He showed us he is human. knowing in the big scheme of things nobody got hurt. what is the big deal? he still has his hair. dana, you ran in to mr. perry today in the building. how was he? dana: he looked good. he did a lot of interviews. he was on megyn kelly s showed on on greta s tonight on fox news channel. what i think was impressive he got up off the mat and flooded the zone interview wise. he knew they d talk about the gaffe. he said if you are looking for debater in chief i m not the guy. i think he recover today. greg: what did you think? andrea: there is a rule in politics. if you re explaining you re losing. he tried to turn a negative to a positive but tough to come back from that.
A track record matters. people see what s happened in the last three years and hasn t worked out well. more debates to newt.org to see the sheer depth of thought i put in to more advisors put in to, designing solution for america s problems. getting us back on the right track. every week we gain ground. today we raise more money in october than we did in july, october, december combined. we re excited how it s developing. how rapidly it s accelerating. neil: another trend in this campaign, because your surge and the surge with the flat tax plan pushed by perry today. variation, but not the same league of the 9-9-9 plan by herman cain but that is the big theme.
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he s plunging in the polls and in need of a boost. will a new plan help rick perry climb back to the top of the republican race? his rival, herman cain, is leading the pack according to a brand new poll and perry is a distant fifth with cain apparently benefitting from his 9-9-9 tax plan, perry today unveiled his own new tax plan and 20 is the magic number. he proposes a flat tax of 20% for individuals and corporations, but in a twist, perry would let people choose to pay his flat tax rate or file under the current system, which he derived. the size of the current code is more than 72,000 pages. that s represented by this palate right over here and the reams of paper. that s what the current tax code looks like. the best representation of my plan is this postcard. this is is size of what we re talking about right here. taxpayers will be able to fill this out and file their taxes on that.
good evening, everyone. tonight a herman cain fund-raising video goes viral because of a shot that celebrates smoking. truth is, we think a cancer survivor like mr. cain should know better. a provocative new tax plan from rick perry. here s the form, a postcard, two sides, straightforward. and the modified tax plan would allow most americans to keep their most cherished deductions. taxes will be cut across all income groups in america, and the net benefit will be more money in americans pockets with greater investment in the private economy instead of the federal government. most days we would start right there. but break down the pros and cons of the new perry tax plan, will have to wait a moment. just as he was putting finishes touches on the bold plan on taxes and spending what he feeds to give his campaign a boost, governor perry wandered into the foolish morass of the birther debate. you chose to keep it alive in the interview with parade ? why did you do that?
Weapons myself at one of these rallies, but ultimately that didn t have an effect on the movement itself, because that was generated from within. so i don t think that republican statements about this movement are going to do anything but embolden them further. i want to shift to big news that happened at the republican conference today. rick perry was introduced by an evangelical pastor robert jeffers, one of the organizers of the big summer prayer rally. after formally endorsing perry today, he dropped this bombshell. rick perry is an evangelical christian, a good, moral perso., mormonism has always been considered a cult by the mainstream of christianity. so it s the difference between a christian and nonchristian. the spokesman responded by