specifically here in new hampshire. the ones aligned with rick perry will try the take out mitt romney. his groups will come in and defend him. in south carolina, i expect we'll see the same thing will happen there. and out in iowa, expect the same thing to happen out there with michele bachmann. candy? >> mark preston in one of our two favorite early states. thanks a lot. it is the same set-up drawing the same questions. republican candidates gather and sarah palin shows up. what was she doing in iowa? and more of a curiosity, what is she doing in the days to come? will she run for the oval office or not? i'm back here in ames, iowa, and i'm with -- i'm not with candy crowley. i'm with don lemon. >> we're going to find out what sarah palin is up to after the break. my name is marjorie reyes. i'm a chief warrant officer. i love the fact that quicken loans provides va loans. quicken loans understood all the details and guided me through every step of the process. i know wherever the military sends me, i can depend on qui

, iowa and new hampshire. they'll go as early as they need to. >> everything is fluid. the primary calendar isn't set. my reporting, i know your reporting suggests that, look, chances are that florida and arizona will move up. we're seeing iowa and new hampshire much earlier. >> i know this is in "first read" which i always encourage people to read, september 2nd, jan brewer, the governor of arizona, has to announce it within 150 days of when she wants the primary to be, september 2nd is the place to look, mark murray, thanks for joining us. >>> for the first time in more than 24 hours an intense gun battle is going on in libya's capital right now. we've just learned that more than 30 men presumed to be gadhafi loyalist fighters have been killed in central tripoli. nbc's stephanie gosk joins us live from tripoli. good morning, stephanie. >> reporter: good morning, chris. we knew the pockets of gadhafi loyalists were still in the city and we're seeing evidence of that today. not too far from here about a mile o

we're joined by former new hampshire senator john sununu of the former new hampshire sununus. great to see you again. >> thank you. great to be here. >> let's get your reactions to what you've seen so far? does michele bachmann play in new hampshire, rick perry? what do you think of jeb bush suggesting the party's got to find a voice that is a better voice for the general election. >> jeb's point is you need a message that's substantiative. you need a message that's clear. as jean pointed out perry should have an economic message to share, but he hasn't put it out there yet. we'll see. we'll if he's got a message that resonates with the broad swath. >> instead of accusing ben bernanke of near treasonous behavior. >> exactly. that's almost an inside washingtoning message. >> sure, but that's not really one that's going to resonate with a really broad swath of republican voters. certainly not with independent voters as you well know independent voters can vote in new hampshire. so it really remains to be seen if he could put together a message. jeb bush's other point is it doesn

mccain set the tone when he went to new hampshire instead of iowa and he won new hampshire. again, with the evangelical base, you know, the base and i can see perry and walk -- bachman. >> the real vote in iowa is january this fall, thanksgiving season will be the big talk about iowa. what do you see there? will perry walk in and be king there? >> not necessarily. i think the party has shifted toward the evangelical base. it's a caucus in iowa not everybody showing up in a primary vote. it's like everybody has to be on public display when they vote, which affects it. i think you've got iowa in one direction, new hampshire in another and south carolina, the third part of the triad, becomes where the playoff game takes place. you've got both libertarian types and evangelical types in south carolina. >> your big call, david ignatius, who will be in the driver's seat? will the tea party people be running the republican party or running along supporting buffalo bill? >> it depends on whether the public acts -- reacts against the sense that an extremist wing has taken over. if the

host: and in new hampshire? caller: i am coming to you that does not -- i am coming to you from a state that does not have a state tax. obviously the independent voters can vote in the primary. people are not really engaged -- for those presidential candidates, except for -- jon huntsman has been in the state all week and has supported the plan. everyone else has not. when they're not supporting it, they say they need a deal, but we just need a different, more conservative deal. that is the thing, right down the center before the political mainstream is. host: huntsman is one of the top tier candidates that came out and said i think this debt deal is a good one. does that hurt him in new hampshire? guest: he has to find a way to stand out. he is finding a way to stand out and say he was for it. when the freeze is he kept repeating here in new hampshire about the deal was the -- one of the ways he kept repeating -- one of the words he kept repeating here in new hampshire about the deal was the word quote reasonab

