he's going where the other guy can't go and he's scored politically. let's bring in chris cillizza and maria. nailing down your base going for the reachables, taking positions that he's kept himself waway frm by the commitments he's made so far. your thoughts, chris. >> well, look, i think on immigration certainly, chris, what you saw was president obama taking advantage of the power of his office. mitt romney can't do something like this. whether we debate whether he would or not, seems like he wouldn't, but we would not, could not. president obama can. hispanics are clearly a pillar of the base. young people. those are and affluent whites are really kind of the three big pillars of the base. his p hispanics have become a little dispirited because the dream act, the dream act didn't pass.

you could argue president obama didn't focus add much on their priorities as he would have liked. i'm not suggesting it was done for only political reasons, but the calculation behind this twouz say i am your guy and mitt romney -- it boxes mitt romney in. makes it hard for him to take a position. >> i think the safe assumption since june of 2012, it has something to do with politics. they quote obama's strategists see this election as a block by block knife fight to be fought in fewer than a dozen states and decided by a slim majority. this isn't 2008. a top obama campaign adviser said. we just think people are looking at the race the wrong way. the right way, the expansion of the electorate is our base. african-american, hispanics, young people and women. again, my point, you start with the people you think are going to vote for you. you make sure they do. don't let the other guy poach any by taking strong positions.

they can't be pro-choice cht romney won't go for it because he's locked in with the business crowd. he can't go for marriage equality because he's in with the religious right. i like this kind of politics. >> he is. we'll have to see what he says. there's a major speech that obama and romney will give on friday to a hispanic group so we'll have to see what he says on that. he's also romney trying to make moves into reaching out u to americans. talking to the naacp, he's been meeting with top african-american journalists, so he is trying tmake some move in that. >> that's the middle of the road republicans who are white. >> a tolerant person who want to see somebody who they feel like is tolerant and open. we talked to republicans about this. they are about mitt romney sort of nonposition so far on immigration.

they saw in perry, someone who had a stance that would broaden the party, so romney hasn't been able to do that. >> exhibit a. bob schieffer this weekend. what i like about bob, he just keeps asking. a much more polite fella. he repeatedly saw or forced you might argue, romney to dodge ball. here he is, romney dodging the question. good old bob schieffer's nailing him with. where do you stand on what the president did giving legal protection to people under age 30 who came here below age 16 because their parents came here and brought them here. here he is trying to dodge it. >> would you repeal this order if you became president? >> well, sit back and look at the issue. with regards to these kids brought in by their parents, there needs to be a long-term solution. >> but would you repeal this? >> well, it would be overtaken by events if you will by virtue

of my putting in place a long-term solution. >> would you leave this in place while you worked out a long-term solution or would yu just repeal it? >> we'll look at that setting as we reach that. >> chris cillizza, he just grabs on you like in a cowboy movie and hangs on and won't let go of the guy. he'll well on day three of me being a prosecutor say i will bring the congress a comprehensive immigration. that's the answer. >> well, i think the answer broadly is that they don't want to talk about immigration. they want to talk about the economy and he will pivot as quickly as he can to talking not object immigration and the way you do that if you're mitt romney is you say you know, look, president obama has done what he's done. he basically said what marco rubio said on friday. this is a short-term solution. president obama should have addressed this earlier, but he is not going to dedicate any realtime in talking about

immigration. i would say, chris, yes, this clearly will help president obama bolster turnout among mispanic, but undecided voters, that 7 to 12% of the people who have not gone one way or the other given how partisan the country is at this point, those folks are not voting on immigration. they are voting if you look at exit polling, the state of the economy. that's who romney is trying to get to. i think that's a short-term calculation because if republic republican. >> if he points out, i would come back with a bit of hisry, the emancipation got us to the 13th, 14th amendment, let's look at a congressman with a tough

primary fight. he's in arizona running against ben quyale, son of dan quyale. he said wait and see what governor romney has to say on this issue. meanwhile, anthorizona republic david swiper released a statement, quote, last week, the president decided to grant amnesty and hand out work permits to illegal immigrants, while 23 million americans remain unemployed. amounts to the duty of american people struggling in the economy while president obama asks to look the other way, i asked him to respect the world law. nice fry. go to the far right. and apparently, boehner's now promised to bring this bill up.

