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virginia up by four points. in ohio the margin is six. let me bring in usa today's bureau chief susan page and erin mcpike, good morning. >> good morning. >> what do you think, erin what is helping the president, the polls have tightened in march. he led by 12 points in ohio, 17 in virginia. what is going on here? >> well, yes, the president has kicked off his campaign he's talking about how the economy is slowly starting to improve. you're seeing some unemployment rates in some of those individual states go down so in ohio the unemployment rate is 7.6%, which is lower than the national average, the same is true in virginia, the unemployment rate is underneath 6% in that state. so some of these individual states yes the president is held in higher regard and we have not seen in polls yet in some of the battleground states, mitt romney

overtake the president and that looks like it will take another couple months to see how the romney campaign continues to message and reach out to voters over the next few months, if they can overtake him. >> susan, the latest unemployment rate in iowa is 5.1%, he'll visit a wind turbine blade manufacturer and call on congress to renew wind-related tax credits, which may people eyes glaze over. is this a pitch to keep iowa in the democratic bracket? >> i can tell you if you work in the alternative energy field in iowa and they have some of the biggest alternative energy businesses going it sounds like a topic that does not make your eyes glaze over. iowa is one of the swing states but one looking pretty good for president obama and they probably want to make that very solid as they move to states that will be more competitive. the president has been on the attack. let me play a clip from yesterday.

>> he's saying my 25 years in private sector gives me a special understanding of how our economy works. well, if that is true why is he pedaling the same bad ideas that brought the idea to the brink of collapse? most good business people i know if something doesn't work they do something different. >> will we hear this line of attack from him, erin? >> if bill clinton's advisors have anything to say about it, no. we've talked to some strategists who have been in the democratic party a number of years lately and they are surprised president obama is not staying above the fray and starting to attack mitt romney and on the stomp as he is in official addresses. but at this point, whether or not these attacks will work remain to be seen. i would point out to you, chris, mitt romney put out two general election tv ads in the last week or so, they have both been positive, talking about what he would do as president. whereas the president's campaign

ads have been largely negative about mitt romney, how that will bare out in some of the battle ground polls will take another month or so to see, but the messaging has been largely negative from the obama campaign, and yes, that moves voters to some degree and can work. but it might change the next few weeks. >> thanks, stand by both of you i'll bring in mike halperin. >> senior analyst, 36 minute interview with mitt romney yesterday. it the cover of "time" magazine, great to see you. since erin was talking about the polls, the white house started this line of attack about bain ten days ago in earnest, we have seen the polls tighten, in some cases significantly. are you seeing any kaindication they want to stick with the line of of attack? >> they want to stick with lots of attacks, bain will be part of it but also going in places and times of their own choosing after other aspects of the record. certainly after his record in massachusetts. and i think they will go back to

some things they dangled, his swiss bank account, cayman's islands. they can win this election if they disqualify mitt romney as an acceptable alternative and they will have money and skill to try to make that happen. >> obviously, you asked mitt romney about the bain attacks yesterday, let me play a clip of what he told you. >> president says he wants to focus a lot of the election debate on your career at bain capital. do you welcome that? >> of course. i'd like to focus on his record. what is it that he has done as the president of the united states over the last four years? has he established the revicinitiliation he promised he would bring to us? >> he flipped it, deflected. >> i asked him several times, i wanted him to be clear he flipped it to talk about the president. gave one answer about energy was

strong compared how he normally answered it. he wants the election to be about the president and the last three-and-a-half years. he has to engage and began to yesterday when i talked to him, he will have to do more, almost certainly will come up in their debates. his goal is to have the election be about the president's record, i think you will see him flip it the way he did in the sound bite. >> most fascinating part of the interview was after we have seen that the president's promising of 8% unemployment rate has been really gone after by the republicans, you sit down with mitt romney and he says to you, i'm going to bring you an even lower unemployment rate, let me play that clip. >> i can't possibly predict precisely what the unemployment rate will be after one year. after a period of four years by virtue of the policies we put in place, we get the rate down to 6% or perhaps lower depends upon the rate of growth.

