let's go to wayne slater. you know the appeal of this guy, he's got that cocksure attitude. wayne, talk about this guy's behavior as an elected official. is he a guy who deals with insiders who pay to play? >> yes. the quick answer is absolutely. that has been his history, that is the rap against him. we've written an awful lot about these various deals, and the ones, as mike said, the ones you mentioned are just the tip of the iceberg. there are a whole range of these, a lot of people have done very well. the quick answer is absolutely. that has been his history, that is the rap against him. we've written an awful lot about these various deals, and the ones, as mike said, the ones you mentioned are just the tip of the iceberg. there are a whole range of these, a lot of people have done very well. but here's what's different right now. if i go to chicago in the old daley years nobody is shocked, shocked if somebody gets a contract if they support the local ward boss. but perry, riding a tea party wave, which sarah palin reiterated yesterday, said this crony capitalism is a b

and i will be back here in another year hopefully to see the steel frames going up for the base i slater's. 115 of them in 13. for months. they are not being built in foreign countries. they are being constructed and designed and made right across the bay. so, they will be shipped here. they're already under way. one of the most important things, because it will allow the hospital, there will be a ground inland in 30 inches in any direction. it will allow that to not disturb the hospital building. that is why they are called base by solicitors. that is the most modern and oscillators that exist. -- modern isolators that exist. we talk about the new energy standards for buildings, that is again late into the way we plan the facility and the way it is being executed. i am very proud of where we are today. today. we will keep executing these

wayne slater, thank you so much. >>> now let's talk about the president are. you remember the president's jobs speech, the big one last week? here's the cliffs notes version. >> pass this jobs bill and we can put people to work. you should pass it right away. pass this bill. pass this jobs bill. pass this bill, and hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged young people -- >> just one minor issue was that was certainly the president's refrain that night as he spoke. there was no bill. well, today there it is in his left hand, the president has it and now he sent it up to congress. more than $440 billion, now they are spelling out how they plan to cover that cost. let's go to brianna keilar covering the white house for you. brianna, two words, right? tax increase. >> reporter: tax increases. brooke, i hope you can hear me okay. i will tell you the sound you're hearing is the sound of people at work soy guess it's all sort of in line with what we're talking about. the proposal for paying for the president's jobs plan, tax increases, limit aring deductions, those ite

wayne slater, thank you. >>> and michele bachmann's startling claim that this vaccine can cause mentaletardation is causing a stir in the medical community. and we will break this one down, fact and fiction and how much truth behind her comments. >> they started as a week as bystanders to a horrifying accident, and now they are hailed as heroes. a half a dozen bystanders jumped in to help save a young man trapped understoneath a car andw more news that the man trapped is going to be fine. >> it is great to know that i was part of humanity that gave him the gift. >> and now on the scene is derek harper and micah johnson and eric lundgren. when you got there, what was the immediate reaction and were you running on adrenaline? >> well, i actually believed that the fellow under the car wasn't alive, and most people there i think felt that. i just thought that we should get the car off of the body, and so it didn't burn. and then the lady that laid down on the road and said, he is alive after she said that, everybody just converged on the car and somebody pulled him out, and it is a great t

. >> so wayne slater, who is a pretty good rick perry watcher among other things, wayne slater tweetedit to the bank, sarah palin will not run for president, will endorse rick perry." that's a pretty good read on that. >> she did endorse him in 2010 in his very heated primary against senator kay bailey hu h hutchison. there was history on whether sarah palin was basing her own decision on whether rick perry was in the race. we see no indication she is going to get in and we see indication from this comment and a few others she might be leaning towards endorsing him. that would help him with the tea party wing of the party. however, there's some thought maybe that's not where he needs help. he needs help with the more mainstream centrist parts of the party so we'll have to see with what sarah palin does. it will be key to see whether she remains a force in the republican politics. >> absolutely. thank you very much ken, great reporting and appreciate your being here. >>> nearly 50% of african-american teenagers are out of work. how does president obama's plan aim to help those who are h

