o chicken parmesan. subway. eat fresh. >> thank you to wisconsin, maryland, anand washington d.c. >> this week on "inside washington," romney racks up 3 more. now it is all about obama. >> we just got to get him out of office. >> the president attacks the ryan budget and mitt romne for backing it. >> he even called it marvelous. >> the president also takes on the supreme court. >> i am confident that the supreme court will not take what would be an unprecedented extraordinary step of

overtuing aaw that was passed by a strong majority of democratically elected congress. >> who will mitt rney choose as a running mate? >> it doesn't matter if that person has national level experience. they areoing to get clobbereded by the lamestream media who does notike the conservative message. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> it turns out aftfter all the commentary, it romney was inevitable afterer all, everything else was just noise. after this week's trifecta up in wisconsin, maryland, and washington d.c., it is all but in the back fomitt romomney. romney was never cfortable

trashing fellow republicans and now he c can go after his fafavored rget. >> years of flying on air force one surrounded by an adoring ststaff telling you you are great, it is enough to think you ght become out of touch. >> time to plug the book. evan thomas, co-author with mike allen of the e-book "inside the circus." "the number one challenge for romney's inner circle is to make the fafabulously wealthy candidate connect with vers." how to they get there? >> tall order, but what you will see is romney talking about helping people. he will el awkward about it. he does have good stories. he and his partners in bain shot down an office and went to find a missing child once.

but he is just not comfortable talking about himself >> mark, howow does it the romney team teach the candidate to get voters to love him? >> t problem is you have to let mitt r romney be mitt romney and accept him with all his kwardness. he is notot emotionally available but you turn that into a virtue, and the secret weapon for him is ann romney. >> nina? >> that is r rig, and awkward as it can be in the ring. -- endearing. but there was a story in "the washington post" that he used loopholes to conceal his fabulous weaealth. that is a red flag to be

journalism professorion. get it out of the way, live with it. >> the likability factor charles. >> i want to fir, and you for squeezing in sah palin. he missed her greatly and were suffering withdrawals. what were we talng about? mitt romney. ninais right, he is likable in an awkward sense, but he is the guy who can lead the country, be responsibl. he is not the charisma gy like obama was in 2008, but he can say, "how is that charisma doing you?" >> the exception with ethics laws -- you can understand it, it is ethical but it is a hard sell with families who are struggling.

> they it should have gotten all of this stuff out. if youou are running for president, all this stuff is ming out. if you let dribble out slowly, you e asking for trouble. mike and i write about this in the book -- he is a pretty good boss. that, i think, comess from the top. he is a fair minded, even-handed boss, and that is n not an ininsignificant thing. that sort of gets lost in the shuffle. >> the unemployment rate for march went down to 8.2, but only one order 20,000 jobs were added. lower that anticipated. >> it's the economy, stupid.

economistsave managed to be wrong almost every month in their projectctions.. they under estimated the growth for three months, overestimated it this time. if the unemploynt rate ticks up again, it is a boon for romney. if it gogoes down, even slowly, that is a problem. >> for the record, i paid $4.29 for a gallon of regular this week. at an exxon, it was $5.45. not reassuring to ththe white house. >> gas prices are on the watch of the incumbent. we know rationally that there is little they can do about it, but is on their watch. >> also, gasoline prices -- mark is right -- are not directly

influenced by any incumbent but they remind people up some of the things they don't like about the obama administration. the keystone pipeline, at shutting down of drilling. even if you are an extreme environmentalist, you know we are i in the midst of an credible boom in oil and shale, and the obama administration and its left-wing allies are doing everything they can to minimize it -- >> [laughter] >> he claims there is mo drilling -- >> on private and state lands. on federal lands, it is down. there is no way to justify it keystone. the perfect analogy for what obama is doing on fossil fuels. epa has regulation -- >> hey you got your swipe in.

>> i will also give you a fact. the epa pass a regulation that will shut down the entire coal industry in n a couple of decades. >> the extreme non- environmentalists will not rest until there are 1 oil rigs at arlington cemetery. >> the real fear is a war in the middle east, which would drive oil prices through the roof. >> look a at how they are dealing with this. romney using a loophole for non- disclosure is an issue and the fact we don't have a coal industry in a few years is not an issue. i've not seen any verage

>> it is at trojan h horse disguised as a deficit redituction plan. it is really an attempt to impose a radical vision of our country, a thinly veiled social. -- social darwinism. >> we have aresidedent w is good giving big speeches. the problem is he isnot good at leadership. >> that is congressman paul ryan. "the wall street journal" says that " "if there is a l laugher curve for political invective the white house team must think the president has hit it." social darwinism, charles? >> the president accuses ryan of

trickle-down, a trojan horse social darwinism. who writes this rubbish? he and the democrats have not presented a budget in three years. here is the republicans present budget, which is serious. it's got its flaws but it attacks entitlements, tax reform. this president has not done anything about it. has deced he cannot run on his recordrd notoing to run on his visision. nobobody has any idea what he will do in the second term except dmitry and vladimir in russia. he will run agast republicans as if republicans were the ones in office. at is he offering on the budgeget? nothining. >> it is hard to know whosose budg is the bigger joke obama's or the republicans'. they are irresesponsnsible in the

