we re standing here with cops and firefighters whose jobs are threatened because states an communities are cutting back. this bill will keep cops on the beat and firefighters on call. so let s pass this bill so that these men and women with continue protecting our neighborhoods like they do every single day. i m standing with construction workers. we ve got roads that need work all over the country. our highways are backed up with traffic. our airports are clogged. and there are millions of unemployed construction workers who can rebuild them so let s pass this bill so road crews and diggers and pavers and workers, they can all head back to the job site. there s plenty of work to do. this job this jobs bill will help them do it. let s put them back to work. let s pass this bill, rebuilding america. and there are schools throughout the country that desperately need renovating. we cannot got an amen over there. we can t expect our kids to do their best in places that are li
first national debate and first chance millions of voters have had to get to know him. from the get-go he jumped to the top of the polls. from the beginning tonight his opponents jumped on him. here s the portion of the debate starting with former massachusetts governor mitt romney and governor perry squaring off. we created more jobs in the last three months in texas than he created in four years in massachusetts. texas is a great state. texas has zero income tax. texas has a right to work state. a republican legislature. a republican supreme court. texas has a lot of oil and gas in the ground. those are wonderful things. but governor perry doesn t believe he created those things. if he tried to say that, be like al gore saying he invented the internet. michael dukakis created jobs three times faster than you did, mitt. as a matter of fact, george bush and his predecessor creates jobs at a faster rate than you did, governor. threw out the current tax code. a 9% tax
the first gop presidential candidates debate since texas governor rick perry joined. almost from the beginning tonight his opponents jumped on him. here s a portion of the debate starting with former massachusetts governor mitt romney and governor perry squaring off. we created more jobs in the last three months in texas than he created in four years in massachusetts. texas is a great state. texas has zero income tax. texas has a right to work state. a republican legislature. a republican supreme court. texas has a lot of oil and gas in the ground. those are wonderful things. but governor perry doesn t believe that he created those things. if he tried to say that that would be like al gore saying he invented the internet. michael dukakis created jobs three times faster than you did mitt. george bush and his predecessors created faster than you did. 9% tax on personal income ant if 10% is good enough for god, 9% ought to be good enough for the federal government.
brooke, thanks very much. happening now, riveting new details, the rough draft about president obama s jobs speech. what we re learning about the plan he unveiled tomorrow night and whether he has new ideas that will sound either bold or timid. also, rick perry s first test on the presidential debate stage. he got a late ride into this race, but he s moving very quickly right now at the start of his presidential campaign. tonight, he has something, of course, to prove. plus, one of america s biggest malls prepares to be the target potentially of a terror attack. it s a valuable lesson in being ready for the worst ten years after 9/11. and get this, it costs next to nothing. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. we ll get to that in a moment. but we re just learning here at cnn that the former united states ambassador to the united nations bill richardson was scheduled to land just a little while ago in havana, cuba on a very
dealing with our debt crisis they re wrong. they re wrong. we can t afford to just do one or the other, we have to do both. president will roll out the entire job growth proposal early next month in a speech. it will probably be a combo platter of tax cuts, investments in infrastructure and long-term health for the unemployed. what will governor rick perry say today? you know you re dying to find out. he s not backing down about his treason comments about fed chair ben bernanke. he says the fed should be audited. i think we re seeing it almost weekly or even daily, scientists who are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. yes, our climates change. they ve been changing ever since the earth was formed. but i do not buy into that a group of scientists who have, in some cases, found to be manipulating this information. he s talking about those scientists in the uk who were accused of tinkeri