joining me now is rich galen and gloria borger. rich, how does he even have people to put up a statement on facebook? >> it's probably just about everybody. it's not a funny situation, but who is going to order the car and driver to get him from the airport to the republican jewish coalition speech on sunday? but here's the big issue here is whether or not there is a campaign anymore, and i think that no matter what newt puts on face book, the answer is no. it may take three or four days to wind down to zero. >> there's a republican debate that cnn is doing on monday and i think he says he's still going to that. >> as of this afternoon, he was still planning to go. but look, one of the problems he had, anderson, was that when he went off on this cruise, for the first three or four days, nobody even missed him. nobody was saying where's gingrich? nobody cared. he wasn't out, but that didn't matter to anybody until it became obvious he was on vacation, but i think at the base of all this, was the discipline that many of us who have k

gloria borger is with us as well. gloria, as the president prepares for this, the stakes not only for the men and women serving in afghanistan but for u.s. taxpayers, for the u.s. strategic position in that part of the world, enormous right now. >> it is. i don't think we can say this decision was made on one particular reason. when you look at the entire environment and you look at the economy, you look at the political pressures, you look at the cost of the war, you look at the debt that we're facing, it's clear that this is a president who gambled on a surge back in december 2009 and now he's going to come out and say the surge has worked. from talking to people at the white house, they're going to say this is a president who told you what he was going to do and then he did it and he certainly had a degree of success at it. >> they've been working very, very hard on this speech. the president and all his top national security advisers. they've gone through it on multiple occasions over the past few days. the preside

cambridge is senior political analyst david gergen and from washington, chief political analyst gloria borger. gloria, let me start with you. you wrote a column on cnn.com today that was scathing. you basically said there are no grownups in the room and took some hard shots at the president. why? >> well, because the president was calling for leadership, and i think he's right to call for leadership from republicans and democrats in congress. that's easy. but also he's got to lead, eliot. i mean i think we're heading into that 11th hour, as he put it, the yellow light is flashing. and it seemed to me that today was a political performance. it was a good political performance, if you're a democrat and you want to accuse republicans of being for the rich and democrats of wanting to save medicare and all the rest. but i think that what worried me, quite honestly, was when a president goes out this way and really attacks the other party, it gives you a sense of how the deal inside the room could really be in the process of collapsing. i mean this doesn't help house speaker john boehner get back t

gloria borger and david bergen are here. hat, gloria. but as we await what's going to happen tonight, i have no doubt that the economy and jobs will dom flat this debate. >> right. i think you have to assume while a lot of these candidates are going to be trying to give it to mitt romney because he's the front-runner, their main target tonight is going to be barack obama because obviously the jobs news hasn't been good lately. the president had the unfortunate phrase of saying this is just in the road, the bad economy. i think the president and the president's advisers are going to take a lot of heat. >> play a clip from mitt romney, because he goes after the president on a new video he put out on the bumps in the road comment. that's mild compared to some of the stuff we will hear from these republicans as far as the president is concerned tonight. >> i think they're going to hang this economy around the president's neck, obviously, and will go they go after romney or will they offer anything positive of their own. what will

. >> gloria borger is joining us, as well. gloria, this is republican field, it's wide open and there could be a bunch more candidates making a decision to jump in because as you heard candy say, there's still not complete satisfaction that the current field is the best. >> you know, i think it's kind of getting to put up or shut up time though, wolf. there are lots of candidates, for example, sarah palin, who believe that an organization will spontaneously emerge and they can compete in at unconventional way, maybe that is what newt gingrich is thinking as well, after all, his troubles this week. but you know, you still have to run retail to run for president in this country. it's a lot of fund-raising, a lot of door knocking and getting out there and meeting people and so it's about time for this field to gel because the candidates who are going to get in late are going to find that all the organizers and big money people are gone. >> seems to me, dan, that white house officials, democrats, the president's re-election team th

