now. rick santorum is joining us at this hour. you may be the winner. you re, by all accounts, the winner. it is a virtual tie. let me congratulations you, senator santorum. have you done an amazing job, as you well know. it was not that long ago, you were nowhere in iowa. but now it is a virtual tie. you may win or lose by one or two votes. but for all practical purposes, you re a winner. give us thought on how it feels. well, you know, this is the first step in the process and well be on to new hampshire. we will work hard and compete there. a little bit behind the curve in the sense that governor romney has been spending a lot of money and a lot of time up there. and has been running for six years. but we feel like we can go up there and compete. we have a great team on the ground. my campaign manager is from new hampshire. he started out as my new hampshire guy. he knows how to win races. he managed frank gintha s campaign up there. we have a lot of frank s campaign tha
he has since recovered. time for your money. less than one year until the presidential election, where is the u.s. economy headed? i m christine romans. less than half of americans believe things will be going well in this country one year from today. even that faint hope appears ton on decline. the number of americans thinking things will get better has been steady dropping. no surprise as unemployment remains high and housing prices are not recovery and there s fear of another global recession. alexus glick, experienced on wall street and covering and will cain is the cnn contributor, cloudy with a chance of rain has been your forecast. anything to part the clouds? i don t think anything will part the clouds until europe clears up, which might be a while. we re in for stable slow growth but there s more risk. it became more difficult and expensive for spain to bore rerow money. there s potentially a funding problem in europe. explain why that is so important? europe
and that sentiment is strong and when people say we can do that through cuts, included in that objection is cuts to corporations on tax breaks, cuts to individuals in the 1% not paying their fair share. when you generate revenue, you re also eliminating some of the niceties and tax breaks that very big corporations and very, very rich people have been receiving for the last 10 to 15 years in this country. congressman, very quickly, 100 members of congress, including democrats and republicans called on the super committee to go big, $4 trillion. do you think that s a possibility given the current tenor in congress? they have to look at jobs and they have to look at revenue generation. you have to think in those terms. i think the mistake would be to do something small that s politically pal atable but doesn t deal with the situation we re in and try to buy more
course contained an individual mandate that in some ways is similar to the one that is in the plan that president obama signed into law the tea party act vis were so opposed to. so mitt romney is sort of faced with this challenge. whether he s going to try to appeal to tea partiers and show them he s pal atable to them. it s going to be new to the tea parties as well. the decentralized nature of their movement might not bode well for being a force if presidential politics. they have some other options including the head of the tea party caucus, michelle bachmann declaring in iowa on monday. what about her fundraising ability? she has shown an ability at the congressional level to raise a lot of money. this isn t the grassroots fever that you have say around a sarah palin and other possible contender for the 2012 republican nomination. michelle bachmann has a very
for the office very, very difficult. does it make any difference these words were caught on a tape ten, eleven years ago in 2005 when he was a private citizen, a show biz kind of guy. if these were words he said in the past year plus forget it it would be completely game over. i thought you were going with that is that we ve heard of things he has said but not actually heard him say the words like we do on this audio tape and it is quite different to hear it come out of his mouth, vulgar words that we hear over and over again in that audio tape. to duck tail on what david was saying whether he could expand beyond his base, remember this is about women. this is about whether or not he can be pal atable to wealth and frankly wonderful women, men who also find this kind of discussion vulgar and way over