reagan. chairman of the reagan group. good to see you today. good to see you. shannon: almost everybody thinks that governor perry is going to get into the 2012 race. he s an outspoken evangelical christian, that s what it s all about. is it a good move for them? if it s a success it s a good move for him, if it s not it s a terrible move for him. governor perry is trying to make the ultimate decision, eugs he going to returning is he not going to run? he feels he needs the evangelical organizations to wrap around him like they did mike huckabee in iowa, a few years ago. this might be the road there. if it is a successful weekend i think he make the announcement to jump into the race and hopefully launch a viable candidacy in iowa. if it s not a success then another choice might have to be made. shannon: i understand that this is going to be funded by private groups, it s not government money or a government-funded
by filing the briefs it makes sure the protest -rs on the record. if you go through them you can see some interesting quotes here. i want to put it on the screen. one says these threaten the rights we re talking about alabama s new law, threatens the rights of their citizens in the united states. the bam rar law as you know is actually the most stringent law in the united states, even tough every than arizona s which is making its way to the supreme court. this law on top of the things you mentioned, shannon also allows police to detain anyone suspected of being i wil illegal. it requires schools to to compile information on illegal students and revoke the business licenses of any companies that hire illegals. the alabama governor, robert bentley has now i shall hued a statement where he says, and i m quoting, lawsuits have been filed in every state that has passed a strong immigration
down to florida. much more to come, shannon. shannon: thank you very much. the dow down right now almost 300 points. a little bit over, actually there as we continue to watch the stock market fluctuating. this is how president obama reacted to the slow-moving economy last night. the president signed off on a major debt deal earlier this week. all these problems we re gathering all at once, and we knew the road ahead was going to be difficult that the climb was going to be steep. i have to admit i didn t know how steep the climb was going to be, but we did what we needed to do to start getting the economy growing again, and it has been growing. not as if s as we want but we ve got the economy growing. when i said change we can believe in, i didn t say change we could believe in tomorrow. shannon: he says he s going to take time. we have a former speech writer
president, i don t know if there is eight or 18 of them now, but there is sort of an ideological chaos in the republican party right now. boehner lost 25% of his conference in the vote on the debt ceiling. the tea party republicans in the house were split almost 50-50 and the republican candidates for president are sort of all over the place. if this were an easy problem it would have been solved a longtime ago. it s come blah indicated and requires hard work. shannon: it is complicated and the polls show people are plenty frustrated with washington. great to see you gentlemen. shannon: alabama s newly passed immigration coming under fire and not just from the administration. while more than a dozen foreign countries are weighing in on one of our state s laws. we told you earlier this hour about the neighborhood that is making national headlines, it s a big nasty fight. in three minutes we ll talk to the man who is being targeted by that sign on his screen.
the moral majority ronald reagan didn t drive to and say, please support me. they came to him because of his views. and the governor of texas would be smart to let people come to him instead of many overtly going to them. shannon: there is at least one group that has filed a lawsuit. this is going to happen this weekend. they are trying to get it stopped. they think it s improper. they ve lost at initial level. they ve gone to the next level, appealed it to the fifth circuit hoping to get it stopped before it takes place this weekend. does that actually serve as a benefit to the governor? if you can say you re being attacked and being able to fight back does it make it look like he s the good guy here? well, in many ways it does. the old reality is, at least spell my name right if you re going to be talking about me. all press becomes good press in this type of an operation. this is putting him on the top of the heap if you will. they are talking about rick perry, not mitt romney, mi