>> mr. president, the russians are on the line. sshhh i'm a check in away from being the mayor on four square. welcome back at 26 past the hour. here with us now, moderator of "meet the press," david gregory. and former director of the white house domestic policy council and ceo of melody barnes solutions, melody barnes. >> she's got solutions! you've got problems, melody's got solutions. >> melody barnes solutions, very good. >> we have been talking about ed gillespie coming in. have you ever seen a campaign that needs someone like him more, to discipline the message and the schedule, than mitt romney's campaign? >> well, i think -- and we'll talk about it here. what romney really wants to do and where i think gillespie will help is get into a general election mode where he can start to address some of the things he wants to address, which is the problem with swing voters, the problem with female voters, the problem with latino voters, where he is inheriting the republican party's problems, where the white house has made it less about romney and more