jansi jansing. an escalating war of words with the obama and romney campaigns leveling fierce accusations. it's romney's dealings with bain capital that is in the headlines. >> you know, i do think that he was chairman, president and ceo of bain for those three years that he said he was gone. i think that's a fact. and, you know, it doesn't take three years to change the top of the letter head. it doesn't take three years to pick a new chairman of the board. they didn't do that. >> the president heads to texas today where we can expect to hear more. rit romney campaigns in the battleground state of pennsylvania. joining me, associated press national political reporter casey hunt and "washington post" editorial writer and msnbc contributor, jonathan capar. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> jonathan, the headline -- a headline in your paper today has written this, mitt romney's

unsolvable bain problem. there is no solution? >> there's a solution in that governor romney could sit down and talk forthrightly about, you know, what he was doing at bain between 1999 and 2002 and not just say that he took a leave of absence or left completely in february 1999 to run the olympics. >> you have to play devil's advocate. the guy who said he took over bain said he was completely immersed in the owe limb pio li picks. olympics. what answquestions need to be answered? >> there are signatures on forms at the security and exchange commission, a federal agency with mitt romney's signatures on them. i think the governor has to explain how it was possible that he was off running the olympics not running bain capital yet

signing official government documents saying he was running bain capital. that's what he has to answer. and quite frankly, the thing that find most mystifying is governor romney and his team had to have known that these questions were going to come up if and when he became the presumptive republican nominee. the fact they can't answer those questions about a month away from -- a month and a half away from the convention is mystifying, dumb founding to me. >> it does seem to me, casey, the romney campaign is at least doing a two-pronged attack. they've been floating a lot of vp stuff i think they hope will distract. they've also been hitting obama on political cronyism. what is the strategy behind this? do they think they can distract? does the campaign think the topic will run its course and they can just wait it out? what's going on? >> the push here is basically to change the subject. keep in mind that, you know, romney has a pretty intense schedule coming up with the beginning of the olympics. he's going to go overseas for about a week.

and so that will, of course, change the subject or at least shift focus. now what they do between then and now is try to push the conversation as far away from these questions about bain and also releasing his tax returns as they possibly can. and so he saw some of that yesterday with adviser eric fernstrom saying the decision could come this week. >> they also have as part of the calculation, jonathan, thought that no matter what they do, it's not going to be enough. they said that repeatedly. for example, about the tax returns. stephanie cutter was asked very pointedly about it this morning. how many years of tax returns would be enough? and she wouldn't say. >> well, yeah. of course she's not going to say. this is working for them. the problem that governor romney has even on the tax return issue is that he is flouting a tradition that all presidential candidates have fulfilled which is putting forth their tax

returns so that the american people can see and be reasonably assured that, you know, how the person who hopes to lead them has made their money. and what's so ironic here is the person who set this tradition and a very good tradition was mitt romney's father george romney who released not one year or two years of tax returns, but 12 years because he wanted to make sure that people understood that his wealth was not "a fluke." and that he wasn't just showing off. it was a great tradition set by george romney. and it's one that his -- that mitt romney is refusing to honor. >> casey, they say this campaign is turning into a nasty schoolyard brawl. i want to play for you very recent war of words from the democratic side. >> he and his campaign team leadership need to put hir big boy and big girl pants on and defend his record. >> stop whining. >> we can only guess what new secrets would be revealed if we

could examine a dozen years of tax returns. >> why is mitt romney run ago way from his company bain capital like a scalded cat? >> a lot of good turns of phrase there, casey. they get people's attention. is there any squeamishness at all on either side about these kinds of attacks? >> keep in mind, you know, some of the recent polling is starting to show that americans are already tired by this campaign. one recent survey said people were using the word exhausted to describe how they felt about this campaign and keep in mind it's still only july. the worst of this is likely yet to come in between september and november. so i think the risk here for both sides is that, you know, congress is not very popular right now. folks are sick of candidates talking like this in what they're perceiving to be personal nasty ways. >> hang on right now. want to bring in texas republican senator kay bailey hutchison. good to you have on the program again. >> thank you. >> you've seen a few campaigns in your day.

