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america? let's go "outfront." >> i'm erin burnett. we're just an hour away. eight republican candidates vying for the party nomination. they are all taking to the stage tonight. the topic, national security. it has been 109 days since america lost its aaa credit rating. that's going to turn the rate on our mortgages and a whole lot more. we're not doing anything about it. we're still mad has hell about the super committee failing yesterday. fitch said the committee's failure would most likely result in negative action. so we're upset about the super committee and they are mad, too. p...

And we've been having them in succession. we are having a debate tonight. our next fox debate is in seiu city, iowa on december 15th. this is the time in which the winnowing process begins. megyn: who has the most to lose. we've been watching among others rick perry in each of these debates and they have not been good for his campaign. his campaign has ticked up a two notches as he has gone with ads on the airways. >> reporter: he needs to have another performance in which he steps up. the last one arguably his supporters will say he performed well and he got on the board, and he was aggressiv...

Think about people who haven't declared. this is where people are able to indulge their political and the is. i would love to see jeb bush run or where is chris christie. this week is important to what's going on. it's a winnowing process. i don't know what my options are going to be. but this is what i have got now. and that's where people either start to soar or start to crash. martha: the early buzz this morning was pawlenty -- this is a good thing for pawlenty. a good thing for mitch daniels. a sign mitch daniels is getting some heavy hitters behind the scenes close to him to run. >> there...

Right. you've got mitch daniels and john huntsman potentially representing that wing of the party to the extent it still exists. but this is a very socially conservative campaign field right now. and that may have trouble converting in the general election to appeal to independent voters. >> we all write every day. one of the things i like about george will, whether you love, like, disagree with his politics, george has a very good way with words. we uses them smartly to bring clarity. sheer george wills' column from sunday. this is a conservative who wants to defeat obama in 2012. frankly, he...

Senator, elected numerous times from his state of south carolina, a fairly prominent politician, is not just going to be on the undercard debate, will not be debating, is relegated to essentially also-ran status? >> well, it's a very, very tough thing for senator graham, and he certainly is somebody that has served his state and served his party very effectively. but the fact of the matter is that politics isn't the same thing when you're running for u.s. senate as it is when you're running for president. there is a political component to this, and there's some talent and some skill that comes...