>> "inside washington" is theght to you in part by american federation of toernment employees, proud make america work. for more information about afge and membersh, visit afge.org. ." >> the word d is out he has not years.y taxes for 10 >> i will not respond to a dirty lawyer. week, n now plalaying scoundrels." also known as the presidenential campaign. then, we were staged four. >> a pro-obama super pacs implies mitromney is death.ible for aoman's >> under obama plan you would

not get to work or train for a job. your checred >> a mitt romy ad accuses the president of cuttg welfare to >> i want to thank you clinton >> bill clinton. clinton get >> both sides with a sudden burst of for bill clinton. as syria is pounded into rubble, supportersesident's states.e is the united mars -- they did not build this baby china. ♪ captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> polls in the keytates of ohio, florida and pennsylvania they a lot ofat voters think a second obama term for thembad news financially. a different -- according to abc poll, 56% of people have a

favorable view of president obama. romney is 40%. uplifting week. the star woocampaign advertisements. begin with a look at the obama super paco- at that implies mitt romney is of ansible for the death former steelworkers wife. >> she passed away in 22 days. i do not think mitt romney done to what he has anyone. he had wororked at a steel almt 30 years. was laid off f after bain plant, acquired the clolosed in 2001. wife died in 2006. lost his job in 2001, but the white had insurance from her ..b lost the insurance after leaving the job because of an injury. obama campaign say this? >> the obama campaign is completely distancing itself frfrom it because they did not n it. thedvertisement has been

by y priorities usa, supports the president but not coordinate with the president. by it. standing are claiming that even seemsbvious the blaming mitt is romney for the hardship of this familythey claim it is time to message, thatnt not sensitive to the fallout from some of the at bainthat were taken capital. the mitt romney campaign is back really hard. that suggests it migight be havg effect. the negative adveisements, if you go back abc/washington post poll, seem to have had any , onct as mitt romney moved up five. roger, your thoughts. bad advertisement, asking theould be the advertisement even thou they have no responsibility for it. it is s just an insult to far.

they wou have been fine with the facts. a takeover of company, loaded debt, pay billions of benefits, close the company, people out of work, no care, end of commercial. ,inking the poor man's wife nobody likes that. that is over board. charles? >> the fiction that t they have do with the advertement, it has one problem. yes, there is this legal , but the high official the actual campaign, she said of thed no knowledge died,s story or when she out there is a of a conference call the she organized for camp campaign where she

story.he they have a secondary problem. they have a secondary problem of telling get >> i think was lasmay. >> everybody is correct. the obama administration can not run from the. . -- it. they had some connection with this individual some time ago. you could find the same thing happening on the other side. loveoint is what i wouould to do is get the people that thee the advertisements, bothign consultants, sides, put them in rfk stadium , system up, and let them have are other, and when you burnedbody is snding, down the place becausese their role in the campaign. >> mitt romney's ys that if they were living in mamassachusetts, she would have been health care. now, mitt romney's ed. >> he removed the requirement of work from welfare. it is wrong to make anany change that would makamerica morere of

government dependndency. >> the president says mitt romney is robin hood in reverse. >> it is romney hood, asking middle class to pay more >> taxes so he could give tax cuts to people making more than $3 million a year. >> it is only august. imagine what it will be like by november 1. >> the welfare at is i in the category of the ad that the obama people you -obama used. they did n get welfare. worktry to give tryirements to states to new ways. you still have parameters of law. they happen to the waivers and

republican -- requested by republican governors. governors. so, it is false. >> as we saw, they are all in love with bill clinton whehen it comes to welfare refoform could -- reform. >> bill clinton is the greatest resurrection since the resurrection. impeach,guy ththat is disgrace,m office in hisled to his wife, several the congress, americantors,the will and this year he give the speech of the democratic convention nominating obama, but on the dick cheney and bush will not be at gop convention because they not that popular. thiss the state of american polics today. >> charles, do you have ththougs on this high discourse? >> i two comments. the one, about rfk, what you

