idea. what happens is sometimes you ve got two microphones, so it might be a little confusing. could you just either move or that s all right. just get close. you re doing fine. you have to get close to the microphone so everybody can hear you, especially this lady here in front. she s taking everything down, so she needs to be able to hear you. and did he then say something was happening? yeah, he said the man kept watching him. okay. tell us what happened then. as he was telling me he kept complaining that man was just watching him, and i just said how the man looked like okay. hold on. i would object to the narrative form of the testimony. i ll be glad to rephrase. please. could you please speak up so everybody can hear? thank you. go ahead and wait for the question. you ve got a very soft voice, but make sure everybody can hear you, both sides. okay? yes. mr. martin, trayvon martin
immigration to get something. i feel he wants to test his political skill on taxes. the history on budget and tax, there s a history from the white house point of view of the president trying to make a deal, offering a deal and republicans being in a posture of saying, 10-1, theoretically, we won t take it. what should he do? i think he s got to redefine, rephrase the dialogue, redefine the way we kind of look at these issues and so the orientation, say pick a date, 20 years from now, what s this country going to be 20 years from now and take that reference point as where we want to get. david gregory and eugene robinson, thank you very much. coming up, senator marco rubio finds resistance within his own party with immigration. we ll talk to one senator who says he can t support a pathway to citizenship under any circumstances on morning joe when we come back. [ female announcer ] going to sleep may be easy, but when you wake up
to be the treasury of the secretary. according to the wall street journal. they work with him and like him. and jack lu who did it last time blew it. gretchen: why not have bowles-simpson come back. why do we spend more time. rephrase that. why are we wasting more time trying to come together on a deal when the bowles-simpson. brian: they didn t touch entitlements. gretchen: it is a starting point. brian: they need a point person inside of the administration. gretchen: american people are frustrated with getting nothing done and spend six months putting together the plane. come and say here is a good starting point. brian: the president never brought it up. and talk about the white house. how sick are the people of ohio and pennsylvania and of
the question has been whether she will follow-up or rephrase and that is basically the deal going in the campaigns believe that she wasn t going to do that according to the rules. we ll see what actually happens. the bottom line, though, it s a much different format, and as bill mentioned it s ability bit tougher for the candidates to get aggressive. the focus groups apparently say they d like to see a good husband, you know, empathetic, listening, show leadership. one columnist i read to morning said it s kind of like procedu porrage, you don t want to be too hot or too cold. mitt romney wants to hold the ground he gained the last time around and the president wants to convince people he s up for the event tonight and he s focused and ready to go. we ve seen in the past and you think of george bush and al gore, if you kind of invade the space rules out there, and the way you use that space and move
enterprise, fostering innovation building infrastructure, those are things the new republican party want to disinvest in. so we have a huge stake in intensifying those things. shannon: latest polls we see from north carolina show less than a 1 percentage point spread between the president and mitt romney. romney currently leading there. what do democrats need say in north carolina to win over voters in the tar heel state? i m not hearing the question very well. i m sorry. if you could just shorten it and rephrase it. i would be happy to respond. shannon: right now mitt romney has smallest lead with voters. what do you think the president needs to say this week to win back voters in north carolina? north carolina is a swing state. there is no question about it.