you talk about talking to the base and that red state audience. again, when he goes out of the deep south and talks to people in swing state areas, he's going to have to sing a radically different tune. >> brent, is this the candidate we're going to see throughout the primaries or is he going to have to adjust if he's going to have a chance to beat barack obama, let alone get the nomination? >> i have breaking news for you after that speech, i don't think there's any chance that rick perry is going after the vote of richard. i'm confident to say that today here on your air. listen -- >> well, you know the problem for the republicans is this, that they have a very strong and active conservative base. the question is, will that fly with the people they need to win an election? >> chris,ky tell you i think the people in the detroit suburbs and the philadelphia suburbs would love to have that jobs record that governor perry just talked about and the number of jobs created in texas. detroit is hemorrhaging and has listen hemorrhaging jobs. listen, i thi

let's announce at this red state gathering in south carolina. south carolina is another one of those early voting states. it's going to come right after iowa and new hampshire. it's also a very prominent conservative state in the tea party movement. the governor of this state, nikki hailey came out and talked to reporters after her speech this morning and called this move by the perry campaign to make this announcement today a brilliant stroke. so the perry people are already getting the attention of big-name republicans out there trying to figure out who they're going to endorse. haley says she hasn't made up her mind yet. but rick perry is going to be fighting very hard for this nomination. south carolina figures very prominently in his campaign strategy. he may not able to win iowa. that's michele bachmann's home state, as she tooix likes to say time and again. he may not win new hampshire because that is a state next door to mitt romney's massachusetts. so south carolina is very important to the perry candidacy. >> i wonder, how does he stack

known this weekend when he attempts to steal some of the iowa straw poll thunder by speaking at the red statee in south carolina and on the same day traveling to new hampshire to meet supporters. carrie dan is joining his not yet campaign. carrie, a two state swing on the same day for a noncandidate. sure sounds like an announcement schedule to me. i think that's what everybody got everybody's tongs wagging. >> that's very much the case. rick perry had long planned to attend this red state conference. it's in charleston, south caroli carolina. he's going to be sharing the stage with governor nick haley, no accident there. also with jim demint, a conservative stalwart in the senate who is a king maker himself. he's going to go to new hampshire, a house party with a state representative who he met with austin. i'm told that state rep encouraged perry to come. he's glad to oblige on the day of the iowa straw poll. >> there's other reporting out there that indicates what he says on saturday may not be the official announcement, but sort of the announcement that lets people know when he's actually

. >> more now from the red state gathering. it's a conservative political blog, and we'll hear remarks from nebraska state treasurer, donald rumsfeld -- donald stenberg and from charleston, north carolina, this is about 20 minutes. [applause] >> nebraska will be represented by a genuine lifelong conservative in the united states senate. as nebraska's next united states senator, i'll vote to repeal obamacare. [cheers and applause] i will vote to secure our borders. [cheers and applause] i will vote to cut federal spending and balance the federal budget. [applause] i will vote to defend life, the second amendment, and religious freedom. [applause] i'm honored to have been endorsed by red state and by mark levin, and honored to have the support of many, many tea parties all across the state of nebraska, and i'm honored to be here today. you all are the salvation of our nation, and god bless you for all that you do for our country. [applause] america, today, is going in the wrong direction. we have a president who apologizes for our

he is going to do it at this red state conference where we're gathered here in charleston.s a conference put on by our cnn contributor eric ericsson. rick perry signed on to this event several months ago when he was saying he wasn't running for president. but in the last couple of months, as you know, fredricka, he's been telling reporters that he's feeling called to run for the white house. and that's what he's expected to do in just a few moments ago. last night in alabama, he was talking to a different group of republicans and he gave sort of a sneak preview of his speech today talking about what he would do to go after the national deficit, what he would do to create jobs in the country. he also said that the main thing that needs to happen in washington is basically an infusion of more conservative republicans like himself. here's what he had to say. >> when you get to thinking about it, the answer to our nation's challenge is sending more principled republicans to washington, d.c. when the republicans are -- we were working together back in 2010 and the power of what

