president obama telephones mitt romney, congratulates him for going over the top in the republican delegate count and over the top comments with supporter donald trump has created a distraction. you've heard trump question the birthplace in "the situation room," now romney is trying to move on. here's our national political correspondent, jim acosta. >> wolf, mitt romney has left las vegas, but donald trump is refusing to leave the campaign stage. >> americans are tired of being tired. >> now that he's crunched the number of delegates to win the gop nomination, it's victory lap time for mitt romney. get the checkered flag this new romney campaign video is all about the stars and stripes. >> we're united by one great, overwh overwhelming passion. we love america. we believe in america. >> romney got a call from the president congratulating the official gop nominee. the president said he looked forward with an important and healthy debate about america's future. the chat, according to the romney campaign was brief and cordial. just the opposite of the race to come as romney put it at a fund-raiser that was closed to cameras in las vegas last night. >> and i know the road to 1144 was long and hard, but i also know that the road to 1106 will be long and it's going to be hard. >> donald, i have to say you're beginning to sound a little bit ridiculous. >> no, i think you sound ridiculous. >> greeting him at the finish line was donald trump who managed to steer clear of the fixation on the president's birth certificate though he predicted romney would be tougher on the president and china. >> but it was only a moment of self-restraint. today trump swetweeted that he wants to see the president's college records. john sununu says it's the media that's upset with the issue. >> why is cnn so fixated on this? why don't we talk about the jobs issue in this country? >> adding a wrinkle to the drama, they added a copy of romney's birth certificate which noted that george romney was born in mexico which by the trump standard would have made him ineligible to serve in the oval office. >> we believe this is an american-born, job-killing president. >> also at that romney fund-raiser, newt gingrich who has no doubts about the president's origins or trump's motivation. >> reporter: is that what it is? >> no. he's an entrepreneur. he's made his fame by being who he is. >> reporter: trump wasn't the only misfire of the day. the romney campaign released a new iphone app which misspelled america. that's one bug that has since been fixed. as for the airplane photo that had everyone talking, tromney nw said it was the airport in las vegas that made the choice to park next to trump's jet. it was a less controversial fund-raiser planned with hewlett-packard ceo meg wittman, wolf? >> jim acosta in las vegas. let's dig deeper with our chief political analyst, gloria borger. a lot of analysts are questioning whether it's worth it. i've spoken with a bunch of republican strategists who are scratching their heads. they're saying okay. maybe donald trump helps you a little bit with some of those small donors and maybe he helps you a little bit with the base of the republican party, but they're saying to me, they think that mitt romney's going lose much more. this is a general election contest now, wolf. it's about getting to independent voters and the swing voters are on your side. they're not going to be thrilled with mitt romney standing next to donald trump who has brought up the birth certificate issue again. they believe there is a down side and not seriousness about it and it's not diversionary that takes romney off of his message about the economy. >> having said that, when it comes to money for the republicans, it's a different ball game in 2012 than it was in 2008. that's right. that's why these republicans are curious about donald trump because they're saying, look, mitt romney is going to raise an awful lot of money. the republican party is going to raise an awful lot of money. in 2008, the john mccain campaign was outspent by the barack obama campaign 2-1. this time there was a report in politico this morning. we've confirmed it, that republican groups are going to spend $1 billion on the republican campaign and the house and senate races and the obama campaign wants to raise 750 million, but their outside super pacs are not doing as well as the republican super pacs. so he raises a couple million bucks with donald trump? he's going to raise the money anyway. >> you wonder if that's money well collected? >> exactly. or will it damage him more in the long run? >> you know, last week you wrote a good column on cnn.com suggesting that all of obama's campaign with romney and bain capital, not necessarily that productive and now we see the obama campaign beginning to focus more as governor of massachusetts. >> right. i spoke with someone in the obama campaign. oh both of these things are part and parcel of their rollout talking about romney economics. i think it's probably more productive for them to talk about his record as governor of massachusetts and they're coming out and saying he promised he was going reduce the state debt. he was going to lower taxes, he was going create jobs. they say he didn't do that. the romney campaign said we created more jobs than president obama has created. so game on. this is the argument they're going to be having in the campaign, and the president's people, why weren't you running on it? and then the romney people are going say to president obama if your record is so great, why aren't you running on it? so that's going to be our campaign. >> it sounds like it was short and sweet. >> it was a congratulatory phone call, and he goes over the top with 1,044 delegates in tampa and texas did it. don't go too far away. right now tens of thousands of jobless americans are bracing for a financial punch in the gut. their long-term unemployment checks are about to end sooner than many of them thought and that's a blow that many others have already suffered. tom foreman is here to tell us who is affected and why. what's going on, todd? >> this is the trap that's sitting out there for mr. romney and president obama because this is huge. right now we have 12.5 million people unemployed in this country and what's happening is