there have been a few articles written just today about the escalation of this war of words on both sides. do you think there's a risk for both mitt romney and barack obama? >> i do think that there is a risk. the american people are tuning out all this riff raf that's going on in the campaigns right now. they want to know what is the future? what is mitt romney going to do that's going to change barack obama's disastrous economic policies? and mitt romney is trying to get the word out and he keeps getting hit with things that really are not relevant to middle income americans. they want relief. >> as you know, senator, on the democratic side he has made his success at bain essentially papart of his resume. i'm someone unlike the president who has been in the real world and has had success. and so are these questions about bain fair game? >> you know, i think the

emphasis and this media frenzy about when he left bain is just kind of irrelevant distraction. the president has made huge mistakes in our economy. mitt romney is trying to say what he would do differently from the president to get jobs created in america and to value the small business people and the middle class in our country. and that's what we ought to be talking about. we know that we're in an economic down turn. we know that we have debt that is going to sink this country. we know we have unemployment rates that are too high. we have the looming health care issue that is freezing the hiring right now. that's what really is president obama's record that he's trying to avoid talking about and bringing up things about bain capital. mitt romney is not a one trick pony. he is not somebody who has only done bain capital although his

real world experience is very important. he's also run the olympics and saved it and made it successful when it was in the down turn. he's also run a state. he is experienced in so many areas and to focus on some small thing like that is taking away from the president's record and that's what is on -- is up for the people to decide. >> let me ask you about the other controversy that is out there. in 2010 you ran for governor. you released eight years of tax returns. should mitt romney release more than just two years? >> you know, i don't think so. the reason is mitt romney does -- he saw what happened when he put his tax returns out there. people started parsing what he did and how much tax he paid. and he paid a lot. he also made bigger charitablee >> that's critical f you ta.

if you're going to talk about how they would run the country differently, there is a question about whether or not someone who makes mill ynz and teions and t millions a year should pay a lower tax rate than the secretary. doesn't that play into the conversation? >> i don't think so. i don't think we want to be talking about the past like that. i think that he -- if you take his charitable contributions and his taxes, it is way more than most people pay in taxes. it is surely more than 40%, i'm sure. he gives so much in charity. it's amazing. so i think he had a good record. it was blown up with taking the obama record and saying okay here's what he paid in percentage, not taking into account the large charitable contributions. >> for people who are looking at who's contributing and how much they're contributing to keep the government running, i'm not in

any way zparndisparaging charit contributions. >> it shows the concern for people and try to bring people up in a way that is not a government prescribed plan like the obama approach is. i think it says a lot about someone that he would have such a large charitable contribution for the kind of income he had. this is a man who brought himself up really with his own ingenuity. he made his money on his own. and he's worked hard. he doesn't work eight hours a day. he's worked 24/7. he's taken on a lot of public interest as well as charitable contributions. but here he is trying to say here's what i would do for the future for every american. he wants to lower taxes. he wants a fair corporate tax

rate. he wants to open our energy supplies so that we're energy independent in this country. yet, we can't talk about what's going to affect all americans because we're bogged down in what the obama administration wants to talk about rather than the obama record. >> senator kay bailey hutchison, thank you so much. good to see you. >> thank you. >> you know, casey, you brought this up. i wonder will the olympics help him change the conversation because there are a lot of people out there on both sides of the aisle who have given kudos to mitt romney for the situation he found when he went in there and the way he turned those olympics around. >> he's very proud of his record at the olympics. he likes to talk about it. it's one of his points in selling himself as the turn around guy. and the olympics were in some trouble when he went to salt lake city and took them over and ultimately they were successful. he also had to deal with september 11th which happened shortly before the games kicked off in february of 2002.

he had to sort of, you know, make sure that all of the security for that cam together. there were no security problems during that time. but keep in mind, the obama administration is also going to look at this or the obama campaign, excuse me, is going to look at this as an opportunity to again sort of pick through some of romney's record. i think you're going to see some of that start to bubble up under the surface whether it's questions about his sponsorship deals or how much federal money was spent on those olympics. >> we talk a lot, jonathan about, how people aren't paying attention yet. they won't start paying attention until the fall. so in the end, all this talk about bain and the taxes, does it have a shelf life? >> it could. i say that because if mitt romney doesn't answer the questions about bain, doesn't answer the questions or release more tax returns, then it will come up during the campaign and particularly in the debates. we're all talking about it now and our colleagues who will be asking the questions of the two candidates in those debates will

