. >> let's dig deeper in the strategy session and the cnn contributor paul begala and eric erickson, te.com. what do you think, paul, about this whole bane capital cory booker that has been generated over the past few days. >> i advised the pro-obama ads and the ads featured real people who mitt romney has laid off and he shattered their lives and sometimes it happens in business. i think people understand that, but here's the deal. some of his investments in bain were very smart and he made a lot of money and i think that's great and i applaud that. some went horribly wrong and he still made money off of them, and even as he was laying off people like pat wells who is in one of our ads and that's wrong. he did that many times, but also a whole lot of times he took companies that drove them into bankruptcy and canceled the retirement and jobs of the workers. that's wrong. >> it doesn't look like the democrats will back away and they see it as a lending issue for the president. >> yea, and i'm not sure that it is. and i get where paul is coming from, and i think the way paul articulate