that was a lifetime ago. that was a lifetime ago. but, you know, she made a big point, if she was born in iowa, this was going to be her state. this was going to be so you think she might drop out or, given her money situation? soul searching is what you i think, yes. and if you re rick perry, what justification do you have for going forward? just because you ve got money in the bank? the justification of going forward, i talked to rick perry today. he said he s the only conservative who can mount a national effort, fund-raising effort, against mitt romney. can he make that case after tonight? harder, but we ll see what happens with santorum. see how santorum performs in new hampshire. perry s not going to new hampshire. perry s going to south carolina. southern governor, conservative, a tea party message. look, he understands, he blew it in the early debates. the voters in iowa never forgave him for those gaffes. he s going to try one more time in south carol
government, to change the rules, to suck your tax money and my tax money out to subsidize their scam, which is enindebting all these students. we need to regulate ourself against our worst vice, which is the proclivity for money as opposed to serving the public interest, and the only way to do that, as you likely said in the lead-in, you re going to have to spend a lot of money to beat an initiative to get money out of politics. let s raise a $100 billion people s fund to get money out. and that way people and lobbyists are out of the game and politicians have to be more accountable to young people and all people. and the irony, and we ll pitch this to nick penman and jimmy williams when they come through. i ve said, i really think we need to raise $100 billion, because if money is speech, then if people want to speak, then we ll use their rules to change them. we ll starting a fund-raising effort on ourtime.org soon and we ll have microdonations to it. everyone should pitch in.
issue many people thought would settle. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the the situation room. president obama is going around congress for his latest plan. he is out west focusing in on the ongoing housing crisis that continues to drag down the u.s. economy. he wants it make it easier for a homeowners who are under water to refinance and he is unveiling his plan in one of hardest hit housing markets in the country. we are talking about las vegas nevada. jessica is joining us now with details. jessica, what is the president doing? he is rolling out a new plan to help homeowners drowning in massive mortgage payments who can t take advantage of the historically low interest rates because the value of their home has plummeted. that s the policy but there s politics here too. nevada, a must-win for the president in 2012. statewide home values have fallen 53% since the height of the crisis, 59% in las vegas. so that s where the president is unveiling his latest housing plan. so
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president formally announced he s running for re-election. so this is already a heavy-duty political atmosphere that this debate is part of. reporter: it is, wolf. in fact, we should note tomorrow right after the speech essentially, the president will be heading to chicago to officially launch the fund-raising effort for his 2012 re-election. so politics is certainly in the air, there s no doubt about that. but when you look at that poll number, the significance for the white house is they decided to move quickly. the president as you ve been noting, gloria has been noting, the president has not put a serious debt reduction plan out there. also our poll shows the american people are hungry for that. they think something needs to be done in washington to finally deal with it. when the white house looks at the poll number saying they have a small advantage over the republicans in terms of handling this issue, even though he didn t put a plan on the table. they know from the bully pulpi