bottom line we're all paying a price for i vis rated newsrooms. that's "hardball." "politicsnation" with al sharpton starts now. welcome to "politicsnation," i'm al sharpton. live from new orleans where i'm speaking on voting rights at the essence music festival. tonight's lead, building a stronger middle class. president obama wrapped up his week with a midwest bus tour and a new bill to create jobs. talking about the progress we've made in this recovery and the need to press ahead. >> we started to see manufacturing come back to our shores. more manufacturing jobs created than any time since the 1990s. over 4.4 million jobs created over the last two and a half years.

over 500,000 manufacturing jobs. so we've been fighting back, but what we all understand is that we've got so much more to do. too many of our friends and family members and neighbors are still out of work. >> the president's been fighting to get americans back to work. and republicans have been fighting him every step of the way. last year he unveiled the american jobs act to save or create 400,000 education jobs. republicans blocked it. and today we can see the result. about 100,000 fewer teaching jobs across the country. the president proposed saving thousands of firefighter and police jobs. republicans made sure it went nowhere. with mitt romney leading the charge.

>> he wants another stimulus. he says we need more firemen, policemen, teachers. it's time to cut back on government and help the american people. >> and the president has been pushing a plan to rebuild the nation's infrastructure. on that score, he's breaking through. within the past hour president obama signed a crucial highway bill into law. a law passed after months of delay from house republicans. it will save or create about 3 million jobs helping to rebuild america's roads and bridges. president obama calls on republicans to help him keep the foot on the gas pedal and take more steps to rev up the economic engine. >> my message to congress is what i've been saying for months now. let's keep going. let's keep moving forward. let's keep finding ways to work together to grow the economy and to help put more folks back to

work. there's excuse for inaction when there's so many americans still trying to get back on their feet. >> joining me now is hilda solis, e secretary of labor. and former governor of ohio ted strickland who was with the president on his bus tour yesterday. thanks for joining me. >> great to be here. >> it's great to be here with you, hilda. >> good to see you, too, governor. >> now, let me start with you, secretary solis. how important is this highway bill the president just signed, how important is this for the economy? >> well, it's a good signal to the public. for the first time in a long time you see the congress working with the white house, with the president and with all energy and effort focused on job creation. it took a lot of work. the president went out and talked to the public about it. now we're going to see hopefully a million private sector jobs created. and then at least 2 million that

will help keep people employed during that time. more importantly this is a good signal. we're on a good trajectory. we are adding job. what i think about on these days are we above the line? and that's important. we added 80,000 jobs in the june job report. 4.4 million private sector jobs. in three years he's done this. >> i want you to hold that point a minute, because 80,000 jobs added in the june numbers. wish it could have been more but it's addition. 28 straight months of private sector job growth. 4.4 million jobs add in the that period yet the opponent is saying it's like a punch in the gut when we see a continual pattern of job growth trying to come back from this recession. seems like it's not fast enough to him, secretary solis.

but we found a tape. in 2006 then-governor mitt romney argued he inherited a bad economy in massachusetts. and that his critics had to give him a longer time to turn things around. watch this. >> you guys are right to look at the numbers. i came in and the jobs had been falling off a cliff. i came in and they kept falling for 11 months. then we turned around and we're coming back. and that's progress. and if you're going to suggest to me that somehow when i was elected immediately the jobs should turn around, that would be silly. >> somehow jobs should have turned around the day he elected, would have been silly. but when that logic is applied to the work of president obama and you, it seems like it's not silly anymore. could it be politics, secretary solis? >> well, all i can tell you,

again, numbers don't lie. as former president reagan used to say. numbers don't lie. we've added 500,000 manufacturing jobs. who helped to save the automobile industry when romney said let it go bankrupt. this president understands. he's making his investments in the american workforce. they're resilient and ready to go to work. we need to be right there to help them make that transition. and we're going to work every single day to make sure that happens. >> now, governor strickland, i was reading and watching a wise man. let me read to you what he said about the president. he said president obama is betting on america and american workers and mitt romney is betting his resources in the cayman islands, in bermuda, in switzerland and god only knows where else. president obama is the insourcer of jobs and mitt romney is the outsourcer of jobs.

