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this issue. it is tearily impossible to keep up. it is time for the last word with lawrence oh den nol. >> president obama is now the first president to voterly which has inspired me to be the first cable anchor to voterly right here on his show tomorrow night. i have 24 more hours of being undecided. >> the romney campaign is in the sleed down the streech. >> when i'm elected. >> our campaign is gaping. >> here is the thick, trust matters. ♪ >> our campaign is gaining. >> when i'm elected. >> we are going to win on november 6ming. >> time magazine has the president obama up by five
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points. >> we are going to win by the way. our campaign is gaining. >> obama has the rang elect t e torially. >> we are going to win on november 6th. here is the thing trust matters. >> what he said was crazy. life is a gift from goz. even when life begins in that horrible situation from rape. if it is a jit rate rape the female body has rays to shut that done.
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i'm going to lose my mind. tonight team romney is saying that they have the momentum but some are saying no, he does bt. >> doesn't. >> i might say if the election were held today the president might have a slight edge. i don't think they should get a big head of staem. >> i think. >> that is what romney and the document thinks. he became the first president to
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cast an early ballot for the united states. >> the president voted in chicago a solid blue state of illinois whose 20 votes he will surely win. which is why he except the rest of today cpaigning in the toss up states where tonight he said this. >> i don't know how a guy sits on a stage and you are say iing somehow that the people in detroit remember. the people of ohio remember. i bet on american workers and manufacturing and i do it in
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this because that always pays off. plaus laws. >> mitt romney also campaigned in ohio tonight where he continued to pretend that the polls are pointing his way. >> we are taking back america and it is coming soon. >> but he is not taking it back. >> in nevada president obama leads by 50 points and mit romney is not taking opcolorado. >> new pp robopolling, shows in wisconsin the president leads. in north carolina, president obama and miz are tie at 48%.
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tonight ed silver as the 48-year-old storm. so, crystal ball, the romney thing doesn't apply to the sing states where he needs it to apply. well,ing it doesn't apply in the national polls either. out of those polls the one that has to be the most distrucking one of those having abin vebl path. i don't see how that is going to happen. the debates are done.
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they don't seem to have anything in the bag. >> let's take a look at the new obama add. >> it is said that character is what we do when we think nobody is looking. mitt romney thought no one is looking when he attacked 47% of americans. it will make cuts to education. so remember what he said and what his plan will do. >> it is a strong add and the point is we, the voters have to keep track of what he says. because he won't. he is always changes his position. i think she is so yesterday i
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don't think they realize that the entire voting structure is changes. that goes to the question you posed. is there momentum? >> in ohio obama has a 30 point lead. in iowa, a 20 point lead. that is the lead from the ballots from the leading districts. but are they going to make up 25 points in iowa? >> and then they can give their announcements. >> the voting will begin here tomorrow. it is a california ballot. it is complex. >> i have flown in.
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a former governor of california to help me. >> it is tough. let's look at an endorsement that the president got today. colin powell endorsement. it started to make sense. this time the entire country could see it coming. >> i voted for them for advice president joe biden next month. i think we are starting to gain altitude. let's cut taxes and commensate for that. commenization does not cut it. >> that is a republican sin
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trist talking about. >> i think you are right. depending on how the election goes right, you are hearing burn, in torms of getin terms o gettable endorsements, it is not as important. when you think of people in america who are broadly trusted and respects. colin powell is willing to develop into the partisan issues and not only support barack obama, but explain and critique barack obama. >> that commenization does not
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cover the custs. the math that is a man who cares deeply about our men and women in unfor. so there is no one better than former sock tri of state powell. to get up there and say mitt romney is not being truthful about the numbers and you can't be trusted to fund the pentagon. >> i'm not sure how much the endorsements mean. >> i want to take analysis of this:. >> i agree with that. i would say that romney peaks
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tooery and it wasn't enough. he still wasn't winting in the battleground states. >> president obama says this good bill clinton in the interview. we also muddies up the lit tall narrative to sum how blame my poll says that the previous can point that out in whiches that were powerful. >> no president no president not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all of the damage that found in
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just four years. >> he is the only way that you can make a statement like that from credits al, ateerns. one of the things that he loved the speech. paul ryan voted 91% of the time. mitt romney doesn't have a both plan and then you compare it are president. clinton was the master of cutting democrats. >>. thank you both. >> coming up.
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mitt romney's ice thea of liter chip who thak think that rape prag nancies that fod ip tended to chap. swroo and youiesed the work that i used a word that i can't use that the president used. we are hot sure where the profanity line. i'm foeing to use it when the time comes and in the write rye the pasage raet offer tax the. ha is coming up. [ female announcer ] they can be enlightening.
