their faithful as president, i will follow a very different path than president obama. i will be a staunch defender of religious freedom. the obama -- [ applause ] this regulation from the obama care folks is not a threat and insult to only one religious group. it is a threat and insult to every religious group. and as president, i will abolish it. i don't think i have to tell you this but you know that like economic and religious freedoms, our personal freedoms have also been under attack. few things are more important to us than our health and our

health care. the tenth amendment gives us the right to clues our own health care. specifically granted to the federal government by the constitution. it preserves those to the states and the people. obamacare violates the constitution and i'm counting on the supreme court to say exactly that. it is not just health care, of course. that this administration attacks. mike and chantel, did you hear this story? they've learn firsthand how the obama government interferes with personal freedom. they run a small business in idaho. they saved enough money to buy a piece of property and to build a home on it. but just a few days after they broke ground, an epa regulator told them to stop digging immediately. the epa said they were building on a wetland. but the property isn't on the wetlands register. as a matter of fact, it sits in a residential area.

nevertheless, the epa will them, that was a final decision and it could not even be appealed. fortunately, the constitution confronted the obama administration again and the supreme court ruled unanimously for them and against the obama epa just like they should. this administration's attack on freedom extends even to rights explicitly guaranteed by the constitution. the right to bear arms is so plainly stated, so unambiguous, that liberals have a hard time challenging it directly. instead they've been employing every imaginable ruse and ploy to restrict it. and to defeat it. i applaud true conservationists like rob keck who worked to preserve herds for hunting. i applaud for the international

efforts. i applaud congressman issa and senator grassley for exposing the fast and furious scandal. and of course i applaud the nra leadership for being among the first and most vocal in calling upon attorney general holder to resign or get fired. we need a president who will enforce current laws, that create new ones that only serve

to burden lawful gun owners. president obama has not. i will. we need a president who will stand up for the rights of hunters and sportsmen and those who seek to protect their homes and families. president obama has not. i will. and if we're going to safeguard our second amendment, it is time to elect a president who will defend the rights president obama ignores or minimizes and i will protect the second amendment rights of american people. we've all seen enough of president obama over the last three years to know we don't want another four. in a second term, he would be unrestrained by the demands of

re-election, as he told the russian president last month when he thought no one was listening, after a re-election, he would have a lot more, quote, flexibility to do just what he wants. not exactly sure what he meant by that but looking at his first three years, i got a pretty good idea. just consider the courts, for instance. he has an unusual view of the supreme court. and its responsibilities as he reminded us just the other day. he said this. he said i'm confident the supreme court will not take what would be an unprecedented extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected congress. of course, what president obama called extraordinary and unprecedented, the rest us recognize as judicial review. that concept has been the center piece of our constitutional system for hundreds of years. judicial review requires,

requires, requires of the supreme court strike down any law that violates the constitution. and that's the founding document of our freedoms. that's what they've got to do. but president obama seems to believe court decisions are only legitimate when they rule in his favor. and they're illegitimate if they don't. he thinks our nation's highest court is to be revered and respected as long as it remains faithful to the original intent of barack obama. that's the problem with people who view the constitution as living and evolving. not timeless and defining. they never want to explain just who it is that will decide what the constitution means. and in what way they would have it evolve. in his first material, we've seen this president try to brow beat the supreme court.

in his second term, he would remake it. our freedoms would be in the hands of an obama court. not just for four years but for the next 40. and we must not let that happen. as president, i'll uphold the rule of law and put america back on the path for the founders' vision. i don't want to transform america. i want to return america to the principles that made this nation great. our founders began with this great american experiment. they created a nation conceived in liberty, and then trusted with us the duty to preserve it and to defend it.

in the generation since, more than a million americans have made the ultimate sacrifice. one day toward the end of my term as governor, my office got a call telling us that a soldier had been killed in iraq. his casket was on a u.s. airways flight back to massachusetts but his family hadn't been able to be notified in time to get to the airport to receive his remains. and so they asked if i would go to the airport in their stead. i said of course. we drove over to the airport out on to the tarmac. the jet came in and the people disembarked. and then the luggage began coming down the conveyor and after a little while, the casket appeared. on the conveyor. the state troopers who were there with me saluted. i put my hand on my heart. and then i happened to glance up at the terminal.

