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To take longer to verify the voters and all those things. i think that thats the most likely scenario that you would have some localities that would have to move, change positions, maybe even delay, but that would seem the least likely option but to come up with some way to deal with what you said if you have an electronic voting machine and no power how do you deal with that? >> we heard again from the campaigns, jim mess siena and david axelrod, e-mails from the romney campaign, both sides acc...

That. president obama needs to call them on their bluff. i dont think they are going to drive the country off the cliff. >> here is the interview. people should go over the interview. i thought it was interesting. it was off the record. its not like he said oh, my god, i cant believe he said that. hes more detailed and freer than on the stuff. this is him on using the simpson-bowles debt. i think we can get what is e give lent to the grand bargain that essentially ive been offering to the republ...

Virginia poll which showed the president doing well in the state. hes got more pathways to victory. if you talk to the people, both campaigns, they both express comfort but you get more sense of confidence in the obama people this morning. >> michael, mark halperin went to chicago and talked to a couple of folks -- a couple folks named jim messina, david axelrod. david plouffe pushed back, plouffe calling romneys bluff, i wanted to say that because it rhymes. plouffe says, in terms of the narrat...

Look, mom, im bringing home the bacon. and hes trying so hard to convince everyone that his campaign is on the move. he released a statement saying ohio is, quote, a dead heat with romney on an unmistakable track. a dead heat? an upward track? poll out yesterday shows president obama is ahead by 5% in the state. is that the upward track they are talking about? yes. we all know governor romney narrowed the gap after the first presidential race and debate but things have been flat for two weeks. m...

And thats sequester. he knows the republicans an conservatives do not want $600 billion in defense cuts to go in to effect. starting in 2013. the president said i would veto any attempt to block sequester unless i get the tax increases on the top 2%. remember, one more thing, the top -- these tax increases are not fiscally -- it wont do that much. this is pure liberal ideology. pure ideology. >> bret: president charles is signaling to top democrats if he wins he will break the back of republican...

Medicare, you want to know its going to be there. not passing it back and forth. if youre worried about another war, weve had enough of them. under the bushes, under one bush we had one, the other bush we had two. iran on the front if we get romney. people dont want wars. its not about who won the debate. i dont want another war. joe biden was good on that, do you want another bar? im calling your bluff here. what is this, seven days in may? civilians make the call. as the vice president pointed...

Iran on the front if we get romney. people dont want wars. its not about who won the debate. i dont want another war. joe biden was good on that, do you want another bar? im calling your bluff here. what is this, seven days in may? civilians make the call. as the vice president pointed out, we talked to the joint chiefs. they tell us where they stand. we dont go out and poll the military and see whos griping whether we should stay in the country or not. i think theres a constitutional confusion....

Party, when you are the administration and you have a responsibility to act on what you know and what the intelligence community believed. >> reporter: actually it was several days after the benghazi attack before the white house called it terrorism and that came after the national terrorism chief called it aterror attack. >> i think now based on the recommendations of the intelligence community, they made the decision to conclude this was a terrorist attack. in the days afterwards that was not ...

Smarter than politicians think. so no, it wasnt that good. lets talk some more about ike because, again, i think the guy is slowly evolving into my favorite president. talk about -- you say hes a war hero who hated war. and i guess ike, after korea, u.s. serviceman wasnt killed? >> yeah, i think one or two were, but the point is, he did not commit u.s. troops to combat. >> over eight years. >> over eight years after combat. he had lots of opportunities. >> right. >> and he didnt. you know, ike w...

He bluffed with nuclear weapons. >> and by the way, he hated war, but his enemies, americas enemies, didnt necessarily know that. >> very important. >> he let them know and in fact, he would bluff that, you know, he basically would say from time to world war ii could look like a spring picnic. >> again, you can get away with this if youre likike. 19 1950s, we forget, that was a scary time. duck and cover drills. nuclear weapons were new. there were lots of crises around the world. the communist ...