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. after getting thousands of complaints, congress is cracking down on for profit colleges that they say are raking in millions in gi bill benefits often by misleading veterans. the stakes are enormous, just just for the veterans but for taxpayers because, look, the pentagon says it spend $9 billion to educate 600,000 vets this year alone. but for profit colleges cost far more than not for profit schools and have higher dropout rates. plus, degrees have been award kd turn out to be warnlglescan tur worthless. senator, good morning. >> good morning. >> i mean we should be clear not each and every for profit college is necessarily bad. tell us more about what your investigation found. >> we found, and this is an investigation that took place over a year and a half period of time with a lot of

documentation. we'll be issuing a report in the next week or so after that year and a half investigation. but basically what we found is just what you said. and especially egregious as they go after veterans. we passed a bill here in 2008 to give more generous benefits to the post 9/11 gis, those that fought in iraq and afghanistan. and quite frankly, what's happening is a for profit colleges moved in actively recruiting the gis. it's taxpayer money that is going to them. you pointed out $9 billion. about 38% to 40% of that money goes to the for-profit schools. it costs twice as much to go there. their dropout rates exceed 60%. and what we have to question is are these gis getting a good deal? are the taxpayers getting a good deal? and the answer, i'm afraid, is no. >> yeah, what are those telling statistics to me was that for-profit schools spend far more on sales, marketing and

advertising than they do on education support staff. i mean are these schools just gaming the system? >> no doubt they're gaming the system. they come in and they recruit heavily and they get the money. the sad part is that let's say a gi signs up for one of the schools. the taxpayer money goes there. they get a bad education or they get a degree that's worthless and won't mean anything. and, yet, they can't get any more gi bill benefits. one time shop. that's it. the for-profit schools keep the money and they're home free. it's just egregious. >> the president of the association of private sector colleges and universities said that an industry task force is now being formed. it's kind of a self regulating body to investigate these allegations and develop new standards for educating veterans. do you that i this is just a few bad apples spoiling things for the whole bunch? what needs to happen here? >> to be sure, there are good

for-profit schools out there. the mod that will is set up right now encourages -- encourages the for-profit schools to put more money into recruiting and marketing, advertising, get these gis in, get the money and then wash their hands of it. and their money ahead. they don't have to do anything more. so it's just a bad model. we've got to change that model. we've got to make these for-profit schools much more accountable for every taxpayer dollar they get. >> senator tom harkin, always a pleasure to see you, sir. thank you so much. >> thank you, chris. see you. what's one supreme court ruling between friends? well, quite a bit it turns out. a significant shift in how republicans feel about supreme court justice john roberts since he wrote the majority opinion upholding the health care reform law. republicans hold a net 63 point positive view of roberts when confirmed. that turned to a 17 point negative. the rating among democrats, as you might expect, has gone up. have to slow you down.

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he's back. former vice president dick cheney will be in the nation's capital this evening. he'll be giving house republicans a pep talk in the contentious defense budget debate. aides say he'll engeorge the gop to pair back the steep spending cuts. not that he is looking for it, but president obama now has the endorsement of tv talk show host and former cincinnati mayor jerry springer. the two met before the president's town hall in cincinnati yesterday. at that same event, the president put on his crooner in chief hat once again. >> michelle has told me i should not be singing in public all the time. well, it's happy birthday. what's your name? adam. all right. let's sing happy birthday to adam then. >> we love to hear the president singing happy birth day. we can't. we would owe somebody a lot of money. pesky copyright issues.

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a black republican woman who grew up in the south, she checks a lot of boxes. but romney said he'd only pick a pro-life running mate. and rice has called herself mildly pro-choice. but the potential george w. bush hangover and not wanting the job, she would be a surprise. the other bush brother jeb remains popular with republicans especially in swing state florida. he speaks spanish fluently and he is popular with latino leaders. there is also brother george. jeb bush has moderate views of accepting the trade of higher taxes for spending. that could hurt. and as a consistent presidential favorite, he could upstage romney. another potential surprise, marco rubio. they see him as a rock star. he could help with the latino vote and at 41 bring some youthful energy. with less than two years as senator, will he pass the heartbeat away test? he could bring unwanted attention to romney's religion

and his brush with foreclosure and credit card debt. finally somebody who surprises, donald trump. very unlikely here. in trade which trades stocks has trump at one cent a share. all the rest, all penny stocks. at $2.50, tim pawlenty is a penny stock. >> let's go to rich gaylin and democratic strategist chuck roacha. good morning. >> hey, chris. hey, chuck, how you doing? >> good. >> there is a fine line between safe and boring. how does the campaign thread that needle? >> here's the thing that people don't understand. let's go back to the pick of joe biden. joe biden has been unbelievably important to president obama because he was elected to the u.s. senate when he was 29.

