poll, it is taken very seriously about the republican establishment, but how much weight does it actually bear? it s an important thing in part because we have a very large field with a number of candidates who a lot of people don t think are going to make it through. the straw poll and the caucuses themselves actually serve as a winnowing thing. there are people whose candidacy will be very hard to see. mark once again t focus is on the two people not running for president, at least not yet, texas governor rick perry, also sarah palin. governor rick perry is going to be in south carolina on saturday then he comes to iowa on sunday. how much of a shadow is he casting over the field right now? he s casting a really big shadow and he s going to be in new hampshire and south carolina on saturday, in iowa on sunday. all indications are that he s going to be running for
republicans already sniping about a democratic choice for the congressional super committee. democrats have named senators patty murray, max baucus, and john kerry to the debt panel. and republicans are complaining that murray shouldn t get a seat because she s too political. she s in charge of fund raising for democratic senate candidates. and 12 lawmakers are supposed to be named to the committee by tuesday. they re there to pinpoint $1.5 trillion in spending cuts by late november. 10,000 extra police officers kept a lid on the violence in london last night. but rioting and looting spread to birmingham, manchester, and liverpool. police will have all tools available to stop what he says are the thugs as he put it. a cnn ireporter describes the scene. you can hear at least ten of them. sounds like i m in beirut or some i don t know, some middle eastern conflict. and i have never witnessed this in the uk. i could have never imagined this. this looks like the gaza stri
we have to be committed to doing that. they should come back from vacation to get on with the business of putting people back to work. mayor thanks so much for joining us from l.a. and rick perry on the republican side trying to steal the thund frer the announced republican candidates competing in iowa this week for the ames straw poll. perry s campaign has leaked word that he s getting in. he ll make that clear in two appearances on saturday. first in south carolina then in new hampshire. he s going to be in iowa on sunday. clearly timed to draw attention away from the iowa straw poll saturday night. now there s reports that he s going to also speak at a fundraiser sunday in iowa. paul burka is senior executive editor of texas monthly. you ve been watching governor perry for a long time. this is very tactical what his weekend plans are given the fact that all the other candidates are in ames? absolutely.
the former pennsylvania senator speaking tonight at a more friendly venue. keeping them honest had some other statements causing contin controversy, namely because the candidate is denying what he said. it happened at a stop on iowa on sunday. i don t want to make people s lives better by giving them somebody else s money. i want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money. the next day, scott pelly asked him about that. you said that you don t want to make black people s lives better by giving them somebody else s money. why did you say that? i ve seen that quote. i haven t seen the context in what that was made. yesterday, i talked about a movie called what was it? wa waiting for superman. i don t know if it was in