the trip. they spoke the same town a short while ago and criticized the president's handling of the economy. >> should you all bet on america, but we shouldn't double down on barack obama. his presidency has been a losing happened for ohio and america. >> the president can't ask the american people are you better off than you were four years ago. are you offering policies and changes, he wants to dwight us and blame everybody but himself. >> thomas, the one thing that could overshadow this trip is the jobs report. it is due out tomorrow. as you know, the last support showed the unemployment rate ticked up and the president really can't afford for that trend to continue with just four months until election day. thomas? >> traveling with the president in ohio. the national press secretary for

the obama campaign and we'll talk about the bus tour in a moment. the surrogates from the camp that are trailing on the bumper and want to start out with the campaign reversal on the health care law. the comments he gave out to cbs. take a listen. >> i said i agreed with the decent and the decent made it clear that they felt it was unconstitutional. they lost to the minority. supreme court has spoken. there is no way around that. i wish they decided a different way, but they didn't. they concluded it was a tax. >> mitt romney playing clean up that he gave because it's a big shift from what hisdviser told chuck todd on monday. the "wall street journal" said and wouldn't say such a thing without the candidate's approval. when you see what's going on and the tail bagging the dog, what's

the campaign take on the sloppy messaging here? >> mitt romney can't get his story straight on health care. not only did he disagree with what his advisers said, but disagreed with the past comments. he labeled the mandate a tax as recently as 2009. part of the reason for this is six years ago mitt romney agreed with the president that we should take on rising health care and provide affordable health care to people. he included a penalty mandate in his legislation in massachusetts. his legislation should serve as a national model and it did. six years later, he didn't believe any of those things and should allow insurance companies to discriminate if you have a preexisting condition or charge women a billion dollars a year more for health insurance. >> who are president obama believes and how it was sold to

the american people and reconciling that with what the supreme court and chief justice john roberts said, how did the two add up so that the president can try to convince people why his legislation was good for the country in the first place. if he believes this was always a penalty in the first place and the supreme court labeled it as a tax. >> the court upheld the law. the penalty hits the 1% of the population who can afford health insurance, but hasn't gone to get it. they are going to emergency rooms rather than seeking preventive treatment that is driving a hidden tax on the rest of us. the 85% of the population that does have insurance. bumping up premiums $1,000 a year. >> if the president doesn't agree it's a tax, he has to be thankful that the supreme court decided it is. >> this is a penalty and administered through the tax code. there similar penalties out

there. if you are an insurance company and failed to notify somebody who lost their job that they are available for cobra coverage or a wine producer who mislabeled wine. there similar penalties and ultimately the court said this was constitutional. >> this was a big win for the president and reelection. the shift now coming out tomorrow for the economy and the june jobs report. it could be a ow. the recent numbers have been up to 8.2% and barely crossed the threshold after the month. what is the case for reelection given slow or stagnant growth for people? we saw the beginning of the year start with a boom and the pulse weaken as we continue. >> where we were at the beginning losing $800,000 a month on the brink of depression that created more than 3.3 million jobs in the private sector. you have seen what the president

has done. the auto industry was on the brink where we will be today linked to the auto industry. a million jobs up and down the supply chain. we should let it go bankrupt and rescue loans to the industry. there is nor we can be doing. the president had a plan on the table that we create a million jobs and keep teachers in classrooms and cops on the street and rebuilding the roads and bridges. mitt romney opposes that plan and said the economic plan he put forward could lead to another recession. there is more we can do in the long run and that's what the president will be talking about. by building from the middle class out and investing in education and manufacturing and research and development so they can outinnovate and outeducate the rest of the world. >> we will know when we see the numbers tomorrow. the press secretary for president obama. later this hour, we will hear

from the rnc's secretary. we will bring in the political power panel for today. the national political reporter for politico. editor of double think magazine. great to see all of you this morning. president obama is going to be out there pressing the auto bailout and how it helped in states like ohio. ben is talking about the fact that one in eight jobs are touched by the auto industry in ohio. that has an appeal with work class whites saying he was against that. how is romney going to be able to be out there and counter that argument? >> he didn't tout the record in those states. ohio and pennsylvania are run by republican governor who is tried a pro growth policies and romney will support and not be in opposition the same way

