Top Line

One thing Mitt Romney brings home from his trip abroad this week is a whole lot of baggage, so much so that the campaign has to be worrying about the fact that he has now become the gaffe candidate. It was not a smooth trip, and as Romney returns stateside, the campaign is now attempting to change the narrative with a brand new positive ad, much like the new Obama ads that featured the president talking straight to camera last week.

It almost seems like a reverse tactic of traditional presidential campaigns, which usually start by introducing the candidates, before ruthlessly attacking opponents. It seems the 2012 presidential race went to the attacks first, then the campaigns realized they need to build things up a bit.

For Romney, will the damage done abroad plague him back home? And did the presumptive nominee come away from this trip with any upsides? Check out this week's Top Line to find out.

Spinners and Winners

Dick Cheney has heart -- specifically, a new heart. And with it comes a fiery and defiant Cheney that had been absent in recent years.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News and Yahoo News, Cheney says he feels "excellent," and reflects on how far he has come since 2010 -- when he was in end stage heart failure and had undergone a grueling operation to have a pump installed in his heart.

"Two years ago this time I was on a respirator, heavily sedated. Just had a pump… installed on my heart because my heart had gotten so weak after six heart attacks and 30-some years of heart disease that it was, you know, it was at the end." he said.

Cheney, 71, weighed in on the 2012 presidential race, wading into an issue that has been plaguing presumptive nominee Mitt Romney: tax returns. Back in 2000, as a potential vice-presidential pick, Cheney released ten years of tax returns. Then Governor Bush at the time also released ten years. Romney has released just two, though

The Olympics are supposed to be a time when the world comes together for athletic competition, politics is not supposed to be a part of any of it. But it doesn't always work out that way. Most recently of course there is the saga of Mitt Romney. During his trip to London, the presumptive nominee expressed concern about how prepared the city was to host the Olympics, prompting London Mayor Boris Johnson to use Romney's doubts as a rallying cry before a crowd gathered in Hyde Park.

"There's a guy called Mitt Romney who wants to know whether we're ready. He wants to know whether we're ready? Are we ready?" he bellowed. "Yes!" screamed the crowd.

Of course, a major part of Romney's biography is how he helped rescue the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, which had in 1998 and 1999 been sullied by allegations of corruption and reports that International Olympic Committee officials had accepted gifts for picking Salt Lake City. Romney swooped in, took control, and the games were ultimately a