>> it's about barack obama. hillary is going to be in asia. >> that would be amazing. >> i would be thrilled if hillary runs in 2016. we are in 2012 now. bottom line bill clinton is going to be there for president barack obama. it is an extraordinary benefit to president obama to have bill clinton. >> i agree with you it's great for the party because he brings a lot of energy, a lot of americans still like him. admire his economic record. >> and trust his judgement as well. >> trust his judgment. that's a whole other segment. >> you were talking to carl about swing voters. bill clinton reaches them. barack obama arguably has had a real challenge reaching them. >> that's a great point by the way. let me go back to a point you made about bill clinton being able to make the case against mitt romney and making that comparison. bill clinton is on the record, even recently praising mitt romney, saying he had a sterling business record at bain capital. and he has also been on the record criticizing a lot of barack obam

and his team are pursuing very different obama this time around isn't it. well you know the interesting thing is you know i gave out some statistics there the republicans and the folks who are supporting them say you know rip obama can't run on his record so he's attacking i just gave his record i just gave actual statistics and people are complaining about that i think that's that's what you see you know that they say you can't run on his record i just explain the record they say it's propagande i gave actual statistics you know republicans you know if you don't consider the. man in the economic eighty eight you had you know you had george h.w. bush running the willie horton ads trying to convince white men around the country that michael dukakis would let black criminals out of prison early to rape their wives you know in one thousand in one thousand two thousand and four you had george w. bush with the swift boat ads you know tarnishing the record of a thrice decorated prized purple heart decorated veteran saying that he didn't really deserve those award

but obama seems unconcerned. obama's energy and efforts have been focused on slashing america's -- >> out of interest, what would you be doing? would you be sending in american troops in iran? >> no, look, obama supported the protesters in egypt very happily when they were demanding democracy in egypt. a year earlier there were massive demonstrations in iran calling for an end to the regime of the mullahs. what did obama do? obama said we should not get involved. there's a debate. let them settle it up. i'm simply saying let's support pro-democracy elements in iran just as we supported them in egypt. >> you think barack obama's so disinterested and unworried by fundamentalists that he's the guy that risked his entire presidency on sending helicopters full of navy s.e.a.l.s into pakistan to take out osama bin laden. that's not really the actions of a guy who's not worried, is it? >> no, i think we have to make an important distinction here. obama does be support al qaeda or bin laden. he sees those guys as interna

obama's doing the same thing with obama care. he started this week now talking about the healthcare, yeah, the republicans have called it obama care forever and now he's embracing that. it's obama care because i care. it's so interesting. >> i don't think either side really necessarily wanted to have this debate in this way. >> but here we are, one weekend and it's medicare, medicare, medicare. i don't want talk about -- one weekend, is paul ryan a help or not, historically v.p. nominees lift the apart's ticket by four points but i think the bump issue is gone these days, according to gallup. romney only gained a point after the ryan announcement. we put it to the matthews meter. 12 of the regulars, has paul ryan been a net plus or minus for mitt romney in his first week on the ticket. seven said plus, five said minus. by the way, some of that split is here. kelly, you are with the majority. howard and helene, you're with the minority. kelly? >> i'll say plus because he appears to energize romney and make romney better when they

the reason president obama is negative he has no record. what about obama care. people don't like that. and porky stimulus. people don't like that. and tax increases in the country. no. he can't run on a positive record and governor romney and congressman ryan will unveil the real obama. he doesn't derve deserve reelection. >> were you disappointed. >> no, i started supporting mitt romney. i never expected to be considered. i support him because i think he was will be a fantastic president. i was honored to be considered and i think he made a terrific pick. >> i agree with you. i think the country will have a clear choice between two distinct visions for the future. >> thank you. time to check with greta. >> you ought to be happy. >> i am the only one i think in all of cable news on a national level can pronounce. wakasha. >> and i got them. >> just keep saying and i am repeating. >> those names are tough for people who didn't grow up. we have a great show tonight. it is exciting having the presidential pick and one of the two major partis and we have brice who i

barack obama slashed it. and so if the facts come out which is what our responsibility is, people in florida and ohio will realize which many already do, that this president is saying one thing and doing another. >> part of the message on the republican ticket is that people are going to have to make sacrifices. and that's like everyone is heach for the other guy to make a sacrifice and not you. how do you sell to the american people future generations makes a difference. and so this generation is going to have to meet the problems now? >> for one thing you have to have people clear with the american people to what we do. >> the president promised to cut the debt and deficit and he promised to lower unemployment and what's happened? we have the most miserable record under the president as many other presidents before him. he would rather demagogue and tear down and offer no solutions of his own. the american people will see the realty of what is happening here and they will go to the future of the success. >>

