today, mitt romney staked his campaign on that big lie. mitt romney has left us with a choice. he's either a liar or what george will would call, a bloviating ignoramus. >> tell us what you really mean. >> yesterday, mitt romney closed his speech with a reference to martin luther king jr., which brings up the uncomfortable memory of the 2007 campaign when he was talking about his father and martin luther king jr. let's look at that. >> i saw my father march with martin luther king. >> my dad marched with martin luther king. >> did you actually see your dad march with martin luther king? >> no, i say that in a figurative sense. i try to be as accurate as i can be, and the -- if you'll look at the literature or the dictionary, the term "saw" includes being aware of inthe sense that i've described. i saw my dad march with marten luther king. i saw him in the sense of being aware of his participation. >> and i saw richard wolf win the super bowl. what the -- richard? >> no wonder he's a fan of bill clinton. >> it's way wilder than clinton. clinton at least understood here's the stu

mitt romney is now in no position. he made the decision he wants to deny having anything to do with bain capital in 200, 2001, 2002 rather than as some republicans have argued say, look stands up for bain. >> you were in charge. stand up for it and deny bain was involved in outsourcing, whatever it is you want to claim, even though the record shows that no, it was. at least then you create in the political world a dynamic of the president's campaign says one thing. romney's campaign says another. the other is sort of left with what do we believe? by mitt romney wanting to deny at bain, that argument about what bain did is off of the table. now, it's sort of conventional wisdom reaffirmed because mitt romney sees a stink factor doesn't want to be associated with bain from 2000 to 2002. now, it's an accepted fact that bain boast bought companies and scaled them down or moved the jobs overseas. now, the only question was: was mitt romney involved or not? he is trying to hide on this island by saying, no, i was riding the

you know tea, mitt romney. the drink that you're not allowed to have because it stimulates the brain. you know, something that the hard of thinking worry about. >> ah. the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. martin lewis, thanks so much for your time tonight. >> my great pleasure. thank you. >> remember to answer tonight's question there at the bottom of the screen and share your thoughts on twitter @edshow and on facebook. i want to know what you think. >>> coming up, his book is called "no apology," yet mitt romney spent a good part of today apologizing. evan mcmorris-santoro of "talking points" weighs in. we'll be right back. >>> coming up, what does mitt romney's series of gaffes in london mean for him back here in the u.s.? i'll ask evan mcmorris-santoro of "talking points memo." >>> a romney adviser says president obama doesn't understand the anglo-saxon heritage of this country. now both campaigns are responding. we'll have the details. >>> and later, bill o'reilly revives the lie about welfar

shelly, what do you expect mitt romney to do? what would you want mitt romney to do? >> well, we certainly know his history with bain capital, and we understand, well, we don't understand fully what his relationship with bain capital is now, but we certainly believe he has some influence and the workers here really would love for mitt romney to come to our community and talk to the people who are losing their jobs. actually, what we would really love to see is the mayor, and i talked this afternoon, would be for governor romney and president obama to hold a debate in the city of freeport to talk about how to make america more competitive. companies like bain capital are in the business of creating wealth. we're in the business of creating jobs. they don't have to be mutually exclusive, but it's difficult to handle those on a local level because it's federal policies that make the difference. we would love to see a debate held in freeport, which is home of one of the famous lincoln-douglas debates and we would like to see how we could keep our jobs here at home. >> how

mitt romney invested in two different ways. through is subsidiary of bain capital and through an offshore company. here's the map. from 1998 until 1999 romney's share in global tech ranged from 6% to 10%, according to mother jones. so his money, his investment, was flowing to hong kong company global tech. global tech manufactured household appliances in china. and there's a reason we show american jobs flowing to china. see, the company relied on outsourcing by american companies to fuel its business. here's what global tech's ceo said back in 1998. although it appears that customers such as sunbeam are not outsourcing their manufacturing as quickly as we had anticipated, we still believe that the long-term trend toward outsourcing will continue. the company's success relied on american companies' desire to outsource, and mitt romney, well, he was happy to invest his money. bear in mind, this is just a small part of mitt romney's outsourcing and offshoring problem. romney says he will create american jobs. >> if i'm president,