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fawas mitt romney today walking away from hit tipped support from the candidate in indiana who said this. >> even we life gips ip that pour ib situation of rape. it was something that jop in tedded to happen. joy, this one is not walk ago
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way. >> no, it is interesting. he is so confident. as he is projecting on the trail? >> he is abraid to do so. right next to mr. romney is a young man who said the following. he said i've call ways adopted the idea that the mess age of men only doesn't affect the meaning of life.
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room know needs them in the margins. >> that is the thing. if romney would say no, he should aprol nys forrying that some. the think tie abortion right which is a large facts in the republican party would say was you dpo think. what is miss romney has chosen paul rye yap. he is running adds clossen to r long ser is they agree on the
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policy. he thinks that you can get pregnant from rape. let's look at this add that came out today. >> it is something that god intended to happen. >> when it come to rape. should it be legal for a woman to get an aworse? >> the method of conception doesn't change the definition of life. >> and president obama is backing that up. i want to hear something to was
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said moments ago. >> i saw it. you don't want a bunch of policieses in washington making health care decisions for women. that is what i stand for and continue to stained for a president of the united states of america. >> i have to bet that the president has the voters who rank this as a high and important issue for them. is this being used as a turnout tactic? >> yeah, if you look at the poll, the only gap that barack obama needs to make up is the n enthusiasm gap.
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paul ryan and the house of representatives tried to pause this into law because of the house of representatives. if they win and get the senate, they will pass that stuff. the obama campaign is troying to convince young women and their supporters. the supreme court is in the balance, bus this is a real threat. when this came up, you ca hear
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you could hear, the typical cross section there and a fair amount of the others, you ca hear in there, they were getting it for the first time. >> and i think it is a challengeth to convince people that the republican party is as extreme as it s they want to ban abortion in every circumstance. the government tells us that only the worst cases. when we had a mitt romney that showed up. after a whole summer of obama representing him as an extremist. this moment are important because we see that this is mitt romney's party and the position that they are coming from. it is important to remind voters who care about women's rights.
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this is not just talk. you mentioned the supreme court. so again, these are not hollow threats. this is a priority and you have people like them taking over the party. and the next supreme court justice will be confirmed by the united states sentence where mourdock may have a vote. other kisses are going to emphasize what the senate is about. >> i think that is why john mccain did this contortion and then he came around to get in line. he needs his guy to vote for him. yoo remember the line from the romney add he will be the 51st to vote.
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>> for control of the senate. and that is this giving him the 51st vote. and women need to take that seriously. >> thank you both for joining me tonight. >> coming up, the president's interview with rolling stone. where he he says i'm do iing to say on this show. well, you have all said it. but there are people here you must never hear it from us on the network. we will be encouraging mow to say it. the judges are going to tell us whether we can use it. and later morock is here to and later morock is here to preview his amazing film.
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you are showing symptoms you can't remember what you said last week. if you start thinking that maybe governor romney wanted to save the auto industry even though he let detroit go bankrupt. don't worry because this is a curable condition. there is a cure. you have to vote. >> in the spotlight tonight romnesia and other colorful
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words. but he recently used a more blunt word to describe the other guy. he describes the truth bomb. as we left the oval office. he told obama he had asked his 6-year-old if there was anything that he she wanted him to tay to the president. after a thoughtful pause she says tell him you can do it. he said you know kids have good instincts. they look at the other guy and say that is a bull -- woe, wait wait this just in.
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i cannot in issue that word. can we get that screen back that shows the quote? asking the control room to do things. there it is. that is a bull iish something. i can tell. that is one of the reasons that the washington post gave today for why it is endorsing him over mitt romney. there is no way to know what he really believes. his contempt seems as sincere as anything else. joining me now and political correspondent of the dpard yan.
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you are banned from using that word. i want to go straight to rush li limbaugh. let's listen to what he said. >> he called romney a bull i cannot say the word. he called him a bull crapper. but he used the real word. if there is anyone doing that to us it is barack obama. he is running on trust me, trust what i say. the other guy is a bull, a wire. >> so it interps out that he has finally found a word too ugly for him to say on his show there. that is a first for hims
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special specially. because that tends to lower his in ibitions. i'm you were asking. the prudish curtain comes down. >> we are shocked by this. >> i have been on the phone call day long. they told me what he actually said. he was straighting a new word he said bull shifter. it didn't get past the copy editors at rolling stone. one of the examples of this which shocked the president in the first debate was mitt romney claiming that he did not have a $5 trillion tax cut plan. >> i'm not looking for that.
