politicses -- i will quoting, the definition of work activities and engagement, specified limitations, verification procedures and the calculation and participation rates. so they are using the authority of one part of the law to basically say, we are going to find a way to do what we can't do under the stat scpiewt that is waive these tough rules that require people to work to get welfare and limit how long they can be on welfare. a further indication, the administration says they are not likely to approve any policy waivers that are likely to reduce access to aid. nothing to save money, only approve policy that keeps aid at the current level or increase its. so i think the administration is wrong here. think romney was right. where does the administration have the statutory authority to do something that congress explicitly voted to say could

not be waived. >> greta: it seems to me that there are two issues. one is the allegation that it is an improper power grab from the executive branch of the government, not going back to congress to see what congress has to say about it. that's the first issue. is that a fair description? >> i think that's a fair description. where does -- did they get the authority? >> and other objections that president obama writes executive orders and does things he doesn't have the authority to do. all right. the other thing is the substantive issue about the waivers. i must say that i am perplexed. the memorandum that started this from hhs says, in part, that hhs will only consider approving waivers relating to the work participation requirements that make changes intended to lead to more effective means of meeting the work goals of the legislation. i have read that 10 times. i can't figure out for the life of me what that means. what are they substantively

trying to do with this memorandum? >> this is a cute way to weaken welfare. what you can do is you can make things look better by changing the definition of whatistutes work. you can expand the definition of what you are willing to count as work to include things that we wouldn't consider -- i mean, you know, staying at home and recuperating. they can consider that to be work. there is a technical issue and you can play with the definition of an exit from welfareistutes, you can take credit for things that would have otherwise happened through economic growth. so what they are trying to do is to make it easier for people to stay on welfare longer by jimmying around with the definitions, which are very tough in 407, describing whatistutes work and -- what constitutes work and what constitutes an exit. they said they would have authority over the calculation of participation rates. that's one of the key elements in 407, designed to keep people

from jimmying around the system and keeping people in the system and making it look good, lie like they are getting people off welfare when they really aren't. >> greta: correct me if i am wrong, i want to get the simple terms. what they are doing, substantively, forget the power grab -- that's the other allegation -- substantively, they are exchanging the intent of congress by diluting the definition of certain words so we are getting away from what the congress agreed to, in terms of the welfare-to-work principle, so they are changing the intent -- >> let me make it even crisper. they are making it more difficult to reduce welfare. they are making it easier to increase, lengthen and keep people on welfare. that's right. when you issue a thing saying we are not going to approve politicses that are likely to reduca access to aid, that says we are trying to keep welfare as big or bigger than it is.

>> greta: leave it to government to make it difficult to understand. let me go to something from gretawire today. going back to 1980 and to some research, di, more women have voted in presidential elections than men. the women's vote is always very important, more so in recent elections. in going through the swing states of the typical ones -- colorado, president obama's up by 8. virginia, these are likely voters, president obama's up by 14. wisconsin, president obama is up by 23. north carolina, president obama's up by 19. florida, he's up by 7. president obama's up 21 in ohio, 24 in pennsylvania, 16 in nevada, 16 in michigan and in new mexico, up 11, iowa, up 17 and new hampshire, up 19. all pretty recent polls. i realize polls are fluid. but not one of those states is a

margin small and not one of those states, mitt romney is close to the margin of error. that's a serious problem, i think. >> first of all, there has been a gender gap with men overwhelmingly favoring republicans, democrats receiving the advantage of women. that's historically accurate in. in 2004, president bush narrowed the gap of women with 47%. but that was an increase from 53% president of president bush in 2000. you went through a bunch of polls. that's a lot of quinipiac polls. they are run in combination with cbs and new york times, whose methodology makes them more democrat. i would rather look at the nation as a whole because, you know, individual states will be one way or the other --

