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Jenna: governor romney surrogates will look at him as a man who really understands every day americans and the man who can fix the economy once and for all. this is going to start to happen at the convention as we get a new report that shows consumer confidence unexpectedly fell to the lowest level in nine months. we are still not doing great about this economy. neil toledo joins us from tampa. >> when it comes to the economy come if you think it's about specific policies and laying out the specifics of the policies? or is it about telling the story to the american people that they can believe...

. welcome back. while gernor mitt romney is abroad he said he will not criticize the current administration in his place romney surrogates in his place. joining me now is republican strategist and msnbc be contributor susan delpersio and jamal givens. given the gaffes we talked about this morning has it slowed them down. >> not really. it's july so these were unfortunate things that we hope hit a home run out of this. but, again, we're going to see a reset button next week when the jobless numbers come out. that's unemployment numbers. four more of those come out. that's going to reset the c...

Million. >> to that point, let me bring in hogan. hogan, yesterday we heard this line and we're also hearing it today from romney surrogates, that you have democrats not standing strong, at least three that i've named already, bill nelson, john tester, claire mccaskill in tough races. set that aside, if the benchmark was people who made over $1 million, hogan, would republicans compromise and agree to that? >> i'm not sure. i do want to address one thing that ann mentioned, and that's bill clinton. he's a democrat's democrat. he came out and said you shouldn't raise taxes on anybody. there are...

The democrats got grown out in the mid-term elections. it's because they lost that center group. and that gives me hope as an observer. i think what the white house is going to have to do is explain more clearly to the country what a second obama term would be like, where he wants to take the country what, he learned from the first term. i have a sense when i interview him in the white house that this is a president who has learned on the job. he's learned how to be president. if he could convey that, i think he has a tremendous advantage over romney, who just doesn't know many of these areas ...

Terms of what impact this will have. but i was fascinated to see the sub text going on in the attacks on gingrich from romney surrogates and various other g.o.p. establishment types. a lot of which seems to be this guy is a little bit unhinged. you know, you have people coming forward using words like erratic, irrational. you know, they are really challenging him on the temperament issue. it's similar to attacks we saw against john mccain in the 2000 primary, which was an effective line of attack, where they got the voters thinking is this someone you want with the hands on the nuclear footbal...