obligations according to and for nato efforts. the deaches secretary spoke yesterday. we will show you bits of video from that speech. but in light of that we want to ask you for our first 40 minutes or so about nato and the u.s. involvement and if it s time to reconsider our commitment. the defense secretary talking about financial obligations and others. we ll take a look as well. but here s how you can chime in this morning as far as if it s time to reconsider u.s. commitment in nato. here s the washington journal writeup of yesterday s speech by the defense secretary. we ll read more about that. but the defense secretary did speak yesterday in brussels. here s a bit of what he had to say especially when it comes to other nato countries stepping up their involvement. to avoid the real possibility of collective military irrel vance, must examine. in procurement, in training, and logistics, in sustainment. while it is clear nato members should do more to pool military as
house had dramatic news yesterday. ghannouchi rich survive as a political candidate after its staff can newt gingrich survive as a political candidates after its staff resigned in mass? we would like to know what you think. the numbers are on the screen. you can also e-mail us. and we are on twitter. let s take a look at usa today headlines. to give some information about this and shed some light on what is going on behind the scenes, we are joined by. wilson from national journal. good morning. what have you found out about why his staff members left? guest: he had a rocky blowout a couple of weeks ago when he announced his campaign. he sort of announced and unannounced and then bree announced. it is probably the worst rollout we have seen niki 2012 we have seen in the 2012 run so far. then he promptly went on a vacation to breeze. greece. he did not look like he was going to be willing to go to iowa and at other places to woo voters. a lot of his staff had just co
rick perry may be warming to the idea for running for president. here is one of the ideas anin the wall street journal. the piece by neil king says that for months now the governor has told potential donors and potential higher ups he has no interest in running for the white house for 2012, but over the past two weeks political advisor say he has changed his tune on a possible presidential campaign. there is a lot more here in this piece. we will go through them for you. first call this morning on thought the president perry kidding ken mr. perry going into the presidential race. caller: i think we all need to focus on the last governor of texas who ran for president and became president unfortunately, and that will be a guide for the current governor of texas. host: what is your thinking in linking one with the other. they are to separate men, no? caller: it is true. i did not think too highly of president bush, and i do not think too highly of gov. perry. >host: let s