is"inside washington" brought t to you in part by -- for more information, visit afge.org. captiod by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.o-- ♪ >> [indiscernible] >> not a lot of people out there think they are victims of. romney week, the mitt campaign in damage control. >> i am concerned that. >> with a counter attack. >> president obama sd he believes in redistribution. >> also the fallout from t

the-american violence in middle east. prior their intelligence to this attack? if not, why not? >> advice fromike russell. > i said relax. just be one of yourselves. >> mitt romney has become the constanttions man of sorrow. ever since "mother jones" published a video in which he appearars to write off halfhe country last may well talking to donorin florida. scott brown and republican george allen.

>> you said nearly half th asntry see themselves victims? >> no. i love very positively -- >> you disagree with governor romney? >> i have my own point of view. >> my guess would be george alwisheded he did not have to answer questions like that. >> i think he dinot answer questions like thaha the rereason that sattement was bads because it was mitt romney is point of view. pcs nearly half the country as moochers who want a handout government. hehe does not understand why thy theirjust borrow from theirs or take money from trust funds. he does not agree that the poor and the sick suld add to the taxes of and billionaires so squander money on

dialysis. it is a different view of life. >> is this a bump in the roa itit is a huge pot hole but is not lethal. he has te to recoup. the debates are coming up. he has been acticing verery h hd robhe has a good coach in portman. obama isis not t greatest debater. he had some terrible ones early practicings not enough. >> h does mitt romney recover fr this? >> he could go and visit the car who are building his areatoand see how they getting by. apparently he does not know the working g middle class. that is why it was so natural for him to say these things. they have been coming out in a dog whistle.

fothe people in the om, he has a bullhorn. >> this is n not the last r roud for romney. this does hurt though. it hurts the ticket in the rerepublican race. you seevidence of it in andachuhutts, virnia, michigan and wisconsin. he is not t the person the rightics need to have now carrng the s standard. what he said was wrongng in so ny aspects. >> a lot of republicans are grumbling about this campaign. >> when your running mate call as you inarticulate as a way to haveyou, then you know you problems. i am glad you are all representehere.

mitt romney is mixing up a bunch of ideas. the 47% who do not pay income tax which is a result of reagan, bush, and it bush jr. tax policies. you end up with a situation where half the population has no stake in income tax rate. it is a huge issue but not the way you want to talk about it. there is this culture of obamacy which the administration iincreasing in working the welfare to requirements. that is an issue. this way, he has an argument he has to work s way out aper bagirst. >> a couple of polls this week. nbc wall streejournal poll.

foreign policy. what do these numbers tell you? >> there is a 19% one where obama will help the middle class re than mitt romney. that is a huge gapxacerbated by t 47% mitt romney can get the conversation back to the and maybe can be more specific. but what he has to do is have aa theonality transplant said withe class can identify him. >> h here is a number that would scare me. 43% now agree thatach would equally well on the economy. >> the internal thing of that poll i thought rather a of a number of people think the

economy is getting better. 31% i think. that is a huge jump from where it has been recently. thatind of optimism helps obama and it hurts. >> the entire premise of the romney campaign was that a bad economy would drive voters to mitt romneney matter what he had as a candidate. theyey are not deserting barack obam the bad economy is not hurting barack obama to the extent that mitt romney needs. >> what is hurting mitt rney tacticalmpaign, a mistake. obama was attacking mitt romney for the empathy thing. that is a devastating number.

the strategic problem is he is the be thing romney did was pick ryan. he has to go big. he has t to talk not about on the economy. he has to run on the idea of spentment intrusisiveness republicanshow the won the election in 2010. that is s not the argument he is making. >> his problem is one of trust. a report pubublished that asked the question who you would buy used car from. rick santorum or mitt romney. rick santorum won big. with women, even a great marg. mitt romney this problem is he hissut of both sides of mouth.