that wise man was you, governor strickland, introducing the president yesterday. would you care to elaborate? >> well, reverend al, we have two men who want to be the next president. and one of them, our president -- our current president, has worked to build the middle class. he's brought us out of this deep, deep recession and we're moving forward. and on the other hand we have mitt romney. a man who made great wealth as a result of the privileges that he had of living in this country. and what did he do with his wealth? well, we don't know everything he did with his wealth because he refuses to release his income tax returns. but we do know he took part of his wealth and he invested that wealth in the cayman islands, a recognized tax haven. he opened up a bank account in switzerland. he established a corporation in bermuda.

he went to south america when he formed bain capital and he got money from shadowing investors. some of them anonymous that we don't know who they were. and now he wants to be the president. and he says i'm the one who is worthy of leading this country because of my business experience. and i say give me a break. what is mitt romney hiding from the american people? reverend al, why isn't he releasing his income tax returns? his father released 12 years of income tax returns when he ran for president. and mitt romney has released only one year. and we need to know more about this man's business dealings. and he wants to be the president. the president has an obligation, i believe, to be candid and transparent and open with the american people. someone said rightly that mitt

romney is the most secretive american politician since richard nixon. when it comes to his finances and his wealth, i think that's absolutely the case. >> now, secretary solis, when we deal with the fact that we're trying to deal with coming out of a recession that's actually and clearly hurt a lot of families and is a burden on the middle class it has caused a lot of pain. but we must also remember how we got in this position and the policies that brought us here. president obama urged people today to remember how we got into this mess in the first place. listen to this. >> they're banking on the notion that you don't remember. what happened when they were in charge. the last time they were in charge in the white house and how surpluses became deficits and how job growth was more

sluggish than it's been in 50 years. i've got a different idea. let me be honest. it's not a silver bullet. it's not going to change things completely in the next day or the next week, but it moves us in a direction that is true to our traditions. by building not from the top down but from the middle class out. >> now, secretary solis, it seems that it's not falling on deaf ears because just last month a guallup poll finds 68% blame president bush for the economy. when you came in and had to deal with this economic disaster and create jobs, what was it like? what were you faced with coming to work the first day to deal with this? >> reverend, it was a very hard

task. we continue to plow through it, but remember when the president took over in 2009, we were hemorrhaging jobs like 800,000 jobs per month. i can tell you that now we have been adding jobs. in the last 28 months we put back 4.4 million private sector jobs. we lost 8 million coming in. that was before the president could enact a recovery program. and we didn't have support from people on the other side of the aisle. that's not what this is about. it's about lifting all people, making sure they have access to good job training. to tax credits for small businesses. that's where the engine of growth is. and helping our returning veterans. that's what counts here. that's what's at stake here. that's why there's a big difference between what president obama wants to do and the romney folks. romney would like us to go back to another chapter in life when that didn't prove well for us. right now we have a different economy and we have to be very

focused and strategic. and this president is doing everything in his power to do that. but we also need the help of congress. and that's really where the president does a good job. he can appeal to the public. the public has the final say so. they can help influence what congress does. >> governor strickland, the president ended his bus tour in the heartland. is his message resonating in the heartland of america? >> i think so. we had a wonderful yesterday in ohio. he had a good day in pennsylvania today. people understand this is a man that cares about them. and he's working his heart out. he's a real human being. he understands the struggles of ordinary people. i'm not sure mitt romney has the capacity to really understand the struggles of regular americans. mitt romney has great wealth, and that's -- you know, that's to his credit, i guess. but how did he get that wealth

and what is he doing with it? and, you know, reverend al, he has signed on to this paul ryan budget which would damage medicare, make it a voucher program, cut programs for our students. those are the programs that benefit the middle class. and mitt romney wants to take us in a different direction. he wants to take us backward, quite frankly. the president was right. the only thing mitt romney is proposing is more of what george bush did only as bill clinton said, he wants to do it on steroids. >> we'll have to leave it there, governor. thank you so much, secretary hilda solis, governor ted strickland. thank you both for your time tonight. both of you have a great weekend. >> thank you. >> thank you, sir. coming up, the right's curious response to the mitt romney jet ski photo. remember what conservatives were saying back when john kerry was

