lust for bacon? >> i learned my weekend reading is secured. it's classified by nicole wallace. >> i learned why they call you bar. >> it's way too early. >> stick around for "the daily rundown. ." president obama and mitt romney over who understands the economic suffering of americans more and who is more out of touch and are both sides alienating the middle class along the way. the arizona seat of former congresswoman gabrielle giffords and ron barber who was in last year's shooting rampage will succeed her. >> as the syrian conflict blows up into full civil war the u.s. accuses russia of sending out helicopters and printing currency for the assad government.

he hillary clinton says it can get een deadlier. i'm luke russert filling in for chuck todd. tomorrow the president will head to ohio for a speech. it's the president's first campaign event that's neither a rally nor a fund-raiser. in an attempt to turn the page for two bad weeks for the white house. the president's economic message isn't selling. the president attacked romney's economic plans saying they're just like failed republican economic policies of the past. >> i love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. i inherited a trillion dollar deficit it's like somebody goes on a restaurant and orders a big steak dinner, martini, all that stuff and then just as you're sitting down, they leave. and accuse you of running up the

tab. >> but with the economy stalling, team romney is displaying impressive message discipline. the president tries to point again to the republicans' past. >> the president, as you know, said last week that the private sector is doing fine, and he is so out of touch with what's happening across america. >> when i hear governor romney say his prief years in the private sector gives him a special understanding of how the economy works. my question is why are you running with the same ideas that brought our economy to the bring of disaster. >> senior political editor, ma, mark, thank you for being here. >> president obama will simply reiterate what you saw in baltimore which is a blame for the republican economic policies of the past. james carville who ran a campaign in 1992 about the economy said this this morning

about the president's current thinking on the economy. >> when the white house talks about the progress being made, people take that as a signal that things are fine and people don't believe that. >> the front page of "the washington post," obama team woes concern democrats. the obama team just can't get the right message on the economy. >> democrats do one thing very, very well and they often hit that panic button even when things don't change and nothing has fundamentally changed and what you did see from james carville along with stan cramer. they put out a memo that said democrats can't run on the message that things are slowly getting better. what they need to do is these are the policies that will make the economy better in the future and fight on that, and so instead, barack obama tried to do this in his campaign rallies and he had a month ago in ohio

and virginia, the question isn't are you better off than you were four years ago? are you better than you were four years from now? and that's the argument that carville and greenberg think that democrats should make. wo can better convince the middle class that they have the ideas going into the future? >> sort of the bridge to the future than going back to the past. interesting article in a.p. talking about mitt romney and secrecy. romney refuses to identify his biggest donors who bundled money for his campaign and he refuses to say what he's doing for hours at a time and he refusists releasing his tax returns. >> he will meet with speaker boehner and having a rally this sunday. capitol hill reporters heard before romney campaign supporters. is this one of the most secretive. >> it's incredible message des

mrin. they've talked about the things they want to talk about. when you bring up other matters whether it's donald trump and they say those issues don't matter. what voters care about is the economy, but as we write this morning, one of the things about being president when you sit in the oval office you don't always control the things that you have to talk about. foreign policy issues that you have been dealing with and so the romney campaign are running up the clock which is in football and basketball and take a smart strategy to deploy and they could end up helping mitt romney and hey, we'll only talk about mitt romney and it presents challenges in the oval office and you'll have to sit down for an interview that's not fox. >> he's on the bus tour in which the traveling press corps would have tons of questions. he was asked about one of the questions about whether he thought democrats were taking

his words out about firefighters and police officers out of context and he said i don't want to answer that question. so far that's been a response we've seen from him more so than opening up to yes that we might get a sense of where he stands on issues outside of the economy. >> very quick. this win in arizona, the gabby giffords' seat is a big win. >> a very nice win. maybe democrats aren't quite hitting the panic button as much as they would. >> psychological boost. >> mark murray, fan of the oklahoma city thunder. >> the u.n. says the syrian conflict is now a civil war. gun battles are being reported in the capital damascus in four main provinces and for the first time, washington is accusing moscow in helping assad with the brutal crackdowns on civilians. >> we have confronted the russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to syria and we are concerned about

