mr. herman cain and rick santorum. first, former governor sarah palin goes on the record from wasilla, alaska. good evening governor. >> hi how are you? >> greta: very well. what did you think of the tea party debate cnn tea party debate? >> i was very pleased with this debate. very excited about the validation of the tea party movement. the hook-up with a major news network, cnn and more power to cnn for allowing that validation of this grassroots tea party movement participants from all over the nation being able as a voice of we the people asking questions of these potential presidents. very, very wonderful debate in terms of the whole forum and the venue that was chosen. the winner in this really i believe was the tea party movement and validation of what it is that we've been talking about for two years now. where we've been saying obama's big centralized government, his agenda that replicates some of the socialized government policies of some european countries, doesn't work. you saw a group tonight there on stag

herman cain has called himself. his view must have changed this view when the florida straw poll voters showed mr. herman cain respect, big time respect. in the straw poll in florida over the weekend, mr. herman cain clobbered the gop frontrunners, governor rick perry and former governor mitt romney. mr. cain is here. good evening, sir. >> hello, greta. thank you. happy to be with you. >> it's always more fun to win, isn't it? >> it's a lot more fun to win, especially when the people are sending two distinct messages from the florida straw poll. number one, the voice of the people is stronger than the voice of the media. you know that the mainstream media is trying to make the republican nomination into a two-person race, or like last august, they want to basically turn it into the favor of the week. the second message is smej more powerful -- message is more powerful than money. my opponents spent a considerable amount of money trying to influence the outcome of the straw poll. i represented a bus and traveled around the state, talked to people, held rallies and shared my common sense simple messa

mr. herman cain.two weeks ago he was almost a asterisk in the gop nomination race and right now governor perry and governor romney you better look out, because herman cain is surging and could put both of you in his rearview órk%%rê+=cí3kfpynuw&ba?@r4 n w9foh5s change. politics are so full of surprises. karl rove is here to go on the record. good evening karl. boy, what a difference this week. herman cain is surging. a lot of enthusiasm. why? >> he had a good debate performance and he won the florida straw poll and it gave him attention and notoriety. we should be careful into reading too much in these polls. there's[ poll. one is herman cain has moved up and the other is rick perry has moved down. this race will go back and forth and up and down until people get ready to vote. people are looking at this contest in a different way. they're judging it almost like they would, you know, an olympic diving contest rather than the normal presidential contest where they pick somebody stay with them8o÷nk#hút0

the only way that herman cain can affect his mistake, which i'm sure he won't make. >> greta: meanwhile while the attention is on the bad performance by governor perry and the surge by mr. herman cain, it seems like one of the people that has avoided the noise is governor romney, but house press secretary, embraced him on the idea of the mandate, going governor romney has saying the mandate was a conservative idea. at what point, if at any point, does this healthcare in massachusetts, or his statements about it being a conservative idea, this mandate, do those statements ever come back to haunt him in the primary season? >> well, look, the president has already said this any number of times. in fact, as recently as the bus trip last month, the president washington is what they did in massachusetts. look, governor romney has a chips. he gets to either have a debate with president obama about how his plan is different than president obama's or he gets to have a debate with fellow republicans over the issue. if i were him, i'd be having the debate with president obama. now, he started to say -- to month when he was on with south carolina senator jim demint. the third deba

mr. herman cain is here. seconds ago he finished debating several other contenders for the republican nomination. all four are here and ready to go on the record. right now all eyes on the white house. in less than 24 hours president obama traveling from the white house to the capitol where he will he us his long anticipated and promised jobs plan. unemployment rate staggering 9.1%. joining us senator john thune of south dakota. ready for tomorrow night's jobs speech? >> i am. >> greta: what do you want to hear? >> i want to hear something different than what the president said before. what he has said and doing hasn't been working. as you mentioned 9.1% unemployment rate. two million more unemployed today than when he took office. the debt has by 39% since he took office. gas prices doubled. health insurance rates up 19%. food stamp recipients up 41%. this is a bad economic record. his policies haven't worked many what i hope he comes out with are new ideas. i would like to see him declare a moratorium until

mr. cain or herman? >> mr. cain or herman greta for you either one is okay. >> greta: let's stick with mr. cain while you are running. now the question. this is automatic war. obviously, you are an african-american man this is a sensitive -- sensitive topic. the comment made bay in congressman what is the appropriate response and what do you think? >> it was despicable. it was disgusting. and i was desperate. you see, -- and it was desperate. democrats have no results to run on. they have no plans that are working. the president doesn't have any plans that working. he's broken a lot of promises. all they have left greta is name-calling. to try and intimidate those that might associate with the tea party or to intimidate those that are affiliated with the tea party that is all this is. they've taken the race card to a new low. and it is going to backfire. because the american people are sick and tired of the race card and the class warfare card. >> greta: i'd like to think that i would have the courage if everyon