at the annual conservative red state gathering.e led by our cnn contributor erick erickson. is he your guy or are you just being nice introducing him? . >> i'm introducing him. i'mtrigue very hard to stay neutral in this and give people my objective feedback of what i think of the candidates. i do like him? i like him a lot, he's a good friend but i like tim pawlenty and michele bachmann and 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 perry. this is with our affiliate. >> 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 j

recentlyhaley appeared at an event held by red states. -- red state. she talks about the deficit debate in washington. >> you know about the typical stereotype of a politician. this was strange. she and her family, they're actually real people. this is a surprising concept. she and her family, they are normal people. but along with being normal people, they live in the governor's mansion. she fights the good fight, and she is winning. it is my pleasure to introduce her. >> thank you. it is such a pleasure to be here. this feels like home because you always go back to the people you were with at the very beginning. right after my announcement, we have the explosion in sanford. i was under down -- underdog by major means. i was running against a lieutenant governor and the attorney general. they have more money than i could think about. we did not have a lot going for the campaign. we were invited to go to a atlanta. we had nothing to lose at this time. and so i spoke to these people and i will never forget, i actually felt at home. these were the people

they won't check for a red state or blue state.y won't have if you are registered to what party. they are coming through. so all 6 what you believe matters not. you need first responders and need them quickly. this is where americans need to come together and deal with a crisis and stop dealing with some hard lines that are totally irrelevant when you have a storm of this magnitude. what is going on? you have been governor of pennsylvania. tell us, give us a quick glimpse of what is going on in terms of government, from a governor on down to first responders, what is going on at this point in preparing for something like this that is largely unknown but they have to be prepared to deal with it? >> sure, first of all i want it correct dana in one thing. it is not big government, it is the right sized government. government that is effective, spends wisely, but has the money and resources to invest in dealing with our problems and helping us. >> if i was living on one of those shores tonight, i would want to to be as big a government

red state is led by our cnn contributor, eric eric son. >> is he your guy or are you just being niceng him? i'm introducing him. and doi like him? i like him a lot. he's a good friend. >> we've talked a lot about some grumblings and some seems higher volume. i want you to listen to governor perry. it's an interview with our affiliate in new hampshire. he says, give me four years as your president and you'll get this -- >> my hope is that in four years people can take a look at what 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 what you hear a lot. george bush wanted to go to washington to change the tone and was largely a failure. rick perry wants to go to washington and make it less consequential. it's very interesting, a common thread that i hear around conservatives and libertarians, they want the leave me the heck alone caucus to win. they want washington out of their lives and jnone of the candidates send

to where we are and he got to president in part by saying we're not a collection of blue states, red stateswe're the united states. that's what appealed to people a lot and he has stuck with that. and he -- he may be the only person in washington who believes it, but he seems to believe that washington, the two parents ought to be able to work together and solve this problem. you know bless him for doing that and i hope he keeps trying. >> paul, has it -- i mean i think you believe it's been a mistake for the president to kind of go for this bipartisanship with you would argue that the republicans have basically just been -- have been playing him. moving forward, how does he need to shift strategy, at all? >> well, if he wants to keep his job, he's got to move the needle on american's jobs. he needs a jobs package and i heard on our air earlier tonight, david axelrod, his political adviser, ticking off some good ideas that president's for extending some tax cuts for the middle class. south korean trade deal. it's not enough. he needs a big, major jobs package. and then defy the republican h

it's great to be at red state and i'll tell you what, it's better to be the governor of the largest red state in america. [applause] >> and sure good to be back in the palmetto state in south carolina. you know, i enjoy coming to places where people elect folks like nicky haley, true conservatives. and also, where they love the greatest fighting force on the face of the earth, the united states military. [applause] >> and i want to take a moment, i want to take a moment and ask you to just take a silence, think about those young navy seals, the other special operators who gave it all in the service of their country and take a moment and say, thank you, lord, that we have those kind of selfless, sacraficial men and their sacrifice was immeasurable and their dedication profound and we will never ever forget them. [applaus [applause] >> i stand before you today as the governor of texas, but i also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. ray perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over europe to work his little corner of land out there. and amelia, who made sure my sister mill