. >> obama is going for the moron vote and no question obama is going for the moron vote. who is rush limbaugh calling a moron? that is just for starters. you will hear more from rush in a se is here to talk all about it. plus, vice presidential candidate paul ryan telling president obama to put up or shut up. but he is not alone. he and senator john mccain are both blasting the president over the automatic defense cuts. senator john mccain goes "on the record." and remember the salahis? the white house party crashers. are they now headed to tampa bay for the convention? no, but you someone else is crashing the republican national convention. who are the convention crashers. start guessing because that is all straight ahead. right now, brace yourself. rush limbaugh says president obama's second term is not the country's biggest wore arery. he says something else is. so what is it? here is rush. >> i think that the country could survive four more years of obama. but i don't believe the country can survive in a country full of people who would reelect him. that is -- that is

obama 237, romney 201. can i put wisconsin in play. >> you can put it in the toss-up category, that's for sure. four years ago, barack obama won the state by 14 points. our latest polling just before the ryan pick showed it was only a three-point lead for president obama. we're polling tomorrow night to find out what the impact of the ryan announcement will be. >> all right, even before this, it looked like ohio was very much in play. whether the old midwest will be. then it's obama 237 and romney 219. ohio is in play, isn't it, scott? >> sure is. right now, we just released some numbers today, 45% for obama, 45% for romney. ohio is one of the four core states that will really decide the election and that mitt romney needs to win. and right now, it is dead even. >> finally, ryan in the midwest, i like, let's see if i get this state right. i like the chances for iowa. i hope i hit iowa right. that would bring this to 237 to 225. these are all flyover states, but they're all important. i am i wrong? >> mitt r

bill clinton, barack obama. in the republican conventions, they give the keynote people like rudy giuliani and guy vanderjagt. >> what convention was that? >> 1980. >> during my lifetime. >> there was a guy name guy vanderja vanderja vanderjagt? >> guy vanderjagt, never elected for president of the united states. do you watch the show, "america's next top model"? it's an excellent tv program. on that show, when the loser gets told by tyra banks she's not going to be the next top model, she cries and packs her bags and goes away. they don't make her keep modeling at that point. paul ryan is america's next top model. not these guys. don't put them through this. >> quickly to the democratic side, it's an open seat so it's tricky. and it will be hillary clinton running against andrew cuomo of new york, martin o'malley offian. all three strong candidates. democrats don't like candidates who have run before. they're not good at rewarding them the way republicans are. >> right. but, guys, we have to give it to hillary.

obama is out of the closet. he used to be hiding, he's officially gay for class warfare and channeling all the experiences he has gotten from bill ayers and reverend wright. now it is all coming back, bob. we're seeing president obama. he is fighting, fighting her face job. >> bob: the fact of the matter is bain capital taken companies with debt and made money and put people out of work. that is a fact. >> greg: out only said the last sentence was wrong. >> bob: mitt romney was not concerned is unfair thing. >> greg: like butterfly effect. the butterfly does his wings somebody dies. do you belief that? that is the logic. >> andrea: before we continue with class warfare, obama coined a new name for it. take a listen. >> he asked middle class to pay more in taxes, to give $150,000 tax cut to people making more than $3 million a year. this is like robin hood in reverse. it's romneyhood. >> andrea: the tax policies they said they didn't look at the plan directly. meaning, they didn't read the plan. romney doesn't wa