if you like mitt romney's singing voice, you better enjoy it now, because after this, mitt romney will never sing again. >> i'm barack obama and i approve this message. o beautiful, forspacious skies for amber waves of grain for purple mountains majesty above the fruited plain america, america, god shed his grace on thee and crown thy good >> yeah, they went there. the obama re-election campaign started running that ad in nine battleground states this weekend, while the weekend political shows were dominated by mitt romney's tax returns. >> he has released only one year, to the mccain campaign, he released 23 years. and he's telling the american people, i'm not going to give you what i've given john mccain's people in 2008. and when he gave them 23 years, john mccain's people looked at it and said, let's go with sarah palin. so whatever's in there is far worse than just the first year. >> the obliviously rich mr. romney made his case this morning to his oblivious friends at "fox & friends." >> you know, john mccain ran for president and released two years of tax returns. john kerry ran

it's mitt romney. i can tell you what i'm working on is getting mitt romney a victory in virginia and winning about 12 governors races as chairman of the rga. that's my goal. >> you were around all the governors this weekend and you talked to everybody down there in virginia. would you rather see an announcement sooner than later? there's one school of thought that he should announce sooner. it will first of all change the topic. we will all be talking about the vice presidency and the rollout of the running mate and maybe a good idea to do this before he goes out of the country for the london olympics. what do you think? >> well, he's doing more than going to the olympics. he's also meeting with leaders of the free world like david cameron, and he's going to israel to meet with benjamin netanyahu to make sure our strategic partners who get disappointed from time to time on where the united states is, that we shore up those relationships. listen, that's completely up to mitt romney. people don't vote o

if it were left to mitt romney and let's look at how mitt romney's private sector policies when applied in the public sector did for massachusetts. massachusetts was 47th out of 50 in job creation when was governor. they actually lost manufacturing jobs at twice the national rate. so his record that he touts not so successful on not something that needs to be broadened on the national stage. >> we are just about out of time. offer average he was 47th out of 50th but 50th when came into office and 28th when left office. a definite improvement there. put up a graph over job loss and creation over president obama's three and a half years he was suffering massive job loss in the first part of his term. got up there to some pretty positive numbers halfway through and kind of middling since. would you want him to be known over the average because that could look unfortunate, 250. too. >> we are at a net positive in private sector jobs from when president obama took office if you compare that to when president bush left office he was net negative. we are continuing to move in the right directi

mitt, come on. if you're proud of your money, if it really is your pride and joy, show us a picture of it. show us a picture of your baby, you know, that picture we all take of our money every year. and send to the irs. joining me now, msnbc's alex wagner and chris hayes. item 15, if i was allowed one question to andrea saul, how much is in that swiss bank account? this thing where she decided to answer one question about the returns -- and by the way, she was answering a question about every one of the returns. because the question was, are there any returns where he pays zero taxes? and the answer to that is no, doesn't that just open this up to, we get to pick what questions we want to ask about which returns? endlessly for the next 110 days. >> that's the thing, lawrence. you get the sense, and we've heard that the center of this whole sort of storm, the eye of it is mitt romney, all decisions come back to him. you know, whether it's the republicans who are breaking ranks and or even the surroga

we understand, mitt, sometimes the truth is tricky. tricky mitt. he's not a crook, right? moveon.org political action is responsible for the content of this advertisement. >> that ad will start running tomorrow in ohio, where mitt romney is scheduled to the campaign. romney campaigned today in pittsburgh, where he tried to do a donald trump impression without ever actually using the words, "birth certificate." >> in the past, people of both parties understood that encouraging achievement, encouraging success, encouraging people to lift themselves as high as they can, encouraging entrepreneurs, celebrating success instead of attacking it and denigrating makes america strong. that's the right course for this country. his course is extraordinarily foreign. >> while romney was visiting pittsburgh, celebrating his success, team obama chose to introduce a new television ad on pittsburgh television. >> i'm barack obama and i approved this message. >> tax havens, offshore accounts, carried interest. mitt romney has used every trick in the book. romney admits that over the last two