>> wow. 6%? i thought that was gutsy, is it smart politically and can he back it up? >> one of the things he needs to do and i wanted to do with him because i think it's important, he wants to tell people what his presidency will be like. not everybody will believe the policies he's putting forward will have the effect he says they will have but he's painting a picture and people read the interview on time.com or the new issue of the magazine, he's talking more specifically than he has in the past about what would he do on energy and health care? a lot of people will say he's not being specific enough and there are some issues on tax reform where i think he needs to be more specific for some voters. but there are other issues people say he says if he does do these policy, they have the positive effect. but that was a specific number and again, unemployment is a huge part of the campaign, he's putting forward that number, democrats are saying he can't reach it. but that is a goal out there and if he's elected he has to live with that just as president

obama lives with the campaign promises and other things he said as president. >> he was pushed on it by the way this morning on cbs this morning and they asked how will you do that you can't say 6% and he talked about repealing obamacare, bringing down the deficit. so he did layout at least in a general way, some of the things he's going to do. let me play again this morning mitt romney touting bain's record in addition to everything else. >> by the way with regard to bain capital, they just put a report out about their record, the bain capital guys did. they made about 350 investments since the beginning of the firm and of those investments, 80% of them grew their revenues. >> notice revenue, not jobs. >> he'll never convince people bain was in the business of creating jobs, they weren't. he wants people to focus on his record as a business person getting things done, not on the

examples the campaign is picking out. he acknowledged results were less than great for laid off employees. the romney campaign is convinced, they may not be right but they are convinced the more people learn about the complete facts what he did at bain, that is something they will look at in a way that won't hurt him but will help him. they are eager to explain more, more about his biography, try to explain what he did at bain and the pre miss of the campaign is i'm a business guy, i know how to get things done. democrats say that is not true they may be overstating the case. perhaps focusing too much on this, if it's not in the long run a winning hand. >> they are going on the attack and in the new york times they wrote about it, the president walk as fine line he's going after bain at the same time he's going in and asking these guys for money. this is something bill clinton

was able to do for the democrats. he was able to go to wall street and balance the whole idea of taking money from these big helping fund guys, et cetera, but is he going to just alienate the people he needs to be able to go after mitt romney with advertising? >> to some extent he has. a lot of the people, people who can write big checks or gather big checks, they are people who are alienated by the president's rhetoric or policies. i don't think from a political point of view he will be leaving that much money on the table at this point. if he continues to run in this populist, you have seen the president pull back, gone out of his way in the last few appearances to say i like private equity, investment, people take risks, you may like that stuff but the guy who is expert in that shouldn't be the president. i think both candy its would do better if they talked more what they do as president and my interview with governor romney

we spent most of the time on that. what would they do come january, what would they do over the next four years rather than reliving and relitigating the past? >> people can get the clips, watch the interview at time.com. mark, great to see you. >> thanks, chris. let bring back susan and erin, is it fraught for both sides, the debate about bain? >> i think so. mitt romney having to deal with questions through the primaries too, from his republican opponents can't articulate a clearer case this was a positive experience, that is something i think they are now beginning to do and things like the "time" interview. >> it was interesting the center for responsive politics had a study, they found security and investme menment firms have giv of republican donations. that is the highest share since the center began tabulating campaign money.

