his first audience is here at home. he's really focused now on the elections in November.

I think that the diplomatic community in the United States, and, indeed overseas, is quite troubled by this, what they see as a lack of sophistication in this approach.

if you really read the response, you find many on the conservative side are unhappy with the speech, because they think he's going soft on Iran.

the president basically restated his positions. he reaffirmed his positions, still the same iron fist, but in more of a velvet glove.

the best thing that happened for President Bush today was the Iranian president's speech.

Most Americans now, or a lot of Americans separate out Iraq from the greater war on terrorism. Iraq is increasingly seen as a diversion that has not gone well.

Well, of course it's got a political overtone.

I think the president is on firm ground there.

Donald Rumsfeld has clearly lost the confidence of a lot of Americans. He is pretty unpopular now and I think it's an easy for the Democrats to say, instead of presenting our plan for Iraq, what we're saying is we need new management of…

I think it's very obvious that they're still somewhat vulnerable, but no where near as vulnerable as they were back in the last two elections.

Joe Biden floated the idea of a federation separating out Iraq. That attracted some admirers and a lot of critics.

No, it's all opposition. It's all opposition to the war as it's being conducted now. I think, talking to people around the country, my sense, Anderson, is that most people think Plan A is not working. The president's plan is not working.