i ve got you, but he s not going to last. the attacks, when they start looking at his record as senator i understand. but we didn t expect him to be where he is tonight. so we can make assumptions, but you still have to play this in terms of long ball. when you talk about how the obama white house sees these numbers, as a tea party activist, how do you see this divided field now? it s incredibly frustrating. you see a strategy in play here, you see some really good conservative candidates, and it s almost as if you have four or five candidates who are constantly campaigning against romney and what many perceive to be the gop establishment. we had the little dustup going on with virginia and ballot access and that was incredibly frustrating. now you have lawsuits going on on behalf of perry. others are joining in. so it s frustrating as a grassroots activist when you see candidates who embody everything that you have protested against for the past three years up in the t
that was a lifetime ago. that was a lifetime ago. but, you know, she made a big point, if she was born in iowa, this was going to be her state. this was going to be so you think she might drop out or, given her money situation? soul searching is what you i think, yes. and if you re rick perry, what justification do you have for going forward? just because you ve got money in the bank? the justification of going forward, i talked to rick perry today. he said he s the only conservative who can mount a national effort, fund-raising effort, against mitt romney. can he make that case after tonight? harder, but we ll see what happens with santorum. see how santorum performs in new hampshire. perry s not going to new hampshire. perry s going to south carolina. southern governor, conservative, a tea party message. look, he understands, he blew it in the early debates. the voters in iowa never forgave him for those gaffes. he s going to try one more time in south carol
the bells ring, let s go out front. hello, everyone. out front live in las vegas. feels good to say that. we re just an hour away. we have seven republican candidates squaring off for their party s nomination to challenge president barack obama next november. herman cain surging in the polls to defend his front of runner status. rick perry could be dropping and that could be the comeback story of the night and mitt romney, slow, but steady. in a poll released this morning and lagging behind cain in likability, can he pull more gop voters to the side? we have a lot lined up for you. we want to begin with two of our special guests, john avalon, senior economist for news week and the daily beast, cnn chief political analyst and all of this action was buzzing around as the show began. a lot of people over there. the motorcycles came. that s right. they ve got a lot to prove, gloria. sure is. and i think this will be a transition thing because we re going to see if r
to intimidate their own local party organizers? it s feign me a while to figure it out, but the bottom line is they want to .raise money and contact lists are an avenue to raise money. when they want top raise money, they want to raise money for tea party patriots corporate, not for tea party patriot local organizers and grassroots activists. when we did this tory a couple of days ook on the program, we saw about 07% to 75% of the money being raised by local tea party people by yourself wind up going to the media companies who are running those campaigns. does that rub you the wrong way? that s a little bit of a misstatement there, cenk. trust me, i m a grassroots activist and any fundraising we do is done by selling tee shirts. tea party corporate that s
talking to people at diners and meeting with g osm p leadership in the state, attending a gop fund-raiser and meeting with other grassroots activist, so he s walking the walk in a sense in the first primary state of new hampshire. martha. martha: he said we ll all be surprised when he makes his announcement, so we ll see. molly, thank you very much. molly line in portssmith. as we said earlier, the white house released president obama s long form birth certificate today. you can take a look at it and get the latest on this. there it is, on the big controversy. you can check it out and get a closer look at it on foxnews.com. that is up on the front page right now. all right. back to the extreme weather that has been gripping parts of our nation, at least seven people killed today in violent storms, pounding the south and the midwest, a tornado outbreak leaving trails of destruction in arkansas, severe flooding in missouri alone, threatening more than 1000 homes right now in missouri