ryan. to your point about biden, you re right, people that know him like him, generally. but a lot of people watching didn t know him. i d say that a lot of people compared to gore stylistic stuff in that debate, biden was a lot worse. he s getting a pass because he s joe and obama got a low performance last night. because we know and like joe so much. that s a question how it plays to the middle. i think he s interrupting. mika, i just don t think you should be laughing during a discussion about thermonuclear war with iran. and the discussion about libya, we watched it again, he was amused at some of paul ryan s approaches toward the concern over iran, and quite frankly totally misrepresenting this is a very serious issue. however amused you are, it s about tone as well. what do you do when your opponent misrepresents the president s position and exactly the sanctions being put on iran?
and i suspect that a, the president on tuesday is not that aggressive in a biden fashion. and two, he wants to talk a lot more about the general optimism on the economy. here s let s go to chuck really quickly. he s been trying to get in. tom, we ll come back to you. chuck, this debate about the smiling, the laughing, whether you re talking about libya or iran, we ve heard two different takes. what s yours? reporter: no, i would just say that the difference between, i think, gore and biden is this was this sort of fit biden s persona even for those that didn t like biden. and i think this idea there are people when gore did what he did, there was still this sort of sense he didn t really know who he was, weren t quite sure who he was. remember, we weren t sure, what s he wearing? earth tones now. what is he doing? you know, there was this sense of he wasn t comfortable in his own skin. so it added, i think, a layer of issues for gore. that isn t what this was for