and next to herman cain -- >> mr. cain, your only experience is serving as ceo of godfather pizza. does running a pizza chain equate to running a country? >> if you order it, pizza will come. pizza will come, pizza will most definitely come, and if you vote for me, america, i promise you that i will deliver. >> joining me now, a distinguished graduate of "saturday night live," the writer and director of "the big uneasy," a documentary about the flooding and aftermath of hurricane ka katrina and host of the radio show "the show." harry shearer. it doesn't get weirder than this weekend in politics. herman cain? there have been two sets of votes cast in straw polls. michele bachmann wins the first one. herman cain the second one. where are we going? >> i want to be the first person to say on national television that herman cain's -- i have the explanation for herman cain's tax plan. >> 9-9-9. i've been trying to follow that. >> it's a carefully coded message from satan. >> okay. >> flip it, baby. >> oh. >> see what i'm saying? apropos of your previous guest. >> we should have had you

mr. herman cain fit that belt -- bill? caller: i was reading a buy on him, and -- bio on him, he went from being a ceo to buy a subsidiary out and making it a successful business. host: does he appeal more to you personally, and so, what specifically? caller: his federal income tax going down to 9%, it really appeals to me. i don't make a lot of money with my job but the idea of actually not having the federal government take most of my paycheck away from me every single week really appeals to me. it is more money for me to spend the money to put back into the economy. host: your thoughts on the gop presidential field. republicans only. until 7:45 a.m. or so. let's look at some of the stories of the paper. this is "the wall street journal." a review of freddie mac in their practices when it comes to mortgages. kansas. good morning. caller: good morning. i have been aware of newt gingrich for many, many years. he is older and he has an experience of deeper thought and understanding of our governments and what has not worked

mr. priebus, that happened last night. businessman herman cain pulled off an upset in the latest straw poll down there in florida. he walloped the frontrunner for the republican nomination, rick perry. who had campaigned hard down there. and made a big point of saying he was campaigning hard and mitt romney who didn't officially compete. mr. cain makes a great speech but i don't see any particular segment of the republican party that has been behind him mr. priebus. what does that say about the republican party... republican field that herman cain won a straw poll down there? >> bob, look, i mean a lot of different candidates are winning these straw poll. herman won a couple days ago. you know, michele bachmann won in iowa. polling shows perry and romney back and forth. rick santorum won a straw poll in pennsylvania. he know he's from pennsylvania. here's the deal. we're going to have a rigorous debate in this country on our side of the aisle. we're going to put up an articulate intelligent alternative to this president. i think that people are h

we can report now that herman cain, the georgia businessman, has won the presidency straw poll with 37% of the vote. coming in second place with less than half of what mrerry, the texas governor at 15%. one point behind him on his heels, former massachusetts governor, mitt romney, at 14%. in fourth place, rick santorum, former pennsylvania senator, has 11. ron paul had 10%. newt gingrich and single digits gets 8%. john huntsman, former utah governor, 2. and with 1%, michelle bachman. with 1% at the tail bringing up the rear, the results of this are a clear signal to rick perry that his debate performance and particularly based upon the conversations we've had with so many florida activists, his position on illegal immigration has hurt mr. perry dramatically and herman cain is the beneficiary clearly, a raucous speaker and an ardent conservative, an outsider without political experience. herman cain's ability to more than double what rick perry has gotten suggests a great deal of the support that rick perry thought he had before the debate, in fact, went to herman cain. the closeness of the perry, romney numbers putting them at the 15 and 14% suggests t

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herman cain some love. why are you holding strong to your conviction that mr. cain doesn't matter? he certainly matters.sconsin, bill, i have watched jon stewart for eight years and i can say your appearance last night was his best program ever. jim, oregon, bill, you and john are a great team. i'm thinking martin and lewis. of course, i would be dino. don from denver, bill, were you surprised by the big applause you received from stewart's audience? i was, i think they thought i was letterman. am from south carolina, finished your book, loved it. it's a real page turner. i am related to john women's booth and found your take on him interesting. i appreciate that. from are florida, downloaded "killing lincoln." it's your best book yet, bill. thanks. they're telling me that it's number one on the itunes audio book list. whatever that may be. confusing me with all this stuff. charlie, from michigan. can you tell us something about your co-author, martin dugard. first class historian, bril i can't believe researcher. great guy. i'm getting lots of mail about signings for the book. only one set so far. octo

