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bin laden. >> you hire the president to make the calls when no one else can do it. >> but the gop is hitting back saying bin laden's death should not be used for politics. >> this is one of the reasons president obama has become one of the most divisive presidents in american history. took something that was a unifying event for all merns and he's managed to turn it into ady vice sif partisan political attack. >> casey hunt is the national political reporter for the associated press and matt welch, good morning to both of you. so is there a fine line do you think between i guess playing politics with something like this and highlighting a legitimate accomplishment some we are in the political season. >> yes, that we are. and you have to remember we're still in the very opening stages of this general election and this of course is all tied into the anniversary that's happening will this week of the killing of osama bin laden. so it's only natural that the obama administration would take advantage of that moment. but you have to remember this is

going to be -- we still have several months left of this election season. so as we move forward, it's still going to depend a lot on the fundamentals of the economy. so whether or not the obama administration is able to sustain this conversation about bin laden, one that does help them in the long run, really is something that they would have to work really hard to do. and i think they'll be answering a lot of charges from the romney campaign on other issues as the campaign goes forward. >> the obama campaigns that a new 7 minute video that outlines the president's first term in office. it will scroll through his accomplishments and the iraq war, libya liberated, osama bin laden dead, but i think what republicans really object to are statements like this. >> just a few years ago, president obama then a candidate said in a speech that if we had actionable intelligence of a high value target in pakistan, we would go in and get that high valued target.

mitt romney said that was foolish. he wouldn't do such a thing will. that he wouldn't move heaven and earth to get osama bin laden. >> matt, what the campaign says is, look, we're just say thie se facts. it is the one year anniversary. are they right? >> they're right that it is the one year anniversary and that mitt romney said any number of things on the campaign trail back in 2007 and 2008. i think the underlying fact is that this is not going to be an issue in the 2012 election. it wasn't in 2008. we had a war hero and a hawk going against an absolute novice with an exotic name and we didn't really talk all that much about foreign policy will in 2008. americans are much less scared about it than they were in 2008 this year. so it's not going to come up. and as for the republican charge of politicizing these things, let's never forget that the 2004 national convention was held as

close as humanly possible to the anniversary of september 11th in new york city and the entire theme of that convention was about 9/11 and the response to it and the democrats in-effect all weak-kneed positioning on it. >> there is a big special coming up and i want to play a clip of the president from the situation room interview. >> there you are -- >> here i am sitting right here. >> that's an intense look on your face. and everyone is intently watching this screen. >> if i'm not mistaken, pete, this picture was taken right as the helicopter was having some problems. but you may not remember. that's what feels like because i remember hillary putting her hand over her mouth at that point. there's silence at this point inside the room. >> when you look at it, what does it conjure up inside you? >> that's the way i usually look

when my husband drags me to an action movie. you know, what it conjures up is all of the emotions that were running through my and every other person in that small group. it was just an extraordinary experience and a great privilege to be part of. >> look, casey, it's a great story. i think to matt's point, most people -- and we should say that will air wednesday on rock center at 9:00 eastern time. but to matt's point, this is an election that eventually will likely wise or fall based on the economy, but does will this legitimately say something to voters about how the president makes decisions? >> sure. it absolutely does. and they know that. and it's also one of the biggest advantages of being the incumbent president. mitt romney does not have a situation room to invite one of the most television network anchors into to do a special on a decision that he made. that's something that as

president of the yununited stat obama has as a huge advantage over his challenger. >> and i want to bring in now steven clemens who is the washington editor-at-large for the atlantic. he writes about foreign affairs and politics and i just wonder what your thoughts were when you were watching that situation room interview. >> well, i think that what we now know is that so many people around president obama sounded a lot like mitt romney used to in the last campaign, that they had doubts and concerns that they thought that the gamble was too high. and we saw the president of the united states make a decision, take a very high risk shot at what he saw as to the one of the most symbolic and important challenges facing the united states. and i think what they're trying to convey out in this campaign is that many others thought that risk was too high. obama took it, he succeeded and i think now they're calling in what to do. i think it's also what's important to remember is that under the bush/cheney year,