out wind surfing? plus president obama calls out romney for abandoning his principles and pandering to the far right. >> are you abandoning a principle you fought for for six years simply because you're getting pressure for two days from rush limbaugh or critics in washington? sometimes you've got to fight for things you believe in. you can't just switch on a dime. and the president's emotional encounter with a woman who lost her sister to cancer. and who's now praising the affordable care act. this law is about people, not politics. we'll talk to her in an exclusive interview live. you're watching "politicsnation" on msnbc. [ male announcer ] let's say you need to take care of legal matters.

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doing that because of politics? are you abandoning the principle you fought for for six years simply because you're getting pressure for two days from rush limbaugh or some critics in washington? one of the things you learn as president is that what you say matters and your principles matter. sometimes you've got to fight for things you believe in. you can't just switch on a dime. >> but switch on a dime is all romney does. and never has it been more clear than what's happened with the great tax flip-flop this week. for days conservative big wigs have been slamming romney's campaign team. rupert murdoch called on him to drop friends and hire some quote, real pros. but what do you know? today there are reports of changes at romney headquarters. joining me now is bob franken

and cynthia tucker. thanks to you both for being here. >> good to be here, al. >> good to be here. >> now, bob, you see all these reports of shakeups within romney's staff. is this just another example of him conceding to conservative critics or is this really a course to change his campaign? >> well, i think it might also be finally his realizing that his staff has not always served him well. we know about the famous etch a sketch comment and we know about what you characterize as the flip-flop on mandates. he's been doing somersaults on that for some time. to some degree, his campaign has been defined by back stepping, moon walking as i like to call it on occasion. but in the case of the staff, let us not forget these are the same people who put him in a 66,000 seat stadium with about

300 people there to watch a speech of his. i mean, that is just really a bone head blender. the realization he needs to put professionals in didn't come necessarily from rupert murdoch or those people. it's something that should have occurred to him a long time ago. >> now, when you look at the fact that there are really various examples. some of which bob referred to that is giving him this image. then you have david axelrod, the president's main political guru saying that the lack of principles are there. in fact, axelrod tweeted if tea party and congressional republicans can pull mitt's chain and get him to do 180 on the mandate he championed, imagine what they'd do with him in the white house. those kind of attacks hurt if you've got some questionable behavior in your campaign, cynthia.

>> well, it was interesting to listen to president obama attack mitt romney for abandoning his principles. mitt romney doesn't have any principles. he doesn't have a core. he doesn't have a center. there is absolutely nothing that mitt romney believes in other than mitt romney and trying to get mitt romney elected. and, you know, bob has a point that his campaign has made some strategic missteps. but the fact of the matter is most of these missteps have been caused by the candidate himself. the biggest problem isn't the campaign or the strategist. the biggest problem is the candidate. and it's a little late, i think, to give romney an extreme makeover. he is who he is. and in massachusetts, he campaigned as a moderate to liberal republican who wanted a health care plan that taxed

people who refused to buy health insurance. he called it a tax. there is a long record of mitt romney calling it a tax. >> oh, yeah. >> so it's a little late for him to come out now and say oops, it wasn't a tax. >> you know, bob, when cynthia says that the american people seems to agree with that because they clearly don't think he has much backbone. let me show you the latest pew poll. only 35% says hes willing to take an unpopular stand. only 32% believe he's honest and truthful. those are not good numbers. >> no. and i think there is a perception there that is fed partly because of the way he presents himself. those who are really harsh sometimes describe him as seeming like an avatar or something like that.

as opposed to a person with feelings and compassion and the principles we're talking about. probably that's a little bit unfair. but unfortunatelily that seems to be the way he comes across a lot of the times. >> now, cynthia, romney's also having to respond to the lacking detail plan. thereon this. >> i put out 59 steps for how to get the economy going. i don't think i've seen any from the president that show what he's planning on doing. >> this is ridiculous. even the wall street journal call his plans as one that quote, shrinks from the biggest issue. and the president has a plan. it's called the american jobs act, cynthia. >> of course the president has a plan. he's talked about it frequently. the simple fact of the matter is republicans woents help him pass his plan.

