imf during the greatest shock to hit the global economy in our lifetimes. the series of e

a campaign for him when irahe rn for governor against kay bailey hutchison.hink his record in texas is exactly the record we would need in the united states. but i am not sure he is the right candidate yet. there is a lot to that. at this point four years ago, i was the nominee. and i was running against hillary clinton for you see how accurate those things are. >> which is said you cannot be nominated. what is it about the republican party that would prevent that from happening? >> i said it would be difficult to be nominated. we would have to be truly desperate. which, maybe we are, i do not know. >> about the party. >> is the organization of the primary system. it is a big party and has all kinds of facts and senate, far right, right, conservatives, moderates depends on where you are if you're running a primary like new hampshire. it is one thing they will be economic issues. if you run n/a caucus like iowa, is going to be social issues and still have enormous impact even if the net -- if the economic issues are important, they still forced a vote of many