the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia to syria which will escalate the conflict quite dramatically. >> richard engle is nbc's chief foreign correspondent and he's live in cairo and richard, give us a state in play in syria now. do you believe the citizenry there is aware of the russian influence and how big a role russia will continue to play in this conflict? >> the people across syria are certainly aware of the russian position. there have been anti-russian demonstrations along with anti-bashar demonstrations and also anti-iran demonstrations so they're certainly aware of this dynamic. in the past what we've seen is criticism from russia coming from the united states because of russia's refusal to endorse greater u.n. action against syria. now we're seeing a much more specific comment about russia's

supplying weapons to syria, specifically helicopters and i think helicopters are tremendously important right now. over the last week or so, syria has been using attack helicopters a lot more than it had in the early stages of this conflict partly because syria is having lodgist beings issues. it is becoming increasingly difficult for syria to move its con voice of military vehicles across the country. it's difficult to pay the soldiers who are on the front lines and helicopters are an easy and very brutal way that syria can get around these logistic issues. the u.s. is very concerned about that. the people are very concerned about that and yes, many syrians do blame russia for backing up the assad regime. >> richard engle in cairo, thank you very much for being on the program. stay safe. disappointing futures on sending futures down on wall

street. cnbc's becky quick is here. becky, what have we got this morning? >> things are looking worse the longer we get into the morning. the dow futures are down by 30 or 35 points. a lot of these came when we got these economic numbers from the government. first of all, retail prices, a good indicator of the consumer, came down 2/3 of a percent and maybe consumers are getting rattled by the headlines, too. and we also got producer prices which tell us about inflation and it's down by 1% and that's a huge drop and this could be seen as a silver lining and energy prices have been down so sharply and that's what dragged producer prices down and the market started trading lower when we saw this. we also came in with continuing worries about what's been happening with europe. the bond market and the borrowing prices for spain and italy have continued to rise and that's's huge issue. it shows there's not a whole lot of confidence in loaning money

to those two nations. in spain, we've seen the higher borrowing cost and the yield rising since the euro was created and that's raising concerns about what's happening there. it looks like we'll open down about 35 points. luke, i'll send it over to you. >> wow! 35 points. becky quick, thank you so much. politics or principles? they pounce on eric holder, from gun running to intel leaking, are calls for his resignation going more than political againsmanship? >> we'll ask the senator from wyoming about the new fondness of the president's health care law and first, a look ahead at the president's schedule. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. with the spark cash card from capital one, sven's home security gets the most rewards of any small business credit card!

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>> you violated the public trust, in my view, and by failing and refusing to perform the duties of your office. so, mr. attorney general, it's more with sorrow than regret and anger that i would say that you leave me no alternative, but to join those that call upon you to resign your office. >> i don't have any intention of resigning. i heard the white house press officer say that the president has absolute confidence in me. i don't have reason to believe that that, in fact, is not the case. >> explosive testimony in the senate tuesday. attorney general eric holder pushing back against calls that he stepped down amid accusations that he's blocking independent investigation into intelligence

leaks. wyoming republican senator is part of the senate leadership as chairman of the republican policy committee and he's a member of the foreign relations committee. senator barrasso, thank you very much for coming on the program. you voted against eric holder when he was up for nomination. do you share mr. cornyn's concerns? do you agree with him? >> i have great concerns about the positions he's taken. he's reluctant to come forward with the information on the fast and furious program which was terribly bungled by his justice department, a true tragedy with loss of life and now what we have are these releasees that appear to come from the white house that make the president look like he's kind of a macho man in the run-up to the election. i think he's also caused loss of life and significant security breaches to our nation and i think we ought to have an

independent council. >> do you think intelligence leaks from the white house have caused loss of life? >> i absolutely do. when you take a look at what's happening overseas and perhaps not of american citizens, but of others and are putting our people at risk and you take a look at what's happened with the leaks regarding the computer virus in iran, and you talk about that doctor who is now imprisoned in pakistan who aided in helping identify the location of osama bin laden. you take a look at the release of the information about the new terrorist technique and the underwear bomber and the upgraded version about that, and i think it doesn't serve any president well to have the president making -- having the word come out that the president is making the calls of his hit-list of who he wants to have eliminated, assassinated and killed. i don't think that helps any

president. >> that's not executive leadership? isn't that what you elect a president for? >> i think the attorney general ought to go ahead and come up with an independent council and someone who will look at this independently and not people that will report directly to him. we've had this in two administrations with republicans and democrats alike. i think it's the attorney general's goal to protect the president and then he wants everybody reporting to him. if we really want to get to the truth of these releases that i believe emanated from the white house, it doesn't say that president obama knew about them, but i believe they've come from the obama white house, then i think the american public has a right to an independent investigation and not one where the attorney general decides what information gets released and what doesn't get released, luke. >> senator, you are a doctor and you're been very vocal and outspoken with healthcare reform. mitt romney said this about repealing it recently.

