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Close collaboration with your allies. that's a difference from the bush administration. >> james, let me just ask you, when you talk about these decisions being made who are the people on the inside who really have obama's ear on this. when he has to make a tough decision who is he leading on foreign policy and national security? >> right. that's an interesting subject. the people you see outfront are hillary clinton and the defense secretary leon panetta and they are strong and important voice. but internally it's the people closest to obama on foreign policy, been there in many cases since t...

Bushes were elected because dems portrayed them soft on the gulf war. to supporters obama has destroyed that image. despite thanks to a steadfast disapproval of the iraq war, obama has shown himself to be a hawk, killing bin laden, aggressively hunting terrorists around the war. this is the first election in decades where the republicans cannot easily use foreign policy against the democrat. the challenge for bottom on foreign policy it's different. bill clinton's generation had come to take it for granted the u.s. was and would remain the world's dominant power. the obama generation saw itsel...

Make a mistake. but the question is if romney is down a couple of points or down in these polls, does he go for a bigger type of gamble in one of these begaits, sort of a knock out punch, tougher line of attack, those are southeast debates that will hav to be had within the romney campaign. you know, if he's down going into the fall in those debates. >> dave, thank you very much for joining us. up next we're going inside president obama's inner circle. and best selling author and veteran editor james mann tells us what's going on. we're waiting for that news conference by the board of trustees...

what jerry sandusky was doing, maybe not the full extent of it but they were aware enough he thought so that they could have done something to stop it. so, what will the short fallout be? just behind me you can't see it there's a statue of joe paterno outside of the football stadium and there are calls to have that statue removed. we already know that nike who had a child care center named after joe paterno has changed the name and take his name off that child care center. there's a library at penn state, multimillion dollar library with joe paterno's name and calls to take his name ...

enabling of sandusky's continued behavior. from the report they said that the continued access that was provide to sandusky was the very currency that enabled him to attract his victims. we're looking at the role of joe paterno in all of this. and what's incredibly troubling is paterno knew about the '98 investigation of sandusky when mcqueary came to him describing the incident that he had seen in the shower and nothing was done even though he already knew about that. curley, schultz and spanier, who are the other three that are talked about in this report had actually come up with ...