they hope to sabotage the economy to make it worse so the president can't get re-elected. and of course mitt romney tries to stay away from this -- the details because any details he commits to is probably going to anger somebody. he doesn't want to talk much about cutting the budget. he talks about -- he claims that the president has run us into a huge deficit. but he doesn't want to talk about any cuts he'd make. because he runs the risk of angering some people who don't want their programs cut. he talks about cutting taxes. well, taxes have already been low. and that hasn't created any jobs. and he certainly doesn't want to talk about the economic stimulus that we'd actually need to get the economy going again. so you haven't heard anything more about the 59 points since initially mentioned a month

back. >> first of all, the 59 points is really just two points. rich get richer, poor get poorer. that's it. the mitt romney plan. >> bob franken, cynthia tucker, thanks for your time tonight. have a great weekend. still ahead, gop leaders stand by and say nothing while republican lawmakers go off the rails. is there any leadership left in the gop? plus we'll look at the right's double standard when it comes to wealthy men from massachusetts going on vacation. stay with us.

we're back with our ongoing series "here are the jobs." while too many americans are out of work, we're dedicated to helping you find the jobs that are out there and making sure you have the right information to get hired. over the last six months, we've reported on more than 6,800 job openings. we're happy to report that as of today, at least 1,913 people have been hired. tonight we focus on wegmans. the supermarket chain is based in rochester, new york, and is expanding throughout the

northeast. right now there are 1,200 job openings. by the end of this year, they expect to start hiring for more than 1,600 new jobs at stores opening in 2013. joining me now is jen sickle. manager of staffing and recruitable at wegmans. thank you for coming on the show tonight. >> thank you, reverend sharpton. we're honored and excited to be here to talk about the great opportunities we have at wegmans. >> tell me, what are the positions you have available? >> sure. as you said, we have currently 1200 positions throughout our company. the majority are throughout our stores in the six states we do business. the positions we're looking for are customer service type positions throughout the stores. also great culinary talent. one of our missions as a company is to help our customers make great meals easy.

and in order to do that we need culinary talent to help bring the vision to life. we're looking for customer service, cooks, executive chefs throughout some of our stores. and in some stores entry level management as well. >> you say there are several states. where are the jobs? >> sure, sure. right now we're actually focusing on our third opening this year in our stores in a town in gambles, maryland which is about ten miles out of annapolis. we have about 375 of those 1200 positions there hiring both full-time and part-time for our new store there. we're also still hiring at the distribution center in pennsylvania where we opened a third building on campus there. we're hiring product selector roles there. going into next year, we'll be opening three stores in germantown, maryland,

montgomeryville, pennsylvania, and newton, massachusetts. we'll also have our second stand alone restaurant which is going to be adjacent to our pennsylvania store location. >> what do you look for in a wegmans employee? >> reverend sharpton, we are looking for enthusiastic, passionate people who love food. i often say we are a people company that loves food. so we're looking for individuals that have that passion, that live our values that want to learn and grow. and also give incredible customer service to each other and to our customers every day. >> how do people apply for these jobs? >> very simple. our website www.wegmans.com/careers. a list of our openings by location and state all listed there. >> jen stickles, thank you for

joining us tonight. >> thank you so much. >> and for more "here are the jobs" go to our website and click on "here are the jobs." you'll find all the jobs featured on the show at that place. we'll be right back. idide?

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>> rush limbaugh said it showed kerry was a snob. >> kerry was going to go wind surfing in oregon to look like a real guy. democrat candidates have to pass the guy test. he's a northeastern erudite snob liberal. >> eight years later another republican from massachusetts is being scrutinized off the trail. but this time the reaction from the right is very different. laura ingram is blaming romney's aides for the jet ski. >> i don't even think this is his fault. this is his advisers. this isn't romney. this is the advisers saying take the week. should he get off the jet ski? >> and an editorial says it's a pr problem saying quote, the obama campaign is assailing mr. romney as an out of touch rich

man and the rich man obliged by vacationing at his liakeside hoe with a jet ski cameo. today mitt romney defended his own time off this week. >> i'm delighted to be able to take a vacation with my family. i think all americans appreciate the time they have with their children and grandchildren. i hope more americans are able to take vacations. >> joining me now is bob shrum. he saw the wind surfing attacks first hand when he was senior adviser for john kerry's 2004 campaign. and former communication's director for the democratic committee. thank you both for joining me tonight. >> glad to be here. >> bob, let me start with you.

