at least for some of the -- whether it's some of the key trading nations or some of the key et e mitters that have to be an important part of the deal, that's just not where they think the world is at. i agree with stewart that we're into a much more piecemeal kind of world in which we hope these things will be we hope additive. i think there's still a big debate about regional and bilateral trade agreements, whether they're actually adding to trade expansion or constraining it. but i think that's right. that's the world we're going to be in. and i think for civil society organizations that are active in this space or concerned about this, it's much more a serious of local battles and local campaigns than the big global compact that's going to produce the win. >> any -- >> just -- maybe i'm sensing the same thing in a different way, but when there are successes in the multilateral arena, the country's presidents take great credit, and when there are failures, they blame them for them. i think what we see here -- i mean my sense is it's not a failure of the forum or the structure. it's a

rick, is there some mitter to that? >> i think romney needs to play to his strength.t romney needs to play to his strength. every time they try to make mitt romney relevant, they make him more irrelevant. he has great business experience. he talks about turning around companies. i contend that government is not a business nor run like a business, but you have to buy the past, present and future together. once you buy a vision for the future and then tell me about your policies, they can say all they want and bash all the policies, i know where those policies leave me, but he has not laid out where those policies lead to. therefore his opponents can't say this policy is bad because of x y z, but people can say i want that vision, which is prosperity which i would argue for, then people understand it. people can say i'm for this policy because i want that vision. >> it sounds like very much what you were as spokesman of newt gringrich. i don't want to relitigate that stuff. but if you were mitt romney's campaign adviser how would you capture that. >> you have to explain

and a half minutes into the call the sleeping dispatcher, wakes up, picking up where he left off, mitters a question. >> what's your address? what's your address?address? >> caller: who knew 911 needed a wake-up call. jeanne moos. >> yes? uh-huh. [ snoring ]. >> caller: new york. >> that does it for me, thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." the news continues next on cnn. >>> good evening, tonight from boston i'm john king. ahead on ominous note, emergency landing and new worries about airline security on flights heading to the united states from overseas. >>> also a possible break-through in the standoff over iran's nuclear program. is iran about to blink and allow new inspections? >>> and the man who succeeded in are mr as massachusetts governor, deval patrick is a democrat, but wait until you hear what he has to say about romney's old company, bain capital. >>> we begin with the latest on an in-flight scare that forced a u.s. jet to make emergency landing by fighter jet. it raises fresh concerns for security for airliners headed to the states from afr

and a half minutes into the call the sleeping dispatcher, wakes up, picking up where he left off, mittersller: who knew 911 needed a wake-up call. jeanne moos. >> yes? uh-huh. [ snoring ]. >> caller: new york. >> that does it for me, thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." the news continues next on cnn. >>> good evening, tonight from boston i'm john king. ahead on ominous note, emergency landing and new worries about airline security on flights heading to the united states from overseas. >>> also a possible break-through in the standoff over iran's nuclear program. is iran about to blink and allow new inspections? >>> and the man who succeeded in are mr as massachusetts governor, deval patrick is

republican governors, they come in to office and slash funds, but it is obama's fault, now that's -- mittersntry because of what he has done. he is simply not up to the task of guiding this country. >> the numbers say something else entirely. >> can you dispense with he might be a nice guy, but -- >> yeah. >> mittens yesterday. >> the american people are interested, not so much in you know, the history of where i was at bain capital -- >> oh yes we are. >> but has the president made things better for the american people? >> yes. >> are they better off than they were four years ago? >> yes. >> it's no wonders so many of his supporters are calling for him to job this job creation. >> hi, patty in kansas. >> i got [ inaudible ] got one of those 23 governors that are cutting everything. everybody on the right, the louder they beat their chests and bibles and scream. they are the nastiest, most vial people i have ever heard. >> yeah. >> i watch a girl who is four and her grandmother is talking about baby jesus this and that. and her dad has been known to swore, and we were out walking and she wip