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With all these other options for 2016 are looking at rick perry and saying, yeah, it could be different this time? >> you know, steve, i actually think so. i think that perry camp is going out of its way to try to give people access to the governor to give them an opportunity to see something beyond what they saw on that debate stage in 2012. i spoke to some of the donors and supporters who were in attendance over the past couple of weeks at dinners at the governor's mansion where governor perry sort of seemed to try to out his stump speech. and there definitely was a lot of positive reaction ...

I want to talk a little bit about rick perry, another man down at the bottom of the polls when he was once riding on angel's wings. there is an article in politico talking about inside the perry camp and perhaps how dysfunctional it has been from word go. i do want to bring in john heilemann here if we still have him. i know, john, you're out in iowa. what is the general talk on the perry campaign and how badly or how badly it's been mismanaged or whether that's an unfair allegation or set of rumors? >> well, there's certainly a lot of infighting inside perry world and there has been since he ...

And electorate out there in iowa i should say. what's he doing differently in the final days? >> what we've noticed in the last several days, when he's out on the stump and he's wrapping up a bus tour of the state of iowa, he's been going after rick santorum. and he's been on the rise in many polls and third and climbing and the perry camp would like to change places with him and they've been going after him in this way when it comes to ear marks and spending. have a listen. >> i think it's appropriate that we talk about our differences ap those differences couldn't be clearer on one of the mo...

Ceiling eight different times. >> on top of that, there's a radio ad running in des moines and we're told other portions of the state and talking about santorum's vote for ear marks, a billion dollars worth of ear marks, according to the commercial and clearly the perry camp is going after it. on top of that, the perry camp has flown in a couple of hundred, folks into the state of iowa to assist getting out the ground game. so if it isn't all in for the perry campaign, it's pretty close. >> i see that and i've got to let you go. it seems like such a desperation move by perry and the ground gam...

Let's talk politics, texas governor rick perry raising millions in his race for the white house, but with the first major contest in iowa just days away now, he's still trailing in the polls. and steve brown live from fort dodge, iowa. steve, how much has governor perry spent on tv this month? >> it's a staggering number. the des moines register took a look at it and keep in mind, television isn't expensive out here in iowa, not a lot of major markets to drive up the price, but that he spent the most, 3 million dollars and it's difficult not to see his ads out on the air. his campaign says the...