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That is the president trying to get his base upset, excited, however people want to characterize it. but there is no crisis at the border. i visited the southwest border in 2010, when i was working for the united states senator george lamieux of florida. things have gotten better over the last 12 years. we're seeing the number of people attempting to cross illegally drop dramatically. so, no, i would not characterize this as a crisis. i hope that the president will be honest tonight. will be sincere with the american people and say it's not a crisis, could we do better? absolutely. i think mos...

Couldn't been happier. meanwhile, she desperately wants to get out there and smile and almost thank kevin mccarthy for handing her an easy -- i think this has always been a kevin mccarthy has been always praised for his political instinct for his political savviness and this was him committing a washington gap saying something a lot of people might have believed. to watch him backtrack like this. what i've been amazed at is watch so many republicans chastise him. >> i think there's plenty of people in the republican base upset at mccarthy too for this. thai taking the benghazi committee seriou...

Seconds without saying something that contradicts something he said the week before, the month before, that gets the base upset, that is confusing, that reporters can't quite understand? i don't know how he does it. he's tied himself into knots on this particular question. on the other side, i do know some obama aides who are a little worried that the president, who sometimes can be overly professorial, may use the time not to his advantage either. they'd like to see more succinct answers. they each have the opposite issue to deal with. how romney can speak coherently about health care in a wa...

The romney from bain or the romney from nordquist or the neocons? >> the interesting thing about the debate format is each candidate is going to be given a lot of time to answer some of these basic questions. that may not be good for romney. you get the sense, particularly on health care, while governor romney of 2003 could give a good ten-minute answer on health care and what he thought about it, what he wanted to do about it, what he had accomplished in massachusetts, how can mitt romney talk for five minutes on health care, even like 90 seconds without saying something that contradicts some...

And what he thought about it, what he wanted to do about it, what he had accomplished in massachusetts, how can mitt romney talk for five minutes on health care, even like 90 seconds without saying something that contradicts something he said the week before, the month before, that gets the base upset, that is confusing, that reporters can't quite understand? i don't know how he does it. he's tied himself into knots on this particular question. on the other side, i do know some obama aides who are a little worried that the president, who sometimes can be overly profess soral, may use the time ...