obama hasn't created one. he's lost hundreds of thousands. >> he doesn't have the business experience. mitt romney knows how to work across the aisle and get stuff done. he took a deficit and made it into a surplus, he cut taxes, brought jobs to a state. mitt romney has a great message. the president will have to attack. >> sean: i went back, this new film put out by bossy and bannon, it was shocking to me, because it showed all the video of 2008. it showed invesco field, people crying, it was uplifting. they had a tailwind you couldn't stop. he's so different. is he different than the person you knew in the u.s. senate right now in this campaign at this moment? >> i didn't serve with him. i was in the bush cabinet. >> sean: but you knew him. >> yeah, a little bit. not well. look, i think he's running a very different campaign this time. >> sean: divisive, negative, smears? >> divisive, negative. >> sean: does that make you angry? >> yes, i did. i did an event, and i looked for the greek columns, which were no

a publisher came out last week and had a statement about obama given to them by obama when he was doing a book as a young man a number of years ago, in the '90s, born in kenya and raised in indonesia. i mean this was a statement from obama. >> that's not true. the publisher said it was a typo. and for the record, president obama produced both a short and long form birth certificate showing he was born in hawaii. he made the long form version public in part to quiet mr. trump, who claimed to have investigators in hawaii on the case. when we sent gary tuckman to hawaii, he found plenty of evidence he was born there and no sign of mr. trump's investigators. i asked him about it months ago. we had a team in hawaii talking to everyone from the state health department to the school where obama's mother went to families in the hospital at the same time as when he was born. none of them said they have been contacted by anyone working for you. >> maybe they are not saying it and maybe they haven't contacted the same people. >> we interviewed the former director of the hawaii department of health

candidate obama only beat mccane by voters. romney will beat obama. there are more people 18-30. they are a lot of voterss and they are less committed and only vote once or twice. obama took them two-one this is where the ryan pick can make a difference. romney ryan ticket is younger than obama ryan. this is a defining moment and generation. you can feel if you are twen years old. republican party is speaking for me. in 2008 it was the other way with obama runs against mccane. more swing voters than young voters. >> in an election that is dieded by two or four percent. that decides the election now you have to energize your case as well. obama had four year to invest. maybe the ryan pick nuteralizes thissome. i think it is it a close race. the approximatet's team the real question is it a referundum of his last four years in president. or choice of two people . mitt romney's personal favorability is low the president does better on who is tanged up for the middle class. and unless mitt romney can be reintroduced at the republican convention or do well in the debates it is uphill

blue, obama. then pinkish is lean romney. light blue is lean obama. then yellow are the tossup states within the margin of error. this, of course, is all based on polls over the last 30 days. okay, karl. start from the left time we were together. what has changed? >> two changes in status. the most important of which is wisconsin moves from lean obama to what joe and i suggested it would be after ryan's appointment. the vice president running mate. that is tossup. so ten electoral college votes out of the obama column to tossup. five electoral in mexico from lean obama to obama. >> bret: american samoa is testing by the way, behind us just so you know. >> no electoral votes. >> bret: joe, most important of the changes? >> wisconsin moving to tossup, karl and i agree that would likely happen. it did. that is important. but the most important may be the polls that are coming out of ohio that show that it was a tossup but it is getting tighter, which is significant. obama had been widening up things there. and romney really needs ohio. now it looks like

>> hollywood is very important to the obama campaign. >> did obama go to that dinner? i think did he. >> john, john -- >> raising money, and getting 20,000 -- >> it was 31,000 a person. it came to hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> now, that's a familiar name. he's a friend of newt gingrich? >> he was a supporter of newt gingrich, and he's now a supporter of the republican candidate, whoever he is. >> sea pal of yours? >> oh, i know him. he's not a pal of mine. he's much older than i am, and more wealthy. >> but he doesn't have more money. >> absolutely. i got another target to go at. >> exit question. which presidential candidate won the week? barack obama or mitt romney? tim carney. >> i think that obama probably won the week in part because of what you're talking about, that mars is a popular thing. u.s. success in olympics. all these things reflect on to obama, deserve is it or not. >> eleanor. >> i agree with tim carney. >> mort. >> i think obama barely. it was more or less a tie, but i think obama was slightly ahead. >> obama finished up the week ahead in the p

the obama campaign is extraordinarily skillful. i didn't cover the cter campaign but i would bet you that the obama campaign is more skillful than the carter campaign was at going, at going hard and defining romney. and in a lot of these battleground states particularly the industrial midwest romney is a wall street figure at a time of populism and anger at wall street, they will hammer that home. they have cards to play on that that they are holding back. but romney, as maggie said at the beginning, romney has to do almost everything right and the people around them. they have to have good luck this thing with congressman aiken is bad luck. they have to have good luck the rest of the way to get back to talking about the economy. you know, we said months ago, every day take out your calendar at the end of the day and right down was this a day that we talked about, where the die lock was about the obama economic record or about anything else. and most of the summer there have been very few days this sum wrer it has been, the debate

