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but what s going to prevent terrorists from buying and using them? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he entered the race at the top of the polls, but rick perry has been watching his numbers slide and slide. his momentum rather slow. now, with a closely watched speech, the texas governor is trying to reverse his declining campaign fortunes. jim acosta is joining us now. he delivered what his campaign described as a major speech today. that s right. the speech was called the energizing american jobs and security speech, wolf, but it was also designed to energize his campaign. looking to jump-start a campaign that s been stalled for weeks, rick perry laid out a texas-sized energy plan that the governor claims will create more than a million jobs. america s the saudi arabia of code. if elected president, perry says he ll push for new coal mining, oil exploration. perry would even expand production to the gulf of m ....
today, who or what will move the u.s. economy out of its stall? we begin with jim demint and jim hoffa. and as we near the anniversary of 9/11, mike rogers and senate homeland security chairman joe lieberman and all things political with peter baker of the new york times and mike duffy of time magazine. i m candy crawley, and this is state of the union. first, president obama is going to unveil his new jobs plan on thursday, and it s a critical speech with the disappointing jobs numbers we saw come out a few days ago, and we see who could benefit right away. he is not always a republican establishment favorite but holds sway in the tea party and the tea party may hold sway in the primaries. his event will be well attend and closely watched. he is joining me from clemson, south carolina. thank you so much for taking time out. i want to start off talking about jobs. and what is in the jobs plan and what cannot be in it? i spent the month of august visiting busines ....
today, who or what will move the u.s. economy out of its stall. we begin with tea party patron, jim demint, and then mr. hoffa. and we have homeland security chairman, joe lieberman. and all things political with peter baker of the new york times and mike duffy with time magazine. i am candy crowley, and this is state of the union. the nation s capital and campaign trail will be a wash in jobs plans and presidential politics this year. the president s big unveil is on thursday, and republicans that want his job have ample opportunity to vie for it. dau mint holds twa in the tea party, and the tea party may hold considerable sway in the republican party. senator, thank you so much for taking time. i wanted to start off talking about jobs. what you think has to be in a presidential jobs plan that you will hear about on thursday night and what cannot be in it. well, candy, i have spent the month of august visiting a lot of businesses, and manufacturing plants. i ....
it s a probably that s never been wassed by a quake in this country until now. first responders may be getting reasons. stand by for dr. sanjay gupta and details of a new medical study. i m westbound westboun i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. how did their political leaders do big things like reduce the debt if they butt heads over a scheduling speech. we re learning more about the duty-up over the president s make-or-break jobs speech this week, and how the date was finally set. athena jones is covering the story for us. now, actually scheduling that speech has turned out to be the hard part. what the american people expect the president to do, what they expect their senators, congress men and women to do is listen to them and take action. they do not give a lick about what day next week the president speaks before congress. reporter: the great date debate came to the first public view through a tweet. at around noon on wednesday, the told hi twit ....
and in part because of the president s travels to the midwest and in part because of the new energy that texas governor rick perry is adding to the republican race. wednesday governor perry visited new hampshire, and while it s clear he s the flavor of the moment in presidential politics, the more he speaks, the more people, including many republicans, ask this question by so aggressively appealing to the republican base, is governor perry undermining his appeal as a general election candidate? this comment in new hampshire questioning man s role in global warming is new fodder tonight for the perry electability debate. i think that there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling in to their projects. and i think we re seeing it almost weekly or even daily scientists who are coming forward and questioning the original idea that manmade global warming is what is causing the climate to change. here s anot ....