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killing three soldiers in the countrys southern helmand province. >> cnns chris lawrence is live from the pentagon. what are your sources telling you about this attack this morning? >> well, john, they say they are still trying to figure out whether this was actually a true afghan police officer or someone just wearing the uniform. although the taliban is claiming that this was an actual afghan policeman who lured these three soldiers to his residence or to a party and had planned to k...

Better off. 80% say their finances have been negatively affected the last four years but the polls show in many cases people still say they will vote for president obama over mitt romney. writes the missing link? >> the missing link is the likability factor. barack obama may be leading this country down the drain but hes more likeable than mitt romney. mitt romney has to work on that likeable quotient. but to answer the question are you better off today than you were four years ago? barack obama...

With the congress of the united states of america. 49% dissatisfied with the president of the united states of america. shannon: you mention the likability factor. people still personally like the president. many of them. and that can truly make a difference in his reelection campaign. >> it can. it is that likability factor. you are seen on tv. how do you come across on tv. how do you project yourself on tv. are you stiff? are you loose? there are people who like barack obama because they like ...

Meantime. >> bill: he didnt like the recent president obama proclamation that you dont build your own business that everybody helps you do that. and he doesnt like the now bell peace prize because obama dropping the drones on everybody. >> he doesnt like anything. >> bill: the left is now after him lovitz, right. >> i kind of in a weird way think that its just -- i think there are a lot of the people after lovitz because i think a lot of people have a problem when the president is criticized esp...

Fellow republicans beating on him for a while helped him i. think peoples focus on this is a little bit distant at this point, and the effort by the obama people to paint romney as this evil corporate raider and so on has not worked very well, and that has allowed romney to stay about where he was. nothing has happened, in terms of the economy, or the other developments in the world that would help obama phoufp a move up at all. so i think we have a situation which is a fairly static election an...

Is probably not doing a great job position. >> understand that going to vote on who is going to be better for the country than who is going to be hosting "dancing with the stars." >> yeah. we like ryan seacrest. but although ryan has had more experience in business than obama. >> ryan would be great at the job. >> he is a pretty interesting guy. >> very smart in business. very smart. but, bill, i think, look, you are on to something. because the president has spent enormous amount of time over t...

Is probably not doing a great job position. >> understand that going to vote on who is going to be better for the country than who is going to be hosting "dancing with the stars." >> yeah. we like ryan seacrest. but although ryan has had more experience in business than obama. >> ryan would be great at the job. >> he is a pretty interesting guy. >> very smart in business. very smart. but, bill, i think, look, you are on to something. because the president has spent enormous amount of time over t...

Is probably not doing a great job position. >> understand that going to vote on who is going to be better for the country than who is going to be hosting "dancing with the stars." >> yeah. we like ryan seacrest. but although ryan has had more experience in business than obama. >> ryan would be great at the job. >> he is a pretty interesting guy. >> very smart in business. very smart. but, bill, i think, look, you are on to something. because the president has spent enormous amount of time over t...

>> ill work as hard as i can on the likability piece. >> he seems a perfectly likable gentleman. i dont understand it. >> well get over that one. >> joining me now is former pennsylvania governor ed rendell. now an msnbc news political analyst. and erin mcpike reporter for real clear politics. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. >> our pleasure. >> thank you. >> governor, let me start with you. how worried should romney and his campaign be about this likability factor? at which point ...

Misleading, unfair and untrue. there was no evidence that mitt romney shipped jobs overseas. >> i guess my question is, here you have a president who is very well liked. he kills mitt romney on the polls in the likability issue. and youre calling him a liar. so to the point you think we should be talking about the economy, to the extent that romney has a strong line on the economy-- >> i think they need to go after these attacks and say, hey, listen, when you were candidate obama, you had a hist...