compared to only 31% for mitt romney. it doesn't seem like a good strategy for the romney campaign to personally attack president obama's character, but right now, it is the only and the latest attempt to avoid questions about mitt romney's tax returns. the campaign was on the defensive again today. >> governor romney has gone above and beyond what is required by him. he has voluntarily released over 500 pages of tax return information. >> 500 pages. that's the big buzz phrase. those 500 pages come from only one set of tax returns, and that's the year 2010. and it turns out the 2010 returns, they're not even complete. the huffington post reported the documents do not fully disclose his financial activities in offshore holding accounts. romney is still refusing to hand over any additional returns despite calls from republicans and conservatives for him to do so. >> i think people in my party to say look, this is a nonissue, release the returns and it will all go away, my experience is the democratic party these days has ap

just a few months ago in the mitt romney primary mitt romney said to his opponents-- who were crushing him at the time-- "stop whining." and that's a good message for the romney campaign. instead of whining about what the obama campaign is saying, just put the facts out there and let people decide rather than trying to hide them. the tax returns is exactly just about that. if he didn't gain any tax advantages from having investments in the cayman islands, bermuda, and a swiss bank account then show us. show the american people. what are you hiding? >> what's most disappointing about this is that the obama campaign is focusing on 23 million americans struggling to find work in the economy. there are deficits being piled up. we've seen $4 trillion added to the deficit just under this president. and the obama campaign-- this is what they want to focus on. governor romney believes that he... the most important thing we can do is talk to the american people about what we're going to do to fix this economy. that's his focus. >> schieffer: let me inject one more thing. i was really kind of su

mitt romney has people going to vote for him. this election will be a revverundum on the president's failed economic policies. is that an indication that the alternative in the election doesn't matter and chairman of rnc, are you prepared to fight a negative campaign all the way from now to november. >> first of all, the president claimed to be bringing everyone together. and he's the most divisive and nasty and negative campaigner that the country has seen. >> what about mitt romney though. >> sure. >> the alternatives put up there is just tearing down the president. >> wait a second, mitt romney first two ads what would mitt romney's presidency look like. key stone pipe line. end obama care and european health care and past taste does health care reform. what this counsel row is faced with two questions. number one. has the president live fulfilled the mission that he promised the country and performed his yobs up to the standards that we expect promised to reform. that is a revverundum on bark obama and that's the first box pe

and this classic mitt the twit. the former massachusetts governor and olympics chief tried to backtrack this morning. >> romney: i'm absolutely convinced that the people here are ready for the games and in a few moments all the things that the politicians say will get swept away. >> eliot: he should hope so. but this comment from carl lewis may be tough to sweep under the table. i quote sometimes i think some americans shouldn't hereof the country. are you kidding me? stay home if you don't know what to say. however, the romney campaign is unconcerned about his gaffes. louisiana governor, a romney supporter said, we're not worried about overseas headlines. we're worried about voters back here in america. romney's foreign policy continues tomorrow with a trip to israel and meeting with netanyahu and other meetings in poland. romney gave israel something more to talk, signing a bill for funding for short-range air defense known as iron dome. >> obama: what this legislation does is bring together all the cooperation we

you know tea, mitt romney. the drink you're not supposed to have because it stimulates the brain, the heart of thinking worry about. >> the thousand natural shocks that fleshes air to. martin lewis, thanks so much for your time tonight. >> my great pleasure. thank you. >> remember to answer tonight's question there at the bottom of the screen and share your thoughts on twitter @edshow and on facebook. i want to know what you think. >>> coming up, his book is called no apology, yet mitt romney spent a good part of today apologizing. evan mcmorris-santoro of talking points weighs in. we'll be right back. so i'm not listening... to anyone but myself. i know better nutrition when i see it: great grains. great grains cereal starts whole and stays whole. see the seam? more processed flakes look nothing like natural grains. you can't argue with nutrition you can see. great grains. search great grains and see for yourself. for multi grain flakes that are an excellent source of fiber try great grains banana nut crunch a

