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Ceiling saga, the presidents announced position was that he would like to raise the debt ceiling in one simple, one-sentence bill with nothing attached to it. in other words, the president was in favor of exactly zero, zero in deficit reduction in order to raise the debt ceiling. now lets see how much deficit reduction the president has really agreed to in order to raise the debt ceiling. recall that the president found himself drawn into a protracted negotiation with congress including house re...

Book about jfk and how he got ready for the 1960 debates, down to learning a week before the staging and the stagecraft. and don hewitt who produced those debates, the guy who later created "60 minutes," said kennedy cared a lot more about them and paid a lot more attention than nixon did. i think rick perry has been treating these debates as a drop-by. if he hasnt been and hes prepared, then this is a really extraordinary performance. no republican rationally could say that somebody who was so ...

Jetsons. is it a white house that tries to wrap everything in stagecraft and the protest was not choreographed and so they dont like it? >> well, there is no doubt about that and an earlier incident happened at another fund-raiser, where the white house apparently left a microphone open and a cbs reporter heard a number of the things the president was saying, he thought, in private, to some other fund-raisers. and, this is not the kind of thing the white house likes. look, like any white house, ...

Stagecraft? recent events got us thinking maybe yes. >> check this out. on monday the president surprised a group of eighth graders who were in washington on a field trip. the group just happened to be from the toss-up state of colorado. and also the very same students the president mentioned in his speech about the budget deal on friday. >> but thats not all. to highlight that federal monuments were open for business thanks to the lack of a government shutdown, the president on saturday decided...

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Were hearing, this could all be an illusion, but it sounds like hes going to keep fighting for a long time. that certainly is what his son promised in his address as well. >> ron allen, thank you very much. i do want to let people know we are trying to get richard engel who of course has tremendous experience in that part of the world, trying to get a report from him. i juflt want to ask you briefly about all of these things sort of in the aggregate. you have the words, the stagecraft. you have ...

Balcony and a dark hallway. >> mr. rogers. >> just strange. you should make it clean and simple. what do you think of these jobs. it seems the other guy got whacked. paul ryan is a small fellow and a serious guy. his body language was dumped all over because he was so stiff. is this just too much focus for any sort of middleweight politician to hane? >>absolutely. and thats why you never see presidential candidates doing this because they know theyre only going to lose. theyre just going to look...

Was responding to media criticism. listen to his whole answer. he said i dont sit around with academics. that was a direct response to criticism particularly in "times" and the "post." media criticism gets under his skin and he lets it show more than any president weve seen in a long time. >> and he believes that the anger that people are showing is a media-generated anger, and the media really cares about his displays and his optics and his stagecraft a lot more than ordinary people do. but wha...

Of the word, it was because he was responding to media criticism. listen to his whole answer. he said i dont sit around with academics. that was a direct response to criticism particularly in "times" and the "post." media criticism gets under his skin and he lets it show more than any president weve seen in a long time. >> and he believes that the anger that people are showing is a media-generated anger, and the media really cares about his displays and his optics and his stagecraft a lot more t...

A media-generated anger. that the media really cares about his displays and his optics and his stagecraft a lot more than ordinary people to. but what really drives him crazy is statements that we just heard from carly fiorina. small government republicans now saying, wheres the government? you know, bobby jindal screaming into a microphone, where are the booms, wheres the equipment, where are the ships? these are the same people who say government -- >> i want to go back to carly fiorina. respo...