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Saying. i think they found out it was out, i didn't know it was ever in. i mean that. so... >> the reverence to jerusalem? >> that i knew waits in. >> that is something if you wrote the platform you had to know that was political dynamite. and that is -- you had to know. >> it's like congress. i mean, you're a caucus in congress can do stuff that the president. >> when want to help your candidate rather than sticking dine know might? >> activists in both parties are -- are far less moderit than candidates from -- the fact this is busy work for act ti vifs? you can put together a platform anywa...

Changes. we understand that the platforms don't really define a candidate per se. but at least for this week, they are part of the story. >> people were learning here today that they don't do you a lot of good. if you mess one up they can do you harm. i don't know why the jerusalem thing was dropped out of the platform. it has been in there, boilerplate language for years. maybe it was a mistake. i tell you this, the republican platform is different this year on jerusalem, too. every republican platform since 1996 has called for the moving of the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. every ...

Moments. we have had one here. just a simple news value that is a big, big deal. i think this is probably as someone earlier was saying unforced error. president obama, whatever he believes understood how incredibly stupid it was to do this on the god part. we saw they recognized it in the durbin childish outburst with you. they didn't have a good answer for it. he thought he could found the table and bluster through. >> bret: new york senator chuck schumer was asked about this and he said he thought that's what the democratic position was, that jerusalem was can capital. he said he didn't kno...

Platt form issues? the republican platform probably has omission people are catching tonight is in the democratic pat form had to do with the absence of the word god. the congressman just rev yense yensed -- reverenced many made reverence to god. >> there is process they call with a product. to take the word god out is a serious omission. >> do you think it was deliberate? >> it wasn't accident. >> and there is -- do you think we don't want this in the platt form? we don't want it in? >> i think that is the decision they made. it's been in several times before. looking at this, someone made a ...

>> i'm focused to take my message to the american people. the words from the obama came pain might be delightful, delicious and diversionnary but they cannot paper over the record of the last four years. american people know things are tougher for them. >> regarding the dnc late decision to reverse itself and include language about jerusalem as israel's capital in the platform, the romney campaign is continuing to put pressure on the president himself. saying now is the time for president obama to state unequivocal terms whether or not he believes jerusalem is israel's capital. mitt romney sti...