mitt romney said. maybe i've just missed it, but i haven't seen that yet. >> you're a good man, so you didn't miss it. you're a good man. we got to go. >> okay. >> it's friday night. we can take a break for two days. thank you david corn and ron reagan. >>> when we return, let me finish with the debacle of mitt romney's trip to london. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. a golden op. to experience the ultimate expression of power -- control. ♪ during the golden opportunity sales event, get great values on some of our newest models. this is the pursuit of perfection. by what's getting done. onmeasure commitmentt models. the twenty billion dollars bp committed has helped fund economic and environmental recovery. long-term, bp's made a five hundred million dollar commitment to support scientists studying the environment. and the gulf is open for business - the beaches are beautiful, the seafood is delicious. last year, many areas even reported record tourism seasons. the progress continu

mitt romney cannot do that. obama it is consistently gone to make himself -- or take instances when he is gone to try to be a strong leader, demonstrating himself as being a global figure with the authority of air force wind, making national-security decisions, things like he did going to afghanistan and announcing the agreement to withdraw troops. having the nato summit in chicago recently. these things are going to keep taking place over the course of the election. there could be crises or things that makes foreign affairs issues that don't go the way we might like, like economic crises in europe. the incumbent is then held responsible for those things whether or not he had anything to do that. that is a mixed bag, but that advantage accrues to the president. i think mitt romney's caucused this is not going to play well in a world -- war-weary nation. we will see him town that down to a large regard. he will keep advocating military spending. he will not make a lot of noise about afghanistan or iraq, but he ha

. >>> and once again, mitt romney disagrees with mitt romney. >> from penalty to tax, mitt romney's evolving take on the health care ruling. >> the supreme court was the final word, right? they said it was a tax. >> it's a tax. >> mitt romney did an interview. >> mitt romney's campaign reversal. he said health care is a tax. >> there he goes again. it's mitt flip flopping. >> another flip flop. i said i agreed with the dissent, but the dissent lost. >> it is good to be back in ohio. >> president obama takes the beast on the road. his first bus tour of the 2012 campaign, trying to sway blue collar workers in two states, ohio and pennsylvania. the focus is jobs, jobs, jobs. >> the country is betting on you, ohio. >> we're going to be talking a lot about ohio. >> ohio just one of the battleground states the president needs to win re-election. >> we heard what the strategy was, it was kill romney. >> secrecy over his financials. >> he's a flip-flopper. he's changing for political expediency. >> he always served others. when he went to the olympics, he left hi company and went out and rescued the

here's mitt's horse dancing for -- there he is. that's a gold medal performance right there, boy. >> you may recall that romney also had the horse problem, evidently trying to distance himself from the rich guy image by pretending he doesn't care about his wife's horse being in the olympics. >> this is ann's sport. i'm not even sure what day the sport goes on. she will get the chance to see it. i will not be watching the event. >> ooh, i don't know nothing about no ponies. when white house press secretary jay carney was asked if president obama would be watching horsebake riding events, he said this? >> he is interested in seeing every american entrant perform well, and he'll follow every event. and i think if his schedule allows, the answer to that question is yes. >> what kind of swagger does the president have? on one hand, mitt romney's olympic adventure may be amusing, but he's the one criticizing president obama's leadership. here he is speaking to the vfw a few days ago. >> sadly, the president has diminished american leader

mitt romney made money off it. shannon o'brien hit mitt romney with that story in 2002. newt gingrich hit mitt romney with that story this year. the whole king of bain thing that newt gingrich deployed against mitt romney. rick perry hit mitt romney with that last year. president obama's campaign hits mr. romney with it, too. >> they issued 125 million dollars of bonds. and out of that $125 million debt, they paid themselves almost $40 million. >> like a vampire. came in and sucked the life out of us. >> every time mitt romney has been hit with political criticism for that economic bomb that he and bain capital dropped on those steel workers, in part leaving the taxpayers to clean up the mess, every time he's been hit by that, his response has been the same. the response is, i wasn't there. i didn't do it. yes, mr. romney said he made the initial decisions about that company, but, you can't blame him for how it turned out because he was gone by the time it blew up. he was gone from bain after 1999. he went do go run the olympics. he was gone from bain after 1999 and the

