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The handwritten note, so he was drafting a letter like that. part of the question is that when all of this came up he brought in general john kellys situation and said, why dont you ask if president obama called john kelly. he avoided the spotlight of every bringing up his own lost or sons death in 2010. >> we know they say kelly did not get a phone call from president obama when his son died. i dont know if that was a staff issue. i dont know how general kelly feels about that, but my assumptio...

And john mccain. >> whenever eels had good moments and tomorrow there will be he stems on it himself. this is not a staff issue. youre right with the two senators there, senator flash and mccain, he already has built in flash points. so youre right. the smart thing to do would be to talk more about afghanistan, talk in a very serious way and really take this presidential approach. this is inviting controversy. youre actually stepping on your own pardon story. >> also no one typically pardons any...

The morning at the exim bank. >> i think hes reporting. >> youre telling me right now, anthony scaramucci believes hes a -- an employee in good standing at the exim bank? >> absolutely. >> all right. white house not yet getting that message. steve schmidt, what do you think? >> well, look, i think that certainly its the case that this white house and the west wing has functioned some like sort of latter day zoo. i have no doubt about general kellys ability to instill the appropriate level of fea...

And i understand that. >> were talking about the president of the united states. >> exactly. >> what parent would not want their child to be in the oval office to meet barack obama? or hillar clinton? >> do i need to remind you about bill clinton? >> no. what we need to think about -- >> im sorry this is what we need to think about. who is going to be our next president? who will we want our -- >> right. >> -- children to be in the room with. hillary clinton is somebody who children will want to...

>> is that the presidents freelancing or is it a staff issue? if youre going to do an interview with a political reporter from the new england cable network youre going to get asked about the senate race in new england. >> part of this was the president trying to be a little funny. i think he had a talking point in a briefing binder that he ignored. when it comes to scott brown this is a personal thing with the president. scott brown is the republican who was elected and caused huge headaches fo...

The fact is that jay carney teed up the question about george romney. >> the george romney -- >> the fact it was very smartly asked at that debate, you would think he could say more than maybe. i dont get it. >> i think chuck, to your point here, it does not seem to be a staff issue. the one thing we know -- even if they werent -- >> sounds like a candidate issue. >> monday night when he fumbled about tax returns on thursday they were ready for it. he got asked it and he gave this -- in the past...

December 22nd when i asked him that. what are we up to, january 21st. this is his problem in a nutshell. >> ive spoken to a lot of republicans about this question for several weeks actually. and nobody can figure out what the strategy of the romney campaign is or if there is one. youve got to figure that he would be in better shape if he released it a month ago. he says hes not releasing them because hes afraid of being attacked which is a defensive post tour and being attacked for not doing it ...

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Run -- >> was a great debater -- >> he needs to clean house on his staff. thats what my father did. these people are not doing him any service. >> wow. >> its not a staff issue. these issues -- this is what is good -- >> whoever is in charge of his messaging isnt do do -- >> hold your hourses. northwestern people can see the candidates and read who is who, what they like, what they dislike about the individual candidate, and that is why the presidency is bigger than the staff. it comes down to m...