>> move iing off of what he was going to try to do. you see mitch mcconnell sort of throw the ball to mitt romney and say you're the leader of the party. let's figure out where we want to go. it's a hot potato issue, but obviously mitt romney wants to focus on the economy, but the problem is that oftentimes, latinos are just more in line with democratic policies in how they see the government, tax reform and health care. >> this is the old $64,000 question, chris cillizza. he's going after hispanics, gay people, women. the largest group there are in the country. women. just cross cut all females. what's he going to do for white men? the president? >> you know, chris -- >> does he have something in his bag for them? >> it's always been his most difficult demographic group, specifically down scale white men. tolt extent of something, i think it's selling that the

economy is slowly getting better. women, men, hispanics. we'll see. he was not going to win the white vote. >> he needs 40. >> if you think he's going to win, then yes. i don't know the answer to that. it's the $64,000 question. can barack obama in this undecided role, white men, suburban women, that they have a positive answer to are you better off than you were four years ago. that to me is the next five months in the election. >> back to my tough guy question because i was thinking and it's a tough one. i said the ones are your people, the threes -- the hardest people to get. it could be if he would just go to a russ belt thing and biden can help a lot. talk about the fact that the other guys are free markets

here. a boss kind of guy, who looks after the boss and the money people. he was the one who stuck his neck out. >> on the auto bailout, right. >> men like to hear a guy stuck his neck out. >> he stuck his neck out on the auto bailout, took a real risk in going after bin laden -- >> i love your synopsis. bin laden's gone, gm's alive. >> i think that would play with. barack obama in 2008, 41% of the white male vote, he did better than al gore did better than john kerry. also, i think they found something of an opening, but again, they're looking mostly out west to la tinos, swelling that vote and obviously to maintaining that strong. >> 0 yeeshs from you, they got a great strategy. >> is that coming -- >> that movie, i remember watching that movie of general

custard's talking to crazy horse in some imagined conversation and says sooner or later, we're going to wipe you people out, yeah, but not today. >> is this the 2012 winning strategy or 2016. against mitt romney. >> you mean hillary clinton. >> i'm sorry, i'm losing you. >> what was he saying? i don't know. >> thank you, chris cillizza. great to have you on. thank you, nia, with a quick snap sis. new reports say marco rubio isn't being vetted. so, my big question come up, who is? i've got my top three candidates. my number one dark horse candidate and of course, slime time. penn state jerry, the jerry sandusky trial is getting close to the end with the wife on the stand today pleading for her husband. she was upstairs. he was downstairs with the boys. why didn't she ever go downstairs?

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it's been nearly two months since mitt romney appointed an aide and speculation is still going strong, but news today that marco rubio is not even being vetted. that stirred a lot of news. maggie and michael steele, former chair of the republican national committee and maggie, you first here. abc and "the washington post" reported that marco rubio is not even getting vetted. that's according to jonathan carl down there at abc. he said republican source tell me he's not being vetted. he has not been asked to complete any questionnaires or asked to turn over any documents. rubio appeared on cnbc this morning and wouldn't even comment about the process, but let's listen to him not

commenting. >> have you heard from the campaign and are you someone who will be the vice presidential candidate? >> as i've said repeatedly, i won't discuss the process out of respect for governor romney. i know he's going make a great choice. >> later, he asked romney himself about news that rubio hasn't been vetted. >> what did you make of the abc news report this morning that said rubio wasn't being vetted, but tim pawlenty was? >> i get a kick out of some of the speculation that goes on and i'm not going to comment on the process of course, but i can tell you this. only beth myers and i know who's being vetted. >> okay, first of all, that's wrong. maggie, anybody who's being vetted, there are accountants, lawyers, probably their spouses, so the idea that he's in some zone of silence, if you're vetting people, they'll have to know about it if they're helping you fill out these forms. why would he say something so

ludicrous when everybody knows that's illogical? as mr. spock would say. >> i think he was trying to tamp down some of the anger existing out there among supporters of marco rubio. his aides won't comment on this at all. they won't touch it, but a lot of their supporters are. >> so, he wants it. >> i think they don't want to seem like they're being dissed. he's hanging out there alone today. marco rubio was not being considered. >> let's go to the edge. he's not on the list. let's go to these names. my three picks are as follows. it's important because you can't win the republican presidency without a never happened. he's an economic heavy weight. he could be president tomorrow if you're a conservative republican. i think jeb bush could ever get him talked into it, i think he