to where we are and he got to president in part by saying we're not a collection of blue states, red statesre the united states. that's what appealed to people a lot and he has stuck with that. and he -- he may be the only person in washington who believes it, but he seems to believe that washington, the two parents ought to be able to work together and solve this problem. you know bless him for doing that and i hope he keeps trying. >> paul, has it -- i mean i think you believe it's been a mistake for the president to kind of go for this bipartisanship with you would argue that the republicans have basically just been -- have been playing him. moving forward, how does he need to shift strategy, at all? >> well, if he wants to keep his job, he's got to move the needle on american's jobs. he needs a jobs package and i heard on our air earlier tonight, david axelrod, his political adviser, ticking off some good ideas that president's for extending some tax cuts for the middle class. south korean trade deal. it's not enough. he needs a big, major jobs package. and then defy the republican hous

he was the red state to my blue state. all you have to understand to know about how complicated and difficult this relationship was my first memory of my brother was with when he sail me out a window when i was 2 years old and in the san antonio emergency room with a cut on my eye brow. he gave me the gift of a hard head. he went from there to being the youngest member of the john berk society and coming into my room to smash my joan biaz records because she was on the list. he was complicated, but saying all of that he was mysterious. he grew up to be a trial lawyer turned apple orchardist. part of the madening sibling thing was understanding the control freak nature that my brother had. for example, every year he would send me a box of fruit. the fruit he grew in his gorgeous orchards in washington state. the fruit came with the carl tax where you would get 25 telephone calls before the fruit came, such as, fruit is coming next week, are you going to be home? this is said in a texas accent. i would say i don't know. he s

red state, blue state. leaders in the house and senate choose sides for the so-called debt super committee, and surprise, surprise. boehner's boys are as right as they come. is any hope of a compromise dead on arrival? and seeing red, yet another volatile day on wall street. nine days since the debt deal was struck. >> i got 98% of what i wanted. i'm pretty happy. >> wonder what 100% would look like. >>> we begin this afternoon with the congressional super committee taking shape tasked with taking the nation's runaway debt. today we learned the republicans picks to serve on the powerful bipartisan panel. house speaker john boehner chose jeb hensarling and two representatives from michigan, senator jon kyl and pat toomey and senator hartman from the senate. all six have signed a pledge against any tax hikes. that's already red flags for democrats that they have a balanced approach. senator harry reid picked max baucus, john kerry of massachusetts and patty murray of washington with senator murray at the co-c

this was the red state conference going on. they could have called at this time red meat conference. he was throwing out the red meat and the conservatives were eating it up. he was going after the president on the economy, on jobs, on the recent downgrade, blaming the president for all three and then pointing to his record in texas and saying this is the way. let me show you the way. as a matter of fact, the campaign put out a web video today. they just launched a website today. launch ad web video called, it's time to get america working again. when you looked at rick perry today. the way he came across in the room. the way his organization came together to put this event together. this had the feel of not just a republican presidential campaign, but of a nominee running for president in a general election campaign. there was a very strong showing from rick perry today. >> and i have to tell you this, as we were watching you, we're looking at a picture next to you. live pictures of rick perry in greenland, new hampshire today

secretary of state hillary clinton called for wider international sanctions on syria the ongoing and red state which began in march is said to have claimed seven hundred lives. at least one person has been killed and around forty injured after a passenger train derailed in central poland it was on the way from also to the southern city of kut to the caring almost three hundred people when the engine of three of the carriages led the tracks rescue teams on the scene say it's still not clear what caused the accident. and the pakistani court has sentenced a soldier to death for killing a young unarmed man ensuring the incident in the city of karachi was taped by a local journalist and broadcaster national television sparking public fury on the color t.v. six other man who worked present during the killing were also accused of taking part in the teenager's death and hundreds and. journalists in hungary are outraged by a new media control law that many fear will undermine press freedom in the country the change in legislation was followed by a mass layoffs that campaign it's called scandalous as we