cheney had no qualms at all talking about national security and wrapping this tell around the political choices people made. i think matt welch is absolutely right that there was no resistance at all among gop circles in doing what they're now accusing president obama of doing. but i think what's different is that obama would be a done president had he failed, had that helicopter had a disaster and had people come out with either casualties. so it's a remarkable gamble and i think they're trying to show that when obama weighs all the issues, he acts like a commander in achiechief and sets things i motion even amidst differences of opinion around him. >> two things this brings up. one is the decision making and he was decisive and he made the right decision in this case. but the second thing is has it made uts safer. obviously osama bin laden was symbolic of the al qaeda movement. the question was how much influence was he having at that point. let me read for you part of an

op-ed from the "wall street journal" today. the headline is al qaeda is far from defeated. seth jones points to yes, ma'am men and somalia and pakistan where he says al qaeda is regrouping and writes, al qaeda is far from dead, acting as if it were whether not will not make it so. is there a fine line that the white house is walking with this? or is it all up side for help? >> i have a lot of respect for seth jones. and you could also add to the mix david petraeus now head of the cia has asked for expanded military authority to expand the drone attacks against targets in yes, ma' yemen. but i think there is an industry out there, a kind of terrorism industrial complex, if you will, that just refuseds to sort of talk about degrees of let. yes, there are al qaeda members up there that have now been inspired to take action and that build up largely occurred during the bush/cheney years and what

president obama has been doing, and i was skroekijoking around, with many of those people at the white house correspondents dinner a year ago. i talked to leon pa net tarks de panetta, dennis mcdonough was at a reception and he was just drinking mine ral watmineral an knew something was up. so a lot of steel nerves were in this. and what i wrote either about the attack, i said that if they did not succeed in immediately identifying the connections and the ecosystem in which bin laden operated, then this would be a failure. but what we've seen is a very steady roll up targeting of many other senior al qaeda lieutenants, executives, plot managers, and we've seen the december city nation of the original al qaeda network and many of the affiliates.city nat original al qaeda network and many of the affiliates.

it's not over and done, but the mother ship has been wiped out. the seth jones of the world again whom i admire and who benefit a lot from some of the trimp issues that we're dealing with are interest what remiss i think in giving credit to the administration for doing what they should have done, gathering the intelligence and rolling up this network continuing to operation. so i think the momentum has been on the side of the administration and the pentagon and cia and our allies frankly who have been key partners in this in really taking down what was such a horrible threat for so long. >> and obviously this is serious business, but you you bring up the white house correspondents dinner in part because it was about the one year anniversary. it wassed for forejokes including this one by the president. >> last year at this time, in fact on this very weekend, we finally delivered justice to one of the word's most notorious individuals.

>> not a bad opening, right? >> i was there, and the president -- i actually have a lot of pity for any comedian in this case it was jimmy kimmel, but any comedian that has to follow the president because his lines were so good. >> casey, let me bring you back in. when you look at that iconic situation room photo, the polls tell us the most popular person in it is hillary clinton and last newt was tight was the fir three joint fund-raisers. the president said hillary a have spemts tnt the last 3 and f years cleaning up after other folks' messes. what do you make of that? >> the video that you showed earlier of the obama administration talking about

other victories here in getting osama bin laden features former president bill clinton. so it's very clear that there is a thaw there. they've been competitive over the years. very acrimonious in 2000 # a8 a hillary has been dropping hints that she's considering a run for president in the future and this is clear lay is it tly is step that president obama is recognizing the fact that the clintons have really contributed throughout his administration and that he's on board going forward with whatever their futures might hold. >> and speaking of that changing relationship, the president also had a great line about hillary at the white house correspondents did dinner. >> four years ago, i was locked in a brutal primary battle with hillary clinton. four years later, she won't stop drunk texting me from cartagena. >> obviously, matt, as secretary

of state, she won't be out on the campaign trail, but how interesting is it how he's using her any way, right? >> yeah. he's trying to gather the democratic base, the flock all together under the same banner. using any stick necessary, including a running on his aggressive and strong foreign policy stance. after initially campaigning as the guy who was going to sort of draw us back from the executive power of bushes and cheney. we don't hear much about that anymore nor do we hear about the most trarnsparency presidency i history anymore. he's patting himself on the back and making sure we don't see ever the photos of osama bin laden's corpse. they are stage managing this stuff and we should recognize that even while assessing positively those aspects of the record that have been positive. >> so that note, matt, casey,

