scares me and he's going to be the next president but there are a lot of people who are saying perry herman cain that's what they're predicting perry herman cain i like. i go perry bachmann i'll do what you. never how do you know how i feel safe because perry's got a gun and shoot any coyote prowling around the way those grounds and then i'll go you know jacqueline ok now with steven seagal to what he would you know steven seagal i'm willing to bet he's anti steven seagal yeah right. thank you very very love stephen so i'll just have to call him up and ask him ok through what was going on in london obviously we've been providing you with a lot of coverage of some of the harsh sentences that have been handed down after the riots that we saw there but i think that this one might take the cake this is an eleven year old getting punished take a look sentencing him just a few moments ago the district judge said i'm very concerned about what i read you think you can behave the way you want to behave everybody else has to put up with it you need to understand you can't get away with committing offenses

the florida republican primary, they have romney, 28, perry 21, herman cain 7. er more interesting as it relates to the rick perry question, mitt romney 51 in the general election, barack obama, 43. rick perry, 46, barack obama, 45. you know, the layman, i look at it and i say, well, geez, mitt romney looks like a stronger candidate. we know '04 is going to be a swing state. i don't want to read too much into any one poll, does this send a signal to some in the republican party like whoa let's put the breaks on rick perry? >> i think the chris christie boomlet, the paul ryan boomlet, the jonathan allen boomlet. >> that's for today. >> the rise of jonathan allen. >> i think it shows that the republicans, republicans aren't satisfied with the field yet. and there's always someone better out there. >> chris, let me just interject. it feels like in every election for both parties, there's always someone better out there. i give you wes clark, who, when he got into the race in september of 2003, was where rick perry is right now. is that a natural phenomenon that you

>> fifth was his cutoff. >> coming in after that 14556 herman cain and then perry and romney.cern yourself with that because they didn't involve themselves in the process. our viewers -- we're learning -- they showed up on stage and we're sitting here hey there they are and as soon as we went to them that's what happened. here's what's interesting to me, candy. i'm told by our political producer here, 14,000 last year. this year almost 17,000. what does that say to you. >> it says more people were interested or that we had more people able to get out to vote. i was talking to an iowa activist the other day who said i think that you will see -- because anybody can vote in this. you don't have to be a republican. if you're a iowan citizen and can vote in the upcoming caucuses, you can come in, show your i.d. and vote. so the way they were translating this was they thought it would be much better, last time it was about 14,000. they said this translate into the fact that people are angry and want to come out early and have a voice or you have to also say it also means perhaps peo

now even for president they want to ride some of this tea party wave including herman cain or michele bachmann or rick perry is trying to lean that way too i think that they have all made it pretty clear that social conservatism comes before fiscal conservatism sure. but it but those groups are already darr a long time ago they just found that. the media that stopped ignored stopped paying attention to them as as a legitimate movement. in the larger scale suddenly started paying attention to them when they said that they were about reducing the debt or getting to sleep conservative or treating american spending like your family pocketbook it in you know once they notice that the media listen to that message where they had stopped listening to the you know anti-abortion right to life messaging dismissing it as just say you know right wing christian conservative message that didn't wasn't wasn't just you know that self sound political direction. and then they got all this media attention the money people on the you know koch brothers who are the bogeyman for all this now but that the koch brothers say they st

balkman, herman cain, newt beginning 2k3writ67, and for ebb's information, rick perry is my governor.et me inform you, he is good on jobs, but you need to find out exactly what he's going to do before you put him in office, because you see the mess we got now? if you don't check him out, we're going to have a worse mess. >> thank you for the call. amy gardner? what are you hearing there? >> i'm not quite sure. what are you hearing there? i had trouble hearing because of the echo. >> governor perry, he report that that's in part because of the oil and gas industry and because of the cheap labor force in texas unlike many other states. >> there is a point of exploration there. and you're going to see a ink spilled about that in the days and weeks coming forth in the media. the jobs that governor perry boasts about does include low -- an enormous portion of low-wage jobs, so there will be questions raised about the quality of jobs he has atrackeded to texas. no question. >> if it contrasts to the huge crowd that surrounded senator balkman's tent. a rather spars crowd but appears to be 10

