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>> joining the table is melissa harris perry, host of msnbc's new show "melissa harris perry." melissa, i want to go to you first. is this a winning argument for the gop going into 2012, this birth control/contraceptive argument? >> i don't think it is. and part of what's been so fascinating about watching this for me has been the distinction between this and the moment when john f. kennedy was running for president. and the anxiety around the possibility of the first catholic president was this idea that the pope and the vatican and catholic values would be able to impose themselves on govern...

Mentioned in the president's new messaging is the 99% occupy wall street, and the president has not come out and said he owes any certain amount of debt in terms of messaging to the occupy movement, but to what degree do you think the white house listened to that, and that was influential in crafting this newer, sort of leaner, meaner, fighting machine message? >> look, i think the argument completely changed from the summer, in which it was all about being stuck in a congress that was dysfunctional, endless negotiations, and all about dealing with the debt, to coming into the fall and talking...