race. isn t that kind of like saying vanderbilt s only one round of alabama away from being back in the race for s.e.c. championship? well, i wish this weren t it s funny because it s true. i wish this wasn t alabama/vanderbilt week. because i would make the analogy this way. charlie cook s got a great line when he says this is actually rick perry s race to win. and what he s saying is you d rather be rick perry s biography and ideology in this republican primary than mitt romney s biography and ideology in primary calendar in this primary. mitt romney can t afford many turnovers. rick perry can t afford a lot of turnovers. so it is a little bit like alabama/vanderbilt where romney s vanderbilt, though i think he s stronger than vanderbilt, no offense, willie.
force for getting others elected. i thought that s true because in 2008 she got obama elected. okay. live shot of the sun coming up over washington. a beautiful day on capitol hill. the sun has yet to come up in tuscaloosa, alabama. because it s an hour back here. just because god saves the best for last. i mean, seriously. let s go to washington, d.c., the godless town of the nation s capital. and moderator of meet the press, david gregory, who i suspect is also a crimson tide fan. sarah palin announcing she s not in the race, chris christie announcing he s not going to be in the race. rick perry collapsing in a cbs news poll. does this race now look like it s mitt romney s to lose? well, it does. but this is just a brief shining moment in time. i think rick perry is one strong debate performance away from
you know what you do in washington, d.c.? you roll him over legislatively. and that s happened in washington, d.c. for some time. we ll see if the president will do that. i will guarantee you already republicans in the senate, there are conservatives in the senate that want a jobs bill passed. and there are some legislative parts of this legislation that, again, republicans have supported in the past. and before we go to a break, i want to touch on afghanistan. you know, mitt romney s going to be making a major foreign policy speech today. it ll be interesting to see how he frames that part of his speech given comments he d made before. but pat buchanan, i think we know how we feel here at the table about where we stand in terms of our presence there. but ten years now. today. the war began ten years today. did you expect we would still be here? and do you think we still should? no. i think almost all americans were really for going in there and taking down the taliban
romney tries to take to president obama. some bold-faced names on that list as you say, john. michael hayden. michael chertoff. you have another story up about chelsea clinton, the headline the next clinton has arrived. what can you tell us? well, i covered bill clinton s white house for six of eight years, and only once during those six years did i ever hear chelsea clinton s voice. i didn t know what she is sounded like. so when she now you know 12 years later, starts to raise her voice in new york political circles as she seems to be doing, we in the media do tend to read a lot into small signals sometimes. but a lot of people took notice at how she introduced her mother at the clinton global initiative last month and that she seems to be making noises in her associations that she s more active more interested in an active public role.
you can run and lose a primary and be lined up to win next time. but you can t run and lose a general election because that s the end. if you re a republican or democrat, that s the end of your political career. i think she figured especially after everyone jumped to romney with their money. just sell books. romney is giving a big foreign policy speech, which we ll get to in a moment. but first, saying the u.s. faces a emergency. president obama made another case yesterday for passing his jobs bill. this time his pitch came in a news conference at the white house where the president highlighted what he says are the benefits of his plan. there s no doubt that the economy is weaker now than it was at the beginning of the year. and every independent economist who has looked at this question carefully believes that for us to make sure that we are taking out an insurance policy against a possible double-dip recession, it is important for us to make sure that we are boosting