cnn has confirmed texas governor rick perry, michele bachmann, ron paul, herman cain are all going to forum and it's going to be downtown, columbia, south carolina, former house speaker newt gingrich, accepted the invitation on tuesday and he's going to be the fifth participant. so a lot of people going. apparently, mitt romney is not. >> yeah. joe, i had one more question for you about nancy reagan. i saw video of her. can you tell us what happened there? >> right. former first lady, nancy reagan was walking, lost her balance, fell tuesday night. this was arriving at the ronald reagan precedent lie prayer any california. she was there to hear senator marco rubio of florida give a speech. rubio caught mrs. reagan. she's 90 years old. she didn't hit the ground. a spokeswoman said she's fine. the video footage showed her sort of walking slowly with a cane. we've seen pictures of her before. kind of very slow. said something to rubio and she fell and rubio caught her and others moved in. it sounds like she's fine. he went ahead and delivered his speech. we haven't heard there were any pr

rick perry who will enter the race looks like this week. use of mitt romney say, herman cain and i are the only ones who can only do this job because we a private sector experience. i think that was the beginning of an argument against rick perry. host: in the national polls, is an estimate the difference adding rick perry to the lineup. guest: it seems to draw a certain amount in the national polls, but those are pretty meaningless at this point did rick perry has a long way to go. we will see. host: talk about the straw poll on saturday. c-span will provide live coverage, every minute of it. what will it mean in the end? guest: well, the straw poll, somewhere around 10,000 people probably who will come and be courted by these various candidates. it is a show of strength. right now, i think the reason you saw michelle bachmann and tim pawlenty attacking each other so fiercely, it is not how many candidates are scarcely surviving, it is a test of strength. host: it is likely some of the second and third tier candidates might decide the voters are speaking to them? guest: yes,

herman cain fifth . interesting development, the write in canditate rick perry beat mitt romney and newt gingrich.helle bachmann established herself as a candidate and needs to be talked about as a first tier candidate. the end of this process here in ames, means the end of mitt romney's strategy to run a general election strategy. he can no longer afford to do that. he has rick perry to beat him with a write-in vote and michelle bachmann who looks formidable . what mitt romney got when he actively participated four years ago he took away 31 percent of the vote and he had not had people on the ground and they made phone calls. three percent is a small number for somebody who is a national front runner. >> karen pawlenty said he moved up and he was seventh and moved up to third, but the bottom line for all of the organization and time he put here, this is disappointing. >> the bord collapse is not too strong to apply to where he stands out. it opens a huge opportunity for rick perry and a larger lesson to take away from this. this year in this state, passion trumps organization. >> chris? look bach

perry the front-runner today? >> we've seen this happen three times before with people getting big bumps up. we saw with it herman cain with a good debate performance. donald trump getting into the race. michelle bachmann with having a boom which has now started to fade. governor perry adroitly handled his announcement. he held his announcement on the same day as the iowa straw poll. he ate up most of the oxygen that day. the next day reports on the announcement -- on the straw poll results, michelle bachmann was the first paragraph, he was the second paragraph. the question now is, can he do the things necessary to sustain over the next two, three weeks and in more than one poll. this is one poll. sometimes we get different results from polls taken at the same time. no doubt he's handled his announcement an do itly. he's come on the scene with a -- lot of passion and appealing public image. you saw over the weekend gland handing his way through the stay fair. i thought he did a useful thing sunday night took michelle bachmann to school in her hometown, her birthplace, perry showed up early, shook every hand. circulat

and i challenge the mitt romneys of the world and the rick perries, and michele balkmans and herman cain. i don't want to leave anybody out. gary johnson. i challenged him to accept this pledge. no pack money. no super packs formed. keep your limit at $2500. i can live with that. i'll keep mine at $1 00, and let's go get the american people. think it would energize the campaign. no more wall street fundraisers. they might hear something. oh, didn't know that. anybody else? yes, ma'am. >> i'm with the national general. i believe you said last weekend in new hampshire rather than traveling iowa with your other colleagues, my first question would be for the foreseeable time? >> i will concentrate on new hampshire. but south carolina, it's the only place i don't have a draw. so i will sneak into south carolina. i love iowa. i mean, my first speech, three months ago. all the other candidates are there. i get up in iowa, big crowd, and say we'll eliminate the ethanol subsidy. i thought they were going to have a heart attack. but i thought paw lenty and newt gingrich and the rest of them were g

