i want to bring in republican strategist anna navaro. na, i was going to talk to you about mark rubio and i was going to ask you if he was auditioning for the vice presidency, but i want to talk about this because it brings up young people and there are some older people in the crowd, people who are upset with the way the government operates. there are people who are complaining about the government and this stops them from protesting. they're all protesting about war in afghanistan. what does this say much about a strategist? >> it doesn't really say too much. i've seen these protests over and over again. i've seen them at every republican convention i've been at whether it's philadelphia, new york, indianapolis. to tell you the truth, most of the folks who are at the meetings themselves don't even know these are happening. you have to turn on the tv and watch cnn to see the coverage of the protests when you are at the events themselves. i think it's symptomatic of the world we live in. it's their right to protest and it's part of what c

welcome back noel sheppard and anna navaro. let me have it, and i'll let you have it.ay romney said his team encouraged granell to stay on the job. his campaign said, we are very sorry to have him go. ladies first. why not do this before he steps down? why not stand up for the guy before instead of after the fact? >> i think that's a good question, don. they should have let him be out there doing his job. there's been a lot of foreign policy issues discussed. he should have been doing his job and we could have judged him on his qualifications, which is the only thing we should be judging people on, their qualifications. so i'm disappointed with this, disappointed with how it happened. i think there's more to it than meets the eye and i know that some of the romney staff i haved strongly to keep him on board. but i wish it was handled differently. >> do you think he felt pressure from the extremes of the party and he caved? >> there were a few folks on the conservative right who gave him some pressure. i want to think that's not what happened. >> noel, go ahead, what do