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You gotta take care of your baby? oh yeah! welcome back to "hardball." we're back. tell me something to take away from this conversation. >> i think this was an extraordinary important moment. the president waded into a conversation that was already happening. he didn't create the conversation. this has been gripping this country for the last week. he recognized he needed to be a leader. this is what leaders do. by talking in this way, by talking off the cuff, without prepared remarks, not having an evening speech, the president showed you don't have to be an expert to talk about this. you h...

Reasonable voters who may be a little bit disenchanted with the president but who are going to be turned off by this stuff. >> so these are conservative dog whistles for a pack of dogs that's already running with mitt romney. >> already there, yeah. >> let's talk a little bit about the reappearance of newt gingrich because why not? it's such an endlessly entertaining point of discussion. let's -- newt gingrich talking on cnn about his role as the republican national convention. let's hear what he had to say. >> we're going to actually -- working with them right now on a project that i think yo...

Worst since the great depression. so the people who that attack is going to appeal to, they're already voting republican. the fallacy and the stupidity of this strategy is that these folks already are voting republican. they're going to turn out because they don't like barack obama. and joy's right. since you're not increasing turnout, you're losing reasonable voters who may be a little bit disenchanted with the president, but who are going to be turned off by this stuff. >> so these are conservative dog whistles for a pack of dogs that's already running with mitt romney. >> already there, yea...

earth. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." mitt romney is using ads, web videos, speeches to hammer away at president obama on welfare. romney is taking a lot of heat though over his claims about the administration's policies, but with support from an unlikely ally he's raising the stakes today. here's our national political correspondent jim acosta. >> reporter: wolf, mitt romney is not backing away from his accusation that president obama is trying to make it easier for the poor to receive welfare checks and to help make his case he's getting some help from an old r...

Better than anyone has ever seen. and, again, we were given an a-plus by the man who did this. did what you were doing for the clinton administration and while i don't know him, i would like to thank him for what he said. yes, sir. >> -- government loans to the power plant, right, not government grants? >> we're talking about possibly combinations of both. congress is working right now with the people and representatives of puerto rico. we're talking about potentially combinations of both. >> any thoughts on president bush's speech? >> i didn't see it. i didn't see it. >> sir, two days ago in ...