you watched it live on fox, formally announcing his candidacy for president at the red state conference in south carolina. that is where we find jonathan. the governor did not mince words when it came to his criticism of president obama, did he? >> reporter: he said page 1 of sound economic policy involve issuing pink slips to residents of white house and received cheers from the crowd. he criticized the obama administration for relying to heavily on central planning for the economy. the obama campaign responded to perry's speech. it accused his policies of carbon copies of washington republicans. >> heather: so what solutions did he offer? not just criticisms, we want to know what he would do. >> reporter: that is right. speaking of solutions, the top priority is job creation. he touted his record in texas over his 11 years. he has seen the creation of more than 900,000 new jobs in texas. he believes he can translate that nationally. he jokingly apologized for talking so much about his home state, but then had this to say. >>> i'm a texan and i'm proud of it. but first, and foremost i

phone from charleston, south carolina, where rick perry will make his announcement tomorrow at the red state convention is matt lewis t great senior contributor for the daily caller. you watched the debate give us your take. >> if you were mars and watching, you might actually think newt gingrich won. putting it in context, i think mitt romney wins by not losing. i think that tichl pawlenty is in trouble. i think he has to win the ames straw poll, and i don't know that he scored enough points against bachmann. in fact, i think she bested him. really i think rick perry is probably the winner and maybe fox news for the timing of this thing. >> mitt romney is getting high marks for his debate performance. earlier in the day he had a tense exchange with potential voters at the iowa state fair. let's take a listen. >> we have to make sure the promises we make in social security, medicaid and medicare are promises we can keep. there are various ways of doing that. one way is to raise taxes on america. >> corporations! >> everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. where do you think it

c-span media partners in the early primary and caucus stage at c-span.org/campaign2012. >> the annual red state gathering of conservative blotters recently heard from several gop candidates from around the country including nebraska state treasurer at u.s. and it -- senate candidate don stenberg. this is 20 minutes. [applause] >> thank you very much. i am don stenberg. next year i will replace ben nelson in the united states senate. [cheers and applause] then nebraska will be represented by a genuine lifelong conservative in the united states senate. as nebraska's next united states senator i will vote to repeal obamacare. [applause] i will vote to secure our voters -- borders. [applause] i will cut federal spending and balance the federal budget. [applause] i will vote to defend life, the second amendment and religious freedom. [applause] i am honored to have been endorsed by red stain and marc levin and honored to have the support of many tea party as in nebraska and i am honored to be here today. you are the salvation of our nation and god bless you for all you do for our country. [applause]

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it is great to be at red state but it's even better to be the governor of the largest red state in america. [applause] and it's sure good to be back in the paul meadow state of south carolina. i enjoy coming to places where folks like mickey haley are elected. true conservative. and also where they love the greatest fighting force on the face of the earth, the united states military. [applause] and i want to take a moment. i want to take a moment and ask you to just take some silence. think about those young navy seals, the other special operators who gave it all in the service of their country and take a moment to say thank you, lord, that we have those self-less, sacrificial men and women. their sacrifice was immeasurable. and their dedication profound. and we will never, ever forget them. [applause] i stand before you today as the governor of texas. but i also stand before you the son of two tenn't farmers, ray perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over europe to work his corner land and amealya who made sure my sister, mil and i had everything we needed including hand suing my

the red state gathering in south carolina, our last guest emily, saying that that was an interesting and provocative move to do it there. he didn't though hold back on criticism of president obama. how did that resonate in the room? >> yeah, well, overwhelming applause when he said that the first page of any economic plan should be to deliver pink slips to the current residents of the white house. the crowd erupted in loud applause. governor perry criticized the obama administration for relying too heavily on central planning for the economy. however, the obama campaign wasted no time in responding to perry's speech. in a written statement the campaign accused perry's economic policies of being a carbon copy of the economic policies of washington republicans, which the obama campaign stated would subsidize corporations while ignoring the middle class, jamie. >> jamie: he mentioned taking the country back, that it's time for us to take the country back, what does he say his biggest priorities are in doing that? >> he said that the biggest priority is job creation. that's first and for

