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chris: there we, duffy, mike, the rip-around question. if romney conditions in the situation he's in, inability to talk big, inability to talk smile. is he able to win the nomination? >> he is. we now what his flaws are and weak spots are and, of course, obama campaign has all of that tape. >> i agree. it's been a damaging primary for him. >> i will counter that and say candidates can find a reservoir if there's success. what he doesn't have is the kind of success that makes you better. he's been running so scared of late, all of that anxiety's coming out. >> every candidate can adapt. candidates that really want to will t will be up to romney to decide if he wants to. chris: politics is a learning profession. is it your experience covering him he's a learner? >> no, not in this realm. chris: before we break, we're talking about rick santorum's very conservative views on soshe issues. several years ago his criticism of gay sex strayed into controversial territory in an associated press interview. here's what he said, "society is based on

marking the first anniversary of the start of its nato backed uprising which brought down with mike duffy and to a brutal civil war the national transitional council which took charge is still struck. to control the country i missed international recently or museums you see you're failing to protect your rights claiming thousands of gadhafi supporters are . inside libya the rebels are in the power struggle. and an economy scrum dependent journalist. covered events in real. time was predictable. there is actually no government in libya at the moment the n.c.c. is nothing more than a media show that there are hundreds of militias that control different parts of the country and this is one of gadhafi and the former libyan government always warned that this would happen so we are seeing that anybody who doesn't agree with this state of affairs by the western backed rebels is systematically prosecuted as you mentioned. have done a report showing that there is a systematic people who support about the not least the former permanent representative of the united nations. human rights watch did a

nancy gibbs and mike duffy are friends. they have a new book coming on the club, the president's club, about the former president and it is quite true when you have the great good fortune to talk to presidents how clear it is who's in the two-term tear of a club and who's in the one-term men's grill. and the other guys can go all the way to the dining room. (laughter) president carter and president bush can only have sandwiches. but i think... of course distance changes things. george w. bush explicitly counts on that. someone else that reads a lot of history. he says "i just read four books last year on george washington's presidency. i think people will be changing their view." michael taught me many this a long time ago. your rule is what, 25 years to be able to really appreciate what happened. >> rose: so have we changed our opinion of john kennedy 25 years later? >> it's gone through all sorts of oscillations. in the '60s he was a hero. you began to learn things about anymore the 1970s that brought him down. it's gone