United states congress in the brief time i have been there. i m 55 years old. it spent 50 years as a real person. now five years going toe to toe with barack obama. taking him on, on every issue from dodd-frank to cap and trade and illegal immigration to obamacare. and i will do that as president of the united states. that is my proven track record. bret: neil cavuto? neil: thank you, bret. governor perry, by your own admission you are not a great debater. you have said as much. downplayed debating skills in general. but if you were to become your party s nominee, you would be going up against an accomplished debater in barack obama. there are many in this audience tonight, sir, who fear that possibility. and don t think you are up to the fight. allay them of their concerns. i want to share something with you. as each one of these debates i m kind of getting where i like the debates. i hope obama and i debate a lot. i ll get there early. we will get it on and we will
Thing. republicans say newt gingrich, as far as his debating skills, they think he can go toe the toe with obama but can t beat him. i think that s the thing to watch. newt gingrich has to convince people he can beat president obama, and that s what voters are now weighing. megyn: and what about ron paul? it s looking more like he could possibly win iowa, but can he win any other state, bob? is he capable of winning in this nomination? i think it s doubtful. certainly, are his chances better than they were in 2008? absolutely. especially when you have so many in the race because he has a solid base of support around 20% maybe, can he have 50% of the vote as people drop out? because i think after iowa two or three candidates drop out. that remains to be a question. so can ron paul win? yes. could he win new hampshire? yes. could he go the whole way? the chances are against him, but he is more of a force than he
Money to fund tax breaks for wealthiest americans. so on the one hand you have newt gingrich who is the tea party before the tea party was cool so to speak and mitt romney who, you know, did spend his career firing people and laying off people, sending jobs overseas to enrich himself and his partners. gingrich clearly regards himself as a combination of, i guess, isaac newton and albert einstein. given his debating skills, though, be honest with me, would it not be would he not be a more formidable opponent than mitt romney to the president? well, look, i think i think that you have seen in i think have you seen in mitt romney and newt gingrich people who are very adept at this. i mean, mitt romney is running for president for the second time. he had the debate ted kennedy when he ran, you know, ran for the senate, you know, many, many years ago when he started his political career. and newt gingrich has been through the battles. i think they are both have shown themselve
helping to ruin his party, or is he turning into a media gad good fly? and abc had a real presidential debate last night, but donald trump wants to moderate his own version of a debate. some of the candidates aren t coming because you haven t ruled out running yourself. well, i won t rule out a run, greta. especially if the party nominates a joke candidate like ron paul or jon huntsman or rick santorum here. [ laughter ] rick i m talking. you know, it s sometimes hard for news shows to capture the absurdity of the campaign. the daily show and saturday night live have a major impact on 2012 other will give us much-needed comic relief. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. when it comes to newt gingrich s surging presidential campaign, the journals have been something sly over the past week or so. news outlets carry stories about how republican leaders, even white house officials, are reassessing newt s candidacy and agreeing, hey, he might win t
america? let s go outfront. i m erin burnett. we re just an hour away. eight republican candidates vying for the party nomination. they are all taking to the stage tonight. the topic, national security. it has been 109 days since america lost its aaa credit rating. that s going to turn the rate on our mortgages and a whole lot more. we re not doing anything about it. we re still mad has hell about the super committee failing yesterday. fitch said the committee s failure would most likely result in negative action. so we re upset about the super committee and they are mad, too. panel member john kerry was watching outfront last night. he got mad and he called in. i think people are upset. i think nerve the country is upset. they are looking at congress and saying, why can t these guys get something done? but it s not enough for people just to say, oh, it s broken. you got to ask, okay, why. what is the matter that it is broken? so what now? we re hoping for a shock a