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Potential candidates for 2016. what can you tell about each, david, and what the takeaon the state of the republican party? >> christie has his own re-election to deal with. and then dealing with 2016. he's now going to endorse the republican candidate for governor for senate, cory booker which some people didn't think he would do. rand paul, chris christie has been critical of folks who are libertari libertarians. is there room for both in the republican party? that's what they're arguing about. that's the question going forward, if he'll tread both sides.

Joining me by phone is david knack mu nakamura. >> we issued a statement that the u.s. would halt joint military exercises. what are you making of the president's strategy thus far? >> i think that the president's concerned a tough line on one hand and not going too far on cutting military aid. that's the big question whether the administration will eventually call this a coup. the administration has been concerned about doing that. they think they could cause further unrest. that's the challenge right now. they're hoping some of the changes last week will make a difference. they'll have to wa...

Foreign policy to the economy? >> yes, i definitely think so. i think this election isn't going to be won on foreign policy. it's going to be won on the economy. you saw that in the last debate there was only one question on foreign policy. so i think that you'll see maybe the president talk about energy a little bit, and the economy, and how he's continuing to improve it. and you know, he's also going to tout foreign policy a little bit, too. he's going to say, you know, we did capture osama bin laden. he is dead. we did bring an end to two wars. you're going to see all of that on monday. >> ...

Is this label going to stick, romnesia? >> oh, yeah if i were to put money on it, alex, i'd bet it's here to stay. i think that it was a catch phrase on twitter all day. it trended worldwide. you saw vice president biden using it. they've obviously poll tested it. this is something we're going to hear through the end of the election. >> i don't doubt you, come to think about it. anyway, david, mitt romney countered the president's comment by calling it a pretty attack. he also called the president's campaign a quote, incredible shrinking campaign. do these kinds of attacks, when either party, ...

Had the greater impact than what they would have been trying to do to bring down the president? >> i think you could see that from the way both sides responded to this non-campaign when it came out this week, that you had the republicans very much running away from it and saying, no, let's keep the focus on the economy. let's not get into this kind of gutter politics. and the democrats really trying to bring it front and center and say, look, this is who these people are, this is what they're about, they care about these kind of nasty, sort of plays to that small segment of the republican base...