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With iran, deal with syria, and deal with others. >> you don't have to worry where nuclear weapons are going if you have putin. >> we're not talking about russia unraveling, we're talking about russia becoming more politically and economically open. >> so you think they've moved past where they were in the early '90s? you think there's a stable if not putin, you any they'll have a -- i've heard the mob runs rampant over there, it is extraordinarily corrupt. >> you've got depopulation given the demographic shifts, you've got a real problem. you've got a single crop economy with oil. but russia'...

Your health care cannot stay the same given the cost, trajectory, and inability for people to afford it much less the federal government as the biggest payer in health care. i think mitt romney understands that. he has said he's going to sign a repeal of the bill, and certainly in the house we've demonstrated our commitment to repeal that bill. >> it's clear that he has flipped on the issue, though. and it's maybe perhaps hard for some to understand exactly where he stands on this issue and some others. fair enough? >> well, i mean, listen, if the process that he has gone through and he has ar...

Virginia, and then you move on to ohio and these polls have the president ahead of romney by ten points, actually by 12 points in ohio. mark, i would ask the question this way. does anybody inside the white house believe that they are doing this well? does anybody believe? >> not -- >> that they're up 17 points. >> i think the polls probably show a bigger lead than actually exist for the president. there's no doubt he's ahead in the battleground states and at or above 50%. and that the republicans have got their work cut out for them to try to get to 270 electoral votes. it's been a bad period...

Like the secretary of state in indiana. it's usually not voters. it's elections officials. the voter i.d. is not going to eliminate integrity problems by elections officials. and so it is a solution in search of a problem. >> and now that's -- i respectfully disagree with you. fraud has been a problem in american politics for hundreds and hundreds of years. >> but not fraud by voters. >> yeah. i mean fraud by politicians or by precinct people that want to ship people in and figure out a way to get them voting. mark, is it -- is your understanding the same as far as if you decided to have someb...

However, are broken up by congressional district, meaning santorum will ultimately leave the state with roughly the same number as romney. welcome back, everyone. mark haleprin and harold ford jr. are with us along with michael steele in washington and tom brokaw joins the table. thank you so much for being onboard this morning. >> tom, you don't want to overstay the result of an election. but it seems to me last night, right now with you onset, i'm going back through the years. and this michigan win from mitt romney i would suggest is every bit as important as george w. bush's win in south ca...