first national debate and first chance millions of voters have had to get to know him. from the get-go he jumped to the top of the polls. from the beginning tonight his opponents jumped on him. here s the portion of the debate starting with former massachusetts governor mitt romney and governor perry squaring off. we created more jobs in the last three months in texas than he created in four years in massachusetts. texas is a great state. texas has zero income tax. texas has a right to work state. a republican legislature. a republican supreme court. texas has a lot of oil and gas in the ground. those are wonderful things. but governor perry doesn t believe he created those things. if he tried to say that, be like al gore saying he invented the internet. michael dukakis created jobs three times faster than you did, mitt. as a matter of fact, george bush and his predecessor creates jobs at a faster rate than you did, governor. threw out the current tax code. a 9% tax
night. it s still being crafted as we speak. some of the pieces are coming into focus tonight. so is the bottom line, which is growing from earlier estimates. that s certainly welcome news for democrats who say the president s been too timid and the economy need a big dose of medici medicine. at the same time the larger the price tag the tougher it may be to get through congress. even though the white house says it will offset the cost of a jobs plan with savings elsewhere in the budget. chief whos correspondent jesse allen has been working her sources. what is the latest? what s going to be in this plan this. my understanding from democrats who are familiar with the president s working figures right now tell me that the plan could end up upwards of $400 billion. the biggest ticket item would be an extension of the payroll tax cut for employees which is set to expire at the end of the year at $120 billion. he would propose in this draft roads and infrastructure above curren
threatening. both sean and kevin have been visited by family members. they are both mourning the loss of their traveling companions. wolf? what a tragedy indeed. casey wian thanks very much. we re also learning more about the pilot of the plane who was killed in the crash. terry smith was a veteran pilot, considered an icon in alaska aviation. he and his family had been struck by another air tragedy only a few days earlier. smith s son-in-law was onboard a cargo plane attached to the alaska air national guard when it crashed back on july 28th. he died. our brian todd spoke to the source close to smith, asked him about smith s state of mind. brian will be joining us later here in the situation room. what a horrible, horrible tragedy. president obama has something to celebrate after an embattled u.s. senator survived his democratic primary challenge last night. we ll see how both parties power players fared in the latest round of elections 2010.
romney. by november 18th herman cain was so firmly ensconced as the front-runner for the republican nomination that he requested and got protection from the united states secret service. herman cain has become the first republican candidate to receive secret service protection. it is early in the process for a primary candidate to get a secret service detail. it s usually in response to an increase in verified threats. and in florida today cain talked about his new heavily armed traveling companions. we had private security for a while before we asked for secret service protection, but we wanted to move to that next level because of my ranking in the polls and the additional scrutiny that i have been getting. cain spoke in orlando, and already just behind the camera he was surrounded by secret service and local police. so that was november 18th, 2011.
and straight through about mid-november for basically a whole month, herman kaine was either in the lead for the republican presidential nomination or he was trading the lead with mitt romney. by november 18th, herman kaine was so firmly ensconsed as the front-runner for the republican nomination that he requested and got protection from the united states secret service. herman kaine has become the first republican primary candidate to receive secret service protection. it is early in the process for a primary candidate to get a secret service detail. it s usually in response to an increase in verified threats and in florida today, kaine talked about his new heavily armed traveling companions. we had private security for a while before we asked for secret service protection but we wanted to move to that next level because of my ranking in the polls and the additional scrutiny that i have been