he's in new hampshire today, they've got this very new hampshire-centric strategy. they will really target romney. i think he's got a real possibility there because new hampshire, as you mentioned at the top of the segment, has these famously direct and independent voters and i think they will give him a fair hearing. to me, andrea, the big question, i touch on this somewhat in my story today on politico, is will the financial resources be there. we don't know how much money he has because he hasn't filed a report yet. he has taken out a line of credit for his own campaign and there is some uncertainty about whether or not he will put in more of his own personal money. he comes from a very wealthy background. now, my source on the story says huntsman has made it very clear to folks on the campaign he's done putting in his own money. huntsman's campaign, though, says they may still put in more cash. we'll see. >> david fisher was a long-time friend who spoke to you after having been let go basically by the campaign. huntsman today in new hampshire responding to the c

you look perfect for new hampshire. >> you know new hampshire as well as anybody. can rick perry beat barack obama in the general election in new hampshire? >> yes. i think people here are so frustrated, and unemployment is not as lie in new hampshire as in the rest of country, but people here are so anxious about the economy. working two jobs. unemployed. under employed. that i think barack obama is in very, very serious danger. even in a state like new hampshire, which he carried easily last time. >> let's look at michele bachmann who did win the iowa straw poll saying the political tide is turning in her direction. let's listen. >> people feel it now. the fire. they've recognized that obama can be beat. >> people saw, there's a movement. she's speaking for me. she's fighting for me. i can trust this woman. she's not a politician. that's the difference. because, you see, i'm a real person. >> this is how far right the republican be party's going. as always, howard, jennifer responded, and howard, republican party's got new command. mr. decalogue again. thou shall

go ahead. >> yes, new hampshire people are all originally from new hampshire. many of us are from other states and we have moved here because we like it. also we don't ask questions that these town hall like boxers or briefs. we ask questions if you want to change the corporate tax rate, what should it be? as the candidate stumbles, that gives us a clue about how informed they are, and that they are not as informed as we are. >> host: james pindell. >> that's true. both are true. it's been 70% of the state was born somewhere else. it's a state that has a load of immigration and population boom particularly around the southern part of the state where the republicans are spending a lot of their time in the boston, manchester market. the same thing is true when it comes to town hall meetings. why does iowa and new hampshire begin the process? no state would be perfect. one things the states do do, they allow for the marketplace of ideas, allow for candidates to try their messages, be genuine, instead of just framing themselves behind television ads. you really do

you are doing better here in new hampshire. i think the president could learn some lessons from new hampshire. he could learn that if you want to attract jobs and do better than the national average, but it is good to have a live taxes and small government. that is a lesson the good lawyer for new hampshire, but what he did instead bece again as president is decide to put in place a nearly $1 trillion spending stimulus, spending more on government, adding 135,000 new government empyees. the right answer was not to add government,he right answer was to shrink government and grow the private sector. if they keep focused on energy and the things he really wanted. cap and trade to raise the cost of energy. if forced immunizations. stacking the national labor relations board. he wanted dodd-frank to regulate the financial services sector. obamacare to take away from you the right to have the medical choices thayou currently enjoy. in my view, hisgenda is one of the primary reasons that this downturn has been so deep and has been so

host: and in new hampshire? caller: i am coming to you that does not -- i am coming to you from a state that does not have a state tax. obviously the independent voters can vote in the primary. people are not really engaged -- for those presidential candidates, except for -- jon huntsman has been in the state all week and has supported the plan. everyone else has not. when they're not supporting it, they say they need a deal, but we just need a different, more conservative deal. that is the thing, right down the center before the political mainstream is. host: huntsman is one of the top tier candidates that came out and said i think this debt deal is a good one. does that hurt him in new hampshire? guest: he has to find a way to stand out. he is finding a way to stand out and say he was for it. when the freeze is he kept repeating here in new hampshire about the deal was the -- one of the ways he kept repeating -- one of the words he kept repeating here in new hampshire about the deal was the word quote reasonab

