standing fun for "roe v. wade" before he was against "roe v.at's what youÑi gt when your head speech writer is magnetic poetry. (laughter and applause) and folks, following this debacle, the long fives are out. >> perry did a lot of damage to himself. >> he was not ready. >> yikes, that was the one word headline. >> perry really did throw up all over himself. (laughter) >> stephen: thoughtful analysis, britt, thank you. (laughter) but i'd go even further. perry threw up all over himself then chopped off his own head and crapped down his own neck hole. (laughter) tore up his belly and nailed his intestines to a tree and ranÑi around it until he unraveled his own guts. he defiled himself with every bodily fluid known to man other than santorum. (cheers and applause)Ñi it is impossible to overstate the horrific nature of perry's debate performance. i mean, just look at it again. jimmy, i believe we have another angle. >> was it was before... it was before... (laughter) oh, that a gas. and perry's opponents have been quick to capitalize on it. if y

congressman phil roe is also dr. phil roe. he used to practice as an obstetrician. and in the airport, he sprung into action. >> we put the defibrillating device on him and he was flatlined. and we started obviously cardiopulmonary resuscitation with him then and defiblatrillated him. i gave the police officer my card. just as i got in the office after getting on the flight, he said he thought this fellow was going to make it. that was great news. this man left home this morning, i don't even know his name, thinking that his day was going to be just like any other day. so, yeah, it was -- i hope he does well. i certainly hope his family well and wish him well, whoever he is. >> part of the whole political culture now of running down government as if government's a bad thing also means talking smack about public service as if it is a shady career, as if people who run for office are by definition a little suspect. maybe some politicians are a little suspect. but the same is true for every profession. and sometimes, like republican congressman phil roe or tom barrett

versus wade before he was against roe versus wade? he was for race to the top. he's for obama care and now he's against it. ( applause ) >> jon: mitt nailed it. can't believe my advisors told me not to get high before this debate. i'm telling you. i'm killing him. holy (beep). if i'm romney, i don't even answer. i just cede my time back to rick perry. "no, no, i cede back to perry. he's doing great. keep going." the third perry debate was even worse than the first two. perry demonstrating an incredible unlearning curve. hey, man, it's early. no harm. no foul. >> rick perry is not prepared for the pressure of the presidential stage. >> you can replace him with a cardboard cut out and not noticed the difference. >> perry did horrible at this debate. >> rick perry sucked the other night. >> you can read it any of those three ways. perry really did throw up all over himself at the debate at a time when he needed to raise his game. >> jon: everything hume says has gravitas even when he's saying, you know, of course, chris, i've been doing

wade before he was against roe vs.ade. >> reporter: perry managed to finish a distance second in florida's straw poll behind herman cain. >> there may be slicker candidates and smoother debaters but i know what i believe in. i'm going to stan -- to stand on that belief. >> reporter: christie had this advice during hurricane irene. >> get the hell often beach. >> reporter: sources say he's been overwhelmed with top republican officials trying to lure him into the race. his answer has been unchanged, no thanks. john hendron, washington. >>> wall street may be in for another rocky day. coming up jitters that are driving global financials down this morning. >> also, bart police preparing for a grilling in sack machine tomorrow the hearing that will put officer's training and iteeé" >>> check out the high temperatures across the country. warmer along the eastern seaboard upper 70s to low 90 along the gulf coast near dallas. only philadelphia is reporting flight arrival delays. all the other major airports on time. abc2news.