mitt, mitt mitt! it is all starting to catch up with you. >> what a president believes matters. mitt romney's companies were pioneers in outsourcing u.s. jobs to low-wage countries. he supports tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. president obama believes in insourcing. he fought to save the u.s. auto industry. and favors tax cuts for companies that bring jobs home. outsourcing versus insourcing. it matters. >> i'm barack obama and i approve this message. >> so as you can imagine the romney campaign is going appear president-electic after seeing the new swing state ad. bain is not going away. romney campaign spokeswoman amanda heninberg says the obama campaign tries to mislead voters with ads that independent fact checkers have proven to be false. really? amanda? do you really want to go there? so romney claims that he basically left bain in february of 1999. that he hasn't been involved with the company since 1999, february. but we have the documents to prove otherwise! for example this document, one of the companies that bain invested in, filed this paper with the

or mitt romney's business record? a week ago we were talking about a bad jobs report for the president. this week, because of the obama team going on the offensive, it's all about romney's bain record. and the president is staying with it on the campaign trail yesterday in virginia. >> he invested companies that have been called pioneers of outsourcing. i don't want a pioneer in outsourcing. i want some insourcing. >> the response now, the adviser of the romney campaign ed gillespie. good to have you back. >> thanks for having me. >> so this period of time that matters, 1999 to 2001, and the question of mitt romney's tenure at bain is really what's been at issue. an issue that's been made by the obama campaign. the huffington post described the issue this way, the headline romney's signature appears on bain s.e.c. filings during time he says he left bain, between '99 and 2001, mitt romney, then ceo of bain capital, signed at least six documents that the private equity firm filed with the securities and exchange commis

olympic team -- mitt romney! he can afford to buy them all new uniforms, made in massachusetts or any home state he wants. >> how about that? l.l. bean could probably do them, right? >> karen finney, thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> "the ed show" is up next. >> good evening, americans, and welcome to "the ed show" from new york. 113 days before the 2012 election and the obama campaign has republicans clamoring for mitt romney's tax returns. tonight, i'll tell you what i think romney's hiding. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> governor romney's economic plan would, in fact, create 800,000 jobs. there's only one problem. the jobs wouldn't be in america. >> the president hits mitt romney hard on jobs and outsourcing, and mitt romney hits back at a former candidate's wife. >> john kerry ran for president, you know, his wife, who has hundreds of millions of dollars, she never released her tax returns. >> just how offtarget is the romney campaign? richard wolffe and former

. >> mitt romney has taken every loophole in the book. >> mitt romney is the big government candidate. >> michele bachmann is a fool. >> the gun issue is a loser. >> i will continue to fight to reduce gun violence. >> i haven't heard any discussions about the issue. >> we have a problem with being able to buy 6,000 rounds of ammunition off the internet. >> we do have tough gun laws in massachusetts, i support them. i won't chip away at them. >> these guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. >> i believe that the second amendment is the right course. >>> mitt romney went to london today to be closer to his $77,000 tax deduction, which is competing in the horse ballet section of the olympics, and the president of the united states went to new orleans to address the issue that has seized america's attention. >> i, like most americans, believe that the second amendment guarantees an individual the right to bear arms. but i also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that ak-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals. that they belong on the battlefie

mitt romney has proven, given his record as governor that if he were to become president -- >> mitt romney's motivation yesterday when he went to houston and of course didn't help it hours later when he was at the fundraiser, he made some comments that could have been interpreted as maybe, you know, making, not light it but certainly making, perhaps yeah making light of it. what do you think his motivation of yesterday in houston, texas? >> again, i think that he wanted to be able to say that he's unafraid to make an appeal to the african-american community. and even offer an alternative, if you will. but also he wanted to show his base that he's bold enough to speak truth to power, his own truth and with stand the abuse to resolidify his base and also for those folks who might be disillusioned a bit to give them an alternate choice. if i become president it's not the worse thing in the world, i'm on your side. he's not on anybody's side. he's on the side of wealthy, corporate interest and big business. >> congressman, thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> coming up new comments from reverend jes

