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obama white house is making its political comeback," richard wolffe, democratic mayor of atlanta, kasim reedand "time" magazine columnist mike murphy. welcome to all of you. mayor reed, i was reminded on twitter this morning, it was your birthday, was it not, on friday? happy birthday. >> thank you. >> glad to have you come up here and spend the birthday weekend on "meet the press." thanks so much. mike murphy, let me start with you. rick santorum, he's in it to win it. i think you could say he positions himself as the one true conservative here with some experience is. he for real? >> well, as he pointed out, he was governor of a big, blue, hard-to-win state for republicans -- governor, senator of that state. on the other hand, not as famous. a lot of his story is wases, you know, did this, did that. there is social concern and there is room for that in the iowa caucus. it's hard to see the path for nomination for him. >> mayor reed, the other story is congressman anthony weiner and you heard from congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, you know, there's only so much we can do here to push