with us cnn chief political analyst gloria borger and "time" magazine political columnist joe klein. joe, it's generally reported that president obama overruled general petraeus who wanted more troops left in afghanistan. is that true from your reporting? what can you tell us about how the president made his decision? >> well, it's interesting. this is the second time in i think three months that the president has overruled the military. he's becoming a very confident commander in chief. he did it with osama bin laden, secretary gates wanted to have him drop a bomb. obama wanted to do it with special forces. he got his way there, very successfully. in this case, once again, he wants to go with special forces. petraeus is the advocate of counterinsurgency strategy which means a long, slow process to win over the local population. the president determined that what was really working in afghanistan over the last 18 months have been these special operations that took out a lot of the mid level taliban leadership and also a lot of the top level al qaeda leadership. this option was within

also gloria borger and peter bergen, author of "the oral history of the osama bin laden i know." first of all, what do you make of the president's announcement tonight? >> i think it's in keeping with his basic strategic rationale from the start. he did announce the surge. part of that was i think the military boxed him in. you remember stan mcchrystal leaked his recommendation. it became very difficult for a democratic president to overturn it. but obama has started his presidency saying we are too committed overseas, we are too militarily engaged, we have too large a footprint, we've got to rebalance, we've got to focus on nation building at home. we've got to focus on asia. and he sounded all those themes. it was a remarkable speech for an american president in the caution, the strategic emphasis rather than the idealistic emphasis. he says things like, we must be as pragmatic as we are passionate, as strategic as we are resolute. people would have america overextend itself, confronting every evil that could be found abroad. this is reminiscent of a very different strain of am

first, cnn's chief political analyst gloria borger is here. you spoke to a politician who is not seeking higher office. tell us about him. >> right, governor mitch daniels of indiana who decided very recently as you know, eliot, he's not going to run for the presidency. he cited family concerns. but i went to the state capital and visited with him and it is very clear to me that this is somebody who is not bowing out of the national policy debate on economic issues. >> all right, thanks, gloria. looking forward to it. before we go to break, one more prominent new yorker weighed in on the anthony weiner scandal today. and donald trump, as usual, did not mince words. take a listen. >> many people have been asking me about anthony weiner, the congressman from new york who had big ambitions and wanted to run for the mayor of new york city. the fact is i know him very well. he called me all the time looking for campaign contributions. they would never stop. he would give me all sorts of phone numbers. fortunately i don't think i ever called him. th

rich galen, gloria borger, thank you for your insights. says he'll be with us monday night that's 8:00 in the east in new hampshire and -- >> or governor perry. >> i don't know if he meets the criteria but gets in the race we'll have great debates monday night. mr. speaker we'll see you there i hope. when we come back much more politics. mitt romney gets a frosty reception in his birth state. that's michigan. and congressman anthony weiner, more democrats say he should quit. the congressman answered emphatically today. that just ahead. business. in here, inventory can be taught to learn. ♪ machines have a voice. ♪ medical history follows you. it's the at&t network -- a network of possibilities... committed to delivering the most advanced mobile broadband experience to help move business... forward. ♪ [ airplane engine whines ] [ grunts ] [ dog barking ] gah! [ children shouting ] [ grunts ] [ whacking piñata ] [ whacking piñata, grunting ] [ whacking piñata ] somewhere in america, a city comes to life. it moves effortlessly, breathes easil

cnn chief political analyst glo gloria borger, part of the best political team on television, is in manchesterell me a little bit of what we can expect tonight? >> reporter: i think you're going to see the gloves come off. you've got mitt romney, as you pointed out, the front-runner, the man who's been through it before, didn't win but who's been through it before. you're going to see the other candidates start to attack him, i believe, and try and distinguish themselves. i mean, newt gingrich has to restart his campaign here in new hampshire. and tim pawlenty, it's very clear he's been the tortoise in this race. he's going to try and distinguish himself from mitt romney and start attacking him on issues like his health care plan in the state of massachusetts, which he started calling obamicare. it's going to be the first time where we see all of these candidates really interact and see how they interact with each other, particularly with the front-runner. he's going to be the target. >> yeah. speaking of front-runners, i mean, romney has been around before. he lost. so why is he the front-run

