today, mitt romney staked his campaign on that big lie. mitt romney has left us with a choice.or what george will would call, a bloviating ignoramus. >> tell us what you really mean. >> yesterday, mitt romney closed his speech with a reference to martin luther king jr., which brings up the uncomfortable memory of the 2007 campaign when he was talking about his father and martin luther king jr. let's look at that. >> i saw my father march with martin luther king. >> my dad marched with martin luther king. >> did you actually see your dad march with martin luther king? >> no, i say that in a figurative sense. i try to be as accurate as i can be, and the -- if you'll look at the literature or the dictionary, the term "saw" includes being aware of inthe sense that i've described. i saw my dad march with marten luther king. i saw him in the sense of being aware of his participation. >> and i saw richard wolf win the super bowl. what the -- richard? >> no wonder he's a fan of bill clinton. >> it's way wilder than clinton. clinton at least understood here's the stuff they can check. o

shelly, what do you expect mitt romney to do? what would you want mitt romney to do?well, we certainly know his history with bain capital, and we understand, well, we don't understand fully what his relationship with bain capital is now, but we certainly believe he has some influence and the workers here really would love for mitt romney to come to our community and talk to the people who are losing their jobs. actually, what we would really love to see is the mayor, and i talked this afternoon, would be for governor romney and president obama to hold a debate in the city of freeport to talk about how to make america more competitive. companies lie like bain capital are in the business of creating wealth. we're in the business of creating jobs. they don't have to be mutually exclusive, but it's difficult to handle those on a local level because it's federal policies that make the difference. we would love to see a debate held in freeport, which is home of one of the famous lincoln-douglas debates and we would like to see how we could keep our jobs here at home. >> how

and mitt romney admits that he doesn't. we talk a little bit about mitt's money yesterday.ay, the story gets worse and worse for mitt romney and he looks more and more like he is unwilling to tell the truth about his extreme wealth. he says he is worth about 250 34d. it now looks like he is worth a lot more than that. and the fact of it is he is not the first wealthy person to run for president. after all, we have had an f.d.r. we have had the bushes, who were very well-off and certainly barack obama ain't no pauper. the thing about romney is he has so much of it, he has to hide it overseas. he has so much, he doesn't even know how much he's got and he refuses to release his tax returns and the pressure is building on him to do something. so first let's go back and what we learned from this latest issue of vanity fair is where this was all spelled out ben lee bolt from the obama campaign with this video details all of the off-shore holdings that we know of that mitt romney's got. >> here are some things we do know: mitt romney owned a shell corporation registered in bedroom

you know tea, mitt romney. the drink that you're not allowed to have because it stimulates the brain. you know, something that the hard of thinking worry about. >> ah. the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. martin lewis, thanks so much for your time tonight. >> my great pleasure. thank you. >> remember to answer tonight's question there at the bottom of the screen and share your thoughts on twitter @edshow and on facebook. i want to know what you think. >>> coming up, his book is called "no apology," yet mitt romney spent a good part of today apologizing. evan mcmorris-santoro of "talking points" weighs in. we'll be right back. >>> coming up, what does mitt romney's series of gaffes in london mean for him back here in the u.s.? i'll ask evan mcmorris-santoro of "talking points memo." >>> a romney adviser says president obama doesn't understand the anglo-saxon heritage of this country. now both campaigns are responding. we'll have the details. >>> and later, bill o'reilly revives the lie about welfar

we understand, mitt, sometimes the truth is tricky. tricky mitt. he's not a crook, right? moveon.org political action is responsible for the content of this advertisement. >> that ad will start running tomorrow in ohio, where mitt romney is scheduled to the campaign. romney campaigned today in pittsburgh, where he tried to do a donald trump impression without ever actually using the words, "birth certificate." >> in the past, people of both parties understood that encouraging achievement, encouraging success, encouraging people to lift themselves as high as they can, encouraging entrepreneurs, celebrating success instead of attacking it and denigrating makes america strong. that's the right course for this country. his course is extraordinarily foreign. >> while romney was visiting pittsburgh, celebrating his success, team obama chose to introduce a new television ad on pittsburgh television. >> i'm barack obama and i approved this message. >> tax havens, offshore accounts, carried interest. mitt romney has used every trick in the book. romney admits that over the last two

