the president today. let's listen. here he is. >> how many years -- how many more years can the federal budget handle the crushing costs of medicare and medicaid? that's the debt you're going to have to pay, young people. when's the right time for health insurance reform? is it a year from now or two years from now or five years from now or ten years from now? i think it's right now. and that's why you're here today. >> richard, you covered the campaign. you wrote the book on it. do you think the crowd today was back to the old campaign level? >> oh, yeah. very much so. and his performance was, i mean, that was the difference. there are lots of people out, you go to pennsylvania or any number of other states who want to relive the whole campaign rally thing. but he seemed to want to. and that energy, i think, has been missing from a bunch of these town halls, from his big speeches. this was the campaigning barack obama. and i think that's a conscious effort from him and from his team. >> thank you very much, richard wolffe in philadelphia. up next, we have got the big story in the middle east. i'm over here with vice president joe bind and his wife, jill. they are going over here to try to make a deal it looks like. we are trying to get the middle east peace talks going again. we are going to have the vice president on tomorrow night to talk about t we are going to talk about that in just a moment. when we come back, the chances for peace in the middle east and trying to avoid a war with iran. be right back. host: did the waltons take way too long to say goodnight?