ads. let me play you what david said this morning. >> no doubt elections are about the future. we are beginning in the battle ground states and there only eight or this time to educate voters about the choice. >> if you are pointing out the differences, is it easier for mitt romney to use the president's record against him? >> that's what he is trying to do. mitt romney wants to talk about the economy and what he calls the president's failed policies. how the nation is caught in an economic trap and that the president try and failed to pull the economy out of the trap. mitt romney is going to go that route and incumbents whether it's president obama or any other is focused on the future and if you listen to the president's reelection message, it's give me four more years to continue to pull us out of this deep economic hole. we are making progress, but i need more time.

>> that's a key differentiator here. are you looking at the past or the future? among independent voters, 35% said obama's first term would weigh more heavily on their vote and 49% said it was the prospect of his second term. that would seem, susan to bode well for the president. >> the president though owns what happens with the economy. we have seen the jobs numbers have been disappointing and that's why the president tried to change the subject to talk about taxes and for whom the bush tax cuts should be extended. he will be in iowa talking about that issue. mitt romney will be talking about the issue of jobs. one works better for the president. the unemployment rate is 5.1%, way below the national average. he can try to talk about something other than the unemployment numbers. >> if you look at iowa where the

president is headed, it's none like that poll. the democrats support the republicans -- i'm sorry, democrats support president and republicans support mitt romney. we use this number at the top. just 142,500 persuadable voters. in a state the size of iowa, that is preposterous. how does either side appeal to a state with that unemployment? >> for president obama he has to hammer away at the idea that his policies have been working for them. i think for mitt romney, he is not going to be in iowa today. i am sure he will go there and every little bit counts and i think mitt romney can go to iowa and say you are doing fine. you are doing okay. you could be doing better. 7.4% unemployment. >> 5.1. >> 5.1.

mitt romney has been saying if he were president he could bring unemployment down below 5%. mitt romney would have a message he could take to iowa and independent voters who are concerned and worried about where the country is going. the economy. >> i want to bring in an iowa congressman who knows about his state. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> we saw the president get on the plane. it will be his fourth visit to iowa this year. the first lady has been there multiple times and the vice president has been there. this is a state with 6 electoral voels. the governor said all these are a sign the president is in trouble. iowa launched him and think iowa is going to sink him. iowans really feel betrayed. what's your response to the governor? >> the governor doesn't know what he is talking about.

if you look at the same numbers, the governor takes full credit for. the bottom line is the same policies the president promoted to get us out of the worst recession since the great depression have been working in iowa because of a combination of investments in education and trying to rebuild our manufacturing infrastructure which has been devastated bia decade. my work has been focussed on rebuilding the manufacturing base which is absolutely critical to expanding our little class and providing stable employment and good-paying jobs to help us claw our way out. >> for the picture is so rosy there, to the governor's point, we know this is going to be a tight election and the president only has so many hours in a day. why is he there so often and sending his top surrogates and

the first lady and the vice president if he is not worried? why is he spending so much time in iowa? >> iowa is still an important state in the president's strategy for wing reelection. that's the bottom line on how c campaigns are conducted. we have the most nonpartisan reapportionment in the country. that's a good thing. you have to make your case on what you are doing to improve the quality of life for the people you represent. the president is going back to talk about building the little class from the inside out. rather than from failed economic policies that mitt romney would follow that have been proven disasterous from the middle class. >> you wrote an op ed. obama is bet betting on american workers and romney isn't. the rnc chairman is launching

his own offense. let me play a clip. >> we are going to unveil a messaging plan in iowa on barack obama being the outsourcer in chief, taking taxpayer money and sending it overseas and not the working families. we are getting aggressive. >> they are taking the democrats out against mitt romney and turning it around. what would you say? >> it's preposterous and if anybody should understand that, it's somebody from wisconsin who has seen his governor try to take away jobs from hardworking members of the wisconsin population and make sure that they don't have a job. that's one of the reason yes wisconsin has been struggling as much as it has. this is about investing in america and focussing on education which is the building block of innovation and investing in our infrastructure and investing in manufacturing. those are the things that promoted a strong robust middle

class. when the middle class is doing well, we do best as a country. >> congressman, it's great to have you on the program. thanks so much. >> thanks for having me on. >> at outsource.com, a billion in stimulus goes overseas and jobs outside the u.s. what is the republican strategy? >> the republican strategy is to push back on the argument that made inroads against mitt romney and his bain capital outsourced american jobs. they found that to be effective. why isn't president obama doing better in iowa, a state that is economically doing so well? interesting piece in the registry talked about people who supported obama there in 2008 feel responsible for launching

