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>> thats right. 9-9-9. its interesting. he was, and we also know he was the head of godfathers pizza but he understands the value of marketing. he was speaking in iowa recently and he said let he tell you about the economic plan and he said nine, and the crowd said the other two nines. they may not know exactly what it means but they know it. but if you said what is perrys economic plan or perrys, they wouldnt know it. theres controversy whether it would bring in as much money as the current sal...

Hes fundamentally failed us. anyone who is going to expand this group and brings a little savvy on the subject i think is a net plus. >> greta: scholz garten. >> is here in iowa not in the race yet. congresswoman bachmann is she stealing your thunder? >> i like sarah palin a lot. we are very good friends. i think theres room in the race for governor perry, sarah palin and bret you too. >> bret: speaker gingrich. >> mayor giuliani has every right to run. governor perry has a great record of job c...

Book out now, its called on the tea party titled "mad as hell" due out next month. scott has not taken part in that. more on that story later. first off, doug, who was right? >> i think its pretty obvious -- >> you were right. >> scott and i were. pat and i wrote a number of articles saying health care would be a disaster. beneson said health care would be a net plus. its 60% want repeal. 30% want to keep it. we said the agenda was a failure. its proving to be a failure. i think were pretty clea...

Gonzalez weighing in on whether to repeal element of the 14th amendment that automatically grand citizenship to anyone born in america, even to the mother of an illegal alien. will they be driving forces in mid-term elections? probably not. because as your previous guest just discussed, republican and democrats i talked to agree the economy will be the central focus. but these other issues have gained prominence. shannon: do the republicans see that as a potential advantage for them? >> reporter...

The polls are tanking, particularly among hispanics and african-americans. >> theyre not tanking. no evidence its tanking anywhere in the country. >> to 2004 levels. >> read charlie cooks report yesterday who said the trend line is swinging back toward the democrats for the first time in the entire cycle. >> i hope you hold on to that. >> read your own fox polls and look at the -- >> theyre not fox polls. look at real clear politics. >> all right. all right. >> 4-point net plus. >> you keep thin...

Are certainly major focus of everybodys attention right now. well sort of wait and see how that turn out. for me it is a decision as to, you know whether i can be a net plus to the party in stepping forward and saying the things i have to say. and stand up for the things i fought for. >> greta: often times people who are thinking of running, theres a burning issue something that bugs them makes them step forward. anything that got you a little bit that you would like to fix? >> it is such a targ...

Are certainly major focus of everybodys attention right now. well sort of wait and see how that turn out. for me it is a decision as to, you know whether i can be a net plus to the party in stepping forward and saying the things i have to say. and stand up for the things i fought for. >> greta: often times people who are thinking of running, theres a burning issue something that bugs them makes them step forward. anything that got you a little bit that you would like to fix? >> it is such a targ...

The bill and that it wont matter much. >> and talk about reform as well? >> well, it seemed the democrats after financial reform were going to deal with energy and now suddenly they are talking about immigration and it does seem -- pardon me for being a little cynical in this but it is less that they really feel they can get something done and more that they think gee, we would like to energize those hispanic voters and it will be a net plus to us politically. senator mcconnell had a great comeb...

>> ill take the first part first, which i think the deficit is going to be considerably smaller in fiscal 2010 than most people realize. if you go back to fiscal nine, we had federal tax receipts fall about 30%. thats not going to happen this year. as was reported in the march numbers, there was a $129 billion reduction in the deficit thanks to rising tax receipts and falling spending because the bailouts being paid off. right now, the price tag is only $89 billion. the fed may earn that back th...

Numbers 45,000 in the health and education sector. leisure and hospitality, 22,000, manufacturing showing some steady but shallow gains, 17,000. construction 15,000. also retail added 15,000 jobs. thats not on the board but that happened as well. what were beginning to see and the president talked about this is not just one or two sectors but many, many sectors adding some jobs on a monthly bases. >> shepard: break down the report, the best news and the worst news. >> the best news is private se...