would be the nominee for sure. he brings in the the most important swing state, florida. he could be president tomorrow. vastly respected across the political spectrum. the third one is my dark horse, john thune. >> i like john. >> he's incredibly disciplined. handled the defeat by johnson. does everything the way hemts to. he's especially vevangelical. >> i like two of your three. i think portman is still in the lead. i would insert pawlenty or bobby jindal. >> isn't pawlenty too much of a moderate? >> i don't think so. i think pawlenty was a good governor. >> terrible candidate for president. three hours. >> it's a very different -- >> okay, your number one pick. >> portman. two, pawlenty and thune for three. >> maggie, your picks if you care to do this. >> it's not going to be that

rude. i have the same list as michael. i think that tim pawlenty is very much under consideration. >> how did he get to be the hot one this week? every one of my producers are are talking about. is that because he's all with the guy he's traveling around? >> a, they wonder whether they can put minnesota in play. whether the three of us or not. number one, two, mitt romney likes him, trusts him. he's be out there aggressively for him. this is a do no harm situation. >> we can all agree on that. not really trying to get a game changer. why would it be, why do we agree he's not going for game changer like palin? >> two words, sarah palin. she's become the cautionary tale of what you don't do. it's not like she was the first pick that was a problem, but i think there was a question about whether she was ready to step into the office on day one.

>> you know why they throw the ball at the buzzer in basketball is because sometimes it goes in. >> i think it's less about sarah palin type pick and more about him. it's more about his personality, the kind of man he is and the kind of president cy he wants t have and the people he wants around him. >> not to knock him, what nixon said in '68, doesn't matter who i'm running with, i'm going to be the issue. >> may not be the case here. if he throws that long ball -- to b the story but him. i think he wants to this be -- >> which makes the case for portman because he's doubling down on good economics. >> maggie, do you think it's important, none of the three of us are protestants, but do you think it's important they have a

protestant running mate? he's mormon, if he picks, he could pick i guess jeb bush's catholic. he's a convert. is that an issue anymore or not with people? >> i don't think it's a huge issue now. i think there are area where it plays, but this is not going to be in terms of the slices, i don't think that's going to be what keeps people home or gets them. >> i just dug up some stuff for him. that john thune, beside being the lanky, attractive, very polished newcomer from out west, he's evangelical. he does cover that card, which is important as we know in the south. >> so is pawlenty. yep. >> good roots in that community as more broadly in the base of the party. >> how come we never talk about the guy from arkansas? huckabee? >> because he doesn't want us to talk about him. >> he's hosting a radio show

right now. >> here's a few names i don't think are going to make it. wisconsin congressman, paul ryan. kelly ayotte and former minnesota, pawlenty's already on the list. didn't take him off the list. back to you, maggie. what about the possibility of these sort of darker horses? chris christie, paul ryan, kelly ayotte. >> one of the most interesting things in the last two days in addition to the rubio bid was "the new york times" had a last couple of paragraphs in a story that posted yesterday or sunday night saying that governor romney has formed impressions about governor christie as he's doing the vp auditioning. and one of them is that governor christie is often late. was the line and essentially, he had shown up late for a fund-raiser and ended up mitt romney was the warm-up act. i don't think the candidate enjoyed that especially. i think he is grateful to chris christie for the help he has given him, but i don't think he

is of the impression that he would be sort of the top of the ticket in that respect. >> you're never late when you have to meet the boss. >> and then back to the point i made about that person fitting into romney's -- >> i think we've agreed. everybody says portman. or you never know if jeb decides he wants it. >> jeb, warm up for '16, baby. >> he's never going to be president. if he doesn't get into the game now. he had to get aboard that team. it's great to have you on especially when we're not arguing. anytime we can have you. up next, we know newt gingrich loves zoos. boy, is he focused on animal, so what do you think he'd want to be in a romney -- the job might be open in this case r for him. just for him. this is "hardball." the place for politics.

