. >> andrea: hello, i'm andrea tantaros with kimberly guilfoyle, bob beckel, dana perino and special guest george bush. it's 5:00 in new york city. and this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> somebody helped to create this unbelievable american system that we have that allows you to thrive. somebody invested in roads and bridges. if you've got a business, you didn't build that. somebody else made that happen. the internet didn't get invented on its own. government research created the internet so then all the companies could make money off the internet. >> andrea: well, president obama supporters don't think it's fair to criticize the president for those comments. but his detractors are not going to let up. charles krauthammer is one of them. >> that phrase "you didn't build it" should be hung around obama until the end of his presidency. i read the whole totality of that statement and it's worse if you read it all. he has a view antithetical to the view that the majority of americans have, which is that enterprise, initiative, markets are what drive american wealth and excellence and achievement

>> andrea: i think -- that is possible.that had -- and jesse waters is a port rate to gut through the bikini-clad interview. >> dana: he has an eye, jesse. >> andrea: he picks the cute evening one. i think school is easy. 37% of the study that you cited said math was too easy. that would have never been me saying that. the other subjects i can see unless you are in an honors or of a gifted program. i think education starts at home. i think there are so many great teachers out there. we talk about it all the time. unless education, there is a value put on it at home, with the parents. it's hard to feel pressure who the founding fathers are. curriculum is rewritten every day. >> dana: 57% of eighth graders said their history work is often -- i most people love history class. >> eric: i had an eighth grader graduate or elevate this year. he didn't do a lot of homework. got straight a's but said we're spending too much on education -- by the way, the numbers we put out. the number of teachers and employees doubled and enrollmen

>> andrea: bids owners. >> bob: no. you just said that -- >> andrea: who do you think pays taxes? >> bob: you said the taxpayers paid for these things and the businesses used to get successful. i paid to do that. fine. >> andrea: the ones you're citing. i'm talking about examples, greg, like the small business owners that doesn't take the handout, the subsidy or the booster, the one that comes to work every day and takes a risk and goes to debt and works every weekend -- nuclear's not what obama cited. >> andrea: that is exactly what he said. no, he's not. >> greg: i forgot what the question was. here is the thing. that clip of obama talking, i think i have officially seen that more times than the infamous chocolate on the conveyer belt scene from "i love lucy." they're both very good but i see it over and over and i go to bed and i hear it at night. here is the thing. the bigger issue here, ve a crisis of confidence in our country -- we have a crisis of confidence in our country. we are seeing confidence numbers drop. the reason is because obama takes the wrong side. you have the

>> andrea: i don't. >> bob: my god. are in the weeds with the family tree. >> andrea: that is the point. >> eric: my opinion one of the smartest people in politics and we had a discussion if he was on the documents, and he was going to have to defend this at some point because the obama administration give them credit, do their homework and dig through everything they need to do. why doesn't he bring that out at the beginning of the campaign. >> dana: they haven't done anything wrong. >> bob: you don't think it's wrong to say you're the ceo -- >> andrea: that is an interesting point. that is what the administration wants. they want mitt romney to have to respond to each of the grasping at straw attack. there is i think a danger in responding to all of these different things. every time he responds he gets off message of the economy. we are so far in details, the voters are going what? romney is a felony? >> bob: are you excusing because it's romney? >> andrea: lying because having a job? >> bob: lying to say you are not

. >> andrea: north carolina. out we talk about on the show. the president started running ads in african-american media markets already. that is why when people say he is not worried about this in the naacp, that whole thing. he has the vote shored up. i'm not sure he has it shored up like he thinks he does. >> bob: they will turn out in large numbers. question of north carolina. i'm going to concede north carolina. michigan will come back to traditional democratic ways. i iowa will go democratic and wisconsin goes democratic. how does romney win all the states? b >> dana: this was bob's favorite segment and greg's least favorite segment. if you want to keep up with the yellow-green map follow greg on twitter. >> greg: it's on the roof of my bedroom. >> dana: president obama and his bride. guess what they did? they shared a kiss at the basketball game last night. andrea asked people on the streets how they feel about presidential p.b.a. our thought whence we come back. >> andrea: barack and michelle obama were ca

