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Instructors. >> money just keeps getting poured back to the athletic programs. thank you for participating in our education summit this week. nbcs second annual education summit going on all week gathering policymakers and experts to gather in conversation for the state of education in america. everybody agrees we have to do something and now agree on what to do. coming up at 1:00, andrea mitchell will speak with former colin pow bell and his wife, alma powell focused on improving the well-bei...

Governor. said he said it was a state issue. >> he weighs right on one and wrong on the other. >> well give him half right. >> the interview took place in 07 right after a debate in new hampshire and we sat down for a web interview we were doing. i said, you talked about health care and what you had done in massachusetts but i didnt hear you say anything about taking the plan national if you were president. he said, no, absolutely not. its a plan for the states. i believe states are the laborato...

>> chris: if it was in his plan i was a budget gimmick. >> this is real savings -- >> chris: you think it is real savings. to sit and say we are not going to spend money on wars that we werent going to fight any way, one trillion a third of his plan. you think thats a real choice not a gimmick? >> no, because it is establishing hard caps. >> chris: hard caps on what, a war we arent fighting? >> what the republican congressional plan was, which is embraced by either romney or perry, one is going ...

Good evening. im chris matthews from washington. leading off tonight, none of the above! first the republicans had a crush on donald trump, but that fizzled. then they swooned over michele bachmann, until she started leaking vaccines and mental retardation. next up, rick perry who excited republican hearts until he broke them with his debate flops. and all this time, mitt romney has been standing at the door with a bouquet of flowers, but the gop just doesnt want this gentleman caller. on saturd...

Mitt romney preaching electability, and ironically, a guy who rarely wins an election, and the desire of a tea party more for a strong, conservative candidate. if its perry, if they have to make the best they can out of perry, if nobody else enters the race, theyll have to try and do it. so perry has another shot here. but the underlying dynamics of the race are going to require somebody to go up against romney. >> im going to get to what i wanted to say at the end of the hoe tonight. it seems t...

With. some thgs i dont agree with. if he wants to run, get in there and do it. >> would he be a formidable candidate? >> i think he would. if you look at the republican field at the moment, eres a number that obviously dont have a chance to be -- influence the dialogue or be the nominee. there are some that do. some i know, some i dont. >> rick perry loses the straw poll in florida. romney won in michigan. do you think his candidacy is fading? >i dont know. the pundits will tell you better than ...

>> rick perry is not the best debater. he has to say, i may have the worst debate record but the best jobs record. if youre a president, youre called on to decide, not to debate. >> that is the message team perry is hoping they can get in the next few weeks but a sure sign a poor debate performance will be hard for perry to debate. its already been spoofed in the season premier of "saturday night live". >> was it was he was before border control? >> that concludes tonights debate. as a remind to...

Way -- i wont say way out ahead, buts it is certainly no to go laugh at when you see him at 28% and romney at 21%. it iso go laugh at when you see him at 28% and romney at 21%. thats not a statistical tie, not even very close. is this really that perry has fallen or is it the republican establishment never wanted him so theyre pushing all of the buttons making the right wing bloggers and media trying to force him out of the race because they never really wanted him? >> if i saw that correctly, i...

Substance and style problem. heres perry on immigration. i want to talk about immigration versus health care. >> if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than theyve been brought there, by no fault of their own, i dont think you have a heart. we need to be educating these children because they will become a drag on our society. >> conservatives would be okay if he defended his position without -- they felt as if, by him saying youre heartles...

There was resistance to nominating john mccain but they nominated him. >> there was resistance to hillary clinton and they didnt nominate her. >> thats true. rick perry has a big problem, simply this. running for president is different than running for anything else. well elect pro wrestlers governors of minnesota and body builders governor of california but the president has a different kind of test. he just hasnt seemed presidential. >> charlie, the fund-raising aspect to all this, thats what ...