herman cain took the number five spot. texas governor rick perry came in sixth. he wasn't even on the ballot. all of his support came from write-in votes. he just declared his candidacy in the south carolina just hours before the poll results came out. listen. >> it is time to get america working again and that's why with the support of my family and unwavering belief in the goodness of america, i declare to you today as a candidate for president of the united states. >> well, perry definitely casts a long shadow over the iowa straw poll. he beat the man whom many called the overall front-runner in this race and that's mitt romney. romney came in seventh ahead of former speaker of the house newt gingrich who was in eighth place and former utah governor jon huntsman placed ninth in the poll and coming in last, michigan congressman thaddeus mccotter. there is still one republican name we haven't mentioned and she hasn't even declared but definitely making her presence felt in this race. we're talking about of course, none other than former alaska governor sarah pal

then, tim pawlenty, who is no longer in the running, followed by rick santorum, herman cain, rick perry, and so forth. what has been the major significant change in the run for the white house from the republican side between last sunday and today? them to give you a big differences -- one was governor pawlenty dropping out of the race because of his disappointing showing in the iowa straw poll, and texas governor repairing getting into the race that day and roaring into south carolina and iowa and starting his race and really define it as, you know, eight two or three-person race at this time. most people consider the top tier candidates rick perry, governor romney, and michele bachmann coming off her win in iowa. that is largely with the race is right now with some of the other candidates confined 08, or maybe if we see an entry from someone else not in the race come in. host: ron reagan. [laughter] if you are not in the top tier, what do you have to do to get in the top tier? how do you attract the support and that money? guest: it is tough for these candidates right now. the candida

perry in advance of him announcing. first of all, brilliant strategy to skip the straw poll, show up tomorrow, spread the message -- we listen to herman cain rallying the crowd. does it make iwaowiowans dissed? >> if he would have tried to get in late it wouldn't have gone well. there's a write-in possibility. but i think that the metrics to use for rick perry as a successful candidate compared to fred compton four years ago, can he raise money, and can he do it while he simultaneously gets down on the ground in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, et cetera. if he does that, i don't think iowans will mind that he skipped this. >> if you watch rick perry, he's a better actor, speaker than mitt romney and up in the reagan class of delivering the speech. >> it was a well-written speech. his delivery -- he's not always as good as he was today. that's rick perry, close to the vest. very strong on the teleprompter with the prepared text. with the prepared text -- i don't know in f he used a prompter -- if he used a prompter. they've focused on flaws in rick perry as a candidate. he's a strong presenter, as you suggested, compared to mitt romney

herman cain had about 1400 votes and rick perry as a write-in got 1718 votes.nother name on the ballot is former governor mitt romney. former house speaker newt gingrich got 385 boats and jon huntsman got 65 votes. here are some of the headlines from the "start tribune." rick perry is the latest entry into the gop race. >> we will be free in our families and small businesses and states from the burden and cost of federal government so that those groups can create an innovate and succeed. i believe in america. i believe in her purse and her promise. i believe heard best days have not yet been lives. i believe our greatest deeds are reserved for the generations to come and with the help and the courage of the american people, we will get our country working again very hot bless you and god bless the united states of america, thank you. host: governor rick perry entered the race and this is the headline in charleston, south carolina -- we want to hear from you and you can send us your comments on twittered or send us an e-mail at journal@cspan.org. good morning fr

then, tim pawlenty, who is no longer in the running, followed by rick santorum, herman cain, rick perry, and so forth. what has been the major significant change in the run for the white house from the republican side between last sunday and today? them to give you a big differences -- one was governor pawlenty dropping out of the race because of his disappointing showing in the iowa straw poll, and texas governor repairing getting into the race that day and roaring into south carolina and iowa and starting his race and really define it as, you know, eight two or three-person race at this time. most people consider the top tier candidates rick perry, governor romney, and michele bachmann coming off her win in iowa. that is largely with the race is right now with some of the other candidates confined 08, or maybe if we see an entry from someone else not in the race come in. host: ron reagan. [laughter] if you are not in the top tier, what do you have to do to get in the top tier? how do you attract the support and that money? guest: it is tough for these candidates right now. the candida

