amon javers is cnbc's washington correspondent. amon let me begin with you.ing traction? do the american people care about the fact that romney's only releasing two years of tax returns? >> if you frame it in terms of documents and details the american voters don't necessarily care about that stuff. it's kind of complicated and confusing. what they care about in the gut is this sense somebody's getting away with something you're not getting away. so if romney is paying a lower tax rate than other americans, those folks are going to resent that and they're going to want to see exactly how this happened. >> this is your strong suit. is he, in fact, paying a lower tax rate than other americans. the semantics of this become awfully important. >> yeah. what we're talking about here is the federal effective tax rate. that's after you take your deductions and everything else. he's saying over the past ten years he paid 13%. most americans, so your median income in the country in 2011 was about $75,000 a year. those folks paid less, about 5.6% in an effective rate. a

amon javers is a correspondent. let me begin with you. is this getting traction?eople care he's only releasing two years of tax returns. >> if you frame it in terms of documents, the voters don't compare about that stuff. what they care about in the gut is this sense somebody's getting away with something you're not getting away. if romney is playing a lower tax rate than other americans, those folks are going to resent that and want to see how this happened. >> this is your strong suit. is he, in fact, paying a lower tax rate than other americans. the semantics of this become awfully important. >> yeah. what we're talking about here is the federal effective tax rate. that's after you take your deductions and everything else. he's saying over the past ten years he paid 13%. most americans, so your median country in 2011 was about $75,000 a year, those folks paid less, about 5.6% in an effective rate. although they paid payroll taxes on top of that. most americans are paying a lower rate than mitt romney paid, but the problem for mitt romney is there are a lot of h