he went to new hampshire. he went to iowa. back to new hampshire now. going to spend tomorrow and saturday in south carolina. south carolina is where rick perry has got to get it done. he's going to make a run at michele bachmann in iowa. if he can't win new hampshire as a southern politician, they tend to favor -- they have a geographic bent there. if he can't win there, he's not going to be the nominee. he's going to be spending a lot of time there both the next two days and as we go forward. >> by and large, these republican candidates haven't yet really turned the fire on each other. they're still on message, still hitting president obama very, very hard. when is that going to change? particularly michele bachmann. she's probably the most threatened by rick perry, right? >> savannah, i think it's going to change soon. we've got five debates including an nbc/politico debate coming up in the next 60 days. it seems to me we're going to see the gloves come off a little bit more. mitt romney has done everything he can to stay above the fray. i think he'l

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i could see perhaps jon huntsman, once new hampshire comes along, give a slightly nuanced answer to that. but i think that signified the whole thing. these candidates are afraid to alienate the most activated, energized set of voters in their party. and that is one thing, perhaps one of the only things that's a bright spot or this white house is that they thing that this field of candidates is veering so far right they won't be aubl to correct. but i'm not so sure that's the case. at the end of the day, i think that someone would perhaps have a window into something more pragmatic here. >> let's take a look at u.s. congresswoman michele bachmann saying she is right when she voted to let the government default. remember her vote? she wasn't going to vote on anything to do with the debt ceiling. she would let the thing happen. what she said last night. >> we just heard from standard & poor's, when they dropped our credit rating, what they said is we don't have an ability to repay our debt. that's what the final word was from them. i was proved right in my position. we should not have raise

chip reid is with the candidates in new hampshire. chip. >> reporter: well, scott, texas governor rick perry made his second trip to new hampshire today as a presidential candidate, and while his tone was a bit less strident than it's been recently on the issues, he stuck to his guns. at a breakfast in bedford, new hampshire, today, rick perry acknowledged the firestorm he created this week when he said fed chairman ben bernanke's reliance on printing money is almost treasonous. >> i got in trouble talking about the federal reserve yesterday... ( laughter ) i got... i got... i got lectured about that yesterday. >> reporter: president obama said perry needs to be more careful about what he says but that didn't stop perry from taking another shot at the fed today, demanding that they open their books. >> i think it would go a long way towards either finding out whether or not there is some activities that are improper. >> reporter: but since taking office, mr. bernanke has already opened the fed's books, posting thousands of pages of it

rick perry started his day in bedford, new hampshire. like a poker player, perry saw the president and raised him. he first responded to the president's suggestion he be careful about his comments on the campaign trail. >> the president said i needed to watch what i say. i just want to respond back, if i may. mr. president, actions speak louder than words. my actions as governor are helping create jobs in this country. >> now mark preston was at perry's event and says the candidate also took on the fed. >> reporter: yes, keira, they have rick perry, the texas governor here in new hampshire not backing down about his comments about ben bernanke. he later said he was lectured by president obama. he takes an eggs breakfast, a time-honored tradition in p new hampshire. he talked about his business record, about job creation down in texas. he said he would be a pro-business president in what was clear today is that rick perry is going to take president obama head-on in this presidential . >> the president is shrugging off comments by rick per

and governor romney starts in new hampshire. he has to protect new hampshire. that's his big state right now. but what changes this week are two things, number one, the ames, iowa straw poll. rick santorum comes in well enough maybe i can challenge michele bachmann in iowa for christian conservative votes. look for these two to spend a lot of time out there. governor perry comes in, no accident, he announces in south carolina. sorry, congressman bachmann, you'll have something here. and he'll come over here and she plays in iowa and he wants to play in iowa. and now he wants to go up to new hampshire. how does this change the chess in the sense that governor romney wanted a new hampshire win to springboard him down to south carolina. come on down here, governor romney. and then from there, now i'm told that because of perry, romney would be happy to have bachmann win iowa, but because of perry look for governor romney. he went away. let's bring him back up here and come here. look for governor go. to spend more time and money in iowa. erick, to you first, how m