it's what mitt romney's done. good luck. >> that's all we've gotten and it took media organizations intensive investigations to uncover some of this stuff and we have a ton of questions unanswered. i think an average american would ask why does anyone need a swiss bank account? romney campaign has never explained that. as you heard over the weekend, two explanations. he's betting against the american dollar or trying to hide something. maybe avoiding trying to pay his fair share of taxes. he could clear this up if he would release more tax returns, but he won't do that. he said he won't and he hasn't even done all he said he would do in releasing two years. the american people have the right to know how he made his money, what he did with his match up and was he betting against america in these deals? the american people deserve to know. the president's been transparent. >> we learned today that team romney raised a staggering $106 million last month, and then there are the koch brothers plus karl rove. are you wo

the mitt romney's tax returns are actually absolutely relevant because mitt romney has a tax proposal that would give himself even cuts so that is very relevant barack obama's transcripts relevant and you know it when we had president bush who was a speech student and wire in the sea and we had dick cheney the vice president was a dropout from yale and none of those mattered made them those were not that that made them worse presidents or maybe they were but we do know that you know so these are distractions and for someone who comes on on t.v. saying that you're not here to defend mitt romney and that you're not here to defend the politics of distraction you should throwing around a lot of distractions mitt romney's tax cuts tax return peter because of his proposals on the tax code it is absolutely relevant all right we're going to the last one of the programs that's relevant peter what's relevant is forty six million americans on food stamps a leaven million on disability for the last three months there's a higher rate of people getting on disability than the job rolls what's releva

does mitt romney need to answer for these voter id laws? >> well, if he's running for president of the united states, he should certainly have something to say about it. if he cares about the american right to vote and today he was out at the naacp, probably said the word african-american or black more times today than maybe he's said in his life, then he should have something to say about it. i mean, increasingly, as we see him on this campaign trail, listen to what he's talking about, i'm increasingly of the opinion that mitt romney is a fake. he is a phony. he is playing a role. he checked off the box today that he went to the naacp. as you just laid out, i had not heard this part of the story. apparently now he traveled with his own posse of black people to then be able to characterize he had some conversations with some black folks who are supportive of his campaign. as hilary pointed out, they weren't members of the naacp. this is the biggest okie doke that has come along in a wile. part and parcel of the insult that he laid out today

that's mitt romney's key argument. so, why are his advisers saying stuff like this about the president? >> he spent his early years in hawaii smoking something. spent the next set of years in indonesia, another set of years in indonesia, and frankly when he came to the u.s., he worked as a community organizer, which is a socialized structure. >> and why does the candidate himself on insist on describing the president's economic philosophy like this. >> celebrating success instead of attacking it makes america strong. that's the right course for this country. his course is extraordinarily foreign. >> exotic. foreign. indonesia. hawaii. it all feels so 2008. "new york times" columnist charles blow joins me now. charles, you know this type of attack line that the president is somehow a stranger, do republicans actually think this is the best approach? >> it seems like it. getting to the point is more than coincidence at this point. i saw marco rubio tweeted out today because barack obama is in florida and rubio's apparent

mitt romney, you're wrong. we need more teachers, not fewer teachers and more cops and more firefighters that support our [♪ theme music ♪] >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, it's the "stephanie miller show"! ♪ i'm walking on sunshine, woe ho ♪ ♪ i'm walking on sunshine woe ho ♪ muse it's time to feel good hey, all right now ♪ >> it's the "stephanie miller show"! coming to you on this gorgeous friday morning -- oh i'm in a rush. thursday morning. thank you, tony. yeah, well it's early for me. and i am on east coast time. happy 5th of july. if you are mitt romney's money, happy 6th of jewel, because i think bermuda is a time zone ahead of us. what a show we have today. we'll have craig schumaker, rob delaney, and now mitt romney has managed to have, i think four to five different positions on the same exact issue which is of course the supreme court ruling. eric fehrnstrom said it is not a tax, but mitt romney says is a tax, but it wasn't when he did it and he sides with the majority, and supreme