mitt romney is now in no position.ecision he wants to deny having anything to do with bain capital in 200, 2001, 2002 rather than as some republicans have argued say, look stands up for bain. >> you were in charge. stand up for it and deny bain was involved in outsourcing, whatever it is you want to claim, even though the record shows that no, it was. at least then you create in the political world a dynamic of the president's campaign says one thing. romney's campaign says another. the other is sort of left with what do we believe? by mitt romney wanting to deny at bain, that argument about what bain did is off of the table. now, it's sort of conventional wisdom reaffirmed because mitt romney sees a stink factor doesn't want to be associated with bain from 2000 to 2002. now, it's an accepted fact that bain boast bought companies and scaled them down or moved the jobs overseas. now, the only question was: was mitt romney involved or not? he is trying to hide on this island by saying, no, i was riding the olympics. good

mitt romney has people going to vote for him. this election will be a revverundum on the president's failed economic policies. is that an indication that the alternative in the election doesn't matter and chairman of rnc, are you prepared to fight a negative campaign all the way from now to november. >> first of all, the president claimed to be bringing everyone together. and he's the most divisive and nasty and negative campaigner that the country has seen. >> what about mitt romney though. >> sure. >> the alternatives put up there is just tearing down the president. >> wait a second, mitt romney first two ads what would mitt romney's presidency look like. key stone pipe line. end obama care and european health care and past taste does health care reform. what this counsel row is faced with two questions. number one. has the president live fulfilled the mission that he promised the country and performed his yobs up to the standards that we expect promised to reform. that is a revverundum on bark obama and that's the first box pe

you know tea, mitt romney.he drink you're not supposed to have because it stimulates the brain, the heart of thinking worry about. >> the thousand natural shocks that fleshes air to. martin lewis, thanks so much for your time tonight. >> my great pleasure. thank you. >> remember to answer tonight's question there at the bottom of the screen and share your thoughts on twitter @edshow and on facebook. i want to know what you think. >>> coming up, his book is called no apology, yet mitt romney spent a good part of today apologizing. evan mcmorris-santoro of talking points weighs in. we'll be right back. so i'm not listening... to anyone but myself. i know better nutrition when i see it: great grains. great grains cereal starts whole and stays whole. see the seam? more processed flakes look nothing like natural grains. you can't argue with nutrition you can see. great grains. search great grains and see for yourself. for multi grain flakes that are an excellent source of fiber try great grains banana nut crunch and

mitt, come on. if you're proud of your money, if it really is your pride and joy, show us a picture of it. show us a picture of your baby, you know, that picture we all take of our money every year. and send to the irs. joining me now, msnbc's alex wagner and chris hayes. item 15, if i was allowed one question to andrea saul, how much is in that swiss bank account? this thing where she decided to answer one question about the returns -- and by the way, she was answering a question about every one of the returns. because the question was, are there any returns where he pays zero taxes? and the answer to that is no, doesn't that just open this up to, we get to pick what questions we want to ask about which returns? endlessly for the next 110 days. >> that's the thing, lawrence. you get the sense, and we've heard that the center of this whole sort of storm, the eye of it is mitt romney, all decisions come back to him. you know, whether it's the republicans who are breaking ranks and or even the surroga

if you like mitt romney's singing voice, you better enjoy it now, because after this, mitt romney will never sing again. >> i'm barack obama and i approve this message. o beautiful, forspacious skies for amber waves of grain for purple mountains majesty above the fruited plain america, america, god shed his grace on thee and crown thy good >> yeah, they went there. the obama re-election campaign started running that ad in nine battleground states this weekend, while the weekend political shows were dominated by mitt romney's tax returns. >> he has released only one year, to the mccain campaign, he released 23 years. and he's telling the american people, i'm not going to give you what i've given john mccain's people in 2008. and when he gave them 23 years, john mccain's people looked at it and said, let's go with sarah palin. so whatever's in there is far worse than just the first year. >> the obliviously rich mr. romney made his case this morning to his oblivious friends at "fox & friends." >> you know, john mccain ran for president and released two years of tax returns. john kerry ran

>> show us the money mitt! has only released one year of tax returns which you will remember showed that he paid a rate of less than 15% in taxes. president obama vice president joe biden, on the other hand, have released 12 years of taxes just like mitt romney's father did when he ran for president and yet today, mitt romney, again, said there is no way he's going to do that. take a listen. >> we'll put out the next year of tax returns as soon as the accountants have that ready and that's what we're going to put out. i know there will always be calls for more. people always want more, and we're putting out what's required plus more that is not required. and those are the two years that people are going to have and that's all that's necessary for people to understand something about my finances. >> well, some washington bigwigs are telling him to do more. so political junkies can you guess who made these comments? first, his personal finances, the way he does things, his record are fair game. true. second i thi