gloria borger, thank you. >> exactly. >> thank you. ned, gloria wrote a great column on president obama. you can check it out on cnn.com/opinion. >>> cnn is staying on the afghanistan troop drawdown story throughout the day and right up to the president's address to the nation. it is scheduled for 8:00 p.m. eastern, 5:00 pacific. you can watch it live right here on cnn. >>> a pilot dodges disaster at new york's jfk airport. it left tons of jumbo jets speeding for takeoff had to come to a screeching halt when an egypt air flight turned right on to the runway. at takeoff speeds, the pilot would have had just seconds to react. this near miss is today's sound effect. >> american 158 heavy. you are ready to go? >> whoa, whoa. >> egypt air 680 heavy. >> cancel takeoff. cancel takeoff plane. >> all traffic is stopped right now. >> after a brief inspection at the gate the lufthansa flight continued. the faa is investigating. >>> thousands of residents of minot, north dakota, are racing for higher fwround today. they are being told to evacuate f

cnn analyst gloria borger joins me now. is it even meaningful at this point, one?lis yesterday and he would have potentially been a front-runner. i wonder what he thinks about how the gop could take on obama. >> well, first of all, this poll obviously we all know it's pretty early. but if you're mitt romney looking at it, you're thinking this is not bad news for me. i want a cautionary note here that at this point before the '96 election, bob dole was beating bill clinton. oops. so a little early on. and it reflects mitt romney's name identification. he's run once before. people like him. they are taking another look at him. as for mitch daniels, he's the candidate that lots of people in the republican establishment really want to run. they think he has a lot of credibility on issues regarding the debt, the deficit. it used to be george w. bush's chief budget fellow. but he believes, i asked him on a scale of one to ten, is barack obama beatable? ten being beatable? he said he's about a seven or eight right now and he thinks that the field is shaping up. he named r

. >>> let's go to our chief political analyst gloria borger with the latest here. $1 billion number in terms of fund-raising. think he'll make it? picking up the pace? >> he is picking up the pace. lucky for obama, he doesn't have opponents who are going to get the money. when you're president of the united states, you get to take a trip down the road in washington, d.c., to one hotel and do two fund-raisers in one night. very cost effective use of the president's time, at which the minimum price for a seat is around $10,000. yeah, and i bet there won't be an empty seat. so it looks like the president is going to be on his way. whether he raises $1 billion remains to be seen. last campaign, $750 million. i think no republican is going to get close to that. we'll see. >> will the campaign cash numbers, gloria, from both the president and the gcop white house hopefuls we'll get at the start of july, why are they so important? >> we get those numbers at the end of the month. people kind of look at the numbers, and they look at the credibility and the viability of a ca

gloria borger spoke with him, went over to indiana. does he believe there's a republican out there that can beat president obama? >> he does. he says if in fact he had run he would be able to beat president obama. i asked him who specifically and he mentioned three names. the usual suspects, pawlenty, huntsman, and romney. but i asked him on a scale of one to ten, ten being the most vulnerable how vulnerable is barack obama. and he said at this point he would have to say a seven or an 8 because of the issues. we were just talking about and in that last piece, which is jobs. and the economy. he thinks the president is very, very vulnerable on that. >> if unemployment stays at 9%, it would be vulnerable. >> exactly. >> what did he say about the decision to take on this really politically sensitive issue of medicare? >> you know, i asked him whether it was a political mistake or substantive mistake and he said that it was not a mistake at all. he said the problem is, the way the parties, both parties treat the issue of medicare, that it's

we will bring back the chief political analyst gloria borger.s the democrats don't want to touch medicare. they want to attack republicans trying to change the way medicare operates. >> if you talk to democrats i spoke with the senior white house adviser today who said look, we have actually touched medicare. don't forget, republicans attacked us for that. the president gave a speech at georgetown he proposed $400 billion. if you look at the polls and take a look at this, we have a new cnn poll out today. you look at how the public feels about the republican plan to change medicare, you see 35% favor it and 58% oppose it. those are pretty strong numbers if you are a democrat. you are looking at re-election in 2012. you are a president. you are looking at re-election. they say we want to take care of the debt but look at those medicare numbers. they will never agree to do what congressman ryan is talking about. >> chairman of the budget committee and have a lot of explaining to do if they are going to turn those numbers around, obviously. you kno