>> greta: even if the polls are mistaken by 5 points -- even if they are democratic polls and they are mistaken by 5, the margins are huge margins. >> remember, if you looked at the men's vote, you would see the mirror opposite for romney. here's the point. in 2008, in the exit polling, barack obama won the women's vote by 13 points. 56-43. in the latest gallup tracking, issued at 1:00 this afternoon, president obama is leading among women by 8, 50-42. so he is wing women this, time around. but by 50% less than last time around. and he is running to even worse among men than last time, so the races in today's tracking, 47-46. look, if you go inside these numbers, yes, the democrat will win the women's vote, but how much isn't republican will win the men's vote. but by how much? if you are looking at the women's vote, younger, single

women vote overwhelmingly democrat, women who are married vote republican and older women who are married vote very republican. what's the level of enthusiasm and the composition of that bloc on election day? and how much enthewsiasm is there among women? president obama succeeded inuent 08 by driving up the percentage of women from the historic 51 or 52 to 53% of the vote in 2008. i doubt he can do that this time. if he is running 50%, getting a third fewer votes, running 50% behind where he ran in 2008, you know, he has a problem with women, particularly when you look at how he is running among men. >> greta: if you look at how he is running today, it looks like he is focusing on the women. he had a campaign event with women's -- signs behind him that talk about welfare he is introduced by a young woman from georgetown who has become

somewhat of a representative for young men -- women and fighting certain things. he is running heavily, at least today on the women issue. >> and why? it's because he is looking at the same numbers i shared with you. he won by 13 points in 2008 and in gal yup and other polls, he is -- gallup and other polls, he is running lower and he is worried. he thinks he has the issues, women's reproductive rights, to get the women vote. i wonder if they for trumped by the lousy economy in which women have bjorn a disproportionate job loss. household income down, home values, plummeting. an anemic recovery. i wonder if they don't trump reproductive rights. >> greta: are you saying he is down to 8 points from where he was in 2008, is reflective of the economy and women's concern

about the economy? is that your hypothesis? >> i think so. do people think his policies are working? there is not much of a gap, there is a gap, but not much between the men and women. both disapprove of hotdog hagging of the economy and think it is not doing l. they are very concerned about the deficit and they have different concerns about obamacare, but they are both -- both men and women are concerned. men believe we can't afford it and women believe it will adversely affect their family's health. when you get to the meta-question, do you think the president's policies have helped or hurt -- there is little difference between men and women, two-thirds of them think that the president's policies have, at best, not hurt and more likely have actually -- excuse me, not helped, but at their best -- have not-ed and at worst have hurt the economy. and there is not much difference there. so the question is whether the issues of reproductive rights

and access to contraception will trump job, prosperity, debt spending and obamacare. >> greta: tomorrow, in your op-ed in the wall street journal, you say, in part, that both sides have pushed up their opponents' negatives. where does that lead both of them. >>? if you look at pollster.com, when barack obama began the tv blitz, his negatives have gone from 45 to 46. romney's have gone from 46 to 48. but if you look inside the negative, they're much different. president obama's are on the handling of the economy, primary ,ly, and he is turning out to be a conventionalitition, not the -- conventional politician. governor romney, does he have a plan? is he a rich guy? is he strong enough to get it done? i rather have mitt romney's problem, which are solvable by a strong plan, strong campaign and

great convention speech. president obama's are not solved by radically improving the economy. we are not going to get the jobs and economic growth to rescue him. we will be essentially where we are, with 13 million people unemployed, home values low, people worried about the future. >> greta: all right. please play this silly game with me in washington. that's about the vice-president. i know that you have -- >> greta! get ahold of yourself. >> greta: i know. i read the article, i read the historic article, that shows that the choice is relatively -- not important. but i am just curious. if you were to give it credence, tell me strategeically, in light of where we are, in terms of the nation, what would be for this candidate, the best choice right now for vice-president. >> sean. >> let's take it. we have two ways to approach it.

florida, ohio... wisconsin and pick somebody from a battleground state. if a vice-presidential nominee has impact, alternates their home state. the last time it was dispositive was 1960, when if lyndon johnson were not on the ticket, the democrats would have lost texas, in all likelihood and jfk would not be president. and this is complicated, a governing choice. the candidate choosing somebody who they think will be a more effective vice-president and help them govern effectively. like dick cheney choice in swent00. with all due respect, no vice-presidential candidate has a big impact. he did in his home state, wyoming, but it was already locked up. it says something about the mind-set of the candidate that they are looking ford what do i need to do in office. that's what make this is complicated. there are two big questions. is mitt romney locking at this as a political choice?