well i must have been on to something because the very next day tea party central red state dot com published this article titled oh the progressives have figured out how the tea parties took over the g.o.p. embedded in the article is my daily take and call the tea partiers to get even more involved in producing politics now the progressives have caught on to this actually is critically important and i encourage everyone watching to find out how to become a precinct committee person and let's together move the democratic party to the left where it historically has been and should be now we have fifteen months until the next election time to get to work finally our last comment comes from vicki via twitter she writes. a pigeon nest discovered under my porch. here's the deal it's really not pigeons they're actually cleverly painted doves these pigeons are actually robots of the planet xenu they're here to spy on us what do you see when you ever see whenever you see meetings of powerful people anywhere in the world pigeons their spies on the planet scene and that's it for my take your take tonig

weekdays on channel one twenty eight and brian darling columnist of human events and contributor to red state dot com and big government dot com and director of government studies at the heritage foundation welcome to all of you and let's get started. officially. the economy added one hundred seventy seven thousand four hundred seventeen thousand jobs we get we got this news this morning the seventeenth straight on the president had this to say about. but while this marks the seventeenth month in a row of job growth in the private sector nearly two and a half million new private sector jobs in all. we have to create more jobs than that each month to make up for the more than eight million jobs that the recession climbs so that's the good news and contrast to have million new jobs so far to bush's three million for his only ears but the bad news the dow dropped five hundred twelve points yesterday it bounced back a little bit today with this news but you're. right the little gains of the year bad manufacturing numbers bad service sector numbers low g.d.p. growth rate the economic policy instit

democratic strategist erick annuity and brian darling oh mr human events contributor to red state dot com and director of government studies at the heritage. welcome you all let's get started. that's official it's official there cheney has a new book out in my time he's bashing rice tenent paul he wanted to attack syria. this this is the probably the most aggressive guy who ever got five deferrals from from the draft that i've ever heard of in my entire life here he was in an interview with n.b.c. not only admitted to work right seemingly to brag about this in your view we should still be using enhanced interrogation yes no regrets no regrets should we still be broader boarding terror suspects i would strongly support using the again if circumstances arose even though so many people have condemned it people call it torture when you think it should still be a tool yes. and then george w. bush in his book decision points basically so the same thing he said three people were waterboarding and save lives so is it time to convene a war trying to work crimes tribunal and try these guys for

he was not red states a blue states but united states of america. but he also made government work again. we just need to know they are the millennials and ed year lease to traditional family structure more have been raised in single-parent households and least religious generation and least affiliated with organized religion only one-quarter identify with the organized religion however 67% say they pray every day so they believe in god and have by using call themselves spiritual but do not identify with organized religion. as much as previous generations and also have of the west hangups of sexual aren't hit -- orientation where the majority believe of same-sex marriage. given these guidelines how do we connect to sell our message especially in 2012 which is the next big opportunity to make our case to the millennials? i think what we need to do is look at the issues that are most important to the country right now which is paying attention to the debates to the deficit's come in entitlement reforms while 55 percent still like obama personally, the

the community value in america doesn't have a red state blue state divide. it has pat bucanan and other successors on the other. it's interesting how robert putnam, the famous sociologist, had been working on a number of years of assessing the impact of diversity on civic engagement and participation. he did not like the results he got. essentially he said that it places with the most diversity in america were those of the lowest levels of social trust, lowest levels of social engagement. people hunkered down, became couch potatoes and did not go to the local cake sale or join the rotary or knights of columbus, whatever have you. people tend to hunker down to escape the friction that develops in excessively diverse places, yet the times promotes diversity as an aggressive creed, and this is not just diversity as a personnel policy, but diversity as a demographic reality. charles, one of the columnist who says to the tray partyers, you want the country back, but you won't get it. welcome to america, the remix. it's that demographic triumph of diversity and th

we are not a collection of red states and blue states. we're the united states. that's what appeal to people a lot. and he has stuck with that. and he may be the only person in washington who believes it but he seems to believe that washington, the two parties ought to be able to work together and solve this problem. you know, bless him for doing that and i hope he keeps trying. >> paul, has it -- i think you believe it's been a mistake for the president to kind of go for this bipartisan thip whship whe would argue that the republicans have been playing him. moving forward, how does he need to shift strategy, if at all? >> well, if he wants to keep his job, he has to move the needles on the jobs package. i heard earlier tonight, david axelrod ticking off good ideas of extending tax cuts for the middle class on the payroll tax. a patent reform bill and south korean trade deal. it's not enough. he needs a big, major jobs package and then defy the republican house to the to pass it and run against harry truman and say, i compromised a lot. why won't they pass it? an

