rick perry decided to skip new hampshire. where he didn't think he would do very well as a candidate. and he was right. rick perry got less than 1% of the vote in new hampshire. specifically, 0.7% of the new hampshire vote. while he was ostentatiously not focusing on new hampshire while everybody else was up north, rick perry was focusing on south carolina and he was focusing there on his brand new message that he brought to the campaign starting that one lonely southern day. >> you go to gaffney and that little company down there that bain company shut down, they're handing out pink slips in gaffney, south carolina, there are people out of work down there because of what mitt romney and bain capital did. >> newt gingrich gets more credit than rick perry does for having gone after mitt romney's business career and all the american factories that he closed and all the people he laid off when he was at bain. newt gingrich gets more credit for that as a political tactic but rick perry pioneered it this year and pioneered it in s

ron paul was in hollis, new hampshire and rick perry was in greenville, south carolina. he decided to skip new hampshire where he didn't think he would do well, and he was right. he got less than 1%. he got 0.7%. while he was not focusing on new hampshire while everybody else was up north, he was focusing on south carolina. he was focusing there on his brand new message that he brought to the campaign starting that one lonely southern day. >> you go to gaffney and that little company down there that bain company shut down, they're people out of work because of what mitt romney and bain capital did. >> newt gingrich gets more credit than rick perry does for having gone after mitt romney's career for all the factories he closed and people he laid off. newt gingrich gets more credit for that but rick perry is the one that pioneered it this year. he pioneered it in sometimes gross terms. >> i will suggest they're just vultures. they're vultures that are sitting out there on the tree limb waiting for the company to get sick. then they swoop in. they eat the carcass. >> just s

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in fact, this web ad from the rick perry campaign that pokes fun at santorum appears to be openly supporting ear marks in a fox news interview. >> had a lot of ear marks. i'm very proud of all the emarks i put in bills. >> whether or not they're the wasteful is a matter of opinion. the ad points out some of the more unusual earmarks. >> voting for a road to nowhere. >> were these items included in the bill for which he voted yea? the truth meter rings true. the bridge to nowhere used against most incumbents in the last two election cycles would have cost taxpayers $220 million to build a bridge to replace the island ferry in alaska serving 50 residents and an airport. the teapot museum in sparta, north carolina is primarily a place for the teapot's collection of more than 6,000 teapots. and yes, a group in carlville, iowa, has been talking about a rain forest that was earmarked for $50 million of your tax dollars to be used as a tourist attraction. but in each of these three cases, your tax money was never spent because the projects were killed or required rd matching dollars. >> santorum vo

earlier today, i spoke to rick perry. brought this up in the republican primaries. do you remember vultures? governor perry, listen here. he says he's living proof what the president's doing now won't work. >> no, not at all. as we said, you know, now is the time, back in an earlier part of the campaign to vet that issue. it didn't work then and it's not going to work now. as a matter of fact, there were 13 different democrats and counting that have said to the president, don't go there, mr. president. >> you sure, alex? governor perry was doing it in an audience, a pool of republican voters. the president's doing it in a bigger pool. independents, conservative, independent democrats who might be swayed the other way. are you sure? >> last time i thought barack obama ran one of the smartest campaigns i've ever seen. and this campaign, i'm stunned by how dumb some of these choices they're making are. for example, if you're attacking mitt romney for the wrong kind of success. he knows how to create profits, not jobs. when m

in the process of destroying rick perry in iowa, rick perry brought to iowa his rather more broad mindedg from texas. that dug a big hole for mitt romney that he's tried to get out of and he's got a lot of work to do. it can't just be marco rubio doing it. it can't be reciting the history of george w. bush and the republican party in texas. it's got to be mitt romney. this is one he's going to have to sell by himself. you can't do it with surrogates. he's shown the inability to do that kind of thing with any group. >> he sure has. great to have with us. there's a lot more coming up. stay with us. >>> i'm fighting to get the federal government off your back and out of your checkbook. >> republican women in congress are pushing back in the war on women. >>> i have a message to president obama about the battle for wisconsin. >>> tonight, i'll expose one of the biggest lies of the republican party. >> if president obama and his congressional allies remain committed to a policy of tax and spend. but your erectile dysfunction that could be a question of blood flow. cialis for daily use helps y