him as a successful contender and felt he hasn't delivered. the disappointment that iowa voters feel may be greater because they feel some special ownership of the fact that he became the democratic nominee. >> it does seem to be the fact that that enthusiasm that we saw for the president in 2008 and you see it among young voters. the question for barack obama is not just the independent voters, but keeping his base, the people who were so fired up about him four years ago to get them to the polls. >> sure and no doubt this year versus 2008 is moderately diminished. when you look at "the washington post" and the abc poll, we have a specific question about the enthusiasm gap and you have to say you should see that the enthusiasm for president obama among his base is very strong. it's over 50%. the enthusiasm for mitt romney,

not so much. it's about 38 to 39%. you have a situation where speaker boehner the other day admitted to america is not going to fall in love with mitt romney. the republican party knows who are going to vote for him are not that much in love with him either. >> the republicans have the offense, that the democrats and the obama campaign insist he release more of his taxes. they put out a two-minute video about it. president obama who talked to a lot of local station over the last 24 hours addressed a similar question with a similar tv station. let me play that. >> is it your belief that it's unpatriotic for someone to have a swiss bank account? >> i think what's important if you are running for president is that the american people know who you are and what you have done and you are an open book. that is true of every

presidential candidate dating back to mr. romney's father. >> is that the heart of the argument that we want our politicians to be an open book and up front and tell us all these things? is it really subtly about this is a guy who doesn't get most of you working class americans? >> that is an underlying message. we found it in past elections, an effective attack to say why don't we use it as a condition of releasing tax returns and not just one year. that's an attack that romney's surrogates have stumbled in trying to respond to. at the town hall meeting he is doing today, i wonder if he might get a question about that and we can hear him respond. >> it is interesting since haley barber talked about this yesterday. let me play that. >> should he release the tax returns? >> i would. should it be an issue?

i don't think it amounts to ditsdsy. >> do you think americans are wondering what's in the tax returns? >> sure they are. folks want to know their president is an open book and it gets to transparency. if governor romney can hand over 23 years of tax returns to senator john mccain when he was being vetted for vp in 2008, why can't he release the same amount of years to the american people so that they can see and be assures that the person who hopes to let them is not hiding anything or benefiting unfairly due to laws and things like that that only the super rich can avail themselves of. why won't he? as the president alluded, george romney when he was running, released 12 years of tax returns of the previous 12 years to show he had nothing to hide and show where his money came from. >> we will be watching to see if

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president obama is on the road to extend tax cuts for american who is make less than $250,000 a year. he is meeting with an iowa family who had to pay $2,000 more in taxes without that extension. he got push back from democrats who want the extension for those

making under $1 million. mitt romney slammed the plan. >> another kick in the gut to the middle class in america. we saw a terrible jobs report last week and now to add a higher tax on job creators and on small business is about the worst thing i could imagine to do if you want to create jobs. >> i want to bring in congressman charlie rangle. good morning. >> good morning. >> several democrats in critical house and senator races, bill nelson and senate candidates diverge from the president and prefer raising taxes on only those making more than a million. where do you fall? >> i don't think they are diverging from the president. they say they support the president, but if they had their druthers they would increase to those making $1 million. everyone agrees on one thing. at least those making less than

250,000 deserve the tax cut. the president said it well. if everyone republican and democrats, liberal and conservatives agree that these people deserve a continuation of the tax cut, why don't we just do that and as it relates to whether it's a million or a billion, put that aside and let the politics prevail then. >> part of the problem is that $250,000 is different depending on where you live. for someone like chuck schumer who had to be pushed by the white house to agree to this, and nancy pe loelosi in san francisco. that's not the same as a quarter of a million. the average price, for example, of a manhattan home is almost $1.5 million so $250,000 is different for someone who lives in new york city. you can see the difficulties for

those who say the cap is low? >> they are luck fe they have that kind of a problem. the $250,000 and the $1 million is not the deal breaker. the republicans have made up their mind they are not going to do anything no matter how logical or how much sense it makes that made the president look good in the political light. they said this 3 1/2 years ago. i never thought that a bill that would continue for 98% of the american people a fair tax cut that they would hold them hostage in order to fulfill their goal to defeat the president. it doesn't make sense. whether you want 250 or 500,000 wore $1 million, why don't we agree on what we agreed on. $250,000 everyone agrees on, republicans alike. they don't care about the logic. they want to embarrass president obama. to hold these people hostage is

wrong. i don't think the american people are going to tolerate this. i really don't. >> should i make note of the fact that you deserve congratulations and have confirmed the primary win about two weeks after the voting. new york looks to be a surprise to a lot of people in a state that is so blue pivotal for the house majority. eight seats are in play and redistricting put some seats up for grabs that may not have been. where can democrats as you see it win back the seats they lost in 2010. do you agree that new york is looking pivotal? >> i agree with you and i think the republicans won their outstanding victory not because people are in love with the tea party, but they recented the congress and incumbents. now that they see what they were replaced with with the tea party

