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Conversation with respect to your actions in wisconsin in using them to punish members of the opposition party and their donor base? >> no. >> youve never had such a conversation? >> no. >> lets go back and take another look at what the he told a billionaire donor three months earlier. >> the first step is were going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions. use divide and conquer. >> its so interesting. he used divide and conquer strategy to punish unions and anyone tha...

Its interesting, isnt it. you out there on the coast do it because you agree with the president. people in wall street, business, and texas do it because they make money off of republican politics. >> thats exactly right. its interesting but the hollywood community is the only donor base that has no quid pro q quo. its not because he could do something for us. when you see the coke brothers throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into a, you know, a pac, theyre looking for a pay back. they want...

The same demographics, but the way they are geographically. alabama has more city centers and that would be easier for mitt romney to win. i think its very possible that he could win in alabama and that might go a long way toward shutting down the nomination process. >> just yesterday, rick santorum suggested this is going to be a two-man race after the gop primaries in the south. the question is will santorum be one of those two because gingrich is leading him in both polls. >> im sure santorum...

Are implying there, the other candidates are a little bit bad and unsettled and here comes a guy who is the answer to what they were looking for? >> well, it is a combination of the things, and he is a very good retail politician, and something that romney is struggles at, you know, when he is meeting people who are not corporate executives, he is not natural. perry is very natural with everybody. i mean, you almost can get a 1999 flashback today if you are reading the reports from iowa as peopl...

$745 million. white house correspondent mike emanuel says getting more money will be a huge challenge. >> reporter: ahead of the election cycle, supporters of president obama are working on a donor base, they raised record-breaking amount in 2008. mr. obama says he is focussed on this year. >> there will plenty of time to campaign for 2012 in 2012. >> reporter: among the sign the re-election efforts start soon, robert gibbs and david axelrod are scheduled to leave the white house in the coming w...