let's get a little bit more perspective from our chief political analyst, gloria borger. , i tell you what, i woke up this morning and all this much ado made about his backdrop there, you know, the scene, the same spot, right? where ronald reagan announced his candidacy some years ago. why is that significant? >> well, i think they chose it in particular because what he wants to be is an optimistic candidate, fulg of hope-a pealing to people's hopes, not to their resentments, more inclusive than he believes you've seen in the republican field and not kind of your typical attack candidate. that's what his speech was all about today. he said you can disagree without being disagreeable. but when you look at that picture and you think of ronald reagan declaring there, the problem the campaign has with that photograph is that of course you do think back to reagan. the bar is pretty high when you think back to the speech that reagan gave, how good a communicator he was. i think jon huntsman has a way to go on that front if he's going to be on the national stage. it was a little

joining me now, john king, and gloria borger. john, relatively speaking, a relatively small amount of government money over many years but it does raise questions for a candidate who's made her name attacking big government spending? >> it absolutely does. it raises the questions even at a higher volume because she's rising in the polls and she is, right now, like her or not, the most influential person, the person most shaping the republican race so far. because of her rise in iowa she's tied with mitt romney and because of that, all the other campaigns are reacting to michele bachmann so she faces a higher credibility test and she'll face these questions. what did you do with the money? what money did you get? and the credibility questions that you're asking. how can you rail against government spending, government involvement in the marketplace when, to a degree even though there's no evidence she's done anything wrong, she's applied for the business, she took government money at a time when she's out there saying it's such a

. >> let's bring in gloria borger who has been working the story for us. what are these fundamental differences that newt gingrich is talking about? >> well, it's very clear, in trying to piece this together over the last couple of days, that this is a campaign staff that felt they had completely lost control of their candidate, that there was a candidate who had no discipline, who wouldn't adhere to the schedule they wanted. it was very difficult in terms of getting him to focus on a particular vision or a particular set of ideas. he wanted to get across to his voters. someone said to me that he just couldn't make the transition from being newt gingrich, the great thinker, to the candidate that has to learn to speak succinctly and tell voters the things that he is going to do as president. then he started making these mistakes, particularly on meet the press, when he called the house republican budget right wing social engineering and they decided in frustration as professionals that they had to leave this campaign because it was clear to them after a con

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. >> let's dig deeper with gloria borger here in "the situation room." romney, the pros and the cons. he's got a lot going for him right now. >> he does. he's experienced and as you know, wolf, republicans like to pick the person whose turn it is. if you were to look at the field, you'd say okay, he ran last time around. he can raise money. he may be more electable than a lot of other candidates in the field because he has some appeal to independent voters. but there are also some cons, wolf. >> before we get to the cons, one of the great strengths he has is the economy which jobs issue number one and he brings something to the table. >> but his experience is on economic issues but you know, don't forget he's from wall street. wall street is not exactly popular right now. on the one hand, yes, he does have economic experience. but on the other hand, that could work against him. if he's seen to be part of the economic establishment. >> those are some of the pros. some of the cons? >> that is a con. i think, you know, mitt romney is somebody who's been kno

i'm gloria borger. it's this simple, if republicans won't put tax increases on the table, democrats won't agree to big spending cuts. until they figure out a way to get around that, there will be no deal. dana bash is cnn's senior congressional correspondent. dana, taxes and entitlements are the big issues here. both parties are refusing to budge. are we going to end up seeing a really big deal here? or in the end are they going to have to settle for something smaller in order to get this debt limit raised? >> that's a good question. at this point, you would think that as you say both sides are so dug in they might have to settle for something smaller. my understanding from sources i'm familiar with the talks that have been led by the vice president that have been going on for a month and a half, is that they actually had been doing pretty well when it comes to finding areas to cut spending, just a general blueprint, they found about $2.5 trillion, no small fete. but the republicans specifically they th

