unemployment the republican candidates are not waiting to have this conversation. rick perry already trading jabs with the president on the best way to get americans back and work. he s declaring himself america s quote jobs governor. bill: latest rasmussen polling shows the texas governor who just joined the race leading that group with 29% of the vote. that s a volatile field. byron, good morning to you. what do you make of the perry surge or is he just the flavor of the week. on paper perry has all the credentials to be a serious contender for the presidential nomination. he got a lot of good press to the buildup to his candidacy 15-minute we are just now seeing him. he made a few verbal gaffes. but he made a good speech coming out in south carolina and in waterloo, iowa. bill: what is the story do you believe with many republicans well known conservatives who are pushing paul ryan, talking a lot about chris christie. is there something truly behind that? or is that just
that group with 29% of the vote. that s a volatile field. byron, good morning to you. what do you make of the perry surge or is he just the flavor of the week. on paper perry has all the credentials to be a serious contender for the presidential nomination. he got a lot of good press to the buildup to his candidacy 15-minute we are just now seeing him. he made a few verbal gaffes. but he made a good speech coming out in south carolina and in waterloo, iowa. bill: what is the story do you believe with many republicans well known conservatives who are pushing paul ryan, talking a lot about chris christie. is there something truly behind that? or is that just words? what s behind it is a number of observers thought once rick perry finally got in the field would be set and this waiting for superman idea would go away, but it hasn t. there is a desire for some other candidate. paul ryan, a man who knows the federal budget better than anybody. chris christy basically said he wo
residents who live alone in their community. thdo they have air-conditioning, a fan, are they okay? do they have senior services in place? a live report coming up on where these record temperatures are happening and how long the heat wave might last. also, developing now in the senate, minutes away from voting on a measure involving deb id cart fees that could mean higher prices for anything you can buy with a debit card. at issue here, whether to delay cuts in the fees banks and credit card companies charge business owners every time a customer uses a debit card. store owners say the fees force them to pass the extra dollars on to consumers. joining me now, nbc news senior investigative correspondent, lisa meyers and these fees rake up a lot of money for the banks, we know that. reporter: yes, they do, tamron. both sides say they are acting in the best interests of consumers. when you look closely at the issue of swipe fees, this is a battle between two powerful inte
2010. three weeks exactly until the mid-term. but people are voting everywhere. i m chuck todd, let s get to the rundown. we ll start down in chile. a country holding its breath as a spectacular rescue of those 33 trapped miners is set to begin today. nbc s kerry sanders is live for us in chile. kerry, when does it begin? when will we think we will see the first miner on this side of the earth. reporter: i think i think that we might actually see that head pop up of the first miner through this shaft that s been drilled down maybe around 8:00 tonight. that s just a little bit of a guess. what i m really struck by today, 69 days and the families who have been here have been anguished, they ve been praying, they have gone through so much. as i walked past the families today, all i saw were smiles. i mean from ear to ear, grins. people are excited because they have a high degree of confidence after yesterday s test that everything is going to work here. as you though, they t
republicans polling numbers have not improved as the democrats polling numbers have deteriorated rapidly, having many parties on all these years, as abysmal as i found the democrats policies to be, not addressing the employer-based health care system, not addressing the incentive to take money out of the country, all this nonsense, the republicans almost every time have no better alternative or had a worse alternative, doug. in other words, are we setting ourselves up to quit drinking by beginning to snort cocaine in addition to drinking? i think the key for republicans for conservatives comes in in three forms. let s get back to principals. the republicans depray ad lot of principals during their time in power. that s clear. number two, let s get away from the politics of personalities.