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Manufacturing back, the one on the side of the working class, taking on china is donald trump. >> sandra: perhaps we can find some common ground with this. it is called the perception gap. it is how democrats the republicans, how republicans view democrats. and the actual reality of the situation, rather than just a perception. here is how -- what it reveals on parties holding extreme views of each other. fascinating. democrats and republicans, for the portion of their opponents holding extreme views, almost double reality. 55% versus 30%. some examples of the study uses on what democrats thin...

Market? >> putting it in their stock market and defending their currency, because to defend their currency, they have got to sell dollars, which means they have got to reduce their foreign exchange risk. >> what do you say, when the chinese leader comes here, what do you say if you're president obama? >> well, you say that the united states can really affect china's course. there's a number of things that we can do to tank china's economy and, therefore, really destroy its political system at the same time because the communist party depends upon the continued prosperity. >> why don't we do it...

Getting any of that in the polls. we are seeing housing markets, wall street, of course, some downturn, the unemployment numbers are coming down a bit. nobody thinks the white house is to thank for any of this. what does he have to do to close that perception gap? >> i think he has to hope it accumulates, the only way that happens is taking health care away from the problem. this is not about geeze, remember that housing program i launched that kept you in your house? remember that auto bailout in that's not what he needs to do. it's clear that it may help health care work. i think that that h...

Chris christie has the same opportunity in some respects. the contrast between what he's doing in new jersey and what cuccinelli is going to do in virginia today is so obvious. one path is extreme conservatism where the republican candidate emphasizes these issues and goes down to spectacular defeat in a purple state and the other is someone who is pro-life. checks the boxes for the republican party on those issues but doesn't emphasize them and is going to win a spectacular victory in a blue state. this is a model has that worked for republicans at the national level. the last republican pres...

Seriously by the people in your field. there's a delicate balance where she did it great. demo diva. that's in your face. i chose to kind of not completely go in that direction. >> you don't want to hide it either. >> there is space there. by putting myself out there, i'm saying hi, i'm a lady. >> there's a lot of variation by industry. i would completely agree with you. when i was at harvard, one of the things i was doing was consulting and advising governments. i had just a spectrum of colors from dark gray to light gray. so no chloroowe when i showed up, you knew who i was. there's no ambig...