president obama is not serious about cutting spending. >> joining us now is chief political analyst gloria borger.com. gloria the congresswoman says one thing, her financial forms say another. they could be wrong or she could be wrong. >> right. >> can she continue doing that? i mean, sort of dodging the questions? or will she have to explain the discrepancy at some point? >> at some point she's going to have to do it, anderson, and we'll continue asking the questions. not because you want to play gotcha. but because when you're a presidential candidate, trust matters. and these things can come back to haunt you. people want answers to these voting for president is a very personal vote. i think back to the 2006 campaign when barack obama -- when senator barack obama was thinking about running, i should say, in 2006, he had a questionable land deal. he came out and said it was a bone-headed mistake. and anderson, the 2008 campaign, it still came back to haunt him. hillary clinton asked about it. so you can be sure that other republicans, if she gets a lot of traction, are going also to start askin

. >> wolf joins us now with paul begala and gloria borger. you said he should have done it yesterday. do you think today he did well by himself to do these one on one interviews? >> yes. i think he did much better today than he did yesterday. yesterday was a disaster for him when he started giving a ranting speech every time dana asked him a serious question, he would go into talking points. he could have said yesterday what he said today, i did not send that picture via twitter to that woman in washington state. he said that flatly today. he should have said it yesterday. he acknowledges that. he's leaving open slightly the possibility that that picture may in fact have been him. he says he doesn't think it is, but he's leaving that open slightly. what is apparent -- >> which i think raises a lot of eyebrows, like how can you not know whether or not there's a picture of you from that angle it's kind of an intimate picture. >> it might be a picture of him, but he may not have tweeted that picture. apparently there are all sorts of ways that o

joining us our chief political analyst gloria borger and cnn's joe johns as well. he made a lot of people unhappy on the right and on the left. >> yeah he did. i mean, i think there was no way to avoid that. this is a president who says that he promised he would do this. when he called for the surge in december of 2009 in a speech to west point. he said within 18 months we're going to begin drawing down troops. when you talk to the white house they'll say he promised it. this is exactly what he delivered. liberals aren't going to like it because it's not fast enough. conservatives don't like it because they wanted him to listen more to the generals. i think the person that he listened to this time was his vice president, joe biden. the generals really did not want this to happen this quickly but biden, who was against the surge, actually got what he wanted this time. >> this is a big win for biden. >> yes. >> though there are plenty of suspicions out there that biden would have even liked a more accelerated withdrawal. >> absolutely. i mean, it's very volatile, too

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also with us now cnn chief political analyst gloria borger and host of the national radio talk show morningn america, bill bennett. thanks to all of you for coming in. jim acosta, let's start with you. you were there for the announcement and maybe we'll listen to a bit of his message. >> okay. >> for the first time in history, we are passing down to the next generation a country that is less powerful, less compassionate, less competitive and less confident than the one we got. this, ladies and gentlemen, is totally unacceptable and it is totally un-american. >> okay. so jim acosta, how did this speech go over with the crowd? >> well, you know, jon huntsman is not a red meat kind of guy, joe. so this was sort of a no red meat response from the crowd out there. it was only about 100 people. and i don't think the huntsman campaign at this point is driving for big obama-like crowds. they're running a very unconventional campaign, trying to stand in the shadow of ronald reagan here in front of the statue of liberty. putting out videos that show a guy riding his motorcycle across the desert to sa

our chief political analyst gloria borger has been in touch with her sources on that. >> what do theyacy, polite and frank discussion -- >> means not so friendly? >> not so friendly. i know you'll be shocked to hear that one side was accusing the other side of playing politics on the issue of medicare and, by the way, both sides are right. the republicans play politics with the issue of medicare in the 2010 midterm elections and it cost democrats control of the house. now the democrats, remember that, and paul ryan's budget has proven to be very controversial. we did a poll that said 58% of voters oppose that republican plan. so of course, the democrats are now wondering, look, they want to get a deal to get the deficit down and to get this debt ceiling passed. but at what price? and what are they willing to do? that's a debate within the democratic party right now. >> so, you know, democrats are saying they want to reform medicare, make the necessary changes. do they want to take it on before an election? >> no. when you talk to democrats in the white house, as i did today, they say,

