this, george, this ad is running at the very same time that governor romney campaigned is running an ad -- not running, the ad hasn't been on the ad, he's running ads, saying that the president wants to end the work requirement in welfare, every single person who's looked at it is false. he continues to run it. and then he attacks others for ads that we didn't approve and produce? i think he's the one who needs to explain. >> i'll ask tim pawlenty about that. but does the president think about this kind of an ad was appropriate? >> look, as i said, i don't think goff thor romney can be blamed for that woman's death. what he can blamed for is taking that steel company, two bankruptcies, welcoalking away millions of dollars, that's the real issue. he has run on his business experience and his business experience is things like the gs steel story, where they loaded up companies with debt, profited from it to the tune of millions of dollars, left workers and creditors holding the bag. >> governor pawlenty coming up, you thought that he was going to be romney's pick, the best pick in. >> i t

this is an unprecedented ad. >>stuart: thank you for joining us, jane. >> keep the ad going? keep eyes off an economy going nowhere? why former new york city mayor giuliani seas it -- says it is o surprise. he will be a guest tonight on fox business network. >> and the owner of a businesses touted in an ad wants nothing to do with the ad. why is that? we will be the first to ask her. forget granny off the cliff, new claims today that paul ryan in the veep spot would have mitt romney's campaign up and running. [ female announcer ] for everything your face has to face. face it with puffs facial tissues. puffs has air-fluffed pillows for 40% more cushiony thickness. face every day with puffs softness. >>stuart: will the obama campaign remove this image touting the president's small business record? that is what the owner of the deli is demanding. he is featured in the ad. >> those ads taking my words about small business out of context are wrong. of course, americans build their businesses. each day hard-working people sacrifice. >>stuart: what is the problem? owner of to deli in

sam said he can't find somebody -- >> it's not even an obama campaign ad. >> it's not an obama ad. up bill burton's name. everybody know who bill is. bill could not be any tighter than you and the white house. >> can i get you on the record that you're perfectly fine with an ad republicans said is untrue? >> i'm not standing here defending an ad. you are or saying -- >> you're playing upon shus pilot saying my hands are clean. i can -- i can do nothing on this ad that suggests mitt romney killed my wife. >> i love you seem to be adding to the discourse in our political debate labeling me pontius pilot. >> i'm not accusing you of killing anybody. >> i think that it is -- it is not surprising that you guys have decided there's differences in gradations of -- >> no. here's -- >> robert -- >> don't put words in my mouth. you asked me and i told you. i'm not defending mitt romney's ad. >> but let's play this out. is the ad untrue? >> i'm going to actually check and see. >> is there any truth to the charge that we are getting rid of work requirement for welfare coverage? >> no. don't pla

i think when we watch the political campaigns, there is always a low point in the campaign with an adnds out, the least tasteful. i hope this is it. >> bret: jim, you cover ads for political races. we know that there is a line between the campaign supposedly and the super pac run by the former deputy press secretary bill burton. but when you see the obama campaign coming out and saying we didn't know the cancer story. and then you listen to the conference call, they weren't listening. >> it's a messy day. we have been waiting for moments all year. we'll see more of them. the outside groups walk the campaigns, you know, through the door that has a bucket ready to fall on their heads. or it's more cynical than that. in terms of just not being coordinated, they can't predict what the outside groups will do. they get caught off-guard. >> bret: talk about the latest polls. it's run by quinnipiac, cbs news and the "new york times." three swing states. interesting numbers. colorado, where you see mitt romney has a lead there. of five points. there is the plus or nigh us in 2.6. virginia, pre

. >> why not send a message to this top super pac that's supporting you and say i think an ad like that is out of bounds? >> i don't think that governor romney is somehow responsible for the death of the woman that was portrayed in that ad. but keep in mind, this is an ad that i didn't approve, i did not produce, and as far as i can tell, has barely run. >> reporter: the president pointed out that the romney campaign itself and not some outside group is currently running ads against him that distort his position on welfare policy. nancy cordes, cbs news, the white house. >>> to campaign finances now. mitt romney has a growing cash advantage over the president's campaign. last month, campaign finance reports showed the obama campaign raised just over $49 million but spent about $59 million. by contrast, romney's campaign reported taking in just over $40 million last month and spending about $33 million. heading into next week's gop convention, the obama campaign has $124 million in cash reserves. romney has $186 million. that's a $62 million cash advantage. >>> to foreign affairs now and

