minnesota s cannon river, president obama coming out loaded forbear saying the dead debate say that some politicians and he didn t mention parties would rather see their opponents lose than see american win. tough words. take a listen. we ended up creating more uncertainty and more damage to an economy that was already weak. now, we can t have patience with that kind of behavior anymore. i know you re frustrated. i m frustrated too. three states in just three days. by bus for president barack obama. you have minnesota, iowa and then illinois. my colleague, wolf blitzer, is standing by. he hit the road. he got a break from washington. he ll be doing the situation room from the president s next step in iowa. wolf, let s go to you. we heard from the president. pretty tough words today from the president. clearly aimed at the republicans. caller: he s really beginning slowly but surely, but he s beginning to get into that campaign mode that republicans have been obviously i
to you today as a candidate for president of the united states. cnn political correspondent jim acosta is at the red state conference in charleston. he joins us live now. jim, the impact that perry may have on this presidential playing field. any guesses? [ inaudible ] we ll have to work out the audio because you re not the only one who is not hearing jim acosta. we ll try to re-establish that in a moment. there is another major political story going on right now in iowa. the nation s first caucus state is holding its famous ames straw poll. it is a critical test of a candidate s strength. it can boost a candidate to the front of the pack or eliminate them from contention altogether. the best political team on television is on the ground in iowa, among them cnn deputy political director paul steinhauser. why is this one poll so important when a lot of people say other straw polls are insignificant, don t matter? well, hey, good point there. this is nonbinding. candidate
know now is are we getting into another recession now? no. i submitted my forecast to the various polls last week and said no, the economy would grow faster in the second half, things will get better. are there perils? of course. those with money who don t need credit or who have the ability to get credit can really do well in this economy and those without jobs at the bottom, with tough credit, are excused for thinking that things are bad. absolutely. if you don t have a job, it is still a depression outside. or still a recession. we re not growing fast enough to help those people. to create the kinds of skwljobs need, we have to grow even higher. ken rogoff is a former chief economist for the imf, the world s leading expert on economic crises. we have got something going on in the world. is it recession? is it worse? i think it is pretty clear we have never escaped from the previous downturn. we re still living in the aftermath of it. it is slow and rocky. and the
continuing with brooke baldwin. don t go far. i want to talk to you about that piece in mississippi. hello to you. good afternoon. i m brooke baldwin. let s begin where drew sort of left off there. you know what, you need a scorecard today. or maybe a traffic cop to keep up with the presidential hopefuls. i m giving you a map. des moines, iowa, ground zero ahead of the iowa straw poll. des moines, iowa, flooded with republican candidates. plus, yep, sarah palin. she turned up, arrived there just a short time ago. she is not, i repeat not in the race, at least not officially. why else would she be in des moines? sarah palin is in iowa. but not the front-runner. no, mitt romney left eye wachlt he bolted iowa. today he s in new hampshire. the state he s banking on to help clinch the nomination. as we broke the news on in show just yesterday, south carolina is awaiting rick perry, the texas governor set to announce tomorrow in charleston. that yes, he is getting into the race.
joining us on the phone heather cobbler with the colorado police. if you can, tell us exactly how they were spotted and how they were taken into custody. well, good morning, first of all. these three suspects were taken into custody after what was about a 20-mile high-speed pursuit. initially this morning a witness said they spotted somebody that matched the description of who we were looking for, and troopers in the area tried to initiate contact on i-25 south of pueblo. it was then they fled and crashed. the three of them were considered armed and dangerous. any word on injuries or a shoot-out? during the pursuit, there were shots fired at law enforcement from the suspects. no law enforcement was injured. were any of the suspects injured? i don t know, we are checking on that. right now we have medical personnel on scene, and at least one party is being transported to a medical facility. heather, do you know if any weapons were recovered in their vehicle, and