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She has been sinking ever since. down to 3% in this poll. perry guy to watch. he cannot afford another debate performance like the one that, the way you were in charge. he performed poorly. romney doesn't have to do anything. he can stand back now. significantly for him he didn't gain from perry's drop or picked up one point. i think sometimes it's a two-step process. if a leader will lose ground and later get to somebody else on the bounce. that may happen to romney. >> bret: on governor perry's performance in the last debate, his wife came to his defense at an event in iowa, saying this. "he...

Out, explaining her husband's poor debate performance, let me show you what she says. >> he's never had a debate class or coach in his life that i know of. he's going to be better prepared this time. he said, bottom, when they do the debate prep, i want to be there. >> isn't that a little strange. guy comes out, tough could you boy, reminds me of when i was growing up as a kid, "rawhide" and now his wife makes excuses why he can't debate and his 20-year-old kid has to come help. doesn't that look problematic? >> i don't think it's right. it's standard to trot the wife out to try to humanize th...

Explaning and defending his lack of experience in debating. this was anita perry in iowa this morning. >> he has never had a debate class nor a debate coach in his life that i know of. he realizes the last debate. he realized that. i can look in his face. he knew that. so he's going to be better prepared this time. he's going to -- in fact our son said when they do the debate prep for the next debate i want to be there. he is best when he is down as a fighter. this is his opportunity to show up. >> wow. >> is it going to be a family affair. >> wow. that's striking that governor perry's wife wh...

in spending that we've already cut from the budget, our plan makes additional spending cuts that need to happen if we're to solve this problem. we reform agriculture subsidies. subsidies that a lot of times pay large farms for crops that they don't grow. we make modest adjustments to federal retirement programs. we reduce by tens of billions of dollars the tax money that goes to fannie mae and freddie mac. we also ask the largest financial firms, companies saved by tax dollars during financial crisis, to repay the american people for every dime that we've spent. and we save an additi...

about this for years and under the president's plan anyone making more than $1 million a year would paper the same percentage of taxes at the middle class. boy, it does not sit well with republicans. >> when you pick one area of the economy and say we're going to tax those people, because most people are not those people, that's class warfare. >> warren buffett has been honest and others i know who have haven't fortunate in life and wealthy say, for goodness sake, raise my taxes if that's going to help this economy move forward. >> brianna keilar is on the phone in washington with mo...