i would challenge the mitt romney's of the world, the rick perry's, the michelle bachmann's, the ron paul's, jon huntsman, herman cain -- i do not want to leave anyone out -- gary johnson. whomever. i challenge them to accept this pledge. no pac money, no superpac formed. keep your limit at 25,000, i am fine with that. i think we will energize the campaign. no more wall street fund raisers. they might hear something -- did not know that. anybody else? >> national journal. correct me if i'm wrong. i believe you said last weekend in new hampshire -- you were in new hampshire rather than i with your colleagues. do you see yourself concentrating your energies in new hampshire or traveling to other states? >> i will concentrate on new hampshire. south carolina -- it is one of the only places where i do not have a draw. i love iowa. my first speech three months ago -- all the other candidates were there. i got up in front of a big crowd and i said we are going to eliminate the ethanol subsidy. i thought there would be heart attacks. but the point is, we can do anything together. i thought tim pawlenty, newt gingrich, were

rick perry, very busy on the campaign trail, just in his first week. let's also talk about herman cainew hampshire today. he opened up his hq up there in new hampshire and of course, former godfather's pizza ceo and radio talk show host. very outspoken last night saying, listen, everybody thinks there's only a three-person race, i am still in this race, don't let the media count me out. and let's talk about newt gingrich, you have not heard a lot about him, his campaign's kind of on a shoestring budget. where is he this week? hawaii. he is fund-raising out there, has an event tonight with the maui gop, and it's also his 11th anniversary with his wife, so he's celebrating that as well. of course, newt gingrich married three times, the former house speaker. >> i wonder if he got her a gift from tiffany's? >> we'll check into that one, yeah. >> hey, paul, with all this talk about perry and all of the other candidates, i have to ask you, mitt romney is still apparently the front-runner and yet we are not hearing about him. so what's going on there? >> yeah, you know, if you look at most of

rick perry who will enter the race looks like this week. use of mitt romney say, herman cainand i are the only ones who can only do this job because we a private sector experience. i think that was the beginning of an argument against rick perry. host: in the national polls, is an estimate the difference adding rick perry to the lineup. guest: it seems to draw a certain amount in the national polls, but those are pretty meaningless at this point did rick perry has a long way to go. we will see. host: talk about the straw poll on saturday. c-span will provide live coverage, every minute of it. what will it mean in the end? guest: well, the straw poll, somewhere around 10,000 people probably who will come and be courted by these various candidates. it is a show of strength. right now, i think the reason you saw michelle bachmann and tim pawlenty attacking each other so fiercely, it is not how many candidates are scarcely surviving, it is a test of strength. host: it is likely some of the second and third tier candidates might decide the voters are speaking to them? guest: yes,

perry could get some of those votes. let's go back now live to the herman cain tent. [applause] >> thank you. [inaudible] [laughter] >> our live a view camera inside the herman cain tent. we are also live inside the coliseum, the epicenter of the political universe this weekend. tom beaumont is covering all of this for the associated press. we will be checking in with him in just a few minutes. a reminder, we will have the results as they come up, probably at 6:00 eastern, 5:00 local time. tom, we appreciate your time. let me ask you first about attendance. we talked to matt strong. what are you hearing? >> it is hard to tell, because there is the parent factor. there are organizing groups who are supporters of him -- there is the rick perry factor. there are organizing groups who are supporters of him. last year -- 2007, there were about 14,000 people who voted. i think that is about the bar right now because mitt romney and jon huntsman are not participating. >> rick santorum is serving what he is calling presidential peach preserves. someone else is serving blue buddy ice cream. does any o

perry would defeat obama. bachmann would have a tougher time but could. and you don't know about christie. >> bill: you are giving me herman cain then? are you giving me that? >> no. right now herman cain would not defeat obama. >> bill: okay and we like herman cain. it is not a slam against the man. >> is he a good guy. he has to need to learn how to take his charisma from the stump and into a debate. so far he hasn't done that on the stump is he fantastic. >> bill: dick more russ, everybody. plenty more why are politicians soft on criminal illegal aliens when they're killing people in that state? we'll have a special report. dennis miller on president obama's massachusetts vacation and east coast earthquake yesterday. we hope you stay tuned to those reports. >> bill: factor follow up segment tonight, terrible case ins woulder, massachusetts. illegal immigrant from ecuador is charged with vehicular homicide after hitting and dragging a 23-year-old man last saturday night. matthew denise who just graduated from framingham state university will be memorialized on friday and reports say that when gauman was told by police that ma

