on that movement yet. everybody s been sort of waiting for the big rick perry comeback. this morning there appeared to be some maybe glimmer that it was finally upon us. the underappreciated thing about pi rick perry s candidacy, he has more money than you d think looking at his polls. he has lots of money. on paper, rick perry was supposed to be competitive. he looked like a good candidate. again, on paper. so he did raise a lot of money right away. it was only when he started talking that things fell apart. can we actually just keep this can we keep this around as a little sound bite? oops. oops. because rick perry s candidacy turned out to be an oops candidacy, his poll numbers have just fallen off a cliff. he became very unviable very quickly. i mean, look the a this poll numbers over time. since mr. perry s campaign has money, they have not been giving up. the perry campaign appears to be sir p pursuing a strategy of doing paid media and lots of it. paying for tv a
good evening. for one week now, we have been focused on the dangerous unknowns of the nuclear crisis in japan. but tonight, we begin with the unpredictable and dangerous mind of moammar gadhafi. today, president obama told americans that u.s. forces may be called into military action once again, this time, against gadhafi. joining other countries trying to keep the dictator from savaging his own people. tonight, we set out to answer three big questions. will other countries like england, france, arab nations really take the lead in libya? can the american military stretched so thin in afghanistan and iraq add another burden? and, is there a chance that gadhafi will fold, even though he s threatening retaliation? our team has been reporting on this all day and is standing by. we start with jake tapper and exactly what the white house is expecting now. jake? reporter: good evening, diane. well, president obama is mindful that the american public is weary of war. and that the
all these kids in just five words. he s our person of the week. good evening. for one week now, we have been focused on the dangerous unknowns of the nuclear crisis in japan. but tonight, we begin with the unpredictable and dangerous mind of moammar gadhafi. today, president obama told americans that u.s. forces may be called into military action once again, this time, against gadhafi. joining other countries frying to keep the dictator from savaging his own people. don t, we set out to answer three big questions. will other countries like england, france, arab nations really take the lead in libya? can the american military stretch so thin in afghanistan and iraq add another burden? and, is there a chance that gadhafi will fold? even though he s threatening retaliation. our team has been reporting on this all day and is standing by. we start with jake tapper and exactly what the white house is expecting now. jake? reporter: good evening, diane. president obama is mindf
much and enabled barack obama s rise. so we see a level of suspicion now i think on the right. inward directed suspicion we ve really never seen before. i think it s created the emergence of a new establishment. so we can look aall these voices we cite now, whether it s allen simpson, peggy noonan, george willard, whatever. look at a guy like rush limbaugh who had absolute credibility with this republican base. what did he spend this week doing? spent this week making this a test for his listeners. hey, anybody out there trashing newt gingrich right now, they re not one of us. you don t have to listen to anything you say. if you re part of our tribe, you re going to ignore them. with that going on, there s a new establishment i think. it s amazing because newt gingrich was being trashed by rush limbaugh very, very recently. that s right. very, very recently. when newt gingrich came out and said the paul ryan plan was right wing social engineering, rush limbaugh flayed him alive o