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Asking what s the deal with hall. what opening have we got here? all of this doesn t add up to really impairerling. the margin of control is so small that to the extent that roy moore like figures start e merging, even if republicans kept nominal control, it could be a body. how much does steve bannon talk to the president? no. two sides say very different things. the president insists that he barely talked to him and bannon said he has spoken for him for an hour the night before his speech. i think the truth is somewhere in between. i think steve bannon doesn t have a huge exercise over the president, but he has chosen his moments well. humanity on the house floor. ....
Thought everybody on the stage would be better at president than president obama is at the moment. what he wants to focus on is what is the compelling reason to vote for beginning rich or cain or governor romney. the folk you was the debate should be that direction, because what you re looking at, the republican electorate, the public at large is very concerned about the direction of the country. they want to hear solutions and that s what i think the speaker was trying to get at. i m curious, martin, for the most part the field is not launching attacks at romney. how will any of them gain ground if they don t? let start with gingrich. he has a tendency to be very caustic and sometimes to say things that are self-destructive. i think he was being cautious last night. i think actually he s done very well. i would be surprised if gingrich is the candidate, but i think you re getting to a situation where you now have romney and perhaps gingrich ee merging above the field. i think ultim ....
most talked about moments when all eight republicans stood on the stage with me in tampa, florida, this week. governor perry, speaking of social security, you said in the past it s a ponzy scheme. an absolute failure. unconstitutional. but today you wrote an article in usa today saying it must be saved and reformed. very different tone. why? it s time for us to get back to the constitution. and a program that s been there 70 or 80 years, obviously we re not going to take that program away. but for people to stand up and support what they did in the 30s or in the 2010s is not appropriate for america. the question is, do you still believe that social security should be ended as a federal program as you did six months ago when your book came out and return to the states or do you want a treat for them? i think we ought to have a conversation we re having that right now, governor. we re running for president. we ll finish this conversation. but the issue is, ar ....
Think i d give myself an a. i don t think we ve explained it well enough to the american public. reporter: he gets that chance tonight and show how he intends to turn his campaign pledges into a governing reality. from health care to tax reform, to national security. the president hopes to give republicans a road map to pass his agenda, but divisions are already ee merging in his party, and democrats are vowing to resist. tonight if passed his prologue, the president will use populist rhetoric in his speech, but he won t back it up with real actions. reporter: as he prepares to sign his second version of his controversial travel ban this week, senior administration officials tell cnn the president is also eyeing an immigration bill he could discuss tonight. the president goes before the nation with a lower approval rating, 42%, than recent predecessors did during their first addresses to congress. but he also has advantages. a 4.9% unemployment rate, and the stock market closing ....