or a governing choice? and then if he chooses one issue is he looking at it bold or is he looking -- >> greta: all right. all right. so if you were recommending him to take one for political choice and one for governing -- >> i refuse to answer this question. >> greta: refuse?! >> this is premature -- you need to get help. you need to get help for this. after i lost the office pool on palin and biden, after i lost the office pool on cheney and lieberman -- >> greta: okay -- >> everybody knew. >> greta: i want to know if there are pool, not to pick the one you are suggesting. who is karl rove picking so if there is a pool, i don't pick that one. >> if you are going bold, go greta. if you go governing, i say "hannity." >> greta: pat buchanan told me if he were elected president, he would make me an ambassador in a

far-away nation that no one heard of so i couldn't hurt anybody. >> i would send you somewhere that they needed to see wisconsin values in america. >> greta: thank you, karl. nice to see you. >> nice to see you. >> greta: straight ahead, congressman west calling president obama's actions reprehensible and unconscionable. what set him off? that's next. and get ready. it's the i.r.s. what a mess. not partying, but something else. a new report is staggering. find out about it, coming up. who is the guy in this mug shot? you know him. start guessing. a bizarre brush with the law, coming up. this man is about to be the millionth customer.

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>> greta: allen west says president obama is unleashing his campaign cronies against our military. those are very rough words. what is he talking about? the challenge to a new voting law in the battleground state of ohio that alous military members to vote early, until election day. but the cutoff for the voting public is three days earlier. the obama campaign has filed suit to block the law, saying all voters should have the same

period. but congressman west says... congressman west joins us. those are extremely tough, rough words for the president. tell me why you don't want to extend those last three voting days to anyone eligible in the state of ohio ?ie. good evening to you. i don't think they are tough words. i think the title of the president of the united states is commander in chief. facility commander in chief does not understand the difference in the services and sacrifices that our men and women make, i don't think you have many civilians in the state of ohio that could possibly be 8,000 or 9,000 feet altitude and probably last night in afghanistan be involved in a fire fight or night patrol -- i don't think have you many civilians are that stationed in

the horn of africa or going on a special operations mission. so if we have a president and campaign cronies who don't see the specialness of these guardiance of our liberty and america's honor are making for us, i don't think they understand what it means to serve in this united states military. and for them to try to make it a comparable feat for them to be the same as everyone else, that's not what you have for our military. also, you have to recognize that in 2008, you had many voting irregularities for our men and women in uniform. many states mailed out the ballots late and the military men and women were not able to return them back in time. last year, our subcommittee on military personnel for the armed services committee had a hearing about that. so there is a big concern about what we are doing to our military. >> greta: all right. the fact that we can't count votes, that's another issue. i would take it, you agree that every eligible citizen should have a vote i. that's know the

issue. >> greta: okay. now, in the last -- i mean, so if someone can't vote until the last 3 days, everybody in the military, i agree, should be able to vote. don't get me wrong. but i don't see why we want to exclude -- suppose there is an elderly person who has been sick and needs to vote the day before, for whatever reason, do we really -- i mean, do you really want to exclude other people from voting in that same period -- i don't understand why? >> i am not excluding. >> greta: okay. >> one of the things that we have -- you have absentee voting. have you this early voting. so what we are talking about is those three days that the military's allowed. i find it very interesting that the obama administration and also the campaign are waiting until now to bring this lawsuit up. this is not something that just happened in the state of ohio, which leads me to believe there is more of a sense of desperation in the campaign than a lot of people are leading to believe. >> greta: i don't have an explanation. i know that the governor signed

something in may, which would be a trigger point for it. but i mean, i am not-- the election isn't until november. there is a hearing on august 15. so there is time. what i can't understand -- i was trying to figure out why everyone would want to expand it, to include the military, of course, but the other people in ohio who want to vote in that 72-day period. i wondered if it was so expensive. there is a cost to ohio? some republicans say that's the reason. but we called the county and we called the ohio secretary of state and nobody can identify the costs for us. so that's not convincing me. i can't figure out why everyone who is an eligible voter can't vote in that time period. why not include them? >> well, i am not there in the state of ohio. but this is my beef with what is going on. don't say we need to have everyone the same as the military -- what you are asking the military to do is above and beyond what everyone else is