perry, bachmann and paul are all in. so is mitt romney, newt gingrich, gary johnson, rick santorum, john hunts man, herman cain. today with a memorial service for the people killed after a stage collapsed during a violent storm over the weekend. as you can see in this video, a wind gust took down the stage saturday night minutes before the band sugar land was set to perform. people in the crowd rushed to the rescue trying to help those trapped under the stage. look at that come down. five people were killed. at least 40 others injured. police say the stage collapsed minutes after a warning to concert-goers about the storm. >>> protestors could disrupt the ride home for san francisco's subway commuters today. the rapid transit system are warning riders of a protest at the civic center station later today. members of the group anonymous are organizing that demonstration. this after claiming they hacked the website for the transit system. my bart.org on sunday. the group acted out of response to bart cutting cell phone service at some of the stations last week. bart says it blocked service to keep potential protes

you take out giuliani and sarah palin from the equation, perry does better, at 32%, romney 18%, bachmann 12%, gingrich 7%, ron paul 6%, herman caine. bottom line nationally among republicans in our new poll and other polls we've seen, romney is clearly the front-runner right now, doesn't necessarily mean, brooke, he's going to get the nomination, doesn't necessarily mean he will win the caucuses in iowa, win the new hampshire primary, south carolina. it shows nationally at this moment he's the front-runner right now, it's only been a few weeks as you know since he announced he's running for president so presumably this will help him get some fund-raising going and also put a little bull's eye on him as well because the other republican candidates might be more assertive in going after him. two weeks from today in tampa, florida, i'm going to be moderating the cnn debate down there among the republican candidates so we'll see what he's got, see what the other republican candidates have and i'm sure it will be a strong two-hour debate in tampa. brooke? >> all right, wolf blitzer you will be also in -- >> can i tell you one more note

herman cain took the number five spot. >> and here where it gets a bit interesting. coming in sixth is texas governor rick perry.support came from write-in votes. he beat the man who many have called the overall front-runner in the case. that's mitt romney. he came in seventh. his name was on the ballot. he came in ahead of newt gingrich. and eighth place jon huntsman placed ninth in the poll. coming in last, michigan congressman mccotter who i suspect most people didn't know was running at this point. >> i want to read this. ron paul tweeted, we won an historic number of votes in iowa today. exclamation point. 27.6%. then he has a link to i guess the results. and then everyone, the straw poll and all. that he said just now. so he is excited. he is excited thinking he did okay. i want to bring in somebody who know, who is a rarity i should say in ames, iowa. that would be a democrat. florida congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, also ahead of the dnc. what do you make of this? >> not so much. i mean, i think it is notable that whereas before in previous presidential campaigns, we might have chalked upstream fr

perry with 29%, romney in second with 17%. ron paul's moved up to 13% of the support. bachmann falls to 10, and you have herman cain gingrich tied. how does he turn that around if you consider he's campaigning in places like hawaii, last weekend, which isn't exactly a battleground state? >> he's in new hampshire today. he's in manchester, and he'll be in georgia this weekend. big georgia fish fry in perry, georgia, and he'll be in georgia for the weekend for that. he is campaigning in the first state. i think there are a couple things. one, the last poll shows there's still a lot of fluidity. you mingsed perry coming in, romney moving down, bachmann moving around. you're seeing a lot of movement between the people. a recent cnn poll, if you look at those that are running, dad's at 8%. so a much different number. but we're really in, i think, the kind of fun and games, kind of the entertainment stage in terms of most people aren't really watching the candidates day to day. you and i are, but a lot of people aren't doing that. so we're really looking at what looks interesting, what looks attractive. kind of in that p

i think governor perry will do that when he talks about the economy around the clock, what worked in texas and what hasn't worked in washington and let people make a choice. herman cainnderstanding, senior executive in three fortune 500 companies, a lot of these people have understanding of the economy threw the government or private sector. whether they can find the right sort of note or thread to talk about how obama's policies have failed and what they would do instead is going to be the key question. >> the president's policies are put to the test. >> the president's policies have been put to the test. i don't think, however, you're going to see either romney or perry or any of the other candidates who have survived over the next couple of months put forth a proposals with a lot of specifics. i think instead they'll continue to bash obama on taxes and on regulation and on the stimulus, i happen to believe that the stimulus kept the economy from being even worse. as we know, that's not a great sell. so republican candidates will continue to say you can't spend your way out of this recession. >> david druker, the latest polling shows such distakdain a the results o