planned parenthood, we're going to get rid of that. >> so why is rick perry wrong for wanting to get rid of planned parenthood but mitt romney isn't. if romney becomes president, perry is governor. i know planned parenthood, it's funded by the government, a third of it is funded by the government. where do they get that third of funding from? >> where he will, i think the point here is that planned parenthood does abortions. and i think that mitt romney and governor perry and myself do not believe that government should in any way be funding abortions. because so many people don't believe that that's the right thing to do and their taxpayer dollars should not be spent on doing abortions. >> but you disagreed with rick perry on the issue. >> what i disagreed is that they are not allowing the side of planned parenthood to give the services to women, the contraceptive services, the mammograms, the kind of health care that these women are not getting anywhere else. >> so given that health care -- sorry for interrupting, is mitt romney wrong for wanting to defund planned parenthood? >> i t

gat, governor rick perry. how are you? long time no see. >> i'm good, sean.f all, how did obama do? i'm watching kentucky. you know, he watched 42% in kentucky, arkansas. and we saw what happened i think it was west virginia when he was losing to a convicted felon in prison. is the president doing all right there in the state tonight? >> yeah. i think he's doing all right. there were no -- there were any prisoners running against him so i think he did rather well. congratulations to governor romney. it was an overwhelming victory obviously for him here. and i want to say to he and ann congratulations and quite appropriate that the state with the best economy in the country would be the one to nominate the president -- or i should say our nominee for president who is going to carry a message about job creation to this country. so it wasn't lost on us in texas, a place that gets it about job creation, nominated a man who is really going to work hard to take that message of job creation all across this country. and it ought to be no contest when you look at thes

he fought off surges from the likes of rick perry, rick santorum and herman cain. now the republican party has come together with the goal of defeating president obama. the president called him to congratulate him on becoming the gop and he is looking forward to a healthy debate in the future. >> both the romney camp and the dnc released their own version. >> reporter: romney's campaign released a new ad. it dids after some of the highlights over the past year or so. take a lock at this. >> mitt romney will win big tonight. >> we have a mormon responsibility to keepmark the strongest nation of the earth. >> mitt romney will have a huge win, a big win. >> reporter: as for the democratic web video there were no congratulations, this one in the theme of a facebook web page. it's titled mitt romney, little to like. >> 47th out of 50 in job creation. >> help ended up third from the bottom in job creation. 48,000 manufacturing jobs left. >> planned parenthood, going to get rid of that. >> reporter: a facebook timeline it. cycles on for two more minutes using sound from g

>> rick perry. >> stephanie: yes!ith what all the republicans said. [ laughter ] >> rick perry just shot himself in his face this weekend. [ laughter ] [ ♪ "jeopardy" theme ♪ ] >> stephanie: jim, who said the bain model is to go in at a low price, borrow an immense amount of money and pay bain an immense amount of money. i think that's exploitation. who said that? >> gordon cooper. >> it was -- >> stephanie: it was newt gingrich. [ applause ] >> i remember him. he was running for president at one point, wasn't he? madly. for a long time! >> stephanie: who said instead of trying to work with them to find a way to keep the jobs and to get them back on their feet, it is all about how much money we can make. how quick we can make it and get out of town to find the next car cass to feed upon. who said that? [ ♪ "jeopardy" theme ♪ ] >> hal sparks? >> was he also in the coffin? >> he was one of the people. >> i'm going to go with marcus bachmann. [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: no. governor rick perry. [ applause ] >> oops. >> oops

. >> let me ask you about rick perry. he endorsed david d ku hearst. do you think that will this, does this hurt rick perry, the fact that his guy did not win out and out? >> well, you know, i think endorsements are vastly overrated, frankly, alex. i don't think that it's a reflection on the person who endorsed that their person didn't win. i think people make their decisions based on wa they see as the issues and the representation. and i think the tea party is a very important part of the republican party. i do. i think they have voiced the frustration that people have against the obama administration and the washington way of doing things. i think that has been a value that they have added. i also think that people are going to be looking at the issues and who can fight the obama administration most effectively. and i think that's part of it, but i also think people have to know that the people you elect have to represent your interests. and sometimes that's parochial. >> speak of endorsements and those representatives representing the interests of

if romney wants to sound like a statesman, he can't really stand alongside rick perry because rick perryan't remember his own policies and if e -- do you expect him to stand on the side of herman cain, accused of putting his hand up a woman's skirt and forcing her head towards his genitals? compared to those two donald trump i believe is a statesman. >> i think it's a close call there. certainly there are a few other people out there that mitt romney could greg into a fund-raiser. the best theory so far is that they made a deal with donald trump when he endorsed mitt romney back in february, and to do a fund-raiser, and they want to get it out of the way sooner than later, which is not usually how you react to surrogates. but yet again another moment in which mitt romney is not rising to the occasion. i'm still looking, i've been like -- a lantern going from column to column looking for one moment when mitt romney showed any degree, pinch, a smidgen of guts whether it was that woman saying barack obama's a traitor, anything, the spokesman attacked for being gay from the right, i'm lookin