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voted to block the bill. let's bring in "washington post" political reporter and huffing post columnist. good morning to both of you. kathy wrongrogers was on meet t press. >> the war on women was really a myth, it has been created by the democrats in an effort to distract americans from the real issues. democrats know that the republicans won the women's vote in 2010. it was the first time since reagan that the republicans won the women's vote. could be argued that it was the american women that really fired the first woman speaker of the house because they didn't like the direction the country was taking. >> well, christine, on that note, paycheck fairness last week, it was the violence against women act. is the war on women a myth or does it move votes? >> the war on women is absolutely real, chris. john boehner declared it in february right after he got the speakership. he said when it came to planned

parenthood, he told a group of religious leaders we don't want to just win the battle. we want to win the war against planned parenthood. so he coined the terminology. and unfortunately, ever since, we've seen 1,000 bills at the state level, 30 bills at the federal level, and i think that mitt romney now as their nominee ought to say we're going to drop the war on women, we'll stop running against sex and we'll start running for jobs. and that includes the fair pay act. >> well, with this fair pay act, it seems mitt romney has a couple options. either he splits with republicans and for that matter with the u.s. chamber of commerce or he sticks with them and risks alienates women, moderate women voters, that's the democrat strategy, right? >> yeah, i think that is. their strategy, these democrats on the hill and obviously president obama, too, is to draw mitt romney into withis fight.

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prosecutors at the john edwards trying hoping for a better week. young's wife sherry will be back on the stand this morning. nbc's jay gray joins me live outside the courthouse in greensboro, north carolina. so, jay, what are analysts saying, how bad was it for prosecutors last week and can sherry young help? >> well, sherry young has to help because it was pretty bad for prosecutors last week. the prosecution's lead witness in this case, andrew young, really at times shredded by the defense as they force him on the stand to admit certain key elements of his book about this affair between john edwards and

reta hunter were force. he talked about spending a lot of the money that was gathers to hide the affair not only from he had waed wards' wife and the public were spent by the young family. sherry may be the person to do that. she was in charge of the family g finances. she's expected to piece together the money trail and also bring into play the idea that a edwards requested this money, not her husband. that he's the one who asked for the money to cover up this affair. the other thing she will likely do during her testimony, and this could be vital, as well, with jurors, is personalize all of this. she started this in the brief 15 minutes she testified at the end of the first week, talking about how rough this had been on her family, that rielle hunter basically moved in with her family, her kids, her husband,

and she'll talk about the dedication her husband had to edwards saying he did yard work at times, that did he his christmas shopping and because of that, was not doing those things at home. so it created a real strain, a real issue in their home and she's expected to talk about that. >> jay gray, thank you so much for that update. also making news this morning, u.s. forces who have been trying to hunt down joseph cone any oig haven't had any luck picking up his trail. they've been working with local forces and believe he's hiding in uganda's dense jungle. u.s. forces are providing intelligence and setting up better communications to link the troops together. the pressure on kony is apparently paying off. the pace of rapes, abductions and killings has slowed. at least 9 killed in twin bombings in northwest syria. the bombs ripped iffacade off a

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grover got lost while hiking and broke her leg while trying to return to her car. and there's an eye opening report on what apple pays in taxes. or what it doesn't pay. that's rekindling the debate over fairness in the u.s. tax policy. apple of course is the richest company in the world, but avoids paying billions of dollar m mistaxes by using subsidiaries in ireland and netherlands and other low tax nations. they paid just over $3 billion on a profit of over $34 billion. that's a tax rate under 10%. walmart pay as tax rate of 24%. let me bring in grover who a er. welcome back. a lot of people were very unhappy when they saw this, people care about tax fairness. what was your reaction? >> this explains one of the