herman cain has won the straw pole. conservative the -- straw poll. conservatives made up some of the vote. rick perry in second place. rick santorum came in third. >>> jon huntsman is accused of hundred running aing intive -- running a negative campaign after saying he would not do that. hundredsesman has always been crit -- huntsman has always been critical of president obama saying he's failed the country. >>> this shake up in the billion-dollar empire of rupert murdoch continues today. his news source has approved a new executive for sky italia. andrea zacker will plea place that individual -- will replace that individual. >>> here at home san francisco police officers reportedly are handing out fewer traffic tickets. "the examiner" reports a number of citations of -- the number of traffic cry tases are down 1% -- citations are down 18%. another reason they say this has dropped, drivers are apparently putting counsel their -- putting down their cell phones. in the first five months of this year, they've only hadn'ted out 795 tickets -- handed out 795 tickets. >>> on saturday, 11,000 gallons of a h

perry, campaigns in south carolina early today. then it's back to texas for a meeting with backers in austin. businessman herman cain spending the day crisscrossing new hampshire. making his case to several new hampshire cities. >> newt gingrich, remember him? he's in hawaii where he'll meet with gop supporters on maui later today. >>> turning overseas to syria, a government opposition spokesman says 29 people were killed yesterday when security forces fired on protesters in several locations. watch. the european union's political security committee is calling for an embargo on syrian crude oil. on thursday, washington imposed its own economic sanctions on syria, and called for president bashar al assad to step down. oil and gas, by the way, make up about a quarter of syria's economy. meanwhile, the u.n. is apparently sending a humanitarian mission to syria. >>> disturbing view of this month's riots in england. take a look at this video, captured by closed circuit cameras in a section of birmingham, england. you see the armed rioters taking shots at police. british authorities are usually hesitant about releasing vi

rick perry who will enter the race looks like this week. use of mitt romney say, herman cain and i are the only ones who can only do this job because we a private sector experience. i think that was the beginning of an argument against rick perry. host: in the national polls, is an estimate the difference adding rick perry to the lineup. guest: it seems to draw a certain amount in the national polls, but those are pretty meaningless at this point did rick perry has a long way to go. we will see. host: talk about the straw poll on saturday. c-span will provide live coverage, every minute of it. what will it mean in the end? guest: well, the straw poll, someere around 10,000 people probably who will come and be courted by these various candidates. it is a show of strength. right now, i think the reason you saw miclle bachmann and tim pawlenty attacking each other so fiercely, it is not how many candidates are scarcely surviving, it is a test of strength. host: it is likely some of the second and third tier candidates might decide the voters are speaking to them? guest: yes, but

perry's entrance. so those are four big events this week. whether the straw poll is a fifth big event remains to be seen. >> sglouft a few minutes ago, in fact, michele bachmann and herman cainad an encounter outside. part of the sort of carnival and state fair atmosphere here. we want to show a little of it to you. >> can i borrow a golf cart? you borrowed -- i'm serious. >> are you serious? >> i'm dead serious. >> i've got to double the salaries of people working for me. >> that's all right. i'll be fit and in shape. >> so, you know, this is becoming sort of a -- a group -- they're on the road, they're encountering each other all the time. >> right. >> it's very high spirited. >> yeah. >> chris? >> what you see here, andrea, if you go outside, you see that this is -- this is -- while i graez with jonathan that especially michele bachmann, it's nothing nurnd the sun. she was the iowa front-runner going in, she may be the iowa front-runner coming out. august 13, we may see the most important thing was rick perry getting into the race, not if michele bachmann winning the ames straw poll. i will say from a political junkie perspective, it is a neat thing to go out and see all

herman cain they don't have a chance. all right? it's okay people like them and all of that they are not going to get the nomination. the three that have a chance are romney, perry, and bachmann. that's it. it looks like the stock market collapse helps romney and perry, they position themselves as successful executives in the business realm. >> yeah, but perry's arrival into the campaign throws a real threat at romney. >> bill: it does beings absolutely. >> job creation but, b, he can flank him to the right on social policy. >> bill: independents look like they are going for romney. new fox news polls says they are breaking for romney big. >> they are now. >> romney has led a blessed life because every major opponent has dropped out. one is about to drop. in will he be able to solidify his hold on the conservative base in time to hold. >> bill: you expect for romney tomorrow night to go right. >> to the right and ratchet up the and the energy level. >> bill: morris will be blogging on dick morris.com. you will have to watch both. all right. dick? is that okay? very good. plenty more aheads the factor moves along this evening. former congressman woman bashing the