left out was loosening the lions in their care i thought that would be good. theguys are wrong o welfare issue. when the law was written i 1996, and we authorized in liberals tried to gut e requirement. they tried the legislation and they did not succeed. what a lot did to hermetically tol the work requirement is make that section, 407, have no auththority to issue waivers to anybody. the administration, by using a reinstatedha now theauthority of waiting thatrequirement, and theletely undermines becausee of the reform of course the governor wants to federal the amount the toernment will pay and thate the regulations control who gets it or not. but, the federal government -- the achievt ent in 1996 of your great president clinton, was to make the work will on way for

both. the administration has done that a legally. that is why the law is now guarded. -- conducted it. -- gutted. >> first of all, when you bring haslinton, clinton can and refuted it. so, i do not know who they are talking to. independent voters in the

service issue is not about me. romney is the first candidate since his not to reduce incomome tax returns. >> he is lying about the statement about knowing romney.g about mitt > welcome at least senatotor call him a dirty

lawyer. the claim from the chief of says aninside bain capital source says mitt romomny taxes f 10d income years. he as insisted that he is given information is required to give. if he has nothing to hide, why the aggravation it to us? >> he should. accused by obama was being born in the united states he releases but once, but twice the issue to rest, and a is only onean has seen the romney's tax returns. them, and he chose sarah palin. [laughter] >> john mccain also said there is notothing in them that is problematic and john mccain is not a known liar. >>f so, why not release them? >> there are two issues, e

beyond two years, and other issue is the reid.hyism of harry have in my hand a list of 57 economists, which is denounced by liberals for 60 years now. liberals have the edward r. murrow award handed out every because he is the mccarththy.ood up to hetands up, and you know the phrase he used? "word is o. we have the leader of the senate man saying word is will be nobody here it.unced played to a duel republicans cling him a liar. >> one thi, one cos to john mccain, what did he actually se that are of most interest, and

that this is 2008, 2007 and repororts. those are the on that people want to see because they what his tax rate was during the financial collapse. john m mccain sell pre-2008. those are the returns he saw. losses not reflect the couldhe tax experts say tax effected mitt romney's rates. >> for the record, i think the majority leader was wrong with mccarthyism. real move on to the subsbstance. i think mitt romney is doing a disservice to the fellow of his republican party. not like john mccain, he released two years of returns. he added public background. public background. here is mitt romney, onene-

of $1 billion, most a billionaire, how did he make money? he has swiss bank accountsts, thehore tax havens in hisan islands -- he owes party and explanation of how he made his wealth. otherwise, what happens after the convention if something comes out? selfifish,extremely self-centered. it is not in the interest of the himblican party to have behave ts way. >> as the only republican, he does not all any of us anything. two years is ok with me. if he has his reasons, that is fine. >> this is not the republican party. he is running for president of the united states. i will denoue harry reid for macarthy is impaired >> how -- mccarthyism. how many years --years did kennedy released?

>> it is about politics. mitt romney is hurting himself. there is an aura of secrecy around h him. money in swiss bank aounts. tax returnhe would not release. people are thinking what does he have to hide? >> why not get this stuff he runs, so that it does come back to play? >> one of the questions around the campaign will not answer is how many tax returns did they vice-eir potential givedential candidates to to them? he says john mccain asked him for 10. mitt romney says they are gameng off ofof the same plan. did they only look at two tax returns for rob portman? >> thifeels itself-inflicted headache. >> my criticism of the tactic i agree, mitt romney should released is in 2006. at this point, i would not give anybody, campaign, anything beyond two years. there are hundreds of thousands

of pages here. he will be the only iue for the next month. campaign. he knows it. >> he is not going to do it. how many years of -- i'm saying, taxattention given to the entire would take the election -- let me finish the sentence. the simple attention that would be given to it would monopolize whenampaign for a month money is behind d and he is to makeke an issue of the tual state of america and what will happen in the future which what you would think an ought to be about. administration to get off the