mr. cain, three minutes away. stay with us. >> thanks. megyn: back now with presidential candidate herman's pizza. mr. cain, you gave this interview to a man named chris moody, conducted prior to the straw poll results, and he asked you about this sound bite from president obama. let's have viewers listen: >> either we gut education and medical research, or we have got to reform the tax code so that most profitable corporations have to give up tax loophole that is other companies don't get. we can't afford to do both. this is not class warfare. it's math. megyn: and you responded by saying can i be blunt? that's a lie. do you really believe that the president of the united states is intentionally misleading us on that? >> with all due respect, political correctness is not one of my strong points, it is a lie. and it is class warfare. that's what it is, pure and simple. the president has a view -- has abused his position and made statements like that from time to time. this is pure class warfare. to say millionaires need to pay their fair share. 50 percent of the american taxpayers pay 97

mr. freidman, do many tea party folks want herman cain? if morgan would like to come on and answer that question. we have a slot for him any time on the factor. check three, "saturday night live" now in its 37th season. open season on the presidential candidates. >> i believe social security is a ponzi scheme. i believe we need to build a fence to keep the illegals act. however, should any illegals get through and have children here, i think we should open our hearts and pay for their education. [boos] >> do over, do over. >> mitt romney might not be the perfect candidate. is he a perfect candidates in comparison to the other candidates. next to rick perry i'm a centrist. next to michele bachmann i'm a private sector businessman. next to newt gingrich i have a normal human sized head. [ laughter ] next to ron paul, well, i'm the fonz. and next to herman cain,. [ laughter ] >> bill: more race stuff? no. those guys over better than that doing things they may not be qualified to do. enter, rick perry. ♪ ♪ >> bill: that's not "saturday night l

herman cain is the guy that could really score. he should go up there and say mr. president, are you encouraging young minority students and people, kids, to embrace this victimization rhetoric. you're encouraging them to hate entremendous pareengage in clasr than personal ambition and striving and hard work. i represent the alternative model. you did it through community organizing and a career in public life. i did it by boot strapping to the commercial sector, and i don't embrace class war far because when i meet someone who is more successful than i am, i want to be like him. i don't want to hate him. cain can do that in a way nobody else can. i think if he does, he's going to strike a tremendously residue nant chord because obama is so playing this class warfare card. >> are you saying at this moment in time that you can't make an accurate prediction who's going to win this primary for the republicans? >> oh, absolutely i can't. absolutely. i mean, at each given moment i have dairch theory as to -- a different theory as to who is most likely to win. right now

. >> once again, herman cain has received wild applause. mr.please know that will not translate into actual votes. >> i couldn't come up with a better one myself, so i'm going to take that one and run with it. >> an "snl" parody, a straw poll slogan, it's a good week to be herman cain. the megapanel joins us right after this. the postal service is critical to our economy-- delivering mail, medicine and packages. yet they're closing thousands of offices, slashing service, and want to lay off over 100,000 workers. the postal service is recording financial losses, but not for reasons you might think. the problem ? a burden no other agency or company bears. a 2006 law that drains 5 billion a year from post-office revenue while the postal service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts. congress created this problem, and congress can fix it. [ woman ] my heart medication isn't some political game. [ man ] our retirement isn't a simple budget line item. [ man ] i worked hard. i paid into my medicare. [ man ] and i earned my social se

. >> once again, herman cain has received wild applause. mr. , please know that will not translate into actual votes. >> i am aware. >> that's usually true but this time those kinds of speeches really did mean votes for the real herman cain. take a look. cain won this weekend's florida straw poll way ahead of rick perry an way ahead of mitt romney. here's how cain described the victory on cnn's "american morning." >> i feel great but i feel even greater because the voice of the people is bigger than the voice of the media with all due respect. and here's the second thing. message is more powerful than money. both of my contenders that came in second and third, they spent a considerable amount of money to try to influence that outcome -- the outcome of that vote. i rented a bus, traveled all over the stays, did some stops, sharing my message of commonsense solutions. >> cain also said now his campaign can't be ignored. let me bring in my guest, a democratic political consultant and associate dean of georgetown university's school of continuing st

herman cain. >> no. sit was entertaining and we are playing it on "the o'reilly factor." >> bill: that's true. if that is mrl to get exposure for himself. on the internet then he wins. if it's his goal put himself as a leader then i don't think he wins. let's go tour second one. colorado state university i was actually there this summer up in fort collins because i was at rockie mountain national park, nice town. >> maybe you ran into some of these people. >> i probably didn't although i ate at a restaurant there. anyway. college kids have been doing this kind of stuff forever though. but this has gotten some attention. roll the tape. [cheers] ♪ >> bill: i don't think there is enough chlorine in the world to cover all of that. but, you know, so what? >> i have thrown some epic parties in my life that is completely outdid it. this is actually at an apartment complex and the reason that everybody went there is because it was sent out on facebook. there is this big party at this apartment complex. >> bill: you can do that now. send out these mass things. >> it's called social media. >> bill: there is another n