>> we're going have to make sure that the law we replace obama care with assures that people who have a pre-existing condition who have been ensured in the past are able to get insurance in the future so they don't have to keep them from getting the kind of health care they deserve. >> that sounds awfully familiar to what president obama was saying. >> which part of the problem would you keep, senator barrasso. >> i'm hoping the supreme court does that work for us in the next two weeks when they come out with their ruling because i don't think the govern ment hasa right to say they must buy a government-approved program, but when you get to pre-existing conditions. my wife is a breast cancer survivor, she's been through chemo and radiation and we know they still need to get care and

what the president did was forced through congress of party line votes too voluminous to be sxrd too incoherent to be understood and instead we ought to be working on ways to get the care they need and not that the government choose and that they choose at lower cost. those are the things we've been working on and we know what the president's law has done is driven up the cost faster and higher than if no law has been passed in the first place. >> would you allow kids to stay on their parents' plan up until age 26. >> absolutely. i said that the day of the president's roundtable discussion at the white house in which i participated. i wanted to do that from the beginning. there are so many things you can do working together instead of the president's one-size-fits-all, his way or the highway? >> why do you have to have a full repeal and -- and stop the kids from being on their pare s

parents', and why not just take back what you don't want? >> that's not going to stop. you have these major insurance companies that have said whatever the supreme court rules they're going to allow those people up to age 26 to stay on their family plan, but under the president's health care law, luke, kids that are in college today got their insurance not through a family plan, but through the colleges sdmaand the not able to do that and the high level of insurance they need. a lot more than any college student needs or wants or can afford. college students are saying, my goodness, they're going up by a factor of ten and on top of rising tuitions we don't want to add that additional cost so we're no longer going to offer students affordable insurance. why are the student allowed to get affordable insurance? because of the president's

health care law. >> senator barrasso from wyoming, thank you for coming on the program. always a pleasure. >> thanks for having me, luke. >> up next, hang on to your twitter handle. china and russia are plotting to take away control of the internet. plus president obama and mitt romney's war of words over who can tackle the tough times. harry reid steps into the ring. first, today's trivia's question, which state has been home to most of the speakers of the house? the answer and more coming up on "the daily rundown wto," i'm go to guess maybe texas, maybe ohio. that's my guess.

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internet? according to a new report, china russia and other nations would like to end dominance and give control to the u.n. and some proponents are using recent stories about possible recent stories on cyber attacks on iran to bolster arguments. joining me with more on this is msnbc.com editor, for layman folk out there like me when it comes to these types of internet security issues are china and russia really trying to make a ploy to control the world wide web? >> it's not even -- it's an open secret, luke. just to explain what's going on. delivery of packets around the internet is controlled by a group named ican, it's non-governmental and pretty friendly to u.s. interests. it's basically the post office for the internet and there are lots of folks around the world and saudi arabia, iran and china and russia who want to have more say over how the internet works

and the main issue for a lot of these folks are issues that would sound to us like free speeches and anonymity and is there a way to trace packages and looks and the people who are using the internet and posting messages on the internet to organize and protest and the flash point for this is a meeting in dubai in december where a group called the itu, the international telecommunications unit will attempt to amend a treaty so it is only international and they'll expand the charter to govern how the internet works and all of this is back channel conversation, but it became front and center in the last couple of weeks when the news about flame hit because some of the countries can point to the u.s. because they can say why do we trust them to control the internet? >> you talk about flame and the virus created here. explain what flame is to people and why that would upset our international allies?

