clearly not ready to deal with the crisis we face and i m compelled by public service to jump in. i have an obligation to jump in and do my part and do the best i can. so, you know, and by the way, i think he looks at the rick perry thing and it can go two ways. he can look at it and say, gee, look how hard it is to do that and all the problems when you jump in late, but he can also look at it and say, i can do better than that. let s look at the reality here. is this about rick perry or is this still about mitt romney? i mean, the whole reason why we have rick perry in this race is because there was such a vacuum, particularly with the tea party conservative crowd who wanted an electable conservative to get behind and michele bachmann wasn t fulfilling that electable card. i think what voters want across all sectors of the republican primary is somebody who s big, bold, and brash. that s why perry got so much attraction because people see him as a strong leader. people don t vote
the solution seemed rather calm. now it s not 100% over because the house needs to okay that. they re not here this week. the senate s gone for the rest of the week. but they can do it through a procedural move on thursday, and we don t expect any signs of red flags that it could be derailed. so it was one of those things that almost took us to the brink and then there was kind of a cooler head solution and everybody calmed down. for now. it s sort of a stay of government shutdown execution. reporter: exactly. november, here we come. kelly, thanks very much. all right. now to the biggest political story that hasn t gotten enough coverage, the obama administration signaling it s ready to help the fate of the health care law, a decision that could come down right in the middle of next year s campaign. pete williams, you ve been looking at the spring, always speculated, that something happened over the last 48 hours as far as the justice department and this health care law and the
investors are eyeing developments in europe s debt crisis, where officials say greece will get a new round of bailout funds in time to avoid default. so disaster averted for now. other stories making headlines. live p pictures of the washington monument where a close-up inspection is expected to get under way any moment. climbers will grapple down all four sides to examine from last month s earthquake, this as the national park service released new video taken inside during the quake. look at those pictures. unbelievable. a little change in the west wing. stephanie cutter, one of president s top adviser, will become the latest obama aide to the white house for a campaign. she will move to chicago to become the deputy campaign manager of the president s re-election campaign. egyptian officials say gunmen are to blame for an explosion that destroyed a gas pipeline in the sinai peninsula
debate. you kind of gave him a pass in one, willing to give him a pass in two had there been improvement in three. what s going on? is it his m.o.? you re a texas guy. you re an us is tin guy. is he just not somebody who likes to debate, likes to prep for debates? what s the deal? well, i think getting in late his campaign was overwhelmed. they re drinking from a fire hose. they were trying to do too many things. he had a big speech just three hours before his last debate. so i don t think they really understood what a priority that ought to be. but there s only a few chances in campaigns when you get to really change the dynamic and the debate is one of few of those. as i pointed out, other candidates i ve worked for, including george w. bush, worked ferociously for debates, six months ahead of time. dick cheney was a maniac about his debate preparation. i think they get it now. listen, the perry campaign collapse story is quickly going to be followed by the perry resurrection story
we simply only seeing matt damon here say something or someone else say something, then maybe making too much out of it? well, right now, that seems to be the problem that the campaign has, is when any one of these celebrities says anything negative about obama, it gets this big pop in the media and it gets a lot of attention. people like matt damon, robert redford recently, when obama abandoned the ozone rules, very upset about that, went and wrote an editorial about it. and the white house takes notice. as we saw at the correspondents dinner, obama brought up disappointment from matt damon. making fun of his last movie. so, all right, walk me through last night. you went to as many as you could get into. house of blues you got into. what did you see? well, house of pblues last night was a big crowd, mainly young entertainment industry professionals, i would say.