even thinking about that. >> jack hanna talking about what he says is the saddest day of his life. hear more from him later tonight about those animals, the animals that never should have been kept where they were and whose lives never had had to end the way they did. you will hear as well from the local sheriff whose deputies became reluctant hunters in the name of public safety. er are live on the scene later this evening. we begin however tonight keeping them honest, holding the people who want to be president to their word. >> you wouldn't hear a lot of shape-shifting nuance from me. i'm gonna gift american people a huge big old helping of unbridled truth. >> texas governor rick perry today promising to be a truth term, suggesting his gop rivals are not. keeping them honest, last night, a number of incorrect statements made at the republican debate. let's look at some of the statements made and how they fit the facts. >> over the last several years, 40%, almost half jobs created in texas, were created for illegal aliens, illegal immigrants. >> that is an absolute falsehood on its face, mitt. >> you have 30 second, governor perry. >> that is absolutely incorrect, sir. >> take a look at the study. >> there's been a third party take a look at that study and is absolutely incorrect. >> well, the study in question was upon don by the center for immigration studies, a third party did question how cis got into 40% figure. what's more, even the cis -- even cis admits that looking differently at its to own data could give a much lower percentage. here is governor perry on mitt romney's job creation record. >> mitt, while you were the governor of massachusetts, in that period of time, you were 47th in the nation in job creation. during that same period of time, we created 20 times more jobs, as a matter of fact, you created 40,000 jobs total in your four years. last two months, we created more jobs than that in texas. >> in fact, texas has created more jobs than massachusetts but that's largely because the state so much bigger around the population grown so much faster. according to figures from the labor department and dallas federal reserve bank, governor perry is wrong about that last part the last months. the fed numbers are 3,000 short. the lane department's are about 20,000 fewer. governor romney is flat-out wrong about this. americans are hurting across this country and the president's out there campaigning. why isn't he governing? he doesn't understand -- he doesn't have a jobs plan, even now. >> keeping him honest, you can say that president obama is in campaign mode, traveling the swing states around the country. you can't deny what he is thought campaigning for. >> last month, i sent congress a piece of legislation called the american jobs act. don't just applaud about it. vote for it. vote for it. i want you to send a message to congress that this is important. let them know -- and this shut bill that congress needs to pass. you should pass right away. you should pass it right away. pass this jobs bill now. pass this had bill. we need to pass this bill. and everybody will be better off if we pass it. pass the jobs bill. they should pass it right away. i'm ready to sign a bit. i have got the pens all ready. >> president obama campaigning for the jobs plan that mitt romney says the president doesn't have. other candidates layed into governor romney for the health care reform he instituted in massachusetts. >> blown a hole in the budget up there and authored in obama care which is going to blow a hole in the budget of this country. >> actually that is not true a recent report in the new england journal of medicine shows employers, government and individuals, pay approximately the samele proportion of health coverage costs after reform as they did before the law went into effect. the other hand, fact check.org found the governor went too far when he said the government insurance didn't play a role in his plan. some of the newly insured did qualify for state-provided medicaid. others, as mr. romney said, either got state help in buying private insurance or paid for it all themselves. governor romney fired back and said rick santorum over the t.a.r.p. bank bailout program which president bush created and president obama continued. >> the problem is, in the first place, several people up here, the "business people" support the t.a.r.p., support the bailout. >> at issue, a letter, sent as congress was debating t.a.r.p. from the chairman of the democratic and republican governors associations joe manchin and rick per tricksed reads, and i quote, as leaders of of our respective organizations we don't always see eye to eye on policy but we come together today with one clear purpose. we strongly urge congress to leave partisanship at the door and pass an economic recovery package." the same day, governor perry issued this statement, going a free market economy, government should not be in the business of using taxpayer dollars to bail out corporate america." governor perry was for congress doing something when the only thing they were considering was t.a.r.p. the governor was on record opposing that same one thing congress was considering. keeping them honest, cnn and other nonpartisan fact checks found problems with herman cain's claim that mild and working class people would not pay more under the 9-9-9 plan. and another false claim, rom any saying perry was al gore's campaign chairman in 1988. perly had no leadership role in the campaign. finally, keeping them honest, the moderator, me. congressman bachmann, you said at the last debate that everyone should pay something. does that mean that would you raise taxes on the 47% of americans who currently don't pay taxes? i said it during the debate and the discussion afterward, i was plat gnat-out wrong what i knew and meant to say was 40% of americans do not pay federal income tax. they do pay plenty of other state, local and federal taxes including federal payroll taxes, gasoline tax, on and on and on the i made a mistake last night and i apologize. no corrections or apologize needed for the panel, erick erickson of redstate.com joins us, gloria borger and james carville. james, i didn't.talk to you last night. what do you say about last night? >> when