problems we have with the american tax policy. our corporate rate is 35%, the average tax rate in europe is 25%. a lot of countries have significantly lower international tax rates. canada is about 17%. an american company that does a lot of business internationally is better off if it was purchased by a canadian firm or a firm in the netherlands or in ireland. what apple did was have subsidiari subsidiaries, it could have just been butt by a company this ire plan who had dramatic lower taxes across the board. >> is it fair to compare the tax rate in united states and the tax rate in a tiny country like ireland where the infrastructure is completely different and the population is very different and compare it to the united states? you you might say that's like comparing running walmart the way you would run a bodega on a street corner in new york city. >> higher marginal tax rates on

businesses are bad for economic growth. canada is not a pip squeak country. we're talking about significant countries here that have significantly lower tax rates. we have the highest tax rate on businesses in the world. japan used to be stupider than us and they decided that unit with a the place to be. so we're now stupidest. we have the highest tax rates on businesses and so people either moof ov move overseas or get purchased by somebody overseas because the tax advantages are so high. let's look at stupid. we're taxing american businesses stupidly and damagingly. we need to recuse our marginal tax rates so that we're competitive in the world. and we don't force companies to do one of two things. either go through the various legal and technical tax policies that apple completely legal but a lot of jumping around, or make

it cleaner, move your headquarters for another country. >> let me ask you about a study about the bureau for labor statistics because they looked at companies that had big layoffs in the fourth quarter of 2011. and when they asked them what was the motivating factor himd the layoffs, 40% said because business had fallen off. only 3% cited financial issues like the tax code. >> well, one of the reasons business falls falls off is if obama gets reelected, 60 occasions ath offter, there's a increase as the corporate rate, all the various taxes jump, the r&d tax credit grows away. so of course business is bad. this recovery is a fraction of reagan's recovery because of 9 tax increases that have been passed and kick if 60 days

after -- if obama gets reelected, they'll all kick in. if obama is defeated, they'll be stopped by romney. but that's a huge tax increase and you have to take a gamble, are you sure obama's going away? what if he's there? it will devastate your consumer, the businesses you sell to and your own company, as well. there's a real problem coming down the pike very quickly at us in the united states and it scares investors to invest in other places. >> it took some arm twisting for conservatives to get behind rom pi a romney and part of the reason is they had concerns about his own fiscal policies. would you expect that how that he is the nominee that he will move closer to the center and are you giving your unqualified full throated support to mitt romney? >> well, of course romney has taken the taxpayer protection pledge as did nine of the ten republicans running for

president. he's committed to not increasing the tax burden on the american people. and in that, he stands in stark contrast with obama and the democrats who think we should pay more of our money in total. >> let's be fair. 9 t the taxing ins, particularly the buffett rule, affect a very small percentage of americans. if you look at the polls, that is assumed by the american people. >> but what does that prove? president obama's budget overspends revenue, creates more debt of about $6.9 trillion over the next decade. he's going to get $47 billion from the buffett rule. which leaves $6.8 trillion coming out of the middle class. that's what he hasn't told you. his tax increase doesn't cover his massive spending increase until he loops the middle crass. behalf for the value added tax, all the people around him are planning to put that on the american people as they have in

europe, massive tax on consumption. all the president tells you with his teeny little tax mcon rich people is that he's coming for the rest of us. the alternative minimum tax was opposed to 115 people. on january 1st thanks to obama, it will hit 31 million americans that are supposed to be the rich that they're punishing. democrats always promise to tax the wretch and they end up screwing everybody. it's the history of all the tax increases that they put into power. the buffett rule is just the most recent. it's like the new amt. alternative minimum tax. >> always having to have you on. thank you so much. >> you got it. there is more relief at the gas pump. mandy drury here with what's moving your money and the numbers are headed in the right correction. direction. >> gas prices are continuing to fall and aaa is saying prices fell by a nickle this past week

