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The left to be trusted by them to go to the center. if you're a guy they never really trusted, if they go we thought he would do that and there he goes, your thoughts. >> i don't think people understand why he picked paul ryan. people thought it was because he was going to have this war of ideas. he picked paul ryan because he was thinking about this in the context of governance. he knows if he has paul ryan on his ticket, if he were to win the white house, he has one conservative who has authentic credibility with the most conservative people in the country which are house republicans and tha...

And he's just the signatory. he's a ride along to his own campaign. romney needs to get in his gut why do you want to be president? because that's what the american people want to know if you're looking at replacing the president who is already there. >> there's a larger question here, jim, as you cover the campaign. that there are things he wants to do or is willing to do he doesn't want to share right now. for example, what he wants to cut, what tax breaks he wants to eliminate. >> yeah. i mean, it's a predicament he's in. i think it is heart of hearts and i have talked to enough people who ...

Should take personality responsibility and care for their lives. he's saying, andrea, how does anybody deal with that? >> that is the most damaging part of it because he's suggesting not only that he can't get their votes but that he has responsibility to them as a future leader. now, let me just say, as joan just pointed out, that most people on food stamps are white. so he's speaking to a he have -- about a very broad segment. >> when he's talking to white people, that's now not how they say it. >> mitt romney wants to help all americans struggling in the obama campaign as the governor has m...

Describing a dysfunction campaign where losing air but not sure what to do about it. i'm joined by politico's editor and joy-ann reid, the romney campaign's missteps you described the dysfunction this that campaign. >> right. it's based internally on the campaign and externally among with stewart stevens and this lack of having a campaign message, the lack of having a plan to use the conventions and then use the time afterwards, this period between the conventions and the debates to really define romney with specificity, to show how he would govern barack obama.

It's the reason his campaign is out of whack. president obama was talking to a wealthy group of supporters, talking about the other america, the one that obama was serving when he dumped the work requirement for welfare. what does it tell us that romney not only runs tv ads but uses it to back up his wealthy contributors? the poor of this country are just freeloaders off society, the bulk of the political support is made up of such freeloaders? david corn is author of "showdown" which comes out tomorrow and joan walsh is author of "what's the matter with white people." let's watch, listen, and...