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Cliff negotiations. and you don't have to stare it to know they're all men. how much is an optics problem and how much is a very real problem? >> i think the majority of the problem is optical and also a communications issue. even if you look at the timing of the rollout, some of his previous nominees. look at the chuck hagel nominee. they've been hanging them out to dry essentially. and for members of congress to have their opportunity to throw shots at them. it's been rather interesting and rare that the transition has been so bumpy, especially for a president going into its second term. but...

Had an optics problem in rolling these folks out back to back to back. so what you have them do, of course, is say, well, they've got all these other people who are sane in the cabinet. >> let me interrupt you there. i want to play exactly. the question, obviously, was asked yesterday and here is the white house' response. >> janet napolitano is the secretary of homeland security. the u.s. ambassador of the united nations is susan rice. again, i could go through the list. this president has appointed -- has made two appointments to the supreme court. both of them women. and i think that his co...

Something of a departure. kerry, unlike clinton, condoleezza rice and madeleine albright is a white man. this is the last white man to serve as secretary of state. look at him, warren christopher who stepped down in 1997 during bill clinton's second term. no woman or person of color led the defense or treasury departments. it was interesting to hear the name of american express ceo float this week. white house officials approached him for joining the president's nomination as treasury secretary. is the country's first black president facing an optics problem if the cabinet is white and male? s...

Didn't pay anything, that's going to be bad optic. >> right. keep in mind no one is saying mitt romney has done anything illegal. i want to make that clear. this is a -- political problem that he has. and as jonathan said and optics problem. if it turns out he didn't pay any taxes at all in 2009, how does he explain that to the satisfaction of the american people? >> we are not going to find that out because he will not release the 2009 taxes. that ain't going to happen. >> look, he is a good businessman. why not own up to and it say look, this is not only what he said, this is legal. i'm not ...

congressman arthur davis says he's voting for mitt romney this time around. he's going to tell us why. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." the cold war is long over, but a chill has settled in in the relations right now. the key shoous, moscow's support in the regime for syria. it may help fuel a brutal crackdown. president obama is addressing that issue headon at the g-20 summit in mexico. dan lothian is joining us right now. dan, what's the latest on this tension between the u.s. and russia? >> the two leaders met for about two hours. president obama saying the meetin...