. >> what is mitt romney hiding? >> since mitt romney still has no answer about his finances, his campaign took a dart board m mentality to attack president obama. he tried the latest line of attack during a stop in pennsylvania. >> he said and i quote, and he's speaking by the way of businesses like this one, small businesses, big businesses, middle sized businesses, mining businesses, manufacturing businesses, of all kinds, he said this, if you got a business, you didn't build that. somebody else made that happen. president obama attacks success and therefore under president obama we have less success and i will change that. >> of course, president obama never said people are not responsible for building their own businesses. he said no individual is responsible for the american system. but we already know where romney got his talking points for all of this. >> that man is a statist. he believes the only reason america is where we are is because of government, and he is flat out wrong. >> romney camp also put attac

and this classic mitt the twit.ormer massachusetts governor and olympics chief tried to backtrack this morning. >> romney: i'm absolutely convinced that the people here are ready for the games and in a few moments all the things that the politicians say will get swept away. >> eliot: he should hope so. but this comment from carl lewis may be tough to sweep under the table. i quote, sometimes i think some americans shouldn't hereof the country. are you kidding me? stay home if you don't know what to say. however, the romney campaign is unconcerned about his gaffes. louisiana governor, a romney supporter said, we're not worried about overseas headlines. we're worried about voters back here in america. romney's foreign policy continues tomorrow with a trip to israel and meeting with netanyahu and other meetings in poland. romney gave israel something more to talk, signing a bill for funding for short-range air defense known as iron dome. >> obama: what this legislation does is bring together all the cooperation we've s

if it were left to mitt romney and let's look at how mitt romney's private sector policies when applied in the public sector did for massachusetts. massachusetts was 47th out of 50 in job creation when was governor. they actually lost manufacturing jobs at twice the national rate. so his record that he touts not so successful on not something that needs to be broadened on the national stage. >> we are just about out of time. offer average he was 47th out of 50th but 50th when came into office and 28th when left office. a definite improvement there. put up a graph over job loss and creation over president obama's three and a half years he was suffering massive job loss in the first part of his term. got up there to some pretty positive numbers halfway through and kind of middling since. would you want him to be known over the average because that could look unfortunate, 250. too. >> we are at a net positive in private sector jobs from when president obama took office if you compare that to when president bush left office he was net negative. we are continuing to move in the right directi

mitt romney invested in two different ways.through is subsidiary of bain capital and through an offshore company. here's the map. from 1998 until 1999 romney's share in global tech ranged from 6% to 10%, according to mother jones. so his money, his investment, was flowing to hong kong company global tech. global tech manufactured household appliances in china. and there's a reason we show american jobs flowing to china. see, the company relied on outsourcing by american companies to fuel its business. here's what global tech's ceo said back in 1998. although it appears that customers such as sunbeam are not outsourcing their manufacturing as quickly as we had anticipated, we still believe that the long-term trend toward outsourcing will continue. the company's success relied on american companies' desire to outsource, and mitt romney, well, he was happy to invest his money. bear in mind, this is just a small part of mitt romney's outsourcing and offshoring problem. romney says he will create american jobs. >> if i'm president,

it's mitt romney. i can tell you what i'm working on is getting mitt romney a victory in virginia and winning about 12 governors races as chairman of the rga. that's my goal. >> you were around all the governors this weekend and you talked to everybody down there in virginia. would you rather see an announcement sooner than later? there's one school of thought that he should announce sooner. it will first of all change the topic. we will all be talking about the vice presidency and the rollout of the running mate and maybe a good idea to do this before he goes out of the country for the london olympics. what do you think? >> well, he's doing more than going to the olympics. he's also meeting with leaders of the free world like david cameron, and he's going to israel to meet with benjamin netanyahu to make sure our strategic partners who get disappointed from time to time on where the united states is, that we shore up those relationships. listen, that's completely up to mitt romney. people don't vote o

you know tea, mitt romney.he drink you're not supposed to have because it stimulates the brain, the heart of thinking worry about. >> the thousand natural shocks that fleshes air to. martin lewis, thanks so much for your time tonight. >> my great pleasure. thank you. >> remember to answer tonight's question there at the bottom of the screen and share your thoughts on twitter @edshow and on facebook. i want to know what you think. >>> coming up, his book is called no apology, yet mitt romney spent a good part of today apologizing. evan mcmorris-santoro of talking points ways in. we'll be right back. then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. [ male announcer ] every day we help students earn their bachelor's or master's degree for tomorrow's careers. this is your moment. let nothing stand in your way. devry university, proud to support the education of our u.s. olympic team. and so too is the summer event. now get an incredible offer on the pow

