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The senior administration official also tells me there is an acknowledgment in the administration of a trust gap with american citizens and also with foreign citizens and this has had an impact on american businesses abroad. you'll remember that yesterday, you had the heads of all the major american tech companies in the white house complaining about these effects because they have lost business overseas, to the tune of $35 billion, because their customers, for instance, in europe, don't want to have their communications monitored by the nsa or they're worried about it. you have the administra...

Patience that they are going to get what they are waiting for in the end. i think that's what is missing. you have a majority of americans that don't trust the president but that begs the question of do they fire certain people that were responsible for this disastrous rollout. some people say that might add to the chaos because think about the confirmation process which would be incredibly problematic. now there's an opening with the trust gap from republicans saying this is maybe an opening for us. i know this has been written about in politico, the republicans have gone with a blank sheet o...

>> i think some are secretly relieved. and the good -- the way paul ryan is handling this is he's being an ally of leadership without being an official member of leadership. so he's able to move the conversation away from obama care and bring conservatives along because he has strong political capital on the right and that's important for boehner who sometimes has a trust gap with his own right flank. >> just on this point, very quickly. i have learned last year that they did a survey, frank lunts did a survey of who the house freshman look to when they came on to the house floor, looked up on...

The center, they stay silent because of pressure from that block, pressure from the conservative movement and talk radio, and other interest groups on the outside. and so that little group is a little group. they're able to force john boehner's hand and really shape the conversation day in and day out on capitol hill. >> and finally, robert, given just the basic lack of trust that we're describing for john boehner, that sort of really hampers him, are there any republicans on his side who may be able to lean here and have trust. i am thinking specifically of paul ryan? he has been quiet this w...

Bridges that trust gap, that kind of fills in some of the doubts people have about him, chris, but i think that's an extraordinarily hard thing to do. i think it's unlikely he'll be able to do it and if someone said i wonder if he is even going to try. my sense is that it's just not something that romney or his advisers think he does effect live and i think they believe they can articulate the case in a little more detail with a little more repetition, that might be enough. i really think the big question that is tonight and the rest of the campaign, which path do they choose? open up romney t...