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It would be a tough texan. that tough texan would trouns them until they were tongue tied. did he do what he needed to do? >> he did. he was very effective and he was presidential. and that's what you need to do in that situation. >> he looked nervous. >> he was in the beginning. but he settled into it. and it proved the point. and i think i've heard tom talk about this. when you're on that stage with the president of the united states in a foreign policy debate, you've got to bring your "a" game. the best you're going to do is a "b" plus. >> like mike's been saying, mika, barack obama had hom...

Was messaging. that we are not going to have the sort of overreaching foreign policy where we were the united states to use what a former secretary of state once said, we're not going to go out in search of monsters to destroy and we're not going to remake a part of the world worth remaking. that represented a departure from a certain strand of republicanism, and it was very consistent, again, with the idea that what we need to do is take every discretionary resource we have, every marginal resource and focus it on domestic rebuilding. that was an important message. >> mike, mitt romney the re...

Even if it's by a small margin, he's president of the united states. why did he -- why do you think he did that? do you think it was a personal thing or do you think it was political that they said, hey, we really need to disqualify this guy the momentum's on romney's side. >> i think it was a combination of the two. i think when the full realization of how poorly he performed in denver washed up over top of him and hearing it from everyone knew he had to fight back and there were suggestions within the democratic party that the guy doesn't want a second term. maybe he doesn't want to be there...

Never-never option in effect. so i think probably netanyahu was very disappointed if he looked at the debate. but clearly in terms of mastery of the subject, a sense of confidence, sense of direction, obama had it last night. >> and i think we all agree with you on that point. we have been talking, though, for some time during this campaign, dr. brzezinski about mitt romney has adopted more traditional neo conservative position. last night, as you said, mitt romney seemed more moderate on iran. he seemed more moderate on libya. he seemed much more moderate and much more the realist on extendin...

He still needed to go out just as he did in the second debate, forget denver, i'm aggressive, fighting for this job. and he believes having studied mitt romney's statements on foreign policy it's disqualifying, he shouldn't be commander in chief and he wanted to prove it on every answer, every opportunity to say you guys need to focus on this man. his statements are too inconsistent, much like george bush and john kerry. >> i think you may have seen with the president a man who believed that his opponent was unworthy. >> yeah. >> and these flip-flops on foreign policy -- >> just like bush and ...