play a big -- how it's shaped up will play a big role in this presidential re-election campaign. and they're very, very worried about it. when you look at the potential for dominos, and you look at the fact, look at what's going on right now in syria and look at -- you know, libya already -- we've only been there three weeks and it already looks bad. when three weeks into it, people are talking about the lengths this could take. he's not gone and shows no signs of leaving at this point. i think that's something they're very worried about at the white house. >> and this is a discipline operation. david plouffe, bill daley, others who would like the president to stick to a specific space in a re-election. chaos in the middle east is difficult to manage. >> i was talking to some economic advisers in the whitous and they were telling me how much they miss the first two years of the presidency because they felt they were debating economic policy. he said this new team is concerned about two issues -- re-election and the middle east. middle east is consuming the other half of their collective brains, and the other half is re-election. >> which is something that's happened to obama, president obama, ever since he got