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i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com he's plunging in the polls and in need of a boost. will a new plan help rick perry climb back to the top of the republican race? his rival, herman cain, is leading the pack according to a brand new poll and perry is a distant fifth with cain apparently benefitting from his 9-9-9 tax plan, perry today unveiled his own new tax plan and 20 is the magic number. he proposes a flat tax of 20% for individuals and corporations, but in a twist, perry would let people choose to pay his flat tax rate or fi...

Well. it would be smart for mitt romney and ron paul to do the same. >> thank you. eric? >> jamie, the occupy wall street protests are continuing today here in new york city. several thousand demonstrators have gathered in manhattan as they have been for the last several weeks. as you can s yesterda they marched downtown in greenwich village, washington square park, it was a peaful assembly. the protesters speaking out against what they call corporate greed and the growing gap in incomes in this country. they claim their movement has no leaders and they are making decisions by consensus. they ...

Of lawmakers are calling for more action by the u.s. even though they were saying that they were scaling back. take a listen. >> you think the u.s. should get more reengaged militarily? >> absolutely. >> as the rebels were suggesting today? >> absolutely. we have asset and capability that our nato allies and friends just don't have. i would love to see our assets back this the fight. >> that's where we start. panel, steve hayes for "weekly standard." juan williams columnist with the hill and syndicated columnist krauthammer. steve, it seems like there is a back and forth about whether the u.s....

Of lawmakers are calling for more action by the u.s. even though they were saying that they were scaling back. take a listen. >> you think the u.s. should get more reengaged militarily? >> absolutely. >> as the rebels were suggesting today? >> absolutely. we have asset and capability that our nato allies and friends just don't have. i would love to see our assets back this the fight. >> that's where we start. panel, steve hayes for "weekly standard." juan williams columnist with the hill and syndicated columnist krauthammer. steve, it seems like there is a back and forth about whether the u.s....

It is already a highly progressive system. wait you get more tax revenues, i agree with you, we need more revenues, the way to do that is grow the economy and you don't do that by increasing rates. >> christian, your thought on that very topic, should the wealthy pay, even now, a higher percentage of their income? i think the net difference, by the way is still growing between after tax income on the very rich and after-tax income on the worker bees out there, there is still a growing gap, i'm not sure they are getting screw ted top. but your view, should they pay a higher parse damage? if we ...