governor romney starts in new hampshire. of course he has to protect new hampshire. i'm going to put him up there. that's his big state right now. what changes this week are two things. number one the ames iowa straw poll. rick santorum comes in well enough to say maybe i can challenge michele bachmann out here in iowa to look for conservative votes. look for these two to spend a lot of time out there. governor perry comes in, no accident he announces here in south carolina. sorry congresswoman bachman, tradition athe state quite device nif republican politics. then governor perry says i'm not limited. i'm going to come over here. he plays in iowa. he want to play in iowa as well. then where is he today? he wants to down to new hampshire. so how, guys, does this change the chess in the sense that governor romney wanted a new hampshire win to springboard him down to south carolina, come on down here, governor romney. and then from there now i'm told that because of perry romney would be happy to have bachmann win iowa. but because of perry look for governor romney, lo

a lot of the candidates forsaking new hampshire. however, we'll see these outside groups try to attack each other and look for the pro-perry groups to go after mitt romney and expect the romney groups to defend themselves here in new hampshire. >> that's where they're headed. mark preston, thank you very much. now this. >>> undercover investigator mike is texting the driver to pick her up. mike and the driver text back and forth for more than an hour playing the cat and mouse game. >>> cnn goes undercover during a sex sting. coming up next, an inside, behind-the-scenes look at how the feds bust pimps. the hunt and the dramatic ending. you have to see this. this is an exclusive here. stay right there. the eagle flies at dawn. the monkey eats custard. price-line ne-go-ti-a-tor. so, you've been double crossed by other travel sites and now you want to try the real deal. yes, is it true that name your own price... ...got even easier? affirmative. we'll show you other people's winning hotel bids. so i'll know how much to bid... ...and sav

and deeded it in new hampshire. then new york started selling in some cases the same land and deeding it in new york. some of that land was owned by ethan allen and his brothers, among others, and deeded in new hampshire. and they formed a vigilante group, truly a vigilante group called the green mountain boys that went after these new yorkers who were arriving and laying claim to the new hampshire lands. ethan allen never built furniture, by the way, never made furniture. [laughter] but he burned a good deal of it. [laughter] and he was, he was a tough character. when the revolution broke out, he was also a smart character, and he thought, i think i can play my cards differently with the green mountain boys. and those are the green mountain boys that we learned about in high school history. so there is the connection with new hampshire that was advertised. yes, ma'am. >> [inaudible] >> yeah. oklahoma was originally a territory called indian territory. it mainly was used when they ethnically-cleansed the indians fro

you are doing better here in new hampshire. i think the president could learn some lessons from new hampshire. heould learn that if you want to attract jobs and better than the national average, but igood to have a live taxes and small government. that is a lesson the good lawyer for new hampshire, but what he did instead became again as president is decide to put in place a nearly $1 trillion spending stimulus, spending more on government, adding 135,000 new government employees. the right answer was not to add government, the right answer was to shrink government and grow the private sector. if they keep focused on energy and the things he really wanted. cap and trade to raise the cost of energy. if forced immunizations. stacking the national labor relations board. he wanted dodd-frank to regulate thfinancial services sector. obamacare to take away from you the right to have the medical choices that you currently enjoy. in my view, his agend is one of the primary reasons that this downturn has been so deep and has been so har

in some of these rivers in vermont and new hampshire, and upstate new york. so a lot of the big cities, the i-95 corridor looking better. further to the bosss boston just had a wind gust, and now all the way up to portland, mainest, wind gusts are now in the 30s. that wind gust in 54 in albany, that's probably when my family lost their power. jfk still has gusts to 40, so it's not like new york city is completely done. even as far south as ocean city, in georgetown, in delaware, they had -- so tomorrow will be the day where it's safe. they're still saying even though it's not raining, that's perfect time for the power crews to get in there before we hit the roads. you know, the more people that are on the roads, the slower it is to get the response to get your power on. >> thank you very much, nbc meteorologist bill karins for that update. that heads-up we are not out of the wood yesterday. there's the evidence of that in new bedford, massachusetts. you see the fog that's gathered on the camera lens. you're looking at waters that seem to have calmed down some

