ms. buchanan, start with you. have not heard governor romney say flat out that he did not do anything wrong in bain. don't you think he should issue a stronger statement and put this thing to bed once and for all. >> no. he has explained several times. i heard again today what exactly he did do there. >> bill: i know the explanation is long and winding like a paul mccartney song. all i want to hear him do is come on this program and other program and say look, i did absolutely nothing wrong. i did my job. i made money for my investors. in the long run we added jobs. lock, the claim is ms. buchanan that bain added more than 100,000 jobs to the american economy. can you back that up? >> yeah. bain did that while he was there. they did a lot more after he left. yes they can back that up. take four of the companies. just four of them including staple pels and sports authority some of the big ones start up that he was there to help start up, get off the ground they are alone 100,000 jobs today. yes it can be backed up.

ms. buchanan's heal. that evening it was presented to him and he approved it. now on the operation and you heard leonp panetta talk today. he had an asset no other is nation ithe world has and that asset is our special operations forces who can go anywhere in the world and accomplish extraordinary things. it's a capability that we have built up over the last decade or so in a very intense way. again no oter nation has and this is just a group of individuals in whom the president has tremendous confidence. they've developed these techniques again and these skills that nobody else has. >> charlie: tom donilon president obama national securi advisor for the hour, next. >> charlie: tom donilon is here he's the president of the national securitadvisor one of the most trusted 1r0eusz in the obama administration. he leads the daily national security meetings at te white house. today leon panetta announced a number of budget cuts. here's a look at what he said. >> coming out of the wash and dealing with budget reductions of this magnitude, the military would be smaller

ms. buchanan and mr. thisted was the right one. a headline from the philippines. this is "the free man" that's their paper. headline says, so it can be done. it goes on to add, very unfortunate for the hundreds more danish, indian, korean, and philippine sailors still being held captive by somali pirates when their vessels were hijacked in the gulf of aid den. i would surmise a rescue is not in their future. that does underscore an important point, kyra. you have indians, south koreans, filipinos, other danes whose countries won't necessarily deploy their navy s.e.a.l. teams to rescue. a lot of these individuals being held in hostage are being held in isolation. they don't have a big company behind them that will shell out a ransom to pay for them. it's a tough situation there on the ground for people that have no representation. kyra? >> zain, thanks. >>> still ahead, the battle for the latino vote. candidates reaching out. the gop zeroing in. republican consultant alex cacianos joining us after the break. >>> and a drug delivery to the u.n. a shipment of cocaine