romney and president obama's speeches to latino officials on reaction alone, it would be a win for the president, but the big question for team obama, can they translate the enthusiasm we saw today into votes? plus, the jury now has the sandusky case, but the jurors don't know the two latest pieces of news about this matter. and the debate over attorney general eric holder and fast and furious has moved from the right wing fringe to the front pages. the conservative base is thrilled, so why has the republican leadership been treating this like kryptonite? we begin with outsourcing jobs at bain capital. joan walsh is an msnbc political analyst and michael shear is the white house correspondent for "time" magazine. he says he'll stand up to china and help brings jobs back home,

but that wasn't always the case. a new report lays out how clearly invested romney's firm was in companies that out source jobs to china. quote, during the nearly 15 years romney was involved in running bain, it owneded companies that were pioneers in the practice of shipping work to call centers and factories making computer components. according to the filings, with the sec. michael, is this going to stick? bain has been an issue. the charges of vulture capitalism in the beltway, you hear people say they didn't play well, yet out in middle america, you get a different reaction. what will be the reaction to this? >> i still think we're at the very beginning of this conversation. mitt romney is sticking to his line and doesn't want to go beyond that to discuss what he did. the obama campaign is determined to hit them over and over again through the summer and they have

had some success in these swing states doing this. i think this is swrus another piece of that. romney's going to have to be able to establish a difference between his experience in the private sector, which is not about creating jobs. more efficient companies about increasing profits and lowering the cost of products and what he plans to do when he comes into office, which is not outsourcing jobs, despite what chicago is sort of saying right now. that you know, vote for mitt romney is a vote for offshoring more jobs. mitt romney hasn't made that yet. he hasn't -- he doesn't want to have this discussion, but it's going to have to happen. >> the president was quick to react to the post story. he was in tampa this afternoon. let's take a look. >> today was reported in the "washington post" that the companies his firm own ed were pioneers in if outsourcing of american jobs to places like china and india. pioneers.

let me tell you, we do not need an outsourcing pioneer in the oval office. we need a president who will fight for american jobs and fight for american manufacturing. that's what my plan will do. >> and romney's camp responded quickly, said quote this is fundamentally flawed story that does not differ between offshoring versus overseas. as president, he will implement policies that make it easier and more attractive for companies to create jobs here at home. joan walsh, that's a lot to follow. is that going to wash? >> no. it's not intentionally confusing issue and statement, michael and i think you can see that. the problem for the romney campaign is that the post story is very, very explicit that this was, they're talking about offshoring. it is true that outsourcing can

be moving jobs out of a company to another firm that does it cheaper. in the united states and that does happen, but the post was very careful to delineate the firms that bain invested in whose business model essentially was offshoring made a lot of technology jobs. so i think i agree with michael. the obama campaign has had some success already with bain. top strategists seem a little bit uncomfortable with it. you've got the problem of wall street democrats quite honestly not sure how hard they want to hit private capital, private equity firms. i think it is resognating with voters and i think on this particular issue, you've got a hypocrisy problem because you've got mitt romney actually saying one of the few things, one of the few concrete things he says is that he's going to pick a fight with china and we've got examples of how he worked to send american jobs to china. >> michael shear, how -- how

about the argument that you'll hear i suspect from romney and his supporters that his job was not the same that has the job which he now seeks? in other words, his job was to make money as a business leader. >> that is the argument. in that is that someone who has worked in the private sector and understands why companies are shifting jobs overseas will have the the advantage over the current president. i think that's the turf on which we're going to be playing this out. i don't think it's a situation in which romney can get through this election i was once a business man or the president can say mitt romney was once a businessman, therefore, he wants to take your job and send it to china. neither of those will wash. the discussion is going to be at whether the proposals that romney has and the proposals that barack obama has will lead the country to the future and that's the turf on which we're going to play. >> joan, when bain was last an issue, when the charge was one