>> go to new hampshire tomorrow. put a 21-point plan together how you're going to grow america's economy, your strategy for america's success in a global frontier. >> perry? >> perry, perry's conservative enough to win. his i think biggest challenge is going to be not only authenticity but it's going to be is he an echo of the last election. george bush, texas, same kind you have ideology. same texas boots and we lost. is he a sequel to the movie that nobody went to see last time? he's got to distinguish himself from that. >> ron paul was second. does he stand a chance? he's very popular here. you can't walk an inch without seeing a butcher sticker, a button, something, a t-shirt, a tattoo of him. but does he stand a chance? >> and sometimes the most intense campaigns are the least successful. george mcgovern, barry goldwater. he doesn't travel. he doesn't appeal to anything beyond a very narrow base. but it's funny. he's become almost an elder statesman. a lot of things he said about the economy and sound money, now

hampshire is too high for that this year lawmakers in new hampshire passed the bill but tied the state's minimum wage to the federal minimum wage leaving their state their wage could not be higher on the federal what so the governor vetoed the bill but state lawmakers overrode that but carol feel as. that is she still thinks that seventy five is too much for young workers and a statement to reporters carol said that she would sponsor a bill that would repeal all minimum wage laws in the state and just let importers pay workers what they're worth she believes that the seven twenty five minimum is overly generous to young people listen to her quote she said it's very discriminatory particularly for the young people they're not worth the minimum of what hell did you just build sorry for the teenagers out there that are trying to support their families college students trying to quit themselves through school in new hampshire and we're throwing in college students because according to carroll statement there's no age limit here it's just about young people fairly she gets to pick and choose

kimball took over, there have been two special elections in new hampshire, both in new hampshire districts that tend to vote republican. and both times the republicans in those races lost. the party has also suffered financial hardships. at one point, one bank account was down to a balance of $1,300 for the whole state. the vote to fire jack kimball is scheduled for next thursday. if all 22 of the executive committee members who signed the we are going to fire you letter actually vote to fire him, then jack kimball will be out of a job. there's not yet a national storyline or a beltway storyline that the tea party may have peaked. it may be on its way out. that the republican party may be already marginalizing them and patronizing them just like they always do to their base. but there does seem to be increasing evidence of that both in real life elections and in statistics. we have some research that i'm not sure is widely known, but really ought to be by anybody who is opining about politics anytime soon. that story is next. 8gg@ú >>> in 2006, a pair of researchers from top schools in th

new hampshire is an incredibly important state. we have spent a lot of time in new hampshire. our message is tailored particularly well for the people of new hampshire. they want budgets balanced, government out of their lives which is completely consistent of my own view of the world. we're going to do well in new hampshire. we're going to surprise people. this is a state that doesn't like to be told for whom to vote. this is a state that likes a candidate to come in and earn it. they like the old shoe leather approach. they want to know your heart and soul, what you believe, get to know your family. we're approaching it exactly the right way. we go to south carolina where we have a terrific ground game. we have a great support group in south carolina, henry mcmaster is one of our leaders in state, the former attorney general, one of the more respected people in politics, carol campbell's family, the most beloved political family in the state came out and endorsed us recently, just to mention a couple of examples. i think the momentum coming out of new hampshire going into so

human beings, my friends. >> nbc's xaen garrett hake is following the campaign in new hampshire. a good morning to you. how is the romney campaign dealing with this latest episode? how do they feel that romney fairs against all the candidates in iowa right now? >> well, good morning, alex. s first of all, an event last night in new hampshire that basically doubled down on the statement about corporations being people. like you said, they don't see this as a mistake. they make the argument that if you work for a company, if you are paid by a company or if you have a 401k that will help you retire from a company, you are part of a corporation in a way too. they really do stand by those comments. as far as ames and iowa are concerned, you have to remember that back in 2008 governor romney poured millions of dollars and a lot of his time into winning the straw poll in ames, and it didn't really get him anywhere. they managed to lose the caucuses come january. their whole strategy this time around is to save their money and their time. they're still going to compete and fight for iowa

