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This year is also from small donors. elisia mendez and jeff johnson. so barack obama has more than 8 million followers on twitter. almost as many as lady gaga. is this really, jeff, the way of the future here? >> well, it is the way of the future from a communications standpoint. but the administration and the president is not only not going to win the future, but they're also not going to win the white house online. if they don't have a clear message. obama's success in '08 was really about a message that people could resonate with. and he was able to connect with people with that message. if...

On them then maybe it's okay. does that mean it's okay for qaddhafi to stay? that's why the american people are yearning for their president to be a little bit more clear and speak to them directly, i don't care if it's from the oval office or elsewhere. it could be from the golf course if he wants to do that on saturday as he usually does. they are delusional if they think they don't have a communication problem. martha: put yourself in their shoes. you've rightfully acknowledged the difficulties of how to speak about it, it's a very fast-moving and fragile situation in so many ways. if you w...

Be restrained in that i don't have all the information that they have there at the white house, right, they've got the situation room. they have the intelligent. and president obama is probably given lots of different advice of how and when to make that comment. then he made that decision. to some of us, it looks like he's a step behind like at a school concert if someone is one beat behind, it sounds a little off and you think what's going on here? >> maybe they got a reason. >> i think from a policy standpoint, i think they were late. ok. but now, fine, they're catching up. one of the things...

To handle this the way that they want to handle it the reason from a communications standpoint that you don't say anything usually because the lawyers advise you not to because -- you don't want to jeopardize the investigation and make things worse for yourself. they might already believe, both representative rangle and representative waters that their fate is sealed. they might think that they are going to be found guilty, even though in their minds they don't think they have done anything wrong. they thought well, i'm not going down alone. i'm not going to go down silent. i'm going to go dow...

A couple of reasons. one would be that they just decided to throw out the playbook and that they are going to handle this the way that they want to handle it the reason from a communications standpoint that you don't say anything usually because the lawyers advise you not to because -- you don't want to jeopardize the investigation and make things worse for yourself. they might already believe, both representative rangle and representative waters that their fate is sealed. they might think that they are going to be found guilty, even though in their minds they don't think they have done anythi...