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An exciting part of the job. >> dan, exciting part of the job, twitter, or dangerous part of the job? i mean -- do you think he's going to tweet as president, first of all? >> oh, i think absolutely he's going to tweet as president. i think he's going to send signals through twitter. the question is whether he's going to be able to move the process. i mean the campaign is not the same as washington politics. washington politics is very complicated. there are a lot of competing power bases. there are the congressional leadership, there's the congressional chairmen, subcommittee chairmen. there ...

An exciting part of the job. >> dan, exciting part of the job, twitter, or dangerous part of the job? i mean -- do you think he's going to tweet as president, first of all? >> oh, i think absolutely he's going to tweet as president. i think he's going to send signals through twitter. the question is whether he's going to be able to move the process. i mean the campaign is not the same as washington politics. washington politics is very complicated. there are a lot of competing power bases. there are the congressional leadership, there's the congressional chairmen, subcommittee chairmen. there ...

Bunch. and they were pretty wild. but nothing compared to this. i mean you're talking some of the great live theater of all time now. and now what are we going to do? now what do we get? another supercommittee. >> what it's remarkable to me is that there are characters in politic who is come kind of cable news fodder, michele bachmann is a perfect example. they don't have a lot of power. what is so incredible about this is that all the folks that we kind of delight in showing you crazy clips of who are in better times, i assume, i guess side shows are genuinely running the strategy and calling...

I mean, you are talking some of the great live theater of all-time now. >> it is -- >> i'm sorry. and now what are we going to do? now what do we get? another supercommittee. >> michele bachmann is a perfect example, but in most cases they don't have a lot of power, wield a lot of influence. incredible about this, is that all the folks that we kind of delight in showing you crazy clips of who are in better times, i assume, i guess side shows, are genuinely running the strategy and calling the shots now in the house republican caucus right now. >> that's because there is no longer a republican ...

fighting to the finish. the war wages on in parts of tripoli where gadhafi loyalists continue to hold out. hello. i'm here at the cnn center. welcome to our viewers in the united states and right around the world of our special coverage of the crisis in libya. rebels say he was in their custody. but just hours ago, saif islam, the son of moammar gadhafi spoke outside a hotel in tripoli and his message was clear. the government remains in control of the libyan capital. >> translator: there have led through the sea and through other means gangs of people who are sabotaging and you co...