joining me now live is todd rogers. he's an assistant professor at harvard's kennedy school. you very much for joining us. >> hi, gary. thanks for having me. >> the artful dodge. what is that all about? >> so with a collaborator here at harvard, we've been doing psychological experiments to understand how its they politicians manage to evade questions without being detected so we've run a series of these experiments where viewers are randomly assigned to one of three conditions. in one condition they watch a video where a moderator asks a question that say as what will you do about the universal health care problem in the world. the politician said, i'll glad you asked me that. we need universal health care. we then splice out the question, have the moderator ask about the illegal drug problem. he answers the same thing and then a different group watches the moderator ask a question about universal terrorism. they think he's just as honest, trustworthy and likeable as the person who answered about health care and answered but they couldn't remember the question he was asked.

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and roger goode lked at he person in the league, we can't have that. >> chuck todd, you cover the whited states came out on this the other day, as did mitt romney. >> repter: yes, they did. and don't forget, it's green bay, wisconsin, a battleground state. per ki, major league baseba did ovtu a result, george brett, the infamous pine tar incident, they overturned a result, that was a home run in t top of the ninth, so they forced the ending -- they ended up having to play the extra half inning. >> right. >> was there any thought that the nfl- w t a emplation by -- you know, i know what their statement said -- of overturning that result because it was the last play. they could have done it in a way, and it probably would have been fairly accepted around the league. >> well, chuck, i mean,'ve asked that question to couple er nothing in the bylaws a that says that we can do that. so there's no rule set up to be able to do that. now, the logical person might say, well, you should just do it. you should just make a rule like that. s omm in the league ha tre among the owners. and you didn't e

mayor has now sent a letter to commissioner roger goodell asking for his help in bringing the regular refs back. the league and the refs met yet. cnn's brian todd after three weeks of controversy and complaint, the nfl's replacement referees literally decide the outcome of at least one game. on a desperation pass into the end zone, m.d. jennings of the green bay packers appears to catch the ball for an interception, but the refs rule golder tate has the possession. by rule it goes to the offensive player, tate. after a review. >> referee: the call on the field stands, touchdown. >> reporter: seahawks win. packers fume. >> don't ask me a question about the officials, all right? we'll cut to the chase right there. i've never seen anything like that in all my years in football. >> look at the replay and then the fact that it was reviewed is awful. that's all i'm going to say about it. >> reporter: tame compared to the tweet from packers offensive guard t.j. lang got fed by the refs. even president obama tweeted. nfl fans on both sides of the aisle hope the revs lockout is settled soon. this is after a disputed field goal gave the baltimore ravens