wayne slater, good to see you this morning. thanks for your insight. >> great to be with you. >>> proving that social media is creating a considerable boost to the u.s. economy, a new study from the university of maryland shows facebook applications have created more than, get this, 180,000 jobs. they've also contributed more than $12 billion in wages and benefits. the study estimates the so-called app economy has indirectly created an additional 129,000 jobs. pretty amazing. >>> americans have long lamented the decline of manufacturing here in the u.s. now there's a story of an incredible turnaround. woolen mill in minnesota with roots as far back as the civil war collapsed. the former ceo of dairy queen swooped in, pulled the company back from the brink. the mill started reproducing its iconic wool blankets last week and is hiring now. joining me live from minnesota is chuck moody, ceo and president of wool and former ceo and president of dairy queen. let's talk about the wool mill, a small company, but clearly it had to be a

wayne slater, how is the governor going to do tonight?ng to do okay. basically he came out of a rather ram bunkious rollout. and i think on the inside of his campaign, his campaign operative said you need to tone down the cowboy a little bit. i think he wants to look a little more presidential tonight. but his instinct will be to fight. if he's punched, if mitt romney punches at him directly or indirectly, look for rick perry to punch back. >> tone down the cowboy, huh? ron paul is calling him out. let's watch a snippet of it. >> rick perry helped lead al gore's campaign to undo the reagan revolution, fighting to elect al gore president of the united states. >> so hang on a second. rick perry supported al gore for president? >> he did. he endorsed al gore, showed up at a news conference in 1988 for al gore with some other legislators, he travelled texas urging voters to vote for al gore. but remember, al gore was the southern conservative alternative. rick perry was a democrat at the time, to mike delaware kukakis. he was the conservative

slater and as soon as he became president he received a colonel gadhafi himself in paris for a five day state visit presence or because he was able to sell him this armored vehicle the cd is called for by for and indeed part of the deal is a twenty five million plus package which also provides the libyan government with means to keep tabs on the opposition's by controlling the e-mail system of dissidents these revelations come in the wake of a triumphant visit lately by president ockers in libya where he was very much depicted in the french press as the liberate of libya he was nicknamed sako z. the libyan and his war was nicknamed. he was portrayed as the savior of libya while at the same time of course his the one who did probably the most to get gadhafi in arms as anybody else. later this hour a charismatic polish economy shares his idea of shock therapy which aren't in the reputation of the better for men in the european union but before that let's get a business update with you. thanks celeste a very warm welcome to the business program the russian ruble continues to retreat agains

thousand and eleven he hopes that palestine will be of member of the united nations and now told by slater the u.s. is backpedaling and threatening to veto the aspirations of palestine also reports coming out that u.s. president barack obama will be meeting with palestinian president mahmoud abbas this was a meeting that was not scheduled up to this point of course that the u.s. so against the policy and bid for u.n. membership but if this meeting does take place who knows maybe the story will shift into a much different. reimport now reporting in from new york and while the palestinians are campaigning for statehood and u.n. some that we've washington is using its economic influence to hold such efforts from going through there's no question that the obama administration and the democratic and republican party are proving through congress is exerting immense pressure on the palestinian authority make make clear that the palestinian authority will be cut off will be deprived of the funds necessary to pay palestinian authority employees as has already happened much of that money was already

chemical and biological weapons that he knew he had previously about he refused to do and even the slaters february hans blix was saying we do not know whether he still has these he listed a whole load of v.x. nerve gas and mustard gas different agents chemical agents so we didn't know and he was not willing to allow. other countries to come to interview the scientists to see the order trails to know whether he got rid of them or not in that situation it would have been ludicrous to have had a million strong army but was on the doorstep of iraq simply go away when the resolution fourteen forty one had given iran given him a final opportunity to comply with its obligations and the world beyond that then what would've happened is he would have simply rebuilt those programs with impunity knowing that he was absolutely untouchable and the world would not do anything against it we would have then been precipitated ritual far more major conflict into the middle east between iran and iraq with devastating consequences destruction of the world's oil supplies it was a terrible situation and it was

