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Only hinted. >> that is so much bs it hurts he's going to invade eastern ukraine. he's going to take it and say to the keiv government. and if you're going to put up a yard stick saying anywhere in the world the russian used to have influence is now fair game you're going to get the battic states. >> crimea was part of russia before. >> so what? >> we have imposed miles of sanctions already disrupting the russian economy. russia has an economy of $2 trillion gdp per year. 17 to 2. then, you add european union gdp. and so forth. that is almost double that. we have a 15 to 1 economic

Mocking the president over republicans. the rest of them are. but i think you both make a good point, that they don't get personal about barack obama. when they go after him, it's because the computer doesn't work -- >> that's right. teleprompter. >> or something like this. but let's face it, you can't make personal comments about the first black president of the united states. you just can't. >> which is what the man wrote about. >> and he's right, absolutely right. you cannot do that. all right, now, in kansas there is legislation being introduced by a democrat that would allow spanking in...

He did use the yard stick. >> jon, it was a really big missed opportunity. here we have the first black president. he is in his second term. he could have put politics aside and taken this opportunity to celebrate dr. king. not talk about republicans and democrats or blacks and whites. to celebrate the 50th anniversary of dr. king's amazing speech. it wasn't done. the media missed it. no criticism of the president for missing this opportunity. >> all right. more news watch ahead, including media reaction to that raunchy performance by miley cyrus. >> miley cyrus steals the spotlight at the vma...

Manure. >> the way the right is playing it because he they can't stand anything that the president does, that the president is somehow purposely hurting little children who want to take the tours for the white house they-- >> he is. >> when this is clearly a security issue something you'd like to be oblivious too. >> alisyn. >> you can say anything you want, that's the fact of the matter. >> alisyn: yes, lars? >> the president just spent a million dollars for a golf weekend. that was the extra cost of flying air force one down so the president could see his thousand dollars an hour golf pro an...

>> shannon: is he competing against the mitt romney of 2012? >> he is competing against frustrated aspirations. he is competing against his own frustrated as ankle aspirationr the whole campaign mitt romney and the state of the economy. this week is tricky are for the president. there is no higher moment, no larger moment for the obama 2008 brand than when took the stage in denver. when tries to do it in charlotte he will be measured by the yard stick he set for himself in 2008, absolutely. >> shannon: i want to talk to you about something unique you are doing during the two conventions that i...