president obama will be trying to undermine the policies. >> i want to bring up joe the plumber. he is running for congress and told abc news that the president should be embarrassed given the economics and the state of things there. when we talk about the economics and the state of things there, the state has an unemployment in may, 7.3% and 7.4% where the president will go tomorrow. what does the president need to do to counteract the real anxiety out there. it does exist and it's not a falsity. >> i think he should do exactly what he is doing which is talking about what he is going to do. there is a diversification what obama is talking about and what romney is doing which is saying woe is me and woe is the country. i will give you proof. this morning in a conservative

publication he said about his own nominee, mitt romney, he is only for something. he is only against barack obama and the bad economy. he needs to be for something. what you do see is a huge diversification between barack obama who is talking about what he is doing like the auto industry bailout, etc. what is mitt romney doing? gloom and doom. that's a perception issue and something people in working class states in ohio and pennsylvania see, feel, understand, and they can feel the pain and we all remember what bill clinton did to connect with people. there is a difference between the two. it's a different vision. >> i want to go to mitt romney and the health care switch. he is being confronted about the penalty versus the tax issue. take a listen. >> the supreme court is the final word? they said it was a tax. it's a tax. that's what they say it is.

>> to keep this all in context, romney advised to chuck todd of where it's a mandate or a penalty. what we put in place in massachusetts was a penalty and disagrees with the court, but on tuesday he said on cnn, our position is the same as mitt romney's position. it's a tax. yesterday from romney, the courts said it's a tax and therefore it is a tax. is there anything or anyone who is properly managing the romney message when it comes to how they feel about the supreme court ruling? it seems like they are caught flatfooted on this. >> what the situation with the desperate comments what from what they show is how dangerous an is she for the campaign. the issue is an individual mandate. what mitt romney did in 20007 and that's the issue that brought the tea party national prominence and one of the most

politically charged issues to date and something he has to be careful with. now the obama campaign as we heard earlier, mitt romney doesn't stick to his guns. he is changing for political expediency and that's something you don't want to see. >> how does it not look like the tail is wagging the dog on health care? >> the challenge is the fact that the supreme court came out with the ruling that it's the tax. the democrats don't want to rule on the idea that they imposed a tax. they want us to embrace the constitutionality of it while ignoring the rest of it. it's a tax and a penalty and hard to communicate that to a lot of people who were not mired in health care. this is not a problem for the romney campaign. this gives them an excellent opportunity to hit this president for going back on the promises he made. he said he wouldn't raise taxes and would impose a mandate, both of which he went back on.

>> does it look like the president in this situation against mitt romney is staying on message with exactly what it is? as you hear from ben and this is a penalty where as what we see what mitt romney gave it an op ed in 09 in "usa today" and the fact that he had eric coming out before saying he agreed with the president that this was a penalty and not a tax. it just seems confusing to somebody that is not following along step by step. >> it is very confusing, but let's be clear. we sdrntdidn't have a supreme c ruling in 2009 and they're talking about how it is not a tax even though the supreme court justice said it was. the president doesn't want to be called out for flip flopping even though he has been doing it his entire presidency.

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>> a live look at the walcott house museum where the president will be speaking later this hour. it's the first stop to the swing states of ohio and pennsylvania. the president won both of those states in 2008. mitt romney said the supreme court has spoken. it's a tax and that's final. he is not ready to slap the same label on his blueprint for massachusetts. take a look. >> six years ago, mitt romney agreed that we should take on rising cost and provide health care to people. he included a penalty and a mandate in his legislation in massachusetts and said his legislation should serve as a national model. six years later he doesn't believe those things. >> kirstin, it's nice to see you. i want to start with your

reaction to ben and the mixed messaging that people have been working starting from eric to mitt romney giving the interview about what he feels about the penalty being a fee or a tax. >> thanks for having me on. >> what is the message with all of this? how come it's so muled? the rnc is not demonstrating more guidance to the romney campaign on how to fire back at what the president's campaign is. >> i don't agree with the premises of your question. we believe and we have been doing a very, very good job of talking about this as a tax. it has been clear that the supreme court ruled it's a tax and it's clear that president obama's solicitor general argued that it is a tax and we have been clear about that. >> they overseeing the party and if you are clear about this, why is your candidate not?

