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>> oh, my. >> the first thing they do, you can't bring notes. they start scribbling the notes. that's right. howard, never heard oops before in a national debate. >> props to john harwood for milking -- >> was he brutal. >> for all it' was the cue de c. what this shows about the primary season, how the leaders of the race were. >> oh, yeah. >> michele. >> michelle bachmann. we had newt gingrich. we had rick santorum. we had herman cain and rick perry. five of them, perhaps inartfully refer to them as the clown posse, but when they all left the stage, mitt romney was the guy left standing, by t...

Couldn't do it the way bill clinton did, probably because the kind of case he had to make, somebody other than the president had to make. if the president himself says we were in a terrible situation when i came in, it doesn't sound as compelling as when somebody else said it. >> i had a moment like that in new hampshire when clinton was running the first time, had gotten through the draft letters, the problem with the girlfriend, that was behind him, the draft letter was killing him. went out in front of the field houses and high school gyms and spoke in the round and he would go on the last ...

Gotten elected a third time. >> i look back at the second roosevelt term as a problem because he went very conservative then, cut spending and browse us into a second -- brought us into a second part of the great depression which he didn't have to do. it was done by policy. i think eisenhower had the problem with sherman adams, his chief of staff betrayed him for money. i want to try something by you, a theory, it may be changed by history, first president, first term you pick the best people you can for your cabinet, the best people around, spending your life looking for them and come in and ...

Really tough re-election situation, along with a pretty popular governor of new jersey. the president at a press conference with new jersey governor chris christie. a week before the election. let's listen. >> what i can promise you is that the federal government will be working as closely as possible with the state and local officials and we will not quit until this is done and the directive that i have given and i said this yesterday but i will repeat and i think craig and others who are working with me right now know i mean it, we are not going to tolerate red tape, not going to tolerate bu...

Republicans today. now, whether you or i have our questions about going into it a country taking a head of state, the president did do what he said. and what the republicans said he couldn't do. so putting aside whatever questions progressives may have, how do you handle how the republicans are handling this? >> well, from the very beginning, i supported this policy based on what libyan americans in my district and all over this country were telling me, gadhafi's a brutal dictator, the revolution was organic, they had no legal means to get him out, they couldn't vote him out and the president ...