i wonder, we are talking about huge amounts of money and different people giving money, how significant is that? >> it's very significant in that i talked to a lot of democrats in new york who are saying that the enthusiasm for giving for the president isn't what it used to be. people are not as excited to go to some of the fundraisers and that is through the entire financial sector. wall street not wanting to give to the president as yes they respect mitt romney and think he wouldn't have such a heavy hand in terms of regulation, so there is a lot of shift toward mitt romney from that group of donors, absolutely. >> i wonder, susan, both sides are throwing the ads, does it become so much noise, i start to feel more and more like a debate takes on this outsized influence. we talk about all this money and unprecedented amounts of money, new ways to use social media, could it come down these two guys face-to-face making their

case? >> if you feel that way in may, think how you feel in september and october? this is going to be a different kind of campaign from any one we had before, there will be more money and more outside money and more tv ads in those 12 or 13 states where everything matters. so we're just getting the start of it here. >> susan page, erin mcpike, great to see both of you, thank you. thanks, chris. must see tv, newt gingrich will join chris matthews live on "hardball" tonight, you don't want to miss that. you only see it on msnbc. you can't argue with nutrition you can see. great grains. great grains cereal starts whole and stays whole. see the seam? more processed flakes look nothing like natural grains. i'm eating what i know is better nutrition. mmmm. great grains. search great grains and see for yourself.

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the obama campaign is back in big time fundraising mode. back from summits the president hit fund-raisers in denver and

silicon valley. check out where the money stands now. these are totals including the campaigns, political parties and super pacs. obama has a 2-1 cash advantage over romney, but that was 10-1 less than two months ago. i'm joined by bill burton, strategist and cofounders of priority usa action and former white house press secretary. good morning, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> common sense would tell you the president and supporters outspent the romney camp. race is very tight, why? >> one number that wasn't included crossroads had $70 million on hand. there is more parity than the graphic suggested. >> does that give you pause? >> absolutely. this will be a close election, hundreds of millions of dollars from the right wing will be pouring in to defeat president obama to get mitt romney elected mostly because of what he would

do for wall street and the oil and energy industry. they will spend money to see that happen. >> susan page, i don't know if you were listening, from usa today, saying this would be a campaign unlike any we've seen that has already happened. we did hear from the campaign today, the obama campaign, that they were cancelling ads supposed to run in iowa and north carolina, virginia, ohio through the rest of the month. is there a money issue or that is strategic decision, do you know? >> i have no idea why the campaign is making their decisions. i can tell through will be so much money in this race that you can bet there will be a lot of ads in all those targeted states going through to all the way through to election day and a lot of focus will be on bain capital, a lot of the focus on mitt romney's record when he was in private industry and whether or not the decisions he made to lay people off makes him qualified to be president of the united states. >> let me ask you about bain. we were talking about that at the beginning of the program, and we had showed yesterday, we can show it again, this ad your

group launched attacking mitt romney's record at bain. karl rove and a lot of other republicans say the strategy won't work it makes the president seem anti-business. is this a big gamble taking on forces that frankly bill clinton and your candidate four years ago successfully brought in the fundraising fold? >> well, i think you're asking two different questions. on the first question, i'll take the second question first, whether or not this will impact fundraising, i think that a lot of folks on wall street looked at what the president did, even though the economy has been growing, even though the jobs picture was better than when he took office, they don't like the fact the president decided we needed more regulations on wall street to make sure folks on main street weren't harmed by bad decisions. he passed wall street reform which they don't like, but need. second question whether or not this is a gamble to make this argument, it's mitt romney who brought this up. his experience in private industry is the centerpiece of his argument for why he should be president of the united states. we think it's important voters

have a clear sense of the decisions he made, driving companies in bankruptcy, many workers losing their not just their jobs but also promised health care and retirement benefits and whether or not those decisions are the sort of things you want in a president of the united states. his job was about wealth creation, not job creation, he was very good at making wealth for himself and his partners but he wasn't good at creating jobs. that was ancillary to anything he was doing at bain. >> can there be hypocrisy, i'm sure you saw nick's article in the new york times today, he talks about a big fund-raiser held for the president, investment executives arriving, even as the campaign and other groups are putting out attack ads, on exactly what it is that they do, so on one hand you're talking about the dangers, and on the other hand taking $38500 from each of them. >> this race is about two guys.

