glen johnson is "the boston globe's" politics reporter. with me here in the studio, simon marks, chief correspondent for feature story news. jonathan martin, i know you don't like to get into this but let's talk about the fact that you are on the spot and you have "dateline" integrity and looking good. here's the infamous dustup in warsaw. early this morning, reporters covering romney tried to shout questions to the governor. as he got into his motorcade. romney had only answered three questions from the press corps during the entire three ctrip. his spokesman made it clear he wouldn't answer any more than the three. >> governor romney! >> governor romney, do you have a statement for the palestinians? >> what about your gaffes? >> governor romney, do you feel that your gaffe have overshadowed your foreign trip? >> show some respect. >> governor romney. >> show some respect. >> we don't have another chance to ask him questions. >> this is a holy site for the polish people. show some respect. >> that's going to get -- go down in history. kis

. >> going over -- i want to get to glen johnson. i want to get into the politics in the middle east. going over there and pandering the way he did, anybody, 3-year-old could do that. it is not whether he can pander. whether he has -- as you said, jonathan to know what he is talking about and nuance of the very tricky situations which are going to be going on when we are all 100 years old. still fight being the middle east. you don't start wars and you don't start trouble. anybody can pander. can he think? can he answer questions on the spot? that's my question. >> the issue, too, also is that he had a good story to tell going over to london. he was the guy that resurrected the 2002 olympic winter games in salt lake city and talked about none of that in he defended himself in the london preparations and not about the positive lessons that he drew out of his olympic experience himself. so there was a huge missed opportunity. as jonathan said the opportunity going into jerusalem was to lay out a foreign policy vision and yet, there he

glen johnson is "the boston globe's" politics reporter.e in the studio, simon marks, chief correspondent for feature story news. jonathan martin, i know you don't like to get into this but let's talk about the fact that you are on the spot and you have "dateline" integrity and looking good. here's the infamous dustup in warsaw. early this morning, reporters covering romney tried to shout questions to the governor. as he got into his motorcade. romney had only answered three questions from the

glen-glenic h, connecticut. he said the thought sales would be up showing this is still not gaining traction. the question now becomes what does ron johnsonring to the table now for jc penney? what does he bring from his experiences at target and am? >> what you want to believe is he's going to bring this ability to rip up the retail model and start from scratch. he has to be rethinking it himself. does he really know what he will bring, the store in store concept he's already creating. there is indication some suppliers will not be in all stores, only a few hundred stores. i think it's -- look, as anyone would tell you, it's in the early innings, come back three years and talk about it. when you're a public company, you don't get that luxury, especially in this environment and everybody judges you on a quarter to quarter basis. i go to the retail people, i really really think are good. and every one of them don't see it coming. >> it speaks to the fickle cyclical nature of the retail industry anyway. kohl's was so hot for a while. >> my gosh, can you believe what's happened to kohl's. >> target was hot. it comes and goes. >> and nordstro