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there is no economist that says i will not add to the deficit with my tax plan. and now five weeks before the election he is saying that his idea is never mind. >> he maefs that any six world heard run away from the tax cut plan. >> yes, i think show. and to the extend that we saw emotion on thetage. it can be um summarized. this guy? >> i was hoping that would happen. this is the guy they wanted to run against. he is clearly somebody they feel whose flaws should be obvious.
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the moderate mitt has made a come back. the by who was running before was not someone that a mot rater voter would be able to put into office. >> i think it is press throughouti inin inin ining fru the president and his team. mitt romney they thought could be judged becaused on ideas and policies and past in massachusetts. this guy will say anything. i call it the monte python defense. it is hard to have a debate with someone who says the iraq war not so good when he spent ten
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years depending it. > cleveland remains a family newspaper. they said, but which romney would ne elect? the governor sharply conservative candidate? all pilltations change over time. but this recent changes lake this policy dechip s details the pomore troubles. >> you have have a cowell traiting feelings. so that can drive anyone to
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vulgarity. using family friendly lapg which is exfi will say what he seed to say in from of the audience that he has. >> there is a great anecdote that t that the flow bad, he said we must make a president in 2007. when asked about that, he said you have to satisfy into account who i was sending the letter to. >> i think you don't say more or less than that one story.
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i think on it wipoliticianticse life in joanral. >> thank you both for joining me tonight. >> coming up the next shocking hate loin of the year.
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you know your right no vote? a harvard professor says it is not in the constitution rand in the rewrite tonight the powerful ceo's in america say they want ceo's in america say they want their taxes raised.
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the most your surprising sub head line of the year. here it is page one. ceo's call for action. and the sub head line. executives to press congress to empraise spending cuts and higher tax revenue. in ray story that must have broken the hearts of editor yard line writers from more than u.s.
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corporations to press your definite twusing spent i inin t. he signed a statement saying the tax increases are necessary. make text ort ra there is no w a ashid racing taxing. the ceo statement was in spear the by the samelesam bowls commission said i don't know ow
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can you enjoy it from poeth sides. mr. stephen son is a supporter for president. >> i'm going to ask a question for are i one on the stage. >> the most powerful ceo's in the country think that is crazy. they think the framework in $3 in spending cuts is quote an
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effective framework for a deficit reduction plan. when mr. stephen son was asked about his gap and romney's plan mr. simp ton says this is bigger than any one political candidate. obviously knew mitt romney the business man before candidate romney became the camtive of the tea party. he believes that he can still do the numbers that any ceo can do. it simpossible to do it the way say that kill conton to it.
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>> what new ideas do we bring to wa washington. i always give abanswer. arithma arithmatic. >> the reason we need higher taxes is arithmetic. america is left to get humid will take orders from. this old friends the most powerful ceo's? or niss how frens flow ver nor cryst and the antitax fanattics on his crun ti tz.
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if you don't want to break children's hearts do not try to explain the electoral college to them. >> who is voting for colored pencils. who is voting for markers? 14. for markers. markers have won the popular vote. [ applause ] and now we are poing to have the really election. in the end the whole electrixt
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ot. this will decide the whole thing. how do you cast your vote? >> colored pencils. yeah. >> what is that? >> you are so cheating. >> everyone is thinking it is unfair. >> joining me now is the host of that program. mo rocca so cruel. why don't you wait until we have to allow them to get their hearts broken. >> it will be happen. >> they will realize that kinds graded. >> there is a fat nacing piece here. where you fet into the con
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constitution. >> i haven't seen it. >> i couldn't find anything. >> even using a high-tech device we were coming up empty. i needed help. >> i have been looking all over the country to find the tight to valentine's day. the right to vote. >> i'm not kidding you. >> the constitution made no mention of voting rights. >> did they forget to? >> no. >> they were unsure in fact whether voting was a right or a privilege. >> and they came up with the electoral college. >> not the best parents. >> you know, a lot of your
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viewers are saying of course there is a right to vote. >> but there is not an a affirmative right to vote. >> why there are 13,000 voting districts in the district. >> that mes for example, thousands of different vocontras by voting machines. you have 11 states that have computer voting without a paper trail. >> i learned from you. >> about this popular vote move that some of the big states are engaged in. >> including california.
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it is an end run around the constitution. three quarters of the states, they say they will cast our votes nationally, but when enough states have agreed to it that it will ip include the votes. we are half way there and may happen in 2016. >> i have never lived in a swing state. >> the safe states like new york and california are safe. they are turned out 10% p lower than the spring states. >> the documentary is electoral disfupgs. it is airing through