feet, and i think his staff let him down when they let him go out -- i will say, that's another thing about "game change," when you see -- >> how it works. >> they give him lines. if he isn't capable of talking off the top of his head, they should give him lines and say, "repeat after me." >> let me ask you this question on the word "lie," which you're hung up on. what is the difference between a political fib or what my friend calls acceptable political hyperbole and a lie that you condemn somebody for? >> i think there are -- you talk about the iran policy. i could justify somebody saying that the president's been weak on iran. we can go back to what he said in the '08 campaign, we could go back to how he was silent in '09 while iranians were being shot in the street. there is that ambiguity. if you want to call that a political fib, you can. barack obama and every politician does that. in this case, mitt romney is talking about something that is objective, something that not somebody else wrote, something