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back to "hardball." first up, mitt romney wants to showcase his -- even to the point of putting on a father's day video featuring his sons. david letterman gave us a rogue version of it. >> you know we've got a hold of the mitt romney campaign has released now a video of his family talking about mitt himself as a family man and as a father. it's rather enjoyable. watch this. ♪ >> he was a goof ball. he loved to horse around. >> oh, my gosh. my dad has legendary -- smelling butter, this butter turned. smell how awful it is. put your nose in it.

>> i remember one time, he threw the gardener down a flight of stairs. the guy survived. maybe he didn't. i don't remember. >> i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> and in the first joint appearance, all five of the real romney sons without that last guy will sit down with conan o'brien tomorrow night. the debut some new political slogans for the campaigns. >> obama and romney are trying really hard to come up with a new bap of slogans and they're trying them out. take a look. >> we are not going back. we are moving this country forward. >> we believe in ourselves. our greatest days are ahead. >> i don't get it. >> i'm not a good person, a good guy. >> i have an idea about starting a great hoagie shop. >> i stand on what i said,

whatever it was. >> that last one from romney could be an all occasion motto for him and finally, newt gingrich revealed the cabinet position he really wants. >> i find myself at zoos, come out here, elephants are among my favorite. partly because they're republican. elephants make me feel like i'm the right size. >> if newt gingrich were sort of in a cabinet, what cabinet position would he have? >> i think if anything they created a secretary of zoos and museums, i would begin to get really excited. >> secretary of zoos. fortunately, "hardball" scored the most of the interview. up next, the trial of jerry sandusky. his wife took the stand this afternoon saying her husband never had inappropriate contact with the boys at their home. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics.

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welcome back. what a day in that sandusky trial. dottie sandusky, the wife of the former coach, took the stand in her husband's defense and denied any inappropriate behavior between her husband and alleged victims. this came on the heels of several defense witnesses, including a psychologist who diagnosed the former coach as having historionichistrionic pe disorder. will this defense be enough to give jurors doubt or is the case too hard to fight? pat murphy, an attorney in philadelphia, he's a philadelphia lawyer, i must say, and wendy murphy, a former sex crimes prosecutor. i don't know how a wife can defend her husband when all the testimony we get outside out of court was that she never went

downstairs when her husband was entertaining these yond lads in the became. how would she know? even one kid yelling thinking it was soundproof and now she dare to say not only did i come to his aid, nothing was happening because i didn't. what? >> you know, i wish i could tell you that i haven't seen this before. i've even seen grandmothers of victims sand up for their sons who were rapists. it's a horrible thing to watch. but look, the defense had to put her up there for two reasons. number one, to make the claim in front of a jury and she's not charged with a crime, so they could at least argue it. that there was no screaming going on from the basement. the victim who testified that was very compelling, credible and it's a horrible piece of information. but in addition, she in a sense becomes the face of sandusky,

she's got his name, she's married to him. the defense wants the jury to think he can't be dangerous because she seems nice. it's all theatre. the best part of her testimony was the fact that prosecution didn't cross examine her because that is so insulting to the defense cht it's like saying she didn't make a dent and she doesn't because the jury expects her to lie. sadly. and stand by her man. >> one of the great lines in political scandal was the scandal in britain when one of the christine was asked what did you think of the denials of the husbands. she said well, they had say that, wouldn't they. they would say that. pat's laughing because some of this is ludicrous. here we have a case which is about an institution which you and i have come to love over the years. doesn't this remind you of the

roman catholkatrincatholic chur? where the patriotroctors look o the others instead of the constituen constituents? the true believers who believed in this coach. >> yeah, right. and as you know, you and i grew up in the same neighborhood in philadelphia. we're both catholic and penn state fans, but we both also know that the highest duty of the society is so protect our children and we both have children and i know as a former prosecutor, but also someone who has been dealing with these cases, sexual assault cases against children, completely destroy their lives far too often and that's whey they need all the help they can get. that's why my heart and prayers go out to these ten victims, that this evil man really just hurt them forever and i will say to go back to an earlier point, the fact that joe, another philadelphia guy, a prosecutor

in this case, has done a masterful job 21 witnesses, over three and a half days, when the defense puts on someone like dottie sandusky, he just says let her say her piece. the facts speak for themselves. eight of the ten victims testified. two eyewitnesses, a janitor who said he saw oral sex happen. an assistant coach who saw anal sex happening in the shower. these thing, eyewitness testimony not just from the victims who had to live through the horrific, horrific action, but two people who saw it. and spoke up. that's important, but if i could say one thing, chris, the comparison. we need to learn a lesson from this. so this never happens again. for 15 months, in harrisburg, they have sat in the judiciary committee for getting rid of the statute of limitations.