remember he is not for red states are states. he was for the united states of america.nd he is also for making government work again. and i loved this. this is the government can work. the third thing you should know is that they are the millennialist. they are the least traditional generation in american history. did hear these two traditional family structure. more have been raised in single-parent households. they are the least religious generation. they are least affiliated with organized religion. only a quarter can identify with the market-based religion. however, 67% say they pray every day. so they believe in god, have values and call themselves spiritual, but they don't identify with organized religion. as much as previous generations. they also have the fewest hangups about orientation of any generation. this is where a majority believe same-sex marriage. so, given these guidelines, how do we as republicans and conservatives connect to them and sell our message, especially in 2012, which the next big opportunity to make our case to the millennialist and the am

red bluff south. central valley is cool. firefighters in the northern portion of the state. actually, central laugh as well, really getting a big, big break with the mild temperatures. forecast highs tomorrow, cooler than they were today. a nice day. again, i stress that the air quality has been exceptional over the past few weeks and months because of this pattern. when you bring out that marine air, and the air really coming off the ocean, the westerlies, coming over a couple of thousand of miles in the pacific, they clean out nicely. when you have a pattern like this, we get the benefit of the beautiful air quality. enjoy that. enjoy the weekend coming up. it's not tabooing to be hot -- not going to be hot, but it will be fine. >> you could feel the fog roll in tonight. very noticeable. >> that's why we'll get that 5 to 10 degrees cooling tomorrow. >>> forbes released its top colleges list today, and stanford came in at number 5. forbes -- here's the top 5 list. number 1, williams college of massachusetts. followed by princeton. west point,amherst college and stanford uni

the community value in america doesn't have a red state blue state divide. it has pat bucanan and other successors on the other. it's interesting how robert putnam, the famous sociologist, had been working on a number of years of assessing the impact of diversity on civic engagement and participation. he did not like the results he got. essentially he said that it places with the most diversity in america were those of the lowest levels of social trust, lowest levels of social engagement. people hunkered down, became couch potatoes and did not go to the local cake sale or join the rotary or knights of columbus, whatever have you. people tend to hunker down to escape the friction that develops in excessively diverse places, yet the times promotes diversity as an aggressive creed, and this is not just diversity as a personnel policy, but diversity as a demographic reality. charles, one of the columnist who says to the tray partyers, you want the country back, but you won't get it. welcome to america, the remix. it's that demographic triumph of diversity and th

red bluff south. central valley is cool. firefighters in the northern portion of the state.entral laugh as well, really getting a big, big break with the mild temperatures. forecast highs tomorrow, cooler than they were today. a nice day. again, i stress that the air quality has been exceptional over the past few weeks and months because of this pattern. when you bring out that marine air, and the air really coming off the ocean, the westerlies, coming over a couple of thousand of miles in the pacific, they clean out nicely. when you have a pattern like this, we get the benefit of the beautiful air quality. enjoy that. enjoy the weekend coming up. it's not tabooing to be hot -- not going to be hot, but it will be fine. >> you could feel the fog roll in tonight. very noticeable. >> that's why we'll get that 5 to 10 degrees cooling tomorrow. >>> forbes released its top colleges list today, and stanford came in at number 5. forbes -- here's the top 5 list. number 1, williams college of massachusetts. followed by princeton. west point,amherst college and stanford university. >>>

caller: my suggestion is that many of the red states should do what they have been wanting to do, and that is to show that we need to have our state rights and our states the independent. i don't think we should spend a federal dime. this should be handled on the state level. this is what they have been pushing for a federal rule. they want the federal government out of their lives, and this is the time to move it out of their lives and let the states stand on their own hands of their own problems. host: do you say that from your own philosophical conviction, or are you try to present a test case? caller: well, i guess what they have been advocating for so many years that this is what we need to do -- well, it is what they've been advocating for some years that this is what we need to do. i think the time to start is right now. host: john from des moines. on twitter -- next is all fro -- call from texas. beaumont has seen its share of storms over the years. caller: i have not gotten any help from fema, and i don't want any. but as far as what john has to say, i agree with him. and the