. >> mitt romney was not focusing on texas because they expected rick perry to be the winner in the state. mitt romney has had a very tough time moving the conservatives in his party. it is all coming together for him at the right time. we will see a very divided electorate going into november. >> the heartland, what are texans telling you about how they see this race developing? >> it looks like a bass election. there are very few people who are undecided. the conservatives and republicans are overwhelmingly for mitt romney. if you look at the democratic side, barack obama is getting about 90% of the vote. that is very strong we're in a state, even democrats are a bit more conservative. getting nearly 100% of the minority vote. that says something nationally. barack obama is running very strong in the latinos, which could be pivotal in many of the swing states. >> the divisions we have seen within the republican party, the conservatives against a more broad stream thinking of newt gingrich. is that the problem? >> there are divisions. there is a race for the united states senate in texas

rick perry called it vulture capitalism. but for president obama to do it?emocrats have a problem with that? joey from chicago. what do you say? >> good morning, bill. i believe the democratic party is the for sale. >> that's what they are telling everybody. they will stand up for them kind of businesses because them businesses pay for their campaign. >> that's the only reason. we have lost our way when money is the most important thing in the world. we have really lost our way. but you know what? obama is not going to stop it. i have faith in barack obama and i don't care what the rest of the democrats do. he is going to stand his ground and i believe this is a winning issue, bill. >> okay. i hope you right, joey. i do think you are right. the president made that clear in chicago on monday, joey. you are right. look. money, money, money, as we said yesterday, follow the money, cory booker 565,000 from bain capital when he first ran from in the. rich calling from cincinnati, ohio. hey, rich. >> this is the most disappointing thing i have heard in practically

mitt romney and bain are not vampires any more than vulture capitalists when rick perry said they werei objected to the tone. the facts of the ad are clear and very correct. i mean, if bain is the main reason why governor romney says he can create jobs and would be a good president, then let find out how many jobs bain did create or how many jobs it didn't create and look at some of the values that bain represented. i thought in the case it was telling, andrea, 350 workers lost their jobs, sometimes that's inevitable, the company goes bankrupt, no influx of cash can avert that from happening. but they took $100 million of profit out as the company went bankrupt and nose workers lost their jobs and the workers also lost most of their pension and retiree health care benefits. did anybody in bain capital to go to investors and say, is it okay if we take 80 million out and leave 20 million in so these people can have some pension security? was that even discussed? those are value judgments which i think the american people would be very interested in. >> speaking of value judgments, yester

. >> didn't he come up with this in the primary with rick perry and newt gingrich calling him a vulture capitalist? >> yes. and gingrich was called a traitor. >> on to this poll and more information, the poll shows that president obama has this four-point lead over president obama. when it comes to the economy, only 43% approve of the president's job, the lowest since december. anne, what does this tell you about the president's chances for reelection as we look at it from this point, this stage in the game? >> that a lot has happened so far in this campaign and things are still deadlocked. it's amazing. he still faces the same uphill battle, the very close race that he did. and democrats and the white house could say, that's pretty good news given how people feel about the economy, the long-term pessimism that they're reporting in this poll and in our poll, "the washington post" poll from earlier this week. perhaps they could blame the president even more after his stewardship over a couple of years. on the other hand, it does give romney a pretty big opening. it's why you've seen him

>> i think inadvertently, when he makes a $10,000 bet with rick perry during a debate or says his wife owns a couple of cadillacs, that's not good form and he's now calling president obama out of touch saying you fly around on air force one, you lose touch. i think the obama campaign has a problem, though, because they run as if they're not an incumbent. in the end, president obama has run on his record on the economy. chris: does he get away with it, though? he was an incumbent but made kerry that issue. >> in the end, it wasn't the swift boat ads that defeated kerry. people decided things were looking better, they wanted to give george w. bush four more years. >> cultural populism in the country which always works and economic populism often doesn't work. it may be that the times have changed, the rich are so rich, that tell work. gallup came out with a poll showing people's views of the rich are the same as they were 20 years ago. they want to be rich, they admire the wealthy. you can over-play your hand on that. we're not like britain and sarkozy said to his opponent -- he lost, bu