mr. president, i got a question! [ snore ] and the republicans, they're no better. herman cainstraw poll in florida. i think he should have won the snore poll in snore-ada! [ snore ] the republican party, this party sucks, 'cause the lights are on, there's only one girl there, she's fat, she's ugly, and ba-ba-boring! [ snore ] speaking of fat and ugly, i took a wife to see a movie last weekend. [ laughter ] yeah, we went to see this new sarah jessica parker movie. "i don't know how she does it." yeah, i don't know how she does it either, and by "it," i mean staying awake during this movie. [ snore ] [ light laughter ] yeah, she's balancing her career, her family, her love life. i'm balancing my head on a pillow. and the oscar goes to? [ snore ] i'm just kidding around. you know, the holidays are coming up, everybody's going to want to spend time with their families. jimmy, are you going to spend time with your family for the holidays? >> jimmy: no, no, no. i'm not going to fall for this. cause i'm just gonna tell you what's happening and you'll start snoring. and i'm not gonna

herman cain. "saturday night live" has the same question you do. >> who? >> mr. cain, your own experience is serving as a ceo of godfather piz a. how does running a pizza chain equate to running a country? >> there is no better model than that of a pizza place. pizza doesn't come unless you ask for it, but it will be there in 10 minutes. >> it could be the clearest sign yet of voter dissatisfaction with the republican field. if rick perry is the great hope, why is he pulling just 15% in a crucial state like florida? why is the darling of job creation doing no better up north, pulling just 17% to mitt romney's in michigan's straw poll. perhaps it has something to do with the less than superlative debate performance. >> the shape of a man likes to attack mid-romney as a flip flopper. >> this is when you normally get tired and confused. >> not tonight. i'm ready. the romney city was for, against obama care. >> is it the mitt romney on the side against the second amendment before he was for the second amendment before he was before the social programs from the standp

. >> they have to -- herman cain, this is a guy -- he's like a bad caricature of a crazy old mr. brown in a tier perry movie. you have huntsman that has too much intelligence and sophistication for the new tea party republicans. there's no way tony perkins is happy with this field. impossible. >> thanks so much. we want you to answer tonight's question at the bottom of the screen. we want to know what you think. the republican war -- this is my hot story tonight. we didn't lead with it. the republican war on the postal service will hurt more people than you can ever imagine. i'll dismantle the smear campaign that is really going after and trying to kill a great american institution. postal workers are back fighting the fight. and they are protesting today. the head of the postal workers union will join me next, and we know george bush had -- he was bad for the country, but he was pretty doggone good comedy, wasn't he? that's why we need rick perry to hang in there for at least a little while. take a look at this. >> i'm bored by famine. i cannot wait for a medieval cookie, a cinn

. >> bill: herman cain wants a bigger tax that i do it is called fair tax. congress regulates spending not mrobama. >> bill: they know the american workers are bleeding in congress some don't care. >> bill: again congress regulates the tax rate i support a small national sales tax only if the rates come down. it is a collection issue. >> bill: i can't win on this. >> bill: of all ages jerome. miller tones down his act when he's with me. and i'm always g-rated. so your daughter will be fine. by the way some vip deluxe seats remain. we have good seats for all three shows available. i'll do a book signing before the show. details about all of this on billoreilly.com. bill no, i dress myself and chew gum at the same time. >> bill: he's a lucky little guy, congratulations to you. >> every kid in america should read my new book "killing lincoln." you have to know what a great president is and what mr. lincoln sacrificed for his country so i'm sending you an advanced sign copy. >> finally pinheads and patriots 23-year-old dakota meyer today received the medal of honor from president obama. his story

herman cain first, ron paul second. a distant third place as little-known former massachusetts governor, name of romney. close behind mr. romney is rick santorum, former senator. then michele bachmann behind him in fifth place. there are rumors there is a texas governor named rick perry running for this nomination as well but you would have no way of knowing that if you were just looking at the polling. if you were just looking at the straw polling. this weekend, herman cain won yet another republican activist straw poll, a big one. this rounds out a stng of big republican straw poll victories in may, washington state. in july, colorado. in august, georgia. this weekend, florida. ron paul has won a number of smaller straw polls. in terms of statewide gop straw polls, ron paul's big kahuna was california, which he won hugely last weekend. mitt romney won a michigan straw poll this weekend. he won ohio in july. in new hampshire he won in january. mr. santorum won his home state of pennsylvania, as well as south carolina. michele bachmann won ames, iowa. if straw polls meant winning that state, if he meant electoral colle

