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And democratic strategist tara. let me start with you. youre on the side of the president and being a democratic strategist. has he made any mistakes? >> i think its clear the president has made mistakes and i think the president has admitted to making mistakes. he did so after the 2010 election cycle last year, we took a shalacking, i think the presidents issues have been around communications and i think hes been very up front that he could have done a better job of laying out to people why he...

>> i think a lot of that has to do with what he was talking about, what happens out there in the country, is it going to be conservative activists who are frustrated or is it going to be more liberal activists who are frustrated about the idea of losing, you know, health care or obamacare, you know, whatever the case may be, but you know, and the facts of the matter have not changed. the facts of the bill have not changed even if they go back to the drawing board and lets not forget, even if the...

Three-quarters of what he wants. >> i think the president is feeling that he has the leverage. one thing weve seen is hes going to take this message to the people. it seems to me hes learned a little bit from the fights he had before, leaving it all in washington giving the republicans a lot of leverage. making it a national fight and bringing in the voters makes it something with more leverage. did he learn? is he going to play this fight out differently? >> if theres anything he learned from t...

And over again? its not the fact that they outgun us in the electronic media, it is a messaging issue, and gis that you could ask the question, where is our flank luntz? thats hard for me to say, folks. i know what the heck im talking about, but im not connected at the hip to the white house and im not connect to the hip to the president. if he were to ever ask me how to beat those -- id tell them. see i didnt say that word tonight, did i, but im still thinking it. the president needs surrogates...