republican strategist alex castellanos. and vice chairman of the house republican congress, congresswoman kathy mcmorris-rodgers. >>> plus, it's the morning after. a big night here in washington. the washington correspondence dinner adds a little glitz. it gives the president a chance to use some comedy as a political weapon. >> it's great to be here this evening in the vast, magnificent hilton ballroom. or what mitt romney would call a little fixer-upper. >>> from nbc news in washington, "meet the press with david gregory". >> we're going to get you caught up on a big weekend in washington with the white house correspondents dinner a little bit later in the hour. kind of like the prom in washington, d.c. we'll get to the comedy a bit later on. also my colleague brian williams will be here to preview a special hour inside the situation room. an exclusive interview with president obama and his national security team going through the decision making one year ago on that raid killing osama bin laden. we'll talk to him about t

political strategist, republican alex castellanos is here. our own msnbc's may i approachle maddow.ssman cathy mcmorris-rodgers. this is a wider conversation about how to win the women's vote. what women will care about. the kind of conversation ultimately that they're having as they evaluate this campaign. where are we after hilary's remarks and the debate that ensued? >> well, hilary apologized. i think we've all made statements that we later regret. the reason that it caused such a controversy, though, is that it exposed that the war on women is really a myth. that it has been created by the democrats in an effort to distract americans once again from the real issues. democrats know that the republicans won the women's vote in 2010. it was the first time since reagan that the republicans won the women's vote. and it resulted in the republicans taking the majority in the house. 87 new freshmen. a record number of new women, republican women elected to the house. and it has -- could be argued that it was the american women that really voted out, fired, the first woman speaker of th

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alex castellanos is right.n you look at the labor department numbers, men work longer because women are rearing children. this is by women's choice. but there really isn't a pay gap. it's an hours worked gap. what is your take on that? >> the 77% number is certainly misleading. it doesn't tell the whole story. and when you compare men and women in the same positions with the same experience, the same education, there is no pay gap. men, on average eight to ten hours more a week than a woman. so you need to look at, yes, what the position is and you need to compare apples to apples, not pick and choose. and once again, it is -- this is an issue, it's an example where the democrats are trying to distract, divide americans, whether it's men or women. in this case, rich or poor. but they are trying to distract americans from the real issues there is not a war on women. >> howard dean, before you come slashing back, let me get just one additional number out, and then you can do whatever you're going to do. again, fr

. >>> joining us, jen socky and cnn republican strategist alex castellanos. the co-author of "purple strategies," a bipartisan communications firm. that new york times poll, vice president obama handling foreign policy, 36% approve, 36% disapprove, 18% unsure. it's less than 50%. that's not a ringing endorsement of the president who wound up managing to kill bin laden. >> well, wolf, when the president came into office we were in two wars. our reputation around the world was suffering. since then we've ended the war in iraq. we've caught bin laden and gadhafi is no longer walking around and oui restored relationships and he's done quite a bit to improve our place around the world and that's what people will be looking at, but we're still facing challenges and that's why he needs to remain in office for another four years. >> is this a big issue? assuming there's no war or terrorism crisis, is foreign policy national security between barack obama and mitt romney will be a major issue this time around? >> that's the big assumption isn't is, wolf? that we don't