. >> bob: a lot of people with the airports out there, the republican red states at the airport.e of those people depend on airports. you are so quick to say, you have laguardia and jfk, whatever that is over there. they don't work but you can fly out of here all the time. >> eric: it's only affecting the airports more than 90 miles away from the larger metropolitan airports. before we go further. listen to what mr. obama said about this topic earlier today. >> this is a lose-lose, lose situation. that can be easily solved if congress gets back in to town and does its job. they don't even have to come back into town. the house and the senate through procedural agreement do this through the unanimous concept and they can have the fights they want to have when they get back. don't put the livelihood of thousands of people at risk. don't put projects at risk. don't let $1 billion at a time when we're scrambling for every dollar we can, get left off the table because congress did not act. >> bob: another one you can thank eric and the tea party for, for slowing down -- because at the

remember, he was not for red states or blue states, he was for the united states of america. and the youth loved this. and he was also for making government work again. and they loved this. this is, this is the government can work part. the third thing that you should know is that they are, the millennials, they are the least traditional american generation in american history. they adhere least to traditional family structure. more have been raised in single-parent households. they are the least religious generation. they are the least affiliated with organized religion. only a quarter of them identity with an organized religion. however, 67% of them say they pray every day. so they believe in god, they have values, they call themselves spiritual, but they don't identify with organized religion. as much as previous generations. and they also have the fewest hang-ups about sexual orientation of any generation. this is a generation where a majority believe in same-sex \. same-sex marriage. so given sort of these guidelines how do we, as republicans and conservatives, connect t

rock ferreller is sort of an unusual case in that he is a democrat from what has become a pretty red statea is a state that used to be reliably a democratic state, but in recent elections, a strongly republican state, and as a democrat from a pretty strongly republican state, i think that it's in his interests to sort of play to the center. he has to appeal to these increasingly conservative republican voters in his state. >> so just time for one last question, alan, because this is all fascinating stuff. what do you say to people who would say independents of the fastest growing group of registered voters or ho don't state affiliation. lots of polls open to the idea of a third party. for those of us who are in the kind of radical center, aren't you wrong in some way in saying it's only left and right? >> i don't think i'm wrong. if you look at independents, you find that the large majority of them are what we call independent leaners. of the 40% or so of american whose say that they're independents, over 30% typically say they lean one way or the other. and those leaners, those independen

nomination race at the red state gathering of conservative activists in charleston. while his speech today upstages the straw poll and other candidates. >> what this does is give perry a chance to see who comes out the poll and gear his sights on those people, go after those people. >> perry will travel up the atlantic seaboard to new hampshire, after today's announcement he will then finally make a stop in iowa. >>> former alaska governor sarah palin is not participating in the straw poll this weekend. but she is in iowa and she says it is not too late for her to join the race for president. >> i think the more the merrier. the more the better the debates, and out there in the arena, better for voters to have more choices. >> that was palin yesterday at the iowa state fair. reporters surrounded her asking her questions about her possible campaign and other candidates. she has said before that she will decide whether she will enter the race sometime before october. >>> as the g.o.p. nomination race starts to unfold, the white house is now criticizing the candidates.

well after midnight, the senate began to fall as democrats turned red states blue. >> 2006 was a clean sweep for democrats. they won a total of 30 seats to take control of the house. they won six seats in the senate and governorships across the country. it was a democratic route, bit of a landslide. it was a shock to republicans across the country. a night like that is euphoric, but people know that a night like that is sort of bittersweet because yeah, you just won a whole bunch of seats, but you won a whole bunch of seats there's no way you can possibly hold for the long-term. democrats in office holding seats that will be very difficult to defend in future elections, so a night like november 2006 election night was great for democrats, but also they knew it couldn't last, sort of setting yourself up to lose in the next election, but what happens in that next election after that one in 2008 is that democrats did not lose. democrats actually picked up more territory. democrats won another 21 seats in the house in '08 and maintained grip on the governors seats across the country they c