and there in boston, there is a big wall of glass at the u.s. airways terminal right where the plane had come in. and it seems that the people coming off the plane had seen all the police cars out there on the tarmac so they stopped. and went up against the glass to see what was going on. then the people down the hall saw the people leaning up against the glass and so they came in behind them and stood behind them. there is a huge crowd of people. and as i look up there, i saw that every single person had their hand on their heart. when i think of our country, it is scenes like that that come to my mind. should i have the hop of serving as president, that's how i will seek to lead. not by pitting one group against another but by bringing us together as americans, patriotic, freedom loving americans. americans want a leader who will tell them the truth. who will live with integrity.

who will preserve the nation and protect our constitution. we have a sacred duty to restore the promise of america and we will do it. we will do it because we believe in america. we'll stop the days of apologizing for the success at home and never again will we success successes, will we apologize for america abroad.

there was a time not so long ago when each us could walk a little taller, stand a little straighter because we had a gift that no one else in the world shared. we're americans. that meant something different to each us but it meant something special tufl us. we knew it without question. and so did the world. those days are coming back. that is our destiny. we believe in america. we believe in ourselves. our greatest days are ahead. we are, after all, americans. join me in this great cause. let's take back our nation and defend our freedoms. god bless you. god bless the united states of america. thank you so much.

>> good afternoon. it's friday, i am a the 13th. and mitt romney has just completed his address to the annual nra convention. in his remarks, he claimed that he represents freedom and that an america who once built the hoover dam cannot build a pipeline. a less than ingenious reference to the key stone pipeline. he also made an outright misrepresentation about the president's open mike moment with the russian president. amongst other things. let's bring in our panel now. with us from washington, political analyst and former dnc communications director karen finney, now columnist for the hill. and democratic strategist julian epstein. i have to get your reaction to that astonishing speech. try not to use an expletive. >> i won't, i won't. i promise. i've taken a deep breath. two thoughts. one, i can't wait to see all the fact checks coming out of dnc.

the number of, i won't call them lies but misinformation that came out of mr. romney's mouth was stunning. the picture that he was painting of an america, restoring an america. i kept thinking it sounds like you want to go back to a time when women couldn't vote, blacks couldn't vote. it just didn't sound like this was the america that we all know. >> to be fair, karen, he didn't say. that he didn't say he wants to go back to a period before when african-americans couldn't vote, did he? he didn't say that. there were other even more astonishing statements, i thought in the speech. >> when he says things like i want to return america. i want to restore america. i guess the question, when he talked about the constitution not being a living document. should would say that because the constitution is a living document, we passed rights for african-americans to vote. we passed rights for women to vote because we recognize that

we should expand the freedoms of the constitution. not restrict those freedoms. that's where i come up with that. >> julian, it is astonishing, i think, that he didn't once mention the case of trayvon martin in this speech. there he is speaking to the nra and he never once mentions the issue. >> i think that's exactly right. i think what's most interesting about the speech is what he didn't say. the purpose of the speech was to make peace with the nra. and him saying that he is a pro nra second amendment defender is like lindsay lohan saying she is a model citizen. the fact of the matter is the two biggest, the two biggest legislative fights of the nra in the past did he go aid have been assault weapons and background checks. mitt romney was for regulation to ban assault weapons. he was for background checks until 2004. his position didn't evolve. his position changed 180 degrees

overnight biffle 2006 when he decided he wanted to run for president, he totally reversed his position. the number of his reversals, on so many positions really gets to be, i think, a serious, serious character issue for him in the general election. what was most interesting about the speech is that he didn't talk about the gun issues. he made only passing reference. he talked nothing but b the major legislative challenges of the nra. he was on exactly the opposite position for them for most of the last decade. >> i have to take issue with you going after listens eight lohan. she's done her service to society. she is trying to live a better life. i think that does a disservice to her quite frankly. >> i was referring to the probation. >> isn't it incredible that now this man is literally deteriorating in front of our very eyes to someone who krootdly and reflexively

immediately champions whatever cause he needs to. yesterday it was mothers at home. today it is gun owners. who knows what it will be tomorrow? yet all the time what we're looking for is a continuing conviction. what are the policy convictions this man has? today it's guns, great, but what about tomorrow? >> i think his major conviction is a conviction to win the presidency at all costs. that's the clear message we get time and again. but speaking to the point julian made, he was right. he chose to talk about freedom in this broader sense that you hear a lot of times from the right instead of specific gun control issues. that may be because he is trying to firm up his positions given that he's been on the other side of these issues so many times. but that's the thing i thought was interesting. he tried to cloak it all in this idea of freedom.

