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And so for one last time, we saw the first african-american president standing there with the vice president over one shoulder and the speaker of the house over another shoulder. that is still an amazing sight. that's powerful communication there. i agree with everyone that but the speech really got started when he paused and said we the people. and then the first three words of the constitution and went into the section about politics. about our broken politics. i thought that was vintage obama. it was extremely powerful. he explained things well and systematically, but there was passion ther...

A realistic self-criticism. as the campaign unfolds, watch your favorite candidate for signs of improvement, and if you don't see it, you're probably pulling for a loser. are there any candidates which come to mind that are doing that, reflecting that self-criticism that he's writing about? >> well, let's remember, it's still very early. this has been an intense fall of the year previous to the election. i think much more so than four years ago. and maybe even eight years ago. but it's early. and they haven't had a chance to improve as much as i assume they will. individual candidates, look, d...

The other people who have lost children. enormous grief for those who have died but also enormous grief and self-criticism that they didn't know and couldn't see and weren't aware of what was going to happen. and yet over and over again, i found that the parents did not cause the problem and did not have the ability to know that this problem was out there. >> you spoke to peter lanza, the father of the sandy hook shooter. i know he has struggled with understanding how it could have happened. he was mostly estranged from his son for the last two years before the killings. was there any sense at...

The campaign manager said on that they will spend whatever it takes. so that's the 20 million. what we tried to get him to look at was how he goes from what he has been to what it might take to become the nominee, and he offered us details about the next phase of the campaign that in many ways make it more like a traditional campaign, television advertising, the use of surrogates, his wife and daughter are expected to come out on the campaign trail at some point in the future. clearly designed to help his image with female voters. they are working very diligently right now on making sure he is...

At all and i have been following him for the three days. >> we understand he has a bad back. he is not in the best of health, ron, but is he going. >> it's really been remarkable to watch him. my only criticism i would have of these last two or three days is is the way he has handled the sexual abuse scandal. yesterday saying praising bishops, u.s. bishops for the courage in the face of what he called, quote, self-criticism and all the costs and mortification and great sacrifice. to the victims of the sexual abuse scandal, and the advocates i think that came off as a little tone deaf. it's som...