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build it. >> that obama comment was corded 14 years ago. how that worng? >> i do not think you can come back with something that small. that was a tiny portion it remark that was about howw we should let the market work. it is taken out of context. call me crazy, but that is not that bad. shotve to give people a at. >> b we already redistribute income. >> yeah, but woozy liberal. we had joe thelumber in 20008. spreading the wealth around. look at the policies. of of the explicit namemes

theacare is spreading wealth around. you do not have to go -- if you ist to use a quorum, there innmo one of the debate askedhere charlie gibson obama that if you raise the of capital gains tax, you decrease the revenue that government would ge would you still raise the rates? his name was yes in the name of fairness. >> you are suggesting he was redistributionhe of wealth. publiccking about services. he sa how do wewe pull weours at the same time decentralize? to foster ininnovation at the local level to be ilored to particular communities.

that is what he was talking about. haveis the second time we seen it slippage t taken by mitt romney's group. >> they kind of do that here. >>he video has been shown all around. he looks like a kid. a semi afro, 36 years old. >> the trouble with notstribubution, you did sectorhat,t, the private doing fine -- they are small they look mitt romney look small. theyo not leave you with any mittive impression of romney. >> there is a real argument. >> this stuff is ridiculous. if you look at the context, it begins with obama saying i you are successful, do you think are intelligent o or smart? there are a lot of smart people

and a lot of people wh work hard. this was an attack on the very idea that if you are successful, you are the author success. his answer w it is the government. the essencof the whole debate. >> whether he carries the isument successfully or not a side issue. >> if f it is not sticking to te wall >> all of the small stuff is americanmissed by the people. nobody cares about this language. >> when you have people le afterimbaugh, minute minute after minute, making same argument, people

it, t tune it out >> do you think the question government-a centered society with issues and government whether we are individualistic is not relevant? >> you are setting i it up -- >> that is what obama's argument was. [all talking at once] >> michael had a really interesting mment on friday in which he taed about this ofpaign and a lot likelicans acting r readrians who just "atlas shrugged." there are many guments for conservaves to make. when you really get back to the idea of tataking away which isnts

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one was with russia. just this week, kicked the usa i.d.d. out of russia. the second was the cairo sech in 2009 when he said thhat i am going to reinvevent the world the arab world. american interests are ablaze. from 2 in the allop to indonesia's. tunisia to indonesia. >> what do you think? >> i understa the argument but it does not hold up. theirans are closing embassies. what is going on with

publications has nothing to do wi baracack obama. >> the wor is a dgerous plplace. the e lot can happen between now and the election. some of it will l fall on obama. but mitt romney has not shown couldf to be a persrson who do a better job than the president. >> barack obama's s foreign poly got us out of iraq, is getting us out of afghanistan, has killed osama bin laden, and has said in e future we are goingg to target our enemies. we are not going to do five or foreignoccupatioof countries. >> badad things that happen overseas happen to president. they do not happen to other candidates. i dodon't really see that mitt romney is able to do that. what is he going to do? have troops onon theround in lots of these places?

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about my character. were the stors i knew about my heritage. i believe my mother and my my aunts and uncles. >> how is that one going? it is close. democrats are in ties or in all of them. it looks like the democrats will retain their hd on the senate, party is going to get 60 votes. going to continue with paralysis. about the house? you have to do it district by district. do not think the democrats chance of taking the house. if it is a wave eleion, that

obama.e for that is the only thing - optimistic talk coming the dememocratic campaign house oe in the representatives. for barac >> the more these candidate can themselves, the better. former though the massachusetts is now trailing by an averag. i cannot let that of comment slipren without aramark.

even if her stories are true winstonr heritage, churill had twice as much him.n i had announced that mike russell was coming out of retirement. his comment betweween the romney.dy d ann >> they got into a long distance poverty fight. we were so poooor we had nothing but tuna fish. yeah? barack's shoes didn't fit. yeah? were so poor we hado eat the ironing board. we were so poor you u could see floor of barack's rusted car. oh yeah? well three of our yachts were leaking. no canadian wanst barack to win.

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