versus wade before he was against verse -- roe versus wade? >> reporter: these three september debates have also exposed just how stark some of the cultural divides are between left and right. from the cheering of perry's death penalty record. >> have you -- [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: to the shouts from the audience about whether emergency rooms should treat the uninsured. >> are you saying that society should just let him die? >> no. >> yeah! [ cheers ] >> reporter: to last night's jeers of a question about gays in the military. >> do you intend to circumvent the progress that's been made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military? [ booing ] >> reporter: some republicans are concerned the audience moments may send the wrong message to swing voters. >> when you are booing a united states marine or an officer, it really bothers a lot of people out there, particularly those voters who are right there in the middle. >> reporter: back to perry. today he tried to clean up the awkward debate moment he had with mitt romney saying, you kn

before he was against roe vs. wade? he was for race to the top.ainst it. >> michael steele. >> get out of -- >> it was one of those, you just sit there and you're -- you know what he's trying to do. we've all been there. we can have our own technical problems and stuff that goes down. but for rick perry, he didn't need that moment. this is third debate in a row where questions are starting to build, particularly among sort of i would say republican elites, whatever they are, but poll as you go. folks like him not -- >> very unimpressive moment. i think it damaged him. it was one of a series of damaging moments, certainly, that i think the culmination was the immigration points that he made. but on the border. but when you're in that moment and your brain freezes up like that, then you have to flip to another gear. and whip that bad boy around and show some dexterity and flexibility. what struck me about perry last night was he was wooden. he stood there pretty much in this pose. you could have replaced him with a cardboard cut-out and not noticed

many people say we need to wait for roe versus wade to be reversed. authorizes the congress to enforce the guarantees of due process and equal protection contained in the amendment's first section. now, as someone who believes in the inherent and equal dignity of all members of the human family, would you protect human life in all stages and conditions? >> let me tell you what my orientation would be. which is i would like to appoint to the supreme court justices who believe in following the constitution as opposed to legislating from from the bench. i would like to see that supreme court return to the states the responsibility to determining laws related to abortion, as opposed to having the federal supreme court from the bench telling america and all the states how they have to do it. i think that's. >> the appropriate course. now, is there a constitutional path to have the congress say we're going to push aside the decision of the supreme court and we instead are going to step forward and return to the states this poller? or put in place our own vi

roe versus wade. he was for race to the top. he's for obama care and now he's against it. >> david, i have never counted so many brain freezes in one sentence. >> please make it stop. please. we saw it last night. he's making george w. bush look like the most articulate statesman from texas ever. as bad as that response was, he obviously had prepared for that line of attack and then couldn't pull it off. >> you can't remember the capital of florida. for a couple seconds, you to think a little bit. here's a guy trying to remember what he rehearsed for the show that night. >> index card it was on for him. i don't know if we'll get to it, >> we'll get to it. >> the answer he gave on pakistan, that was frightening. >> you know what, we have the power to go to that right now and we will. here's fox news debate moderator brett baer asking perry the governor of texas what he would do. this is a tough question. the 3:00 a.m., the call always comes at 3:00 a.m., if pakistan lost its nuclear weapons to the taliban, here's part of perry's

versus wade before he was against verse roe versus wade but he was for race to the top he's. for obama care and now he's against it. ok that makes me feel better about any time that i ever flub on air now despite perry getting a little lost with his flops the point is actually trying to make was the romney how the long history of changing many of his positions and in addition to changing his positions last week alone i told you about him trying to change his image romney's trying to be an every day man he's lying on golf less airlines that you get fast food joints while on the road and making sure that everybody knows about it now just last week romney also promised a campaign ad free of pandering for votes i think the american people recognize that we're deployed a crisis and they want to hear the truth and they can tell when people are being phony and are and are pandering to an audience and you'll see that in politics you're not going to see that my campaign. but it looks like romney has already broken that promise last thursday he was at an event in florida and he attacke

it's the good the bad in the very very neighbor formerly algal e the good congressman phil roe well i may disagree with a republican from tennessee on practically every thing he did save a man's life yesterday and that deserves recognition of walking through the charlotte airport road heard someone calling for a doctor and he saw a man lying on the ground not breathing roe used to be a doctor and so he immediately sprang to next spring into action to give the man c.p.r. until paramedics showed up and got the man's heart beating again now only if we can get rode to show the same sort of compassion when takes votes on. the back of south carolina republicans even though president obama released his birth certificate back in april birth the resume is still alive and well in the palmetto state cording to a new winthrop poll thirty six percent of south carolina republicans believe the president was probably or certainly born outside the united states thirty percent of them think he's a muslim seventy five percent think he's a socialist like a cockroach worth a resume is resilient in south c

