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There are new polls in pennsylvania and minnesota that show that mitt romney is within striking distance and maybe even more telling, because you don't just follow the polls, you follow people and money, bill clinton was campaigning in minnesota yesterday. do you think that the obama campaign is worried about these states? >> i would say that i would get worried or i think maybe increase the level of concern about these potential battle grounds if you saw the principals going there. the most precious resource that a campaign is the candidate's time because that's finite with only six or so day...

Enormous amount of money into ads, the idea that you're going to actually change their minds with such little amount of time left it just doesn't make sense because you need in order to actually do that you need to actually have the ads showing repetitively for weeks on end. so, i'm not sure it's a smart strategy. i don't think it compensates for the ground game that the obama campaign has. it's a very strange strategy on the romney campaign to wait until the last week to go up big. >> i think people across the country would say the ads are repetitive enough already, so how could they get more...

could we be next? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." today we're coming to you live from cnn's jerusalem, israel. he left there live earlier today. he's now in poland with the president-elect. we're going to have a live report in the next hour from pole land. we begin this hour with my one-on-one interview with the republican presidential candidate. governor romney, thanks so much for joining us, in jerusalem. what a beautiful city. i'm sure you've been moved by what you've seen so far. >> it's a holy city, a city of a great and courageous people. my wife and i first...

The market will solve all of our problems on its own. if you agree with that, you should vote for them. i believe we need a plan for better education and training and for energy independence and for new research and innovation. for rebuilding our infrastructure and if you agree with me, if you believe this economy grows best when everybody gets a fair shot. and everybody does their fair share. and everybody plays by the same set of rules. then i ask you to stand with me a second term. >> they want to say what do you think of the two program sns. >> i think it's a smart strategy. i think he did...

>> we lost joe? >> yeah. he was with us via skype. it's just me and you, governor. i want to listen to something mitt romney said during that meeting with teachers in philly. take a listen. >> sure. >> i come to learn, obviously, from people who are having experiences that are unique and instructive, not just to me, but i think to the nation. >> we got you back there, joe. joe, let me pose this question to you. i'm not sure how much of what i just said you heard. i'll restate it here. mitt romney in philadelphia, essentially going not so much after black votes but as governor rendell just ment...