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Background to that. did the white house see this coming? >> i dont think anybody saw this coming, chris. at some point they must have recognized prime minister cameron was not going to win this vote, but presumably if prime minister cameron had realized that well in advance, he wouldnt have brought it to a vote. so it left the united states in the extraordinarily odd position of going off into a conflict, no a prolonged war, one hopes, but at least a brief military action, if you believe the pre...

Security agency, the kgb. its main responsibilities are counterintelligence, internal security, counterterrorism. when the kgb was reorganized into the fsb in the late 90s one of its first directors vladimir putin who was a veteran kgb official in the 80s. hes now of course russias president. eric oneil says this stage craft in this detaining the of a spy is one of putins trademarks. >> brian todd will have more in the "situation room" later today. lets go to the white house. jay carney, the pre...

Oldest religious institutions on the face of the earth, on that matter, the oldest democratic process in the way, the secret ballot in history. it is hard not to be enchanted by all of this. >> and the allegiance to history. the decision -- in this age of twitter, they can tweet out, we took a vote, it is not going to happen tonight, but instead this is the way they have done it and this is the way theyre going to continue to do it. >> thats right. i think the genius of catholicism, the old sayi...

"spider-man: turn off the dark." it was riddled with stage accidents, major money, use and feuding producers. julie was skewered in the press and pushed out of the production before opening night. she has been reticent to talk on camera about the experience. until now. >> you cant blame it on me or any single person because you dont create a musical with one person. or two. >> reporter: her famous partners, u2s, bono and the edge accused her on "nightline" of being too close to the project to se...

>> the climate is. >> -- of the office of the president has been in the last several months. lets not act like this happens in isolation. they have done everything to disrespect this president as president. and i think its in that climate, the question was asked -- and i think that christie had to answer it. its not like they have respected this president. >> right. >> as president. and i feel that the president was acting as president, but they have some members of the christie party have done ...

Stagecraft, the president in a chopper over the disaster zone with a republican governor in that kind of commander in chief role, it just makes him look good. its just a blunt psychological reality of it. its helping him maybe only a little bit, but romney needed a little push. thats my analysis, and hes not getting it right now. >> i think youre totally right, him needing another push. the thing i have been hearing from republicans this week, their claim for whats going to happen is, well, look...

Is, and youre trying to satisfy the person that raised the question, because the audience is watching you there. youre trying not to rile up your base. youre trying to appeal to the undecided. and youre dealing with the moderate. youre dealing with five different things at one time. romney, who has not been good at dealing with two things at one time -- >> spontaneity. >> and he has the sixth added thing. he has to remember the falsehoods he told last time. so he has to remember the lies, he has...

Wednesday night. three, later in the week, thursday, mtv, big award show. they wonder if the younger folks that the president needs like he had four years ago will be tuned in to the pop culture stuff on mtv and not convention. never a good time to schedule these things. advantage is theyre going second a good chance to play defense and rebut what we heard last week. still, never a good time for these things. >> never. >> were all split attention these days. >> the political world and public are...

This morning on "world news now," rousing mitt romney. the presidential nominee addresses his party and the country with the biggest speech of his political career. >> after getting help from a hollywood actor with some very unusual political stagecraft. it is friday, august 31. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." good friday morning, everybody. what a week it has been. im rob nelson. >> the last day of august. september is tomorrow. >> isnt that crazy? summers over. >> one ...

Excited and we talked to people earlier today who reminded us about the fact that maybe in georgia, people see newt gingrich a little differently than do you more broadly because for those years when he was in congress, he brought a lot of national attention to this daste and some instances talked to people in his home district who had known him when he was in office, there was that personal connection. this is also the only campaign where i have ever seep the logo for the night as a gas pump. h...