longer the elephant in the room, governor rick perry announces he s joining the republican party for president. he may be the republican front-runner but he was not feeling the love at the iowa state fair. he got heckled and laughed at over three words he said, words he may come to regret on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com ing. oh, thank got it s friday. wait a minute. i ve got to move my stuff. good morning. happy friday to you. it s august 12th. welcome to american morning. up first, texas governor rick perry, the elephant in the room, is about to go on for 2012. perry says he s ready to toss his 10 gallon hat into the ring. we re going to have an announcement at 1:00 eastern time over in south carolina and then hop in an aircraft, come straight to new hampshire, and i hope you ll be watching your television set and listen to however you re picking it up on the internet or whatever. we ll have our announcement to give our intention
the economy is still weak. it s going to help you make ends meet, but it s also going to mean more customers for businesses. it will increase demand. it s right for the economy, and i would sign that bill today if it came to my desk. [ applause ] tell congress to get past their differences and send me a road construction bill so that companies can put tens of thousands of people to work right now building our roads and bridges and airports and seaports. i mean, think about it. america used to have the best stuff, best roads, best airports, best seaports. we re slipping behind because we re not investing in it, because of politics and gridlock. do you want to put people to work right now rebuilding america? you ve got to send that message to congress. send send a message to congress to come to an agreement on trade deals that will level the playing field and open markets to our businesses so we can sell more goods to countries around the world. yeah, we ve got a lot of ameri