joining me now is missouri congressman emanuel cleaver, chairman of the congressional black caucus and karen finney, former communications director for the democratic national committee. thank you both for being here. >> good to be with you. >> thanks, reverend. >> chairman cleaver, let me start with you. why did romney make this speech today? you hear my feeling. what do you feel? >> well, i don't know whether that were strategic moves that dictated this speech be made to the naacp and he would then offer something to the base. i'm not sure. i would choose to believe that he legitimately wanted to go to the naacp. i think that all presidential candidates ought to do that. even republicans who are not generally going to receive a great deal of african-american support. for variety of reasons we don't have time to go into on the show. but i do think that his advisers