he wasn't even old enough to take the oath of office. he turned 30 before the congress convened. but he has been there for 40 years. he knows every cobweb in every hideaway office. and when things have really gotten tough on the hill, especially among democrats, joe biden has been able to go up there and kind of smooth over ruffled feathers. he knows the members, he knows the senior staff. i think that is a model that romney might want to follow. look for somebody who can actually go to the hill on his b behalf as vice president, knows the players, knows where the bathrooms are and that can actually help move thing as long. >> rob portman is a senator. but he's been branded with this boring rap. >> that's okay. sborg go boring is good. he is also from ohio. the purple strategy pull had ohio within the margin of error. obama plus three. >> there is a bigger problem than that, rich. >> what's that? >> let me just make the point that a lot of friends are going out of the way to point out he

has real personality. check thought clip from cnbc in january. >> you want to hear the chicken laying the egg? >> yeah. >> chuck, i don't know. is that a boring guy? >> well, i think it's going to come down to, you know, the electorate and just a few states. ohio is a very important one. i want to make two quick points. one point is that vice president probably -- the candidate won't help the overall romney team by the end of the day. what kit do is help smooth over some edges. smooth over some problems that he had. i think you've seen over the last week in relating with blue collar workers. i think that the pick in ohio could be safe. people are talking about thune in south dakota. at the end of the day, romney has the white rich guy lot down. he needs somebody that can identify with working blue class voters and also with women and latinos. >> would you encourage him to go with somebody a little bit out

of the box though? somebody exciting? somebody that would get people out on the campaign trail? >> if i was running that campaign, i absolutely wochlt again, if you go with portman or thune, pawlenty who is a really nice guy but is not exciting anyone, you check that box. absolutely. but i would go out and think about the latino vote. march teen necessiti martinez in new mexico, you check the women box. you check the latina box. and somebody who can help energize people who mitt romney is not touching, you know, with the rhetoric that you're hearing from both sides. >> do you want to touch somebody, rich, who -- or, you know the people who are not already in your corner. you want to go with the independents. condee rice might do that, chris christie, jeb bush. >> somebody like portman can do that. it's no the clear that jeb bush wants this job, by the way. but somebody like portman -- >> a lot of people said they don't want it. but if the call comes? >> people say no. people do say no.

ted kennedy said no. but the point is, and chuck's points are good ones, i think when you look at the polling, chuck is making it sound like this needs to be another hail mary pass. it doesn't. this thing is neck and neck. it's likely to stay neck and neck all the way to the first week of november. and i don't think that the romney campaign needs to have a surprise pick. i think they need to pick somebody who can further the overall campaign theme of competence and somebody like portman does that. when you get elected, you need confidence. >> romney needs to change the message. >> if you look at the polls, if you look at the national polls or state polls, all of this stuff that you and i talk about 15 times a day doesn't appear to be happening or it doesn't appear to have allowed the president to get any separation from romney. >> chuck, does it matter when he makes this announcement? >> as soon as he can take this bain story off the front page, the better it is for mitt romney. i talked to voters in battleground states through the work i do every day. let's take my sister, for

example in, florida. she's in a housing complex. people are struggling every day. when they see the bain attacks and talk about money being oversea wlz it's in bermuda or swiss, these people in the housing complexes, they can't even point that out on a map. he needs to pick somebody who can relate with blue collar workers and that i bain thing off the front page of the newspaper if he's going to have any chance of being a president. >> do you think there is a pick that obama campaign would least like to see? is there anybody they think would really help mitt romney? >> look, i think it's the people that rich just described who said maybe don't want it. bush brings so many things to the table. he probably don't want it. crazy people last week were talking about condoleeza rice. if you were asking me what obama wants, he wants somebody that looks just like mitt romney, who acts just like mitt romney. no matter how much lipstick you put on that pig, it's still a pig. >> rich -- >> that was pretty harsh. thank you. look, let me say this again,

with all of what romney has gone through and they have not done i don't think a terrific job in handling the bain thing over the past week, the polling doesn't appear to be moving. what this come down to chris and chuck is will the pick move votes one way or the other? or do you just let it get through that, get somebody on the team that knows how to campaign, that knows how to serve, understands the congress because romney doesn't because he hasn't served there and just move on to november and then if you win, you've got a great team to start. >> so you think it's the latter, obvious sfli. >> -- obviously? >> yeah. >> also making news, the worst drug in almost 50 years now covers more than half the country. counties in 26 states have been declared disaster areas. crops are drying out. lake beds are drying up. ranchers are selling off herds of cattle as hay fields wither. it's sure to make higher grocery prices.

