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Then also, he needs to say, how long were -- he thinks well be there. he might not be able to say. last week, they said days, not weeks. now it will probably be months. then i also think he has to speak with a little bit of passion to show us his heart is in it because one of the roles of the commander in chief and president bush had to deal with this a lot was try to convince the american people to stay with him and with the troops when it came to iraq and afghanistan. president obama now needs...

But americas unique history, the unique place in the world are something americans are proud of. in the end, if we can get peace in the middle east, it will be a credit to all of our countrymen and the president himself. >> jamie rubin, former spokesman, appreciate it so much. >> thank you. should president obama say more on the economy if theres nothing good to say? the messaging problem plaguing the white house. plus, senate filibusters. once rare, but now so widespread some on capitol hil...

Contributing to the negative economy, is responsible for the negative economy and will be responsible now and in the future for less jobs and for higher under employment. that all stems from that huge four-letter word fear which americans wake up daily to and healthcare has been thrown into that umbrella of fear. megyn: interesting shes saying basically its a messaging problem that again -- leslie agrees with sebelius that its a misinformation given on a 24-7 basis has caused the problems not th...

Communications message on healthcare reform. they need to explain the simple package. megyn: isnt it part of the messaging problem? that president obama has been focusing on the wrong things. he had to do healthcare, energy which got stalled. but hasnt been devoted to finding a solution to sought jobless numbers. >> they lost control of the narrative. he has been working on the jobless numbers. he has been working on a lot of stuff all at the same time. what hes failed to do is go out and sell i...

Complete control. they certainly have allowed this crisis to get away from them. shannon: we heard many in the administration kind of saying this meeting wasnt really necessary, that it didnt need to happen. was it more about message than consent this meeting today? >> so much of this white house is about illusion, messaging. the healthcare debate, it was all about, they say we have a communications problem not a competence problem. this brings into bold relief this is a content and competence p...

Candidate in some ways to the right wing party, the tea party crowd because she give as nice speech. shes no more thoughtful or prepared or ready to answer serious questions than she was when she ran last time which is really the big surprise. >> a.b., why dont the democrats be aggressive on some of the things that she was saying? mr. brennan came out on "meet the press" and talked about national security and briefings and such stuff and how this is all working. it seems to me that her mission o...

Cuts or immigration, everything is great as long as everyone is on the same page. the problems come up with when you have conflicting stories and one person is saying one thing and another person saying something else, and it throws the entire message off course. here we have rudy giuliani not just with this case saying that the president denied the merger, didnt interfere, he knew about the stormy daniels payment before he denied it. these are problems that can be corrected or avoided if he wou...

Saying this isnt about bob mueller. >> lets separate these two. >> this is about our oversight rule in the house of representatives about whether the fbi is conducting, you know, their surveillance properly. and ive had intelligence committee members sort of on the republican side say the same thing to me. i had one person tell me this isnt about robert mueller. so you have a messaging problem there. if they are trying to undermine bob mueller, which house republicans for the most part dont actu...

Emerging between the senate bill and house bill regarding state and local taxes which of course is very important to legislators from larger states, the question of the corporate tax rate, would it be a one year phase-in, would it affect immediately, how many brackets. this has to work its way through. but the big problem they will have is that they want to be able to tell everyone middle class voter that your taxes are going to go down. and what were hearing and talking to republicans is the pr...

Thats getting rid of the estate tax, the alternative tax medicine here in 2005 which is the only year we had tax returns costing $30 million but he doesnt want that either. every middle-class american may not necessarily do better for this. the white house has a messaging problem. >> sandra: youre ignoring the messaging from the white house because they rolled the paper this week and it spilled out with very clear math how they come up with that 4,000 number. >> jessica: im saying there alternat...