family and said he would decide whether fund-raising is strong enough to stay in the race at least through the iowa caucuses 35 days from now. steve grubs is cain s chairman, on the conference call this morning and is with us live to start the program from davenport, iowa. tell me your gut. does your gut tell you yes or no you ll have a candidate come saturday or sunday? i think we ll definitely have a campaign and a candidate come this weekend and all the way to january 3rd. the real issue is, you know, the impact on the iowa cam. . we ve got almost 900 precinct captains in place, working to keep them. today we added more, we lost a couple. for most part we added more than we lost. we re charging ahead, with a lot of effort i think we re going to storm the gates january 3rd. on the call this morning, i want to be clear, you were listening, mr. cain said he was doing a reassessment, because of the new allegations and within several days he would make a decision, is that c
we want to see you do the heavy lifting. then let s do it. crack down on the employers. let s do it. and that s what i m saying to you. then let s do it. i m ready to do that. after that we can sit and talk. tell me what you re ready to do. requiring that every business that wants to deduct it doesn t solve the problem and you know it. we re obviously not going to solve the problem tonight. the president is reviving this debate. as you can all see right here, it s a feisty debate. gentlemen, we ll have you back. we ll continue the conversation in the weeks ahead. congressman gutierrez, congressman bilbray, thank you so much, gentlemen. thank you, john. in a moment, something about gas prices i m almost afraid to show you.
of the house between now and that presidential election in 2012. and if the answer is no, why go through this at all? well, sadly, i believe that there really isn t an opportunity legislatively to bring relief and to fix our broken immigration system. we just heard mr. bilbray who very eloquently and passionately says this is what we ve got to work on and this and this alone. they never look at it from a comprehensive point of view where we can fix all the different elements that really impact our immigration system. congressman gutierrez, how about you say they won t take comprehensive. president bush went through this when we had a republican president. what is wrong with incremental immigration reform. let me play devil s advocate again. congressman gutierrez, the president said here, here is your e-verify expansion. now you need to give me credit for what i ve done at the border. now i want you to support me on the dream act. john, i m going to tell you
well, my view the the same as most of law enforcement officers in the state. this is an added inconvenience at best. it s a great burden at worst. and, again, it s a matter of profiling. it s a matter of subjection. i have to speak up for brian. he s normally not this d disingenuous. i have to ask congressman bilbray, do you want to create an entire generation of lawbreakers for the day they re born? what do you do about that? what do you do? americans go all over the world. we have our children. i was almost born in guam. my father was u.s. citizen.