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Federal workers have to go to food banks. within last couple of hours saying the shutdown is a glitch. i think the comments underscore the extent to which not only is there a legislative plan, there's no messaging plan. the president thought that simply talking over and over about the scariness of illegal ill grants. talking about crime would be enough to somehow win this battle. he's i think missed the other part of the communications, picture which is empathy. we know he has struggled to communicate in a wide variety of situations. when both he and his aides are saying this is not much, we'l...

Big corrupt big donor agenda to get out of the way. it is giving the american people a raw deal. >> harris: the anticorruption plank just one arm of the democrats broader messaging plan which they call "the better deal." that they first unveiled the plan last summer but has largely focused on economic ideas which is why my brain was breaking. why not the economy? >> lawrence: bad move, but jessica's party. >> harris: it's not all jessica. >> jessica: they were more of me. >> lawrence: they focus on things that americans don't care about. identity politics, anti-trap, russia, all the stuff that...

Before, and blumenthal has been outspoken of his criticism withf the president. this is a challenge for general kelly, to get stuff done in washington, to get obamacare repealed and replaced, to get tax reform done, you have to have a lot of message discipline and i think that's what they got to focus on this fall. focus on the agenda and not blame the republicans, let congress, that's not going to help you in the midterm elections next year. >> jon: talking about message discipline, they still don't have a communications director, right? >> they have gone through several. i think they are goi...

Committee change that? >> well, for one thing, gretchen, i'm not sure i agree with the premise but certainly some of those things have been out there. i think mitt romney has been very aggressive on barack obama's promises, the words that come out of his mouth, the results of his actions, the upside down nature of our debt and deficit are -- now he wants to increase taxes. our economy is not working. people know it. you just released a "washington post" poll that shows that we're in a dead heat. you know, four months ago, i was doing these shows and people were asking me whether we're going to...