numbers. 48%, that's the percentage that the vote presidential candidate herman cain won in the straw poll in denver. rick perry second with 13%. next $3,017,000. that's the one year deal wide receiver plaxico burris signed with the new york jets. he served time behind bars for having that gun. that's how much "cowboys & ail owns" and "the smurfs" brought in the box office this weekend to tie at the top. that's news by the numbers. >> thank you, steve. accused fort hood plotter abdo not only admitted he was behind the failed plot but claims his muslim faith played a large role in his relationship with the united states army. >> we're talking, of course, about that second alleged plot at fort hood. why is the mainstream media down playing religion in that case while focusing on the right wing christian views of the norway shooter? kim is the author of oif left turn, how liberal media bias distorts the american mind" and she's our guest. i guess we're pretty clear on what your book is about, right? >> yeah, i think it's pretty obvious by the title. >> let's take a look at the headlines and let you decipher if you

interesting question right now between michelle bachmann and rick perry, at least the top tier and then you have ron paul and herman cainas well. among social conservatives, where do these votes go? to whom do they go? >> well, i mean, i think there's a lot of work to be done. a lot of primary play to do and i'm not sure everybody is even on the field but, you know, look, tea party express, michelle bachmann has come out to our rallies and she supported our efforts. rick perry has been there. he supported our efforts. a lot of enthusiasm and support for rick perry jumping in the race but, you know, michelle bachmann has been on the front lines with the tea party movement for a long time so, you know, i think there's an excitement for both of them and we're just going to have to see who rises to the top. >> i'll ask you the same question that michelle bachmann received no short of like 10 times on the sunday talk shows this week. why would somebody vote for michelle bachmann if they're a tea party member as opposed to rick perry who has been a governor and who, as many people say, was tea party before tea party was cool?

race is herman cain, and i respect herman cain, but i also think it's helpful to have had that government experience that i've had. >> romney will be campaigning in new hampshire today. governor perryresponded to what he just heard from romney. >> romney took a swipe at you today saying he had private sector experience and that makes him better qualified to create jobs. >> give him my love. >> what do you think about that, though, sir, that he has private sector-doctor. >> i think oranges and apples. running a state is different from running a business. has i would say is, go take a look at his record when he was governor, and look at my record had i'm governor, and then you've got some apples to apples. >> mark halperin, so it's on. as of yesterday, they're going head to head, calling each other out by name. >> rick perry's first full day out, walking around the fair and at events, he's engaged the president obama intensely and romney. getting in late, got a lot of ground to make up and trying to have the campaign on fast-forward. he's creating a lot of stir and lots of focus, and he said some things yesterday that the left in particular is going crazy on, and it's going to be int

perry is still a bit of a wild card but there is a lot of time left on the clock. it's fun to prognosticate but there's still time to go. >> and it's not going to be herman cain. >> noan cain. >> i was just agreeing with michael. it's not going to be herman cain. there's going to be a long list that is going to be eliminated. >> all right. gentlemen, thank you so much. it's always a pleasure. that's going to be it for me this morning. always nice to spend a saturday with you. my colleague, craig melvin is up next. among the top stories that he's going to bring you, the two american hikers that have been sentenced to eight years in prison. but is their fate sealed? >>> police are being given homes force free. that's straight ahead on msnbc saturday. [ doug ] i got to figure this out. i want to focus on innovation. but my data is doubling. my servers are maxed out. i need to think about something else when i run. [ male announcer ] with efficient i.t. solutions from dell, doug can shift up to 50% of his company's technology spend from operating costs to innovation. so his company runs better, and so does doug. dell. the power to do more.