meanness and they would rather defeat the president than to develop a policy that is good for the nation, i think out to turn them out. again, people have a feeling that the congress itself should be doing better. that's how we lost those seats and that's how we have to get the seats back. >> charlie rangle, congratulations and thanks for taking the time. >> good to be with you. >> one of the most closely watched senate races got more interesting. elizabeth warren reports she raised $8.6 million last quarter. that brings the grand total to $24 million. her opponent scott brown hasn't released his second quarter fund-raising numbers yet, but raised $12 million through the first quarter of 2012. hmm, it says here that cheerios helps lower cholesterol as part of a heart healthy diet.

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the latest to reject the affordable care act. they want to stall or stop carrying out the requirements all together, calling it socialized medicine this will bankrupt his state. >> the bottom line is that medicaid is a failed program. to expand this program is not unlike adding 1,000 people to the titanic. >> there is a bottom line question. what does it mean to people who live in states like texas. msnbc's richard louie. >> more than half of the country's states who wanted to stop the affordable care act. even though the land's highest court upheld the law, in addition to the six governor, the brock o brookings institutions said they are refusing to execute the law. governor perry's refusal means 1.4 million people will not for

now. on average, a person in this group i was showing you makes from around $3,000 a year up to just under $15,000. these are the poorest living on 26 to 133% of the poverty line and in addition rejecting medicaid, some are rejecting creating their own insurance exchanging, another of the law's requirements. these are designed to be amazon.com, but they only sell insurance plans. perry is saying no these two, but for texans, that won't change too much. they can still access a federal exchange. the pricing though lower, will still be out of reach for many of the poor i just described. as for the other major groups, people with preexisting conditions, that coverage has been implemented, but a repeal of the law could put them back in the uninsured column. in four don't have insurance, but the rest of the top ten

states recover in that range. the affordable care act increases taxes and costs as well, but according to kaiser would respect red states the most. >> interesting numbers. thank you. right at this moment on capitol hill, the how ways and means committee is talking about implications of the health care ruling and efforts to repeal the law. that is raising questions about how the issue will play out. joining me now, democratic govern nor and ted strickland of ohio and rick tyler. good morning. >> the latest polling shows while most don't approve of the decision to uphold the mandate, the majority do support the law itself. actually the issue of repeal is mixed. should the president leave it alone or does he need to continue to make the case for the individual mandate? >> i think we should make the case. the president should press

forward. the individual mandate as we know was mitt romney's idea. he implemented it in massachusetts and it's working well in massachusetts. chris, one of the things that bothers me about the congress having this vote to repeal obama care is that the people casting that vote, the republicans are themselves receiving taxpayer subsidized health care. i think really to be fair, if they want to take health care coverage away from 33 million americans, they should at least give up their own subsidized health care. >> sorry there hypocrisy on the part of those who get health care and continue to get health care? >> except what the governor is saying every american would like to have the coverage that congress has. they have their own choice of doctor and hospital. that's not included in the obama care and they are getting coverage because their employers

are u.s. government and i think it's unfair because the congress is in a completely different system than what it being proposed on the spy. barack obama and obama roberts care. >> when i was a congressman for the 12 years i was in congress, i received and suspected no taxpayer subsidized health care because it was unfair to take health care from the taxpayer when so many of the people that i represented had no access to health care. these folks make a good salary. let them put their own behavior where their rhetoric is. it's easy to say we will take it from poor people and accept it for yourself. it's hypocrisy and the american people recognize hypocrisy when they see it. >> there is another criticism that has been levelled that is not going anywhere. it's more than a political set of scare tactics. what do you say to that? >> it gives the american a clear

choice between obama care and what the republicans would propose which is repealing obama care. it has no free market incentives and it will limit access. as you are discussing, it will put more people off of insurance. obama care passed yet we are talking about now we will have less people insured. that seems to be the exact opposite of the direction we wanted to go. less access and healing care will be more expensive and 83% of doctors considered getting out of the profession. when the baby boomers need it, doctors are considering getting out of the profession. that can lead to one thing. rationing. higher costs and rationing and less care. that's what obama care will get us. everywhere where the free market access is. high are quality and better cost and higher quality and more access to care. these are things like liposuction and cosmetic surgery

and certain dental procedures. those have all gone down. those are on the free market. they are not mandated for care. you would have lower cost, better quality and more choices than you would with obama care. >> clearly part of the republican message is resonating when they say too much government and too expensive in a time of economic uncertainty. this was a little while ago on "the daily rundown," they said this about the aca. >> america needs health care reform. obama care is the wrong prescription. the wrong health care reform and we need to get it off the books. we need to look at the policies that will ensure access for every american to affordable health insurance and health care in this country. >> would you agree that there parts of the plan that maybe need adjusting or fixing and how do you approach those. >> the president said he is open to making changes as we go

