ladies and gentlemen, alex castellanos. take a look at the monitor, alex. >> lent. >> beautiful.ou think, cat? >> she says, it's a little strange, it's going to take me a while to get used to it. >> take a close look, wolf. >> wow. >> i've got to find out whether wha a kiss feels like. >> what do you guys think back there? they like it back there? >> what do you think? >> they love it. they love it. >> right in the shadow of the capitol, too. a major historical event. >> go to slashthestache.com. >> thank you very much for doing that. david axelrod, it was your idea, right? >> i got him into this mess. >> he's a good man. >> thank you vi much. >> you both look very handsome. >> thank you. >> good work all around. we'll take a quick break. more from the national mall right after this. stress sweat. it can happen any time, to anyone! stress sweat is different than ordinary sweat. it smells worse. get 4x the protection against stress sweat. introducing new secret clinical strength stress response scent. get 4x the protection against stress sweat. see lioutdoors, or in.ight. transiti

bring in cnn political con trick birts donna brazile and alex castellanos. , alex, this isn't the only negative poll. people hoping and thinking the president's poll slice fail what kind of a start is that to the second term? >> well, look, at this point, people -- we just came through a very contentious election. and there is still americans who perhaps are unhappy the selection of majority by the americans. as you know, on many other issues, country is simply divided. we are divide aid long political lines, cultural lines, ethnic lines, you name the lines, we are divided upon them. i think more americans would like to see this president succeed on those big issue, getting this country back on its feet economically and the think the rest will follow. >> the poll shows it will not be an easy road for the republicans? >> not at all. republicans don't want president obama with the policies they have seen to succeed. they think the policies will hurt country. republicans don't want to do that. that's why republicans just voted against barack obama do they want a

us to discuss this and more van jones democratic strategist and cnn contributor and we have alex castellanosf the union and candy crowley. let me ask you folks. candy, joe biden 59%. that's as good as it gets. >> he's been visible. sometimes you look at those polls and joe biden has been out there, right? he saved the day with mitch mcconnell up on capitol hill with the budget deal or at least not going off the fiscal cliff. he was out front with the gun proposal, which was probably for him more show than actual work there. i mean, they had an end they wanted to get to and he got there with various meetings. so, he's been out there. people are now really comfortable with him and he's always been, as you know, a very comfortable politician. >> too comfortable. >> before you join the conversation, let's play for our audience what i'm going to call the paging dr. freud moment so far of our inaugural weekend. this is the vice president of the united states. last night he just happened to be at the iowa state inaugural ball, curious. listen. >> i'm proud to be president of the united states. but

the democratic pollster cornell belcher and republican strategist alex castellanos.nt laid out a very am bishops shous plan to deal with guns. cornell, you're familiar with this issue. can he deliver? >> well, i think he can deliver. if you look poll after poll, this is where the american people are. what happened in connecticut was a conscience jarring for americans. similar to what we saw on 9/11 where the world is not the same. americans are hungry for change. the assault weapons ban, the commonsense registration laws, fixing the loopholes, these are commonsense things that congress should get on board. you're seeing a lot of grumbling from congress right now. they don't understand where the american people is on this, they are going to pay a price for this in two years. >> all of the other polls show there is a sigma majority who want to see greater action. >> we all want something done. something that the american people are suspicious of, is this another placebo drug that makes you feel better but doesn't do anything. for example, mayor bloomberg from new york