extre. >> tell me how t rya budge is irresponsible. >> it does not tell you at all what loopholes he wowould close.e. itouldhut down the faa one day a week, all sorts of -- >> and it increas defse spending while basically obliterating what ia relatively small piece of the budget, discretionary spending, everything from head start to enforcement of securities laws. >> mark? >> this was a politicacal week. the president knowows the following -- mitt romney is th most unpopular nomin in history of either party. what you wt to do is make mitt

romney the republican party. that is what this was all about. > why does he attacked the paul ryan budget? >> the republicans in congress are less popular than the democrats inin congress and the white house. you want to make this campaign about budget and budget cuts and tax cuts for the best of, the angry affluent. that is where obama wants to run theampaign, not on unemployment. >> fight it on studentoans. he wants to fight it on an end to student loans, the safety net, scientific research whihich has made this countntry great. ththose are the things that sound -- to sound the alarm bells on. conversely republicans want to

make it about this willl default. >> obama will win the argument if the electorate is as well as nina mark, and evan. [laughter] you just said it cutting student loans. the ryan budget keeps the level of progress exactly where it is. obama wants to keep inflating the amount of spending the government is doing 25% of the onomy, the highest since the second world war. the average is 22%. it is now at 25%. what hehe calls cut means thatt not increasing the b budget he has inflated radical. >> you think if we enacted the ryan budget it would deal with the deficit? >> absolutely.

>> how do you say that? he does not say anything -- >> revenue.. >> loopholes -- wantnt? >> i find it in a string -- interesting that you are defending administration. >> i am not defending the ministration! what loopholes? >> he is leavingng it to the house ways and means committee could your party has not offered -- >> not myarty. >> what have the democrats offered on medicare? >> you are not answering my question. i think the democrats are terrible. >> it wilill be capping onhe mortgage interest rate deduction. it will be tapping of the health care reduction. >> he ought to say it. >> youant the republics --

>> i want themem to tell the truth.

>> it will b be upheld because it should be upheld. that is t just my opinion. ththat is the opinion of a whole lot of constitutional law professors, academics, judges, and lawyers, who have defended this law even if they are not rticularly sympathetic to this legislation, predency -- or my prpresidency. >> "the wall street journal" editorial-page -- the president needs a remedial course in judicial review. >> the piece of legislation was

approvoved by congress, but not by a huge margin. that'number one. member t -- n 2, the court has often overturned acts of congress. what it has not done for is 3/4 of the century is overturned a majojor piece of regulatory legislation under the commerce clause. but that is not what he said. >> isn't unusual for a president to attack the supreme court before they hand down a decision? >> it's stupid. >>s there president to this? >> -- prececedent to this? >> he says there is still te to preserve the legitimacy of the court by upholding the legislation. >> that can produce a backlash. you saw the j judge go bonkers and y, "i want a three page letter

from the attorney general saying he still belies in judicial supremacy." it shows you what this can devolved into. >> the president engage in political grave robbery.y. he talked about unelected judges. that is an exclusive the phrase of right-wing critics. isis he suggesting we elect jujudges? i don't think so, but "unelected judges" is not a contribution to national disiscussioion. >> charles, i have a feeling you do not care for what the president had say. >> what can i add to what my liberal colleagues had to say? they are absolutely right. i would have thought john roberts has a sense of the legitimacy of the court, legacy of thehe court, at of the five conservatitive justices, he would

be t most resistant to overturning. but when you have the presesident challengining you in public attempting to bully the court, i think it would make him inclined to disregard the issue and a judge onhe constitututional merits.. >> we like to think they are about that. > -- above that. >> they argument being > -- are human beings >> they should not be totally above it. the constitution n is not frozen in stone. the independent judiciary is the crown jewel in is demoacy. but you saw this we from the presidenent and from that judge how it can give a -- it can

deolve. devolve. presidents are entitled to criticize the court, but it can be hairy. if he wants to criticizeze the court, he should get somebody elelse to do it.

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wi your government. from surplus car auctions finding a new job our new mobile apps will keep you updated on the g so, check out usa.gov. because the cotry runs better when we stay connected. >> i pickck who ihink is going to be the nextresident of the united states, at mitt romney. >> paul ryan with mitt romney in wiscsin. marco rubio keepeps saying no. >> the question for a vice president is do you go back or micro? i want to win a state so i go with rob portmtman.

or to i nt tmake a statementand pick sebody outstside the political arena -- david petraeus? pa ryan brings with him a lot of conservative columnists and certainly the editorial page of "the wall strereet journal." >> what about a woman? the governor of new mexico, south carolina >> if politicians learned anything from palin it was that youu really have to have somebody who has been in the wars a bit that you know everything about it to take a relative novice is asking for trouble. >> palin excited people. >> she was ultimately a disaster. i think the guy he wod like is rob portman.

his kind of guy. >> pawlenty, mitch daniels, john thune? >> all saf it would be a complpletely anti- charismaicket. [laughter] it mht work considering 2008. i think itould be marco rubio. there are a lot of people on that campaign working on his past. if he passes the cleanliness test, he is the perfect candididate. hispic florida is a itical state, and he has a grt story. >> romney is gone on hispanics. remember how romney ran against recovery. -- rick perry. he said he had been too compassiate because he wanted the dream m act inin texas. somebody who has been here against their will, joined the military, went to college.

he did the same thing against newt gingrich. the problem with what portman -- rob portman is bush. bush's budget negodirector tre notiator, and you don' want washington on your ticket. >> last word. see you next week.