newt gingrich makes more sense than everybody else put together, you probably got a problem. the truth of the matter is, any people up there being a chance of nominee that is perry and romney, to text that accident, maybe per ski help. >> you think herman cain, surging in the polls. no chance -- i can say that because i'm a contributor, you can't, you are an anchor no chance of being a republican nominee? >> you are saying that -- >> no chance. just no chance. >> no chance. i wish he works but he doesn't have a chance. >> you made your point there erick erickson, i didn't talk to you last night, i read a lot of your tweets, you liked what you saw in governor perry, or at least that he came to basically came moder bear on stage. >> where is this guy been? they said they wanted to get him off script, could you see there were a couple of times he had scripted answers, like his response on the reverend jefferies matter and flubbed the script. he went off script, did he well. i think he bought him safe lifeline last night. look, mitt romney is captain, the clear politics average, average the polls together, never gotten above 25%, voters asking for an alternative and the pounding that he got from santorum and gingrich and perry, he went off script several times, including that one moment yes said that he called the lawn service company and said i can't have illegals for pete's sakes, i'm running for office that buys right into the far this vattive so many conservatives have of him, he is just there to run for office. >> anderson, when you think about it rick perry is doing the same thing that barack obama is doing on mitt romney, trying to remind people why they didn't like mitt romney, why they didn't nominate him last time around and that is exactly what barack obama is doing sornlgts in raising the lawn company issue with illegal immigrants, he is raising that issue again, just to remind people that you know what you think i have problems on immigration policy, well, he is not totally clear on it either. so, i think you're going to see him continue to go back to a lot of the 2008 scenarios that mitt romney doesn't want to go back to >> seems david axelrod, the obama team focusing on mitt romney. way to the to go? >> makes sense. lodge clirks he has got beat a favorite, you know what the republicans just don't want to vote for him and if perry can do anything this guy is a bad candidate they can't put perry on fox, how thank is how bad he is. >> why do you say's bad candidate? >> he can't give a speech, can't.debate, didn't county do an interview, can't do an ed board, he can't do anything them can't put him in a situation where somebody might ask him a question. at some point, he is going to have to do that. >> that is the problem with getting in late. when you are a candidate who has actually run one time before or to you get in early, you kind of learn on the -- on the job. rick perry doesn't have enough time to do that. >> how has he got than far if he is so bad? >> he went to -- he can raise money, okay? and he was the governor of texas, went to 30% now, he is at 9%. i mean, maybe he will come back, maybe he will get better, grow, some incremental -- at least last night, he went in with a purpose. it was to hit romney and obviously, that was successful and everybody jumped in and helped had him. but they -- it was kind of odd that he still -- he doesn't have a thought out sort of way that he can do things. he is not very good on his feet. he gave a terrible speech to the values summit voters. you know, and just amazing how of the skills that people are supposed to have how few of them that he possesses. >> eric, do you agree? >> no, i don't really. i see where james is going with. this he is not good in the debates, he hasn't been great on the stump, hasn't found his footing yet, part of the problem with getting in late. this is a man elected governor of texas more than anybody, he has been in politics since 1992. you can't -- even in texas, going back to 1992, you can't get as far as he's gotten and be a horrible politician but he cross is to grow on the campaign trail and last night, i think we are probably seeing a pulse of that growing. >> look at -- >> i'm sorry, go ahead, gloria. >> it is a whole different issue set though. you're governor of texas, these one thing this is a completely different issue set. mitt romney is a very, very tough opponent here. republicans are divided, not quite sure who they want so it is a whole different sort of audition that you've got going. it is a completely different arena. >> if rick perry is going for a flat tax, seems the indication is he is, will that take away some of had herman cain's thunder on 9-9-9? >> very well could. already seeing steve forbes come out, full disclosure, i have gotten hints of the plan myself and looks to be a very compelling plan he is going to trot out. i think people will get it in the sense that it's looking at the income tax. like newt gingrich said last night in the debate, he applauded herman for his plan but said we probably need to build any reform on the existing foundation which is the way perry is going, so we are not going to have this debate on a national sales tax under the plan t will completely refocus debate on perry. but to james' points, he is going to have to be ready for the questions of his plan. >> i think it is smart politics for him to do this but he has been -- this guy is -- like the world series on tonight, a .350 hitter in aaa that has got smoked by every curve ball he has seen. kent do anything. mabel he will get his footing and maybe he will -- there is a reservoir of skill somewhere, a little energy plan, add little bit of a debate, he has got his flat tax thing coming out and got to go out and sell it, defend it, because believe you me, distribution table is going to come out, that's going to come out, he has to think on his feet. >> anderson, i have to say i'm disappointed that james used a baseball analogy, like tennessee playing lsu. >> when this flat tax comes out, people are going to say are you going to eliminate my home mortgage deduction? you know, he is going to -- he is going to be besieged with questions about a flat tax, just like steve forbes was when he ran. >> got a couple weeks before the next debate. so -- gloria borger, erick erickson, james carville, thank you very much, appreciate t poll me on twitter at anderson cooper. shock in ohio, menagerie of wild animals let loose from a farm by a guy who then killed himself, talking bears, lions, wolves, tigers, most animal nous dead in what a sheriff calls senseless killings and a closer look at how and why that happened. i will be talking with that sheriff and jack hanna in a live report from the scene. the michael jackson death trial, jurors in the conrad murray trial seeing dramatic video the defense calls terrifying and inflammatory. what it showed coming up. first, check in with isha. isha? >> tear gas and anger in the streets of athens, we will tell you what has demonstrate source fired up. that and more when "360" top. i've got to tell susie ! the vending machine on elm is almost empty. i'm on it, boss. new pony ? 