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a new career. i'm year yeah borrow ger and you're in "the situation room." it may not be everything, but aappearance is everything on the campaign trail. a lack luster speech, the bang promise by his campaign was more of a fizzle. the gap is down from six points on tuesday to two points today. joe, what exactly happened? >> reporter: well, gloria, mitt romney is still struggling to get his momentum back and today's speech was supposed to be a step in the right direction but for a bunch of reasons. you just would not call this mitt romney's perfect day. the front lines couldn't have...

>> supercommittee has another hearing. next tuesday. this week, the ceo director went in and said look, i know your deadline is not to wrap before thanksgiving but we need several weeks to figure out what you come up with to give at it score. we would like to get in early and november. november is tuesday. this week we had opening rounds from the democrats and the republicans. especially some republicans didn't support the one from their party because it had entitlement changes. where are we in this? this is a good sign that two sides have opening bid or bad sign? >> on the one hand, it's not ...

Work very diligently trying to come to some agreement. i can just say that, you know, having been through these discussions with the president all year and the senate leadership all year, the reluctance to do what we know has to be done continues to mystify me. this is not rocket science. >> speaker boehner added that entitlement changes were a key really to getting the deficit under control. you saw some of those in the democratic proposal but the tax increases are the problem. the supercommittee has until november 23rd to reach an agreement. if you are among the occupy wall street proteste...

Know, having been through these discussions with the president all year and the senate leadership all year, the reluctance to do what we know has to be done continues to mystify me. now, this is not rocket science. >> boehner added that entitlement changes are key to getting the deficit under control. the super committee has until november 23rd to reach an agreement. it does look like there are those cuts in there. it's hard to know the framework. >> yeah, you don't know the framework, you never know, harold ford, whether the cuts are real, what form the tax increases take on. i do hope, thoug...