was against roe versus wade. he was for a race to the top. he is for obamacare and now he is against it. i mean we'll wait until tomorrow and see which mitt romney we're talking to tonight. >> nice try. i wrote a book two years ago. i laid out in that book what my views are. i'm a conservative businessman. i spent my life in business. i know how jobs come and go. my positions are stated in that book. governor perry you wrote a book six months ago. you are already retreating from that positions from that book. >> not an inch, sir. >> in that book, social security was forced upon the american people. bu by any measure, social security is failure and you also said that social security should be returned to the states. now, those are the positions of your book and simply i'm going to stand by my positions. i'm proud of them. a lot of reasons but one reason to elect me i know what i stand for. i've written down, words have meaning and ist experience to get this country going again. >> brett: coming up, we return to nu

was against roe versus wade. he was for a race to the top. he is for obamacare and now he is against it. i mean we'll wait until tomorrow and see which mitt romney we're talking to tonight. >> nice try. i wrote a book two years ago. i laid out in that book what my views are. i'm a conservative businessman. i spent my life in business. i know how jobs come and go. my positions are stated in that book. governor perry you wrote a book six months ago. you are already retreating from that positions from that book. >> not an inch, sir. >> in that book, social security was forced upon the american people. bu by any measure, social security is failure and you also said that social security should be returned to the states. now, those are the positions of your book and simply i'm going to stand by my positions. i'm proud of them. a lot of reasons but one reason to elect me i know what i stand for. i've written down, words have meaning and ist experience to get this country going again. >> brett: coming up, we return to nu

wade before he was against roe vs.d second in florida's straw poll behind herman cain. >> there may be slicker candidates and smoother debaters, but i know what i believe in and i'm going to stan on that belief. >> reporter: that has left some republicans yearning for the straight-talking christie who had this advice during hurricane irene. >> get the hell over the beach. >> reporter: sources say he's been overwhelmed with top republican officials trying to lure him into the race. those sores say his answer has been unchanged, no thanks. -- john hendron, abc news, washington. >>> a justin bieber toy for girls is on the hot list. >> wall street may be in for another rocky day. >> also, bart police prepare for a grilling in sacramento. the hearing that will put officer's training and practices on the line. cl c c8888 yo >> good morning. we are showing you the live shot of 880 in oakland now shutdown because of policive. no traffic getting through northbound and southbound directions. "sig alert" in effect. we've got your

versus wade before he was against roe versus wade and he was for race to the top.e's for obama care and now he's against it. >> if you stay tuned, we'll diagram that sentence for you. chuck todd is nbc news correspondent and host of "the daily rundown" and with us also, chris, msnbc contributor and manager of postpolitics.com. he was just hanging himself in his own syntax. >> this wasn't a prompted question. this was clearly at least a somebody wrote down this hit for him and maybe he didn't rehearse it. we're not hearing about any mock debates and it may be that that needs to change because to their credit early on ray sullivan, communications director for the campaign said he's not a good debator. are they playing games? he's increased the number of debates he's done in his career by 50% in the last 16 days. we're seeing it. he's not good and quick on his feet but more importantly he's not gotten better. >> there isn't a general audience reaction as king makers and money people hang back and say wait a second, if he want do this in a florida regional debate party

going back to the year 2000, on roe vs. wade that a lot of the reason, it is just a story that has been documented and kicked around. the reason why the crime has been going down is that the perpetual winters have not been born based on the abortion laws and their changes. >> we have to keep this limited. >> that is a bit of a stretch. >> is it going down? i know that the present chief is doing a hell of a job. is it doing -- going down because of more crime protectionists or is it going down because war criminals are not being born? maybe they're doing a great job and it does not have to be expanded because crime may be going down on its own. that is why i bring it up as a point of discussion. that is all. i thank you for your time on that. john mccain did not even know this study existed. i thank you for your time. >> any further public comment? public comment is now closed. move to item number 4. >> that is the crisis training working group update. >> good evening, capt. >> commissioner chief, just an update. we would ha

