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one research team says truly define our country's politics. good morning from washington. it's thursday, july 26, 2012. a special 30-minute edition of "the daily rundown." i'm chuck todd. you have olympic fever, don't you? we have soccer coming up soon, uh i promise. let's get to my first read of the morning. mitt romney has had a busy morning in london on a carefully orchestrated week-long trip. just a short time ago he arrived at 10 downing street for a meeting with deputy prime minister nick clay. >> sir! >> thank you. >> romney has been careful and guarded. in a brief meeting wit...

and their mutual love of kit-kat bars. romney pressed the point that he doesn't plan to criticize the president abroad. he did so again in the meeting with milliband. >> while i'm on foreign soil i'm careful not to be critical of my own policies. i would be more remiss if i were to be critical of any other government's policy. >> that was a response to the question from the british press corps asking romney about the sort of definite-first approach the uk has taken and how it's affected economic growth. in a wide-ranging interview with mr. brian williams, brian asked romney ahead of ...

competitive and they're prepared to go overseas in a way that we're only seeing u.s. companies do now, but i think it's not the europeans we need to worry about. i think it's the other countries and i think we need to be more aggressive, we need to highlight the fact that we have innovation, the example of food when you look at 80% of them have some form of diabetes, the fact that we have healthy foods. del monte won all sort of awards. we do things competitors aren't doing, same thing in health care the same thing in other areas where we have a real advantage. i think that's what we...

>> there's another coffee mug in case you might have broken an earlier one. but check you lieutenant dan on line, u2, plenty of personal -- personnel are thrilled. i notice that -- [inaudible] [laughter] >> is that the end? >> that's not what i plan. that's not what i planned. as if on cue. but it can stay on the floor. i noticed very offer you're out there with the sunlight beating down on you. i thought lieutenant anything national press club had while he performs. [applause] how about a round of applause for guest speaker t...

it describes a scene in the moscow state house after cs have -- after cease-fire and in the 1973 war was being negotiated. this was leery. i recall sitting at a desk in a fairly large room, yelling over the phone at the communications people at the embassy. i was yelling because of the bad telephone connection, not because i thought it would help move the kills faster i might certain secretariat of state. i never believed that a loud voice had much impact on inanimate objects. [laughter] there were some 20 to 30 people in the room, all talking, and i was pretty much hidden from view....