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Th -- is obvious it seems to me. you can still intrude into american politics. >> let's bring in a.b. stoddard and national journal chief analyst, jim o'sullivan. political pluses and minuses of having donald trump on your team. >> truthfully, he has helped raise a nice bit of money for the romney campaign. he wanted to be a part of it immediately and he's held some very nice parties for mrs. romney on her birthday and mr. romney and raised a lot of money for them. so i think that mitt romney calculated that you need to keep your enemies closer and could not rebuff trump once he wanted to endo...

It's in their best interest to help out the nominee and get the voters fired up. get the funders fired up and be a part of this team and so, that's why everyone's clambering for campaign events. newt gingrich didn't want to be left out either and i think the romney campaign has a tough time saying no. >> should they be careful about this, jim? there's a downside, right? >> i think a.b. addressing a good point. they need to raise money. donald trump and newt gingrich speak to a very real, sizable part of the party. the tea party base. you saw gingrich do well among them. trump speaks to them on...

Primary. the rift for romney is sort of two-fold, that you get this consolidation and behind perry in excitement among his supporters to sort of backlash against romney and the other idea is that you put him on the same plane as yourself, you're mitt romney and the clear and evident front-runner do you want to bring a guy like rick perry who has the resources like we talked about, up to your level. so he's going to keep hitting him on immigration and i think that the short lived web video was entitled "ready to lead" you'll see mitt romney and others raise questions about rick perry's suitabil...

Cnbc, we appreciate it. diana thank you. well the u.s. has abruptly pulled its ambassador out of syria over security concerns. the state department says syria's embattled regime is to blame for credible threats against ambassador robert ford's personal safety. it is unclear when ambassador ford will return to syria. the move comes as syrian security forces killed four people in homs today. mitt romney is running neck and neck with herman cain in the polls so the person romney fears most would be rick perry? right? jim o'sullivan with the "national journal" thanks for joining us. >> thanks ...

Going to be resonating with people as they hear it? >> yeah, you know, i think not only in the weekly address but the visit he made to pennsylvania to penn state to talk about clean tech, the white house wants to stay focused on jobs, jobs, jobs. they know that's an issue, an issue that ultimately in november of 2012 voters will care more about that than what's going on in cairo. >> yeah. what about what happens in monday when the president will talk with the chamber of commerce? politically speaking, jim, is it important for the president to keep talking about jobs, keep that in the forefront...