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Some greeks admit though that restoring confidence in greece was critical and could in itself provide a way out of this. >> if the banks reopen and tourist sector starts recovering, if shipping returns and so on and so for the of course there are a lot, a lot of problems. there is no doubt that greece is in a big hole. as you say in america the first step to get out of a hole is to stop digging. as of last week, greece stopped digging. >> reporter: jon, not everyone shares that view however. a l...

Day. we have had that e-mail nightmare thinking did i just hit reply all and should i send an e-mail out im moving to bora bora? a corporation dealing with disaster and politician caught with the wrong person, how do you deal with it and save your reputation? if youre in trouble the first call should be to the guy in the guest spot, chris lahane, master of disaster. hes co-authored a book by that name, "masters of disaster: the ten commandments of disaamage control." >> how are you? >> good, goo...

But i trust him. hes trustworthy person. he found himself in the hole, kept on digging and i think really created serious problems of trust for himself, particularly with the swing voters to win. >> still digging, actually. >> i think brought a fleet of backhoes. >> chris, i want to ask you about a sort of famous moment of damage control im curious about abe you had an up close and personal view of. gore versus bush. the weekend before the election in 2000 when the revelation about george w. bus...

Time and time again, it seems like such common sense that individuals, corporations, the guy in the cubicle that hit reply all in the hole and keep on digging. and so, you have to recognize that the end of the day people understand that bad things will happen. they evaluate you by how you handle it going forward. prospectively from the situation. >> okay. give me -- two case studies. give me somebody in public life that ran in to trouble and handled it perfectly and dodged a bullet or didnt make...

>> our goal was to take out one-third of the delegates and possibly slightly better than that. i think we will exceed that goal. >> your goal wasnt to win one of these states? >> i dont think that anyone expected to win alabama or mississippi. as mitt said early on in the campaign, this was an away game for him and i think that is true. >> this is a delegate contest. like i said our goal was to come in, take a third of the delegates. >> keeping them honest on the claim that nobody expe...

that. i think we will exceed that goal. its important to -- >> your goal wasnt to win one of these states? >> i dont think anybody expected mitt to win alabama or mississippi. as mitt said early on in the campaign, that this was an away game for him. i think thats -- i think thats true. look, this is a delegate contest and like i said, our goal was to come in, take a third of the delegates. >> keeping him honest on that claim that nobody expected him to win alabama or mississippi. in f...

possible spin on romneys failure to win in alabama or mississippi. >> our goal was to take out one third of the delegates and possibly do slightly better than that. i think we will exceed that goal. its important to -- >> your goal wasnt to win one of the states? >> i dont think anybody expected mitt to win alabama or mississippi. as mitt said early on in the campaign, that this was an away game for him, and i think thats true. look, this is a delegate contest. and like i said, our goa...