do you want barack obama or mitt romney? >> it's a distraction to say a document that he's outsourced jobs? >> you can find all kinds of details when someone is a businessman. you can find all details to focus on. but the voter wants to focus in on the big picture. that's what people do when they go into the voting booth. >> the big picture is this guy gets investors together, buys a troubled company and either borrows money, pays them back in enormous dividends and watches it go into bankruptcy, or as luck would have it, maybe the company turns around. the pnt is he's saying he has the prescription for an economy, and what he has the prescription for is an investor class, a bit of venture capitalism which doesn't at all apply to a nation's accounting. >> katherine didn't go to the heart of it. they're focusing primarily on mitt romney's business experience because that's what he says we should focus on. nobody is talking about his experience as governor because he doesn't want to talk about that because massachusetts ranked

mitt romney does. candy? >> jim, while we await to see mitt romney take to the micropho microphone, the mayor is introducing him. i want to ask you, we know here at home that the political audience that mitt romney is hoping to reach are american jewish voters as well as evangelical christians who have a strong tie to israel. but who's he talking to there? >> reporter: well, i will tell you, there are plenty of jewish-americans who live in israel and vote in american elections. he will be reaching out and talking to that audience. there are donors here as well through his campaign, candy, we can report that sheldon addleson, casino magnate, who has donated millions of dollars to the pro-romney super pac, restore our future. he is on hand. of course he's speaking to a larger audience back in the united states. and keep in mind, the president enjoys a very substantial margin of support over mitt romney when it comes to jewish-americans. he's ahead by some 68% to 25% according to the latest gallup poll. if mitt

mitt romney wants choice -- mitt romney wants choice for all americans but he also wants lower costs in health care for all americans. we know we won't have that in obama care. we will if mitt romney becomes the next president of the united states. >> just to get back to how would you crystallize the difference between that clip of mitt romney in 2006 and the individual mandate he was talking about in relation to health insurance? what is the ideological difference between that and what barack obama has done? >> well, that's simple. very simple. because what mitt romney was talking about was one state, massachusetts. what barack obama is talking about is every single american in the nation. mitt romney couldn't have been more clear. he said i would never put this program in massachusetts -- i would never apply this to the entire country. it would be wrong. he couldn't have been more clear. and so that's why i say in november the decision will be very stark. barack obama will not deviate from this program that's already been proven a failure because again -- >> if i may jump in. let m

mitt romney has a image problem. mr. and mrs. romney tackled the issue head on sitting down for an interview in their $8 million summer estate in new hampshire. bless their hearts. and romney wasted no time of accuse canning obama of not playing fair. >> it makes you recognize they are going to do everything they can to destroy mitt. so, you know, they're trying to portray him in a light that is completely wrong. early on we heard what their strategy was. it was kill romney. and that was their memo that came out from the campaign. and it's, like, not when i'm next to him, you better not. >> mrs. romney was referring to a 2011 story in which an unnamed democratic strategist said team obama would have to go negative to win. but they haven't personally attacked mitt romney. instead team obama is focusing as his record at bain capital and massachusetts. according to ann romney no. she believes president obama is leading the charge. >> i feel like all he's doing is saying, let's kill this guy. i feel le that's not really a very good c

is there a problematic narrative here about mitt romney? >> it's not so much the narrative, but this is a paper work problem and it wasn't presented and it wasn't accepted by the romney camp right away. >> i think that's the term where you hear a lot of republicans what's going on here, whether it's the taxes or the offshore accounts. >> exactly so why they aren't prepared is more of the issue, because frankly there's not a lot there. you have competing news outlets saying there's something there, or something not there. but at the end of the day, people will not care what a piece of paper says if he's going to be held accountable. i guess the question is how does romney respond to this and how quickly? one of the things they have done is they have put out this ad. >> the romney campaign -- the bain capital story is the iceberg and they're starting to sink. they've got to really --. >> there are a lot of fact checking organizations that are suggesting that in fact there isn't a lot there. the kbaum campaign -- says the obama campaign is blo

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