president obama and governor romney. and the decisions they made and the vision they have for the country. the president isn't running against an industry, not running against a group of people. he's running against mitt romney, and what we're trying to do is make sure people have a crystal clear sense of who mitt romney is, what kind of decisions he made and how it impacted middle class americans all over the country. and the truth is, it had a negative impact on people's lives. we think it's important americans know that, because that is the president he would be. he would look out for folks at the top and be at the expense of the middle class. >> you talk aid theed about the be no shortage of ads, you're trying to define mitt romney and your candidate. the romney campaign launched a new ad called day one part ii, let me play a clip. >> day one, president romney announces deficit reduction,

helping secure our kids futures. president romney stands up to china on trade and demands they play by the rules. president romney begins repealing job killing regular layings that are costing the economy billions. >> let me get your reaction to the last part, because we heard similar phraseology, job killing regulations, that are costing the economy billions. >> i think it's tremendously overstated the president came in office, and what he did was he eliminated a lot of regulations but put in place some safety measures to make sure that industries were looking out for the interests of the people who lived around plants, he made sure mercury levels were lower than they've ever been, trying to bring down the level of green house gases, things that make a difference in people's lives, not just their health but pocketbook. the more fuel efficient cars the more you're saving every time you go to the pump. the thing most interesting about

the ad how he invokes china, attacking the president on something he himself trends in the economy he himself is profiting from, by still getting money from bain capital. the truth is when he was at bain and even after that, companies that they controlled ended up laying off hundreds of american workers, many of those jobs going over to asia. i think it's interesting he would lean in that pitch, a little difficult fenefensive. >> bill burton, good to see you. day five of deliberations and still waiting for a verdict in the john edwards corruption trial. with 30 years in prison on the line for edwards, speculation is rampant about what this delay means. conventional wisdom is with the complexity of campaign financial laws at the heart of this case, the longer the deliberations, the greater chance of a jury dead lock. announcer ] the inspiring story of how a shipping giant can befriend a forest

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new reaction is pouring in to mitt romney's education plan calling for more parent choice. romney unveiled his plan wednesday saying american children are getting a third world education. his plan includes a voucher-like system giving low income and special needs children federal funds to attend charter schools, private institutions and public schools outside their districts. federal funds could be used for tutoring or digital courses. romney criticized president obama saying he's failed to stand up to union bosses. >> president can't have it both ways. he can't talk up reform while indulging the groups blocking reform. he can't be the voice of the disadvantaged public school kids and the protector of the special interests. >> joining me is the former national communications direction tore for rick santorum

campaign, hogan, and senator joe manchun -- do you think mitt romney's does it threaten to alienate voters where this will be a close election and where it could be decided? >> states like wisconsin, this is shown to be kind of a hot button issue. for years we've talked about this on the conservative side we think the education system is beholden to the unions, we think they have a grasp on that sector of the government and doing a horrible job in educating our children the facts bear that out. we're spending 91, $92,000 per pupil, we have little or no results to show for it. we're falling way behind in education and we have a good

argument in that fact whereas the other side will say we just need more money to make it better and kids get a good education and doing a good job protecting teachers and students, you guys want to mess up our fiefdom, that is an age-old argument but i don't think it will have a huge impact it with it take a back seat to the economy, ultimately. >> chris, the obama camp has been hitting back, vague, detail-free, who is on the right side of it? >> i don't know if it will be a big issue in the campaign, economy will be the number one issue, what the speech yesterday i think -- >> let me make this argument, it's in many ways barack obama's argument. his argument is education is central to the economy future of the country. that is his -- one of the central things that he has made part of his campaign. and don't you think that moms and dads out there look at education as an economic issue? >> i do.

