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thi this is conscio this is the daily rundown. mitt romney goes up with his first major tv ad in the hawkeye state. it s a introduction to voters an implicit comparison to the candidate emerging as the chief challenger, newt gingrich. i spent my life in the private sector. i ve competed with companies around the world. i ve learned something about how it is that economies grow. and i m in favor of cutting spending, capping federal spending as a percentage of gdp at 20% or less and have a balanced budget amendment. gingrich returns to iowa. his campaign headquarters in iowa just opened yesterday, but newt says he s now the front runner in the republican race, and he dinged romney in an interview last night. whereas i would have thought originally he was it is going to be mitt and not mitt. i think it s it may turn out to be newt and not newt. and clearly the more conservative candidate by any rational standard. i think the person who is able to debate obama and ....
Well, we still don t know if sarah palin will get into the race, but no shortage of campaign style stops for the former vp candidate. right now she is in man chester, new hampshire. we re waiting for her to speak to a tea party express rally. in the meantime msnbc alex mo join us by phone from manchester. alex, any clues on whether or not she s testing the batters for a real run? reporter: we re not sure what she s going to say. we are hearing it s going to be similar to her speech saturday in iowa but with a few more things added into it. she s about to take the stage as we see they re introducing her now. there s 1,000 people here. bigger than the other tea party express rallies recently with romney and michele bachmann. a lot of people are not sure what she s going to say. ....
Her. she used her maiden name to register and finished second place in her age group. she is doing things out in the community in iowa in new hampshire. and we re just waiting to find out if she is in fact going to run for president. alex, we re going to keep a close eye on her speech there in new hampshire. just in case something comes out of that speech we ll stick with that. in the meantime with noncandidate sarah palin in new hampshire safely away from the rest of the group. most of the official 2012 republican contenders are hitting the same stage in south carolina finding that attacks against each other may be their new strategy. purina cat chow helps you well-being. we re all striving for it. ....
Respect the current president and he would be himself a military veteran he would be the kind of person in the white house that would really bring that message of america as a unique country in the world home. i talked to some voters afterwards, i heard a positive response from those who are there. i heard from one voter who said americans are not ready for this guy. and he said we don t need anymore texas swagger. referencing how perry s southern twang and texas roots are going to remind a lot of voters as long as he s out there at the beginning of this race remind them of george w. bush. he s got a little bit of work to do there. thank you very much traveling with rick perry and not wanting to miss out on the party in iowa, sarah palin dusted off the one nation bus tour just in time to stop by at the state fair ahead of the ames straw poll. alex mo joins us now by phone. how had a busy time following ....
tough choigss to move america forward. we ve got a willingness to play partisan games and engage in brinkmanship that not only costs us in terms of the economy now, but also is going to place a burden on future generations. the question is can we break out of that path? can we break out of that path? think about it. we just went through this debacle with the debt ceiling. an entirely self-inflicted wound. it wasn t something that was necessary. we had put forward a plan that would have stabilized our debt and our deficits for years to come. but because we ve got a politics in which some folks in congress not the folks who are here, but some in congress would rather see their opponents lose than america win we ended up creating more uncertainty and more damage to an economy that was already weak. now, we can t have patience with that kind of behavior. i know you re frustrated. and i m frustrated, too. we ve got to focus on growing this economy, putting people back to wor ....