cities in texas, austin. nice to have you with us tonight. >> hi, melissa, and i want to make it clear, though we bear a passing resemblance, i'm not related to him either. >> very good, neither of us are related to rick perry. you've been in texas politics for a long time and really know this state. are you surprised by the numbers that i just read on government hiring, does that fit with what you've seen on the ground in texas and your district? >> i can tell you this, one of the great fears about the economy over the next 24 months in texas is that government layoffs are going to cause our unemployment rate to go up significantly. that's a fear i have about the national economy, but it's an especially acute fear here because of the budget cuts we enacted in this last session and the budget shortfall we continue to face going into the next budget cycle. >> tell me a little bit about that, i know part of the story here is exactly how washington helped to fill that hole so that the rainy day fund didn't have

there was another model called the texas model, and i remember reading texas liberal writers back theneeds to catch up with states mi like michigan, didn't have unions, and texas adhered to the model and the census tells the story in michigan in 1970, 9 million people n 2010, 40 years later there were 10 million people minimal population growth. texas in 1970. 11 million people not much more than michigan in 2010, texas had 25 million people, americans and immigrants have been voting with their feet for the texas model and that's been generating most of the jobs, or nearly half the jobs in the country. since the end of the recession officially. >> but the president would respond, i think, and say, look, we helped the auto companies come back with their government rescues and been investing in green jobs, so the government can direct companies into companies and battery companies for electric cars, for example, wind power, solar power and that's where the future job growth is going to be, is that something that can sell in that, in those current industrial states? >> well, i don't think

to nose who claim god may texas, some say crockett invented texas. his blood and the blood who died with him transformed the alamo into an american cultural icon affecting economic and political conditions in texas and beyond. the battle cry, remember the alamo, employed weeks later by sam houston to inspire his force when they defeated the army still reverberates throughout history and culture. for many anglos and others, that paints a picture of heros and sacrifice and love of liberty. the alamo remains the most instantly recognized battle in american history with the possible exception of get gettysberg. it is said not until the battle of little big horn, 40 years after the alamo, would americans have a more vainglorious event to rally around. texas used the alamo in the revolt against mexico to establish a republican, later a state, that they believe unique and more special than any other. in 1845 when the republic of texas gave up its sovereignty to be the biggest state in the union did so with a caveat depending on whose interpretation of the t

texas, but is the texas economy a miracle or just a mirages? you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc. >>> here is what's happening. steve jobs has resigned as ceo of apple. he says he can no longer meet the duties and expectations of that position. he has battled cancer since 2004 and undergoing a liver transplant in 2009. he will remain a member of the company as chairman of the board while tim cook steps in to replace him as ceo. >>> wall street has reacted negative and apple shares have plummeted in afterhours trading. >>> hurricane irene is battering the bahamas with heavy rains and 120 mile-an-hour winds after causing widespread damage in the turks and keikos islands. the mid-atlantic coast residents are taking the storm seriously. irene could strengthen to a serious storm before coming ashore this weekend. now back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." if you've listened to rick perry, you've probably heard him talking about his jobs record in texas. >> i'm really proud of what we've done in the state of texas in the last decad

texas benefitted from nafta. nafta is not popular in states like south carolina, ohio, pennsylvania and michigan, and so he is going to have to also explain that. but to erick's point you must examine that. you can't stand here and talk about, you know, decrying stimulus funds, but you accept them. also in texas, the republicans control the house and the senate. so it's not like rick perry actually had to do it. if he wanted to say no to stimulus funds he could have said so but he didn't. >> is that the case, mimi? >> i would assume so. i'm just thinking about quality of life here and again what people are going to really see once reporters start digging into the way life is lived here, the poor air quality, the poor health care, we're way down at the bottom of all of those things. i hate to see it, you know, i hate to see texas dragged through the mud again, but i think that we're in for it. >> erick, how strong a candidate do you see rick perry as a candidate and who does he most immediately affect by entering?