not even had one hearing. state rep mike mcgehee both yesterday said what's going on here? what else do we need to do? are these children, happens all over the country. >> we don't need one because these kids are 6 and 7, by the time they're 18, it's gone. back to wendy on the key point. what is the defense team up to here? are they trying to get a mistrial by finding one of the 12 jurors that's willing to believe this argument that somehow histrionic personality disorder, they was a show off, an explanation of this case? h >> that is such a crazy theory. first of all, it's a whacko disorder. it is very sexist.

widely perceived as insulting to women and you know, this guy clearly doesn't have it even if you believe it's true because remember, he's only acting sexual toward little boys. if you have a histrionic personality disorder, you act like a cooke to everybody, not just little boys. i think the swrur's going to say how much did this expert to say what? it sounds desperate, chris, and it's just, i think it's helping to sync the defense. it's hard to believe, but that a defense witness could actually make things worse. >> patrick, your last thought. just quickly, what is the defense strategy? why are they doing this with the poor mother, poor wife making this ridiculous claim? what are they up to? >> i think they're grasping at

straws. i think that's clearly he's grasping at straws, whether it's the histrionic defense, the investigators talking to the victims, saying well, i didn't hear anything. he's grasping at straws and people who criticize defense attorney and said he should have took the plea, maybe they didn't offer him a plea. he should go to jail forever. >> it's going to be a horrible situation for him in prison, by the way. thank you. a lot of murphies here today. up next, when republicans want control of the house of representatives, their real prize was the subpoena power. they have got it and are using it to go after the attorney general. get him to empty his pockets. stand in the spotlight as long as they can. see if anything happens. that's ahead. this is "hardball," place for politics. phone rings ♪ hello... ♪ what the... what the... what the... ♪ are you seein' this? ♪ ♪ uh-huh... uh-huh... uh-huh... ♪ ♪ it kinda makes me miss the days when we ♪ ♪ used to rock the microphone ♪ back when our credit score couldn't get us a micro-loan ♪

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vote holder in contempt of court, or congress rather, for tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. they just wrapped up a meeting that says he's still waiting for the documents he wants and hopes to get them tonight. former speaker of the california house and wade henderson, let me go to wade first because i want to understand is there any reason why we should put any trust in the good intentions of darrell issa here? >> none at all. he is pursue iing a politically motivated witch hunt to force holder to resign. he's using fast and furious as the vehicle to pursue that, but nothing could be further from the factual bases. >> when i look at this, i just look at it and i don't mean to use this term too much, but it's almost like a stop and frisk.

here's a chance to humiliate a distinguished member of the united states government. close friend of the president's. if he can humiliate this guy, get to him, he'll be a big star in the republican caucus. he'll be dick nixon. >> that's what he thinks, but obviously, that will not be the case, chris. there are too many republicans, i think, that are responsible and responsible enough to know that you're, you don't go down the road that he's going down in terms of contempt of a cabinet member. you just don't do that unless it's similar to what occurred with reference to the bush administration when two members were cited in some manner or another for doing what they did of his staff. after that, there's nothing that you can justify such conduct. other than the fact that you're leading kind of a lynch like mob. >> to some of the

things issa heard of this case. november 8, 2010, before he took the oath, i want seven hearings a week times 40 weeks. he didn't say what they were for. he also said -- what's your jurisdiction? he said "we own everything. world trade center. >> chris, attorney general general holder testified at least eight times before congress. he has turned over thousands of pages of testimony. he is the only attorney general that actually appointed an inspector general and ended the program which was the subject of controversy. rather than investigating, for example, attorney general who started the program under debate, operation wide receiver, he has not been before the committee and had no discussion or with atf officials, who were involved. a.g. holder who actually disciplined some of the atf officials who were involved. so the ruth is this is about the

