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Next fall will determine a lot more than that squabble that went on there. >> but at the same time, 20 million people have watched these debates already. it's an extraordinary number. and i think that people are so intensely focused, precisely for the reasons that jack and harold have been talking about. the income disparities, and the suffering, the economic pain that people are feeling. and they're looking for leadership. and the question then becomes, which of these republicans in that kind of squabbling match are showing that kind of leadership. >> i think the debates have been consequenti...

Shown what we've got here. it's not a primary process. the primary process you have several plausible candidates, and they go after each other. we don't have that. we have one plausible candidate and a bunch of other guys who are prepping him for the obama onslaught. so basically they attack him. we thought perry was plausible. so far turned out not to be. so they're attacking him, getting him ready for what obama is going to unleash on him. and so i'm grading it on how well he is doing it, and i give him like a b-minus. there are two things he has to really get ready for. one is the flip-flop...

Us -- >> a b for economy? >> a-minus. i gave him a-minus. not an a-plus. he has to sustain what he does. if he does that, i agree with you. >> i wish i had your class at nyu. >> arianna. let's talk about your grades now. >> economy. economy. c-minus. no question. economy is big his failure. jobs, foreclosures. we're expecting another 2 million foreclosures, just to remind you. foreign policy, i give him a b-minus, purely on afghanistan. we all agree on that. bipartisanship, give him an "a." what are you talking about? could he have been anymore bipartisan? >> oh, my lord! i haven't talked to r...

That's pretty nice. >> i agree. i gave it a beezus' minus. >> oh, oh. >> it's good. i wouldn't recommend this movie for everybody. i think it's really targeted towards young girls, and for them, yeah, it's a good, solid "b" it's above average, but barely and you know they'll enjoy it. >> all right. high grades, "a-minus" for salt and "b-minus" for this one too. pete from "box office" magazine. coming to us from l.a. again update you on a story that we continue to watch. this coming out of iowa, a dam has broken near the town of monticello. it has led to the evacuation of a town of hopkinton....

Political capital. take a listen. >> that must be frustrating. you've had an enormous about of political victories. it's not translated into political capital with the public. honestly, are you frustrated by that? >> i'm not frustrated because we were in such a deep hole, that even if we got three-quarters of the way up out of the hole, even if i know we're going in the right direction, people are still feeling -- >> you think it's all the economy? >> katrina, there's a couple of the theorys to this. that economy and nobody will think anybody is going well and any of these ideas are any good. ...