>> i think yesterday he was very clear and said the supreme court said this is a tax. >> isn't that because eric burn strom came out on our air and said they agreed with president obama and then the right recoiled. now it's the tail wagging the dog that mitt romney has to explain himself when he had the guy who created the echa sketch for the campaign to say they agreed with the president. >> well, i actually think as we sit several months before an election, what the american people are paying attention to right now is the fact that the supreme court of the united states ruled president obama's signature pieces of legislation a tax. when the president went out and sold it to the american people in 2009 saying it was not a tax and sent his own solicitor general saying it is a tax and now i think when you are talking about muddled messaging, i listen to ben le bolt earer

where he was actually arguing whether or not this is a penalty or a tax. i have to to say the american people believe this is a tax. the supreme court ruled it is a tax. at the end of the day, that is what this president is going to be -- that's what the american people are going to weigh at him. >> is it hard to consider that the governor from massachusetts is a tax-raising governor that will legaled gop ticket. >> right now we are talking about obama care and the supreme court of the united states ruling obama care as a tax. >> when are we talk about what's what the supreme court ruled, the messaging from mitt romney and the campaign for those who have been paying attention might be a little confused and left scratchi their head. that is all cleared up. the com me in campaign and everybody feeling that it is a tax. >> it is a tax, yes. >> the obama team and the

campaign slapping different labels on the candidate that can be toxic in swing states like ohio and pennsylvania. the term of outsourcer and jobs, now there is the new report with the offshore bank accounts in bermuda and it's completely legal and legally omited from his financial reports with money he has in switzerland and swiss bank accounts. are you worried? is the rnc worried that your candidate is being defined by everyone but the romney campaign? >> talking about outsourcing, there have been several fact checks that fact checked the obama attacks as completely false. you have the president's team trying to distract from the fact that if anybody is an outsourcer in this election, it's the president. when you talk about the millions of stimulus dollars that have gone overseas instead of what they were supposed to do with

the stimulus that is create jobs here. we argued for several years he hasn't done. at the end of the day, we need to be talking about what the president promised to do-over the last 3 1/2 years and what he hasn't done. that's what we will be talking about as we have our bus tour with governor jindal and pawlenty. we are going to make sure we are hold the president's feet to the fire and answering questions about what he promised to do and hasn't done which aring outsourcing. >> nice to see you this morning and thanks for your time. >> thank you. a lifeguard risking his live to save another and loses his job. this story has a lot of people out raged including his coworkers and at least three kids died after being electrocut electrocuted. it could have been four, but there was one miracle. we will expln after this. man: there's a cattle guard, take a right.

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where is the party or where is the love or any of that in part because the president has to be seen as helping the down card and asking for their help. if the partisan role is playing. i have to say t although tip o'neal is right

about all politic being local, it is short sided to imagine your seat is safer when you are not getting a sense of enthusiasm to the president who is running for reelection. >> say we compare the dnc to your wedding and you invite your family to your wedding and the family doesn't show up. everybody that is there starting to wonder where is cousin billy. perception is reality. why aren't they here supporting my wedding? >> it's true. i'm a big fan of having small weddings. so maybe part of this is -- >> i don't think president obama is a fan of having a small wedding. if the convention is a parallel to a wedding. he wants a big old family party what everybody being there to support. >> this is in a certain way a renewal ceremony and showing up and saying look, i have done four years and i need you to

stand here and say what i have done is good. one of the critical issues is making the case and telling the american people here's what i've done and getting specific with it. here's how health care will hel1 and here's what the stimulus did in your neighborhood. he has to have these member who is can go back and say these are the policies that impacted congressional district 4 or 7 or 12. here's how it made a difference. it will be much easier for them to carry that message if they are there at the party to find out what the message is. >> meanwhile today ann romney stepped up defense of her husband. i want to play a little something said on cbs and get your reaction. >> number one, they are not correct and it makes you recognize that they are going to do everything they can to destroy mitt. they are trying to portray him in a light that is completely

wrong. >> 'is that? >> it's politics as mitt said. i think early on we heard what the strategy was. it was kill romney. that was their memo that came out from their campaign. it's like not when i'm next it him you better not. >> ann romney coming to the defense of her husband talking in reference to team obama and their willingness to squash the hopes of mitt romney. she say very strong presence at her husband's side especially in interviews. that is the strongest language she has used. >> she is more likeable and genuine and more appealing to independent voters. it's not a bad srategy to put ann romney out front. she has been a political spouse for a very long time. she certainly knows that the language of kill romney is certainly not language about actually taking the life or even

fund amally taking the character of him away. no one thinks it's a good idea or i don't to use language that sounds violent. it's not acceptable from the right or the left. certainly for a strong voice, it is something general le appealing to people in a way that mitt romney himself is not. in the end as she knows as a political spouse, mitt romney's name is on the ballot and mitt romney, not ann romney has to come across as the strong leader. >> mitt might be driving the campaign, but she is driving the jetski. >> she was and looking good. >> thanks so much and as always, you can catch melissa's show each saturday here on msnbc from 10:00 aim to noon. here's a look at other stories topping the news. at the top of the hour, a florida judge will announce if george zimmerman will leave or remain behind bars. they revoked zimmerman's bond