our chief political analyst gloria borger is with us from washington and here in manchester, new hampshire klein. i was thinking today, talking to some people today, it's something like 1992. you just feel it. >> you said that earlier in the broadcast. and it feels very much like that. obama is going to be judged on the economy. people have already forgotten that he got osama bin laden. and there really isn't all that much he can do about the economy. he's trapped. you know, the jobs report is terrible. and he can't do stimulus because the republicans are going to block him. >> so gloria, the question is can republicans prove that they have a credible alternative? because george h.w. bush won the gulf war, he had the high approval rating. like killing bin laden it went away because people concerned about the economy. can the republicans emerge as the credible alternative? >> well, they're going to try. and obviously, these numbers, the unemployment numbers kind of help them. but in talking to somebody at the white house, they understand their problem here, which is they want to remind peop

here to talk about 2012 and beyond, gloria borger and our national political correspondent jessica yellinork last night, rick perry was there. before we have the will he or won't he question, listen to this. >> if we don't do it, who will? if not now, when? are you ready to take this country back? then stand with us over the course of the next 16 months. elect those governors across this state. make a difference in america, and we will take america back. god bless you, and through you may god continue to bless this great country we love. >> now, team perry could say he was talking about governors' races. he did mention governors. >> but the buzz in austin, the people i'm talking to, think he's running, planning to run. his body language, he sounded like he's getting ready to run. the people in the room last night when i talked to them, john, afterwards they loved hill. they said not only does he have a great message to sell because of the texas economy and the rest of his story, but he could give a speech and they just think, wow, that's so -- >> he sounded a little like george bush. >> t

. >> chief political analyst gloria borjer is borger, the p new strategy, shame the congress into actingt limit. is it going to work? >> when you're president of the united states, you want to be above the congress and you want to look like a leader. when you want to pick on somebody, it's kind of easy, just pick on the folks who are actually less popular than you are. and congress is less popular. and i think here, the president was sort of trying to say okay to the american public, we have a job to do, we need to do it. it's a refrain that will work with the american public because they don't like congress. but i have to ask the question, which is did the president advance the ball at all during this press conference? and i'm going to answer my own question, which is i don't think he really did. he gave the broad outlines that we all know which is, you know, democrats want to cut spendi spending -- i mean republicans want to cut spending and democrats want to raise your taxes or are willing to raise your taxes and republicans say no to tax hikes. but did he actually get us down the roa

let's bring in our chief political analyst gloria borger. we always assume the president at some point would have to get involved. is it sooner than expected? >> i think everybody expected once the talks broke down, it's time to move it up the food chain, get the president involved. what's interesting here, wolf, you're not having a huge powwow bringing down all the leaders together. you're having harry reid in the morning, mitch mcconnell in the afternoon, it kind of looks like a mediation process with the parties so you are kind of trying to avoid a divorce, if you will. >> a little therapy. >> lit the therapy. maybe it will work. >> some point they have to meet with boehner. >> of course. of course. he's taking it one at a time. the divisions are crystal clear. i don't think the president needs to get an explanation on this. he knows his own democrats won't go for any tax hikes. and that, i mean, the democrats, excuse me, want the tax hikes and the republicans say absolutely no way. and the democrats say, you're not going to get the spend

cnn's senior political analyst gloria borger joins me now from washington. s huntsman move to the head of the pack just by virtue of getting into the race now? >> well, i think you'd have to say, randi, that he moves into the top tier. just by virtue of his resume and by virtue of his message. and there's one more important thing to consider here, which is while mitt romney has a lot of big donors, about half of the big donors, i'm told, in the republican party are kind of sitting back and waiting. and there's a lot of people who believe that this message, that crossover message would have appealed to these big donors because more than anything else they want somebody who can beat barack obama. but i'd also have to say from watching that speech this morning when you declare in the same place that ronald reagan declared in 1980 you have to understand that the bar is pretty high for giving a terrific announcement speech and i don't think he quite jumped over that bar. >> i want you to take a look, though, at this cnn opinion research poll with me. 71% say that

