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Criticism. but i would tell you this, americans dont want an em pe tu was candidate during a time of international upheaval and a foreign policy crisis. you have an opportunity to teach, to lift, to inspire, and to articulate americas goals in the region. then if you get it wrong, you can always redo it the next day when youre given a press availability. and that was not to be. but my criticism is not that political moment for either one of those either president obama or governor romney. its am...

There is also a place by having difficult questions asked by the white house press corps. why is it not good to sit down with local news anchors and reporters. why must he subject himself to the washington press corps. >> reporter: they tend to get a few minutes with the president. the first couple minutes are about the local issues. the questions tend to be softer because they dont get to sit down with the president very often. so there will be fluffiness, if you will. hes entitled to talk to w...

The story. certainly the people up here do. when romney, when the koch brothers have an ad out saying, we think hes a good person, we dont know if he can get the job done. there are. theres a large cohort of people for whom that message rings true. its not contradictory to the romney message at the same time that says its a hateful campaign. theyre speaking to all these people. what im frankly amazed by is the shrewdness of the campaigns. i dont think -- im not here to clutch my pearls and say, ...

And doing a press availability with president karzai in afghanistan and be at some point at the u.s. embassy, we do not know if she is there to announce something specific, but she is with president karzai in kabul. secretary of state hillary clinton an unannounced trip to afghanistan.

Holding a nationally televised press availability with the white house press corps. this sort of day for president obama is the day in the life of a sitting u.s. president, and in competitive terms for the campaign, its hard to compete with those optics if youre the guy in the pie shop campaigning against the president. that is the way these things go. everybody who campaigns against an incumbent president has this particular challenge. globally, of course, the context for president obamas speec...

To new york city, to any of the big hotels there where president clinton has ever been during his tenure as president, they will all rave about him, because he always took the time to shake everyones hand, take pictures, say hello. thats what you do. because youre disrupting -- youre disrupting their work. and, you know, theyre putting themselves aside so that you can make your way through. the idea that mitt romney didnt have time to say hello to diane, is her name, yes, diane and her husband, ...

Politician in america to know that thats your first move when you go into a place like that. >> right. and the most courteous politician is the one who does it. i mean, to this day, if you go to new york city, to any of the big hotels there where president clinton has ever been during his tenure as president, they will all rave about him, because he always took the time to shake everyones hand, take pictures, say hello. thats what you do. because youre disrupting -- youre disrupting their work. ...

being able to stop it and also being able to evolve more tools to control it and where it cannot be controlled to be able to take additional actions. this obviously because of the timing will have to be done in the next month or so i would think. and so we will be working together in that direction. so i now would like to ask senator chambliss, my distinguish distinguished vice chairman, to make some comments. >> well, thanks, chairman feinstein. let me just say that thanks no the lead...

the president was he heading on this, theyve always said, look, were the ones who got rid of dont ask dont tell. the justice department no longer defends the defense of marriage act. so you knew what direction the president was heading. i think there were conversations about whether this would be good politically or not good politically for the president because this could rally mitt romneys conservative base. this could hurt the president with some voters in battleground states like o...

Much of an education, they both grew up pretty poor. you know why were different? because i dont remember growing up, my parents ever saying to me, you know why were not better off? because those guys are doing too well. i dont ever remember my parents saying to me, you know what, only if we took something away from them and they gave it to us, things would be better. i dont even remember my parents teaching me -- i dont, i dont -- in fact, what my parents would do, they would point to people th...