frank. there is a school of thought developing that the president who had all of this political capital did not spend enough time creating incentives in an economy coming out of a relationship section. >> this is the worst recovery in terms of growth since world war ii and not even a close call. >> right. >> just that much worse than everyone else. so, bill, 0.1% -- 0.1%. heat me repeat that. 1.1% growth in real dis-- 0.1%. that is just not enough to get average incomes up. >> no, it is -- i think to further dan's point, one of the points that i think governor romney needs to make is that we are here not because obama failed but because he succeeded. he had his choices and made his choices and now failing not by our measures at this table, by his own measures. he told us that unemployment would be at 5.6% that the point. it's 8.2%. vice president biden told us we would be creating up to 500,000 jobs by this point and we are are creating 80,000 jobs and one thing that might be right. he told us the economy was improving -- wasn't improving bit third year he might be a one therm president. that might be the only thing that comes true. >> he said i inherited a bad economy but we are coming out of it. taking longer than we thought because it was an unusual recession rooted in financial problems.or crimina these things take time. >> there was a deleveraging process going on, right, that people had too much debt and that is what you call a double and now there is an adjustment period. why during that adjustment period would the government take on more debt? that is sort of counter acting the effects of deleveraging. if you had gone through the process in the early stages then you would be coming out of the recession. i'm afraid that because they have heaped on all of this excessive government debt that is just making it harder to fly the plane. >> so what impact does this have on the election? it is not a recession. so it is not a slam dunk for romney to just say look this is so bad you need to turn to me. this isn't 2008. so where does -- how does this play out? >> you know, paul, i guess i would say it plays out in a raw political calculation. either candidate to win needs good turnout from either democrats or republicans. and we had this fairly astonishing gallup report that said only 39% of democrats are enthusiastic about voting down from 61% when obama was elected. democrats live in the same crumby economy that the rest of us do. black unemployment around 20 about percent. youth unemployment around 16%. two groups that he really needed. i think these numbers just suppress the intent of democrats to turn out and vote for him. they will vote but i don't think as many are going to turn out as he needs in november. >> it is close enough that i think mitt romney has to make the argument, he has to -- obama is going to say look we are heading out of it, it is better and don't go back to 2008. but romney has to make the case how did we get here? what policies, why are we at 1.5% growth and why my policies are going to get it better. he has to make the sale. that is going to be the tail of the election i think. >> still ahead, is mitt romney on the offensive taking aim at president obama's record abroad. and how a romney administration person foreign policy would differ when we come back. >> this deals with other nations he has given trust where it was not earned, insult where it was not deserved and apology where it is not due. 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>> starkly contrasting visions of america's role in the world and what leadership means. president obama it means focusing on the u.n. and leading from behind and reaching out to russia. mitt romney is much more forceful. said i'm going to restore our alliances with our friends and make america more of a sort of proactive leader in the world. >> but i don't think president obama would accept your distinction, are matt, he would say we are leading too. just not leading in a sharp elbowed way that alienates the world. >> the record show what that has led to. you have seen it in syria and the middle east where we are are disengaged. the failed policy toward iran which it has been allowed to go ahead and build nuclear weapons and russia leading a regime and we he just stand back and say nothing. >> romney introduced one new policy that said iran could not enrich any uranium because it could hot be trusted to do so. that is different from the obama administration. >> the obama administration said it themed and hawed. >> could enrich, just had to be under certain controls. >> it is difficult to track where the obama negotiating policy is from one day to the next whether they are going to allow a civilian enrichment. >> and enrichment is important because if you enrich it could be used for a bomb. >> it is the core part of a bomb. romney has written in our pages that he is not going to allow iran to become a nuclear weapons state. he seems to mean it. let's remember are that obama has actually said the same thing except that we suspect that he doesn't mean it. i think we have to take the foreign policy speeches with a bit of a grain of salt, paul. remember when george w. bush was running for president he talked about a more humble foreign policy. obama promised to close down guantanamo. he extended many of president bush's policies. so it is hard to say at this stage of the game what mitt romney really means and what and how he might act as commander in chief. >> and in afghanistan and syria, dan, pretty general comments by governor romney, not real specific, particularly on syria which is the hottest issue now going. pretty much stayed a step back about saying what he would do. >> syria is a difficult issue. afghanistan the president said he is pulling troops down. it is difficult for romney to say i will push troops back up. >> particularly when the american public seems to be war weary and supports this withdrawal. >> i think matt made an important distinction that needs to be emphasized. this isn't just president obama this is modern democratic foreign policy doctrine calling it leading from behind. which means we only act until we get the support of allies report united nations and that is what we have done in iran and labia and that was the problem for criminal -- and libya and that was the problem about going into syria. we never take the first step. the problem with that is the allies