but freedom is a broad expansive idea that is supposed to include everybody. that means we balance our rights and freedoms and our liberty. the institution against the individual. not just the sort of very narrow focus that i felt like he was about. >> julian, mitt made what could be seen as a double panda when he brought ann out on stage first thing. take a listen. >> let me give a shout out to all moms that are working. and by the way, to all dads that are working. we love all of you. >> i'm not sure how many working mothers are actually watching that speech. but they are playing rosengate for all its worth, aren't they? >> i think that they are. it is a little absurd this has become a three-day story. hillary rosen has apologized and i would notice she is not associated with the dnc. she is not associated with the

campaign and the campaign came out immediately and denounced that comments. that's in stark contrast to what mitt romney did when rush limbaugh called sandra fluke a word i would rather not repeat. he refused to stand up rebuke her immediately. i think at the end of the day, all of this mommy wars, if you will, is not going to hide the fact as to where the republican party has been on issues that really matter to women. and i think women are smart enough to figure that out at the end of the day. >> i absolutely agree. thank you both for joining us. >> we'll be right back. >> i have guns myself. i won't tell you where they are. i don't have them on myself either.

>> really, mitt? okay. let's lock and load. >> i've been a hunler all my life. i never really shot anything terribly big. i used to hunt rabbits. >> he said i have a gun of my own. in fact he does not have a gun of his own. >> be very, very quiet. >> shooting rabbits single shot 22 is pretty hard. >> when it was later revealed he's only been hunting twice, he said he meant varmints. that ain't hunting. that's pest control. >> those small animals can be ferocious. he is struggling with the rising cost of gas. he has figured out a way to streamline deliveries all while trying to minimize price increases to his customers.

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its quest to test such weaponry. joining me now, bill richardson who served in the clinton administration. nice to be with you. >> i want to read for you a statement from senator from arizona. he said, the administration should abandon its naive negotiations with north korea and iran and instead focus on fully funding missile defense that's can protect the united states from ballistic missile threats. is he right? was the white house really naive to negotiate this food for missiles deal in february? >> no, no, and president bush did the same thing. you give them food, fuel. unfornlly, north korea doesn't always abide by its agreements. i think what is critical now is what is north korea do with what

happened? my concern is that in order to show the north korean people that he is a tough guy, the new leader of north korea may say, okay, we'll have some short range ballistic missile technology shots or an underground nuclear test. that is of concern. i think that's what we should be concerned about. getting china, getting the six-party countries to pressure north korea to stop some of these altercations that have caused this. >> the administration has said, and i'm quoting, everyone will be watching closely to see how the government of north korea handles this first real test. there was some speculation as you know, that gym jong un might be prepared to have a warmer relationship with the west. but one now assumes this missile firing put pay to that.

>> i've been dealing with north korea ten years. i've been there probably more than anyone else. you never know what they're going to do next. they're unpredictable. they're isolated. they're threatening. i'm sure they're having a lot of meetings now about what they'll do next. but they need food assistance for their people. they need obviously their technology is faulty. so it uncertain what they'll do next. for domestic reasons, they might have to show this toughness of an underground nuclear test. that's what worries me. i think with the united states and other countries should do is yes, proceed with the sanctions that the united nations or a condemnation statement but basically, don't totally close the door. maybe food assistance for starving people should be maintained.

keep the door open a little bit. maybe this new young leader is different. because he did take some steps initially. he made the deal for food aid, they did talk to the south koreans. they did engage with the united states. there may be some battles between the civilian and military leadership we don't know about. this guy is young and untested. he's never served in the military. so there could be a scramble there. instead of crowing and provoking them, we ought to see what happens next. >> indeed. dialogue is always preferable. former governor and energy secretary bill richardson, thank you, sir. >> thank you. coming up, the president and vice president release their tax returns. what are you waiting for, mr. romney? >> governor romney calls the