61% said barack obama. these are voters out there in america think 61% of the media want president obama to win reelection. >> i want to meet that 15%. >> exactly. >> i'm surprised it is so low. for decades the press corp especially washington press corp has been polled for whom did you vote for president also 90, 93% vote for the democrat candidate. the american people are wide awake they know what kind of bias they are getting with the advent of fox news there's an alternative so the bias from the other side is more pronounced. >> we have to take a break. first, controversy surrounding a republican congressman's comments about rape. >>> i used the wrong words in the wrong way for that apologize. >> missouri congressman todd akin zigzags from tv appearance to tv appearance blaming the liberal media and apologizing is his media strategy working? >> plus, two new books about president obama exposing secrets and conflict within the campaign. details next on newswatch. these fellas used capital one venture mil

>> let's start with the obama budget this year obama's asking for one of the largest educating budgets in history, 70 billion dollars which is a 2.5% increase over last year. this is already over in 2009, the educating department got a one time bonus of 100 billion dollars out of the stimulus. all together, in his four years in office, if all this comes true, obama will have spent as much in one term as the bush administration spent in two terms and bush was hardly ing -- hardly shirking educating spending. the issue is they are not helping. i don't know how many more years we have to go on throwing more and more money at this issue isn't improving student performance. those things have been flat many we need to get more innovative that's what the romney campaign needs to focus on. >> class size has been a dispute. rick hess quoted arnie duncan president obama's education secretary saying class size has been a sacred cow and we need to take it off, give me and my wife a choice of putting our kids with a great teacher of 28 or mediocre teacher of 23, i know what i would choose every tim

let me also point out, it is obama who took $716 billion out of medicare to pay for obama care. it is obama who created a 15-person bureaucratic board to end medicare as we've known it and put bureaucrats between doctors and their patients. i think if we want to have a debate on medicare, republicans and conservatives ought to lean forward and say let's get it the on, this is going to be a great debate because the fact is, it's obama who's been taking the money away from our senior citizens and it's ryan and romney who protect senior citizens and offer reform only for people under 55. >> but is it one of the big problems with the ryan plan in terms of perception, the fact that he's looking after the very wealthy in america. indisputably. someone like mitt romney would pay hardly any tax under this plan at all. and there is a genuine concern about the lower end of american society. the reason i say that is you're a catholic. paul ryan iscatholic. the u.s. conference of catholics said in may 2012 they felt the fiscal responsibility efforts must protect and not undermine the needs

>> not if barack obama's the alternative. it's easy. >> they'd just go against obama? >> people say how is romney going to motivate the conservative movement? they're going to wake up every morning, remember who's president and be totally motivated. the desire amongst every conservative in this country to beat barack obama transcends any concern about mitt romney. >> what about picking someone good for my business? a christie. no, i'm being selfish here. there's not a guy or woman in this business i talk to that doesn't wish like hell he'd -- or like heaven he would pick christie because he's so quotable. he's so big. not just physically. he's just so big a personality. he would really shake this election up. >> as a guy who always had a weight problem i've always hoped christie could become a national figure so i could stand in his shad shadow. >> you'd look like popeye next to him. >> i know. christie's had a great run as governor. again, he said he's very dubious about making the transition from a first term as governor. but on the other hand, woodrow wilson went al