forward. the fact is that the only part of obama care mitt romney and most other republican leaders object to is the obama part. they say they like dealing with preexisting conditions and they like getting rid of lifetime caps and on and on. after the supreme court ruling, mitt romney stood before the capitol and he said i will get rid of it on his first day. i will take coverage on my first day in office and proceeded to say we like the fact that we ought to have provisions for preexisting conditions and so on and so forth. the american people like the affordable care act when you explain to them what it actually does. what they are being confused by is talk about liposuction and all this crazy stuff. what we have in this country are

millions of people without access to quality affordable health care. obama care will provide that for them and that's why i believe the president me ins to move forward. we need to move forward and make sure that this plan is implemented and when mr. romney comes up with ideas of his own, we will listen to those. maybe we can incorporate them. >> we don't have a strong alternative on the republican side. the governor is right about the polls. people do like coverage for preexisting conditions and their kids up to 26. there many provisions of this health care law that people like and don't top the see go away. >> of course they do, but nobody is denying health care. we have the best access in the world. i was in a hospital that doesn't accept medicare. it is the law. >> then why are so many people in texas uninsured? >> because they can't afford it. we need to drive down the cost of insurance and raise people

out of poverty. we are doing nothing to address those things. that can only be done on the free market and get people wealthy enough to afford insurance in the first place. nobody is denying coverage. everybody would buy a policy if they can afford it. those who can't buy it. we can address that. why don't we give everybody a tax credit and you can use that to purchase insurance. if you don't want to use it, it stays in the government for those who don't want insurance and you will be stuck this that fund. there lots of solutions to this problem. you don't drive a wedge between the doctor and their patient where doctors are legally liable for making decisions about a person's health care. that's wrong. >> rick tyler, to be continued. thanks to both of you. developing now on msnbc, a massachusetts man will plead guilty in a plot to fly remote control planes packed with explosives into the capitol.

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department will be in court fighting a texas law that requires photo id for voters. joining me is texas congresswoman sheila jackson. good morning. >> it's a pleasure to be with you this morning. >> i know you know some states have voter id laws. some have strict laws. if the case does go in favor of this new strict voter id law, how do you think it would affect elections? >> i'm glad to know that general hole holder has gone to the seat of the crime and going to the naacp and speaking about the failures of voter id laws across america and particularly in the state of texas. in actuality they are voter suppression laws. our state has filed lawsuits against the affordable care act with the highest number of uninsured. they are filing for one simple reason. to go to the supreme court and determine that the voting rights act of 1965 outlived its

purpose. this law is to suppress voters because it goes hand in hand with the texas effort to purge 1 million plus voters in the state of texas. me whether or not that is a state looking for voters? they are not. not your student id. this law provides for a state-issued id that more than 20% plus do not have the safety office in those counties. if this was a question of voter impersonation which is what they do, they need to show the statistical analysis of how many people showed up and tried to vote as someone else other than themselves. >> the naacp today. mitt romney is going there tomorrow. just looking at it objectively, you may think it's an exercise in futility since the vast

majority of african-americans in 2008. the fact that he is going there, does it tell you he thinks he can win over african-americans? he will be talking about jobs and given that unemployment rates for african-americans were at 14.4 percents are in june, could he have success? >> as the voter id law is under a false premises, they are nonpartisan and we are delight that mr. romney will be there and the vice president will be there on inside houston. mr. romney will not only speak the words, but stand on his record in massachusetts when she was governor and had the lowest amount of job creation. at bain capital he outsourced jobs. i hope he will say he is in support and acknowledge that is suppresses votes of minorities, latinos, elderly, soldiers and african-americans. i hope he will indicate that if

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president obama and mitt romney hit two battle ground states. taxes and the middle class as new polls showed the race for the white house is at a virtual stand still. president obama is in the air right now, heading to cedar rapids pushing his plan to extend tax cuts for those making under $250,000 a year.

meanwhile mitt romney also in colorado where he will pull the town hall and both sides coming out today with surrogates, over who is the real outsourcer in chief. >> mitt romneys to continue for companies that ship jobs overseas. >> we will unveil a plan today in iowa on barack obama being the outsourcer in chief, taking taxpayer money. >> nbc's director is joining me live from nbc. the white house is trying to change the conversation from the poor jobs report to middle class tax cuts. how worried is the white house about outsourcing starting to dominate the conversation? >> they are not on that story. clearly what they are trying to do is have a text conversation. they believe they have two arguments they can make. they are going after mitt romney personally on his tax issues and the second part of this has to do with the idea of putting mitt romney in a