the long term unemployment aid they were getting, the specific category in a deal that was struck earlier this year is now being pared back substantially for two reasons, one because many politicians know the economy is getting better and they're trying to get something about the deficit. the result is right now this year more than 400,000 people are now out of four benefits and this number will get bigger. look at the states and how bad the unemployment is, and the weird formula where some states are being bailed out and others aren't and every and it's been time and again by congress sxaul of the states have been told no extended benefits by the government and that's what's leaving people out on the lurch right now. >> here's a question, tom. some of those states have enormously high unemployment problems. how and why are they being cut off? >> that's the problem here, wolf. let's look at california. one of the issues is not at what unemployment is. this is well above average, but this is based on movement and unemployment, is it getting worse and by how much? california fell out of this program simply because their unemployment did not increase enough in a given period of time. 40% of that 12.5 million, 40% have been unemployed for more than six months. many of them more than a year. this whole system was set up on the premise that every economic problem was short term. this has gone on a long time and it's costing a lot of money and now they're simply running out. so the result is you have simple math here. state and federal emergency here if you add all of that up, that comes up to 79 weeks and an additional 20 weeks of federal extebdzed benefits bringing it to 99 weeks. by september we'll be gone by every single state, and once we get to this and you are out. that means whoever the next president is is very likely a massive unemployment problem still, even if the economy is recoveri recovering, if these people are out of work and a lot of financial analysts say that will make the recovery slow down een more. >> tom foreman, good report. thank you. >> mitt romney upstaged by donald trump ready to sound off on the latest controversy. >> and there are other billionaires backing mitt romney. you won't believe how much money they hope to raise for the november campaign. plus, a scary parasitic disease that's a major killer in latin america. many people are infected. what kind of threat does it pose in the united states? 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>> what a great vice president the senator would be. >> certainly, i said, they're getting him ready to be the vice presidential running mate for mitt romney, sending him to meet the prime minister. >> the republican party has supported israel. he is my personal favorite. he's done more than anybody i know that's on the short list. he comes from a swing state and he's a really, really smart guy. >> he's a former special trade representative during the administration, former congressman, now senator from ohio. ohio is very important in the electoral college. no republican in recent times has become president without carrying ohio. now they send him off to israel to meet with prime minister netanyahu. if there will be a debate with joe biden, that will be a big issue. >> i think it will be a big issue and it's very smart for him to be doing so. who knows if it's a coincidence. >> i don't think so. >> that's right. mitt romney needs someone with good foreign policy credentials. he's very weak on foreign policy. >> why do you say mitt romney is weak on foreign policy. >> he hasn't really had experience in foreign policy. >> he was head of a company that had business internationally. >> not in the context that you look at presidents. the israel issue is always an important issue in elections and it's always an important issue in the national policy debate. the jewish vote is very important. obama got 78% of that, and i still expect that the jewish vote will be very strong to present to president obama. >> he didn't have a whole lot of national security experience either. >> far less than mitt romney has, and he picked a vice president that had foreign policy credentials. >> joe biden, for 30 years, was a member of the foreign relations committee. >> and almost every single thing that biden supported the president's done the opposite. he's not for partitioning iraq. biden was against going in to get osama bin laden. so ron portman has a resume and a portfolio much deeper than foreign policy. particularly, he has a good, fiscal conservative and he knows how to balance budgets and understands the world of trade, and both skill sets and being able to work the hill, both sides, both chambers are very important. >> think ron portman would be a very safe running mate for mitt romney if he decides to pick portman, he's on the short list, and there are many others. >> he refuses to say, and he's submitted the income tax returns and he's not discussing that and we'll watch to see what happens. >> he seems to be the number one pick, not just from mary, but for others. >> a lot of viewers probably never heard of ron portman, but i suspect they will pretty soon. >> everyone has heard of the first lady of the united states and now ann romney has a new ad and it's a poignant ad and it talks about ann romney and her illness with m.s. >> when i was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, both of us dissolved in tears. >> that was my toughest time in my life was standing there with ann as we hugged each other and the diagnosis came. >> my life was in, you know, in jeopardy, and i was as vulnerable as a person could be. >> as long as it's not something fatal, i'm just fine. i'm happy in life as long as i've got my soulmate with me. >> it's a beautiful ad. you have a problem using that personal experience in a campaign commercial? >> i don't, wolf, actually, because i think that this is something that really connotes the humanity, not just of mitt romney, but of ann romney, too, and i've always said she is one of his biggest assets that helps humanize him which is something he need says. i only have a problem with it if it didn't seem genuine. this absolutely seems genuine and a lot of people going through that can relate. >> a lot of thing seems genuine. i spen