of vulture capitalism, there were a number of democrats who spoke out of turn. cory booker comes to mind. i can't see a corresponding circumstance when the issue is outsourcing, can you? >> no, i can't and also to get back to what michael was saying about the debate between proposals, mitt romney wants to slash tax on corporations' foreign operations. there are actually lots of ways for the obama administration to say this is very much about his proposals as president and that his experience at bain really did shape the way he looks at the economy and he's coming into office. if he gets into office with that mind set, which is really about how to help rich people make more money and really leaves american workers out of the equation. >> to that end, romney frequently invokes his time at bain to suggest he would be a better leader on the economy. he says he knows how jobs are

created and what causes them to leave. >> i spent my life in private enterprise. 25 years. i know how businesses work. i know what causes them to leave and what will bring them back. i want to use that experience to get america working again for me it's all about good jobs for the american people. >> and the president focuses his attack on romney and bain recently on the issue of outsourcing. >> running for governor, mitt romney campaigned as a job creator. >> i know how jobs are created. >> but as a corporate raider, he shipped jobs to china and mexico. as governor, he did the same thing. outsourcing state jobs to india. now, he's making the exact same pitch. >> i know why jobs come and why they go. >> outsourcing jobs. romney economics. it didn't work then and it won't

work now. >> strange thing. i saw that was reviewed by the post, which had the story today and it was the recipient of several pinocchios, so it seems within "the washington post," they can't get it together as to the ak rcharges. >> there is an argument here. you could have surrogates. would come on and say there are financial, benefits to this sort of comparative advantage of allowing other countries to produce things cheaper. we're able to then buy the products cheaper. there are arguments to defend that is not really a good word in this election, the creative destruction of capitalism. what romney is saying in the clips you just played was my job as president will be different than the private sector business man. i'm going to use the experience, but my job as president is not going to be what my job as bain

was, which was to increase returns for my shareholders. >> it seems the obama campaign all too happy to make this a referendum on bain. >> you've got axelrod calling mitt romney the outsourcer in chief and the revelations about china a whole new life. >> thank you. we appreciate your being here. coming up, president obama gets a spirited welcome from the same latino group that spent a lot of time sitting on its hans for mitt romney yesterday. that's ahead. this is ha"hardball," the place for politics. nk brushing is enough to keep it clean? while brushing misses germs in 75% of your mouth, listerine cleans virtually your entire mouth. so take your oral health to a whole new level. listerine... power to your mouth. so take your oral health to a whole new level. between taking insulin and testing my blood sugar...

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we show should have passed the dream act a long time ago. it was written by members of both parties. when it came up for a vote a year and a half ago, republicans in congress blocked it. the bill hadn't changed. the need hadn't changed. the only thing that had changed was politics. >> welcome back to "hardball." president obama kept up the heat on congress today speaking before a national association of latino and elected officials. it's the same event where mitt romney addressed this key constituency yesterday. the president made reference to romney's visit, including a

pause for dramatic effect. >> your speaker from yesterday has a different view. in a speech, he said that when he makes a promise to you, he'll keep it. well, he has promised to veto the dream act and we should take him at his word. i'm just saying. >> president obama needs latino vote to be motivated in november. their turnout could be key to his re-election and that's really what today's speech was all about. david corn the author of the new book, show down. erin, does it seem like the president did what he needed to do to energize that constituency today? >> for the most part, yes, at

least in comparison to mitt romney yesterday. president obama simply said he would sign a dream act if it made it to his desk, which deals with a smaller portion of the nation's immigrants. not all 11 million of them. we heard from republicans today who said that while president obama continued to support the dream act, he didn't go much further. it energizes to a certain degree, but not 100%. he's been saying his door has been open for three and a half years, but a lot of republicans started chiding him today showing that's really not enough and doesn't show a ton of leadership. >> to state the obvious, 9% of those who came out to vote in '08, if that gets boosted to 10, 11, 12%, there in would lie the margin of victory in a close race over all. >> it's like comparing mayonnaise to salsa. now, mayonnaise is fine.

