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Trafling with the president and joins us live. and without being overt about it, did the president intend to send a little message to the romney campaign with his visit today? >> reporter: well, it was interesting, martin. president obama never mentioned mitt romney by name but he seemed to be trying to send him a message as well as to the voting community highlighting what he sees as his largest foreign policy achievement, ending the war in iraq. this is something he promised to do when he was a candidate back in 2008, so that was one of the big highlights today. i want to read you something ...

Of this. by showing up, by going to the naacp, he might get some credit, although he took a lot of it away with the use of the word "obama care," which is a loaded word. with some independent white voters in suburbs, they may say, look, they went to the naacp, isn't that nice? but there are other parts of the white voting community, the conservative party in the south, that have their doubts about mitt romney as a conservative, who, sadly, perhaps, will have their views strengthened about him as a conservative by watching him being booed by that audience. >> right. >> and i think, i think you ...

In the u.s. this is how the obama administration is attempting to deal with the issue of young illegals, often brought here through no decision of their own, raised here, go to school here, but aren't legal. apparently they'll be able to get work permits and remain in the u.s. legally, but will not under this policy have a path to citizenship. politically speaking this may help president obama with the influential latino voting community. it is an election year. he will speak to the latino appointed and officials next week. governor mitt romney will speak to the group next thursday. and congre...

Has to balance when he's been very hard line on his rhetoric and you've already heard from the latino community, it echoes a lot of what they were so disgusted about the last time. the challenge obama has though is he has been very tough with deportations and on the border. this is why they were emphasizing that yesterday though, it was about criminal deportations instead of grandmothers and splitting up families. >> that's of course, their federal officials that on monday they arrested 3100 undocumented immigrants who they say have serious criminal histories. victoria, how does the deportatio...

Florida and in other states and new york, that in the november 6th lests, they will be looking at what the candidates have said and done. so happening this sunday is also important to other states that have a large puerto rican voting community. >> let me ask a big picture question. 20 delegates up for grabs. mitt romney has more delegates than rick santorum, newt gingrich, and ron paul combined. so what is rick santorum's delegate path going forward? >> he thinks he just has to hang in there. mitt romney has about two times as many as rick santorum. i believe puerto rico is a winner take all....