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santorum says sayonara. newt bounces a check but women dominate the discussion. here are the top lines. the week in review. >> we will suspend our campaign effective today. >> mitt romney is the de facto republican nominee. >> is there a light show going on here? disco rally. ? would you consider him as a vice president candidate. >>? everybody is on my list. i don't have a list. >> i'm trying to figure out how to put food on the table. >> your check bounced. >> this is one of those goofy things. >> what's up here and what's burning down here? >> i think he ran a half shoe

string campaign. >> if i see it, it's bull [ bleep ]. >> you think the millionaire ought to pay less in taxes. >> why don't you pay a higher tax rate. >> the budget pixie dust. how much money do you have? >> how many of you all have a swiss bank account? >> is gov romney support the lily ledbetter action? >> we'll get back to you on that. >> over 92% of the jobs were women. >> that seems impossible. >> his wife has never work a day in her life. >> maybe he haven't struggled as much financially. >> if my daughter wants to say i'm staying home raising my kids, no one should question that of. >> i'm not criticizing hillary what's her name. >> my wife, i have many friends and their wives. >> i wish ann were here.

she is going across the country and talking with women. what they're talking about is the debt. >> my general rule is you don't talk about the spouses of elected officials. some the comments that hillary rosen made today certainly have awakened many mama grizzlies. >> let's get right to our panel. joining us from washington, social activist and author, and msnbc political analyst richard wolff. if i may begin with marcia, the white house may be walking away from the comments but they aren't walking away from the argument that democratic policies are much more helpful to women than republicans. and the point is not that a mother should be less than an employee but that most mothers don't have a choice. because they're unsuch pressure, they simply have to work them can't rely on a husband whose personal assets are $250 million and who has a car elevator.

>> right. let me say that hillary rosen and ann romney have two things in common. they're both white women who have privilege in some form or fashion and access to power. i love hillary and know that she probably did not mean a personal assault on ann romney who seal like a very nice lady. the bottom line is that there are women who don't have what ann or hillary have. education or employment opportunities. like up, some mothers, even if they stay at home are struggling to feed their children or they're concerned that they'll be hit by a stray bullet. i saw that mitt romney was at the nra. we know that our communities need responsible adults. nra. it is be about who stays home and who is at work. it is some of the policies against women that i think the real thrusts and concerns are for women today. >> i want you to listen to one of mitt romney's sons. he was asked whether the romneys

are quietly gleeful over miss romney's comments. >> the works that moms and dads do at home is the most valuable work in the world. we're not trying to score political points. >> yet the romney camp did solicit donations in exchange for moms drive the economy bumper stickers. >> i'm shocked. the romney campaign and i guess romney family are admitting something even with they're denying it. this whole week has been about trying to score political points. what you've seen here is the romney campaign coming out of nomination fight. they're 19 points down among women. instead of trying to fix the policy issues that have driven women away from romney and away from republicans, they've engaged in a series of tactical moves. first fabric it aing this skewed number on women job losses.

and secondly, this completely fabricated idea about hillary rosen. yes, she shouldn't have said what she said. if we're releasing cable talk now, this then election has gone right down the rabbit hole. they are trying to play tactics. this he need to play strategy and go out with policy proposals that appeal to women. and it is all small ball. they may have won a day or two. they may have even gotten some advantage for the week but they won't close the gap substantially with women voters by this kind of approach. >> i keep hearing you expressing your agreement with richard. >> he is absolutely right. i just came back from the national action network panel on women. it included terry o'neill, the president of the national organization of we will. we talk about the women's work, african-american women, she told us, are valued at $100. latino american women, $125. and white women, $4,500. that's still a low worth given all that women do all across

america for their countries, for their families and for their communities we won't have that. what men will find whether they're democrats or republican, we may end up doing some covert operations. all the policy that's go to the growth and well being and wherewithal of women in america. i don't think we can no longer be smiling and suffering unless it is some good shoes you don't want to give away. >> we've discussed these controversial comments. but richard, another controversial comment was made this week from allen west who accused some 81 house colleagues of being communists. but actually, there was someone else who offered, i think, a much more heinous comment. take a listen to this. >> there is a lot of things that haven't been hammered at because rick and mitt have been going at each other. now that they've trained their barrels on president obama, i'm

