phillips. two stories facing our political future. barack obama will unveil his plan to create jobs and his same own job may be on the line. mitt romney and rick perry faced off in a national debate. jim acosta has the story lines for that. also this hour, my interviews with two very different members of congress republican joe walsh who is boycotting the president s speech and democrat maxine waters who is invoicesing her own skepticism. we will hear from her in about 15 minutes. aeeight republicans on trad and two candidates trading the most punches. jim acosta has the highlights in los angeles. this is rick perry first presidential debate. how did he do? reporter: he felt like the republican party pinata. he was. the other candidates on the stage did their best to take a whack at the new gop front-runner but rick perry showed he can hit back. rick perry and mitt romney stood side-by-side at the reagan debate close enough for the fur to fly. first on the question of w
something about the dropout rate. but maybe we should tie this to school funding issues, maybe we should tie this into administrator issues and administrative issues. look at the grades before we enforce this maybe. if they have good grades and they re missing some classes, big deal, right? what we re using is blunt instrument here and i think it may be too blunt. i would say guys, we have to leave it there. ok. sorry about that. thanks so much. thank you. oops, remember that money fema handed out after katrina, after hurricane katrina. why they re asking for some of that money back. the bin laden raid sure sounded like a story straight from the movies and soon, it might actually be headed for the big screen. but it might be a disney movie? and a live look at the shuttle endeavour which is ready for launch this morning. we will check in with bill hemmer from cape canaveral after the break.