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His initial reaction, 48 hours later. when we saw his initial reaction, and seems to me inadequate in terms of how we define what we want out of presidential leadership. >> was it inappropriate he began a statement today with comments about unemployment, jobs, the economy. >> well, that's donald trump, wolf. we've seen this from him before, we're seeing it from him today. certainly that's the conversation that donald trump in this situation would prefer to be having. he doesn't want to be talking about racial issues. as we saw during the campaign, if he is talking about race, ethnicity, it is ...

With somebody. the conventional wisdom is a president has an easier time as an incumbents. it's likely by the time we get around to this election the economy will perk you have and start to show signs of improvement and that could sweep him into a second term. but the question becomes who runs against him? they think the gop will nominate someone for the presidency who is strange, extreme or barely qualified. >> there are a few of those out there. obama recognize and his handlers recognize he is a better candidate than is a president. so they have switched him now from presidential mode to can...

Chief mode and show leadership and you're not going to be getting the politics at a time like this. romney, you can't switch into that mode, if you switch off of candidate mode, then you're just sort of nothing. you don't have an official platform. the media will not necessarily be coming to you to listen to you at all, you're ceding stajts to obama. look at the position that romney is in, if he was in a better position he could potentially afford do that. but he's running two or three points hoinds in the key swing states without any momentum in any of those states. he needs to do something p...