texas benefitted from nafta. nafta is not popular in states like south carolina, ohio, pennsylvania and michigan, and so he is going to have to also explain that. but to erick's point you must examine that. you can't decry stimulus funds but you accept them and also in texas republicans control the house and the senate. so it's not like rick perry actually had to do it. if he wanted to say no to stimulus funds he could have said so but he didn't. >> is that the case, mimi? >> i would assume so. i'm just thinking about quality of life here and again what people are going to see once reporters start digging into the way life is lived here, the poor air quality, the poor health care, we're way down at the bottom of all of those things. i hate to see it, you know, i hate to see texas dragged through the mud when it but i think we're in for it. >> erick how strong a candidate do you see rick perry as a candidate and who does he most immediately affect by entering? >> i think rick perry would probably be a strong candi

do you see a texas miracle? >> no. i see a texas tragedy. >> reporter: rachel, a veteran middle schoolteacher, calls her layoff the cost of low taxes. >> realize that your child will be in a classroom that will have a larger number of students. your child will have less individual time with their teachers. so, you know, everything comes at a price. >> reporter: perry now enters this race as both a tea party and evangelical conservative. a man so religious he once asked texans to play for three days for rain. so, scott, he needs to push and to sell this jobs issue to appeal to voters in the middle. >> pelley: thank you, wyatt. it was t.g.i.f. on wall street today. on the final trading day of this wild, wild week, the dow gained 125 points, the first time it's been up two days in a row in more than a month. for the week, the dow is off 175 points, or about 1.5%. but look at this: over the past three weeks, the dow has lost 1,400 points, or 11%, the worst three-week showing in two and a half years. in the bloody rebellion

texas benefitted from nafta. nafta is not popular in states like south carolina, ohio, pennsylvania and michigan, and so he is going to have to also explain that. but to erick's point you must examine that. you can't stand here and talk about, you know, decrying stimulus funds, but you accept them. also in texas, the republicans control the house and the senate. so it's not like rick perry actually had to do it. if he wanted to say no to stimulus funds he could have said so but he didn't. >> is that the case, mimi? >> i would assume so. i'm just thinking about quality of life here and again what people are going to really see once reporters start digging into the way life is lived here, the poor air quality, the poor health care, we're way down at the bottom of all of those things. i hate to see it, you know, i hate to see texas dragged through the mud again, but i think that we're in for it. >> erick, how strong a candidate do you see rick perry as a candidate and who does he most immediately affect by entering?

, i think, has worked for texas. that's a debate people can have, but it has resulted in job creation, but it's not a strategy that can scale to other states or to the nation as a whole, because it allows jobs being poached to other states and jobs tied to texas. >> also the point in the column today, a person amount of the job growth is successfully luring jobs from another state, which is a zero strategy and might make you a popular governor but at a national level does not amount to a job's strategy. jim, last word, what do you think is going to be the hardest part of his record to face going forward? >> i think it is his corporatization, he's george w. bush without the intelligence and ethics. he's completely wedded to the corporate powers, 204 corporate interests have put more than $100 million into his campaign over the last decade. that's at&t, that's coke brothers, that is exxon mobil, that is every special interest that you can imagine, and this is who the guy really is. he flirts with this kind of tea party

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worth texas in 1909. one of the wealthiest congregations in texas. known as the church of the cattle kings. there were 12 millionaires in the church, and norris was one of the highest paid clergymen in america. one newspaper voted him the best dressed pastor in america. and he began a ministry that was at first pretty sedate but eventually he decided he would turn into and morph himself into a sort of a composite, and i have done a lot of radio interviews and am trying to give people a feel for what this person was like. billy sun day was -- a little billy graham. and add to that a little dose of william randolph hearst. a very famous newspaper man and also someone who had napoleonic tendencies, and add to that the name of pd barnum, and because it's the 20s and because of norris and some of the things he did, put a little al capone in there because he was very much into winning battles and fighting battles. he built first baptist church from a few hundred peoplin' 1909, to a church that would drew sometimes 10,000 people by the middle of the 1920s.

in texas. it was also anti-catholic. it was sort of a throwback to the old know nothings. it was this anti-catholicism that really i think was part and parcel of its popularity, particularly in the american south. so you have the 1920s. it's sort of the breeding ground in the fertile ground for the coming along of demagogues. history tells us, sometimes in the name of religion. along comes this complex character, the shooting salvation is, j. frank norris, is this character john franklin horse or simply known as j. frank. is born in 1877 in alabama but moved with his family at a young age to the hill country of texas where he grew up turkey survived a gunshot wound when he was 13 years of age and almost killed him. his father was a hopeless alcoholic, his mother was extremely devout and the driving force of his life. he was in his late teens, he experienced a religious conversion and felt the call to the ministry. he went off to baylor university which is where all baptist kids went at that par

