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Inaugural address perhaps than four years ago. this is what michael waldman wrote about the impact, full screen here. it has been an odd fact that this president has consistently refrained from making bold statements when he has had his widest and most consequential audience. you've government presidents your entire agree. would you agree with michael waldman's assessment of president obama's speech-making so far? >> no. as a matter of fact we've had some very moving speeches in the wake of tragedy when he was just putting forth the gun control agenda that he wanted to talk about. i thought it...

Inability to look at him and his di sear -- >> let's do that part. we're going to do theatrics right now. the dumb part of politics. could it be he can't stand looking at the guy. >> yes, but david's point is right though. it's systematically why would he suddenly start to be able to sell his accomplishments well on this debate stage when he hasn't done a good job of selling them for 3 1/2 years. >> but he hasp . in the last year, when he got his butt kicked in the debt ceiling debacle, he's been much better -- >> you're both right. seriously. they learned from -- >> are you from cnn or what? ...

She doesn't like the political part of speech-making. she made that controversial speech fours years ago which she said for the first time in her adult life she was proud of her country. is that the kind of thing she is trying to stay away from? have voters forgotten that? >> they have absolutely forgotten that. in fact her convention speech four years ago was so important in making voters forget about that. she had said that earlier in the summer and her entire convention speech four years ago was really designed to make the public love her. and it ink changed the public's feelings towards mi...

I think the time in term of the campaign time sort of will be september, you know, sort of when people are paying more attention as we get closer to the election? >> the other thing we should say is speech after speech after speech every day he lays out what jobs -- it's not like he hasn't -- hasn't talked about it. it's what the -- >> let me -- i've been critical in the past. let me say that they have been very aggressive and their speeches have been very focused. i think that from the standpoint of message is that obama has done very much better in the campaign for a month or so. this is som...

mainstream media until now. fox news pounds eric holder after a house committee votes to hold him in contempt while msnbc acts as the attorney general's defense lawyer. >> nobody in the mainstream media was paying any attention to this scandal. fox news was. nobody else was covering it. >> well, not quite. but have journalists blown the story, or is this scandal manufactured by the right wing media? and we'll tackle these television topics. ann curry appears to be on her way out at the "to dashow. why was her partnership with matt lauer such a flop? "20/20" sits down with rielle hunt...