thank you so very much. thank you. let me bring in dr. james peterson, associate professor of english at lehigh university and msnbc contributor. before i get to this immediate situation, tell us in terms of your english professor back ground and interpretation of drama, seeing president obama descend the stairs of air force one to be greeted by a smiling rick perry. talk about the theater of politics that despite all of the missiles fired from each side to the other, that the the progress of american politics, even in the nastiness, there seems to be some decor up. a bit here. i m not sure if this meet and greet actually reflects that. i think it s really interesting the way in which the political theater was played here, governor perry s camp saying we re not going to do the tarmac shake but they are going to do it as long as they get this sit down. president s camp saying you can do the sit down with the
while. will governor rick perry s brain freeze at the presidential debate looked a little like this. agencies of government when i get there that are gone. commerce, education and the, uh what s the third one there? let s see. all right. so governor perry s camp says it was a stumble of style, not substance. we take a look at the substance next. we re talking the economy with jared bernstein, vice president biden s former chief economist. what s better than gold ? free gold ! we call that hertz gold plus rewards.
apology. sean: perry s camp respond, saying, quote. sean: earlier in virginia, cain was confronted by a swarm of reporters. make a statement? that s what i am going to talk about. reporter: talk, come on. all of these other questions that you are serious about, okay? don t even bother. reporter: it s a good question about the confidentiality [overlapping dialogue] excuse me. excuse me! sean: joining me with reaction and the co-host of the five, monica crowley and the fox business network, sandra smith. before we get to anything else, i don t want to hear that liberals don t want me to bring this up. we discovered about bam discover in the barack obama, we
so the campaign at that point would be prepared if the issue surfaced. it did not. approximately two weeks ago, as you know, mr. anderson went to work for the rick perry campaign. what else happened about two weeks ago? politico began this smear campaign citing anonymous sources claiming mr. cain acted inappropriately. mr. anderson told forbes he was not the source of the leak. a perry spokesman told nbc news tonight, no one in our campaign was involved in the story at any way. perry s camp pointed the finger at mitt romney, saying, i wouldn t have put it past them. a perry spokesman said this there are blog postings around as well discussing that cain s successor at the restaurant association is a big romney donor and some of the board members. there are much closer connections between the restaurant association, cain and the romney camp than there are with us. but there is another republican consultant tonight giving herman cain another headache. his name is chris wilson, and h
apology. sean: perry s camp respond, saying, quote. sean: earlier in virginia, cain was confronted by a swarm of reporters. make a statement? that s what i am going to talk about. reporter: talk, come on. all of these other questions that you are serious about, okay? don t even bother. reporter: it s a good question about the confidentiality [overlapping dialogue] excuse me. excuse me! sean: joining me with reaction and the co-host of the five, monica crowley and the fox business network, sandra smith. before we get to anything else, i don t want to hear that liberals don t want me to bring this up. we discovered about bam discover in the barack obama, we