after they misled the court about the finances. they are awaiting the court decision. more alleged terrorists following early morning raids that netted six suspects. armed police used grenades and stun guns in the operation in separate locations across the city. one was a mile from olympic park and officials say the suspects were not linked to theç upcomi gyms. iran is threatening twist retaliation to an attack on the country. iran's military said they could destroy bases within minutes of an assault. iran's missiles could reach 35 u.s. bases and american officials are skeptical of those claims. this week iran spent three days testing the missiles and the drones. survivors of a fourth of july boating tragedy of mourning the loss of three children in the waters off long island. their yacht capsized seng 27

passengers overboard. victims were plucked from the water, but they searched for the kids only to find them on the submerged boat. the victims were a 12-year-old boy and two girls aiminged 11 and 8. the cause could be weather, a wave, or overcrowding. >> early morning storms as the holiday heat wave persists. power was knocked out to 200,000 michigan homes and out of state crews are coming to repair the damage. 55% of the country is experiencing moderate to exceptionally dry conditions. john yang is live in chicago. explain to all of us. any relief for that area or is it going to stay in the triple-digits? >> it's going to stay. it's already 91 degrees here. when you factor in the 45% humidity, you get a heat inde which is how hotit feels of 94. the forecast for today is for

the air temperature hitting 102. that would tie a record setç i 1911, more than a century ago. with the humidity which is expected to climb this afternoon, the heat index could hit 115 degrees. it's so hot here, the streets are buckling in downtown chicago. along columbus drive along brant park. they have clezed the chicago public schools and closed summer school classes today in 18 schools that don't have air conditioning. the heat is not just here. it's across the region. we had triple-digit highs and expected again today in st. louis. they had eight straight days. today if they hit 100 it will be the eighth straight day they have been in triple-digits. highs and triple-digits as far north as minneapolis, milwaukee,

madison, wisconsin and no end in sight. the excessive heat advisory here in chicago in place through friday night over the weekend. we do expect a front to move through with storms that will bring the temperatures down. so far this year, the united states has set more than 41,000 hot temperature records, but fewer than 6,000 sold temperature roars. >> when you see the streets buckling and the video coming out, it explains ought. john yang live in chicago. i appreciate it. we told you a few minutes ago, there was a tragedy on the fourth of july off of long island and the other story with story being electrocuted while they were swimming on the fourth. two siblings were killed while swimming near a private dock near the lake of the ozarks. both died at the hospital. faulty wiring on the dock that wasn't grounded properly is most lick le to blame.

>> two boys swimming on house boats when they were struck by an electrical current. died and an 11-year-old is on life support. a faulty cord may have caused that accident. we move on this to this story and a lifeguard sprang into action when a holiday swim turned dangerous in florida. he helped save a life, but couldn't save his own job. live in florida with the story that has many outraged. >> this lifeguard has a job to save lives. he was fired after trying to save someone from drowning. when a stranger ran up to him asking for help, lopez jumped out of his chair. >> i was on stand and a guest came up and said there was someone drowning and people were screaming. i started running in the direction. >> here ran past a grown flag marking his zone it a location several hundred feet away. there a man was struggling in the water in an unguarded

section of the beach where a sign sai swim at your own risk. >> i heard tommy saying i'm going for a risku, but it's out of our zone. our manager, matt williams was saying don't go. call 911. >> lopez arrived at the scene and beachgoers pulled the man out of the water. >> iç put him in the recovery position and had a nurse come and help me. >> he cared for the victim until paramedic arrived. when he got become to his chair, he feared he was in trouble. >> i'm going to lose my job. >> the management, outside company used by the city to manage the lifeguards fired lopez for leaving his assigned area and not following proper procedures. >> i was prepared for it. it wasn't too much of an upset because i had my morals intact. >> here knew the incident wasn't in his zone, but he felt like he had to do something. nbc news spoke with the management company where the

president said we need to know the facts of what happened. once this investigation is complete, if we did something inappropriate, we will make it right. that includes offering him s employment back if he was terminated in haste. several others quit in protest over the incident. >> if that was my family, i would go for them. >> that's someone's life. we are lifeguards. >> in a statement the beach said we take the safety of our visitors seriously whether they are in a protected or unprotected area, aid must be rendered. >> that was mark potter reporting. the president of the management company said he hopes to wrap up the investigation and review the facts and lopez will learn if he can get his job back. >> we have breaking news out of florida. a little while ago we were expecting at the top of the hour a judge to announce whether or not george zimmermanç would lee

