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Some states, like virginia and colorado, that was okay because our cushion was bigger than that. florida, north carolina, iowa -- ex cue me. pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin, it wasn't enough. so more time in those states. we spent a ton of time in pennsylvania and we spent a lot of money in pennsylvania and we still loss. we lost that state worse than wisconsin and michigan. >> we just got the recount numbers from pennsylvania today. they showed actually with the new total from the recount, which has only changed a little bit, one notable finding in that is that jill stein got more votes ...

But what we think accounts for the big dropoff -- i'm talking about a big dropoff, like five to two points in each of these states, is the comey letter. and that isn't to say that there's not things that our campaign could have done better or differently or in retrospect that we would do differently. i have dreams that i understand we have a problem, we have a week to fix them and then i wake up and it's not true. so there's a lot more that we could have done but we had accounted for all of our challenges and our problems and we were positioned to win and i think that comey letter was just -- ...

Immigration reform to the "state of the union" address next month. bret? >> ed henry, thank you. tomorrow is gun appreciation day. tonight we have new polling on the gun issue. 71% of those surveyed say tougher laws will not prevent an act like the newtown, connecticut, school shootings. 22% disagree. 58% think there would be less violent crime if more people had guns. 28% say banning guns would lead to less crime. more polls in a bit. the t.s.a. is removing some of the full body scanners at airports. the machines that use x-rays to produce detailed images should be gone by june because of p...

Well, we're back to 200 electoral votes on each side. so good news for the president today. >> what do you base that? you're better at explaining that. why is it basically if they get their act together still a 50/50 country? >> because there's still a lot about the president's record that if they execute can go after. as well as the president is doing, go to the electoral college, which is how this is decided. there's few states that senator mccain won that the president has a good chance to win. arizona is one. after that, bst a big dropoff. if the republican nominee emerges from the contest...

Sector and in fact willing to propose radical change. >> chris: i want to get into one last thing in this segment and that is the third quarter fund raising efforts are out. perry and romney lead the field by a wide margin. the first number is what they received in the first quarter. can we go back or is that going create some huge problem? there you go. wow, we were able to do it. the first number is white is how much they received and the other is how much cash on hand as of the end of the month and romney and perry in the teens and the millions. a big dropoff. and now let's go to the last t...