watching. welcome to weekends with alex witt. alec has a sunday morning hof. deservedly so. a key bell weather find the race still up for grabs. a new poll shows mitt romney still on top with 24%. ron paul in a tie with 22% and rick santorum in third with 15%. newt gingrich is at 12%. rick perry at 11. michele bachmann at 7. in addition to leading the pack, romney picked up the endorsement of the quad city times in iowa. i don t want to do what the president said. fundamentally transform america. i don t want to turn us into something we re not. i want to bring back the principles that made ut the hope of the earth. we re still a shining city on a hill. later in sioux city, the former governor had an interesting encounter trying to leave this event running into a wedding party. straight into it. romney asked if he could kiss the pride and he did so as the crowd cheered on. nice moment there. rick santorum has seen crowds and poll numbers grow following month of exhausti
the wall street journal features an op-ed from mr. perry previewing his plan that he calls cut, balance and grow. some of the highlights include a choice between your current tax rate or a flat tax rate of 20% a reduction in the corporate rate to 20%, and opt out of social security for younger workers and a move to cap spending to 18% of the country s gdp. governor perry emphasizes the plan would create a better environment for creating american jobs. in the op-ed he writes in part by eliminating the dozens of carve-outs, we will renew incentives for entrepreneurial risk taking and investment that creates jobs, inspires americans to work hard and forms the foundation of a strong economy. jim harwood interviewed governor perry and we ll play that on morning joe at the top of the hour. karl rove taking aim now at herman cain. rove breaking out his white board to highlight cain s recent
october 25th, a lot going on today including the secret burial this morning of moammar gadhafi s body, somewhere in the libyan desert. plus the herman cain campaign ad so strange i can t believe we re not leading with it. i ve been overruled by my wise producers. there are super close-ups and cigarettes. first to the news at 5:30 a.m. with his jobs proposal stalled in congress, president obama turned his attention on monday to the housing market. the state of nevada has the country s worst home foreclosure rate and the highest unemployment rate at 13.4% in a three-hour visit to las vegas, the president rolled out his new plan to help american homeowners. we can t wait for an increasingly dysfunctional congress to do its job. where they won t act, i will. i m pleased to announce that the agency that is in charge is going to be taking a series of steps to help responsible homeowners refinance and take advantage of low mortgage rates. so what are those steps? the proposals a
libyan desert. plus the herman cain campaign ad so strange i can t believe we re not leading with it. i ve been overruled by my wise producers. there are super close-ups and cigarettes. first to the news at 5:30 a.m. with his jobs proposal stalled in congress, president obama turned his attention on monday to the housing market. the state of nevada has the country s worst home foreclosure rate and the highest unemployment rate at 13.4% in a three-hour visit to las vegas, the president rolled out his new plan to help american homeowners. we can t wait for an increasingly dysfunctional congress to do its job. where they won t act, i will. i m pleased to announce that the agency that is in charge is going to be taking a series of steps to help responsible homeowners refinance and take advantage of low mortgage rates. so what are those steps? the proposals apply only to loans backed by freddie mac and fannie mae. it removes the loan limit for borrowers who owe more than 125%