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Are not on the same page on syria. john kerry says hey, the president's in receipt mode, we are all giving him ideas. >> certainly hillary clinton is an outlier there, too. we will all be watching. john, thank you so much. great to see you again. i'm sure you really miss the house. speaking of the house, wisconsin republican congressman reed ribble joins me. last week he announced he was leaving the house freedom caucus. why getting out? i-was involved with the caucus right from the beginning and the original intent there as we put it together was we wanted to change some of the process that...

Accurate. of those 70 million americans that don't pay federal income tax, 42 million work. and many of them work in two or three jobs and make less than $19,000. can you say, chris, those people don't accept personal responsibility, working two or three jobs just to feed their families? they're inaccurate, insensitive, almost callous in disregard for the american people. it is just a stunning statement. and those commentators among the republican party got it right. i mean, i'm not sure it's retrievable at this point. >> let me go to john. john, as a political partisan, do you believe what is...

Disparaging just about half the electorate. simply as a matter of appealing to the electorate, the way he put it was about the worst possible way. >> well, former george w. bush speechwriter, david fromme, wrote this in "the daily beast," today, "mitt romney has just committed the worst presidential gaffe since gerald ford announced in 1976 there was no soviet domination of eastern europe." that's a status to meet. peggy noonan says this, "it's time to admit the romney campaign is an incompetent one. it's not big. it's not brave. it's not thoughtfully tackling great issues. it's always been to...

He's got to be more political in his language. as the governor said, he has to connect better with voters, especially in ohio. i don't think this is irretrievable. i think he can still win. he has three debates where he can lay out his vision but he's going to get on it and be much more practical and much less ideological if he wants to win this thing. >> but chris, i would quarrel with john about one thing and that is, republicans are trying to spin this that governor romney misspoke or did a bad choice of words. i think we got a very unusual view at the very soul of what he believes as a pol...

It's almost to the point where scott brown and are going to say forget about the top of the ticket, vote for me. they'll cut him loose. if it's retrievable at all, they have to do what john says. they have to talk about concrete examples. if the pew poll is anywhere close to right and he's eight points behind now nationally, it's time to throw caution to the wind, get out there and specify what you're going to do. give the american people concrete plans. see if it works. you've got nothing to lose. if it doesn't work, you'll lose at this point, looks like you're going to lose anyway. so, go ou...