>> sure. we're still trying to figure out what flame is. it's this enormous computer virus and they've identified some pattern of attack for middle eastern countries and most of the infections have been in iran and it's the stocks net virus which was able to damage iran's nuclear capabilities over the last couple of years and increasingly these viruses when you put them all together it looks like the u.s. is taking offensive cyber war tactics which is a big step forward that relates directly to your last segment when weir talking about leaks with the white house and it is a discussion of offensive capabilities and they could injure u.s. standing and could bring on counterattack of either directly through a like-minded attack from a foreign entity and it could cause us to lose some face in the international community and perhaps lose

control of how the internet works. >> we have to go, but just yes or no, will the u.n. approve this, do you think? >> it's undecided. the u.s. is catching a block of nations that are pretty well organized? >> fascinating. msnbc technology. thank you very much for being on the program. we'll be right back with democratic senator patty murray. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on amerimsnbc. ♪ all my exes live in texas ♪ ♪ born on the bayou [ female announcer ] the perfect song for everywhere can be downloaded almost anywhere. ♪ i'm back, back in the new york groove ♪ [ male announcer ] the nation's largest 4g network. covering 2,000 more 4g cities and towns than verizon. rethink possible.

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a risky trading strategy which he himself said was poorly monitored. harry reid is weighing in on what some are calling a black mark on the world of boxing. saturday's fight awarded a split decision to tim bradley. despite what experts and commentators saw as a clear victory for the defending champion manny pacquiao. it appeared pacquiao was robbed. >> from all of the reports i've seen fr by people on the outside who saw the fight, who attempted to be fair and judge the fight, pack wquiao won the fight. i feel confident there is nothing untoward. do the investigation, i don't care about that at all. military suicides are surging. 154 active-duty troops have been killed -- have killed nearly one a day.

up 18% from a year ago. later this morning defense secretary leon panetta and joint chiefs of staff chairman martin dempsey will face questions on those shocking numbers when they head to capitol hill to testify on the 2013 pentagon budget. she is in charge of the democratic senatorial campaign committee. senator murray, thank you very much for being on the program. the first question i have to ask you, do you think the department of defense, specifically secretary panetta, understands how serious this problem is and has dod put in the means to fix it? >> i think we all should be very concerned about the impact and our accurate diagnosis of our troops that have gone to war multiple times and coming home and showing the stresses of these wars, but we owe them an accurate diagnosis. we owe them a timely diagnosis and treatment, and i want to make sure that all of the way to the top of the pentagon they are focused on getting this right

and i will be asking secretary panetta very directly that today. >> senator, soldiers at mat gan army medical center have charged they are not diagnosed with ptsd when they should have been and that was to save army money. army hospital folks there needed to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars and that a ptsd diagnoses could cost $1.5 million over a soldier's lifetime. do you think the arm sent diagnosing soldiers properly in order to save money? >> we've uncovered serious items. soldiers diagnosed with ptsd and then as they were leaving the military, we were told they were lying and they were costing this country money and that is wrong. we owe them an accurate

diagnosis and we need to make sure they're getting the treatment and the army is going back and reviewing all cases to make sure we are accurately diagnosing our troops. we have a long ways to go. this is not just a mat gan problem. it is not just an army problem and a system-wide problem and that's why it is so important that the pentagon from the top down look at all of the military and make sure that we are getting this done correctly. >> for our veterans watching right now, what are you going to ask of mr. panetta today? >> i want to make sure secretary panetta understands how serious this issue is and to make sure he understands that we have got to get this right and that he is not just looking at the army, but looking at all areas of the military to make sure we're correctly treating these men and women. >> john cornyn, your colleague in terms of getting his party elected to the senate has choice

words from attorney general eric holder. we'll take a listen. >> you've violated the public trust, in my view, and my failing and refusing to perform the duties of your office and you leave me no alternative, but to call upon you to resign your office. >> what's your response to senator cornyn? we all have concerns about the leaks. everyone should, but the u.s. attorney to his credit has appointed two very excellent u.s. attorneys to investigate this matter. i think it's really important that we allow this investigation to go forward and reach its conclusion and then decide what we need to do. that process is extremely important. it should not be involved in politics and we need to focus on the issues that need to be accomplished in this country today and getting our economy back on track. >> crossroads, the super pac by karl rove is launching a $4.6

million ad buy. the theme is attacking democrats by tying them to the president. are you worried that the president's unpopularity could lose democrats and senate? >> no, absolutely not. every one of our campaigns across the country they know their state and they know their people and they're focused on getting their economy, woing o gen and getting their constituents on the job and feel people feeling secure on sending their kids to college and getting their mortgages and these are issues we all know. what i am concerned about is the fact that one organization run by a few people can spend that much money and influence politics in this country. that should frighten all of us. >> last, but not least, in maine, a possible opportunity, mr. king is an independent. will you go on the air in favor of mr. king after he becomes the nominee -- or, sorry, after the democratic primary is over? >> we're working very closely to the democrats in maine.

