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It up for us, cal. >> first of all, the president was set up to say this by matt lauer who used the word butt-kicking and the president took it to the next level. >> and suggesting he didn't think the president was sufficiently angry, but the media is complicit in this. they're the ones that built him into a kryptonite defying superman. he was the man, he said it himself. lower the waters and he could even walk on water, including in his-- as far as many of the press were concerned, but now, it appears that he's mortal like the rest of us. and all of a sudden, there's buyers remorse that's kic...

That was president obama in a web video message for the democrat national committee that they hope will rally supporters to bring in $50 million in the plan they will spend to get out the vote in november. how are they going to do it, spend $50 million to get the young people to vote? former virginia governor tim kaine is chairman of the democratic national committee and "time" magazine mark halprin, co-author of "game change." his latest column is about president obama and the 2010 election. gentlemen, thank you for joining us. governor, it's important to have you. i want you to respond to th...

Normally. this last time was an exception. this coming november won't be an exception. how do you get young people to vote? >> this plan as it is designed and as they plan to execute it including employing the president is no crazier than the notion you could bring out new voters in the iowa caucuses in 2008. a lot of people were skeptical of that. you have to give the operation a benefit of the doubt that they now how to energize these people in an off year employing most importantly the president. he has a personal connection. >> you believe he can replicate what happened in 2008? mark halpr...

Seriously. what the president said in the video is our plan, chris, in the midterm. we have to energize voters across the spectrum but we're focused heavily on the first-time voters from 2008. and we just know who they are. there was about 15 million people that registered and we were part of registering them for the first time in 2008 and it's an electorate in that group of 15 million that are heavily young, heavily new americans and minority voters and women. that's just who they are. this is a group that would normally participate pretty heavily in a presidential year but then the turnout w...

If they make a faux pas, they aid poll jazz to their knees in the next 24 hours. he's the leader of the party. he's tribal. >> they're trying to stoke that up. anybody who stood up to rush, 15 names. and they caved within five minutes. he's trying to whip up that kind of feeling. mark is right. mark assessed this pretty correctly. >> using race? >> are they using race? >> they're using a lot of emotions and a lot of motions out there. here's the good news. the republicans are not negative angry people. in the time of concerns, they want can-do people. if it's health care, arresting taliban lea...