but what s going to prevent terrorists from buying and using them? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he entered the race at the top of the polls, but rick perry has been watching his numbers slide and slide. his momentum rather slow. now, with a closely watched speech, the texas governor is trying to reverse his declining campaign fortunes. jim acosta is joining us now. he delivered what his campaign described as a major speech today. that s right. the speech was called the energizing american jobs and security speech, wolf, but it was also designed to energize his campaign. looking to jump-start a campaign that s been stalled for weeks, rick perry laid out a texas-sized energy plan that the governor claims will create more than a million jobs. america s the saudi arabia of code. if elected president, perry says he ll push for new coal mining, oil exploration. perry would even expand production to the gulf of mexico
protests have taken place. as demonstrations enter their fifth week, you cannot deny these simple facts. it is power in numbers. just look at the scenes here playing out all over the country. but f as this continues, protesters are increasingly being ordered out of public parks by city leaders who say they have rules to enforce. but protesters say it s a ruse to end their protest. in atlanta, occupy protesters have been camping out in a downtown park for the past week but have been ordered to leave by monday. in new york, protesters barely escaped a stand-off with police after being ordered to leave a park in manhattan. mayor michael bloomberg says the company that opened the park called off its decision to clean the park after it was bombarded with calls from public officials who threatened them. occupy wall street protesters seeing this as a big victory. susan candiotti is in new york city in the middle of it all. susan, how are the protesters reacting to this delayed clean
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a visit by the south korean president overshadowed by the unfolding international drama surround i surrounding an alleged iranian terror plot. for the first time, president obama spoke at length about what the united states maintains was a plan to assassinate the saudi ambassador to the united states here in washington, d.c. let s go straight to jessica yellin. jessica, the president was asked about the links to the iranian government. what did he say today? he declined to say the highest levels of the iranian government had knowledge of it. he would not say that the nation s supreme leader or president was aware of it. i don t think the problem here jessica is that i have not been unwilling to negotiate with republicans. i ve shown repeatedly my willingness to work overtime. to try to get them to do something. he had direct links. was paid by and directed by individuals in the iranian government. now, those facts are there for all to see. and we would not be bringing for
could america be ready for another bush in the white house? i mean, look, this is a time to serve. there s no question about it. this is piers morgan tonight. governor, welcome! good to be here. i have to start, we ll come to education soon, but i have to start with last night s republican debate. what are your what s your view generally of these debates? how important are they right now? and what did you think of last night? i didn t see it because i was flying out to san francisco, but this morning, bright and early, i saw what other people thought of the debate. and first, i liked the fact that it was focused on the number one issue in the country. up until now, these debates have really a lot of the questions were really on marginal issues to try to divide the candidates, which is entertaining, i guess, but this gave the candidates a chance to speak kind of calmly, sitting down, in a way, about their views about economic growth. so i thought that was goo