scientists come forward to challenge her claims about the controversial hpv vaccine. jim acosta is covering the race to unseat perry. shall we say it is a race indeed. it absolutely is, wolf, and the only thing missing from the campaign trail this week, michael buffer. the professional wrestler master of ceremonies, who s known for his battle cry, let s get ready to rumble. it s the main event for the gop comes down to rick perry versus mitt romney, stand back. just yesterday, that jobs legacy in massachusetts got even worse. in iowa, perry is laying into romney s health care plan, pointing to this study from a conservative think tank that concluded the program has cost the state 18,000 jobs. a finding romney aides call deeply flawed. it kills toos many jobs and gets between you and your doctor. doesn t make any difference whether it s passed in massachusetts or washington, d.c. it is bad medicine and needs to be stopped. his campaign is holding up this gallup poll.
rick perry calendar. it really is, chuck. so we talked about the importance of florida. but after florida, the way that super tuesday is shaping up, there are many southern states that go. then that week after super tuesday, you have a couple more southern states. so there is the potential that rick perry could have a very good march. of course, we don t know what the calendar is going to look like. but there is potential if rick perry ends up doing very well, that he could have a big march which is why florida is so important. to mitt romney. mark murray, josh putnam, thanks, both. this is fun to watch. we might get some resolution in the next two weeks. up next, a rogue trader casts swiss bank ubs $2 billion. could it tank wall street s three straight days of gains? we ll get the market rundown next. plus, perry under pressure. did campaign contributions influence the governor s decision to mandate those hpv vaccines for young girls? we re following the money trail between pe
latest misstep the beginning of the end of her presidential campaign? by most accounts, bachmann did well in the republican debate taking rick perry to task on his order to girls to get the hpv vaccine, suggesting he was catering to pharmaceutical maker, merck. then she did this. i ll tell you this, i had a mother last night come up to me here in tampa, florida, after the debate. she told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. it can have very dangerous side effects. the mother was crying when she came up to me last night. i didn t know who she was before the debate. this is the very real concern. and people have to draw their own conclusions. that was bachmann on the today show recounting what some unnamed stranger said to her. now, we have no reason to doubt someone says this to mrs. bachmann, but it s incredibly irresponsible for her to repeat this as part of her argument against the hpv vac
issues this had the making offing of a political fire storm, kids, sexually transmitted disease and government telling parents how they should protect their own children. the issue, of course is texas governor rick perry s 2007 executive order requiring girls to get vaccinated against human paploma virus, hpv, a virus that can cause cervical answer. that executive order never saw the light of day. perry signed it. two months later, the state legislature turned it over and it died on the vine. despite that fact in the debate michele bachmann tried to paint rick perry as someone who wanted innocent little girls to be held down by the arm of big government and forcibly stuck with needles in their arms. now, after the debate, she s even trying to raise fears that the hpv vaccine can cause mental retardation, something she s repeated on television at least twice already. that is, by all accounts, just flat-out wrong. more on that in a minute. but first bachmann and perry going hea
issues that came up last night in last night s cnn debate, issues this had the making offing of a political fire storm, kids, sexually transmitted disease and government telling parents how they should protect their own children. the issue, of course is texas governor rick perry s 2007 executive order requiring girls to get vaccinated against human paploma virus, hpv, a virus that can cause cervical answer. that executive order never saw the light of day. perry signed it. two months later, the state legislature turned it over and it died on the vine. despite that fact in the debate michele bachmann tried to paint rick perry as someone who wanted innocent little girls to be held down by the arm of big government and forcibly stuck with needles in their arms. now, after the debate, she s even trying to raise fears that the hpv vaccine can cause mental retardation, something she s repeated on television at least twice already. that is, by all accounts, just flat-out wrong. more