katrina. i think that s fair. governor christie has saidas much himself. sam stein is with us in washington. this is the most we ve seen you this morning. shake out the race for us as we sit here at 10:09 a.m. on the east coast. what is that orange concoction that orange is drinking. i may be late to the game, about i m curious about what s going on? you don t want to know. it is sludge taken from the dirtiest part of lake erie and it s good. good stuff. it sounds nutritious. it s going to be a long day. go ahead. you know, listen, we ve all sort of figured out where the state of the race is, and someone who believes in the numbers and you look at it and you feel pretty good for obama and you look at all of the battleground state polls and he s winning basically all of them and you look at the national polls and he s eked ahead a lot of them and if you believe in numbers. i m someone who does, and he has a better chance of mitt romney
the mission accomplished sign? shepard: who can forget that. it was mission almost accomplished and i always get nervous when i hear that because the other thing happening is with al qaeda underground in basements, the homegrown terror phenomenon as spread and we ve seen what katherine airline was talking cathrine herridge was talking. that s harder to deal with. yes, but they don t have the veteran skills and training that were provided to the hardcore al qaeda people but it s a concern, definitely. we saw it with the christmas underwear bomber and in almost blowing up the subway. that is long campaign against extremism and there s no moment you can declare victory. what leon panetta saidas good