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And peter alexander, a new dad. to you first, peter. let's talk about the president's role today. he's just arrived in chattanooga, tennessee. he's going to offer an olive branch to republicans. is that enough? >> reporter: we'll see. so far it doesn't look like the republicans are very satisfied with what they expect to hear from the president. we've already heard from speaker john boehner's office. they insist that they didn't even hear from the president in advance. white house says that's not the case, they reached out early. here's what's at stake. president is going to give these speeche...

I think this could potentially -- we all have to add potentially, we don't know what this whistle-blower is going to say. potentially be quite damaging to the justice department and why they signed off on this. it doesn't come to the question of hillary clinton and her decision, there have been a lot of issues we have raised for years about that, on "fox news sunday" we did reports. there are questions about donations to the clinton foundation. as you pointed out, huge half-million dollar speaking feast of bill clinton. this whistle-blower isn't going to be able to talk about that. he knows ab...

But his supporters tried to clarify romney's role today. >> he was not responsible for day-to-day decisions or the management of the company at that time. he was on leave. as harvey pit was quoted in a story about this, it is standard though to while you are on leave to sign those documents for the sec. he was still ceo and had shares, but he wasn't responsible for management. that's the bottom line. >> other republicans suggesting the president may lose critical support over these attacks on romney. >> remember who is up for grabs in this election, independent voters. they were drawn to obama...