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President. his team is framing this around visiting a holy land site. you have mcmasters saying no president has visited the homelands of the jewish faith in one trip. the first speech he will give about islam. considering his rhetoric about islam, how does he walk this tight rope? >> i think that's going to probably be the most controversial and fraught public message the president is going to deliver because he's balancing all kinds of things unbalanceable. people don't want you to tell them what their religion is all about. second you have the constituency problem. he has used phrases like ...

Deeply weakened party going into the next presidential cycle. >> and inside you have eric cantor looking over the shoulder -- and i think it was on the cover of "politico" today -- of john boehner. nobody thinks that eric cantor is going to be a kinder and gentler face for the republican party. you know, there was palace intrigue. there was quiet movement among conservatives to vacate the chair which means they would have voted against john boehner. and if they got more than 16 to vote against john boehner, then the chair is vacated. you need a majority. and they had the votes, people that wer...

Problem like this. number one the base doesn't trust him or like him. number two to fix that he has done everything he can to attract them. number three, number two hasn't working. four while attempting number two, he alienated key general constituencies, so he is in a box. does he try to fix number two or pix someone that help with the constituencies in number four that might deliver or help deliver a state. i personally would bet on the basis. smolders hait toward the president, and try to get someone that can help in a battleground state or fix a constituency problem. it sounds like an s.a....

Battleground state or fix a constituency problem. it sounds like an s.a.t. question they once failed. >> look, i think a play to excite the base, to me, given where romney is, yes, i think he needs to do that. i also think he would like to get someone in a could be history making in some way to counter the barack obama being the first african-american and ideally someone of a swing state. if you go by those three criteria, it seems to many that marco rubio is the first pick. he is a hero, cuban american, and from florida. you never know, and rubio is new to the national scene. the argument is ...

Elected him. this is some red meat he can throw out there to please them. and i think to the extent that it's that kind of base politics, this may work. and i think he will look for other opportunities to do that. i think the broader politics of it -- i mean, i haven't seen a lot of polling on transgender service in the military. i'm sure we'll see it in a week or so, now that this has come to the forefront. but the polling on those local laws on bathroom rules and saying that people have to use bathrooms that match their sex at birth, there is a bare majority that opposes those sorts of laws....