but again, let me just tell you a quote from barack obama, senator barack obama 7-17-07, a threat of layoffs in illinois with then senator obama said the least employers can do when they are anticipating play layoffs to let workers they are going to be out of a job and a paycheck it with enough time to plan for their future. [laughter] >> we must give the warren act teeth to insure that workers are not left in the lurch without a job or a paycheck. the effects will be devastating. it is a fight between the three branches of government, as to how to eliminate the sequestration and guess who is a.w.o.l.? missing in action, the president of the united states, who has decided that it's not his problem. it is his problem as commander in chief to take care of our nation's security. it is his first and foremost obligation. he has taken a hike. >> sean: not only does it hurt military pripairedness, but he is trying to hide what his policies are going to cause, hundreds of thousands of americans that will be off i. sure. >> sean: for his own political expediency. pretty outrageous. >> and his

or the dog that obama ate? >> ohhhh. >> look, anemic economic growth, for over 40 months of 8-plus-percent unemployment, but bain capital, dog on car, birth control, war on women. they are doing everything they possibly can to deflect the american people's attention away. >> looking at the best thing that mitt romney can do is step up before the american people and say, he's going to make this a business and friendly environment and put people back to work and-- >>> exactly. i think that will resonate. that will resonate. >> get pro-growth policies in place. governor romney needs to talk about big themes. >> sean: we have to roll. coming up next, a chinese swimmer sets a new world record and swims the last 50 meters of her race, faster than the male gold medal winner, ryan lochte. is that possible? there are cheating allegations. and brutal pictures, merge of the life inside the chinese children's olympic program. we will get into with the spark cash card from capital one, sven's home security gets the most rew

he worked on the obama campaign. he worked in the obama white house. a deputy press character of the white house he may have been the press secretary of the campaign in 2008 as well. i don't know how the obama camp can there is no coordination. there is money coordination between the two. now you heard audiotape of mr. soptic who worked for the campaign in may of this year and also with priorities usa many this last ad. now time to man up, president obama and time to demons the priorities usa ad and make the american people have confidence in you and prove there is no coordination between your group, priorities usa. >> dana: great explanation. greg, when you first saw the audio, the conference call. you said this is a big deal. what struck you? >> greg: this is like guy with pit bull who attacks a kid and says that is not my fault. this is obama's it be pull. h --obama's pit bull. the fingerprints are all over this. like orson wellles saying his babysitter wrote "citizen kane." or george lucas saying, "star wars" was written by a wookie. this is what t

the opponents of obama care during the obama care debate went on and on about how if this happens and that happens, you're going to have the equivalent of death panels. well, if we don't go through with obama care, there will be death without panels. >> well, jonathan, this has got to renew the discussion about repealing obama care, and you made a very direct point on all of this, but where does this go from here in the campaign? what do you think -- i mean, why aren't the obama people just embracing this super pac, because it tells the very truth about what happens to people when they lose their jobs in this country. >> they don't need to embrace this ad and get into a big fight about whether they were calling mitt romney a murderer or whatever. they need to move on to a debate about the main issue, which is obama care. and they can bring death into the conversation and say, no, we're not calling mitt romney a murderer, what we are saying is that if he's elected president, a lot of people will die. those are two slightly different but related issues. and to get off of bain, get off o

author of 52 reasons to vote for obama, and the author of 52 reasons not to vote for obama. why should we vote for obama? >> there is a number of reasons. top five. number 1, he has consistently delivered for the middle class. 95 poors-- >>> come on. >> $1 trillion in tax, george bush cut less than half of that. 160 million working families got a tax cut-- >>> you are making this up. fewer americans working than when he took off. >> thank you for giving me the time. 4 1/2 million-- >>> stop! a net loss! [overlapping dialogue] fewer americans working. >> george w. bush lost 4.4 million jobs in his last year alone. >> sean: he's out of office. get over it. >> we are continuing to dig out of the hole. >> sean: he has fewer americans working. top five reasons to not hold him. >> he's a hypocrite. he said he was going to do a., he did b. he railed against increasing the debt ceiling and said it was a failure of leadership with bush. how many times has he done it-- >>> cut the deficit in half. >> hillary's health care and mine, we have a mandate. he railed on bush for picking up $

while we tend to personalize this, opponents for barack obama being obama. it doesn't, if he were president x under these circumstances, he could be jfk. normally you would not get reelected with those numbers. >> paul: the answer is mediocre job growth and stagnant income, the labor force. it's a slow growth, it's a very tough record to defend. basically that's the status. and that's-- >> and he has to defend it and to-- >> does he really? >> oh, i think so. because if you've been president for four years, if he is trying to offload it on to his predecessor, which is a stretch, i think-- than defending it, that's saying it's still lousy, but it's his fault. but he's trying to give and now the burden falls on the opponent, mitt romney, to give an explanation why he could do better than this president under these circumstances. >> okay, kim, mitt romney now after suffering some blows in advertising, against him in june and july, now is going back on offense, rolls out his economic plan, at least a new way of framing it this week. what did you make the of pitc

