the question is will there be somebody else who will jump in and grab a place at the table as well? let s talk about strategy and tactics for a minute. newt s strategy seems to be saying, look, i m more conservative than mit mitt romn. and he s going around the country and he wants these lincoln-douglas debates. and if president obama didn t show up, he would follow him. and four hours after he s there he will be there 2348 he kau pit pit capitulates. well, if he were the nominee, president obama would go about his duties and go about his campaign and after a while newt would, as any republican would, tire of sort of trying to dog the president by doing this. it s a nice sort of debating point. it s a nice sort of contrast. but it s hard to execute when you are trying to raise money, one your run your own campaign
the question is will there be somebody else who will jump in and grab a place at the table as well? let s talk about strategy and tactics for a minute. newt s strategy seems to be saying, look, i m more conservative than mit mitt romn. and he s going around the country and he wants these lincoln-douglas debates. and if president obama didn t show up, he would follow him. and four hours after he s there he will be there 2348 he kau pit pit capitulates. well, if he were the nominee, president obama would go about his duties and go about his campaign and after a while newt would, as any republican would, tire of sort of trying to dog the president by doing this. it s a nice sort of debating point. it s a nice sort of contrast. but it s hard to execute when you are trying to raise money, one your run your own campaign
or is that a false positive? at least for now, we don t have the federal government going in there and saying we have to bail you out. there was a lot that was done with the unions. you know, there was a lot of error hard talk done with the unions. not as much as many of us would like, but at least, there was on the table, we know that pensions of state workers, pensions of unions have got to change in some way. and if somebody like chris christie, hohas gone in and actually put this on the table publicly, if he gets into the race, it s definitely going to become a debating point, if nothing else. we will be talking about that in a little bit. whether or not he s going to run. consumer confidence, that s what we touched on. but the bond market. you expect those to continue to rise as well? well, i mean, stocks stocks have been down. i mean, they have been falling. but they did go up. but the bond market was one place where you were getting some money. it was safe for a little b
northeast are desperate to escape the flooding and the damage unleashed by hurricane irene. we re tracking the rescues and the danger right now. and we ll put the arrest of the uncle in a dui charge. this hour, and whether they matter to most american. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. up first this hour, a very tough political debate over national security that will unfold between president obama and his republican challenger, whoever that might be. the commander in chief dep and it s no coincidence that war and foreign policy are getting more attention on the campaign trail with the ten-year milestone of the 9/11 attacks only a few days away. let s bring in cnn s jim acosta. he s watching all of this unfold. we know the economy will be issue number one. but national security will be a key debating point for the democratic and republican candidates. that s right. it s flareed up recently with libya and with the killing of osama bin laden. it s still import
not very many areas where i do, that in the context of the conversation that they are having, a $2 billion item is a debating point. i mean, it s not as if cutting the loophole for corporate jets would somehow contribute to restoring a shortfall over ten years of $4 trillion. that s what both parties have agreed on as the size of the problem here, so where the republicans are right is you cannot do this without some changes in entitlements. that doesn t mean privatizing medicare the way paul ryan wants to do, but some changes in entitlements, which is where the real money is, are necessary. the democrats are right that some cuts in defense and some tax increases are necessary. you have to do all of it, martin, in order to get to $4 trillion, but the president s point is in the context of doing that, why cut critical investment in the country s