i am confident that we will have a very strong senator out of maine and we will see what happens in the coming days. >> senator patty murray, and thank you so much for being on the program. as chuck says our hump day political panel will be here next. what are democrats saying behind the scenes about president obama's recent stumbles on the campaign trail. plus jeb bush backtracks, sort of on his take on the republican party, but first the white house sucht day, this is a good one. vegetable and barley and don't forget, you can always follow the show on facebook. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. i hope you're listening to this somewhere. it is summer. [ mechanical humming ]

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>> she told "the washington post" a month ago, and i quote, if black people can kill black people, why not white people kill white people. she has influence on a lot of people. if you took the words white and black and you reversed them you might think david duke was giving that speech. ♪ ♪ >> souljah moment, while speak ing to -- making offensive remarks about blacks killing whites. sister souljah rebuking his own party. president obama and mitt romney are trading barbs at a fund-raiser in baltimore. he blames the republicans for the conditions he inherited when he took office. >> if they start giving you a

bunch of facts and figures suggesting that it's true, what they're not telling you is they baked this stuff into the cake with those tax cuts and a prescription drug plan that they didn't pay for and the war -- >> at a campaign event in orlando, he repealed the health care reform, blaming the law for caution uncertainty in the economy. >> just understand that obama care impacts small business, and you have to scratch your head about that because about a year ago the chamber of commerce did a survey of 1,500 small businesses and of those small businesses, three-quarters, 75% said obama care made it less likely to hire people. >> our panel is here. former obama white house spokesman bill burton who helps run the super pac's priority and is she impressed? political editor liz sedoni and

bob ehrlich, former chairman of the romney campaign. i'll start with you. sort of these dueling plans here. president obama saying no, it's their fault from four years back and mitt romney saying it's his fault and don't let him go four years. which one will resonate more with the american citizenry? >> that's the big question heading into the fall. neither one can do anything in the state of the economy. what's going on in europe will have more of an impact, i would argue, than anything obama and romney will say about the economy. obama has the challenge of convince the american people that don't feel that the economy is improving, that there are -- there is slow growth and romney, of course, will take the other argument and say it's not going quick enough. i think the answer to your question will lie in november. >> governor, medicare part d, two wars unfunded.

>> tax cuts are adding trillions in debt, are there hopes that the american people will forget about that? this is the last show, because as usual this show is at the cutting edge. >> we're it. we're it. >> those two clips, though, it's a microcosm of the entire campaign. it's who the american public will hold responsible for the state of middle class angst and a lot of spending during the years and failed stimulus is very unpopular, and i can tell you and people will speak to young people that the sense of middle class angst and the sense of where's my job with the young is out there and tangible and right now they're the two major reasons the president has such in the 40s. >> bill? >> i think that i disagree with you, governor ehrlich. even though it's important to

know what the president accomplished, and i think when voters walk into the voting booth and they'll be voting under the vision that they want and there are very important i havings here, and if you take a step back and look at what mitt romney said with firefighters and cops and this is not a gaffe. this is something that he truly believes and he talks about the fact that because of the stimulus, we saved 400,000 jobs in education across this country. without those jobs we'd have 110 teachers just last week. >> do you think that would resonate that enough people would rise up? >> i think it's part of that. when we talk about the competing visions, the president thinks the middle class will do well and each though rich will get richer in that case. what romney thinks if you focus on the weighty and make sure it will have more wealth, then it will trickle and everyone will do wrel. >> when he walked back his