. >> obama -- let me down. >> it's sad. it makes me angry. that really makes me very, very angry. >> it just hasn't worked. >> four more years of barack obama would be four more years of gridlock. >> we try to change and look what change got us. >> i could not vote for another four years of obam amount of i voted for the wrong guy. >> i am not voting for president obama. that much, i do know. >> he's done a lousy job. >> he didn't make good on any of his promises. >> farther and farther in the dust. >> businesses closing. >> government handouts. >> i am so disappointed. >> i expected a lot more. >> we're divided. >> we are spending way too much. >> i have no optimism. >> i feel for my children. >> more disgust. >> i'm exhausted and i am tired. >> the health care costs are going up. >> it looks very dismal. >> it is not hopeful. that's just heartbreaking. >> i have always been a democrat. >> i'm a democrat. >> i live in florida, registered democrat. >> i'm independent. i was raised democrat. >> democrat. >> democrat. >> east side of des moines

. >> this is a date we're going to win and president obama. plus, a gunman attacked a social conservative group, carrying a bag with ammo and 15 chick-fil-a sandwiches and the family research targeted. it's labored as a group. >> i think they should be held accountable for reckless terminology. tony perkins speaks out. >> amnesty for illegals? more government jobs? on what might happen with a second obama turn. >> ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [applaus [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. and welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios at new york city. now, when you thought the peleliu campaign couldn't slide much deeper into the sewer, along comes joe biden with his race pating comment in virginia. >> they're going to put you all back in chains. >> mike: that was right on the heels of the despicable ad that attempted to link mitt romney to a woman's cancer death. even though even harry reid's vivid imagination and incredible friend couldn't stretch that far to make the competition and poor old joe biden seemed to f

hard for obama to loose. lose. romney had a plan. people were going to blame obama. give romney a try. what has happened with paul ryan is that this has now shifted. the president was trying to shift it all along to who stands up for the middle class. who favors the few. this now confirms that. the shift in the dimension to debating privatizing social security, voucherizing medicare, slashing education. these republican pros are worried not only about what will happen to the ticket but as michael said about what will happen to the republican control of the house which they thought was pretty much assured up until last week. >> do they want this -- i thought they wanted all the focus on obama as a referendum like how is the guy doing out here on the mound? still got his fastball? lost his edge. better than four years ago. you know, the old metaphors. now, the focus is on what about this new kid with his really strong ideas? is that what you want the focus if you're a republican operative right now? >> no, i th

medicare as a piggy bank to fund obama care. that metaphor makes everybody understands it really well it takes republic vulnerability and makes it into a tremendous strength. and it takes the aspect of obama care that is most offensive, that it's going to lead to rationing of healthcare totaled derly and it puts it front and center. so, i think the coverage of the last two to three weeks. and the things you have to cover, have been very pro-romney. i sense an momentum for romney and i would willingly. >> laura: last few hours have been dominated by this akin story. we have the cbo report that came out today that says we could have 9.1% unemployment next year and further degrading of our g.d.p. if this fiscal cliff is allowed to happen. i mean that is a startling warning from the cbo. and i just think the longer we are talking about akin, the less people will become focused on that understand and stand the severity. madeleine albright was talking about who should be blamed for what is going wrong in the country. let's listen. >>

releasing a statement this morning comparing the obama of '08 to the obama four years later that's what the romney campaign is. in the interview with "entertainment tonight" the president responded to romney's claim he is running a campaign of division and anger and hate. >> i don't think you or anybody who's been watching me campaign would suggest that in any way, you know, we have, you know, tried to divide the country. governor romney, i think, has had very sharp critiques of me and my policies and that's how it should be. that's the nature of the democracy. i've got sharp disagreements with him in terms of where he will take the country. >> is there any way we can change that, where we can have a campaign where there's not so much of the mud slinging? >> you know, the truth is, you know, i've got to tell you there's not a lot of mud slinging going on. the debates that we're having are big debates. >> interesting there. president saying not a mud slinging going on. by the way, the obama campaign is fund-raising on those romney comments this morning. quote, while mitt romney diagnosis

