i agree with you, wolf that an attack like this like we saw on september 11th they are so well prepared and so targeted. the terrorists are setting the calendar not some facebook post or publication. this date was chosen possibly because this is when all the editors were going to be together. so it had mass casualty effect. we don t know if it s isis or al qaeda or some other entity. and that s why we need to catch them. that s why the manhunt is so important. but you are right that these attacks on the messenger, that s exactly what it is the media attacks are to amplify not only the terrorists victimizing of everyone or terrorizing everyone, it s also to kill the messenger. and that s very scary for journalists. it is very scary for anyone in the media business because it has that amplifying effect that
do you try to solve the problem in that way. you think about marco rubio from florida, all names you ll hear a lot of. but i do think that all some of them like suzannea and brian, they are not well known on the national stage and the spector of sarah palin will hover over those kind of nom nangss as it could over marco rubio who has issues around what his background is, might not be able to be fully vetted. what does rob portman bring to the table, the fact he was in the white house, has that experience also on capitol hill. yes. look, former congressman, former u.s. trade representative, and now a senator someone who as i said before, meets the paramount test, qualified from day one. also has an amplifying effect on romney. not an exciting guy but if your argument is going to be we re the ones who can manage the economy, who can fix washington, who can do all of those things better than barack obama, rob portman has the same pragmatic
i m candidate crowley, and you re in the situation room. just coming in, a new snapshot capturing the big picture, a cnn lorcp poll shows support for president obama up slightly from last month 67 this new poll shows a five-point lead over romney, though still within a sampling error. the same poll shows a seven-point lead for the president over rick santorum. that is up only slightly from january. we want to bring in cnn s chief analyst gloria borger. so i look at this and think maybe a problem for mitt romney? absolutely a problem for mitt romney. as you pointed out, in january neck and neck. now president obama is up. what s mitt romney s calling card as he campaigns he electability? what do republican voters say they want in all those dpit polls we ve been taking and all those primaries? somebody who can beat president obama. he kind of loses that argument. it s early, this is good news for president obama. we should say it s february, these numbers can change. an