we will turn to the chief political analyst gloria borger.cle there is a new social networking tool that politicians love and happens to be twitter right now. >> yeah, it is. because it is a great promoti promotional tool, if you are a politician, you are able to get your message across and brand yourself very clearly in 140 characters. you don't have us asking you pesky questions. if you take a look at some that's used it to her advantage, sarah palin is at the top of the list. there she is in alaska. on the speech circuit and able to inject herself into any policy discussion. remember the impact she had on the health care debate. she was than even here in washington. she can also target her audience, wolf. she knows that her millions of twitter followers are conservatives and if she runs for president, those are going to be people who are voting in the republican primaries. so she's used it quite well. >> 140 characters or less. we know that -- there could be a serious problem when -- when a tweet goes bad. >> yeah. when a tweet goes bad it

gloria borger is here working on the story. out of the gate on several issues and all of a sudden he go on a two-week cruise on a mediterranean vacation. >> on the first day of this campaign, whenever that was, because it had a couple of starts. you and i had a discussion here. and the main question was whether newt gingrich had to the discipline to run for president of the united states, and i think that is the same question that the people at the very top levels of his campaign were asking themselves before they decided to leave. in talking to a variety of sources, i think this was clearly an issue of money, they weren't raising the kind of money they needed, the first reporting is at the end of june, you know, we all look at these campaigns to see how violent they are, to see what they've got in the ban blg. it was a question of strategy. they believed he wasn't spending enough time in iowa. they didn't like that he was away on this two-week vacation when he needed to be out there raising this kind of money. and the first mi

let's discuss what's going on with our chief political analyst gloria borger.> well, it's not huntsman. >> i thought when i saw the ad it was jon huntsman on that motorcycle. >> of course you did. he rides mote cross, but i'm told it's a friend of his actually riding. it's his clothes and his motor bike. he didn't really have the time. >> why don't we see him doing it? >> they said, well, he didn't really have the time. >> did they try to mislead folks? >> no, no, no. what this ad is supposed to do is to be a different way to introduce a candidate, and the clear message here is i'm not like everybody else. i'm an outsider, and by the way, i should tell you, wolf, he did pay for the ad though himself out of his own pocket, but it didn't take long for utah democrats to take a whack at this ad by huntsman. take a look at this. ♪ >> still think it's misleading to put out an ad like that, give the impression that that's the candidate and it's really someone else. >> right. and what the democrats are saying here when they talk about reverse positions is they ever try

joining us to talk about the conference is jessica yellin and gloria borger and fran townsend.ou know and have dealt with libya's moammar gadhafi. he is being charged with potential war crimes in the international criminal court. he is pretty much in a box and holding out now. is there any sense that the president needs to speak to moammar gadhafi or to the foreign audience? the allies to try to explain that gadhafi's running out of time here and he does need to go. there is a strong enough coalition to make that happen. >> reporter: i think the president will not dignify gadhafi to speak to him. you will hear him buck up the coalition partners. that gadhafi has to go. there is political will to see us through the mission. i think our nato allies are unsettled by the activities in congress and the waning support here in the united states. the president will need to address our allies overseas. >> and jessica, if we could bring you back into the conversation. you were saying that the president is going to be focusing on the economy. do we expect to hear anything different in ter

gloria borger.much. >> sure. >> you spoke to one of the voters you spoke to, said, you know, they can't just blame democrats. i wanted to hear real answers on how we're going to do that. maybe we're still early? >> a couple minutes we'll speak to governor tim pawlenty and he actually was almost derided yesterday for saying we could have 5% growth each year if china and brazil can, we can. and people are saying that's unrealistic. >> we'll get a chance to ask him that directly at 7:30 eastern. also, we're going to hear from obama team surrogate robert gibbs -- tim pawlenty 7:15, robert gibbs 7:30 and we'll have a breakdown from what happened from david gergen and ron brown stein. >> president obama among those saying another interesting saying weiner should get out, he should leave. >> controversy surrounding tracy morgan with troubles of him own, trying to make amends of a homophobic rant during his stand-up tour. we'll tell you what he's saying now. >> take a look at these pictures, exactly what yo