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Successful in defining governor mitt romney before he was able to define himself for the general election? >> you know, i think thats definitely happened. theres some signs it is happening. i went to watch two focus groups called these walmart moms. which are moms that shop at walmart. one group in richmond, virginia, and the other in las vegas. the only thing they really knew about mitt romney was what they had learned in these negative ads that run about him and said things like he fired peopl...

And those who dont. he was sitting on that interview set on fox with karl rove. another guy who recognized that republicans had to be right wit hispanics. george w. bush. this is were recognized demographic reality and those who dont. as for latinos, if you go around focus groups in the southwest, there are older hispanics who resent illegal immigrants as much as some white americans do. >> what is the reaction to people that dont like them though? its one thing to have a conservative view on th...

Rights. here you have another pretty direct statement by romney. im not on your side on immigration issues. >> to answer the question you asked -- youll get first. bill crystal, theres a bright line between those people who recognize demographic equality and those who dont. he was sitting on that interview set on fox with karl rove. another guy who recognized that republicans had to be right wit hispanics. george w. bush. this is were recognized demographic reality and those who dont. as for lat...

Denver, colorado, and the level of disappointment among independents who voted for barack obama four years ago is palpable. and its going to be very difficult, according to the focus group information that peter hart has extracted, for the president to win back those independents. they like the president. no one dislikes him. no one is walking around saying what a terrible guy. they like him. the level of disappointment among independents is palpable. >> i guess the question really is, whether m...

Okay two years from now or one year from now? its who has a plan and its who can best answer the question, where are we going? where are you going to take us. thus far, i think a lot of people think that neither candidate, the president or governor romney, has really articulated that kind of a plan, where are you taking us? >> again, i would be saying this if the republican were president and i did say four years ago that the decision was on whether you kept bushs party in power or not, you talk...

mountains. and its not your fathers fathers day. discount chains, hotels, even jcpenney bucking the traditional fathers day ad and going gay. >> jcpenney needs to go back and focus on selling knit socks and t-shirts. >> this morning, the praise and the criticism of the campaign. the rental as relief. industrial lofts, garden apartments, swanky penthouses all making a comeback. why the rising rents are actually good news. plus this. >> for whatever else i am, a husband, a lawyer, ...

she answers critics who say the announcement wreaks of politics. plus, details of a very rare breach of white house protocol during the presidents announcement. we now know who the reporter is who interrupted and visibly irked the president of the united states. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." less than five months before election day a dramatic and controversial change in immigration policy by the obama administration. it announced today it will stop deporting young ...

Another event. the president and mariah carey. these guys are filthy rich, and your backers are hated. >>guest: my bundlers are the antichrist, but yours enter detain us. they are singing songs. acting. we love our celebrities. there are people that vote that watch "jersey shore." >>neil: you dont watch it? >>guest: no, i do not. i know that surprises you. but i do not. >>neil: i wonder, the focus groups, we were chatting about this, does that resonate, do people distinguish between not cats? >>...

Next few weeks. theyre both going to be campaigning with, quote-unquote, regular americans a lot in the months ahead. when we see mitt romney travel the country hes got a bus tour coming up. hell be mingling with people, trying to demonstrate that he, too, can relate. this isnt just president obamas trouble relating to people who are struggling. this is one mitt romney himself has had, too. i dont know whether its going to produce a gaffe sometimes. >> maybe not a gaffe but sometimes not -- some...

hes immediately banned from competing in triathlons which hes taken up since retiring from bicycle. he said i have been notified usada intends to dredge up discredited allegations dating back more than 16 years to prevent me from competing as a triathlete and try to strip me of the seven tour de france victories i earned. these are the same charges and same witnesses the justice department chose not to pursue after a two-year investigation. these charges are baseless, motivated by spit...