doing -- >> greta: let me just say -- >> that premise -- [overlapping dialogue] >> greta: i don't want -- i know their sacrifice. i know you know it deeper than i do. have you made the sacrifice. but i have had a chance to visit the bases, which is know the same as making the sacrifice -- don't get me wrong. i have been to afghanistan. i have seen the incredible sacrifice. i would do everything so they can have the vote, the members of the military. i am just saying that there are other people, if key can, why not give them the chance to vote as well? >> if we are saying, greta, that people here in the united states of america cannot take advantage of early voting, cannot take advantage of absentee ballots, we are talking about, i think it's more of an apathy than anything else. just extending these three days is not going to correct that. so once again, i stand with the people of the association of the united states army and the national association for uniformed service, the navy, the

marine corps league see this as a slap in the face. this is a continuing episode because we have a president that early in his administration talked about our wounded warriors and they should get private health insurance. this is a theme that has occurred where it seems that our military gets a back-handed slap. also, let's talk about sequestration. when a president is more concerned about re-election and this balloting and things of that nature than worried about the fact that he is about to fut put 200,000 men and women in uniform out of business -- >> greta: you know what, congressman -- i am -- i am so with you on that. i don't understand why anyone was not here in washington, worrying about that. i am totally behind with you that oneful i think it's outrageous that everybody's on vacation and campaigning. be here and take care of that now. >> i spoke in a rally today to talk about the almost 1 million jobs that will be lost, not just with the military, but also with the industrial base that

supportses him and the possible one tick of a percentage point on our unemployment. i am ready to go back to washington, d.c. and the house voted legislation to stave off sequestration. >> greta: i believe you. i am with you on that one. i am not with you in anything to inhibit other people in iowa -- in ohio from voting, if there is no reason. but i am with you on the sequestration -- [overlapping dialogue] >> but we do that. we do with early voting and absentee ballots. so i think this is an issue of people taking advantage of those opportunities have you to go out and vote. we are in the primary season here in the state of florida. people are doing early voting. we have called peoplen about absentee ballots and we have to protect the military to give them every possibility to participate in the process that they are guaranteeing all of us to be able to take advantage of. i think that when you try to make a comparative analysis, it's a slippery slope. what ngreta?

>> greta: all right. you and i will agree to differ on that one. i have no doubt -- >> not a problem. >> greta: i have no doubt, you would be here handling the sequestration i. i am waiting to come back. >> greta: i know you would be. congressman, thank you, sir. >> thank you for having me. >> greta: coming up, is the irs turning a blind eye to tax cheats and encouraging the workers to purposely ignore fraud? hear what the inspector general has uncovered. and animals gone wild and they are caught on camra. see what these amazing video that you don't want to miss, coming up in the best of the rest. yeah. one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. approved! [ female announcer ] live the regular life. phillips'.

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>> greta: okay, listen up. is the irs purposely allowing fraudulent tax returns to slip by, costing you billiops of dollars? well, a new report by the treasury inspector general says, yes. the report also uncovers fraud in the program that verifies applications for individual taxpayers i.d. numbers, often used by illegal immigrants. we have the inspector general for tax administration. how does this happen? >> first of all, the irs, since 1996 has issued what is called a taxpayer individual taxpayer identification number or an iten, to help people who are not u.s. citizens comply with whatever tax orbigations they

may have. in other words, if they are not entitled to a social security number or other legal document, in order for the irs to efficiently process their tax return, they are issued this number. >> greta: okay. so people have them, just a guess, a two categories, those who get the numbers, lawfully, work, taxes are withheld and they get refund, lawfully. that's that group, right? >> generally, yes. >> greta: then, i suspect that there is a group who misuse it, abuse it, may commit fraud. if that's true? if so, what's the magnitude? >> before responding to your question directly, let me just say this. for tax year 2010, the irs processed over 3 million tax returns with -- seeking refunds in excess of $7 billion. using itens. >> greta: not social security numbers?