he won the new hampshire young republicans straw poll. and last week he was just 152 votes behind michele bachmann in the ames, iowa, straw poll. and check out this ad the paul campaign is running in iowa and new hampshire. >> a story of failed policies. failed leadership. a story of smooth talking politicians. games of he said, she said, rhetoric. one man has stood apart. stood strong and true. >> joining me now jesse benton chairman for ron paul's presidential campaign. for the folks who may have been listening on the radio, there's ron paul basically comparing some of his opponents to the most recognizable democrats on capitol hill. is that a strategy that's working? >> i think that it is. every other candidate in this race represents for more or less the status quo. we have some major problems, systemic problems in this country and ron paul is the only candidate that's going to make the changes we need, changes to foreign policy, monetary policy and balanced budget reform. bring jobs back to this country. >> when you look at the straw

a number of those workers are from new hampshire. and while i know that all of us here are glad that we were able to come together to reach a bipartisan agreement on raising the debt ceiling and avoiding a financial crisis, i am deeply disappointed that bipartisanship has failed us when it comes to reauthorizing the f.a.a. i understand that the house may head home for recess today and for the rest of august, stranding 4,000 f.a.a. workers and as many as 70,000 -- that's right, 70,000 -- airport construction workers around the country who are out of work until we can get an agreement. let me just review for a minute how we got here. since the f.a.a.'s authorization expired in 2007, congress has passed 20 short-term extensions of the f.a.a. all of those bills, every single one of them, were clean bills intended to keep the f.a.a. running while congress decided how to deal with the complicated policy issues of a long-term reauthorization. unfortunately, the 21st time around, that's the time that we're in, the house decided it was no lon

in new hampshire he'll have to be okay. if you goes iowa to south carolina, all roads do not have to go through new hampshire. that's one thing in the back of his mind. >> karl rove has said that he thinks sarah palin is going to run. do you think sarah palen is going to run? >> i don't think she can. michele bachmann operate in the exact same space. they have similar personalities, attract similar voters, there's no space for her right now. there's a space for chris christie, if he decided to do it, or for paul ryan. but i don't see sarah palin. but in the end, someone's going to have to stand up. with all due respect, i don't agree about washington. someone will have to stand up and take responsibility for r is mess. that the american people want someone to do what jerry brown said to meg whitman in 2010 gubernatorial case. you blame me, you blame the press, blame the union, stand up and take responsibility for your action, admit you made a mistake and learn n om it. that's what you're asking from washington, d.c. and no

let's try new hampshire. new hampshire is a state, this is romney home territory. in '08, mccain won. >> right. where independents can vote in a republican primary, yes. >> this is a must win for mitt romney. there's no way he continues in the campaign? >> there's not a path to winning for romney that doesn't include winning in new hampshire. >> who, in your estimation, or is it too early, because we don't know about iowa, who is the biggest threat there? jon huntsman spending a lot of time and money there, rick perry. >> i think it's too early to do that. we can stake out where the must wins, even before the football season or basketball season began, you could kind of already play out most of the games. there's going to be some variations. >> let's go to our last early state, which is south carolina. fascinating in '08, if you add up huckabee and thompson, it's significantly more than mccain. thompson dropped out a few days later and endorsed mccain. this should be rick perry's state, correct? >> it should, but the thing is, he's got to really defend the franchis

this guy lives in the woods in if new hampshire. in new hampshire. he's a culture critic. you know, i put opera -- i like opera. nothing wrong with opera. i put it in the car when i'm taking the kids camping, you know? the so it gives them a little culture as we're about to go kill fish and stuff. [laughter] so this is just a little bit about how cultured and how varied a background mark steyn has. this is a guy that you're going to hear from. now, people will tell you, especially people who don't like mark steyn, he's a conservative critic. they sort of dismiss him by saying conservative critic as if that's something that, a, something people shouldn't aspire to be, but as if there's belittling or demeaning, he just criticizes people. and that, i think, does mark steyn a great injustice. sure, he's an author, best-selling author. by the way, those of you who are here holding copies of his latest book might be interested to know that it was just announced that it made, will debut at number five on "the new york times" hardcover nonfiction list. [applause] yeah. pretty good

