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How lucky it is to have you here. >> thank you. >> bill: not you, you. but you, because you were the press secretary at one point. not that you, you -- >> it will be enough. >> bill: i said, we got you right here. i was friends with tony snow and knew how he handled stuff. we talked all the time. your style is much different than tonys. and apparently the obama administration style is much different than what you did. correct? can you define it for us? >> tony snow had a particular way of dealin...

How lucky it is to have you here. >> thank you. >> bill: not you, you. but you, because you were the press secretary at one point. not that you, you -- >> it will be enough. >> bill: i said, we got you right here. i was friends with tony snow and knew how he handled stuff. we talked all the time. your style is much different than tonys. and apparently the obama administration style is much different than what you did. correct? can you define it for us? >> tony snow had a particular way of dealin...

How lucky it is to have you here. >> thank you. >> bill: not you, you. but you, because you were the press secretary at one point. not that you, you -- >> it will be enough. >> bill: i said, we got you right here. i was friends with tony snow and knew how he handled stuff. we talked all the time. your style is much different than tonys. and apparently the obama administration style is much different than what you did. correct? can you define it for us? >> tony snow had a particular way of dealin...

Spend six of the next seven days in new hampshire and go to south carolina at one point. santorum comes to new hampshire way back in single digits. he has a huge amount of ground to catch up but he has all the buzz. it will be interesting to see whether or not he can turn that into big crowds and rallies. mr. santorum is catholic. theres a big catholic vote, a county chairman in all of new hampshires counties, even the sheriff in mitt romneys vacation home county. its organization but dwarfed by...

Hit rock bottom. we are looking at a field of presidential candidates, wolf, that really have stood up for the wealthiest and most fortunate americans. while president obama has been in there, since day one, swinging for the middle class. >> lets talk politics for a moment. the dnc put out ads really slamming mitt romney. set only republican candidate you have really been going after in these ads. is that right? >> well he spent -- no, no, we have actually mentioned several other candidates, new...

than 50 cars set ablaze since friday. los angeles police announce arrests. im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. were counting down the hours to the first voting of the 2012 presidential campaign. 28 hours to be precise, until iowa republicans gather at more than 1700 locations for their party caucuses and start picking their favorites. candidates have spent millions of dollars, logged many thousands of miles in this long iowa marathon. now its a sprint. as they dash across t...

Know, i remember being out in iowa when howard dean, on the sunday morning of "meet the press," looked like he was going to win iowa and john kerry had a head of steam going and blew him out. and then went on to new hampshire and howard dean was over at that point. i watched iowa turn out pat roberts at one point. george bush 41 beat ronald reagan in a state where ronald reagan had begun his broadcasting career. so there can be surprises. were playing by different rules. we were talking to one o...

To be a huge leadership challenge for everyone to meet these expectations. its what i feel about, you know, the arab spring sometimes when i look at whats unfolding there nowadays, it is that i feel like two things come to mind. it was inevitable, and too late. you know, on the one hand it feels inevitable. on the other hand, the catching up, all of these people have to do, its going to be enormous. and leaders who can manage those expectations, generate them and to channel them in the right dir...

Theyve not been happy with the united states for the past year, because of the way that we dispatched mubarak, and they said, you know, thats how you treat your friends, are you having a change at the top there? that has to be an important part of the debate in the next year. but my guess is that we wont hear very much about it, because people dont find a lot of political capital talking about that. >> just to pick up on one point there, theres a question thats hung over the iraq enterprise from...

Is who can assemble the best coalition. and it requires a combination of factors to win. one of the things thats going to be an issue this year that is the assault on voting rights. the fact that youve got 34 states that are trying to, in effect, make it more difficult for people to work and what effect thats going to have in the important states. but i think that we need to understand that presidential politics today is about coalition building. and who can basically put together a big coalitio...