initial statement, his real statement was not enough government and that's a tough sell to the american public, no doubt about it. >> if you're sitting in ohio or sitting in pennsylvania or michigan, when you walk into the voting booth you'll vote on how you feel. do you feel that your life is moving okay? do you feel that your life will be okay? and your 401(k) is being depleted. all of this talk about what each candidate has done and what each candidate hasn't done, at the end of the day the voters will vote on how they feel. >> do you want to get off of the horse mid stream or not? >> they vote on how my checkbook stands today. >> i want to talk about this, bill burton, obama team woes, concerned democrats. a very tough week for your former employer. are they off message right now? are they rattled? has the romney campaign rattled them? >> love that story because it's based on what eight unnamed

strategists not involved in the campaign had to say and the code is that the campaign hasn't asked for their advice. this happens every single election. democrats always have angst about how things are going. you covered 2008 and liz you were there, people thought in 2008 they thought the president couldn't win and he has a strong team. >> bill burton believing in chicago. >> can we get that headline and put it up again? >> trivia time. we asked which state has been home to the most speakers of the house? the answer, massachusetts. eight representatives from the bay state have been speakers of the house and tip o'neal, alum of boston college who held the job from 1977 to 1987. we'll be right back. you're watching "the daily

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let's bring back our panel, bill burton, liz sidoni and former governor of maryland bob urlich. gentleman who say thorn in the gop side is former florida governor jeb bush, brother of the last president. few interesting comments i want to read and get your opinion on. jeb bush recently said "ronald reagan would have, based on his record of finding acome dags, finding some degree of common ground," similar to my dad they would have had a hard time if you define the republican party and i don't, as having an orthodoxy allowing for disagreement." also a tweet "the point i was making yesterday is this, the political system is hyperpartisan. both sides are at fault." governor urlich, has the gop gone way too far to the right?

>> mitt romney is our nominee so i think that whole argument, it took a lot of grief obviously with regard to philosophicalness in the primary. there are still differences that played out pretty steeply during the course of that campaign, and with regard to the nature of politics today, i'll make this point, i think we may all agree which i know is bad for ratings. when i was in congress, and until recently there was a third party in congress, and you recall the blue dogs obviously, non-liberal democrats and literally a third party, the honest brokers, the negotiators with regard to president reagan's tax cuts, some of the major pieces of legislation over the last 20 years. >> moderate book ends, mike cassel in delaware. >> the fact of it is, those conservative democrats registered from the south were the honest brokers with regard to getting the moving peegs pie

legislation through congress. democrats and republicans doing their things at state level drawing new lines, down to a dozen, maybe 15, no longer a power in congress. as a result you have very philosophical and ideological wings of the parties. that's what jeff is talking about. >> the issue is tea party republicans won a lot of the seats and and the intransigents have made it impossible to get any common sense legislation through. the things they're passing like the ryan budget are so far outside the mainstream of course are not going to pass the president and the tea party republicans who have come to town. >> and if nancy pelosi was so reasonable -- >> i would argue that both parties have become more and more extreme. they've become more and more pushed out to the far wings of the party, and it's because of redistricting, a whole host of other issues. >> as the broker here, does this jeb bush story last into december. >> any of the guys, you can look at evan bayh and bob carry.

when they get out they tend to see those of us who watch both sides yelling at each other for so many years already know which is that yes, both sides are more extreme. >> an interesting perspective. >> shameless plug. >> story doesn't last beyond 5:00 p.m. today. 8-year-old broad neck tush amount team, josh urlich, short stop. >> maryland, crab cakes and football. >> the role in helping win gabby giffords' seat for the democrats, place where john mccain won by six points. >> congratulate my team in training and team fight members who competed in the ego man half ironman this past weekend and did very well in 93-degree heat. >> including liz sidoni. chuck will be back tomorrow, coming up next on msnbc,

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good morning, i'm chris jansing. mitt romney is taking cues from the obama playbook. now focusing on the message that it's him, not him but the president who doesn't get middle class americans, who doesn't understand the state of the economy and in case you missed it the first time you're going to hear it from romney over and over again. >> now just yesterday the president said something else that shows just how much out of touch he is. he said he didn't understand that obama care was hurting small business. the president needs to get in touch with what's happening in the private sector, what's happening with middle income families, and the damage that's being done by the specter of obama care and the taxes that it already charges to businesses in the health care center. the president doesn't understand how his policies have made th s