what would conservatives be saying about the jet ski vacation if he was a democrat? >> they'd say the same things as a democrat. if you look at the kerry ad, what hurt there was not the rush limbaugh and all of that. what hurt was it gave a visual for another factually false, by the way, statement about flip-flopping on the iraq war. at the end of the day people who fought harder for the middle class, kerry won that against bush. that's the heart of the problem here. jfk left his convention, was seen on his sailboat. most americans didn't have big sailboats in 1960. franklin roosevelt left his convention in 1932. took off on a yacht that went up the coast. and people didn't mind. they didn't mind because they thought they would stand for them, fight for them. they knew they were rich but

they thought they were on his side. romney's problem and the reason his vacation is a problem is because people think he's disconnected, doesn't care about them. >> now, karen, fox news.com used the romney jet ski photo as the picture of the day this week. with a positive headline. romney recharges. then fox and friends hosts were applauding the jet skiing as an escape from the kids. watch this. >> he's in the back of the bus. in the front of the bus is ann romney. there they are speeding away. they're leaving the family. too many screaming kids. that's what happens when you go on vacation. >> it looks like she's gunning it. mitt's holding on for dear life. >> now, you contrast that with president obama in ohio today where he started talking and remembering vacations he took as a youngster. tell me the contrast.

>> best vacation when i was a kid, my grandmother and my mom and my sister, we traveled around the country on greyhound buses and on trains. if there was any kind of swimming pool, it didn't matter how big it was -- right? you'd spend the whole day there. and you were real excited to go to where the vending machine was and the ice machine. and get the ice. and that was like a big deal. >> is that the contrast of the president talking about growing up staying at howard johnsons, may or may not have been a pool, riding greyhound buses and the water skiing of mitt romney. is this a fair contrast we're seeing this week that the president obviously raises. >> it's the kind of contrast i think that says look, both are legitimate options for an american family vacation. it's just that the majority of

americans -- i'd say about 99% -- are probably not on jet skis in new hampshire. they're probably more able to relate to the experience president obama was talking about. and that really is the heart of the matter. i worked in the 2004 campaign as well. and i remember the infamous john kerry photo. and the problem that mitt romney really has is that it really does play into the narrative that he is out of touch. and also the hypocrisy for him to come out and attack president obama's vacation while he's on this ritzy vacation. this is a problem he's had time and time again. his own hypocrisy. and just that feeling that he's completely out of touch and doesn't really understand how these kinds of programs effect americans when we talk about the economy. what it's like to get on a bus for your vacation, not strap your dog to the top of the car and all that or go jet skiing. it's just -- you know, that's the problem. it plays into the narrative that already feels -- i think this is

what republicans were complaining about. that already people believe he's out of touch. so why continue to reinforce that narrative? >> now, i was -- i ran in the 2004 race and then worked with bob when he supported john kerry, so i remember this p hypocrisy goes back further. look at this in 2004 what he was saying about john kerry. >> there's a senator from my state, you may have heard, that wants to get elected president. and i don't know why he wants to do. that. if he wants to he has to move into a smaller house. >> so, i mean, he took shots himself at john kerry in 2004. if he went to the white house, it would be a smaller house. now he claims this is class warfare when people raise the exact same points on him. >> yeah, look.

