percent. the former governor says she will be launching a national bus tour featuring stops in iconic places like gettysburg and liberty bail and new hampshire. sparking speculation she is getting ready for a run and reignited her sarahpac. and she launched this indicating sarah palin is going to run. think the problem is i do have the fire in my belly. i am so adamantly supportive of the good traditional things about america and our free enterprise system and i want to make sure that america is put back on the right track, and we only do that by defeating obama in 2012. you know, willie geist, we were talking yesterday, i, too, had fire in my belly yesterday.
is not in bad shape. tied with mitt romney. moneywise her political action committee was busy through the end ever december. we do know that just this month, she sent out an e-mail solicitation to 400,000 people nationwide. her people say all she was doing is raising money for sarahpac. if she gets in, she will have no problem finding the donors. sarah palin can do it like a holy roller on a sunday morning. reporter: she is not exactly a shoo-in. for one thing congresswoman michele bachmann is also likely to get into the race and social conservatives like her a lot. one of the founders of the modern conservative movements says palin has not surrounded herself with the kind of crowd that tells him what she stands for. views on judges, you know. who does she look to for
and all eyes now on the phrase one nation in the gop race to the white house. just ahead, new signs those words could be sarah palin is running for president. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. but first, a heartbreaking development in joplin, missouri. all week we ve been bringing you wrenching stories of those missing in the tornado s wake, while at the same time holding out hope they might still be found alive. one of them, 16-year-old lance who was in his car when the twister hit has become a symbol of the desperation felt by so many families. i spoke to his mother, michelle, on tuesday right here in the situation room . oh, my gosh, he is amazing. he is a straight a student. always has been. everything comes so naturally. he has amazing friends. he rides bmx. he is involved in the bridge ministries here in joplin. very active once again, respectful. cares about his family so much. sadly, we ve just learned that lantz hare has now been found dead.
later with sarahpac. mr. bailey has an ax to grind and a bend in his book. two completely photos twisted and photoshopped to create a fraudulent image. the book belongs on the fiction shelves. mr. bailey, what do you make of that? you know, there s a lot of stuff in that statement that is false. and one thing the reader cannot miss when they read blind allegiance, is that there are many owning moments in this book. there are things that i deeply regret that i did that i talk about in blind allegiance. i hate to say it, but i think palin just is wanting to veer the discussion away from the factual things in this book, like improperly coordinating and lying to the media, lying to the folks in alaska. you are being investigated by the attorney general.
damage, stay out of their way and stay home and watch cnn, and stay home. and so there are three areas that were hit hard, downtown area hit hard with apartment buildings, and home depot where ceiling beams were turned into twisted piles of metal, and the third is this, what was once a walmart and now little bit more than a field of debris. look at this part of the store accessible which is the parking lot. watch this with me. this car upside down. windows shattered. totally demolished. this pickup truck destroyed. it is one car after another. the amount of devastation here, and here comes this vehicle. i want you to see this. you don t see this it is just incredible to take this in and see what is happening here. just car after car after car like that. and this is the joplin neighborhood, and look at the car here, because the grandmother who owns it came this close to being in that car s driver s seat when the tornado hit sunday. this is her granddaughter speaking. s