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With governor mike huckabee, someone whose name is offered as a potential secretary of commerce, potential secretary for hhs, health and human services. they'll sit down later today and going into the weekend, of course, a big meeting scheduled with mitt romney. sitting down, and in bedminister, new jersey, where donald trump has a golf course and hearing from aides, his name considered for secretary of state. a lot of interesting meetings. picks today you noted, but many, many more to come. brianna? >> and sunlen, we're still seeing no picks for defense secretary, secretary of state, as you m...

Twiddling your thumbs but a lot of pacing. >> imagine driving in the daytona 500 and then getting stuck in traffic. you go through a breakneck pace for anywhere from a year and a half to two years then on one day it becomes 24 hours of reflection and that's the hardest part. >> how do you deal with winning and losing. mitt romney had a victory speech prepared and not a loss speech. i remember that night i was in ohio and getting e-mails from people close to romney saying "we've got ohio" and that's not how he went and he lost. how do you deal with that? >> one of the myths of the 2012 campaign...

Well. obviously, you're supposed to project confidence when you work for a campaign. they're a little more specific. they say they're well positioned in a couple of key states. they talk about florida, north carolina, new hampshire, and michigan. pennsylvania not one of the states we heard them mention, at least in our conversation. all those states, obviously, would be crucial. donald trump, his aides say they have six separate paths to carve out their way to 270 votes right now. it's unclear what they think their strongest path has been. michigan and new hampshire have been principle. north ...

This last week is going to be a breakneck pace for the campaign. they have no choice. they have to try everything if you look at the average of being down by about six points. >> we find it fascinating the data operation would let in reporters and want to do a piece like this before the election happens. this is one of those times, post mortems that happen. i find that fascinating. >> yeah. i mean, i think what it shows is that in a lot of cases these are people who haven't really done this before and are eager to prove that they have something legitimate because there has been so much talk ab...

And putin probably thinks it makes him look powerful. but in reality, russia and putin have some very serious problems. as nick butler pointed out recently in an excellent financial "times" piece, russia's economy is in big trouble because of its dependence on selling oil to survive. according to trading economics, between a fifth and a quarter of russia's gdp comes from the energy sector. and it accounts for 65% of its total exports. in other words, it's the major mover in the russian economy. meanwhile, oil prices have plummeted over 50% in little more than a year. russia's economy is foreca...