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If he were to lose. if rick saccone were to lose on tuesday. >> the president sees everything as a referendum about the president. this is who he is. whether from his business career to you know the campaign to this, his singular focus is sort of himself and becoming the story and he feels that it is that charisma and that personality that made him successful in 2016. he is president today. so to some degree of truth to that. on this particular race, you know, certainly there feels like a lot of...

Doesnt know. >> michael bender of the "wall street journal," molly ball, lauren fox. bender, im going to start with you on this, trumps involvement in this campaign essentially backing roy moore is coming as a surprise and disappointment to a lot of leaders on capitol hill. they wanted a different outcome. his involvement comes with obviously upsides for roy moore. but it does come with some consequences for the republican brand and trump himself possibly. >> possibly. but i think what weve seen...

Me in the studio. but peter, i want to start with you over at the white house, since we listened to what the president said about tax reform. hes not pleased currently with the congress. whats the expectation of how quickly they want them to get tax reform through? >> well, the bottom line you can hear a shift in strategy, not just in his words but in his very appearance compared to the way they handled health care. that was a dramatic failure. here the president making a stop going on the road ...

Emphasis and supporters all over the place from the gop nominating race to the general election and going up against president obama. romney will be in pennsylvania and scranton later this afternoon where he will make a speech about energy policy. you can bet the singular focus of his criticism will be the president. jenna. jenna: we are taking a look at romney serving up food. ive seen so many shots of him doing that. it seems every meal hes already done that. a long way to go. carl, take care ...

To strike israel. >> when you talk about attacking iran, it is a very mountainous region. >> we need a strategy of defeating and replacing the current iranian regime. we could break the iranian regime within a year. >> the right course in america is to stand up to iran. >> last night it was all iran all the time for the republican presidential field. it was basically a battle among the republican candidates about who could sound tougher about the dangers of iran and who would be best at defeatin...

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Mortgages cant be paid. short sales, they are anxious. and they are expecting more out of the president. so i think he has to do more with respect to reducing the deficit and also being careful about putting more and more programs, more and more rocks into that knapsack because the american people are looking for singular focus on the economy and unemployment. >> reporter: alex, lets do a dramatic shifting of gears here, shall we? you remember the old movie "oliver," based on the charles dicken ...

That he wanted to offer president obama. no one needs to be reminded of his standing in the polls. the situation that democrats are facing on capitol hill. and while colin powell endorsed a lot of the initiatives that the president has undertaken like health care reform, although he does think there needs to be tweaks to that, he advice on other ways the president could regain his popularity. >> i think he has lost some of the ability to connect that he during the campaign. and it is not just me...

Got to get past the midterm elections. hes not the only one. before we talk about 2012, that will come soon enough, just 45 days from now. powell points that out but said the following about the sorts of thing that he would -- sort of advice that he would give president obama as he turns this corner. >> i think he has lost some of the ability to connect that he had during the campaign. and it is not just me picking on the president. its reflected in the polling. some of the anxiety and anger tha...