newt gingrich, rick perry, as we all remember, mark bay, slammed mitt romney during the primary.ling him a vulture capitalist. romney and the campaign, they are expecting this. how do they turn the narrative around what bain really was in the business of doing because it was been job creation? it was about moneymaking. >> thomas, i'm -- i'm very curious on how the romney campaign responds because you mention newt gingrich, rick perry the pro-gingrich super pac all made a big push on this right after the new hampshire primary. and it really hurt mitt romney. lost that south carolina primary badly. he was also on the defensive and his response back then was, essentially some businesses and enterprises succeed. some don't. that's capitalism. as he heads into this general election fight where -- audience isn't republican voters, it is actually general election voters and swing groups and independents, people really focused on the economy, it be will be interesting to see how mitt romney and his camp respond beyond this particular statement. because this really does go at the heart of

i couldn't be here and not thank governor rick perry.and anita were tremendously help skpfl stood with us all the way through. towards the end when things were difficult i called and he said i am with you until the cows come home. he said i am pretty comfortable as a farmer in texas understanding that. he stuck with us and i also want to thank herman cain who was tremendous in campaigning particularly on super tuesday and michael reagan who campaigned for us and i think communicated pretty clearly the relationship we had with his dad and then todd palin who worked very, very hard. of course while they weren't directly associated with the campaign, it would be impossible for me to be here and thank everybody without mentioning sheldon and mary adelson who single handily came close to matching the romney super pac and i am grateful to them and we share a combined concern about the middle east and a combined concern about american security and the survival of israel and they're very, very good friends. finally, on the thank yous, i have to

two jobs, one was venture capital and the other was what i -- i don't quote him often but what rick perry called vulture capitalism, and take over a company and squeeze it, and lootad it with debt, and then fire them, and fly off. >> and let me get back to this, joan. great politicians like tip o'neill and ted kennedy and even reagan in an interesting television way were able to connect with the guy working on the line, and they heard the voice of the politician, and they say, he was with me, the reagan democrats voted for him for that reason, and he talks to me, and this guy romney is at a particular disadvantage here, but a guy here looks like a job killer, and looks like one of the efficiency experts who comes in and not like the guy who is the foreman or the guy who work s with you or the business agent at the labor union, and he does not look like he connects with workers, does he? >> no, he does not look like it or sound like it, and he has not been able to fake it. you know, i mean, we have a good laugh out of that aircraft line, and who talks like that? rite. we are from france, a

rick perry had so much super pac money behind him. he didn't make it either. so my question is some of this that we've seen lately, i don't know if the money is actually working. there's so much money that crossed purposes. >> but it drowns out everything else. it drowns out the people who want to talk about equality. >> it drowns out public interest. the issues of the public, the issues in this case of the 99%. will and many people can be against this movement. it's not so much a political movement. it is about the vast majority of the american people who don't have an opportunity that the entitled upper class, 1% have and want to hold on to. >> i want to ask tad something. when you watch this movement, are there lessons learned from the '60s where they could clarify what their mission is or where they could have maybe a set of goals that the people can agree on, legislature -- the point of occupy for so long is that we don't do that. that's not what we're about. >> one of the lessons learned from the '60s is that the movement is strongest when it is resolute

step back and try to put yourself in the shoes of the romney campaign, i think they believe that rick perry was going to be a real tough opponent and in many ways a much more natural nominee for the matter than mitt romney would have been. so they took the perry campaign in a way they i don't think had taken anybody up to that point quite as seriously, they took that seriously and felt they had to knock it down. i think that they felt that the immigration piece was one where they could make him terribly vulnerable to the base and they went ahead and did it and then he went farther than that through the course of the campaign. so the romney who has emerged from the nomination battle is somebody who has tried to be comfortable with a two-party republican party and yet as you watch him and listen to him and just the general demeanor of mitt romney tells you that's not quite who he is and i think the struggle he's going to go through over the next several months is to try to present himself in the most comfortable way possible that also keeps the base of the republican party energized. >> i'm g

. >> and texas governor rick perry, who threw his support to mitt romney after newt gingrich bowed out also suggested the race is more about seeing president obama lose than seeing mitt romney win. >> i'm a heck of a lot more comfortable with him than i am with barack obama and that's going to be our choice. he will be ten times better than barack obama, particularly when it comes to the economy. >> this morning, romney will meet privately with rick santorum in pittsburgh. it's the first time the two will sat down together since santorum gave up his bid for the nomination last month. a lot of people interested to see what exactly santorum is looking for out of romney before he gives that full-throated endorsement. >>> turn overseas, there are new developments this morning in a diplomatic struggle between the united states and china. the obama administration is scrambling to come up with a plan to deal with chen guangcheng, the blind chinese activist who was sheltered at the american embassy in beijing for six kays after miraculously escaping from house arrest. he left the u.s. compound