standing up for roe v. wade before he was against roe v. wade. he was for race to the top.re and now he's against it. >> that was texas governor rick perry manfully struggling to deliver an obviously rehearsed but i guess underrehearsed bit of material about mitt romney. in that moment governor perry managed to demonstrate what a weak debater and what a flip-flopper mitt romney is. the debate left some republican commentators in a near panic. today fox news commentator bill kristol wrote in "the weekly standard," -- kristol said the debate performance was close to a disqualifying two hours before him and kristol called romney, quote, a technocratic management consultant whose one term as fwom governor produced romney care. during the debate ann coulter tweeted, governor perry losing debate with his own tongue. last night's debate led to another call for new jersey governor chris christie to enter the race. "the wall street journal" argues in a column that the gop nomination is still up for grabs and there for the taking for governor christie. governor christie appeared yest

i want to bring in congressman phil roe. thanks for joining me this afternoon.

versus wade before he was against roe versus wade. >> perry defended his performs at saginaw island, michigan where he was competing in that state's romneyesque straw poll. >> there may be slicker candidates and smoother debaters. i know what i believe in. i will stand on that belief every day. i will guide this country with a deep, deep rudder. >> mitt romney handily beat perry in his former state of michigan where his father was governor and romney grew up. beat perry by 34 points. they know if romney this is nominee, their state may be in play. there was a sympathetic play on perry's bad 96 hours came from somebody who had to deal with bad debate performances before with clients, that was mary madeline. what she said on abc. >> rick perry is not the best debater. he has to say, i may have the worst debate record but the best jobs record. if you're a president, you're called on to decide, not to debate. >> that is the message team perry is hoping they can get in the next few weeks but a sure sign a poor debate performance will be hard for perry to debate. it's already been spoofed

congressman roe joins us live from washington. good to see you, sir. what happened? you were in charlotte airport with another representative or somebody you were with and tell us what happened. >> well, we fly over on the red eye early in the morning and just had a cup of coffee and standing there in the c terminal and someone yelled, is there a doctor available and i ran around the corner and there's a gentleman that's just laying out on the carpet and something, obviously, had catastrophic had happened to him and first thing you think first thing in the morning, are they diabetic and it was obvious he was just minimal bleeding and we couldn't feel a car caroted pulse. we realized this man was in deep trouble and began closed chest massage on him. you know, folks had called 911, everybody tried to help. the folks that were there were doing what they could to help. >> you worked on him 45 minutes doing hands-only cpr. >> we did. i want to give kudos and a big shoutout to the charlotte emt guys. i was a mayor of johnson city before i came to congress a

versus wade before he was against verse -- roe versus wade?e was for race to the top. he's for obamacare and now he's against it. we'll wait until tomorrow and see which mitt romney we're really talking to tonight. >> governor romney. >> i'll use the same term again. nice try. >> i saw you tweeted, dana, last night you that think perry has to get better at debating. how long do you think before he's no longer considered the one to beat or do you think it's not that bad at this point? >> well, i think it was a pretty bad performance last night. and the weird thing is i've seen perry give speeches before, i've seen him speak from off the cuff, and he does fine. so i don't know if it's just the pressure of the debate format or the intense weight of the national scrutiny that's getting to him. but i mean, it's not just his speech skills. it was his body language as well. he looked very uncomfortable. but i think it's still really early to call anyone out. but if rick perry wants to remain a top-tier contender, he's got to get better at debate. and

roe used cpr and the medical dwoimt restart the man's heart.ssman roe said springing into action helped someone still comes naturally to him. >> you are a physician first. no question, after spending over 30 years practicing medicine. you don't stop being a doctor. i mean, that's what you do. that's the way i and the way i've been taught to think and the way i've been trained. it was just really like, i guess, deja vu. you're back doing what you were trained to do. >>> this week twitter says it will begin selling political ads. it will kick off the political cycle. five candidates have signed up to place their ads on twitter. >>> and the republican national committee has surpassed its democratic counterpart in fundraising this month. in august, the rnc raised about $8.2 compared to $5.4 million raised by the democratic national committee. the rnc has $9.3 million in the bank. and about $15.9 million in debt. the dnc carries $11.1 million in debt. and former president bill clinton says he turned down an invitation on "dancing with the stars" say