the obama campaign is counter programming. what is the obama campaign? be scared of mitt romney. he has been president for four years. can you not change that one or two speech speeches and bill clinton reinterpreting. people can see the degree to which president obama has not succeeded measured by husband own criteria. i think mitt romney has a bigger challenge and both --. >>chris: romney has a bigger challenge? >> sure, he has to make the case to the american public. obama teach will be out there this week and next making the case against mitt romney. there is a temptation in the romney catch, they are hitting us, we have to hit them back. they need to be disciplined and say, the american public does not know romney as well as president obama. what is the positive agenda going forward? if this week is about the next four years not the last four years but the temptation is, look what they did two years ago, that is terrible. make it about the future and lay out the positive message for the romney administration. >>chris: bill as we go into the two week stretch of the first repu

obama's campaign, have suggested mr. romney might be a felon. mr. obama saying that's not accurate. he said, nobody accused mr. romney of being a felon. keeping them honest, though, it looks like president obama may have forgotten what happened just last month. comments made by stephanie cutter, his deputy campaign manager in a conference call with reporters. >> either mitt romney through his own words and his own signature was misrepresenting his position at bain to the sec, which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at bain to the american people to avoid responsibility for some of the consequences of his investments. >> miss cutter, that was just a few weeks ago, was discussing questions about how mitt romney handed over power at the investment firm bain capital. that's after several news outlets uncovered securities and exchange commission documents showing romney was still on the corporate book at bain until 2002. the romney camp insists the governor left the company in 1999 to run the winter olympics in salt lake city. also asked about a ad being run by a super

president obama? you know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him. >> mitt romney taking a shot at president obama. i want to bring in someone from the other side, debbie wasserman schultz. she is a democratic national committee chair. debbie, welcome to the cnn grill. >> thank you. >> the most testing and incentive, to put it mildly. let's talk about mitt romney's speech. i thought, to be fair, it's a pretty good, solid speech. what did you think? >> well, i think the fact that the most commentary following mitt romney's speech is about an empty chair says more about mitt romney than it does about barack obama. >> when you saw clint eastwood going off like you did, were you punching the air with delight? >> no, i actually thought it was a little sad. it was bewildering and unfortunate. >> he is an american hero, one of the great movie stars in the world. i'm a huge fan of his but i found it increasingly really unc

we can survive obama but not the people who vote for obama. talk about personal. >> andrea: talk about personal and not chris christie's underpants for once. next week, tampa, we'll all be there. juan, what can we expect? what does romney have to do? >> juan: he has to get more personal. he has to say to people, a plan, here is why it will work. one thing we saw in the poll today even though americans, there is a big jump, gap in terms of people approving or disapproving obama performance on the economy and right now, the majority disapprove. but then when you ask what about the future it's tied between obama and romney. if romney can say here is my plan what i'll do, he can get a boost. >> andrea: hes a stage with millions of people. this is the time to present himself. what do you think he needs to say to unite the party? >> eric: he is doing it now. picked the right guy for vice president. highlight paul ryan. stay on jobs. forget the other satellite stuff that the left wants to do, stay on job. >> dana: three things to focus on. economy, f

they think obama is only talking in america. whereas i think obama is applying a global standard. let's remember that even middle class americans. even poor americans are rich by world standards. and that's why i think obama isn't particularly concerned if money is redistributed away from them and toward people in rio de janeiro and mumbai. >> we appreciate it and up next, two democrats will respond and weigh in on the biden issue. and then some key swing states say they are no better off than they were four years ago. is that giving mitt romney the boost he needs? he wool break down some important new polling. those reports after these messages. >> laura: the president's broken promises and the biden factor. joining me now from nashville, tennessee. john raleigh a democratic strategist julie also a democrat strategist and fox news contributor. before we get into the biden deal. i know you are both chomping at the bit to respond to dinesh, his point that really obama's view is really a global world view. not that he hates america. but he really does want to reshape america. and if