>> correct. they may not be, again, u.s. citizens, most of them are not, but whether or not they are here illegally or not, i will leave to others to decide. >> greta: okay. but some of those -- i mean, are the $7 billion that was refunded, $7 billion withheld? or is there some suggestion that some of this was paid and these are fraudulent returns, using the iten number? >> i was on your program a few months ago and we discussed the additional child tax credit. at that time, we revealed that over $4.2 billion was repaid to people who were not entitled to it because, in our view, the law prohibited them from receiving refundable credits. and that is, again, in this view, because the law is somewhat unclear. >> greta: but i see in the report, $154 -- 154 mailing addresses were used 1,000 or

more times. >> that's very disturbing to us. that's just one of the findings. additionally, in one address in at laboratoria, georgia, over 24,000 refunds were sought at a particular address, one address, seeking refunds of over $46 million. >> greta: here's another one. 10 individual addresses were used for filing 53,994 tax return, resulting in the processing of $86.4 million in fraudulent tax refunds. >> this is a very disturbing aspect what have we uncovered. >> greta: is this incompetence? is this looking the other way? what in the world is happening snitch the irony is that we -- first of all, received allegations of problems from two members of congress, one including senator hutchinson from texas. constit wens of hers who worked for the irs indicated that there

were problems with the way the irs was administering this iten program. we looked into their allegations and our report validated their allegations. what they were claiming is true, that the irs was dropping the ball as it rels to implementing this program. >> greta: and the american people suffer, billions of dollars. anyway, nice to see you, sir. good luck. the report is shocking. >> thank you very having me. >> greta: thank you. will it come down to ladies choice? what does joe trip pythink about the poll -- joe trippi think about the polls? in two minutes, it is not a sad country song treally happened. singer randy travis in big trouble. you will hear the 911 call in 2 minutes. gon home. until i got a job in the big apple. becoming a fulltime indoor cat wasn't easy for atti. but he had purina cat chow indoor.

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>> on the road from 377 to... valleyview... and i just found a diamond ring in the road. >> greta: turns out the man in the middle of the road was singer randy travis. he is charged with drunk driving and threatening police officers. why? texas police say last night, he crashed his car. they found the car in a pile of debris and the singer lying naked in the middle of the street. when police tried to get him into a squad car, he threatened to kill the troopers. travis is charged with driving while intoxicated. this morning, he was released on bond. this is not his first run-in with the law. in february, he was arrest forward public intoxication. what are your thoughts on randy travis? go to gretawire.com.

>> greta: the all-important women's vote. is it the key to presidential election? but first, let's go to the

newsroom with the other headlines. lauren? >> thank, greta. new information about the man who behind the massacre out of wisconsin's sikh tempole sunday. investigators reveal that wade michael page died of a self-inflicted gunshot after he was wounded by police. he left no note and no hint of a motive for the deadly rampage that left six worshippers dead. three others were critically wounded, including a police lieutenant. gas prices in california could top $4 tomorrow in the wake of chevron's richmond refinery closure t. produces 75% of the gas for california. the cost of gasoline going up at least 5 cents overnight. the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded, $3.65. >> greta: president obama and governor romney are trying to court the ladies. the women's vote will be

critical in november, especially in the swing states. how are the candidates doing? president obama seems to be the ladies choice. according to the latest rasmussen poll, president obama is leading governor rom romney, 52% to 39%. why is that? and is that poll reliabla. >> sean: joe trippi is here. nice to see you, joe. i asked karl rove a bit about this. he did not seem, for his candidate, his party's candidate to be alarmed. but i went through the swing states and president obama is way ahead with the women's vote, likely voters in the swing states. tell me your thoughts on this? >> greta, that's the -- this is the whole reason obama is in it -- i mean, because of his strength with women. and the problem that romney has in closing the gap, he started to close the gap a little bit, right after the republican nominations. but it's starting to widen again with women. look, i think, you know, it's on issues like contraception and

not just the women's health. but when you get to the ryan budget on cuts and med air and social security, again, women who are going to vote a lot more, higher percentage in this election, than men will -- live longer than men and tend to be more worried about social security, medicare and their health care. there is a lot of reasons this isn't working out for romney right now. and you put women next to the leads that obama has with blacks, hispanics, there are no longer enough white men for romney to make up -- you know, he had to have scutch a huge lead with them to make up for the gap with minorities and with wrem. there are plenty of women for romney. but it is just, he's too far behind. >> greta: i mean, the gaps are staggering, pennsylvania, 24, wisconsin, 23, ohio 21: new hampshire -- that's not a swing state.

but i mean, 19. i mean, these are huge. tell me, would it make any difference tactically, i realize you are a democrat, but looking at the politics game... if governor romney chose a woman runningmate. >> i think that -- depending on who the woman was and what her views on the issues were, a moderate republican woman, i think, would do -- would be helpful to romney. but i just -- that would be so -- something sort of out of character for at least, you know, his dare to be cautious candidacy. i am not trying to belittle what i think he will do there, but, you know, i think he is more likely to go with a portman or, you know, a pawlenty or someone like that. you know, i am not sure there is a woman out there that fits the bill, frankly. >> greta: all right. let me give you a suggestion --

