with us today, howard fineman, nia-malika henderson, andrea mitchell and michael duffy. first off today, the switch boards led up this work with protests over grid look. at the polls. the most motivated republican voters are not fallen to house republican tactics. 73% of voters blame president obama, not the house republicans. and republicans think that debt cash will help them defeat the president. here is how they'll play the president's failure to win the day. bargain on thecc1: they'll claim the president showed weak leadership, that he was not the post-partisan compromiser, he that is still a big spender and probably most crucial, they'll tie this crisis to the jobs crisis.cc1: howard, right now there is a lot of heat all over the place, a lot of it against the right, the tea party people. come next year, how will the conservatives and the republicans use this whole deal over the debt against the cc president? >> well, thecc1: president's gr vulnerability is that he is somehow irrelevant. really s weak and notcc1: dealings the finalcc1: on the budget crisis, that ti

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correspondent on the roof and also to get the latest tamary a high you were in tripoli a few months ago michael duffy was in full control of the capital in the eastern part of the country what is the situation like right now. well rory what we saw driving from tunisia only been to the capital tripoli differs a lot from what we used to see here in libya in june or july when the western part of the country had been controlled by kentucky's forces this is absolutely this is a completely different picture right now on the ground here new flags are hung everywhere all the buildings are covered with and to conduct good tunes and graphic t.'s chiefly in arabic but also in english and french say welcome to new libya welcome to freely beer welcome to liberated there and of course you cannot see any culture at all for duffy as it was before trademark rebels pickup trucks were the ones we used to see in benghazi and in western libya. the kind of symbol of the fight against the regime are here everywhere well we cannot we can say for sure right now the peace part of the country is completely right now in the reb

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duffy who passed away june 26. look at that sculpture made of butter, one of the attractions each year at the iowa state fair. republican candidates were mixing it up there yesterday. riverside, california, michael, it independent. caller: good morning. host: what did you think of the candidates? caller: i was very impressed with ron paul. i do not see how anyone who saw that in its entirety would not be. you could see clearly all of those other republicans are all the same. we will get the same old same old if we get them in there. he is talking about drawing the u.s. troops out of the world, minding our own business, concentrating on the u.s. and stop going around the world making enemies everywhere we go. that is a positive. citizens and veterans, people have no money. fighting wars everywhere when we need to grow. we are creating more enemies. i like his approach. being independent, i am definitely going to vote for him. draw trips down the world, that money can be used right here in the u.s. where it is needed. thank you for my time to speak. host: let's take a look at a new poll taken with rick perry in the race. mitt romney leading with 17%. rick perry, 15%. really guiliani, 2%. on paul a