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Safety of my children and my grandchildren and i don't want to always have that worry. truly, i believe rick perry is the man who can keep us safe. >> part of this whole process that you have had to live through as a family is the debate process, which has been tough for every candidate. how do you encourage him afterwards? >> i think he's really done well. yes, he's made a couple of little blunders. i can't stand the key baits, i'm going to be honest with you. i'm so nervous as his wife. but i think he's really, really done really well and i think when he can articulate his message, as he's b...

Safety of my children and my grandchildren and i don't want to always have that worry. truly, i believe rick perry is the man who can keep us safe. >> part of this whole process that you have had to live through as a family is the debate process, which has been tough for every candidate. how do you encourage him afterwards? >> i think he's really done well. yes, he's made a couple of little blunders. i can't stand the key baits, i'm going to be honest with you. i'm so nervous as his wife. but i think he's really, really done really well and i think when he can articulate his message, as he's b...

>> rick, you are absolutely correct. i think this was calculated, strategic. i think his response was very articulate and compassionate. it came across that way by focuses on the family aspect of it. i think the problem for rick perry, i will part company with monica on this. the problem with rick perry was he was very inartful in his delivery to his response to basically the same issue. rick perry had fumbled throughout the whole debate process, and he really shot himself in the foot with being unable to answer what three departments he himself would eliminate. i think that was the bigger iss...

Many people were encouraging him to run. we discussed it as a family and our children are all in and, you know, our really close friends are all in. i think it was absolutely think it was the right decision and we would do it again because we believe in america. >> shannon: and you said that you feel like you are fighting for the soul of this country. what do you mean by that? >> we really do. we feel like we are at a dropping off point the abyss and we don't like the direction that our country he is going and i think that we need to get backing to our founding fathers and a the principles tha...

Campaign in. >> it's still an anchor. it was a big oops. he's doing the best he can, making light of the situation, making it humorous. but at the end of the day, it's still an albatross around his neck as to whether or not he has the horsepower to answer the deep policy questions going forward. we're in the debate process. there's four or five debates between now and super tuesday. the real onus is on governor perry to raise the intellectual level, the expectations that he still has the horsepower to go back ond forth in the debates. >> robert, as we talk about perry, he says he would start f...