but i think when you talk about the economy you talk about jobs, there is no question that education becomes part of it but the criticism of governor romney kind of falls flat, based on his record in massachusetts, it falls flat on another point and that is when you read that speech and listen to his words, there is nothing new there. there is not a single idea that hasn't been tried before and failed and this notion that privatizing public schools and moving everyone to charter schools will solve the problems, if you look at the studies done, the pictures are not that clear in terms of whether charter schools are better than public schools. simplistic notions are easy for politicians, but governor romney is off base here. and i think when you step back and look at another point, what is he saying on education that is really different than any other republican? that is i think the big distinction between the president and governor romney. the president did say things that were different, different for a democratic in terms of

talking about charter schools and vouchers and taking on the unions, if you will, not to the same extent what governor romney wants, but he set a different path i don't see that with governor romney. >> hogan, we should say that the mitt romney and his campaign have said this is modeled on the dc opportunity scholarship program created by congress in 2004 and the idea was to provide federal money for private school vouchers for low income students. in ten there was a study of the use of the money and it found "no conclusive evidence that the d.c. program improved achievement" so where is the proof here this is going to help things get better? >> well, but where is the proof morme money makes things better. >> we're talking about mitt romney's proposal will it work, this is a better way to go forward? >> i understand, but again, chris is right, this argument has been around for a long time and we've seen no improvement in education, here in south carolina, we've been working on

the program trying to allow students to have vouchers and move to different schools, better performing schools but i tell you what this does is very interesting on mitt romney's part. it brings up a real spaz -- issue, it gives him street cred, i'll fight against the unions, but allows him to float a test balloon and say look i can make this education system better let's see if this is something i can rally the base behind rally the country behind the idea of allowing more competition, among the education system taking the business model he used as someone at bain capital, someone as governor and see if that works in the education system. >> let me ask chris, if this is a test balloon, how does the obama campaign burst it? >> if it's a test balloon it already popped, let's be honest. applying the principals he

learned at bain to education we will be in real trouble. here is the bottom line. >> 80% success at bain. >> no question about that a difficult issue. you don't solve with it a broad brush paint this ideological conclusion the way you make our teachers better, our students learn more is by simply moving everyone to private schools. show me the data. show me the evidence that works. it's mixed at best. and what you will --. >> i don't think he's saying that. >> you will destroy public school education in the process. >> we have to let that be the last word. thank you, gentlemen. >> god bless. second round of international talks with iran over the nuclear program have entered day two. the meeting is taking place in baghdad, the west believes iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon, iran says the program is for peaceful, energy purposes. nbc's bureau chief joins me, any

progress? >> reporter: doesn't seem to be a lot of progress at all. there seems to be a state of stalemate here. yesterday, a proposal caught them off guard, the iranians countered that with a five point plan. one european diplomat told me this morning the iranian five point plan didn't work it was talking about regionalal issues, that is fwhoot they are here for. i spoke to another diplomat close to the circle and he says that the atmosphere the talks this morning was not good at all and the americans were trying to scuffle the talks. both sides said the talks will be over this afternoon. but it looks like neither side wanted to be responsible for a break down in the talks, so they've gone back in the negotiating room again. they called the press conference half an hour ago, which they cancelled because they want to have more bilateral talks and more talks.

but the issue is deep-seeded mistrust and iranians were expecting to have sanctions lifted when they made very clear that sanctions are not going to be lifted in these talks, they are a matter of law and go in effect on july 1st. so there is still a lot of tension here, and no breakthrough moment yet. chris? >> thank you so much. there are new developments to tell you about in the 33-year-old disappearance of etan patz. new york police have a new jersey man in custody whoism my indicated himself in the death. an official familiar with the case says the suspect claims he lured etan in a store with candy and attacked him. police are working to see if this story can be corroborated. the man is reportedly known to investigators and worked in patz's neighborhood when the 6-year-old disappeared. etan patz was the first missing child to appear on a milk carton. a fire on board a nuclear powered submarine at a maine

