president i will get up, i will go to the oval office, and i will try to make washington d.c. as inconsequential in your life as i can. reporter: the romney campaign sending out an email to reporters today encouraging them to ask this question of the texas governor, quoting, do you continue to belief that social security should not be a federal program, that it s unconstitutional and it should be returned to the states? or are you retreating from that view end quote. that may be a little bit of a prelude to the sniping we can expect between the two frontrunners in the next fox news-google debate set for next week. jenna: we ll let the campaigners ask their own questions. we ll ask our viewers question in that debate. thank you very much, doug. fox news is teaming up with google to host a gop debate in orlando next thursday night. you can submit your questions for the candidates go to foxnews.com scroll down to the spotlight section and click on the gop presidential debate. there you
huckabee later won the caucus and again many this year. many traw poll goers like the iowa governor is undecided. that is indictive of the iowa republicans . they may be swayed by the debate. thank you for the plug, governor. and one way how a candidate is doing in the straw poll come out and count the buses hired to haul in the supporters. the more buss and votes better the prospects for the candidates in the straw poll. we thought we would give you a tour behind the scenes like we did in the south carolina debate. this is the set and outside on the campus and just over my shoulder here in a stand up location where the reporters have been not that far away. i will take you behind the scenes to the debate set and
house. the failure of the president to reig night this economy and to get people back to work is one of the reasons we re seeing such high levels of decifit and why the debt continues to grow at an alarming rate. we need to put more americans back to work. and i m afraid the president is just out of his depth when it comes to understanding how the private economy works. yes, we didn t cut enough, but the question is, they didn t think there was the leadership in place in america to get us to a financially responsible decision. that that would have proved them wrong and we would be in much better shape today had we followed the past i said, that yes, i was for cut, cap and balance but i was really for balance, balance and balance. jenna: both romney and santorum were speaking from, guess where, the campaign trail in iowa. that s where we go next, a big week for the gop field with the debate set for thursday and the iowa straw poll this weekend. candidates are busy shaking hands, g
explosion in our faces. jared bernstein, have the democrats accepted, as van says, too many of the terms of debate set by the other side? look, the democrats have held fast on this issue of revenues. someone who makes an argument that the democrats have been spineless and folded too soon, i don t think they can make that case here because i think the democrats, president obama, vice president biden, every day i read in the paper that they re holding fast on the revenue piece of this, and that s critical. and when they sat down at the table, they didn t have a 50/50 spending cut revenue plan. they actually had $3 of spending cuts to $1 of revenue. so they ve been bargaining in good faith from the beginning. van, what do you do when republicans say, all right, we ve talked about what we want to talk about, spending cuts. we maybe have reached a few tentative areas of agreement, if not specific agreements. but now that you want to talk about revenues, you want to talk about anything
running for president next year. he says he ll announce by june. michele bachmann will announce her intentions to enter the 2012 presidential race also by the summer. i m in to make sure that barack obama is a one-term president just like we are all happy that jimmy carter didn t have a second term. i m in for that and i ll be making a decision about whether or not i will be a candidate by sometime this summer. congresswoman backman s advisers say she could form a presidential exploratory committee before the gop debate set for the first week in may.