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. >> so so look, one reason texas has the stats they have, and no one denies that texas like any other state has something to work on. >> you have areas that are very critical. that's not like every other state. >> that's right. we have people fleeing to the texas economy. that jacks up not only the unemployment figures but insurance figures. >> it's obama ae fault. >> yeah, along with many things wrong in america lately, i will blame obama. >> who was the governor before that, josh? >> his name was george w. bush, al? do you want to blame bush? >> so bush and perry are doing well and when obama came in, you became number one in these areas. pe found out how you became so well developed in these areas. people, 25 and older with a high school diploma, credit score, 49. high school graduation rate, 43. all that happening in the last two years too. >> funny enough, despite all this, again, we have a thousand americans -- >> despite all this -- >> no, listen. the texas economy in the pave five years, have a net increase. so you have to set stats against the reality that texas is the only t

to those who claim god made texas figuratively crockett invented texas. his blood and the blood of all who died with him transform the alamo into an american cultural icon affecting economic and political conditions in texas and beyond. the battle cry remember the alamo in 5 weeks later by sam houston to inspire his force when they captured general sand and and defeated the mexican army still reverberates through history and culture. for many anglo texans and others those three words conjure images of patriotic heroes, sacrifice and love of liberty. the alamo is the most instantly recognized battle in american history with the possible exception of gettysburg. it has been said that not until the battle of little big horn and the death of george armstrong custer 40 years after the alamo what americans have a more fein and glorious event to rally around. texans used the alamo and the revolt against mexico to establish a republic and later a state they believed more unique and special than any other. in 1845 when the republic of texas gave up its sovereignty

the texas education agency began laying off employees. >> texas school districts are tightening their budgets. >> hundreds of aisd teachers and staff members learned today they're out of a job. >> perry requested state agencies find a way to shave off another 2.5%. and that's directly related to the layoffs we are seeing today. >> perry violated the trust of the public schoolteachers in texas, and ultimately it will damage the next generation. perry loves to talk about his jobs record. but $4 billion in cuts will cost thousands of public schoolteachers their jobs. the cuts will hit every kitchen table in the lone star state. to cope, some districts are implementing fees for riding the bus or attending preschool. prekindergarten. many are considering tax increases. where is the deal here? rick perry's refusal to raise taxes has made once again middle class texans shell out more money to put johnny and sally on the school bus. the texas tribune reports. in the teller independent school district just north of ft. worth students will ride the bus, they'll have to pay $185 each per semeste

he said that if bernanke comes to texas he says we treat them ugly in texas. some felt it was threatening. what do you think about the tone so far of rick perry's campaign? >> i've known rick perry for a long time. he's a great competitor. he's got the best record in the country out of the last decade in job creation. he's a limited government conservative. everybody's got to decide what their tone's going to be. i think the broader point governor perry was making is the facical policies of this administration in running up debts and deficits is not good for our country. they're not creating jobs. they've had no plan to create jobs and governor perry has. i think he's going to make that contrast and he'll find his way to communicate that in an effective way to the people. >> but governor, with all due respect that's not the contrast he's making. it's one thing to go after president obama's economic record. all the republicans are doing that. some felt that was a threatening comment, not a respectful comment of the fed and of ben berman key in particular. >> we

what he's done in texas i think worked for texas. that's a debate people can have but it has resulted in job creation, but it is not in scale to other states or the nation as a whole. this involves a lot of jobs being from other states and jobs that are tied to things that are texas focused, manufacturing, energy and so on. >> i thought it was interesting in the column he said a certain amount of the job growth is successfully luring jobs from another state, which is a zero sum strategy and may make you a popular governor but as a president does not amount to a job strategy. what do you think will be the hardest part of his record going forward? >> i think it is his corporatization. he is george w. bush without the intelligence and ethics. he is completely wedded to the corporate powers. 200 corporate interests have put more than $100 million in his to his campaign over the last decade. that's at&t, coke brothers, that's exxon mobil, every special interest you can imagine. and this is who the guy really is. he flirts with this kind o

he plays the texas thing up, he plays the mythology up. it has a big appeal in texas.is whole business with secession, it does resonate with a public fed up with washington. >> but he's just historically inaccurate. when texas came into the union for the republic of texas into the union, there wasn't any provision which allowed it to secede. the provision was that it could break itself into six separate states and get 12 senators. why did he get something as fundamentally important to texas history wrong? or do you believe he deliberately crafted this secession thing to make him look like a real cowboy? >> well, number one, the public, as you know, doesn't pay close enough attention to these people, as we're starting to parse them as they run for public office. number two is that i don't think rick really understood what the constitution said about breaking into five states. and he knew that the message of secession was going to be wildly embraced by those tea party folks. and guess what happened? he was down by 25 points to kay bailey hutchinson when he went out there