. >> greg: i want to run, jay carney talked about an ad. i'll roll that and then i'll go to you, kimberly. you look great today. >> kimberly: thank you. >> greg: go to the president to defend and explain his policy. defending them when a campaign ad with millions and millions of dollars behind it, as opposed to zero dollars behind it. being broadcast around the country. paid for, produced by the romney campaign. cat goricly false and blatantly dishonest about the president's policy position. >> greg: kimberly? >> kimberly: i'm going to do the thinking and the speaking for you. >> greg: thank you so much. >> kimberly: what i think overall and the message was made today very clearly by top romney aides and campaign headquarters. they feel that this rhetoric the way that the president, the administration, his campaign has behaved is diminishing the office of the presidency. ultimately, we will see, i believe, this will backfire. we have to get the polling, the tracking numbers in to see what impact if any the disingenuous, lying, desperate tact

earlier in the show we ran an ad by obama pac, priorities usa. fused, anyone, not an obama campaign ad. coming up, "the five" special series outstanding -- no. outstanding performance in history gymnast, mary lou retton, her triumphant story on deck. ♪ ♪ lvn]s@wxa@p9÷xdx0o0o0o0o0o3 terror. and comparing republicans. that's at 6:00 eastern. now back to "the five." >>> oh, boy! [ applause ] >> gold medal! the gold medal goes to mary lou retton. >> she has another and she will take it. >> she does the same thing. >> she does. >> it was no accident, folks. >> ous to prove it. >> dana: that was mary lou retton in 1984 at age 16 won two silver and bronze and gold in first american gymnast to do so. born in west virginia in 1968. that clip we just saw there, is my first memory and most enduring memory of the olympic games. it tried my hand at gymnastics and i was not made out to be an olympian. she has gone on to be an olympian in life. does anybody else remember that? >> eric: unbelieve. >> greg: what is she doing? >> dana: mom of four girls, living

thank you. >> san francisco mun news pal transportation agency has a policy about ads on buses but an adisplace plaied now comes close. there is a pro israel campaign. >> the ad says in any war between a civilized man and savage, support the civilized man, support israel defeat jihad. james was surprised when he saw the ad on the side. it struck me as inappropriate act to be on the city bus. >> he took a picture sent to it you report at abc 7 and thought it crossed the line. >> no matter which side you're on you should not describe your opponent as a savage. >> the ad was purchase bid american freedom defense initiative. >> i wanted to run these ads to counter the antiisrael ads running in various city as cross the country. in new york, and washington, d.c.. san francisco bart. >> if you don't remember antiisrael ads it's been a year since an ad ran calling on the u.s. to cut military aid to israel. it was a dangerous message that had to be countered with the truth. >> the truth being in the eye of the beholder. i showed the ad to muslim goesing into friday prayers in a mosque. >> i can'

it's not a smear of a personal attribute. >> it's also an ad that romney put his name on. t they are not hiding behind a superpac. i think the ad is accurate. the obama administration talked a number of states requested waivers. that was the reason this happened. they weren't going to weaken the work requirement. the blogger mickey kaus specializes in this welfare stuff. went and looked at the waiver that one of the states, nevada, asked for. they specifically asked the right toway all work requirements for six months for people who had trouble getting child care. they didn't have transportation. they were drug addicted or they weren't good at looking for a job. i think romney makes a good factual defense of this ad. >> john: but at the same time, though, the white house, administration says we would only allow a waiver if the program that the state plans to implement would put more people to work. question that for sick months, nevada would be able to put more people to work pause they is breathing room to get people in a position to find employment. >> well, that is what

by the way, mitt romney defended his campaign's welfare ad by saying this. it was actually an erroneous ad. he says president obama would drop work requirements for welfare recipients. in truth, the hss directive allows states more latitude in welfare, but insists that states improve employment outcomes, not reduce them. he told the "usa today," "there's no question in my mind that the president's action in this regard was calculated to build support for him among people he wants to have excited about his re-election. just as so many of the things he's done were designed to try to shore up his base. and weakening the work requirement in welfare is an enormous mistake." why is he saying the president is trying to get more welfare recipients to vote for him by making it easier to get welfare checks? is that not ethnically charged? >> it's not -- i don't think it's ethnically charged as you're alluding to, chris. but i think it's been documented, at the beginning of this administration's term, they did weaken those rules, generally with respect to the states encouraging them, in

for a financial terrorist here's travel just expressionless for the world bank here's an ad for a financial terrorist right here you don't get caught you want you to be a rogue trader commit trillions of dollars worth of fund you'd have no collateral behind them but here's another one senior position in fiscal affairs for the full morris international corporation another position for a financial terrorist this means you just go to the economist magazine if you want a job as a financial terrorist so wall street is hiring many of them looking for brokers and dealers people to call up people around america and say hey give me your pension fund i want to lose that in some exotic derivative because the derivatives of course is the suicide vest that these bankers have strapped on to the global economy and this is what is melted down and the job description for al qaeda mirrors anything that would go into the economist for an ad is that it's a very slight chance of being caught right and the job is to possibly blow yourself up in a lot of people around you as part of a suicide banker a l