plus he's now ahead of obama in the following states obama carried -- indiana, new hampshire, wisconsin, nevada, north carolina, and colorado. that gives him 228 electoral votes. he needs 270. he then has to carry florida, where he's now only two behind. plus either virginia or ohio. he's two behind in virginia and one behind in ohio. carry two of those three states and he ends up being the president. and then there are six other states where obama is under 50, when incumbents under 50, good chancy loses. iowa, emergenc, new mexico, pena and new jersey and -- interesting of the states that tracked, romney gained in nine of them since july 1st, and slipped in four of them since july 1st. this whole media stuff that's out there about how romney is slipping, obama is surgings, one idiot from "newsweek" said he thought there would be an obama landslide coming up, it's just disinformation. it is not true. if you want the details on this, go to dickmorris.com. i have it all in a column and video there. >> sean: you really think wisconsin? for example, look, i think the events that will -- tha

. >> what is president obama's best move here? the obama campaign, their best move here? >> i actually think because there's so much money behind this ad,ilities are e it's not news kerfuffle, that i think that the president should go public and he should make a public statement and say that this is a complete distortion of what he's actually done and maybe even get, you know -- >> these organizations scoring it as something that is really a falsehood is going to help the president. >> that's important. >> but he shouldn't stop there? >> because those newspaper accounts who give four long noses for the ads, those are read by the elites, by peach who watch cable tv. >> this could get in the main stream. >> you have to get the president to refute it. >> great to have you with us. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. the "rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening. >> thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the obama campaign anoubsed today at the president's big campaign event tomorrow in the all-important swing state of colorado, the preside

women favoring obama. now, at this stage, this whole argument about abortion and in particular, the views of so-called legitimate rape which todd akin has apologized for, but he has not completely disavowed all of the theories. we know john willke was also an advisor and a principal surrogate according to his own press reliease in 2007-2008. >> yeah. well, the problem is we look at somebody like todd akin, a lot of republicans do, and say it's unfortunate he won that primary in the first place. we don't need people who think like that representing the republican party. it's very tough for people like me, pro-choice republicans, and it's an admittedly not a large caucus but when i have to see a story like todd akin, then turn to my wife and daughter who look at me and say really, these are the kind of people you are associating with? >> is it fair or not fair -- >> that's a problem. the gender gap which is ten points -- [ speaking simultaneously ] >> typically, republicans do better with men anyway and demo

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we have had four years of barack obama in the white house. ah, the obama white house... one bad decision follows another. it's hard to say exactly just what his worst mistake has been. there are so many to choose from, the stimulus, his energy policy, obamacare, taxes, joe biden. [laughter] now, here, i hear that joe's particularly interested in tonight's proceedings. he even thought about coming here to tampa. and he is taking notes because when paul ryan speaks, joe will finally get to hear what a real vice-president sounds like. [cheering] but you know, president obama isn't as bad as people say. he's actually worse. [laughter] the president takes more vacations than that guy on the bizarre food show. i'll give barack obama credit for creating jobs these last four years. for golf caddies. actually, barack obama is the first president to create more excuses than jobs. >> in his view, it's george's fault. it's the bank's fault. it's europe's fault. it's the weather's fault. it's congress's fault. mr. president... if you want to find fault, i suggest you look in the mirr

obama campaign -- $207 million. american crossroads, crossroads gps, two conservative entities, $105 million. mitt romney, $67 million in the great scope of things isn't all that much. doug, president obama has outspent mitt romney 3 1/2-1. has it been worth it? >> i think you could make an argument that mitt romney might not be the nominee if not to restore our future -- when romney ghas trouble against rick santorum and newt gingrich, they were there to help him out. one of the more disturbing things about these numbers if you are a voter, it is not so much the super pacs i have concern with, it is the c4s that don't have to disclose their donors. they're the ones who are spending a lot of the money. we tried to bill a bill in 2010 that would compel c4s to not only disclois their donors but stand by their ads. that's something that these groups don't have to do. >> kim, let me ask you the same question. you've seen $200 million-plus spending bit obama campaign. you add up the conservative and romney spending, we'r