it has some binding properties to it, but barack obama spoke to this crowd as if he understood them and more importantly, shared their values. he talked about comprehensive immigration reform, those across the rio grande, as being part of the great american story. he talked about justice. he talked about a lot of thipgs mitt romney couldn't do and i think he was specific in saying he did try to pass the dream act and that also his door is open to comprehensive immigration reform that he has voted for in the past and it's republicans who can't see their way through the threshold anymore. >> the difference in reaction to the latino crowd today and yesterday was obvious. >> america was built by people who said something different. who said yes, we can.

who said -- and as long as i have the privilege of being your president, i will be alongside you fighting for the country that we together dream of! god bless you. thank you -- god bless the united states of america. ♪ >> and the reaction to governor romney's speech was much more muted. it's easy to -- but these are some of romney's bigger applause lines. >> as president, i won't settle for stopgap measures. i'll work with republicans and democrats to build a long-term solution. and i'll prioritize measures -- i will stand for a path to legal status for anyone who is willing to stand up and defend this great nation through military service. thank you so much. and god bless this great land. thank you.

>> these reactions in a new poll of latino voters in battleground states that show president obama with a huge lead. there you can see it. 74 to 18% in arizona. colorado, 75 to 22. florida, 53-37. inform nv nevada, 69-20. virginia, 59-28. erin, what drives these numbers? the economy, the immigration issue, a combination of both? >> it's certainly a combination of both and of course, president obama used much of his speech to talk about his economic vision versus mitt romney, those polls that you show are in florida and virginia where president obama is doing better. the population of immigrants and hispanic voters in romney took his bus tour were through the midwest where the population is smaller and that mitt romney is doing better in some of those

other states, so yes, this is where this election is going to be litigated. president obama and his team think that they are in much better shape in the west where they have an advantage with this group versus mitt romney, who thinks he's got a path of victory through the midwest. >> were the president's order relative to the children of illegals and lack of specificity f fis. romney is boxed in in a way i can't think or recall a modern presidential candidate being boxed in. during the primary campaign, as the president noted today, he promised the veto the dream act, but also had a very clear policy on undocumented immigrants. you have to leave. you have to go home. even if places that may not be your home. so once you say that, you really take yourself out of the equation when it comes to coming up with any long-term plans, which is why he couldn't define what his long-term solution is

and when you're not in favor of the directive the president came up with last week, it sends a signal to people, if you're not going to help the children who were brought here through no fault of your own, why are are you going to do that? to pander to people who a lot of latinos believe don't like them. it's a threshold issue. if you can't help that part of this population, they're going going to listen to you because they think you're in league with or you yourself don't care much for this part of the american community. put that all together, michael, and i don't think he can recover from this. it's not a fatal wound. it's an untreatable wound. >> when mitt romney spoke to the latino group yesterday -- executive order that i just referenced. here's how he handled it. >> some people have asked if i will let stand the president's executive order. the answer is that i will put in place my own long-term solution that will replace and supersede the president's temporary

measure. as president, i won't settle for stopgap measures. >> not very specific and so today, the obama campaign put out a web video complete with the sound of a ticking stopwatch in the background pointing out how many days have passed without a response from romney. >> you said this is just the short-term solution to a long-term problem. but would you repeal this order if you became president? >> well, it's sit back and look at the issue. >> what would you do about it? would you repeal this? i won't keep on, but to make sure i understand, would you leave this in place while you worked out a long-term solution or would you just repeal it? >> we'll look at that setting as we reach that. >> can leave you scratching your head wondering why a man who wants to be president can't tell us a little bit more about what he would actually do. >> he's got to come up with something with more specificity,

no? >> one would think but he's not doing it because he knows if he's litigating immigration policy with the president, he's losing in a lot of places he needs to start winning. today, the romney campaign put out a response, several responses from spanish elected officials saying the problem with this speech is that the hispanic community, it's unemployment rate increase and they don't want to talk about immigration policies. when mitt romney was running for president in 2007, grind down his opponents and he did the very same thing against rick perry in this same primary. if he he runs the risk of looking like a flip-flopper. >> the thunder he expected to

get with senator rubio was stolen and in fact, the two were going to be very similar. >> romney had not really endorsed it and most of republican leadership was very lukewarm on it. rubio was looking like an orphan with this idea. regardless of that, the president came in and politically savvy way, just totally undercut any possibility that romney had of getting covered on this issue through rubio's plan. so i doubt he will be on the ticket. as i said earl yes, because of what erin just said, too, romney has really put himself into concrete when it comes to the immigration issue in a way that leaves him no opportunity to have an opening with this community and if you had the latino voters the day before the elections watch romney's speech and the president's speech today, i'd be surprised if the split wasn't 80-20.