bill: what do you say to herman cain who says your guy is not ready for prime-time. >> we congratulate mrim on the campaign trail and see who ends up at the top at the end of the day stphaot story is similar to something i think americans heard seven years ago when a texas governor called a massachusetts senator a flip-flopper. you're going back to 2004? >> there must be something in the water in massachusetts. yesterday it was race to the top, flip-flop. the day before he was editing his book to remove a reference that romney care is a good national model. and of course as even governor romney's economic adviser says that romney care was the precursor, was the blueprint for obamacare. so this is a part of a pattern, and certainly going to be part of the public debate. bill: your camp has fired one of the first shots and we are going to get and answer from the other side coming up real soon. for now, ray sullivan thanks you very much for joining us from austin and our offer stands any time if the governor wants to appear. >> thank you. bill: the romney camp responds to all of this back an

mr. clean magic eraser bath scrubber. its clean is out of this world. >> rick: we got news on a saturday afternoon as we check the headlines for you. herman caininning the florida straw poll and by a wide margin. he received more than twice as many votes as the second place finisher, texas governor rick perry. also two american hikers held in an iranian prison for two years will be back on american soil tomorrow. finally. we have learned they boarded a flight and they have left the country of oman and they expect or we expect them to arrive in new york city, hopefully a little before noon eastern time tomorrow. jar fattal and shane bauer, who were released on a million dollars bail, or ransom, earlier this week. 52-year-old, roughly a quarter of the way through her record breaking swim from cuba to florida. it's called challenging, saying she's been stung several times by schools of jelly fish. we wish her the best. >> arthel: speaking of being stung, wall street coming off its worst week since the financial meltdown of 2008, the dow shedding nearly 6 1/2% of its total value, raising worries america is on the edge of a double dip recession. he

herman cain for president. he will tell us why upcoming. >> bill: personal story segment tonight. governor chris christie is being urged by some to run for president. in past mr. christie has always said no. >> i am not arrogant enough to believe that an one year governor of new jersey and seven years as states attorney i am ready to be president of the united states. >> you are still saying categorically not running in 2012. >> not running. >> categorically not running. >> i don't know how else to do it. i'm not doing it. >> i'm not going to. zero chance i will. i don't feel like i'm ready to be president. i don't want to run for president. i don't have the fire in the belly to run for the '. >> what do i have to do short of suicide to convince people i'm not running. apparently i have to commit suicide. >> bill: the question is is he running? >> journalist for gannett the author of the book soprano state. political anchor for new jersey network and author of the book you are the brand all right steve is the governor running or not? >> today, no. two weeks from now he could change. >> bill: make him look bad if he does that. >> listen, let's be frank about t

mr. buffett is a really intelligent individual, but i can promise you, doesn't know what's going on in places that -- where the job creation is at a zero, because of overtaxation and overregulation. >> and herman cain has bravely and irrelevantly ruled out running on a ticket with rick perry. >> could you support rick perry if he were the nominee? >> today i could not support rick perry as the nominee for a host of reasons. him being soft on securing the border is one of the reasons. i feel very strongly about the need to secure the border for rio, the need to enforce the laws that are already there. that's where he and i have a basic fundamental difference of opinion. >> realizing that the president's poll numbers make his re-election seem like an unhill battle at this point. the vice president offered an important political reminder in a radio interview in florida today. >> there was a guy i knew who used to be the mayor of boston back in the '70s and the press was asking him legitimate questions and pointing out he was sagging in the polls. and he looked at them and he said, look, don't compare me to the almighty. compare me to the alternative. that's what's going to happen. right now, totally l

martha: that is what herman cain would say with his win in the florida straw poll. do you make of that? >> it is 3500 activists. mr. cain deserves his victory and it is an impressive victory. there aren't many people out there who believe he will be the nominee of the republican party. martha: always good to check in with you. larry sabato, university of virginia this morning. >> thank you, martha. martha: we ask you our question of the day. which republican candidate do you think will end up with president obama. 1200 people weighed in. 70% think it will not be rick perry or mitt romney who end up being the one who run against president obama. how about that. somebody else they think. go to our foxnews.com/americas newsroom. and or send us a tweet and let us know what you think. bill: it is not science. martha: 70% says they're not the one. bill: gives you idea what folks are thinking. breaking news on the economy and real estate market and it is not good again in august. sales of new homes fell for the sixth-month low in august. that is the fourth straight monthly decline during the peak buying season. which is