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In part because obama has done such a great job of co-opting a lot of the positions and policies of the republican party in his view of american strength and power. and of course, i probably don't need to remind you that he has not even closed gitmo yet. his foreign policy, people who are conservative more than they are for the republican party, talk about very favorably. it will be a real problem in the fall to try to differentiate that. >> you may recall almost a year ago, romney gave a speech in las vegas as the libyan uprising began. when reporters tried to ask him questions about libya, h...

>> the fact is they have been embracing it for decades. fire side chats. that was one way fdr got his message to the people. i'm sure if his consultants had thought about it, he would have done a guest spot on fiber mcgee and molly. so there has always been pop culture expecting with the white house and ari is exactly right. not only was it a pretty good strategy to try to frame the message of the day in something that the white house knew would reach young people but it also serves to burnish the president's credentials as the first, probably truly pop culture president that we've had in a lo...

August nature and presence of the president. didn't jan brewer do that when she pointed in the president's face when someone shouted, when he was giving his state of the union speech and they said, you lied. that's diminishing the presidency. appearing on jimmy fallon? >>. no we expect the candidates to make their case wherever the people are. the people are in entertainment. the things that diminish the presidency in my view that are fairly bipartisan are, a campaign finance system that makes you spend a lot of time raising money, policy problems. these things. not how you make a joke. and wi...

The office of the president. is that right? okay. i just wanted to make sure. they're like outrage junkies. they have to have somebody to be outraged about. something the president did. >> so it is not air force one, it is that he is with jimmy fallon. >> right. the thing is that a lot of young people do watch late night and this is a great way to talk to young people. and it is getting harder and harder for campaigns to communicate with young people. there are less and less watching tv. they're hard to get their phone number. they're hard to find their addresses so this is one way that it is ...

Republican party is it's a fairly sort of establish mentarian party, and you think there's a chance he'll run. >> he doesn't have the policy problems with conservatives that mitt romney and newt gingrich do. >> it's an affect. >> hee seems to have have an inability to stop himself from poking conservative based people in the eye. i can relate to that. but i'm not running for president. >> the one problem he may have is he does say that it causes climate change. >> we should break up the banks to not pass the establishment. >> i think his bank proposal is getting interest from people, both mode...