but each must be seen in the larmer context of the overall campaign. and i believe the campaign is on track. we are making a difference. i know this and our troops this. and i'd like to take just another moment of your time today, mr. chairman, to end where i began this morning with our troops and the thousands of american and coalition partnered troops bearing the weight of this conflict and those that will never return to their families. know this, that they are central to my every decision and every word to this committee. one of them, a young marine who was laid to rest tuesday in arlington cemetery was a hero. he knew what he stood for and he knew his mission, and he knew the risks. he knew he might have to give his life for this cause for which we fight. so sergeant william stacey prepared a letter for his family to be read in the event of his death. and in it he said, there will be a child who will live because men left the security they enjoyed in their home country to come to his and this child will learn in new schools that have been built an

the president was asked about rush limbaugh and the larmer question about a republican war on women. listen to this. >> i believe that democrats have a better story to tell to women about how we're going to solidify the middle class and grow this economy, make sure everybody has a fair shot, everybody's doing their fair share and we got a fair set of rules that everybody has to follow. >> the president also said that he did not want his daughters, if they chose to speak about democracy, to be hue mittuated and attacked in this way. has the president humiliated republicans who have refused to stand up and out right con deem rush limbaugh. >> i think by providing a contrast of class and grace and respect for women he has humiliated republicans. i'm proud the way this president personally called sandra fluke and spoke out on her behalf. one key thing that the president mentioned too is that women care about what's going won the committee. they care about their pocketbook issues. they don't want a huge distraction with birth control and these other battles that were settled long ago that

but the larmer issue is this.ill and concern of the people. that's what these congress people are doing. if it takes a hoodie, that makes sense op our founding fathers believes in an active congress. >> pete? >> the founding fathers didn't actually think black folks were whole people. right? three fifths. so i think they would have been -- i mean my best impression, what is that woman? they would have been outraged. and listen. the idea that women are somehow inviting sexual assault or rape because they are wearing a short skirt or tight clothes or minorities are inviting to be killed because they are wearing a hoodie, we have to take a look at that. >> mitt romney gets endorsements from george h.w. bush. if rubio was on the romney train, will the rest of the tea party warm up to him? jason? >> look, i mean ronald reagan could appear in the sky like the lion king and it's not going to make the tea party like this guy. who mitt romney is has been crystallized in peoples' minds. they have problems with him. the tea