mirrors anything that would go into the economist for an ad is that it's a very slight chance of being caught right and the job is to possibly blow yourself up in a lot of people around you as part of a suicide banker a lot of the bankers end up blowing themselves up they definitely blow up economies they definitely blow up entire societies with their derivatives weapons of mass financial destruction and their improvised explosive devices as collateralized debt obligation and the mic markets in this you know goldman or j.p. morgan all make happy to make a mark in a number of bankers blowing themselves up that can collateralized that some new bond offer that they'll solve the greek banks of course nobody anything they're stupid now one thing when you think of jamie diamond who we have invited on to the price report of sentiment notice to spend what three or four days now since we've heard nothing back so we have given him an opportunity to come on the report and appear but he hasn't shown up yet max but i want to say that the mainstream media and all sorts of magazines in the united sta

the latest attack ad from an obama super pac. obama is doubling down on its shots on bain capital. st says romney may have played a role in a woman's death. my guest frank rich, you're getting very angry about this as the days have worn on. i heard the distaning from the super pac and all this. the bottom line, this ad, and we'll see it in a moment, it basically says to the viewer, the casual viewer, mitt romney killed this guy's wife. that's what it says. they can flower it up any way they like. that's what they're saying. >> well, yes. and i guess the question it raises, given that there's so many legitimate issues about bain, about romney's taxes and business dealings, why this sort of desperate fictualization. and on the romney side, it

two top aides to the president dodged questions today over inaccuracies from an ad from a super pac supportingsident. here's the ad. >> when mitt romney and bain closed the plant, i lost my health care and my family lost their health care and a short time after that my wife became ill. >> the ad blames mitt romney for a woman's cancer-related death. now, we want to say again what we said last night. the facts on this ad don't even add up. the woman who sadly died was covered by her own employer as her primary coverage, not even by her husband's insurance. so the whole premise here is wrong. but when asked about the ad today, white house press secretary jay carney told reporters, i still haven't seen the ad. i've read about it. i don't speak for a third party group. obama campaign spokeswoman doubled down. we have no involvement with any ads that are done by priorities usa. all right. priorities usa is the super pac that paid for this ad. now, super pacs are not allowed by law to coordinate with campaigns. and bill burton, head of priorities usa, denies any coordination. >> the campaign is doin

the president cannot hyde behind a super pac on an ad as ugly as this one.at super pac is run by a long-time friend and deputy. let me start with this. the law prohibits technically the coordinating between super pac and the campaigns. one of the operatives who said we have nothing to do with priorities usa, brianna keilar, our cnn colleague, reports that the man you see in the ad there, everyone, told his personal story on an obama campaign call in may, a campaign call that the deputy campaign manager stephanie cutter was on. the campaign has asked him to appear at rallies in battleground states. so how did bill burton hear about this gentleman? >> this shows how fundamentally screwed up the super pac laws are. anything that's technically public information can be used. and the campaigns and super pacs both take a wink and a nod look at this on both sides of the aisle. technically there is no coordination and the super pacs realize that they have the ability, the license and plausibility deniability. and they can do things that a campaign doesn't. just like

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even true. >> but it needs to be pointed out, i believe, over and over again, that romney endorsed an ad that was totally false about welfare. he attacked the president. the ad attacked the president, made claims that simply weren't true, and then when his lead surrogate, one of his le surrogates, newt gingrich, goes out on the stump and has to defend it, he finally breaks down and admits, well, it's really not true. i mean is romney's welfare ad trying to play into old racial stereo politics about poverty? >> i mean, i think there's definitely an element to that. i think there's an element to -- it's playing into the anxiety that people have about the economy and where the country is going, and it's just kind of the lowest base politics. i mean, politics is a tough business. i've engaged in it, you hit back and you hit back hard. you get hit, and that's part of the business, but there's also, i think, a positive part to it. you have to have a vision in terms of where you want to take the country. i think the best ad of this cycle has been president obama's ad where he laid out the choic

and the old days, you ran an ad. similar to that he would get a fact check. now after factct checking, but viral explosion of the contents and the opinionbout the contenent and the bloggingng. it setss a train in motion that a loof times campaigns want to dodo becauausehey want to o tackle certain parts of the electorate beyond the actual air time of the ad itself. i think it's got a multiple later benefit for a campaign, unless it ends up having a mobile layer destructive aspects. >> a quick question. we have to gto break. we want to ask you about some of the other tactics. but i question tooth of you- if your b brand is under attack unfairly, do you ignore the attackcks soou donon't generate mo media coverage or do you respond? mitt romney responding to hararry reid who said he never paiaid taxes, in some ways making it more of a story that was originally journalilists were trying to ignonore the unsubstantiated rumors. do you ignore them or r respond? >> of f any attack left unchecked is your own fault -- you will be hurt by it. >> i wld somewhat disagree.