the presiding officer: the senator from new hampshire is recognized. ms. ayotte: thank you, mr. president. for weeks americans have watched the debate about raising our nation's debt ceiling. i know that it has been difficult and often frustrating to watch what is happening here, but this discussion could not have been more important for the future of america. we have been talking again about whether we would increase america's borrowing limit. in doing so, we have rightly focused on how do we prevent a default on america's credit, but also just as important, rather than just reflexively continue to borrow money that we don't have from chinese bankers, how are we going to confront the fundamental behavior in congress that has led us to this culture of borrowing and overspending in washington, d.c. i have said from the beginning of this debate that we owe it to the american people, and i owe it to my constituents in new hampshire, to confront both issues, to avoid default and finally to confront our debt once and for all and to change the direction that we are headed in as a coun

and then new hampshire and then iowa, and then he went back to new hampshire. now he's back in south carolina. he's hitting all three of those very crucial early voting states. iowa, the first caucus state leads off the caucus calendar. south carolina, of course, is the first southern state to vote in the race for the white house. rick perry, very busy on the campaign trail, just in his first week. let's also talk about herman cain subpoe cain. he's up in new hampshire today. he opened up his hq up there in new hampshire and of course, former godfather's pizza ceo and radio talk show host. very outspoken last night saying, listen, everybody thinks there's only a three-person race, i am still in this race, don't let the media count me out. and let's talk about newt gingrich, you have not heard a lot about him, his campaign's kind of on a shoestring budget. where is he this week? hawaii. he is fund-raising out there, has an event tonight with the maui gop, and it's also his 11th anniversary with his wife, so he's celebrating that as well. of course, newt gingrich

new hampshire is going to be an expensive race. one of the people who has been in the race so long, mitt romney is one of the favorite sons there. governor huntsman might be stronger, he will have to be. rick perry could do well there. >> greta: you have strong evangelical in iowa more her base. then you have new hampshire, big country, [ talking over each other ] >> an example from my former boss, george w. bush in 2000. won iowa, handily in the caucuses and lost terribly in new hampshire and had to really regroup and get his campaign back on a stronger foot win in . that could ham again -- footing to win in south carolina. that could happen again here. i'm surprised there are five debates between now and october. if you want to be a candidate you don't even have to file until the end of november. so you have time to get in your paperwork. >> greta: i'm not third few. dana nice to see you. >> a court of appeals decision rocks the white house. it isn't just the loss that might worry the white house, it is something else. florida at

hampshire, wants to make new hampshire the last stand, i've been waiting to see the last guy making television buys in new hampshire i would have bet would be huntsman, any bet he'll make the jobs plan and try to start selling it on television? >> well, we're not sure yet. we are expecting some sort of announcement in the coming days, as he is spending six days in new hampshire. we saw a video posted online, it isn't a tv ad but it is previewing his jobs plan. so i think we'll expect to see more action from huntsman, not sure, but i think he's hoping for a pretty big splash. >> we'll see if he gets traction up there, joe, good to talk to you. >> thanks, chuck. >>> well, for months, mitt romney's strategy has been a noun, a verb, and barack obama made the economy worse. well, yesterday in a not-so-veiled swipe at rick perry, romney revealed he doesn't think he can avoid the political scrum much longer. >> now, i'm a conservative businessman. i spent most of my life outside politics dealing with real problems and the economy. career politicians got us into this mess, and they simply d

you are looking at live pictures outside of new hampshire. this is the area with rick perry just arriving on a private plane after announcing his candidacy for president this afternoon in south carolina. he and michele bachmann will square off at a fund-raising event. the two candidates who have the most to lose today each argued they are the best to take on the president. >> from one iowan to another, iowa will be the pace car, if you will, to set the tone and set the pace for bringing this country back to its greatness. >> we need to not just preach to the choir and make sure we have a candidate who can win in places like kansas or oklahoma or some of the other great states around this country. >> all right. so which message did iowa straw poll voters buy? i'm joined by split call analyst charlie cook, editor of the cook political report. charlie, when you go to a straw poll, just an overview, compare this to the big one in '99. we were at the one in '95 with the famous tie, what did you think of this one? >> well, i think this is a big one

