and esther armor host of wake up call. in dueling speeches on thursday afternoon, mitt romney issued debt and euro and big debt and president obama made his own ideological case that romney and the gop regime are so extreme they have economic norms. there have been fierce arguments throughout our history between both parties about the exact size and role of government. some honest disagreements. but in the decades after world war ii, there was a general consensus that the market couldn t solve all of our problems on its own. it s this vision that democrats and republicans used to share that mr. romney and the current republican congress have rejected in favor of a no holds barred, government is the enemy, market is everything approach. president sent out to define what this approach would look like. trillions of tax cuts for the wealthy and millions of americans losing their health care and told voters if they liked what they heard, to cast their ballot for romney and
their ballot for romney and the gop agenda. you should take them at their word and they will take america down this path. and mr. romney is qualified to deliver on that plan. no, he is. i m giving you an honest presentation of what he s proposing. i m looking forward to the press following up. and making sure that you know i m not exaggerating. so, i thought the speech was interesting because it came, those two speeches came in a week where i thought two things kind of happening in the campaign this week. one was earlier in the week, there was this panic button that was being pressed. it s going off the rails and a few worrying poll numbers out there. and nate silver had this hilarious tweet about making fun of the different polling that was happening. he said, obama support cratered among elderly, gay, hispanic jews in the latest tracking poll. just to put this to rest in terms of the button being pushed. it s the tracking poll on april 15th to june 15th. if we can show
spoke to the nation to defend his choices and also to announce that nato will take over the lead role tomorrow. emily schmidt is joining us from washington with all the details. good morning, emily. reporter: peggy and rob, good morning to you. before president obama used the word libya last night, he said the words international effort. and he said the world had had a responsibility to act. president obama, explaining the u.s. involvement in libya, said it was the right thing to do. the united states and the world faced a choice. gadhafi declared he would show no mercy to his own people. it was not in our national interest to let that happen. i refused to let that happen. reporter: mr. obama said in ten days, the coalition stopped moammar gadhafi s advance, doing so without u.s. ground troops and with a full transfer of power to nato tomorrow. in fact, just hours after the president s speech, secretary of state hillary clinton arrived in london, for an international co
and last night, the president spoke to the nation to defend his choices and also to announce that nato will take over the lead role tomorrow. emily schmidt is joining us from washington with all the details. good morning, emily. reporter: peggy and rob, good morning to you. before president obama used the word libya last night, he said the words international effort. and he said the world had had a responsibility to act. president obama, explaining the u.s. involvement in libya, said it was the right thing to do. the united states and the world faced a choice. gadhafi declared he would show no mercy to his own people. it was not in our national interest to let that happen. i refused to let that happen. reporter: mr. obama said in ten days, the coalition stopped moammar gadhafi s advance, doing so without u.s. ground troops and with a full transfer of power to nato tomorrow. in fact, just hours after the president s speech, secretary of state hillary clinton arrived in
bannon and you saw earlier that shot that you spotted of mike flynn, the general, retired general mike flynn who is the national security adviser also in that front row now next to jared kushner. if you see it, there s the economic adviser steve kohn, there s right now standing up mike flynn, jared curb mer, ivanka trump, quite a line-up there of the top officials. and this is a white house that has been under fire. reince priebus and of course the vice president. first of all, for having so many different power centers that it is not always clear who isn charge other than of course the president of t united states but also some missed signals. flynn was already in some difficulty with some of his peers for the rollout of the executive order for not completely informing the president of the implications of a memo that reestablished the