wade before he was against roe vs. wade. he was for race to the top.r obamacare and now he's against it. i mean, we will wait until tomorrow and see which mitt romney we are really talking tonight. >> chris: governor romney? >> the same term again, nice try. governor, i wrote a book two years ago and i laid out in that book what my views are on a wide range of issues. i'm a conservative businessman. i haven't spent my life in politics. i spent my life in business. i know how jobs come, go. my positions are laid out in that book. i stand by them. you wrote a book six months ago. you are already retreating from the positions in that book. >> not an inch sir. >> in that book i says social security was forced upon the american people. it says by any measure social security is a failure not to 75 million. you said social security should be returned to the states. those are the positions of your book. i'm going to standby my positions i'm proud of them. there are a lot of reasons not to elect me and others on the stage. one reason to elect me is i know what

wade before he was against roe v. wade? he was for race to the top. he's for obama care.ow he's against it. i mean, we'll wait until tomorrow and see which mitt romney we're really talking to tonight. >> there's an old saying in tennessee, i know it's in texas, probably in tennessee, that says fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. if you fool me, we can't get fooled again. >> if governor perry cannot count on his debate performances to keep his numbers up with republican voters, and i have to say, maybe he can't count on that anymore, if he cannot count on his debate performances he'll have to count more on his very, very, very, very, very well-funded campaign which this week released a brand new super slick looking movie trailer. i mean campaign ad. i mean campaign ad/movie trailer? tell me if this looks familiar. >> a great country requires a better direction. a renewed nation needs a new president. >> the united states of america. >> the united states of america really is the last great hope of mankind. >> in most movie trailers, this is where the alien invaeders com

before he was against roe versus wade.was for race to the top, he's for obamacare and now he's against it. >> is that a pain that one can get through? >> yes, it's painful. donna said it's still early. it could be late in the sense that we know the field that we're going to pick from. and long before the iowa caucuses we may be down to one effectively. tim pawlenty got into trouble when he didn't attack romney. perry is in trouble because he attacked romney and he did it so incompetently. the problem is, the republican party has been in recent years too southern. in the last five presidential cycles, they've got 79 of their electoral votes from the south. the strategy has been carry the 11 states of the federacy, carry the 8 states of mountain west, then spend some equal of the brazil. that won't work anymore. because barack obama extended the battle field. that's another question about governor perry. >> what's going on in the back rooms as the republicans look to really get a candidate that can beat barack obama? i just

as a "new york times" editorial, 30 years after roe v wade identified a woman's rights to make her own decision and legalized abortion nationwide, a new drive from anti-abortion fortress who refused to except the law of the land have a pair of women's ability to exercise that right, including finding ways to delay access to abortion. we are concerned these deceptive practices are to

before he was against roe versus wade? he was for race to the top?a care, now he's against it? >> all right, not so hot. perry followed up on his disastrous debate performance with a big loss in the florida straw poll. he spent more time and money in florida than his competitors. but still only got 15% of the vote. former godfather ceo pizza man herman cain won the straw poll, i was surprised at this, with 37%. the folks on fox, here already writing perry's political obituary. >> perry really did throw up all over himself in the debate. at a time when he needed to raise his game. perry is about one half a step away from almost total collapse as a candidate. >> really? you think so, mr. hume? he's still leading the republican field in a new nationwide poll coming in at 28%, 7 point arizona head of mitt romney at 21%. and that takes into consideration the event that took place the other night. joining me now is jim moore. he is a "huffington post" contributor. "why rick perry will make america miss george w. push." steve kornacki, political columnist f