. >> this is an ad by an entity not controlled by the campaign. >> reporter: the obama campaign itself used soptic in a web video bashing bain in may, where he appears to wear the same shirt as the super pac ad. >> they made as much money as they could. >> reporter: also in may, obama campaign hosted conference call with soptic telling the cancer story. >> i was lucky to find another job at local school district. they gave me health insurance i couldn't afford it for my wife. later she was diagnosed with lung cancer. >> reporter: it turns out, though, soptic's wife initially had her own health insurance even after he lost his job and she died in 2006. that is five years after the husband's company went bankrupt. after romney left bain capital. >> bret: ed thank you. from healthcare to another highly emotional coppic. welfare. governor romney accuses the president of seeking to turn back the clock on reforms. championed by his democratic predecessor. chief political correspondent carl cameron on that story again tonight. >> reporter: in iowa, escalated attacks for gutting clinton era we

ads? >> there's a huge difference, legally if nothing else. legally, you cannot coordinate between anendent group and a campaign, you'd be breaking the law if you did, so right there there's a difference. just in terms of the message, you know, the romney ad, that is their message. that is something that the romney campaign approved, that governor romney now owns. the ad that was put out by priorities usa is not an ad on behalf of the obama campaign. it wasn't put out by the obama campaign. it was not funded by the obama campaign, so there's a fundamental difference. i find it somewhat ironic, to say the least, when you think about the fact that -- you think about the fact that newt gingrich is out there defending governor romney. what level of dante's political hell has newt gingrich and mitt romney entered? >> this is what i find so confusing, why would newt gingrich go out there and talk about welfare when he knows he has to talk about an ad that admittedly isn't true, i mean how stupid is that? why would he do that, what's the upside of doing that? >> you know, this campaign, it i

i thought it was a joke not an ad. >> on saturday, when romney made thannouncement, i heard dr. krauthammer per se if they are smarart, they willll get ahead of the curve on medicare. there he is talking about this $716 billion. is this working? >> absolutely. it is jitsu of the first order. it began with democrats echoing what mark is thinking, that if you bring up medicare republicans lose. that iin pericles false. in the 2010 election, obama h had taken half a billion out of medicare to pay for the uninsured in obamacare. that was a very powerful issue and a very strong element in the shellacking that the democrats had taken. democrats had forgotten -- they were foaming at the mouth to attack republicans on medicare when ryan was appointed. but thehe counterattack is brilliant for one reason -- the one republican nominee who was least equipped to go head-to- head with obama on obamacare was romney. however, there is one area where there is a difference between romney and obama on national health insurance -- he never took anynything out of medicare. obama did. romney can atta

the obama campaign went on television today with an ad about medicare. f paul ryan and mitt romney shaking hands. it says "the ryan budget" on it. they think this is political gold. correct? >> absolutely. especially in places like florida where there are so many seniors. president was down there two times last month. i was with him. even bch paul ryefore paul ryane ticket, the president was on attack on medicare. he went to a senior home down in palm beach. it was well received on this message. there were some sense in florida people were souring. and that he never really embrasd obama fully but i think this gives the president's campaign a boost and the chance to hammer home this message. >> we're showing the ad. i love the aarp mention in the ad, very prominent, aarp, the leading retirement ad "the ryan plan." all of this in an attempt -- not an attempt, i don't think, that the romney people are surprised by. but the obama folks say, look, this is what you're getting if you vote for this ticket. has not illustrated deep policy proposals. well, he's now

and the obama campaign also announced an ad. if you sign up, expect to be hit up. also, the obama campaign has announced its choice for keynote speaker for the democratic national convention. >> susan in washington this morning, susan, thank you so much. >>> in the texas primary, it may be its biggest victory. ted cruz easily defeated david dewhurst. cruz has never held elected office and becoming the overwhelming favorite in the general election. united airlines flight was diverted to boston last night after an unclaimed camera was found by a flight attendant. flight 956 departed from newark, new jersey with 157 passengers and 11 crew mm bers. it turns out it belonged to a passenger on a previous flight. the 767 escorted by two f-15 fighters. one had an emergency of its own and had to return to its base. another united flight landed safely in denver after it was hit by a convertible. the 727 was about 125 miles whe it hit the bird. you can see the large dent and hole in the plane's nose. >>> the justice department says republican report on the botched gun tracking