afraid his, i hope his teleprompters are bullet proof. i don't mean -- >> i understand that's a metaphor. >> i'm sorry. i probably shouldn't have said that. >> we're still waiting for mitt romney who now counts foster friess who made an appalling suggestion. snu don't joke about presidential assassinations. whether he was speaking metaphorically as lou dobbs tried to gamely help him out there or not, he knew he was crossing a line. and that naughty little chuckle there kind of gave it away. i don't know how knowing america's history, you could make that kind of comment. but honestly, allen west, you know, an elected official, talking to voters. i kind of more shocked by that than some rich guy who doesn't know which crazy candidate to back. and he is happy to be on tv.

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out that the president's rate of 20.5% will go up if his own tax plan becomes reality. in the case of mitt romney who pays less than 15% in tax and hides much of his wealth in swiss bank accounts and grand kaman, can we expect a similar level have transparency? >> that's a question that has been asked over and over again. the romney campaign said they would be releasing the returns when available. one assumes unless he is getting an extension will be within the next few days. they gave a preliminary tax report about what this year would bring earlier this year when he released last year's tax report. of course, mitt romney will have to do this. i think he sort of lost the battle of keeping that secret last year. the truth is, we basically know that okay, look. this is a guy who makes an awful lot of money from his investments. i don't think anybody begrudges him that but it will show that

he pays a paltry rate. >> what is surprising for many of us is that romney has essentially been running for president for the last decade. could he not have closed those swiss bank accounts in good time to avoid the kind of scrutiny that inevitably comes when you run for the white house? >> this is what i don't understand. he went to his lawn and said i can't have any illegals. i'm running for president. why couldn't he do that with his taxes? his dad released ten years of tax returns. with all of these guys, really, if i were running for president, i would be some pretty enormous charitable contributions. you know people will pick out for not enough. >> what about the fact that he has millions stashed away in grand cayman. he has enough money. he doesn't need to hide money from the american tax man. he can bring it back on shore. he can put it in his account.

tidy up his affairs so when we face what will be very real scrutiny, it is all out there. instead, he has these accounts. >> of course the answer is that it is in a baseline trust. he is not in control of it. the problem is not the blind trust. it is easy for me for someone who has somewhat less money than mitt romney has to tell him what he should do with his. you would think he would want to take a hit on this financially to avoid the hit politically. you would be that would be a good move for him. >> is it not also telling that the president who has had his personal faith repeatedly impugned gives 22% of his income to charity? when most christians feel obliged to give just 10%ering with discover when you think about someone like rick santorum who spent the whole campaign roaring about his faith and if he gave just 1.7% to charity. it appears that one man puts his

money where his mouth is. the other one appears to be full of hot air. >> and here again, the president knew these returns would be out there. he knew people would talk about it. you could say if you're being cynical, maybe he made those contributions because he knew it would be public. either way, it does set a good example for the country. so i wonder why don't they do that in advance. this was a fairly bad year for the president compared to earlier. i think his president was cut somewhat in half because he didn't get the book royalties from before. but he is bumping up the percentage of charitable contributions. >> indeed. thank you so much. >> coming up, an old-fashioned duel between two gentlemen from kentucky. but first, brian sullivan has the nbc market wrap. >> good afternoon. thank you very much. i guess you're not about aaron burr and alexander hamilton. let's talk about the markets. we are down. you had some data out of china.