bail on bond. a florida judge granted a bond a second time around to george zimmerman. we are trying to get the exact number of what they issued the bond for. we will work on that, but the orlando sentinel is saying it's $1 million. a florida judge granting bond a second time around with the local florida newspaper there. the sentinel reporting it at $1 million. in june they revoked the bond after learning that they misled the court about the finances and nbc has independently confirmed that george zimmerman has been released or granted a bond. we will see how he posts on that and whether or not he will be getting out of jail today. coming up next, the american dream. myth or reality and what many think about the june jobs report. you can weigh in on the stories of the day. just tweet me.

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optimism in a slow but consistent economic growth. there is a poll showing 60% believe economic conditions will be good a year from now. the positive trend hit a brick wall last month, making tomorrow's report crucial to maintaining that national hope. the president of river twice research and contributor news week as well as the daily beast. it's great to have you here. i want to show everybody becae as we talk about the fact that there is this optimism. we look at the job growth and show the trends at the beginning of the year, it looked like we came out as gangbusters to start off 2012. a lot of people's eyes thought this meant we will see a strong year. however the pulse has weakened month after month after month. how is tomorrow's report going to keep the conversation -- we are really close to not having a pulse when it comes to being in positive territory. >> even the early thbs, in an

economy of 300 million people, we need the jobs to stay flat. people being born and entering the workforce. it's not that job growth was that good and tomorrow is not going to change the conversation at all. even if it's 150 or 200,000. things are getting worse or bad to feel like theyç are and the fact that it's not getting worse will give the ammunition to feel like things are stable. >> we continue to hear about th taking place in europe. explain that as we go into the summer now, and here we are halfway through the year and people are going to take their eye off of what's taking place. obviously, family vacations, things that are going on, but europe remains pivotal to our economy here and moving forward in our recovery. >> so, you're going to have a lot of really weak economic data in july that reflects a lot of concern in april, may, or most of what the data we get is

backward-looking, because you know, you don't get a lot of realtime -- >> it's monday morning quarterbacking. >> so, you get a lot of weak stuff, because in april and may, a lot of people around the world, america one of that part, felt like, oh, my god, if the eurozone collapses, that's going to have incredibly bad ripple effects. the problem then is, again, you have this even division in the united states between people who feel like things are okay and getting better and people who think that things are bad and getting worse. so, when you get the jobs report and then you get this information in july that reflects weakness in the past, it will enter the same dynamic of people who think things are getting better will say, oh that was just the past, it was just the spring. people who think things are getting worse will see, i told you so, and then the political dynamic is going to be the republicans are going to say this proves that the recovery is terrible and obama has messed up, and democrats will say it just was europe in the spring and things are getting better. and unfortunately, i think this is the kind of dynamic we're going to be in, because we're not going to get this incredible we're off to the races signal

any time soon. >> you've just covered our whole day's news right there with the jobs report. >> thereç you go. >> zachary, great to see you. >> thanks, tom. london olympics and the amputee. these four words will go down in history and the books the next time for all of us when we see the name oscar pistorius, the track athlete with metal springs for legs will compete in the 400-meter and relay in london. the sports and olympic committee decided yesterday he would represent the country after missing qualifying by 0.022 seconds last week. he will be the first amputee to compete in the olympic games. man: there's a cattle guard, take a right.

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it is good to be back in ohio. all right. everybody who's got a chair, feel free to sit down. just go ahead and relax.ç i know it's a little warm out here, but this is how summer's supposed to feel like. the couple of people i want to acknowledge. first of all, please give ina a big round of applause f the great introduction. we're proud of her. i am so pleased to see once again the outstanding mayor of maumee, tim wagner! there he is. one of the best senators in the country, your senator, sherrod brown. [ cheers and applause ] one of your outstanding members of the congressional delegation,

marcy kaptur is here. and your former governor and my campaign co-chair, ted strickland's in the house. [ cheers and applause ] i love you! it's great to see you! i hope everybody had a wonderful fourth of july. we invited some people over for a barbecue, had a chance to say thank you to our incredible men and women in uniform, and -- we're so proud of them. and then it was malia's birthday yesterday. she was 14 years old. and i know, it happens too fast. don't even remind me. she's going intoç high school next year, which means that she's -- see, when she was small, i could say all these fireworks i had arranged