sure enough, there is an ad in florida, cranny in the wheelchair. i thought it was a joke, not an ad. >> on saturday as romney made his choice, i heard dr. krauthammer is say that if they are smart, they will get ahead of the curve on medicare. is this working? >> absolutely. it is jujitsu of the first order, and it began with democrats echoing mark's thinking, that if you bring up medicare, republicans are going to lose. that is empirically false. in the 2010 election, the fact that obama had taken out of medicare to pay for the uninsured in obamacare, that was a very powerful issue, and a strong element in the shellacking that democrats had taken. what democrats have forgotten -- they were foaming at the mouth to attack on medicare, but the town of point is brilliant for one reason. the one republican nominee who was least equipped to go head- to-head with obama on obamacare was romney, because of what he did in massachusetts. however, there is one area where there is a difference between romney and obama on a national health insurance. he never t

. >> newt gingrich defends that ad but makes an admission whether that ad is strictly speaking true to the facts. but first, i want to show you how mitt romney is campaign on the claims knead that very ad. 7 >> with a careful executive action, he removed the requirement for work from welfare. it is wrong to make any change that would make america more of a nation of government dependcy. we nus restore, and i will restore work into welfare. >> now, listening to that, you would think the white house with the sweep of the pen somehow managed to undo all of your elected representatives, democrats and republicans accomplished on welfare reform. you get the impression the obama administration wants an america where hardworking americans pay taxes and lazy onescy sit around collecting welfare. and in case you missed the implications, newt gingrich spelled it out. >> i think on the hard left there's an unending desire to create a dependent america. not just obamas are radical. >> obviously the obama campaign strongly disagree. a string of fact checkers have blasted the ad as fall. "the washing

romney's put up an ad about welfare and an ad about religion. he took an overseas trip. it was marred by gaffes. conservatives are demanding that romney prove he's focused on the economy. >> is he going to respond in a 2007-2008 style, that you cave to the right, or will he be a tougher, firmer romney? >> reporter: the big test is his veep choice. "wall street journal" is pushing controversial paul ryan for the larger vision, and romney echoed that when asked who he might choose? >> i don't think i have anything for you on the vp running meat, other than i expect a person with strength of character, vision for the country. >> reporter: paul ryan's vision is shall rimpging medicare to cut the deficit. he's to the right of romney which, if history is a guy also make ryan a likely running mate. >> it's almost an ideological, if you're perceived as the moderate. >>> attacking the president for an ad by the independent pro-obama super-pac, blaming romney for the death of a worker's wife, years after bain capital fired the worker and ended the coverage. that issue is sure to d

bank enough, there is an ad in florida -- granny in the wheelchair. i thought it was a joke, not an ad. >> on saturday, when romney made the announcement, i heard dr. krauthammer is say if they are smart, they will get ahead of the curve on medicare. there he is. what do you think? is this working? . >> absolutely. it is and jujitsu of the first order. if you bring up medicare, republicans always lose -- that is empirically false. in the 2010 election, obama had taken $7 billion out of medicare to pay for the on injured in obamacare -- that was a very powerful issue, and there is a very strong element in the shellacking that the democrats had taken. democrats have forgotten, or were foaming at the mouth so that they could attack the republicans on medicare, when ryan was appointed. the counterattack is a brilliant one for one reason. the one republican nominee that was the least equipped to go head-to-head with obama on obamacare was romney. however, there is one area with there is a difference between romney and obama on national health insurance --

. >> in an ad released to coincide with brian's convention speech, the obama campaign is trying to paint him as too conservative and out of touch -- in an ad released to coincide with ryan's convention speech. republicans are having none of that. paul ryan took his family on a tour of the convention today. he is not the presidential candidate, but in tampa, he is the star. >> paul ryan is so popular among the this because he taps into the issues conservatives care about most. he is socially conservative but he has also made reducing america's deficit part of his platform. as the party's troubles some -- somewhat to warm up to the man at the top of the ticket, they may wish it was paul ryan running for the presidency. i am joined by a republican congressman from georgia. thanks for being with me. >> it is great to be with you. >> during the primary season, you supported newt gingrich. are you someone -- you were someone who would -- are you someone who thinks the party would be better off if romney were not running? >> i think that is the great thing about romney. as the nominee, the paul