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and we don't want to go there. so let's try to see people for who they really are. you can help create a more united states. the more you know. stir up a mint julep. it is time for an old-fashioned political duel kentucky style. this time it's health care. one congressman chiling a colleague to a public debate over the affordable care action. quote, we continue to hear from you and other republican leaders false messages that the law will hurt small businesses. they deserve thebusinesses. they deserve the opportunity to hear all the facts of the law, not false claims and

irresponsible distortions. the target of that letter? none other than the senate's top republican, minority leader mitch mcconnell of kentucky. and the challenger to the jewel, democrat of kentucky who joins us now. sir, the kentucky derby is just weeks away. surely you should be busy picking out your hat, making party preparations, maybe buying a cigar. instead you want to spoil for a fight with your senator. are you crazy? >> martin, thank you for the me say -- mint julep message because that's the season we drink those. it's for me to make sure my constituents have accurate information of policy on the federal level that affects them. he made demonstrably false claims about the affordable care

act. someone has to take him to task for that because he's misleading his con stit yents and mine. so i laid out this letter where he made false claims and challenged him to challenge me in public. he won't do that because he won't allow himself to be in a position where he can be challenged. >> let's let viewers be in the position of looking at this op-ed. he says, quote, two years later, it's clear that the health spending law will increase health care costs, reduce the number of new jobs created and raid medicare. it will impose a heavy burden on kentucky's medicaid system and impose cuts on the medicare system. as i understand, none of that is true. >> none of that is true. >> mr. mcconnell is lying in the op-ed, is that correct? >> he is absolutely lying.

he makes a claim in this letter that the congressional budget office says that the average insurance premium of an american citizen will go up $2,100. that cbo analysis actually said for the vast majority of americans, premiums would actually go down from 7 to 10%, a very small percentage of the population, if they bought a cadillac plan, would see their premium go up $2100, but far from the average american. and that's what he does consistently throughout this op-ed piece. he talks about a study of american small businesses which said 48% of small businesses said they weren't going to hire because of the affordable care act. this was a gallup survey, but it was a survey of businesses who said they weren't going to hire. 48% of them said they might not hire people because of health care costs. they were never asked about the affordable care act. so we actually reproduced the actual survey in there to show

people that while the 48 number was right, everything else that he described about it was wrong. >> so, sir, finally and briefly, puc if you can, do you think you'll get an opportunity to face him down? >> i challenge him all the time, and mitch and i go back a long ways. i've known him for 40 years. mitch is a very clever politician -- >> and he ain't gonna fight you. >> he isn't going to fight me, which, you know, that's too bad because my constituents and his constituents deserve that kind of conversation. >> indeed, they do. congressman, thank you for joining us, sir. >> thank you, martin. >> we'll be back to clear the air. ♪ surf's up everybody get your boards and your wetsuits ♪ free-credit-score-dot-com's gonna direct you ♪ ♪ to check your credit score before it gets too late ♪

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it's time now to clear the air. as tax day fast approaches, the president has revealed what he's earned and what he's contributed in state and federal taxes. in the year 2011, the president and first lady reported a total income of $789,674. about half of that is the president's salary. the rest comes from the sale of his books. they paid a total of 162,074 in tax which's quits to 20.5% of his taxes. i want to focus on his charitable giving. there is a gospel that is, weigh your treasures there your heart will be. the president and first lady gave $172,130 of their income to charity. that's no less than 22% of their gross income. the single largest reported gift from the president and first

lady was to the fisher house foundation. this is a crucial facility for veterans and their families so that they can be close to each other when a loved one is hospitalized because of illness or injury. this week marked the end of rick santorum's attempt to win the republican nomination. he spent months talking about his personal faith and haranguing the country for failing to do the same. but in his last tax returns, we discovered that he gave less than 2% to charity. yes, less than 2%. it's hardly surprising that people will become cynical when politicians talk religion, especially when their actions don't appear to live up to their words. and particularly when one self-p self-proclaimed christian tends to give a minimum of 10% of their income. i have no doubt that this election campaign will involve more ludicrous attacks on the president and his personal faith. but if you're not prepared to listen to his words, then why

not take a look at his actions? the president, under no obligation whatsoever, gave 22% of his income to charity. that is faith in action. thank you very much for watching. dylan ratigan is here to take you forward. dylan? >> nice to see you, martin. >> nice to see you, dylan. how are things? >> very good. you look very springy in that light cream. your fashion is very seasonally appropriate. >> that's very kind of you. it's a very old jacket but one i treasure, and i'm glad you appreciate it. >>listening to your political commentary, have you ever listened to the planet earth, those nature programs? it's like you're describing the behavior of peculiar, wild animals. this one, peculiar, only gives 2% of its money. on the other hand, this one --