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Important people in the middle east. he said donald, you have done a tremendous service to the muslims. >> here's the thing. you know, you look at what is happening here. his penchant for controversy is eclipsing what other candidates are talking about. all the reporters are focusing on is trump. you have all of the candidates trekking through iowa and nobody has any clue what they are talking about because the focus is on trump. >> totally. this is trump's playbook. he says something controversial and he is criticized for it and defends it by saying i'm getting all of the phone calls and twee...

Acceptance speech. in many ways, you would assume there is going to be some campaign input. >> and you've seen that with the move he made friday. it's a campaign move, yes, it's following up on state of the union from last year, but this is looking toward november. >> can i just say about this small business, no, right. >> does any speech not have campaign elements by either party? >> this whole small business, the model of his administration is cabinet level, well, that will never change. who's ever going to take that away? and you wonder how politics of the moment expands. >> school uniforms...

Whether traditional campaign elements really still matter and the answer is yes, they do. attack ads work. we've seen that now in iowa. he's just been decimated by the ads and he has not had the money to run ads of his own in response, either attack ads of his own or ads saying it's christmas, why are they all attacking me? he hasn't been able to respond and even organization matters to that extent. he hasn't had surrogates out there on his behalf and he hasn't had phone banks calling to counter some of the attacks. it's really, really hurt him and even the newtgingrich.com thing and he doesn'...

Made by the breadth of information and evidence i'm able to review during that process. >> there is a few campaign elements being used here. doug jones is trying to fire up african-american voters, and he has this mailer out, and i know you don't have a tv screen in front of you but i'm going to describe it to you. it's an african-american male with a skeptical look on his face and it says this. think of a black man who went after high school girls anyone would try to make him a senator? what do you think of that? >> that's getting close to the g gutter. when you bifurcate between those who be...