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Commander and chief. he has the shock collar. we know that tone, messaging, specifics do matter. and tammy is right. we have a military that is ready, willing, and able to serve beings lent. >> earlier this month you saw the president start to acknowledge that the white house had a messaging problem on this. talking in starker terms about what they were going to do. kind of acknowledging that or evoking, sorry, former president bush saying that members of isis cannot hide. and you are seeing on ...

Number and were doing a bombing campaign. he would say were making progress. >> its not just that there are setbacks. you expect setbacks in a war against an enemy as dispersed as global terrorism is. its denial that there have been these setbacks. theres insistence that isis is contained, that we are making progress. people see paris. they see san bernardino. and they go, wait a minute, they feel insecure. recently they argued that the only real problem, the only legitimate criticism is his mes...

I think a lot of folks look at that and say he is a bit of a liability. i hear republicans saying that. how do republicans combat that? >> yeah, i think thats part of the concern with a donald trump potential nomination for us. i mean, hes a loose cannon. he says whatever the heck he feels like it without consequence, and thats not helpful. but there are republicans out there who do have a positive message including marco rubio, including ted cruz. those folks -- trump has created, their policy ...

Yes, jeb bush has a messaging problem, but i believe he has a staffing problem as well. >> youre saying he has additional problems, youre right. and you cant have people that are winners on your campaign and you cant have people who are leaking stuff to the press and trying to undermine you. who leaked that, the jeb bush blueprint to drudge and "u.s. news & world report." its outrageous. >> but you bring up charisma, and i think its very important, because president obama was persuasively correc...

Bush has a messaging problem and i still believe he has a staffing problem. >> you cant have people that arent winners on your campaign. and you cant have people that are leaking stuff to the press and trying to undermine you. thats reason, the jeb bush blueprint to drudge and -- "u.s. news & world report." its outrageous. >> you bring up charisma. i think its very important. because president obama was persuasively correct on the candidate when he was running for president, even though he didnt...

Economy and spending more and consuming more. and its very difficult to get your population to invest more in your future when youve just lost 25% of the value of the stock exchanges. people who have, moreover, very little belief in the long-term strength and well-being of your economy. so the challenge for them is how do you navigate this basket of reforms which you know long term are probably necessary for the country but short term you have a messaging problem. that is, how do you convince th...

Prices of commodities and oil have gone down presumably because chinas demand has slowed down. >> they are hit by very low commodity prices right now by exceedingly high inventories. by a population of 4 billion people who need to spend more and consume more. its very difficult to get your population to invest more in the future when you lost 25% of the value of the shanghai stock exchanges and people who have more over very little belief in the long-term strength and well being of your economy....

Equipment in here. and he talked about the fact that they shot down other planes. >> he was equivocating talking about the russians and the ukrainians and those pro-russian ukrainians and so on. samantha power was so much more forceful and explicit that the administration, she at least, believed that russia did it and russia can end this. you heard. now, thats our white house reporter ed henry. these are the facts, larry. the question is why? why wouldnt our commander in chief be as direct as th...

Create this sort of myth about him for their own advantage when they didnt -- they obviously had not done their homework about his actual record. this should are been handled in a much more kind of mundane business-like way, if at all. to say like okay, we have made our trade here and this is kind of one of the things that you have to do to wrap up the war in afghanistan. when they try to convert it as george said in sort of this mellow feel good moment, they obviously went too far. >> charles? ...

Are for this as long as we pay for this with $6.1 billion its it would cost to extend benefits. assuming democrats dont find a way to pay for it, then what happens? >> well, i think theyre going to pass them anyway bus republicans have a messaging problem and the democrats say your not helping the unemployment. but people forget there are hard-working americans who are at work paying taxes to pay the unemployment benefits and those families get lost in the argument when it comes to who is going ...