increase in black turnout for president obama put him over the edge, particularly in a lot of states that went from red to blue. if you see any voter suppression, it's going to be very difficult for president obama to get re-elect. guest: alabama is one state to pay attention to every four years. i've seen a statistic that said more than half of the black voters in florida voted early, yet the new law wants to limit the number of hours available in early voting. that really tells me that what they're trying to do is to limit the turnout of the african-american vote. these laws are being passed. it's not getting news. you don't hear it a lot on the talking heads on capable tv, but this stuff is important because it goes to the heart of our democracy and everything that dr. martin luther king stood for. guest: absolutely. host: we have more time with our guests, just under an hour, with michelle bernard, president and c.e.o. of the bernard center for women, politics, and public policy, also a political analyst for msnbc and a member of the women's forum. we're also joined by leonard steinhorn, author. le

>> my opinion, the red state republicans, the tea party republicans, they are up, they are activated, they feel that they've been winning all year long. we need to have our side up. actually, when you do the polling, the american people say tax rich people, tax oil companies, don't cut medicare, don't cut npr, don't cut the epa. we have to get our side up and activated, because on every one of these issues, there's one thing that separates us from the tea party, we are right and they are wrong and the polling says it, so we have to fight, we have to get up, get activated, get out there and then we will win, but if we sit on the sidelines, if we go small bore, then we are just going to repeat history. you know, mark twain used to say history doesn't repeat itself but it does tend to rhyme, unfortunately we're going to keep rhyming with what's already happened this year unless we change the pathway we are on and i think that requires a big vision of where we are so that we protect those programs that the american people love and not allow the tea party to just lump it all into the gover

on saturday we will be speaking to the red state gathering.rs from across america. they could be a big help to him oning a primary. so yeah, if rick perry announces or has a semi announcement on saturday, it could overshadow some of what comes out of aims iowa straw poll at the same time. >> now, dr. dyson, i heard bob say that he can claim governing or executive experience, unlike others in the race, other than those who are moderate. look at some of his exec tifr executive experience, what he did as governor. he cut $4 billion in school funds. he also mandated sonograms for women planning abortion. so his executive experience also signed a voter id bill requiring photo identification for voters, something those of us in the voter rights movement are very concerned about. his executive experience seems extremely troubling to some of us, wouldn't you say, dr. dyson? >> absolutely, reverend sharpton. it is very, very troubling. his executor or executive experience executing his plans, certainly has executed the hopes and aspirations of people w

eliminate media bias, according to my estimates, america would think and vote about like a solid red state tennessee, something like kentucky. >> well, that's -- you're scientifically prove wag a lot of us have been frustrated. we foe it, but we can't prove it. -- we know it, but we can't prove it. maybe you have helped us out. thank you very much. appreciate your checking in with us. >> time for us to check in with greta van susteren. >> greta: nice to see you fred. glad to see you sitting in for sean. we spend an hour with breaking news. hurricane irene is slamming the country. we'll talk about evacuation orders, and we'll have so much more if you want to know about the dangerous hurricane. if you are in the area get out. follow evacuation orders. we'll have an hour of breaking news. back to you fred. >> don't go anywhere, the great american panel is next. [ male announcer ] to the 5:00 a.m. scholar. the two trains and a bus rider. the "i'll sleep when it's done" academic. for 80 years, we've been inspired by you. and we've been honored to walk with you to help you get where you want to

i don't want to be the president of red states and blue states, but of the united states. people have a conviction that he didn't live up to that. >> greta: does that mean almost any republican can beat him? >> no. >> greta: why? >> he's a tougher campaigner, big wallet and he's president of the united states. as they said in an article this week in politico, if -- they said they were going to kill romney, you could still win. we saw with harry reid, very unpopular in nevada but made his 0 poe -- his own opponent than he. >> greta: let's assume we have a lousy unemployment rate. looking like we are going to bump up against another debt ceiling and everyone is freaked out about the economy. if you can vilify your opponent, you are still a competitor? >> yeah. and it is a sad commentary. particularly, if he pulls this off, if he attempts to do it and pulls it off, he may win. but he will qualify himself as a head-snapping hypocrite. people will not forget this is different than what he said he would do in 2008. >> greta: karl, thank you. >> tonight the calls for congress to