in the united nations themselves won't act until the united states takes the lead. i think romney is saying that he is willing to take the lead and pull the others along not wait for them to join us. >> president obama is saying what he really i mean his people are saying what romney really wants is permanent war. he likes the idea of being deployed everywhere and echos of president bush. is that a fair charge? >> it is not a fair charge and actually as dan mentioned he has been a bit vague on what he actually would do in afghanistan. it has been a charge in the campaign. they decided last year with the premature pullouts in afghanistan and the pullout interest iraq. >> total. >> total pullout that they will run a campaign that the tide of war has receded, i'm the president of peace. the problem with the campaign and what it seems to me if you look around the world the tide of war is not receding. >> one important distinction worth emphasizing, mitt romney used the word credibility and it is an idea that democrats for a long time have denigrated as a foreign policy concept. having a presence in the pacific, atlanta, throughout all corners of the world. sustaining the commitments that you kept in places like afghanistan or iraq. unfortunately, we withdrew all of our troops. that may be the distinction on which a romney foreign policy could lie. >> romney's trip overseas, three friends of the united states. good idea? >> a particularly good idea politically to go to escapeddial. there is a case to be cap be mt president obama has not been a great friend to israel. >> might be a decisive margin of jewish american votes. a lot of jewish americans feel they have been betrayed by president obama not just in terms of failure as an economic leader but failed commitments to israel. >> when we come back, penn state's football program dealt a particularly crippling blow. were the sanctions justified or did the nca fumble? there is a debate ahead. organic artichokes, organic lettuce, organic kale... does your cauliflower have a big carbon footprint? not at all. that's great. melons!!! oh yeah!! well that was uncalled for. uhh... mr. gallagher. incoming!!! hahaha! it's wasteful. you know jimmy. folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico sure are happy. how happy, ronny? happier than gallagher at a farmers' market. get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. no price the ncaa can levy will repair the grievous damage inflicted by square arery sandusky on his -- by jerry sandusky on his victims, however, we can make clear that the culture, actions and inactions that allowed them to be victimized will not be tolerated in collegiate athletics. >> that was the president of the national collegiate athletic association announcing sanctions on the penn state football program in the wake of the jerry sandusky scandal. they were hit with a four year post season ban and $60 million fine. effectively stripping the late joe paterno as his title as the all-time winningest coach in college football. you disagreed with week with the ncaa action. why? >> i don't have a problem with punishment of penn state but looking to the ncaa is like looking to the united nations security council to solve any problems. it is the sports culture that they complain about. they have this fine. we don't know where the $60 million is going. i don't think there is any allegation that any buy laws were in fact violated and i think the creepiest thing here is vacating wins on the field with no advantage. if we are going to do this my view is we should go back and knock point's off pete rose's batting average and take away his record and lifetime hits. take away o.j. simpson's records at usc. bill clinton got impeached, take away some of his electoral votes. what the problem at penn state is not that people were unaware. was a it was a lack of leadership and responsibility. you can't outsource. we outsource to the cops and courts. >> what about the argument why punish the students and the football players who really didn't do anything in this. this was a failure of the administration and of the leadership of the football program. >> well, unfortunately, when -- the institutions have to be held accountable. and people who are are part of the institutions who didn't have anything to do we the institutions did something bad will suffer and that is true in business and all walks of life. in this case the. look after the image tarnished of the college game in general and show that at penn state football became bigger than the institution and bigger than the rule of law and there are consequences for this. >> this is the argue hadn't that you have to punish the culture. >> right. >> because the football program became so big that it dominated and it made it i guess impossible not impossible but difficult for the administrators to disagree with -- >> i half agree with matt. look, the former president of penn state tried to fire joe paterno i think in 2004 and could not. that is a terrible situation that should never exist. you are not going to get leadership from the ncaa. if the problem is sports money then the college presidents and boards of trustees should say okay we are not going to be on tv. it has to come from the institutions. otherwise we will get more check lists. the former president says everything he told the board was in compliance with what the general counsel told him. we got compliance instead of leadership. i say you want leadership embed the college presidents and head coaches with a 25-year-old marine nco for a month and they will learn more about responsibility. >> when the trustees found out they fired the president and two administrators now under indictment and fired joe paterno and brought in someone for the investigation. they actually fulfilled their responsibilities here. >> i would agree. i think you had an awful situation and i'm prepared to call penn state the enron of college sports. a truly wad event led to sarbanes oxley a big overreaction. >> and you will get a big overring. >> in terms of enforcement. >> it will come at a lower level and a lower presumption of guilt. like the duke lacrosse thing as soon as there is an independencecation something bad is happening there will be a presumption of guilt and they will bring the ncaa into the sanctions. >> thank you all. we have to take one more break. 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