[cheering] texas! texas! >> this weekend, governor perry travels to three states with critical early primary contests -- slina, new hampshire, iowa. question, who has a stronger political base, mitt romney or rick perry? mort? >> we don't know whether perly will pass the normal reviews of a national press corps, butly say this -- he has done the best job and that state has done the best job in creating an environment attractive to business and jobs in the economic development. i think he's -- it's not just a last couple years where -- he created something like 40% of all the jobs in america for the last five years, in texas. so that is going to be appealing at a time when we have a huge unpromise in the country and in that sense in terms of the country being interested in economic development, they see this as another alternative to -- >> do you agree with mort, richard? >> that will be his narrative, strongest point. he'll be able to steal from the establishment support from romney, tea party and evangelical

but here's the record in texas, 22% of all children in texas have no health insurance. it's one of the worst in the country. they have a $9 billion deficit. which is bigger than all but four states in texas. so they've got a lot of explaining to do and he's got, he's got a management problem on his hands. most governors don't have a management problem, but it turns out that texas is the weakest governorship in the country. the lieutenant governor actually presents the budget in texas and rick perry really has very little management experience. he's not really running texas. the only state in the country that's true of. >> you won't want to miss out object rachel maddow's unique take on politics and all the day's top stories, here on msnbc, the place for politics. >>> there is new evidence this morning iran may be supplying goods to the terror group u.s. officials consider the most dangerous current threat to the united states. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. a ship that departed iran several days ago carrying weapons, food and other supplies was intercepted by the in

they move it to austin, texas. the judge sets the date is january 1927 somehow not realizing that by doing this, he makes sure the trial which is one of the most celebrated takes place the same week that the undiscovered governor in the history of the state, dan mini is inaugurated as the governor of texas. and along the campaign trail and moody, because it was the biggest auditorium in town he spoke from norrises bold but as part of his campaign. you have the inauguration at that time austin, texas has 50,000 residents per it is sleepy quiet university town state capital plan has not seen the boom yet. the trial is moved to austin, texas and draws every media outlet to the triangle park as a result, norris, the case is brought before the jury. it is a duel between lawyers. the most celebrated lawyers and names that are forgotten today for the prosecution. wild bill mcclain had already been like f. lee bailey of the day. ironically, his chief lawyer was the name of moses said he was led in the wilderness of the tri

be so profoundly ignorant about texas history. michael, you're laughing. this is profound ignorance, to think they had a special okay to quit the union when they came in. >> i'm laughing, because i'm from texas. that's kind of like an urban legend in texas, but it's absolutely not true. you are yekt correct. >> who thinks this besides him? where did he get this fans sill from? we all knee that texas came in under a provision it could break itself into six states, but i knew that from the time i read about the monitor and the merrimack. this guy is a politician and he doesn't know this. >> he's the governor. i mean, a republican who thinks lincoln was wrong? i just can't even fathom that. >> the new slogan of the republican party, ignorance is bliss? really? is it now cute? is this a way of proving you're not part of washington, you don't know anything? is this a new way of showing your purity? >> come on, you've got -- i don't mean to laugh, but i do have to laugh when i hear the ridiculous. >> okay. what's ridiculous, what i said

is the texas economy really booming? a fact check as we travel 400 miles through texas. >>> bitter pill. patients being told now by their doctors, we have run out of your life-saving medicine. what's going on here? >>> and searching for sarah. >> sarah! sarah! >> we're back in joplin, three months later, that frantic search for sarah and we go back to find her. are you sarah? >>> and good evening on this saturday night. we're glad you're with us here. we're getting a clearer picture tonight of that freak summer storm and those flash floods that proved deadly in the northeast. they were most devastating in pitttturgh, where another body was discovered today. the woman was in the car with the rising waters, on the phone with her daughter when the line went dead. in all, four people have died in the floods after more than 2 inches of rain falling an hour the second of two storms, sending a wall of water 9 feet high rolling through one part of that city. abc's rob nelson leads us off tonight. >> reporter: from new jersey to

