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Speech. that is the worst number since gallup started tracking this back in 1996. why do you think romney was so poorly received? >> i think theres clearly a challenge romney has in having to try and you know, compete with the the president. especially on this likability issue. where i think one of the things, if you were watching the pool feed or cspan or something, you might have seen a lot of these humanizing stories. none of that stuff was in the prime time 10:00 hour and i think they really...

now, it began just before dawn. heres the terrifying sound that awakened one family in frankfort, kentucky. [ sirens ] frankfort was spared thankfully but so many other places were not. people lost their lives in tennessee, missouri, and harrisburg with the biggest lost. survivors describing what they saw and felt. >> its very devastating, we are lucky compared to people out that way. very lucky. >> overwhelmed. just overwhelmed with emotions. i had no idea it was this bad. >> the ligh...

February 28th. the battle with senator santorum leading governor romney whose father was governor of the state. your thoughts on that race tonight. why arent you competing there? >> we are competing. i will be campaigning next week. we have every reason well be competing effectively and number of surrogates. you have to break 15%. its proportional representation state. i think we will do that. we will pick up delegates in michigan. my prediction is mitt romney attacks santorum as negatively as h...

Obama according to the electorate cared the most about -- 30% said he cared the most about rich people. i think 40 middle class and 20 poor people. romney was 70% cares the most about rich people. you know a lot about polls everybody here, right? so as you know, every poll thats ever asked, theres two or three questions that you always ask and those are the most important questions. one of them is cares about people like me. how do they do that? how does mitt romney overcome that? i dont know. i...

Frontrunn frontrunner, hes now sitting up there, i have a poll where hes at 30% of the vote and he can just sit there and the media will not give him the kind of intense scrutiny they always give the frontrunner. but the new candidates that could come up and challenge romney are herman cain, rick santorum, john huntsman, they cant get the right time of day because palins shadow cuts off all sunlight and all oxygen and everybody is focusing on palin. you know, donald trump absorbed all the attent...

Blocked on the bucket rule that would tax top income earners at 30% at least and favored by the majority of americans. is this a set back for the president who spent all last week pushing for it or did they fall into the democratic trap? the secret service prostitution standal. his team let the boss down. good morning from washington. its tuesday, april 17th, 2012. im luke russert for chuck todd. lets get to the new reads of the morning. mitt romney has a message for the president. >> start pack...