paul burka is senior executive editor of "texas monthly." you've been watching governor perry for a long time. this is very tactical what his weekend plans are given the fact that all the other candidates are in ames? >> absolutely. it's very shrewd move. he steals the thunder from whoever wins the iowa caucuses. this is the way governor perry has operated throughout his career. he never plays by other people's rules. he plays by his own rules. he's always pretty successful at it. i think this is -- this is pretty typical. he has a veteran team. they've been together for ten years and they always have a plan. >> and what is -- what is his power base right now? people see him as a threat perhaps to michele bachmann because he comes from that wing of the party and he also has evangelical roots. within texas we know there was a divide between him and george w.

for more, we are joined by paul burka, senior executive editor of the magazine, "texas monthly."s been covering texas politics for more than 35 years. paul burka, thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. >>. >> woodruff: let's talk about governor perry's job claims that he in texas has been creating 40% of the new jobs in this country over the last two years. first of all, is that borne out by the facts and second of all, what sort of jobs? >> well, the answer to the first question is yes it appears to be borne out by the facts. the second question is really more interesting, what kind of jobs. and that is something that there's going to be quite a lot of debate about. for example one of the important companies that governor perry brought in was countrywide and that was right at the beginning of the mortgage crisis that countrywide was involved in. and they set up a call center in the midland/odessa area, as you recall it was around 500 jobs. well, the call center collapsed because the mortgage industry collapsed so that didn't hold. that wasn't governor perry's fault

. >> paul burka in austin and kasie hunt in iowa.tis brown ] america is facing some tough challenges right now. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project in canada, we'll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils and that's a huge breakthrough. that's good for our country's energy security and our economy. >>> downed navy s.e.a.l.s were on a rescue mission when their chopper went down in afghanistan. 30 americans died in that crash. it was the single deadliest incident for u.s. forces in the ten-year war. >>> a 64-year-old man died yesterday during the swim portion of the new york city triathlon. a female athlete also had a medical problem. she is in critical condition this morning. >>> people who smoke their first cigarette within half an hour of waking up are 80% more likely