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massive job cuts are coming to hewlitt packard, they will slash 27,000 jobs by 2014, put this in perspective, this is an ominous sign for the recovery, is this contained to problems internally at hp? >> they really are good questions here, chris. i would say it's really not just an hp-specific problem it's a pc industry problem here, because pc sales have been declining for years now, all doing things on the mobile phone, tablets, et cetera, the european downturn has added more to it. dell gave a disappointing forecast which hurt shares. analysts say hp's plan to cut 8% of the workforce is a step in the right direction, and as a result, we've been seeing the shares are soaring. >> and hp ceo meg whitman is

worried what is going on in europe and agregreece, right? >> she took the job last september, been trying to turn the company around but it's tough in europe, not just for hp, she warned the debt crisis was the big head wind the company is facing. she said business leaders and consumers in europe were worried about the economy, which in turn hurts people's confidence about buying things that hp wants to supply them. so this is as i say, something that is facing a lot of companies here in america and it is a dichotomy, a lot of companies say things are good, but europe is the thorn in their side. >> mandy drury, thank you. you may think that the bathroom is probably the dirtiest place at work, but you would be wrong. there is a study by kimberly-clark. they studied the dirtest

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campaign is unlike any other and the obama campaign hopes this could be a game-changer, they launched an online portal called dashboard to fire up grass root supporters. >> think of dashboard as an on line nation-wide field office. it's all about connecting supporters like you and bringing you the best tools to build this campaign in your community. >> i'm joined by eric, cofounder of social media magazines. good to see you. >> thank you for having me. >> online national field office, what does this do? >> elevates what he did in the last election. what he did in the last election, game-changing, got him votes that he wouldn't otherwise get, it elevates social media to a new level. this is collaborative, not just one-on-one, group-on-group, m k mocks an actual field office. >> the things would you do out

of a field office, phone banks. >> everything would you do, if you ever have been in a field office, everything that goes on in that field office can be done online. the obama campaign has invested significant money in this, will be a significant advantage for him, and the only thing now he has to compete with is television advertising. >> how, why an advantage? >> if you look at and compare, because mitt romney is trying to do the same thing, my mitt has 3,000 people signed up, which is nothing. what obama has taken is a social media prowess, hundreds of millions of people and elevated one level up so we are all organize and talking together, if we want to. >> so it makes you feel like you're part of the campaign. >> you are, you don't have to move to boise or whatever it is to be in the campaign office you can do it online. an enormous advantage. >> you have to do a cost benefit analysis, how speexpensive this?

>> expensive but not as much as television. historic historically, that is the only way we knew about candidates. >> i wonder if you think about they could get millions of people working? >> the expense was in developing it. this type of an operation will go on in every campaign forever in the future. the greatest expense was developing it. it is nothing compared to the cost of television advertising. the great advantage is the internet. that is the swing vote. >> who does this appeal to. >> anyone with a computer and anyone who likes obama. maybe you don't live in a major city where there are field offices, this is a way to engage people for whom it's not a

practical matter or a lot of times we do things on a whim, and so they go on and get excited about it but then three hours later or three days later when they have a weekend and might have to drive to the nearest city to go to a field office? >> everybody, all of the above. when you go to the field offices, how many kids, or people that are really engaged sitting on the couch eating donuts 23 hours a day, if you don't want to go to the field office you don't have to. if obama wants to know i'm interested in him, this is a really easy way for anybody to reach me. it's group-to-group. >> fascinating to see how this plays out. eric, great to have you. >> great to be here. >> while he's taking time off today's tweet of the day, richard lui, who posted this picture and tweeted was off the grid one week building habitat affordable housing for jordanian widow. the view, the golan heights. fa.

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morning i'm thomas roberts the agenda next hour. breaking news on a stunning break in the decades old etan patz case, candy was used to lure the young child describing the attack in graphic detail we'll bring you the details on the truly incredible story and maybe give this family closure. mitt romney's bold promise he can get the u.s. unemployment rate under 6%, but is the devil in the details on that one, why scott walker is the gop's new hero, ed schultz joins me with the total recall that is looking more like a total bust for the democrats. chris? thomas, thank you. kanye and kim and cannes. kim and kanye take cannes, strolling ha strolling hand-in-hand for the film "short summer."

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