olympic team -- mitt romney! he can afford to buy them all new uniforms, made in massachusetts or any home state he wants. >> how about that? l.l. bean could probably do them, right? >> karen finney, thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> "the ed show" is up next. >> good evening, americans, and welcome to "the ed show" from new york. 113 days before the 2012 election and the obama campaign has republicans clamoring for mitt romney's tax returns. tonight, i'll tell you what i think romney's hiding. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> governor romney's economic plan would, in fact, create 800,000 jobs. there's only one problem. the jobs wouldn't be in america. >> the president hits mitt romney hard on jobs and outsourcing, and mitt romney hits back at a former candidate's wife. >> john kerry ran for president, you know, his wife, who has hundreds of millions of dollars, she never released her tax returns. >> just how offtarget is the romney campaign? richard wolffe and former

compared to only 31% for mitt romney. it doesn't seem like a good strategy for the romney campaign to personally attack president obama's character, but right now, it is the only and the latest attempt to avoid questions about mitt romney's tax returns. the campaign was on the defensive again today. >> governor romney has gone above and beyond what is required by him. he has voluntarily released over 500 pages of tax return information. >> 500 pages. that's the big buzz phrase. those 500 pages come from only one set of tax returns, and that's the year 2010. and it turns out the 2010 returns, they're not even complete. the huffington post reported the documents do not fully disclose his financial activities in offshore holding accounts. romney is still refusing to hand over any additional returns despite calls from republicans and conservatives for him to do so. >> i think people in my party to say look, this is a nonissue, release the returns and it will all go away, my experience is the democratic party these days has ap

just a few months ago in the mitt romney primary mitt romney said to his opponents-- who were crushingme-- "stop whining." and that's a good message for the romney campaign. instead of whining about what the obama campaign is saying, just put the facts out there and let people decide rather than trying to hide them. the tax returns is exactly just about that. if he didn't gain any tax advantages from having investments in the cayman islands, bermuda, and a swiss bank account then show us. show the american people. what are you hiding? >> what's most disappointing about this is that the obama campaign is focusing on 23 million americans struggling to find work in the economy. there are deficits being piled up. we've seen $4 trillion added to the deficit just under this president. and the obama campaign-- this is what they want to focus on. governor romney believes that he... the most important thing we can do is talk to the american people about what we're going to do to fix this economy. that's his focus. >> schieffer: let me inject one more thing. i was really kind of surprised by the

but mitt did not. >> well we love boris johnson. i think i look like the guy anyway, so i like him a lot. let me ask you, chris. what do you think is going on here? you're allowed to dump on your country or its problems at home, but don't come in from somewhere else and start doing it? >> i think that's exactly right. us british are not very good at positivity. we've been whining about the olympics for several weeks now. you've heard about the problems with the security. the taxi drivers, the cabdrivers have been moaning about the olympic route network. you get them in every olympics, of course. but there is nothing quite like somebody coming from overseas, telling us that we're not behind our olympics, for brits to really get behind it. i think so since mitt romney rocked up a couple days ago, you can almost see the brits put their arms around the olympic stadium saying, you know what? we are behind this. i've been watching some of the opening ceremonies secretly because you can't see it for a couple of hours yet. everyone is behin

there is absolutely nothing that mitt romney believes in other than mitt romney and trying to get mittomney elected. and, you know, bob has a point that his campaign has made some strategic missteps. but the fact of the matter is most of these missteps have been caused by the candidate himself. the biggest problem isn't the campaign or the strategist. the biggest problem is the candidate. and it's a little late, i think, to give romney an extreme makeover. he is who he is. and in massachusetts, he campaigned as a moderate to liberal republican who wanted a health care plan that taxed people who refused to buy health insurance. he called it a tax. there is a long record of mitt romney calling it a tax. >> oh, yeah. >> so it's a little late for him to come out now and say oops, it wasn't a tax. >> you know, bob, when cynthia says that the american people seems to agree with that because they clearly don't think he has much backbone. let me show you the latest pew poll. only 35% says hes willing to take an unpopular stand. only 32% believe he's honest and truthful. those are not good numb

the mitt romney's tax returns are actually absolutely relevant because mitt romney has a tax proposal that would give himself even cuts so that is very relevant barack obama's transcripts relevant and you know it when we had president bush who was a speech student and wire in the sea and we had dick cheney the vice president was a dropout from yale and none of those mattered made them those were not that that made them worse presidents or maybe they were but we do know that you know so these are distractions and for someone who comes on on t.v. saying that you're not here to defend mitt romney and that you're not here to defend the politics of distraction you should throwing around a lot of distractions mitt romney's tax cuts tax return peter because of his proposals on the tax code it is absolutely relevant all right we're going to the last one of the programs that's relevant peter what's relevant is forty six million americans on food stamps a leaven million on disability for the last three months there's a higher rate of people getting on disability than the job rolls what's releva