this is a guy who will say anything in the course of a campaign. his health care, it was a penalty, no it was a tax. he doesn't care about consistency. in 2004 when he made that attack, this came from a guy who is now building a giant mansion in laguna beach with an elevator for four cars. mitt romney is out of touch with people. he's a guy who says i'll bet you $10,000, i know nascar team owners, i'm unemployed too. he showed it again and again durlg the primaries. his problem is not that he's rich. there's nothing wrong with him being rich. franklin roosevelt, the kennedys. they fought for middle class people. i think middle class people are correctly getting the impression that mitt romney doesn't care about them. if he becomes president, it will be tax cutting for the wealthy and they're going to get left behind. >> now, karen, it looks like the american people agree with that

because one poll by the pew poll last month, who connects with ordinary people? president obama 59%, mitt romney 28%. >> again, think about the vision that president obama laid out today in his speech and over the last couple days. just even in that when he was talking about those vacations. that's an american that so many of us remember, want to see available to young people coming up behind us, want to make sure to preserve this idea you would have a family vacation. that the g.i. bill and the resources of this country would be here for you if you're willing to do your part. it wasn't just he was talking about the memories of a vacation but really connecting on the values level to what so many of us love so much about this country. as bob said, there's nothing wrong with being wealthy. nothing wrong with being in the 1%. but they're two very different

visions of this country. president obama, i think, is connecting and shares that experience with the majority of americans. >> and at least be consistent in the position you take about all of that. but i'll have to move on. bob shrum, karen finney thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you. up next, it's the health care hug everyone is talking about. we'll talk to the woman who got it next. [ male announcer ] let's say you need to take care of legal matters. wouldn't it be nice if there was an easier, less-expensive option than using a traditional lawyer? well, legalzoom came up with a better way. we took the best of the old and combined it with modern technology. together you get quality services on your terms, with total customer support. legalzoom documents have been accepted in all 50 states, and they're backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee. so go to legalzoom.com today and see for yourself. it's law that just makes sense.

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>> i told him thank you for not backing down on your health care bill. she passed away in 2008 from colon cancer because she didn't have health care. and he gave he his condolences and said he was sorry about our family's loss. he asked me for my sister's name and i told him. he said he was going to keep her? his thoughts every day and that he was working hard for the american people. >> so he asked your sister's name and said he was going to

think about her every day? >> yes, he did. >> and your sister's story was that she made too much for medicaid, but she didn't have enough to get insurance. and this bill would have addressed that. >> yes. she had obtained a job right before she got sick that would have given her health care in eight months. and about a month or two before her health care was to go into effect, she had went to the hospital with what she thought was chickenpox. four days later she was told that she was in the end stages of stage four colon cancer. her job did push her insurance through so she could get the chemo, but it was a little too little too late. i truly believe if a bill like president obama's had been in effect five or ten years ago, my sister could have went to the doctor. she could have got preventive health care. they could have detected the colon cancer early. it's one of the most curable

cancers there is. she could still be here with her kids. >> how many kids did your sister have? >> she had two boys. >> what do you want to come from all of this attention? >> i want people to see what the lack of health care does to families in this country. not a day goes by that we don don't -- excuse me. >> no, take your time. we understand. >> that we don't think about my sister. there's not a day that goes by that her sons don't miss her. no family should ever have to go through this just because there's not affordable health care in this country. we have one of the best medical care systems in the world. nobody should have to do this. >> stephanie, you have two daughters. you have said that you feel this

law will help you and your daughters. >> yes. i will be starting a new job next week. and after my one-year probation, i will be able to have full health insurance coverage prescription and everything and because of president obama's bill, my daughters will be able to stay on my insurance as college students until they're 26. >> wow. stephanie miller, you're a strong person and a good sister. i'm sure your sister is looking down on you. >> i'm sure she is. >> for telling that story an the passion you bring to it. brings all the politics aside and we remember what this is really about. really about people. thanks for sharing that with us. and we wish you and your daughters and your sister's children all the best. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. [ man ] ever year, sophia and i

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finally tonight looking to our past to move forward in the future.

america just turned 236 years old this week. americans have been celebrating our great country all week long. but 236 years later and we're wondering where some of that leadership went. you have a sitting congressman saying this. >> congressional district down in florida. it is a district that is primary does have a constituency of seniors of military veterans. as a 22 year veteran -- 13% of my brothers and sisters are coming back from combat zones are unemployed -- do not want you to have self-esteem of giving up an earning and having that title of american. he'd rather you be his slave. >> he'd rather you be his slave. seriously? yet c