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Need To Know | Ken Herman on Rick Perry's presidential ambitions | PBS

Duration: 07:14
Program: Need to Know #165
Broadcast Date: Aug. 5, 2011

This Saturday Texas Governor Rick Perry is holding a call to prayer in Houston. This is the just latest in a series of steps that seem to put Perry in line for a presidential run in 2012. Need to Know Host Alison Stewart talks to Ken Herman of the Austin American-Statesman about Governor Rick Perry's accomplishments in Texas and his national ambitions.

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