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They actually call these murder boards, which i have a feeling is a surprise to our viewers. could you please explain why they are called that. >> they are called that because they are tough boards to go through. sometimes the murder boards are tougher than the hearings themselves. you are peppered by questions from 360 degrees. and this is part of the preparation process that a nominee needs to go through in order to put his or her best foot forward when they come before the senate. >> all about putting the best foot forward. part of that i imagine the number one rule, dan, if you are sitting...

We should say another debate coming up on sunday. but it shows what you the stakes are. i mean, ohio and iowa have been two states that have been very kind of solid for donald trump and you know if i were in the trump campaign now i'd be looking at this and i'd be worried about it. >> dana what's the preparation process from donald trump right now? what do you know? >> well, for sunday's debate, the first thing he's going to do is go to new hampshire tomorrow night and have a scrimmage, as one source put it to me, a town hall in public, the press is going to be there with voters who are going ...

Very presidential. my guess is that's part of the whole preparation process the president's gone through. he's not going to let mitt romney get under his skin because he's very conscience of the fact that that would represent a victory for romney. that would become the story of the debate, much as al gore's size became the story of the 2000 debate. >> the bridge of size. thank you. thank you very much. as we go to break, new poll numbers from our nbc news/wall street journal poll. in florida president obama has a one-point lead over mitt romney. 46/47. in virginia the president's lead is two, ...

Wrongly decided? >> i absolutely said, when i stepped up to the podium as an advocate, i thought that the u.s. government should prevail in that case and the statute should be upheld. i wanted to make a clear distinction between my views as an advocate and any i might have as a judge. i do think citizens united is settled law going forward. no question it's precedent and entitled to all of the weight that the precedent usually gets and i want to make clear as with any of my cases as an advocate, citizens united or any other case i argued, i'm approaching the cases as an advocate from a perspec...

With the united states government to do everything we have been asked to do and it is a shared interest of ours to see this, you know, solved. now, if you then say you don't have answers, it is going to be really hard to convince people of those objectives. >> absolutely. there is the expression keep it simple and that may be what he was doing. let's bring into the conversation kelly o'donnell. she's there on capitol hill. kelly, so many implementations that may come from this testimony. all eyes on those two minutes of tony hayward. what do you think everyone will think of it? >> all the note...