seeking the oval office in 2012. i want to tell you who voters are choosing from right now. texas congressman ron paul, businessman herman cain, michele bachmann, former pennsylvania senator rick santorum, michigan senator mish mcconnell, mitt romney, former house speaker newt gingrich, former utah governor john huntsman and former minnesota governor tim pawlenty. that is definitely a maouthful, it's not a caucus. it paid to have people bussed in just to vote. it's not very scientific, but the straw poll can make or break a candidate. and many of them made their final pitch to the crowd. listen. >> you have an opportunity here today to send a message that iowa doesn't want what new york and washington and the rest of the elite media want. >> the home work is done much better without the federal government down on our backs and in our wallets. it's time we restored freedom to america. >> we know what america needs, but unfortunately, barack obama has absolutely no clue. he is like a manure spreader in a windstorm. >> all that we need to do to take the country back in 2012 is right here in this room, in ames, iowa, we are going to do it together. >> we are america, we are the greatest nation in the world. and we don't have to apologize for it either. >> so some candidates are taking the straw poll very seriously, others like mitt romney and john hun huntsman, they aren't even in the state, and texas governor rick perry stealing the thunder by announcing his own candidacy just as the straw poll gets underway. perry this evening is traveling to new hampshire where cnn's senior political editor mark preston is standing by for us. i want to go to jim acosta, he's standing by for us in south carolina, where perry made his announcement today. jim, did he kind of steal some of the thunder today? >> john, you know, you have heard a lot of folks say today that you're in the center of the political universe, but there were some republicans here in charleston, south carolina today who might say you were missing the lone star in that constellation, governor rick perry who announced he is running for president today and he gave a speech that is pure tea party, blaming mr. obama for the recent downgrade of the u.s. credit rating. take a listen. >> get america working again and that's why with the support of my family and unwavering belief in the goodness of america, i declare to you today as a candidate for president of the united states. for three years, president obama has been downgrading american jobs. he's been downgrading our position in the world. he's been downgrading our confidence and downgrading the hope for a better future for our children. >> reporter: so there you heard rick perry there, really going after the president and, you know, don, he has his work cut out for him. i mean he made a strong speech today, there were conservatives coming out of the speech saying, hey, wait a minute, this is the speech that conservatives have been waiting for. they see rick perry as the guy who could be more conservative than mitt romney and more electable than michele bachmann, but it recall remains to be seen. rick perry while he is the longest serving governor in texas history has not been tested on the national stage, that process begins right now. he is headed as you said to new hampshire to talk to republicans later this evening. he will then go to iowa whereby the way, he'll be talking to voters in the very same spot that michele bachmann was announcing her campaign at just a few short weeks ago, so rick perry is prepared to throw some elbows in this race. we'll see whether or not he can take those punches when they come in his direction as well, don. >> i want you to take a listen to some of rick perry's supporters in the room today, then i have a question for you. >> reporter: sure. >> so tell me about the people in the room today, the supporters, they seemed to be pretty rauk cuss, do you get the feeling that perry is the candidate gop voters have been waiting for? >> reporter: i think a lot of republican voters have been waiting for rick perry, this event was held at the red state conference put on by our very own eric erickson, but they could have called this the red meat conference because rick perry was dishing out the red meat and the conservatives in this crowd were eating it up. there really were some -- electable tea party conservative and that is if you listen to a lot of people hat that this cone what rick perry brings to the show. >> governor perry is leading one early primary for another state, we're talking about new hampshire. mark, what is perry up to in new hampshire? >> well, you know, don, this is his first introduction here in the granite state, just about an hour or so, right behind me, he's going to address 100, 150 people. you can tell that the campaign operation is very sharp, it's put together very, very tightly. tomorrow he will have two events before jetting off to iowa perhaps to heal some of the words by not going to the straw poll. but how serious is rick perry about running for president? he's going down to south carolina but we expect him back later in the week. we're told by his advisors that he has a full packed scheduled. he could be that tea mattparty conservative that could win the nomination. >> there is still one republican name looming large in iowa and she's not even in the race right now, we're talking of course about sarah palin who paid a visit to iowa, but insisted she wasn't there to take any attention away from her fellow republicans who have already declared. here's what she told me yesterday. >> i don't think i'm stealing any spotlight, in fact i'm saying go find the other folks and say hello. i'm very pleased to have been invited to the state. >> cnn reporter kate ham by, she's saying she's not taking any spot light. what's the theme of her being here? why is she so visible. >> this is vintage sarah palin, she knows how to grab attention. you saw in the last bus tour, she showed up on