had an interview with you at the value voter summit in which you got a tremendous response. you keep winning these straw policy. your numbers are going through the roof and continue to. and he said are you ready for all the gotcha questions? who is the president of this country, and et cetera, and you had a pretty funny answer. ever since that florida straw poll, there s been a big builds eye on my back. it s coming from harry belafonte, it s coming from colonel you know, from professor west, it s coming from anybody who does not like the fact that i as an american black conservative is in a position to be able to speak my mind and tell the truth and wake people up. they don t want a lot of people to wake up. especially black people. i ve also said, sean, which also received some criticism, that a large percentage of american black people are thinking for themselves.
sir, from rome tonight. welcome back. good to be here. all right. first of all, that last comment, i am really i don t know why people are attacking governor romney s religion. now governor perry did not do that. but he introduced perry at the value voter summit. i think this is a big mistake politically, and i also think it s wrong moralry to be doing this. what are your thoughts? perry should have gotten up there and said i just want to make clear that i do not regard the latter-day saint religion as a cult, and i would not nine anybody s religious believe and i would not be associated with anybody who did demean them. if the speaker said we need a follower of jesus christ, not some jew, or we need a white candidate, not some black, do you think perry would have just gotten up and given his speech?
i m not getting into that. i think what the real focus is here again is on religious tolerance. that s really what this is about. and i think again to make this a big issue is just ridiculous right now. we re covering all the angles for you. paul steinhauser is in washington. and shannon travis is in iowa. let s go ahead and start with you, paul. bachmann and cain ducking the debate shows. just how delicate the balancing act proves, i guess, how delicate that balancing act needs to be. so what do you think? is this the end of the topic, or are we going to hear a lot more? i don t know if we ll hear a lot more, but we ll hear more no doubt about it. there s a debate tomorrow night. it could come up there. you heard that sound bite there state of the union with candy crowley. bachmann and cain didn t want to touch this issue. what about romney and the controversy over his faith? he doesn t want to touch it that much either. it was kind of telling that saturday at the va
tv or sister love on cable. at the beginning of his campaign, during his announcement speech, he talked about freedom of religion and we can respect one another. clearly they ve laid their foundation and they will have to come back to it at some point. we re going to go to him live right now. this is the value voter summit. let s listen to what he is saying. and now i bask in the joy of 16 grandchildren. [ applause ] for the last 42 years, ann has been my partner and joy. and she s done those things which have brought more happiness to our lives than anything that i have done. for she took the lead in raising our five boys. did you see that steve jobs was asked whether he was glad that he had children ? he said, it s 10,000 times
kid to college but retailers are looking to hire half a million temporary workers with the holidays coming up according to the national retail federation. major chains often hire these temp workers then full-time after the holidays. we definitely saw that last year. retail workers, there are jobs there. some other jobs in high demand truck drivers, engineers, including industrial and software engineers. registered nurses. professional chefs. and accountants. but it is undeniable people are not just angry and frustrated, they are lived with the economy, jobs, their paychecks an the income gap. look at this scene. in new york, right now, at the heart of our financial district, the occupy wall street protests are intensifying. we do have a live picture for you. today marks the 21st day of the movement with no signs of it dying down any time soon. in fact, the grassroots protests, the discontent are spreading rapidly across the country from east to west, north to south. this