the mitt romney is that the world and the rick perry's and the michele bachmann and the ron paul and the jon huntsman and anybody else who is there, herman cain. i don't want to leave anybody out. gary johnson, who matter. i challenge them to accept this pledge. no pac money. keep your limit at 2500. i can live with that. i'll keep my templates go get the american people. i think it was energized campaign. no more wall street fundraisers. could be out with folks. they might hear something. didn't know that. anybody else clicks yes, ma'am. >> on what the national journal -- adding a mac my first question would be for the disabled future, d.c. traveling to the other primary states? >> yeah, i will concentrate on new hampshire, but south carolina is the only place i don't have a job. and so i will sneak into south carolina. i love iowa. my first speech three months ago, on the other candidates are there. i get up in iowa, the crowd and say we'll eliminate the subsidy. my god they thought they were going to be heart attacks. my point is we can do anything together. how about xml? i thought poland tea and newt gingrich and those guys were going to

perry change things? gentlemen, i want to bring up the straw poll ballot first for our viewers as we show it here out in ames. we know on the ballot is congresswoman bachmann, mr. cain, herman that mccotter, and ron paul is well known, governor pawlenty from minnesota, senator santorum from pennsylvania, former gingrich is on the ballot, governor huntsman makes his appearance on the ballot. and to you first, i know you have to be a diplomat, but governor pawlenty from neighboring minnesota, he's put a lot into the state of iowa, if he comes in third or fourth, is he still in this race? >> well, you know, that will be a decision, you know, that the various campaigns will have to make seeing where they place on saturday evening. but what i can tell you is that he's got a very robust organization that he's put in place here with an infrastructure that will deliver those pawlenty votes that they have around the state, but, you know, i'm a sports guy, so that's why they play the game. we'll find out on saturday how the candidates fare. >> that is why they play the game, and it's a fun game you play in iowa with the straw poll and the caucuses. and mitt romney has an in and out r

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 perrye. >> 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 interesting one of the common threads that i hear among social conservatives and libertarians who really don't like social conservatives is they want the "leave meet heck alone" caucus to win. none of the candidates seem to be sending that message. john, the most profound about this in the past 48 hours i've literally been inundated with e-mails. wanting to see if i can get them into having face time with governor perry. i can't do it, by the way. but a lot of these guys, some of whom w

if you think herman cain is going to do the job, you have to remember he was the former president of the kansas city federal reserve. if people do their research on rick perry, thin know about the -- they know about. michele bachmann talks about being a defender of the constitution when she voted for the unconstitutional patriot act. jon huntsman was the man in of a war criminal in henry kissinger. ron paul talk about going back to the gold standard. if people looked at the price of gold per ounce, it is almost $1,800 an ounce. >> will go to robert on the republican line from newburgh, new york. only 22- i'm not the year-old watching c-span, but with that being said, thank you for taking my call. i have been following this. i follow what the last guest said. it is a shame when they talk about wanting to see certain changes. if you really just watch, but the gentleman said before, ron paul just talks about the issues. the rest of them you get like quattro words out of them. we talk about a financial crisis, we have three wars going on, and you never hear any other candidate besides ron paul. it is hard for me to understand that if you say the honest truth, y

herman cain who received 9% of the vote. the remaining in order were texas governor dick perry, mitt romney, newt gingrich got a 2%.g in track the latest contributions with c- span's website for 2012. it helps you navigate the political landscape with twitter feeds and optics from the campaign and the latest polling data plus links to our media partners. all at c-span.org. >> as an aspiring journalist, i'm preparing myself for the small salary i will be starting out with. >> put aside your bias and report the truth. >> the reason people love a fox news is because it is an experience. it is love and hate. >> from the washington journalism and a media conference, aspiring journalists on ethics and commentary and where they get their news and information in today's's multimedia environment. >> texas governor rick perry announces his candidacy for the 2012 presidential nomination. he talks about the economy, his record, the role of government, and some of the policies he would implement if elected. he plans campaign stops in new hampshire and got -- iowa. he spoke at a gathering in charleston, south carolina. this is a

perry is now on top leading you all 29. mitt romney second with 17. ron paul, 13. her m herman cain, you have 4% of the vote.ou have america's respect and attention. you've charmed this country. why can't you get their vote? >> two reasons. it's not over yet. first of all, my name i.d. is still almost 50%. so i still have a long way to go in terms of name i.d. secondly, i'm getting the vote of people i'm able to touch and speak with as i travel around the country but the mainstream media, as you know, they've tried to narrow it down to just what they call the top tier, you know, of the three people at the top and it's not like that. there's a disconnect between the mainstream media and what the real people are saying. and the other thing is as this campaign goes forward, i believe that governor perry who is a good candidate, a lot hasn't been done about yet and it's going to take some time. remember at one point, representative michelle bachmann was the flavor of the week. now governor rick perry is the flavor of the week. well, i'm not worried about that. we're going to keep doing what we are doing, pushing