somebody is correspondent paula slater well there are forces in both israel and palestine and that would like violence to erupt in the build up to the un vote and these provocations must be avoided if peace is ever to be established so says dr ron pundak he's chairman of the palestinian israeli peace and geo forum now what is happening between us and the palestinians will be judged by whether there will be clashes along they seem lines between the israeli forces and the palestinians and also between the palestinians and the settlements within the they west bank but as much as i understand the interest of both sides is not to reach any hostility in any culmination of fighting or as we have seen in the year two thousand when the two sides clashed into a second violent intifada so i presume that both sides will try to contain and maintain the current situation because it wants neither side it's having say this one should remember that on both sides there are provocative forces and the strength of the two governments will be to try and calm down these provocations and not to. be carried away

coming your way slater the italian town that wants to run from rome being fed up with being uttered by the rest of italy's floundering economy one sleepy little community is deciding to try and go it alone. and exclusion a excursion meet the sure noble tourists who are endangering their health for ali day despite the radiation risks. but first in latvia party backed by the large russian community there won a majority in a snap parliamentary election with almost all the votes now in the harmony center party won twenty nine percent it's the first time a russia supporting parties led the polls in the former soviet state since it gained independence but speculation is growing that rival latvian politicians might try to form a coalition to keep the progress party out of the government about a third of the country's population are russian speakers but many of them are non-citizens who have no voting rights russia and its. system are still the twenty five billion dollar energy deal this week the soon to be built south stream pipeline will pump russian gas straight into europe all year round m

the guy, steven slater, jetblue guy that went nuts. >> yeah. >> linsey before she joined abc. >> yes. hot chocolate. >> latte. >> more from abc when we come right back. wowowowowowowowowowop >>> this morning on "world news now" -- recession fears. >>> this morning on "world news now" -- recession fears. the steep plunge on wall street is felt on your street. >> what's driving markets worldwide into a tailspin, and what you can do to protect your savings if there is another recession. it is friday, september 23rd. >>> good morning, everyone, i'm linsey davis in for tanya rivero. >> i'm rob nelson. already markets overseas are tanking this morning after the dow's dramatic drop yesterday. as retirement accounts take a huge hit, analysts say it is actually a good time to invest in real estate and protect your credit rating. we'll put all that in perspective. >> also ahead, people up this time of day often looking for a quick jolt of caffeine to stay awake and turn to red bull and other beverages. see who wants tighter control of the sale of the drinks and wants them labeled as drugs. >> w

joining mess now, wayne slater, senior political writer for "the dallas morning news."nd bob franken, syndicated columni. wayne, what is perry up to? >> in the book he suggests at least social security oughting to abolished. that's on the record, in print, black and white. now he has to deal with that reality. >> that's only nine or ten months ago. it's not a book when he was a kid in college or 20 years ago. that's his position, he wrote it, he's got to live with it. the question is what do you do about that on a political campaign where you said correctly social security is probably our most popular entitlement program, especially for those folks in florida. the campaign knew they had to fix that. >> now, let me ask you, bob, he also suggested in the book it was unconstitutional. now you had he says i meant to say you need to fix it. you don't fix something that is illegal, you eliminate it. >> i think that when he said ponzi, he had just w567d and episode of "happy days" and meant to say fonzie scheme. in other words, he was just throwing words out there. here is a m

new york times" magazine piece i talked about and the editor of "the great texas monthly" and wayne slaterthe senior political writer for "the dallas morning news." you let the cat out of the bag maybe, and i thank you for t.oftentimes we think that all texans like all texans. not true, or at least not for president? >> not for president. i think this is something i don't remember seeing before, but i think there is -- there's a lot of questioning about whether this is a really good idea for texans and for the rest of the world. >> you know, i go back to wayne on that, because wayne, for months i followed politics assiduously, if you will, i'm a junkie. never heard anybody talk of rick perry for president until a couple of weeks ago and then all of a sudden he was flavor of the week or month, and i wonder how come i've never heard anybody talk him up before? a question that's sort of in your ear and you forget about it for a while, but it's coming back again. the reason nobody ever talked him up for president before is what we've seen the last three debates, right? >> well, because these p