>> condie rice. >> greta: we have been playing the crazy game in d.c., trying to guess. former secretary of state condoleezza rice i. yes? >> greta: now, she has said she is moderately or mildly pro-choice, which puts her in the moderate republican. but governor romney has been, you know, said he wouldn't choose anyone who wasn't pro-choice. but she is someone who many in the republican party, they have a long history with her, african-american, obviously, that would help. is that someone that would be helpful to the ticket? >> absolutely. no doubt about it. condie rice would be an excellent choice. but here's his problem. part of the reason he got into the fix in the primary with santorrum and others pulled him to the right, really pulled him to the right on a lot of these issues that are affecting women, and are affecting their choice. and condie rice is not going -- going to go over well with the base in the republican party.

so in trying to reach out to women with a moderately pro-choice pick for v.p., he starts to run into the opposite problem, where the base of his party and social conservatives in his party start to -- to lose interest special walk away from him. now, he could take the gamble -- and if i thinks it one a good one -- that those people are so worried about an obama re-election, that they would still stay with him and vote enthusiastically for the ticket. but i am not sure that mitt romney is willing to make that risk. >> greta: if you were going to advise him, who is the single best vice-presidential candidate, getting elected, for him to choose. who do the democrats fear the most? >> i think condie rice would be an excellent pick for him. if i were mitt romney, i would go bold, a woman like condie rice would be that kind of bold pick.

you know, he could go bold the other way with paul ryan. and you know, go straight at the problems problems that face the country and say we are the ticket that is going to take on the problems. if you are worried about health care and some of the other issues, we are the team that will get us out of debt and be able to finance and grow the economy for your children. i mean, there are ways to try to get there. but right now, i mean, if he goes with rob portman who is sort of -- frankly, just too sort of bland... >> greta: wouldn't do it? >> i don't think that will do it. >> greta: we will be watching. the polls are absolutely -- i mean the distances on the woman thing is surprising. joe, thank you. >> thanks, greta. >> greta: straight ahead, what town has the worst name in the united states? could continue yours? start guessing. [ mrs. hutchison ] friday night has always been all fun and games

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flash the studio lights, it's time for last call. new york city was a place to buy just about anything, until now. here is conan o'brien. >> mayor bloomberg is saying that now he has banned large sodas in new york city the next target is going to be alcohol. yeah. and once that is out of the way he'll hit a crusade against the laughter of children. >> greta: that is your last call. lights are blinking and thank you for being with us tonight. go to greta wire.com. there is something special for you there. jim angle there with a special question for you. good night from washington. greta wire.com. about it and watch this guy. >> bill: the o'reilly factor is on. tonight: >> she passed away in 22 days. i don't think mitt romney realizes what he has done to anyone. >> bill: pro-obama campaign ad accusing mitt romney to the

death of an american woman. is this a new low? dick morris will analyze. >> ah-ha, maybe i'm a social -- >> a california college professor accusing me, your humble correspondent of right wing buffoonery. wow, that man on the factor tonight. also ahead, jesse watters goes to madison, wisconsin. >> on your head tattooed that girls make me stupid. >> that is right. >> yeah that is right. >> dennis miller back from vacation. >> when it's time to go, it's time to go. you know that. >> caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. playing dirty in the presidential campaign. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. president obama was elected

last time around largely because he promised a new tone in washington, transz (is i, looking out for the folks. well, with all due respect, that's gone. the president trying to hide the fast and furious scandal and is using political assassins to put out ads like this one. >> when mitt romney and bain closed the plant, i lost my healthcare. and my family lost their healthcare. and a short time after that my wife became ill, and she passed away in 22 days. i do not think mitt romney realizes what he has done to anyone. and i furthermore i do not think mitt romney is concerned. >> so what that ad implies that mitt romney is cold, calculating, capitalism caused that man's wife to die. does anybody think that's a fair ad? please raise your hand. all right. now here is what is going on. the guy on the ad, joe lost his job 2001. after bain took over his company. at the time, his wif