Campaigns seek to lower expectations for debate performances NEW: Mother Jones: Romney 'harvested' companies Bain Capital built NEW: Romney, Obama to talk with Israel's Netanyahu on Friday CNN Starting Point Host Soledad O'Brien asked Deleware Gov. Jack Markell on Friday whether polls showing high voter expectations for Obama in the debates could hurt the president Well, my guess is what people are really saying, they believe President Obama really understands their issues, their concerns. He's got a better plan for the future," said Markell, who also chairs the National Governor's Association. Obama, Romney will talk to Netanyahu Both the president and Romney will speak to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in phone calls on Friday, a Romney campaign aide and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney confirmed. Netanyahu has ramped up his criticism in recent weeks of the international community's response to Iran's nuclear program, saying current targeted sanctions and diplomatic efforts are not enough. Calls for specific "red lines" that Israel and its allies would set on Iran have thus far been rebuffed by the Obama administration, though Obama has said it would be unacceptable for Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. Iran says its nuclear intentions are peaceful. On Thursday, Netanyahu stood before the United Nations General Assembly with a simple graph shaped like a bomb and drew a red line to demonstrate the point of no return if Iran develops a nuclear weapon. Obama has been criticized by Republicans for not meeting with Netanyahu at the U.N. General Assembly this week and earlier in the month. In both cases, Obama spoke with him on the phone. Romney, Obama to speak with Netanyahu The Romney campaign has said Obama has disregarded Israeli security with his response to Iran's nuclear program. Romney 'harvested' companies he built The left-leaning publication that posted the secretly recorded video of Romney making his controversial "47%" comments about Obama supporters released a new, older clip in which the GOP candidate describes a mission to "harvest" small businesses while at the private equity firm he founded, Boston's Bain Capital. Mother Jones posted video on its website on Thursday of Romney from 1985 describing the goals of the company. "Bain Capital is an investment partnership which was formed to invest in startup companies and on-going companies, then to take an active hand in managing them and hopefully, five to eight years later, to harvest them at a significant profit," the video showed Romney as saying. Romney has touted jobs created as a result of his time as founder and chief executive of Bain, buying and managing various companies. The Romney campaign responded to the video, asserting that his long tenure with the company helped save jobs. In addition to starting new businesses, Mitt Romney helped build Bain Capital by turning around broken companies, creating and saving thousands of jobs. The problem today is that President Obama hasn't been able to turn around our economy in the same way," said Romney campaign spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg. The Obama campaign portrays Romney as an out-of-touch executive whose company's investments wound up cutting jobs at home and sending others overseas. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama's former chief of staff announced after the Democratic National Convention that he was moving to Priorities USA to help with fundraising.