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Incumbent. but at the same time, incumbents are all in trouble here, and you've got a very aggressive opponent in andrew romanoff. >> yeah. it presents a challenge. because i've never run for office before. i've spent my life turning around distressed companies and then most recently, working in local government and then leading a reform of the denver public schools. and one of the things i've noticed about what's different about all that work compared to this work is that when you actually are working in a challenging environment trying to fix things, it's very important to diagnose the probl...

Do you have any newer polls, any tracking that shows where it stands right now? >> we do and things are improving, and it doesn't surprise me. what happened, andrea, is an ad that was put up on the television that was absolutely false. a terrible attack that the state's largest newspaper said was false. all of the tv stations in denver that do these fact checks say it's totally false. and we've within now able to respond to that and set the record straight. and i don't think people in colorado or primary voters are going to be fooled by this attack. so we're starting to see some positive movem...

Progress. you just heard the president talk about how the auto industry is getting back on its feet. we've seen six months now of positive private sector job growth, and we know we're not where we want to be, but i think we also know enough to say that the american people don't want to go back to the same bush economic policies that created the mess in the first place. and the more you hear our republican colleagues talk, the more people will see that what they're proposing for the future is no different than the economic policies they proposed that got abuse this mess. and people want to move...

In terms of head winds, because you've got the charlie rangel/maxine waters problem, where you've got two very high-ranking veteran democrats facing ethics charges and the potential of trials, public trials in the house ethics committee in september. how do you deal with that? >> i'm glad you asked that. it's another example of how we've actually strengthened the ethics process. the reason people are hearing about the case of charlie rangel and maxine waters is because we've put in place accountability measures to make sure that we have high standards and that people are held accountable to th...

>> and that's a good news story. i think it's very important for everyone to understand that the success we have here in identifying these individuals stems from the community itself coming together, identifying problems. and then working with law enforcement. the somali community of the united states is very well integrated, but they have very strong ties back to their ancestral homeland. it's incumbent upon community leaders as well as families to identify leaders as they start to come under the sway of radical jihadist philosophy when they become motivated to notify law enforcement and noti...