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welcome back to "hardball." first up, a glimpse into the future courtesy of richard murdoch of indiana. in a video, he cheers the supreme court's decision to strike down the affordable care act. only thing is, the supreme court hasn't ruled yet. let's watch. >> well, we've had our brief moment of celebration because the supreme court ruled that

obamacare is in fact unconstitutional. but don't sit back and think the fight is over because it isn't. barack obama and joe -- are already putting obamacare 2.0 together and are going to try to pass it once again. we cannot let that happen. >> the campaign is covering all its bases as preproduces decisions. the campaign spokesman, no doubt a boy scout, invoked the famous mantra, be prepared. yesterday, we told you about a news report -- rick scott to stop bragging about his state's economic rebound. romney and scott aides both pushed back on the story, but not before team obama released a mock letter quote from the desk of mitt romney and it reads, rick, i see you've been touting florida's improving economy. please stop. the facts are undermining the --

my whole platform. mitt romney's challenge extended beyond florida to states where governors are presiding over improving economies and finally -- >> egypt's election committee said it will not announce the presidential runoff winner tomorrow after all. the group said it has to review hundreds of complaints about the voting. >> hundreds of complaints? you know what that's called in florida? the best most efficient election in the history of florida. what are you doing? take the money and run! you get more complaints a night in boca raton at an olive garden. >> florida, florida, florida may never live down the 2000 election and one bonus. as president obama bounded on to the stage in tampa this afternoon, his feet got a little ead of him.

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buzz bissinger is the author of friday night light's. stacey honowitz is a sex crimes prosecutor who's written a children's book. buzz, how odd that the whole country knows of these two developments and yet we hope -- the jurors have no idea. >> you know, it is odd, but i also think that joe is an excellent attorney. i just have to believe that in the case of the adopted son, there must have been some credibility issues. i think the prosecution put on an airtight case. i'm convinced. to me, the man is a monster. i don't see how possibly all these witnesses got together and concocted this up. this story. and i think he felt look, we have a tight case. this kid must have credibility problems. it seemed odd to me that the lawyer would held a press conference or announce it as the

jury is deliberating, but in terms of his guilty, i'm not worried about it. >> last night on rock center, kate snow had an exclusive interview with travis weaver, the first victim to come forward. he has testified in front of a grand jury, but was not called as a witness in the current trial. he is suing sandusky and penn state university and here's a portion of that stunning interview. >> if jerry sandusky were sitting right here -- >> i'd punch him in the mouth. >> would you say anything first? >> no. there would be no reason to say anything. he knows what he did. i know what he did. >> travis weaver says jerry sandusky sexually abused him more than 100 times over a period of four years starting in 1992, when he was just 10 years old. he says he thought he was the only boy it happened to until he

saw sandusky on the news, arrested on charges he molested other boys. weaver, now 30, had never told a soul, but last fall, he told his family his story for the first time. he says he still feels numb. you don't cry about it now? >> no. >> when's the last time you cried about it? >> a long time ago. >> stacy, you supervise a sex crimes unit. i looked at it last night and said why hadn't he surfaced sooner? so many of these individuals were content to go on with their lives and never relive the tragedies. >> well, it's very common in multivictim cases. victims, subjects of pedophiles, the shame, guilty, pain they feel, the embarrassment, the idea that someone might call them whomosexual, so many factors. many time, they might report it

