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Likes to talk about job crazy in texas, the unemployment rate is higher there now than in two decades. texas is one of only a accident states where the unemployment rate has gone up since the end of the recession. when it comes to perry and romney talking about how bad the records are, let s see how that rates. they are both honest abe, both telling the truth about each other s jobs records. they both make honest abe by their race to the bottom, on who did the worst at creating jobs. that s not going to do well. i think richard would probably agree on this, but i think it s one of the two times where we ll call mitt romney honest abe in this. rick santorum was exactly right, he had written in his book that his health reform plan was a ....
This. you think mitt romney people are suddenly funding the mitt romney super pack pac? i think mitt romney is not going to be in south carolina. romney wants bachmann in the race as long as possible to funnel votes away from rick perry. i will tell you why we have social security and why it s popular. fair enough. jackie. wrote a story yesterday. all the jobs records of the governors it was a great story. thank you very much. i wanted to do a whole piece on jobs and instead i ended up doing a piece on the today show. romney, read it, rick perry, it s good. i will be the most shameless of the three of you and say i am hosting the daily rundown tomorrow. don t go away for the long weekend. it s open house at my daughter s school, tomorrow morning, so i can t wait to meet her new teacher pup got that, new teacher? that s it for this edition of ....
the center of a lot of political activity for republicans over the last few days. president obama is keeping the spotlight on this day. he s here getting ready to come into iowa from minnesota. it s the second stop of his three-day three-state bus tour in the midwest. talking to voters about jobs, the economy and the debt crisis facing the united states. also on his agenda, a one-on-one interview with me tomorrow. much more on that tomorrow. we re standing by, though, for the president s town hall meeting here in the next hour. we ll have live coverage. right now, though, i m joined ey brianna keeler. i catched the town hall meeting. he s getting more feisty in lashing back at the republicans. that s right. he really stepped up the rhetoric. he s really lambasting the paralyzing political climate in washington and really blaming republicans specifically looking back to the bruising debt ceiling battle. of course as he s facing a lot of criticisms from republicans on j ....
In this debate last night. it was he ll be prepared for a specific part. so last night it was social security. the first debate in our debate it was on the jobs records. but then he s not ready for the next hit. and he s having to play cleanup. that said, we should remember, believe it or not, andrea, it was 30 days ago exactly, one month ago exactly, that he actually became an official candidate. so, and when you think about it, it s been a pretty tumultuous 30 days inside the republican party. he s gone from noncandidate to the front-runner to the guy taking all the barbs. i m with charlie. he s going to have to show some growth as a candidate in abilities. and he doesn t have a lot of time to do it. what a race. thank you so much. charlie cook, chuck todd. andrea, we re rooting for you, by the way. thank you. thanks, charlie, my friend. appreciate that. and, how about the president sell the tax hikes he s proposing to pay for his jobs plan? ....
Businessman has legitimate things to say about job creation. but they sparred hard on their jobs records, and while perry gave mitt romney credit for having been a successful businessman, not so for his time as governor. listen to this. the fact is when he moved that experience to government, he had one of the lowest job creation rates in the country. reporter: true fact, mitt romney was governor for one term, and at the time massachusetts ranked 47th out of 50 for job creation. on the other hand, romney took issue with rick perry s claim that he has created 40% of the jobs texas has created 40% of the nation s jobs in the last year or so saying it s really because of the oil and gas industry, and mr. romney suggested that perry actually knows that. listen. texas has a lot of oil and gas in the ground. those are wonderful things, but governor perry doesn t believe that he created those things. if he tried to say that, it d be like al gore saying he invented ....