50 years in texas.r lot of texas land, big government grabbing private land. so there are a lot of things that he's going to have to deal with. one of them is that some of the growth in jobs in texas have been government jobs. so he's got a little bit of explaining to do there. but right now this election, john, unlike the last one that was about hope and change, this election is about strength and certainty. and texas' strength may sell this election. >> alex says texas strechkt may sell. immigration is one question. we'll have to deal with conservative critics. another issue that could come up, some tea party people occasionally get so mad at washington, they say their states should least union. i want you to listen to governor perry at a tea party rally whether texas should least union is on the table. >> since the u.s. constitution was first ratified, the federal government has slowly steadily and successfully eroded the notion of state's rights. the founding fathers understood something. they under

he's cutting the budget in texas on the back of students in texas. so chris, i have to tell you, again, it's an interesting speech. 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

he's been in texas politics for ten years.really doesn't care what other people think about him. he only cares about what his plan is. he's always got a plan that's what makes him formid-able in politics. he's a tough guy. that's served him well because he's had very tough races and very tough criticism over the years. >> woodruff: well, paul burr car, i'm sure we're going to come back to the question of rick perry in the future but thank you very much for giving us your perspective having covered him. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> brown: now, we continue our series on "inequality in the united states." a new report from the annie e. casey foundation finds that the poverty rate among children has risen by 18% over the last decade. that means two million more children dropped below the poverty line between 2000 and 2009 back to levels of the early '90s. "newshour" economics correspondent paul solman is looking at the widening wealth gap. tonight, he explores possible connections between inequality and the financial crisis

a major heat wave in texas.n the pacific cools and the atlantic is warm, you get this happening. as a matter of fact, we may see a double shot of tropical love in that 10 days from now, another major hurricane may be starting in the coast. >> bill: we'll get to that a minute. >> i want to get to this point here. >> bill: wait, you're basing your model rather than ideology on what happened in the past, texas in the 1950's, very bone dry as it is now. atlantic, very warm as it is now. same kind of pattern that we're seeing now. now, george will and others have accused you and other media of overhyping irene. do you think you overhyped it? >> let me ask george will this, it's probably going to be ranked the sixth costliest storm on record, killed 25 people. what does he want me to do? do i need to make it 15 billion dollars instead of 10 and kill 40, 50 people? you know what? here's the situation, this was a big, strong atlantic hurricane. the structure of accelerating hurricanes up the eastern seaboard changes. it

there is no place from which to make that argument better than from texas because texas used to be its own country. and rick perry has even talked about it. but politically, this is where the party is and where the tea party people are and that's why he is so good with them. chris: i have been high on the potential of michele bachmann. she is a great stump speaker and gets the audience going. mike, does he whiz right by her because she is a three term and had the question about the migraines, is it a perfect time to hit her and not romney? >> if he is going to have headaches, it isn't going to make a big difference. it's possible she will fade and he will do in iowa. he'll move on. >> the point is that michele bachmann, outer though she is, island she is, has been in congress. he has the virtue, rick perry does, nothing to do with washington. chris: you bring out a new product in september, karl rove? >> that was andy carr and getting ready to sell the iraqi war. chris: another guy like the new cars, kids looking for the new cars, i remember that, here is a guy coming out, is he going

proud of the texas twang. let me ask you, george, because the campaign, the obama campaign, is there on the ground watching. they're not going to watch on tv, they're there to watch on the ground. why? >> well, obviously, they know they're vulnerable right now. they really only see two potential nominees and threats and i think itit rick perry and mitt romney. the rest they don't believe can get the nomination or win the election, although they're kind of hoping that sarah palin gets in. >> matt, you agree, those two? >> yeah, i agree with that. i also think it's interesting, i don't think the obama folks ever thought rick perry was going to get in until very recently. so i think they're just now getting caught up in having to deal with it. as you say, diane, a whole new force in this race when he gets in that they haven't been preparing fofo >> as we said, it is game on, tonight is the night. we thank all of you for joining us and weighing in. of course, as we all know, those republicans, fighters, are trying

dave, didn't we see texas using 8 billion to pay recurring state expenses? texas tribune? he is talking out of both sides of his mouth or he is talking out of his mouth while putting money in his state-run pockets. this is the height of hypocrisy. >> yeah, rick perry doesn't like federal money. so until he actually needs it. as you mention in 2009, texas would not have been able to balance its budget without federal stimulus money. just in 2009 alone, we took $12 billion, in federal money to balance our budget. and that's 12 billion out of 17 billion you're talking about. so, yeah, he was talking about how terrible the stimulus was. he was talking about how we don't want federal money, we don't need federal money in texas. he turned down unemployment funds. >> in 2009, i was just showing the graph, he took 2.3 billion just to balance the budget that year in 2009. >> right. and so, we had a budget hole we needed to fill and when we needed to fill it, we turned to the federal government just like any state would. but you know, when it comes to rick perry and federal stimulus