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[ male announcer ] introducing the reinvented 2012 toyota camry. >> tear gas and anger in the it? ♪ well, the terror is now over in rural ohio but the sadness, the shock and outrage is just sinking in. dozens of dangerous animals and endangered species cut loose by their suicidal owner, a man named terry thompson. 56 animals in all were roaming the rural country side. this is how they ended up. if you love and respect animals, this is heartbreaking. lions, bears, grizzlies, tigers, hunted down and killed in the name of public safety. shot down. one animal, a monkey, may be unaccounted for. although, as you hear tonight, it may have already died. there's so many questions. why did so many have to be killed? why would any private citizen keep such a collection? why was he allowed to do it at all? in a moment, you'll hear from the sheriff that was involved in the case and jack hanna who arrived on the scene. the latest from zanesville, ohio. first of all, you spoke with someone who got within feet of a bengal tiger? >> reporter: yes. it was really sad. that's the way the director of wildlife at the columbus zoo described it this morning. it was one of the last animals that was actually out on the loose, a bengal tiger. there's been so much debate going back and forth whether you tranquilize these animals or whether you take them down. she had a perfect example. she came within feet of the bengal tiger and actually tried to tranquilize it, hoping that it would take the drugs and roll over. unfortunately what happened, anderson, the case, as with so many animals, the dart went into the animal, the animal reacted and then lunged at her and sheriff deputies had no choice to take the animal down. a lot of people think it's like in a movie, you shoot it with a dart and it immediately collapses. but with a wild animal, depending on its size and weight, it could take a while for that drug to take effect and that's just one of the things that folks out here had to deal with trying to deal with the animals on the loose. >> you listened to some of the 911 calls. what can you tell us about it? >> reporter: yes. 911 calls started happening around 5:30 last night. people calling in saying, i see a lion on my property, i see a bear, i see a wolf on my property. the official were familiar with terri thompson. the sheriff deputies knew exactly where to go. take a listen. >> 911, what is your emergency? >> that's a lion right out in front of me and was standing there under the street light. >> we just saw the a lion that is missing. >> you saw it on mount prairie road? >> yeah. >> about how far off of 40? >> about half a mile. it was going west. >> it's going west? >> it was heading west in a hurry. yep. >> all right. we'll get somebody out in that area. if you see it again, don't approach it, okay? >> i'm far from there. i was driving. >> reporter: and obviously, anderson, that lion had to be taken down a short time later. the big question now for investigators is why terry thompson, a man by all accounts from everyone i spoke to, loved these animals, why he set them free and opened the cages and then took his own life. >> a short time ago, i spoke with sheriff lutz. mr. lutz, what's the status of the animals? >> right now, we believe we have one animal unaccounted for. that animal could be missing or could have perished in one of these incidents with the lion eating it. >> that's the monkey you're talking about? >> yes, the monkey. >> so there was also a wolf earlier today on the loose. was that wolf put down? >> yes. it was actually shot last night. with everything going on here -- it had crossed a road from the property that it came from. deputy mary was able to shoot that wolf last night. however, we just did not recover it in time to include it in the count. >> do you know how many animals total were killed? >> we had a total of 56 animals. we have one missing, which took us down to 55. we had six that were transported to the columbus zoo and we had 49 that were killed and buried today. >> obviously, there are people who are going to question, could darts have been used, could tranquilizers have been used? it seems to me, you didn't have much time. i mean, your deputies, obviously, aren't normally carrying around animal tranquilizers. >> we don't carry tranquilizers in our cruisers. if this had been a 9:00 or 10:00 incident in the middle of the day, odds are high that we may have been able to surround the area and keep everything contained, but our biggest problem we had in this whole thing was nightfall. we had about an hour, hour and a half of good light. we had several animals roaming free on this property going into darkness and we just couldn't take this chance. >> what do you know about this guy, terry thompson? i understand he was well known -- i don't know to you personally or to law enforcement in the region who had visited him before. >> yeah, i'm very familiar with terry. i was very familiar with him personally. we've been to his had house on numerous occasions on investigations. terry has done some local jail time in our jail for animal violations. and we knew of him and his situation. >> so authorities had been out and checked the permits and monitored the situation? >> yes. the moderation of this complex, he was not using it for an attraction to show