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Big polls out this morning. >> mike allen with with the morning playbook. good to see you. >> good morning. >> there are these brand new politico polls out which could give key insight. let's talk first about the polls and get a little data about it. hays the situation? >> zooming in on the hot spots. of course, unlike presidential election where every state matters, mid terms there's only a couple of areas where the action is isolated. this poll interviews voters in the 16 states with senate races and the 66 most competitive house races as ranked by larry sabito. >> we have 89% that said fore...

>> i think that's the opportunity, if you can call it theater, the white house can say we don't do theater, john heilmann, but it is an opportunity to send a message that i am worried is potentially being missed if we don't hear something strong from the president like we've heard from david cameron who writes in "the times of london," we must turn this moment of outrage into a time of action. >> i loved listening to your father on television talking about this. he said he agreed with the president on most issues of foreign policy but he wanted to see a stronger articulation of those issues, s...

>> well, i must say as he jumps in and says that we have to vastly expand our nuclear arsenal, i mean this is an area where it's constrained by international agreements as it should be because of the risk of nuclear weapons. he's going very much against the structure that his good friend nixon and reagan previously followed. there is really so much at risk here of irrational action. right now we have an incoming president who has kind of the maturity of a 5-year-old wrapped by a massive ego. and to have that just a second away from a nuclear trigger is very, very scary. >> you mentioned the no...

Getting worse. it is getting worse, in part, because hamas has built a series of tunnels. those tunnels are being destroyed. it sparked action. of course, then you had the deadly killings of the three israeli youth and the palestinian youth and it spiraled out of control. two weeks later over 500 people dead. and the situation going from bad to worse. a lot of action in the international community. i think you're going to see a ramping up this week. >> richard haas, at one point, will israel's military operation be counterproductive in terms of both sides agreeing to peace at some point is thi...