facts regarding fast and furious. this is about creating a climate where the a.g. will be discredited and will resign. >> i worked on the hill. as you know, willie brown. you are not supposed to make the come nin comments about someone else. you saw the tape where he makes fun of attorney general holder by you are not my kind of witness. you are not a good witness. what's this? you get to be the teacher and you get to reprimand the student? i mean, the kind -- i have never seen it aimed at a cabinet member before. >> it really means you should not be given any opportunity to exercise power. chris, when you receive the mantle of leadership on the power side, it automatically imposes up on you a higher level of responsibility than this congressman seems to be able to discharge. he's got to be somewhat of an embarrassment to his colleagues just by his heavy handedness. >> let me -- i want to you take -- give us a narration

here. darrell issa, the attorney general, what's been going on here? how long has this been building? >> this has been building for months. darrell issa was determined almost from the outset of him holding the gavel he was determined to hold one member of the administration in some degree of difficulty because of their actions. he focused on fast and furious. obviously this was -- >> explain fast and furious. >> a gun-walking program where guns were purchased in the united states, taken acrokros c border back to mexico, distributed by individuals who had no license or right to purchase -- >> the idea was to track officials. >> we were tracking those guns to find out where they went and hoped to buy the purchaser -- to get the purchaser as well as the recipient. it was started under the previous administration. gener they had operation wide receiver which was the precursor of fast and furious. it ended up with in the depth of officials who were involved with the u.s. government and atf

official, i believe, was killed. but this was a terrible operation. it should never have taken place. much to his credit, attorney general holder ended the program, he disciplined atf officials involved. he convened and -- inspector general to take a look at the issue. he testified over eight times with the congress and he's provided thousands of documents -- >> your theory is with this guy darrell issa, his goal is to push this further into rub the guy's face into it. >> absolutely. to force the attorney general to resign as a discredited official. there has never been an attorney general held in contempt of congress. there's never been a vote by the house of representatives on the contempt citation. to do it now against eric holder is to ignore all the facts of the case and to use a fiction to promote this kind of political agenda and i hope that both members of the democratic party as well as republicans will see this for what it is. >> i don't want to start too much as far as fire here but it is my instinct.

is this ethnic, mr. mayor? >> i think it has h some ethnic flavor to it. it will be interrupted by some in that vein. have you to be careful you don't give the opportunity to make that case factually and what darrell issa is doing is -- has given some individuals the opportunity to make that case and to compare it to a stop and frisk. >> what i just did it because -- it smells like it to me and i think there is a disdain on the part of some republican, not all. certainly not boehner. but some of them down in the rank and file, red hot end of the team, that do talk down to the president and his friends absolutely. >> talk down to them. thank you, willie brown, as always. thank you. when we return, let me finish with my personal views of stop and frisk. the congressman attempting to perpetrate on the attorney general. hmm, it says here that cheerios helps lower cholesterol as part of a heart healthy diet. that's true.

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we finish tonight with this. something unseemly about the way certain republicans are going after attorney general holder. they are demanding he empty his pockets, submit himself to a body search by a member of congress who even before he took the oath of office himself for this congress promised to spend his entire time using the subpoena power to hurt obama. as he put it himself i want seven hearings a week times 40 weeks. we own everything, darrell issa said. armed with a subpoena power he was going to spend his time

hauling obama people before him. here we go. a congress that does about nothing to create jobs or people without jobs the best way do their job is shower the obama administration with subpoenas. make headlines and hopefully skewer someone close to the president. in this case eric holder. it smells like darrell issa has one goal, get holder under the lights and go through his pockets and looks like stop and frisk. the mere act of which shows who is the boss and gets to let you go your way. who says you're clean. that's what this subcommittee is up to, trying to make noise so people think they are doing something up there on capitol hill which everyone knows that they are not. that's "hardball" for now. "politics nation" with al sharpton starts right now. welcome to "politics nation." i'm al sharpton. tonight's need -- will admit

romney returns to the state where he was born on third base. where his daddy was governor and where folks woke up one day to learn that he thought detroit should go bankrupt. it is all part of it is every town counts tour. he's tasting food at bake shops. he's driving old american cars. and he's repeating his claim that he restored to middle class. >> you want great jobs for americans. i want to see rising wages again. i want to help the american people know that if they work hard they get an education, they will have a fair shot. >> everyone deserves a fair shot. that's a great sentiment. but don't be fooled. this is the man who he's paining with today -- governor rick snider. and this is the type of michigan he bleeds in. in his first budget snider cut aid for mo