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Electability electability. a kinder rer gardner could have answered this. this undermines his argument that he's the best person to go up against hillary clinton. >> and he had told people that his brother is his best advisor on the middle east. and that's sort of an odd answer. >> it's a mixed message. he comes out of the box and says i'm my own man and then he apoints half of his brother's foreign policy team as his advisors and then he said he goes to his brother on advice to the middle east and if you're going to say you're your own man, then do it.

Big issues and then when you have politics 101 misstepped like this -- missteps like this a high school a kindergartener could have asked this where do you think you are on the iraq war, it is going up like against hillary clinton? >> and he sold -- he said that the president was his best adviser on the middle east. and if you are trying to differentiate yourself that is sort of an odd answer. >> it is a mixed message. he says out of the box i'm my own man. and then he appointed half of bush's foreign policy team. and they he said i go to my brother for advice on the middle east. and if you ar...

Lauer's question. he came out with an odd answer. we can talk about tax policy in quiet rooms. >> yes. >> that just hit me as the strangest idiomatic sound in a democracy. let's not talk about what kind of a tax structure we have with the people. let's have it in the quiet rooms where the people don't hear it. >> well -- >> does that strike me as elitist. >> you are exactly right. mitt romney is what a management consultant would create if you were creating a political candidate. he's someone which the more rules governed and exchanged, a debate, a big speech, the better he is. the less rules ...

Though? >> you know, i think it's fine to talk about those things in quiet rooms and discussions about tax policy and the like, but the president has made this part of his campaign rally everywhere we go, or he goes. we hear him talking about millionaires and billionaires and executives and wall street. it's a very envy oriented, attack oriented approach. and i think it will fail. >> this, chris, and this gets into a broader discussion of why romney needs to be scripted. why he's really good with a teleprompter and always gets in trouble in spontaneous moments. he seems surprised by matt lauer...

the governor says, well, i don't have a definitive answer because he's never seen my birth certificate. the interviewer points out this is an odd answer, but you, you've seen his. which governor perry reports, i don't know. have i? you don't believe what's been released? i don't know. i had dinner with donald trump the other night. the governor said, and i quote, i don't have any idea. it doesn't matter. he's the president of the united states. he's elected. it's a distractive issue. keeping them honest, if it's such a distractive issue to use governor perry's own words, then why bri...