then when it's time to go to court, they don't want to talk about it in front of strangers so i'm not surprised by either of these witnesses coming forward. so many times, the perpetrator's own family, sometimes, they're supportive in the beginning, then they realize they can't live with this secret anymore. the idea they came forward, it's not uncommon. >> in the defense closing argument, joe made a point of saying jerry san disdusky is accused of these antics that would have begun in his mid 50s. do you really think a guy becomes a pedophile in that adult age bracket? what thoughts did you have on this issue? >> he's probably right. he's probably been doing it for a very long time. when ewe see these guys and the amount of victims they are capable of abusing, there's probably many more victims that choose not to come forward. you might see victims coming

forward now after the case is closed. the idea they would have to testify in front of a nation is so frightening and scary. he probably did start early. there's probably a lot of other victims a lot of other places. >> buzz, you've written about the cone of silence that has survey runded his bad acts at penn state. any number of instances where adults had reason to suspect something going on here. so my point is, even when this verdict comes back, there's still a lot of questions to be answered in that regard. >> there's a ton that needs to be answered because there's a ton that that's come out in trial. what is this secret file that vice president shulgts had in which he admits, i've heard whispers about sandusky. if he's heard whispers, you're going to tell me that paterno didn't hear whispers? you have the 1998 case, the 2002

case. you have a board member accusing spanier of a cover up. and these victims, they're going against, yes, i'm sorry, penn state, the monster of penn state and of monster. i go in, say a famous defensive coordinator abused me, no one's going to listen to them. nobody. that's the problem. if people at penn state, you think you're off the hook, you think it's done, forget it. >> what do you read into the fact that today, the jurors wanted to hear the mike mcquery testimony and the dock dr. dranoff testimony. that was testimony the jurors wanted to hear again. >> it's not unusual and it's very hard to make a judgment call as to what they're thiing about. it could be as simple as one

juror saying i didn't hear a certain portion. some jurors maybe heard something. others say we didn't hear it, so the best way to really resolve that is to have read back testimony. >> buzz, breaking news on "hardball." come monday, you join the ranks of talk radio hosts. we can't wait. >> well, i'm excited and looking forward to it. you can tell i have a big mouth, which serves me well. this case, i get really, really livid because people reported sandusky. in 1998, 2002, and nothing was done until finally what was it, 2007, when they had to investigate. >> thank you, look forward to it. up next, the fight over fast and furious has been red meat for the far right fringe, but is it to fight the republican establishment once in an election year? ♪

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issa. it seems personal, substance driven. what's your explanation? >> the attorney general's been sticking up for people -- should be stuck up for. for instance, hispanics in arizona against arizona law that basically targets them. gays and lesbians, who think they ought to be able to get married and of course, voters in places like florida who are having their right to vote compromise. eric holder's been a target for republicans, including mr. issa. >> i see risk for both sides. on the part of the republicans because it's not a jobs issue. people want to know what are you doing about jobs, the economy? the risk i see relative to the democratic side of the aisle, the president sort of plays into that hand now that there's something to hide and he's caught up in it. how do you assess the politics of what's transpired?

>> well, you're right. it does bring this story into the white house where it hadn't been before. it had been around the neck of eric holder and others. another danger for president obama here is he has tried to put forward this brand of being pro transparency, being the most open government in history. he's gotten a lot of flak from the left about not being as opened as he promised to be and invoking executive privilege doesn't go along with being transparent. there is a danger from republicans not only in distracting from the main message of republicans, but also that sense that maybe we're starting to return to the 1990s when you had things like dan burton shooting a pumpkin to try to stage what he thought -- >> let's watch what happened last night when congressman darrell issa's phone rang in an interview with fox. news. >> you weren't necessarily getting the pages that you wanted. that may be the attorney general --

