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Agenda? >> well, he has key staffers with him as well from his national security council team who can brief him on all the latest intelligence. so he's up to date almost as if he were in the white house. all of those duties follow him and the resources come here as well. then we expect that the tradition will hold on christmas day, that he and mrs. obama will visit some of the troops serving here in hawaii that are based here and have a chance to spend some time with them to celebrate the holiday with them, take photos with them, and we expect the president will talk to them. and that we'd see...

Abu is the ring leader, that he gave the orders, coordinated, et cetera from the base in syria, dispatched those attackers here to paris. what's interesting about him is he is extremely close to baghdadi, and it's the assessment of french authorities that he would not carry out a plot of this magnitude without the okay of baghdadi. in addition to that, and why this fits -- this is a credible connection for them is that baghdadi's grand plan has been, in effect, establish the caliphate, establish your base in iraq and syria, and then bring the war to the west, mimicking to some degree osama bin...

Maker in chief, and you have to be the pastor in chief. it's a role that, you know, fdr was brilliant at playing, and he understood that there was a kind of -- particularly in a culture where the president is so present in everyone's lives because of the media, the idea that he cares about you and is on the ground has even more power than it did when they were even more distant figures. >> mark halperin, the president's been criticized in the past for being a bit remote. there's some nice photos of him with people on staten island. i just wonder, are you hearing on the inside that this re-elec...

The first lady mixed the personal and the professional. it was a speech designed to address her husband's biggest vulnerability right now which is disillusioned democrats. >> change is hard, and change is slow and it never happens all at once. but eventually, we get there. >> with president's likability polls shrink over mitt romney, michelle tried to get democrats to fall in love again. >> i have seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are, no, it reveals who you are. when it comes to his character and his convictions and his heart, barack obama is still the same man i fell...

Tremendously distracting, personal story, for literally, tens if not hundreds of thousands of people in isaac's path but the rest of the country goes on and that is what the republican campaign has done. they recognize in a country this large that faces so many challenges simultaneously, wraps it is possible to hold a national political convention at the same time a hurricane lands. insofar as at the storm slowed things down and held up in new orleans and stalled there for a few days and brought more rain, there was a time when the romney campaign thought he would go there and visit yesterday ...