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Trip to the border before heading back to washington where his plan to address the border crisis is far from a sure thing. for president barack obama and texas governor rick perry, the showdown was more of a sit-down. different ends of a roundtable discussion in dallas on the crisis at the border. just had a good meeting with governor perry. reporter: president later told reporters his beef is not with perry, it s with congress, who has a $4 billion request to deal with the emergency. are our folks more interested in solving of problem or more interested in politics? if they are interested in solving the problem, then this can be solved. reporter: perry was less charitable releasing a statement calling for the national guard and more drones on the border, adding the crisis has been created by bad public policy, in particular the failure to secure the border. back in washington, critics from both parties slammed the president s decision to attend fund-raisers in texas. he s vi ....
Shutdown. many of them are republicans conservative republicans that are being directly impacted and furloughed by this shutdown. when you look at this, cynthia. 1995, the showdown was a disaster. but back in 95, 56% said the shutdown was a crisis and had major problems. now it s 67%. and the results from the 95 shutdown was clinton won re-election in 96. democrats gained seats in the house in both 96 and 98. finally newt gingrich resigned as speaker after the republican losses. it was not that long ago. boehner and some of them were there, yet they seem to not get this could be worse for them. they are paralyzed. ....
absolutely. based on your information about a few oops moments that turned into something bigger. we re going to start in 1884. let s go way back to before my time. maybe a year before me. nemps, it eventually won grover cleveland the there. what happened? this was between republican james d. blaine and democratic glover cleveland. new york was a critical battleground state, the showdown state in the election. about a week prior to the election, james t. blaine appeared at a republican rally and a pastor said the republican party was the party of rum, romance and rebellion. this galvanized the democratic party to come out against james t. blaine because blaine did not disassociate himself from those remarks. of course, they associated it ....
the twists and turns. and when the candidates, particularly santorum and romney, make campaign appearances today, they might be sporting just a few bruises from last night s debate in arizona. romney and santorum ripped into each other from the very start last night with attacks over health care, also federal bailouts. one of the showdown s big flash points last night was a clash over the growth of government spending. defense spending will not be cut under my administration. but we will go after all the means testing entitlement programs. medicaid, food stamps. all of those programs. and do what we did with welfare. senator, during your term in congress, the years you ve been there, government has doubled in size. maybe the best line of the night was ron paul s accusing santorum of being a fake conservative for supporting federal programs he now says he wants to repeal. voters in arizona and michigan go to the polls on tuesday, and ten state contests are held a week later ....
Because the president s environmental and energy plan was going to make fossil fuels and other traditional efficient source of electricity not cost effective and make solar panels more desirable. the company crashed in august long after the republicans had taken over in the house and any hope for that legislation was gone. were actions taken with the loan made after there was no hope for this alternate plan the white house was pushing? megyn: the showdown takes a legal turn as subpoenas are about to go out. chris stirewalt, thank you. big news from the campaign trail. a brand-new national rasmussen reports poll putting herman cain at the top of the leaderboard with 26 per. this was just taken yesterday. that s ahead of mitt romney 23 per and way out in front of the rest of the gop pack. ....