out for the first time about some shocking revelations that cremated remains of american war dead were simply dumped in landfills. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com it may have been the most awkward 53 seconds of the presidential campaign so far and certainly the most widely seen. texas governor rick perry s brain freeze during last night s republican presidential debate was the most viewed video on youtube in the united states earlier today. if you haven t seen it, you re about to as we look ahead to what happens to rick perry s campaign now. jim acosta is in auburn hills, michigan. the scene of perry s monumental stumble. how does he recover from this? wolf, after last night s debate and rick perry s meltdown in michigan, the candidate and his campaign seem to have a new strategy. get the voters to laugh with him and not at him. commerce, education and the what s the third one there? let s see i
i think the president is an he wants congress to pull him in which is one of the problems he has in just about everything but i don t think we should have a government shutdown. i think the government should get everything they can get and save it for the election and take it to the people a year and a half from now. john boehner is being pulled now by freshman republicans. he s probably in the toughest position. would think john boehner agrees completely you shouldn t shut it down. he s got a membership that got elected on a very extreme cut the budget, cut spendinging, cut taxes platform and some of them believe that the only way to do this is close the government. but they ll get blamed for it. it s a mistake. when we shut the government down in 1995, they said, are you going to yell at the town hall meetings? it was standing ovations. paul ryan is expected to release his 2012 budget plan today and that budget would cut nearly $6 trillion from president obama s budget over ten