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one of those candidates is texas governor rick perry., why perry is under fire for seeming to favor his big donors when it comes to big deals. [ artis brown ] america is facing some tough challenges right now. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project in canada, we'll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils and that's a huge breakthrough. that's good for our country's energy security and our economy. >>> last night, we fact checked texas governor and republican presidential candidate rick no relation perry's claims about his miraculous job creation in texas. today, a key member of the obama administration challenged perry's education record in the lone star state. it seems that texas students are suffering under the governor's leadership. education secretary arnie duncan slammed

health care in texas.s i watched the straw poll over the weekend, i had this recurring thought in my head that i wondered what the starving people in somalia, if they could watch that, would have thought about the excess of food at that fair, particularly the fried bader. i thought that was pretty revolting. host: another comment from twitter -- the winner in the iowa straw poll was rep michelle bachmann and ron paul came in second in a distant third is tim pawlenti. we'll let much more on this with our sunday roundtable and the issue of home from terrorism will be later. this weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the construction and installation of the berlin wall. these are topics still to come on this sunday morning. first, all the sunday shows f the aive-fecta with michelle bachmann on all the sunday morning shows. >> good morning. michelle bachmann is on all of the five network tv talk shows today. they beganre-airing at noon " with meet the press." there will be the iowa republican governor along wi

the way he death with it in texas so privatize it. we lost 147,000 people, mostly young people, children, off of the c.h.i.p. health rolls because of the fact he privatized it. a lot of his jobs came from president obama. they came from the stimulus program. they also came from an accident of geography. we happen to have a state involved in the energy industry, and a lot of jobs came from there. there's tech coming to texas in the silicon hills here in usa stin. the bottom line is as you suggested, ed, that many, many, many of these jobs are low income and they're minimum wage jobs. they're at walmart and carl's jr. they're at a big box store selling fishing rods. if rick perry really loves america as he was convincing everybody today, why was he talking about ceceding from it? >> perry is not a fan of the 16th or the 17th amendment. this is what he said to say today about the 2nd amendment. take a look. >> there's my second amendment down there in the front row. you know what? that's kind of one of my favorite amendments. you know th

listening to rick perry talk about texas and the texas miracle.ove to see that debate between president obama and rick perry. for a guy who took a state that was at 4.2% unemployment and brought it to 8.2% now is stagnant. a quarter of its residents don't have health insurance, you would love to see that debate with president obama about who has the better vision, the better capability of creating jobs and strengthening the economy. >> does the white house feel they have enough material to make the case against rick perry? i mean, the numbers on education are bad. the numbers on health care are bad, the numbers on job creation are bad, the numbers and the amount of stimulus money that rick perry took is pretty astronomical when you look at it, it's against his conservative roots. it would seem to me the white house would want rick perry to get the nomination. take us down that road. >> he certainly would offer a pretty tremendous contrast with who president obama is. presidential elections are decided on big character issues, who's on your side, a

texas is responsible for more than 40% of all of the new jobs created in america. now, think about that. we're home to less than 10% of the population in america. but 40% of all the new jobs were created in that state. and i've cut taxes, i have delivered historic property tax reductions. i was the first governor since world war ii to cut general revenue spending in our state budget. we passed lawsuit reform, including just this last session, loser pays, while to stop the frivolous lawsuits that were happening. [applaus [applause] >> and i know i've talked a lot about texas here in the last little bit. now, i'm a texan and i'm proud of it. but first and foremost, i'm an incredibly proud american. [applaus [applause] >> and i know something, america is not broken. washington d.c. is broken. we need balanced budgets. we need lower taxes, we need less regulation and we need civil justice reform. those same four principles. our country's most urgent need is it to revitalize our economy, stop the generational theft that's going on with this record debt. i came to south

it is helped texas and governor perry. it has hurt the rest of this but it is been a boom for texas. i just heard on the radio the new unemployment figures for dallas, unemployment is up to 9.1%, the same that it is across the country. held't think texas can be up as a special example of jobs creation. they have oil and that -- rick perry did not put that oil in texas. host: he officially entered the race yesterday appeared here's more from a speech available on- line at c-span.org. >> america is not broken. washington, d.c. is broken. [applause] whinnied balanced budgets, lower taxes, less regulation, and civil justice reform. those same four principles. our country's most urgent need is to revitalize our economy. stop the generational that going on with this record debt. host: keith appell, the style and substance of rick perry. guest: 4 years he has competed in texas successfully and that has worn well on him. he is polished. his resolute. he is firm and its principals and convictions and that translates. that translate