colonel slater is a real cold war hero who i write about.s commander of the base for a number of years in the 60s and he explained to me how often commercial airline pilots would be flying on the west coast but say at dusk at 30,000 feet and they would see the oxcart fly overhead at 90,000 feet at mach 3 and people in the plane would see it as well and the pilots would radio in ufo, and colonels later would have to send the fbi to wherever it was the plane was landing and make the pilots and the people sign inadvertant disclosure forms letting them know they would be in serious trouble if they told anyone about that. these kinds of things only added to the ufo more and mythology. >> you have five oxcarts that crashed and as they went out to get the titanium covers and all of that, obviously these kinds of secret people went out in the desert. it all looked like they regarding something very secret which was but not a flying saucer. which brings us to somebody asking why in your opinion has area 51 in your opinion become such a popular elemen

wayne slater is the senior political writer for "the dallas morning news" and republicans join us, markformer adviser to president george w. bush bush and john mccain. also founder of no labels an organization dedicated to putting party labels aside in politics. we are not doing that tonight. this is the republican debate. >> of course not. >> i want you to listen or watch the following. here are some of rick perry's most talked about comments in the last month starting with criticism of ben bernanke. let's all listen to rick perry. >> if this guy prints more money, between now and the election, i don't know what you all will do to him in iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in texas. i mean, printing more money to play politics at this particular time in american history is almost treasonous in my opinion. i do believe that the issue of global warming has been politicized. i think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. you know, it's a theory that is out there. it's got some gaps in it.

the idea we are not enforcing the law against regular immigration rye slaters simply isn't true. >> itps to catch 3,000 criminals. there is a new program to reduce that backlog from jail to deportation. but it's parole because some states fear illegal immigrant would be deported as well. megyn: all right, william, thank you. the skyrocketing price of healthcare hitting a new milestone. a new study find the average annual cost of a family's healthcare premiums as passed the $15,000 mark. a% jump from just last year. many employers want their employees to contribute more to cover those rising costs. the employers don't want to take it on themselves. plus the rising costs are being blamed for holding down hiring and the president's healthcare overhaul is getting part of the blame. leslie marshall who is a laid ohio talk show host along with lars larson. the report from the kaiser foundation which monitors this stuff, they have been pro the president's healthcare overhaul is that the employer-provided healthcare insurance has got up 8% to 9%, passing $15,000 for family coverage. but they s

wayne slater, senior political writer for the "dallas morning news."ed by cnn contributor will cane, and krnl analyst roland martin. before we get to specific comparisons between the two, is this all just an image his team is trying to sell to the public? is this a good thing? >> those are two questions. one is he george bush cubed, not just 2.0. he everything is we thought george bush was, the caricature of bush. he really did grow up on a west texas farm. he really is kind of a west texas boot scooting aggie like another member of this panel, an aggie. that would be row lan. >> woot! woot! >> yeah, right. he's really more conservative than bush, he's more partisan than bush. he is actually politically more savvy than bush. is that a good thing? well, it depends how you see george w. bush. some think it is not. >> is the fact that he could be more conservative be a problem? would that mean little crossover appeal or not? >> no. first let me say, he is not george bush 2.0. he is maybe stylistically george bush 2.0 as wayne suggested. all i heard were s

slater standing in front. he and his wife had been plucked from an upstairs window of their home and taken by boat to safety. they were unable to retrieve his 16 medications, and her eight that they need on a daily basis. i assured them i would provide them with their prescriptions. but what would happen in cases such as this if pharmacies such as mine disappeared from the communities that they rely on. the fact is communicate pharmacies are closing. this is just one story. there are thousands just like mine of communicate pharmacies stepping up to assist patients and getting their much-needed prescription medications. during the flooding, the congress and his staff got their feet way as they participated with lech pharmacy and red cross in prescription and supply deliveries from our pharmacy. our three pharmacies were the only ones open in the county three days. the reason i am telling you this bm already have some much control over the marketplace it concerns me what would happen if this merger would to occu