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In the white house not necessarily in the political sense. this is a guy who is also the white houses ambassador to the hill, to republicans, hes been instrumental in a lot of the key decisions on tax cut deals t deficit fights, he loves the substance and policy and yet he is also great on the stump. he is an all around player in baseball terms, hed be an all-star pitching and hitting. and i think he is a tremendous asset regardless of the favorability numbers because he does speak to a certain ...

cnn congressional correspondent kate bolduan joins us now from capitol hill, what is the latest? >> reporter: you know the cbo numbers, the congressional budget office, jessica, this office that scores, gives a cost estimate, for legislation, its very critical, and this evening it came out the cbo brought out -- gave out its estimate, and it says that the speaker boehners bill falls short of what its target was. it says that it would only reduce the deficit by $850 billion, rather than...

Needed to go get him. >> and tom, i want to go -- martin brought up the presidential race, and we saw that within hours yesterday, mitt romney suddenly decides he wont participate in the first presidential republican debate realizing how small that could look at a time when the president is going to be at ground zero and all of these things. if you are running for president, do you cool your rhetoric on the president for a while? >> for a while. but like everything, you hit the bump and it comes...