he's doing two stops on saturday, south carolina and new hampshire all while the voting goes on in ames at that time. this could mean that second place becomes even more meaningless at ames, that the one person who gets first place out of ames will get a big bump. other than that, they get overshadowed the by the entrance of rick perry. >>> total recall, since oregon became the first state to adopt state level recalls in 1908, recall attempts against legislators succeeded in triggering an election 20 times before january. six recall elections on the state legislative level are happening today in wisconsin. the wisconsin elections are a double referendum, governor scott walker and organized labor are both on the baltd. democrats need to pick up three seats. we'll get into more of this in a few minutes. if they get it back, it will show labor still has teeth left in the state that essentially is their last bastian of power. if they fail in this attempt, it's going to make democrats really nervous that labor is really a financially powerful ally for the future. >>> as investors try to shak

he went from south carolina to new hampshire, new hampshire which mitt romney has to win to be nominated. then he went right to iowa, went right to waterloo. bachmann's home town and then went to the same event and sat there and clapped for her periodically during her speech and she ignored him. rick perry is the guy everyone needs to fear right now because he has got everything it takes to win this nomination today. >> laura: he he has a lot of bravado, kirsten. he remained at the dinner when she spoke. apparently she was not present during his speech, which kind of rough feld some feathers. she was in her campaign bus outside, idolizing outside of the dinner when she spoke literally. >> she is not available. she is not -- she is acting like a celebrity versus going in and mixing. >> laura: i saw her mixing with the people at the straw poll. she was amazing. >> i'm talking about the dinner. >> laura: great politician. >> they are if a fat particular call about -- fanatical. reminds me of these people with palin who really love her. not a question she is a good campaigner. people complai

>> i was in new hampshire a couple of weeks ago. i sat down with secretary of state gardener who has probably forgotten more about primary and politics than i will ever learn and iowa and new hampshire are attached at the hip and we'll do what is necessary to protect our first in the nation status. >> what is the national boss, your national boss say about this? >> we had a chance to talk with chairman priebus, will be here for the debate tonight, sends a strong signal of support. i think ranks have been steadfast in standing up to the rules. >> if you move in front of february, don't you risk losing half your delegates? >> iowa doesn't buy their delegates at the -- >> technically you don't. >> later in the summer. >> so you feel like you have a way around this rule? >> i think we're also working through, there was a proposal by the committee charged with setting the dates to put additional penalties on those dates that would force any of the four carve out states to go earlier. michigan, florida and arizona seem to be the problems

then he comes here to new hampshire, pam tucker's house, a state representative. there are going to be a lot of notable people here. a lot of people working hard to get him elected. this could indeed be a bit of a game changer, andrea. this is someone who is a three-term governor of texas. he has been in elected office since 1984. he has never lost a single race. folks i spoke with in texas who know him well say when he plays he plays to win. he is great at fund-raising and raised about $40 million for his last gubernatorial race. so you will see that same type of momentum here. by the way, he's running second in some polls to mitt romney. he has tea party appeal because he's a social conservative, a fiscal conservative, so that could, in fact, threaten michele bachmann and tim pawlenty. he has a lot of momentum. and you saw him today draw a real contrast with the president, with president obama. he said, i'm basically going to be advocating low taxes, small government. he's trying to paint himself as the anti-president obama, if you will. but one thing, he hasn't

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

new hampshire is an incredibly important state. we have spent a lot of time in new hampshire. our message is tailored particularly well for the people of new hampshire. they want budgets balanced, government out of their lives which is completely consistent of my own view of the world. we're going to do well in new hampshire. we're going to surprise people. this is a state that doesn't like to be told for whom to vote. this is a state that likes a candidate to come in and earn it. they like the old shoe leather approach. they want to know your heart and soul, what you believe, get to know your family. we're approaching it exactly the right way. we go to south carolina where we have a terrific ground game. we have a great support group in south carolina, henry mcmaster is one of our leaders in state, the former attorney general, one of the more respected people in politics, carol campbell's family, the most beloved political family in the state came out and endorsed us recently, just to mention a couple of examples. i think the momentum coming out of new hampshire going into so