>> if it's barack, i'll tell him we're not available. >> it strikes me it's personal with what's going on on this issue. the white house, they're smart politically, that they volunteered for this battle because they want to pit themselves against the congress, no disrespect to you, but nothing is worse than the approval ratings of the members of congress. >> that's true, but i'll say this. darrell issa is aggressive, but that's okay. and our ranking member mr. cummings is no slush. but has to be tempered with restraint. and the big failings of what mr. issa has done -- two things. number one, the subpoena he sent to the attorney general was so over-broad it was requiring him to provide information that if he would have it would have put him in jail. grand jury transcripts. that's illegal to turn over. transcripts of wiretap

applications, that's against the united states code to turn it over. so it raises questions about the credibility of what's really the agenda here. is it the pursuit of truth or a political hit shot? that is what the chair has to protect. second thing is that the attorney general has actually been very responsive. he's been in to the congress eight times to testify, produce thousands of documents. so this is something that could be worked out. but sometimes you don't want to take yes for an answer. >> josh, congressman issa told rush limbaugh in 2010 that president obama was one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times. he walked it back, then came out with this zinger just two months ago. >> we're very busy in washington with a corrupt government, with a government that i said more than a year ago was perhaps because of the money, because of the amount of stimulus funds was going to be the most corrupt government in history and it's

proving to be that. just exactly that. >> there's been any number of issues that get raised particularly on the far right about eric holder in particular. the voter i.d. laws, arizona immigration, the issue of where to try. d.o.m.a. was one of them. voter i.d. was the second. and where the 9/11 detainees would be tried. always coming back on holder's watch and serving as a basis of antipathy from the right. is it just related to substance? or is there something else driving this? >> i think there's a degree to which holder has become the favorite punching bag of the right. and the stand in for the president himself. despite what we saw in the rose garden the other day, there are limits in the american society about what you can say to the president and what you can do to the president and say to his face. they don't apply so clearly to members of the cabinet. you can get away with a lot more

invective towards members of the cabinet. i think for a lot of the republicans who feel they can't beat up the president directly or as harshly as they or their constituents might want to, they feel liberated going after the attorney general. >> quick question, congressman. do you expect members of your party to break ranks when there is a contempt vote in the house? >> well, i certainly hope not. again, one of the points we made is that we're open to doing anything to get the information we need. why is it darrell issa has refused to let us bring in to testify the bush administration folks who were in charge when this whole fast and furious operation began. >> got ya. peter welch, thank you. and josh gerstein. you're watching "hardball" the place for politics. 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

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let me finish tonight with this. i have a home recipe to solve the obesity crisis. in fact, you could say it's an ingredient to help tip the scales back in the right direction. we're too heavy. the center for disease control says 68% of adults are obese or overweight. which explains the efforts to combat the epidemic in the private and public sector. first came the ban of super sized sugar drinks.

and now cambridge, massachusetts, is thinking of a similar initiative. and it will soon ban advertising of unhealthy food on its television channels, radio stations, and websites geared toward children. the approaches sound thorough, but there's something missing. our kitchens. time constraints have decimated the dinner time. we love to watch cooking on tv while we're eating fast food. none of the government and private sector initiatives will work unless there's a corresponding return to basics in home. my mom is one of 11. the sisters all great cooks. and not long ago i ekt cled from them their favorite family recipes. dishes developed before america was calorie conscious. there's plenty of dessert recipes to satisfy sweet tooths. shoe fly pie. also dick's mother's sunshine cake. but the dinners, they bring back

the memories. nanny stuffed peppers, fettuccine, uncle tony's beans. and aunt rose's meat balls. oven roasted potatoes, meat loaf, and thanksgiving stuffing. but mostly, they're evidence of an era where dinner was prepared and served at a regular hour. to delineate between meal and snack time. america needs to find the time to make dinner again. limit the snacking. and rely on basic, unprocessed ingredients like those that were found in the kitchens of the grovich girls. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. chris will be back on monday. "politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. welcome to "politicsnation." i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead, romney the job destroyer. a new report on romney's past as

ceo of bain capital reveals explosive details on his career shipping american jobs overseas. it leaves no doubt that romney's fortune was built at the expense of american workers. quote, during the nearly 15 years that romney was actively involved in running bain capital, it owned companies that were pioneers in the practice of shipping work from the united states to overseas call centers and factories making computer components. the jobs went from the u.s. to all over the world. jobs shipped to china, to india, to taiwan, japan, singapore, malaysia, south korea, ireland, and france. make no mistake, this report could be a game changer. because romney is running on his business record.