derek fishrick fi eric fisher joins me from washington. we're looking at more brutal heat throughout the country. >> absolutely. 90s and near 100 degrees in places like d.c. and detroit and chicago. it seems like we've been in it ever since march with the whole country is setting records. it looks like it's going to continue at least for the short term. you talk about the drought. we're covering hurricanes and tornadoes and floods and you think those must be the most costly disasters. last year $14 billion disasters, the most expensive one was the drought across texas and oklahoma. that will tell you how far reaching some of the effects can be. look at the high temperatures. where will we find the heat? the plains to the great lakes and even syracuse, new york koshgs hit 100 degrees. boston could see the hottest day of the year so far. the difference between what we saw a week and a half ago to now is there is a lot more humidity. the heat index values, what it feels like outside, over 100 degrees for many, many people. so that's going to be a difficult time for our health and urging people to just take

it easy. go inside if you can. enjoy the air conditioning. today is the anniversary of the invention of the air-conditioners. we can celebrate that way. when it comes to the drought that, is something that should get worse. no breaks coming here for places like illinois and indiana. 55% of the country in moderate drought or worse. it's worse than 1988. we're talking about rare territory, the '50s enthe dust bowl years are next. >> eric fisher, thank you. the fbi is trying to figure out how sowing needles got into sandwich that's were served onboard four delta airlines flights. the planes originated in amsterdam but bound for minneapolis, seattle, and atlanta. one person was injured. delta says it is taking this matter extremely seriously and cooperating with authorities who are investigating the incident. a new york city bus driver is being called a hero after breaking the fall of a 7-year-old girl. look at this. she comes out of a third story

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the former record holder, madeleine albright. right now on capitol hill, fed chairman ben bernanke is giving the senate committee a check on the economy. bernanke says there's been some modest improvement in the housing market. record low mortgage rates have helped. but most of us won't ever see a rate this low. facebook founder ceo mark zuckerberg refinancing his $6 million home. you are ready for his interest rate? 1%. cnbc's mandy drury is here with what is moving your money. how i do get that rate? >> it's quite incredible. a really good question. why can't i get 1%? >> and why does a multibillionaire have a mortgage? >> the answer to that one is basically cash flow. whether you can borrow at a rate below inflation, you are borrowing for free, right? why not use the bank's money and preserve your own financial flexibility? but back to the question of why 1% anyway? while most lending rates have been reaching record lows this

year, the borrowing costs available to high net worth individuals like zuckerberg are even lower if that person is willing to bear the risk of month interest rate adjustments. that's what he got. he got a 30 years adjustable rate loan starting at 1.05%. i hope that answers both of those questions. >> let's stick with sill ck sil valley. yahoo announced a new ceo. >> melissa meyer has participated in fund-raising drives and she held a fund-raiser at her house for president obama. i believe she's given to obama annually. to put a few numbers on this, last year alone she contributed $35,800 to the obama victory fund 2012. however, while mostly giving to democrats, meyer also contributed $2,500 to olympia

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. a new way to quit smoking is on the horizon. a vaccine that combines the nicotine in the bloodstream is in trial. it prevents nicotine addiction in mice. researchers stress that human studies are needed but still far away. with the news that former congressman anthony weiner may be thinking about running for political office again, hometown paper "the new york post" is posing a provocative theory this morning that flip side of the 15 minutes of fame is that the time-out for shame doesn't last even that long. meaning he could come back in spite of this picture among others. in the day of the 24 hour news cycle, we couldn't go ten minutes without hearing about the scandal in june 2011. >> they knew the woman coming forward and more embarrassing pictures. >> he's been mocked in a way