>> the intensity of the fighting, the defections, they isnt out w important it that we come together and work

towards a good transition plan. >> the secretary of state ofmenting on the defections andsyrian prime minister iners as the fighting rages aleppo. a new york times columnist quotes william perryry saying if he were in the pentagon would recommend military invention. -- intervention. madeleine albright, also. nick burns, same thing. it is getting a little late. is the obama administration mamaking a mistake? >> easy for them to say. of all, the sanctions they have been posed are working. they proposed new sanctions. the foreign-exchange holdings virtuallys had are the, , and they've gone to andians to ask for a loa the russians have said how are you going to pay it back? the is the problem -- trouble they're in now. now, weigh that against the

carnage that is taking place on the ground, and of urse, the longer you wai the worse it gets on the ground. you cannot say the status quo is holding for the syrians. they are in trouble and they're about to collapse. >> nick burns is q quoted, the departmente official, saying arab states asking where is the united states in this? >> where are t the arab states n this? it is a middle east problem. is turkey going to come in on our side? they would not come in our side for iraq. for have e no stomach inding another muslim state. we aren the edge of madnes let me quote the second reason. bashshar al-assad is believed to have m many tons of nerve agent. does this sound similar to we belie there are weaponons of mass destruction in iraq? are we going to spend another trillion,war, $4

thousands of deaths? jfk said after the bay of pigs, when we d a promise not to invade cuba again, as great of the nation as we are, our are limited. we cannot prevent badhings happening everywhere. >> charles? >> the differencbetween the inpons of mass destruction thea and iraq is a anernrnment of syria has admitted openly that they have wouldnd they said they against them ownigners, not thei people. so, if the pple that have them are saying that they have them, i do not think it is a question that they have them. isto the intervention, it simply not going to happen. tos president is not goining do it. i do not think he would do if ever, and surely not between and election day, and by then the fate of syryria will be determined. i think it wilill hinge on the bale of aleppo, andhe influence will l be the turks.

they arere the neighbobors and backing the rebelels. >> igree with charles. certainly, nothing will happen tween now and election day. as people willriticize thehe president for that, i think if opinion at any public publichat is what the wants. inmight be helping them pollt ways, but every shows americans want our ourrnment focus on fixing economy, our d domestic issues is very wary of international intervention. is very wary of international intervention. >> [ male announcer ] in 1996,, president clinton and a bi-partisan congress helped end welfare as we know it, by requiring work for welfare. but on july 12th president obama quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements. under obama's plan, you wouldn't have to work, and wouldn't have to train for a job -- they just send you your welfare check. and welfare to work goes back to being plain, old welfare. mitt romney will restore the work requirement, because it works.

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>> the spectacular thing about these pictures is we see these huge mountains in the reallyund, and it prises to have lers, toiments, things for us martian unravel history. tothais michael meyer, emigrate pictures sent back by the robotic explorers curiosity. now, an olympic athletes are

london, great run him but nasa deserves s a gold meda. this,try that could do with this machine, loaded, we could do anything. we could balance the budget, reduce the deficit. >> that is why when you heard the end of the space flight, he thathe person that said was wrwrong. we do have this kind of capability. i think they demonstrated that. we have pulled off of the dol with the europeans to this again. now they are going in with the russians. >> i think it is magnificent, and it is a big enoughgh event and exciting enough that it can thinke kids again to about space, engineerg, and look at the cool things ththey do. >> roger? >> ended is cheap.

>> and -- >> and it is cheap. nasa's budget is $17.8 billion a year. the military budget is $680 couldn a year in know, we wethis, -- and, you know, shouldo ts, and we andin searching space, ofn look k for signs intelligent life on earth. [laughter] >> it is clear we have this fantastic technology. thatis the one place government is able to do stuff e private sector cannot. this is pure science. that is why nih does. -- that is what n.h. does. >> nih does. when the government does that creates biology, it everythingte for whereword spread that is -- money has to go, afterwards. that is where our money has to go, not in solyndra. isn i am trying to explain there is a difference between

supporting industries and science. it is the best example, and the >>ywords are untolold, but i boy from said that a everybody. last word. see you next week toward >> for is"inside washington" is americano you by the of government employees, proud to make