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Sessions, what does he do? >> ill tell you what, we all could learn a lesson from tim tebow. you know, he lasted off. hes so convicted of what he believes and he doesnt care what other people are saying about him. that doesnt matter to him. hes firm in his beliefs and i think he stands by them. theres a lesson on how you handle criticism from him. >> no doubt. here was one of his quotes. he probably was just having fun and was excited he made a good play and had a sack. good for him. wow. i dont...

Exactly does a christmas tree offend? >> im continuing the past practice of previous governors have instituted. and calling this a holiday celebration. that goes back not only to governor ctierri but governor almond and even past him. >> dont you think you calling it a holiday tree offends more people than calling a christmas tree? >> thats a debate going on for many years. when i was in grade school, we had to say the lords prayer. this is a continuing debate about the mixing of religion and go...

About potentially running as an independent candidate, i think thats a problem. that would be malpractice for me as an rnc chairman not to believe that is an issue. >> so youre going to do something about it. >> i mean, candidates can do whatever they want, brian. we dont sanction the debates. >> you pull the press conference and i strongly urge. you can do what i want. i strongly urge you newt and rick santorum not to go. i think they would listen. >> i wouldnt recommend it. but i would also sa...

One of them is -- as you mentioned this morning, whether or not donald trump himself will be a candidate and he was also on television saying that he was leaning toward one candidate. even if he was leaning towards me, it just -- it suggests the idea of bias and i dont know that thats necessarily the right format. >> thats interesting because i had not thought of the latter part of what you just said as being possibly a conflict of interest if he actually is leaning towards one candidate. obviou...

Press, even gingrich has attacked the moderators at the fox debate. his media persona is not that strong. but you pointed out something thats much more glaring as a flaw. he does have this history. and people -- the other republican candidates, because they have not taken him seriously for the past few months, hes not been hit with the waves of opposition research that some of the other candidates have been hit with. that if the mitt romney campaign, which is run by an opposition researcher, if ...

You get an idea of how that moment is and how tough it is for the family to get reaquainted. >> absolutely. straight ahead on our telecast today, is this the best way to tell america theres a national emergency? >> ♪ you love me papparazzi ♪ >> way to go, fema. botched the broadcast. they went gaga. >> wow. >> you just heard rick perry say hes not dropping out of the race despite a gaffe last night. can he really recover? that will be up for debate next.

And weve been having them in succession. we are having a debate tonight. our next fox debate is in seiu city, iowa on december 15th. this is the time in which the winnowing process begins. megyn: who has the most to lose. weve been watching among others rick perry in each of these debates and they have not been good for his campaign. his campaign has ticked up a two notches as he has gone with ads on the airways. >> reporter: he needs to have another performance in which he steps up. the last on...

About cutting taxes, cutting spending, creating jobs, building on our best in the nation economic record here in texas, and thats really what the voters want to talk about. these political processes are interesting to some folks, but the voters in the early stage, the voters across the country want to know how are these candidates going to get jobs back on track and thats why the governor laid out his cut, balance and grow plan in south carolina, to cut those tax rates down to a flat 20 percent,...

Town hall meeting in milford. take a look at this, new hampshire poll of likely primary voters gives romney 37 percent, followed by herman cain with 12 percent and rick perry with 4 percent. bob cusack, this is the first primary, is romneys lead largely insurmountable and if so how much of an advantage does that give him in the other primary states to follow? >> well, i think it looks at least right now insurmountable but however, theres a lot of time left. remember in 2008 romney had a big lead...

All the other candidates in terms of organization, money, base, the brand of being a loser before and a bad -- losing badly before, i think it all is -- argues against that. >> bret: you have romney and palin at the top of the gallup poll this past week and then you had ron paul who was at 10% and herman cain who is next at 8%. herman cain continues to get a lot of focus in iowa and elsewhere. is his candidacy taking off in some of those conservative groups? >> i dont think theres any question. ...