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versus wade, before he was against verse -- roe versus wade. he was for race to the top. he's for obama care, and now he's against it. >> david corn, i have never counted so many brain freezes in one sentence. >> please make it stop, chris, please! we saw it last night. he's making george w. bush look like the most articulate statesman from texas ever! but as bad as that response was, you know, he obviously had prepared for that line of attack and then couldn't pull it off. >> but remember, when you can't remember the capital of florida for a couple of seconds, you have to think a little bit, here's a guy trying to remember what he just rehearsed for the show that night. >> an index card, it was on for him. i don't know if we're going to get to it -- >> we'll get to it. >> the answer that he gave on pakistan, that was actually frightening. >> you know what, we have the power to go to that right now. here's fox news debate moderator brett bear asking perry what he would do if he received the old 3:00 a.m. call, if pakistan lost its nuclear weapo

versus wade before he was against verse -- roe versus wade?for race to the top. he's for obamacare and now he's against it. we'll wait until tomorrow and see which mitt romney we're really talking to tonight. >> governor romney. >> i'll use the same term again. nice try. >> i saw you tweeted, dana, last night you that think perry has to get better at debating. how long do you think before he's no longer considered the one to beat or do you think it's not that bad at this point? >> well, i think it was a pretty bad performance last night. and the weird thing is i've seen perry give speeches before, i've seen him speak from off the cuff, and he does fine. so i don't know if it's just the pressure of the debate format or the intense weight of the national scrutiny that's getting to him. but i mean, it's not just his speech skills. it was his body language as well. he looked very uncomfortable. but i think it's still really early to call anyone out. but if rick perry wants to remain a top-tier contender, he's got to get better at debate. and he's

. >> he was barred standing up for row versus wade before he was against roe versus wade. he was for race to the top. he was for obamacare, now against it. we will wait until tomorrow to see which mitt romney we are talking to tonight. >> i would use the same term again, nice try. >> mitt romney has had a couple of great debate for the presidential nomination. he and rick perry going at it again. the winner in this one? >> romney probably came out ahead. certainly on most score currency did. rick perry chose the problem -- shows the problem. he came into the race late. he just plunged in and was immediately the front runner of the race. ordinarily, candidates have a chance to try out their speeches, talking points at various small clubs. before you bring it to broadway. he plunged into broadway and you could see he was unprepared for the spotlight. >> even you can see that mitt romney is so much of a better candidate this time than last. this is not for novices. the statgame is tough going. >> he ran for governor of massachusetts as a republican, which is not easy. he has

wade before he was against first roe v. wade, he said.ean, we'll wait until >> reporter: perry also had to defend himself against criticism of his relatively moderate stand on immigration, including a texas policy granting in-state college tuition for children of illegal immigrants. >> if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, i don't think you have a heart. >> reporter: former pennsylvania senator rick santorum jumped on that remark. >> the point is, why are we subsidizing? not that they can't go. they can go. they just have to borrow money, find other sources to be able to go. and why should they be given preferential treatment as an illegal in this country? that's what we're saying. and so, yes, i would say that he is soft on illegal immigration. >> reporter: at today's follow- up gathering of the conservative political action conference, also in orlando. it was perry's immigration stance that romney seized on. >> my friend g

versus wade, before he was against roe versus wade? he was for race to the top? he's for obama care and now he's against it. i mean, we'll wait until tomorrow and see which mitt romney we're really talking to tonight. >> to be fair to the governor, dan balz, all candidates have rough debate performances, especially new candidates on the presidential stage. sometimes, whether it's nerves, whether it's inexperience, he hasn't debated a lot in his races. if he's been ahead, they said no to debates. but if you're trying to sell yourself in this republican year, when republicans feel the president is vulnerable, is the guy you want up on that stage next october, that didn't help. >> no, it sure didn't. and that particular answer, along with some of the other things he had to say last night and some of the other debates, have really caused people to say is this the rick perry that we thought we were getting when he came into the race? on paper, he looked really good to a lot of conservatives. but as you know, presidential campaigns are a muc