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Rick perry is polling nationally at 6%. 6. that is a problem for rick perry. he is tanking. but tanking rick perry has a solution to this. rick perry appears this week to be launching his comeback plan. step one, he got himself some new establishment republican staff. a lot of bob dole for president staff, if you must know. seriously old school. step two, rick perry got himself a new herman cainesque flat tax. step three, he got himself a donald trumpesque birther platform, playing to the tin fo...

Strategy. it involves a lot less debating and a lot more one-on-one politicking. in short, his so-called texas strategy amounts to the less you know about me, the more youll like me. plus, its been a rough week for marco rubio. his political biography is heavy on his personal story. he said he was the son of cuben exiles after castro grabbed cuba. turns out, hes more accurately the son of immigrants like so many other people who came here from latin america. tonight the strategists tackle these ...

The government stepped in today to release the widow of the man releasing the exotic animals from the columbus zoo. also in ohio, a teacher was sentenced to four years in prison for having sex with five students at her home. in tunisia, the first free election ever held there. saudi arabias conservative interior minister has been named next in line to the throw after the death of the prince sultan this past weekend. game 6 is on for tonight. now back to "hardball." welcome back to "har...

ripples of relief spread from europe across the world market. a deal has been reached to tackle the e.u. financial crisis. european leaders have agreed to expand the e.u. bailout fund while private sectors will take a 50% loss on greek bonds. the european agreement translated into a huge day for u.s. stocks. lets go to alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. the closing bell just rang. how did stocks finish? we dont know the final number, but we know its very positive. >> it is. t...

they also agreed to boost the eu bailout fund to a trillion euros, details still pretty vague. theyre requiring european banks to keep more cash reserves as a cushion against losses. so why should americans care? well i mentioned stocks but that is just the start. my colleague alison kosik has a whole lot more from the new york stock exchange. first, catch us up on the markets, both here and abroad. >> okay. randi, first stocks are at some of their best levels of the session, the dow...

breakthrough for mitt romney? hes ahead of his rivals in four early voting states. we have the results of the latest cnn/time/orc poll. plus, this is sure to wake you up. bp has gotten the green tlit drill in the gulf of mexico. good morning to you. its thursday, october 27th. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." wall street investors are waking up to some encouraging news to the delight of the united states and markets around the globe. unileaders have worked out a deal to resolve th...

A lot of americans are going to lose their lives, still spending $2 billion a week. >> $2 billion a week. >> were not going to have enough to show. >> $2 billion a week to prop up karzais government when we dont have money to keep our infrastructure up? i -- believe me, i know that there are people in wyoming, in northwest florida, conservatives that say its not worth that investment anymore. >> and were borrowing $4 billion a day -- you talk about the infrastructure and the other things in the ...

Table and weve got to control them if we want to control debt. >> reporter: so its up to the supercommittee designed to find more than $1 trillion in savings over the next decade, debating changes to tax it is and entitlement programs like medicare. democrats have mostly defended against substantial changes to those spending programs, asking republicans for tax increases in exchange, and republicans maintain a pledge to refuse any tax increases, saying the problem is unsustainable spending incre...

In the debate. >>carl: well, yes. jon huntsman the former governor of utah is not coming and one of the by cotters. three candidates are debating who will not blow off the silver state and the caucus: mitt romney, rick perry, and ron paul have all said they will continue to campaign and participate in the debate and then in nevada but, however, the rest of the republican field has essentially said, no way. they are not going to take part in the nevada caucus although many of them will come to th...

Last time she saw her daughter in the crib. there were four new searches yesterday, investigators will not say if they found anything new, but there are still no suspects. richard? >> peter alexander, appreciate that. police in arizona say a 5-year-old girl missing since last tuesday was likely kidnapped. she was last seen by her three siblings at the grandmothers home. the siblings had been removed from the grandmothers care, police say they have no suspects, but if jesse just wandered off th...