act was passed when a new team comes in. you actually have to make the decisions about who s going to sit in the jobs. just from your work on mitt romney s team, did you guys have an effective transition, you know, the game plan in place? i m just curious, were you boys on it, were the romney boys on that transition team? they played they played some roles on it, but the boys and much of the structure was dedicated to trying to win the election. so, that s when the natural reckoning comes. the romney effort in 2012 was extraordinarily well organized in terms of the plans that would take place afterwards but it was the personnel decisions that are the toughest ones, you re seeing reaction to now, and would have happened in 2012 as well. it s a birthing process and we ll all live through it. ben ginsberg, thank you. coming up next, a look at the role president obama will
attached to that. we saw that a couple of years ago. the real risk though is if the united states defaults, that sets off all kinds of problems for people s retirement accounts, the bond markets, all of those repercussions that are real world and damaging. and so leadership tells me they don t want to see that happen but we are up against another of those showdown. will it be one of boehner s last acts or a new speaker s headache? kelly odom on the hill, among our members of our team waiting. kelly, we re going to keep an eye and keep this picture on the screen as we await speaker boehner. we ve been told it will be within five minutes in that window. so we will not stop looking at that doorway. we re going to bring into the conversation a veteran in government service and republican politics, dan senor, who was foreign afairs advisor to the romney effort last time around. and has come to know paul ryan very well. dan, this tug-of-war between all
but it correctly predicted every state with florida still undecided. the biggest money loser in the general election campaign was casino mogul sheldon addleson who spent $53 million on the romney effort as well as funding senate and house races off. of his candidates lost except one. nevada senator-elect dean heller defeated addleson foe shelly berkeley, a democrat. forbes put it in perspective. $53 million may sound like a chuck of change, it s not much for a guy worth $20.5 billion. imagine an average person with $100,000 net worth, buying a pair of shoes for $250. you d care if you lost them, but you wouldn t be ruined. finally one kentucky candidate learned the hard way that every vote counts. robert mcdonald finished in a dead heat with to livia bilou for time seat on the
pennsylvania when you look at the romney effort you have to look west to ohio. the reason is they re not confident in their prospects of ohio. they re throwing spaghetti at the wall to see if it will stick. we re confident we will win. my spaghetti always sticks against the wall. it really does, though. sent bill clinton to pennsylvania twice. david, if you had to pick a key swing state that you were most worried about, what would it be? that s impossible. they are like children. you love them all, you re saying? governor romney if we win ohio or virginia or florida we
right now mitt romney s on his way home from an overseas trip his campaign is calling a great success even though it generated embarrassing headlines at every stop. latest came today in poland when one of romney s top aides cursed at reporters asking questions. one of them was our jim acosta, who joins us from warsaw. jim, what happened today that the romney team sounds upbeat despite all that s been going on? reporter: well, joe, a senior romney advisor told reporters here in warsaw that mistakes do happen out on the campaign trail. but when asked what mistakes were made on this overseas trip, that advisor couldn t name any. instead the campaign says the world got to hear from a candidate who they say speaks from the heart. it s the image mitt romney has wanted voters to see for the last week. the gop contender walking tall on the world stage here visiting poland s tomb of the unknown soldier and later praising the soviet black country for escaping the iron curtain. i an