the same day mitt romney announced his presidential campaign. she says she's not here to steal the spotlight but she knows the media complex is here in iowa and the television cameras will be here with her. she told both of us yesterday that she's still contemplating a presidential bid but now september is the deadline. as you said just now, she's the one unanswered question about this race which is finally beginning to take place. >> she's still contemplating, she didn't say she will announce in september, she's still contemplating. >> she'll be back here over labor day and give a speech to a tea party event over in des moines. she said by then she won't be a candidate, so she won't be in the race by labor day, but she will be by the end of september. she knows that she's got to jump in the race, smart political people here in iowa will tell you it's time to jump into the race. rick perry will sap a lot of the support that she appeals to, tea party people. we shall see, but she is seriously contemplating it. i put the odds at 50/50 that she still could get in the race. >> 50/50, that's pretty safe, pete hamby. >> a lot of people think she will not run, but that's not the case. >> i think it's better to be the king maker than it is to be the king and maybe she'll come back when there's even more supporters behind her. but if you want to know where sarah palin is, all you have to do is look for the crowds and the cameras and where the media is and that's where sarah palin is. >> and tim pawlenty, whose campaign is on the line here in ames, walked around the state fair today largely unnoticed. and sarah palin shows up and the media just swarms her for more than an hour. more coverage of the iowa straw poll, results as soon as we get them and be sure to join me, and state of the union host candy crowley, the iowa straw poll results, that's at 7:00 p.m. eastern. regardless of when they come this, we're going to bring it to you right here on cnn. still ahead at this hour, candy crowley joins me live to break down the speeches today from the candidates and how rick perry's entry into the race for president could be a game changer for the gop. also it's a story that we have been following for you. a woman arrested while videotaping a police incident in her own yard. coming up, we're breaking this news down in this case for you, the mayor, a city councilman and the police union representative joins us live here. many of you are asking for information on social media, you can get information on twitter.com/donlemon. now in a delightful foam. just three shakes, foam it, love it! it's foamtastic! new nice 'n easy colorblend foam. your right color. oh, we call it the bundler. let's say you need home and auto insurance. you give us your information once, online... 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you've got to take it very here seriously if someone is getting anti-social or if someone is showing signs of depression or anxiety or even joking about violence or murder. these are all clear signs that trouble is coming. so the red signs i think were there, don. >> i want to go to a "new york times" report about an 83-year-old grandmother, her name is marie colsted. she just reeved breast implants, when you're in your 80s, isn't any surgery a serious risk here. do you see anything wrong here that this kind of vanity is a much deeper level. i think when you're 83, you can pretty much do anything you want. i'm a little bit biassed here, doctor. >> i called dr. dean orderen oobd he says he's operated on women in their 80s before and given them implants and his position is when you're in your 80s, you can do whatever you want with your body as long as you're healthy. so they do check to make sure their heart is healthy enough to undergo anesthetic of course. but i'm sorry to say the grandfather heroin addict and little miss sunshine. if you lived that long, can't you keep everyone else out of your body and do whatever you want at that point. >> agreed. let's go to the story of 10-year-old taline blondo. some french vogue, wendy, what are your concerns for a child and what are your concerns for young people seeing these photos of her like this. it kind of reminds me, remember brooke shields back in the '70s and 80s in these very adult looking photographs and even in movies while she was growing up? >> fortunately for brooke, she's a highly intelligent woman and she was 14, this is 10. and all of it is disturbing to me as a mother of girls. i think this is sexualizing a young girl and it is sort of fostering pedophilia in our culture. we get upset when these private and public people are found with child porn on their computers, we talked about that last week, don. and now we're just basically putting a version of child porn out in mean stream media and on newsstands, it just bewilders me. >> coming up, the story that shows just how much power police can have. remember this video of a woman arrested after she was video taping police in rochester, new york, now one city councilman says officers are out of control, the man in charge of the people who keep streets safe is responding live on the other side of this break. the race oe you never ran. the trip around the world you never took. the best-selling novel you never wrote. but there's one opportunity that's too good to miss. the lexus golden opportunity sales event, with exceptional values on the lexus es. but only until september 6th. see your lexus dealer. handle more than 165 billion letters and packages a year. that's about 34 million pounds of mail every day. ever wonder what this costs you as a taxpayer? 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>> i basically talked about my experience of being on a council in eight years, the types of calls i have received from constituents complaining about the level of service that we were providing as it relates to our police force and they felt as if, you know, there's been a disconnect between our relationship with them and our