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That team romney, the death star, had prepared to kill every candidate from pawlenty through palin through trump through cain through perry through newt through everybody, they didnt even have opposition research for rick santorum because there was no way the guy at 1% was ever going to hurt them. >> well, and they all felt he had the kind of vulnerabilities, they eventually exploited including some of his moderate aspects of his voting record as a senator from pennsylvania. if you just took the...

Him? in all these fights, mitt romney. >> i think an attempt to portray him. good strategy? >> putting today for a whim, look, this is an area where, the lack of an energy plan, the keystone piping, its really a sign of overall political strength. it just shows that the president, after the end of this long republican primary process, is in as strong a political position as hes been in some time. and theyre beginning to campaign by focusing on their opponents vulnerabilities and also try to miti...

And upward mobility for everyone whos willing to work for it. the white house is billing this as an important speechly build on the themes of economic equal that president began to lay out in december back in kansas, if you recall. by the way, this ap luncheon speech is historically a marker speech for presidents running for re-election n 2004, george w. bush used it to defend his iraq policy before the newspaper editorsing "we are changing the world for the better." every sitting president sinc...

President obama. alisyn: sure. alan, you heard mike. some people think his vulnerabilities on foreign policy are israel and iran and the ongoing trouble in afghanistan. >> well, mitt romney said he will give foreign policy speech in a month or two as soon as he figures out what he thinks. he has gone after the president in an op-ed piece recently where he said the very same things obama is doing. talked about missile defense. talked about stricter sanctions, the very policies obama is doing. i d...

the face youre making. >> just saying good morning. >> i like it. i like it. >> working on my impression. >> i have to work on my mug for the camera. >> its called being happy to be here in the morning. >> we used to call it the "nightline" nod, nod at the camera. nod at the camera. lets start with this trayvon martin investigation. theres new videotape. have you seen it? >> i have not seen it. >> youll get a chance to see it this morning. its from abc news. george zimmerman gets out o...

General. right? >> on issues basis. the question was not about strategy or financing or the overall metrics or mechanics of a general election. what about the issues you staked out here and now, will they hurt you in the fall? reset, etch-a-sketch, shake it up, start again. all of that fits into the context. going back to the mr. fix it idea, he has vulnerabilities. democrats will say all of your vast experience led you to say detroit ought to go bankrupt. if you made that call and been in a uni...

>> tell me, susan, if not obama care, what are the vulnerabilities of the gop will be focusing on? >> i think theyre still going to go to the economy. my guess is youre going to see gas prices and we know that its not necessarily the presidents responsibility to keep gas prices low. but it always does fall on the president of the united states, regardless of each party. but its this country going in the right direction. >> okay. karen, your thoughts on that? how the campaign fights back against ...

susan page and mike duffy from "time" magazine. im candy crowley and this is "state of the union." first our news of the day. former vice president dick cheney is recover from heart transplant surgery. joining me now for the latest from the hospital is cnns athena jones. athen athena, do they have any idea how long he might be there? >> reporter: well, we understand that most heart patients who go through a surgery like this end up staying in the hospital for about a month. i should ...

santorum victory in louisiana with two washington bureau chiefs, susan page and mike duffy from "time" magazine. im candy crowley and this is "state of the union." first our news of the day. former vice president dick cheney is recovering from heart transplant surgery at a northern virginia hospital. joining me now for the latest from the hospital is cnns athena jones. athena, do they have any idea how long he might be there? >> reporter: well, we understand that most heart patients ...

Toward the center away from this wild extremism hes had to have during the republican primary. >> hes going to do it anyway. i mean, this is where he wants to position himself. as weve been saying on this program, he wants to run as a fiscal conservative and a more moderate in the republican party. he has the base of support within the party to do that. as weak as he may appear, he is still moving toward victory. and i was saying to somebody yesterday, this is not a great moment for him now. thi...