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at the correspondents dinner on saturday night. he's talking to the building and construction trades department legislative conference, 2,000, 3,000 people gathered this wi t. speaking a loot lot about building roads and bridges. the president did take some good natured jabs at his opponent. >> take mitt romney. he and i actually have a lot in common. we both think of our wives as our better halves. and polls show to an alarmingly insulting extent the american people agree. we also both have degrees from harvard. i have one. he has two. what a snob. his campaign criticized me for slow jamming the news with jimmy fallon.

in fact i understand governor romney was so incenseincensed, d his staff if key get equal time on the merv griffin show. >> laugh it up, says the romney campaign. top advisers are trying to paint the president's lighter moments as off key and out of touch. they say this election won't be about who is cooler, but who americans trust to run the economy. let me bring in richard wolffe and goldie taylor. good morning to both of you. richard, you were surrounded by people saturday night. i didn't get a chance to say hello. but i'm wondering, do you think the romney campaign has a point, in the end, will it matter who is hipper, who is cooler, who you would rather have a beer with? >> all the time that were not surrounding me, i thinks of just part of the crowd. but who is cooler, look, it's not going to be what voters decide on. but there are data points that people look for about the

character judgments that hers looking for in a leader. you're not going to decide because you like jimmy fall on that ut vote for him. but if you're trying to reach younger voter, then being relevant, finding what they're viewing and delivering those messages, yes, that's important. when he makes a joke about rec santorum saying having a college degree makes you a snob, when he makes that kind of joke, yes, it's fun if i, there's a bit of self deprivation in there, too, but it'ses also speaking to people about those values that were expressed through the republican contest. so there is politics down at the bottom of it. >> and we on team jansing did some in-depth research and take a look at this list that we put together. it's about recent ma'amups for the presidential race. and we call it the brew factor, who would you rather have a beer with. ronned ald reagan or jimmy carter? reagan or walter mondale.

bush/dukak bush/dukakis. clinton/bush. and then we could go on to the races '96, 2000. and when we went through them, the consensus was that in every case, the person you'd rather sit down and have a beer with was the person who won. are we underestimating that sort of niceness, coolness relate ability factor? >> i like the phrase the brew factor. and, yes, it does matter. but what also matters is what's inside the bottle. and so if i don't like the beer, i'm for the going to try it again. and so but you are right, packaging does matter. the way messages are parlayed really does matter. but at the end of the day, it is about policy. if you look at taking an incumbent president out of office, no second term, it really has taken a transformational creature, someone like a bill clinton, someone like a ronald reagan, someone who you'd really love to have a beer with to do just that

job. and so substance does matter, but the label, the packaging also matters. and i think the president certainly plays well into that. as for mitt romney, he'll have a harder time. i mean, this guy was a suit before he got his first suit. he's very, very sort of tightly wound. and you got to wonder if he drinks beer at all. and so that's going to be a problem for him. >> itch richard, it's hard not to make the comparisons if you were on the campaign trail with al gore when they were saying he's a funny guy, really. that's what we'll baeeen hearin are romney's folks. if you get to know him will, he's hilarious. it's an acknowledgement of a problem. >> and let's all face it, these are performances. when you see the president making a joke, that's a performance, too. the question here is are they comfortable asking people as

bush would say, asking people for the vote. are they happy campaigning. are they comfortable in a public space. and part of the job is rchl fromming and part of is also the voters want to feel like this is someone they want to spend time with. so while it's imperfect and all sorts if i can of fakery associated with it, there is a i go is natural being given out about whether he's candidates want to be there, whether you want to spend time with them as a result. so there's not a lot else that voters can go on. it's a character decision. >> great talking to both of you. and today's tweets of the day, hohmann writes forward is obama's unofficial new slogan and the title of a 7 minute video. garrity adds ironic that a

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next hour marking the one year anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden. why the right is accusing the president of spiking the football or do republicans just feel a sense of sour grapes? and defense attorneys plan two separate websites for george zimmerman in the shooting death of trayvon martin. and is there a rise in out and proud lgbt elected politicians? how the glass closet in politics is being shattered. you now back to my table mate. >> that's right. nerd prom. >> we had a good time. >> yes, we did actually. you're a very interesting table mate. >> as you you are, too. that wraps up this hour. jansing and company. thomas roberts is up next. i'll see you back here tomorrow.

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