that no one would ever wish on their enemy. >> and better be his shoulder. >> the congressman suggested the twitter account had been hacked. >> with me now is founder and president of the pr firm the britto agency. good to see you. so what we're hearing is that his wife is saying to him do a tell all interview. it worked in a way for bill clinton. it could work for him? >> absolutely. anthony weiner has a solid political record for actually supporting his constituents. and until this incident, he was a rising star in a democratic party. and also a threat to the republicans, particularly new york based republican representatives. socharismatic. he's good looking. he's articulate and he listens to the people. so i'm not surprised that his wife is actually engineering his come back because her support of him will actually shape the temperature of the voters. these voters are the very same

voters who themselves are one mistake away from needing redemption. >> chris leahy resigned after that shirtless photo of him on the web. i mean it does feel like this stuff lives forever once it's on the internet. but does that not make as much a difference as, say, people might say, look, if she's okay with it or she's come to trerms to it, o can i. >> absolutely. the fact she's engineering his come back doesn't surprise me. again, she will shape the temperature of his constituents. he's known to be a passionate politician. someone who listens to the people and really rallies on their behalf. they will come to the forefront and rally and support him throughout this come back. >> so what categorizes somebody who you think can't make a comeback? >> these days i think that's a tough line to straddle. >> john edwards? >> john edwards because his wife never supported him. the indiscretion was directly aimed after his wife. she was ill at the time and

never stepped forward to support him. it's different in anthony weiner's case. >> so if anthony weiner come you to and he says how do i do this? interview is one thing. what else? >> the interview is one thing. and then rallying to really gather the support of the people is the next most important thing. >> you need to do your groundwork first. >> absolutely. >> i think he can come back. i think he can win. i think he could very possibly be the next mayor of new york city. very easily. >> what? >> absolutely. >> what? >> absolutely. absolutely. because, you know, the people understand -- we're living in a day and age where, you know, indiscretions are widely accepted. look at bill clinton. he's the most celebrated -- celebrated figure globally. >> i have a theory about that. i think a lot of people found that -- they knew that about him going in. okay? >> they may have known. that i don't think the public knew that and what bill clinton did, whether they knew it or not, you know, anthony weiner made a mistake. he use the his ego in flaunting

his persona with someone who, you know, whether she knew who he was or not doesn't make it right. but what he did was a error in judgment. and it's very different than what bill clinton did. >> going out on a limb saying anthony weiner for mayor. thank you. >> absolutely. >> it's great to you have here. >> thank you, chris. today's tweet of the day comes from comedian andy levy. we seriously hope that anthony weiner decides to run for mayor of new york city. joint statement from journalists and comedians. [ kimi ] atti and i had always called oregon home. until i got a job in the big apple. adjusting to city life was hard for me. and becoming a fulltime indoor cat wasn't easy for atti. but we had each other and he had purina cat chow indoor. he absolutely loved it. and i knew he was getting everything he needed

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arizona light show, army olympians and pea shooting. let's go down to the wire. it was quite the light show in the skies over tucson, arizona. check out the lightning caused by a round of monsoon storms that moved through the desert

city. experts logged nearly 1500 cloud to ground lightning strikes. rvelgts another natural wonder caught on camera. this is a landslide in british column yachlt a news crew was covering a separate landslide when this one happened. the earth sweeping aside trees like toys crashing down into the hill and then into a lake. the u.s. army is sending 11 soldiers to the london olympics. they're not part of the security team. seven are athletes. four are coaches. in the sports of wrestling, shooting, boxing, track, and the modern pentathalon. they got a sendoff from the headquarters in colorado yesterday. not sure this tops our toe wres frlg yesterday, did you see that? but just north of london, it was the 40th anniversary of the pea shooting world championships. the shooters stand 12 feet from the target smeared with putty, dense in the putty indicate where the pea hits. that's a lot of hot air. that wraps up this hour of

"jansing & company." i'm chris jansing. thomas roberts is next. >> coming up on the agenda, the politics of innuendo, is the race for the white house becoming a race to the bottom with ugly allegations flying from both sides, no one backing down. plus this fascinating new report on the mormon empire. only 1.4% of americans are mormons but the church takes in $8 billion in annual giving. how capitalism is part of the fundamentals of this american born religion and first of its kind, a pro lesbian super pack. what are the goals? i'll talk with the chair coming up at the top of the hour. [ male announcer ] eligible for medicare?

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