they like to see kimberly, andrea when they are in that spot. >> eric: greg. >> andrea: how about greg's 7-11, today should be national holiday. it will all equal "the five." it tried to bring sparklers in but porter told me i'd be put in jail if i brought them to the show. >> andrea: viewers don't tune in for mine or kimberly's brain? >> juan: they do. howard stern said we have the gorgeous whelm who are so smart. that's what he said. >> i love howard stern. love him to death. >> dana: you know what else we love about "the five" is greg's monologue. they're a staple. we appreciate it. i'm being sincere and trying to be nice to you. [ laughter ] >> kimberly: really talen talented. >> bob: i don't understand them. >> eric: we want to thank the voters who come out in drones to support us. highest rated show in cable news. thank you. thanks to roger al, who had a great idea for a fresh new show, roger selected each and every one of us. he found a group of people who truly enjoy bringing you the news in a fun and interesting way. from all of us. thank you, boss.

. >> andrea: absolutely. think about what happened to the democrats that voted for obamacare last time around. 20 casualties. this is politics and what democrats do on the tax to millionaires, bring it to the floor. think about the ax that will be cut for democrats who voted. they have to defend the votes. like i said, 20 democrats last time lost their seat because they didn't have the courage to stand up. i will say they will be talking about all the provisions of obamacare. it will get worse. the problems that existed before are not going to go away. these democrats are going to have to defend that. republicans have a winning issue. >> dana: let me ask you where you stand on obamacare, you are supportive and think it didn't go far enough. is it a good enough messaging strategy by the democrats to tell people look, get over it. it's the law and move on? >> bob: no. the democrats wussed out. they ought to be willing to put the campaign on it, it's good law. republicans do this 30 times. alcoholicalcoholics an

. >> andrea: let me finish. he has a point here. israelis have and as dana old colleague points out when he was quoted in freakonomics they have the highest density of tech startup in israel. they're entrepreneurial. they take risks and hard workers. it's the reason that the culture flourish. palestinians on the other hand teach hate, they teach the kids to hate. maybe if they didn't teach the kids to hate he would have had more economic prosperity. >> greg: the palestinians took them down the wrong path. >> bob: the palestinians have been successful in this country in business. >> greg: where? >> bob: in the united states of america. >> greg: much better than where they're from. >> bob: that has nothing to do with their culture. >> eric: so has the israelis. >> bob: the culture -- >> greg: talking about the culture under arafat in -- >> bob: that is not what he said. >> greg: going after israel and not building up the own cities. >> bob: do a romney apologist tour. >> andrea: he should not have backed off. >> g

>> andrea: it's very telling. lek ran the solidarity movement. >> bob: that's overly simplistic. >> andrea: it is a telling endorsement. eric is on to something. mitt romney looks extremely presidential. walking around, shaking hands with allies. not just for the political purposes, bob. but obama has been on unsure footing with with the poles because of the death catch gaffe recently, the missile defense, open mic moment with the russians. so now, going back to cokie roberts' point she was trying to insinuate that his move was racist. going after the began democrats. it must be racist if they are breaking for mitt romney and not obama, which is racist of her. to somehow try to look through everything in the prism of race. mitt romney was going over there to show we are friends. more of a friendship tour than an apology tour which is opposite of obama. >> greg: i don't think she talked about the african-americans for obama program for getting out the vote. >> bob: obama did not make mistakes when he was over there

>> well, andrea, that's not clear.it certainly means is that the small observer mission which has been on the ground and over the last six weeks confined to its hotel rooms because of the declining security situation, will wind down. it may take a few more weeks for it to wind down and the council may yet agree to a brief extension for a matter of a few weeks or days to enable it to redeploy safely. but that part of it is definitely done. whether kofi annan can continue his political efforts, we hope so. because we continue to believe that the best outcome, even in it's not the most probable outcome, is for there to be a peaceful political transition. assad steps aside and there is a new government put in place that can lead to a democratic dispensation for the people of sere wyria syria. >> if there's no give from russia's position, and it's clear china will follow russia's lead on this, but if russia is not going to change, and vladimir putin was on the phone with the president yesterday and we were told there were s

. >> yeah, you know, andrea, i was struck by that. so in this poll, do you approve of president obama's hand lg of the economy or disapprove? 39% approve, 55% disapprove. april, 44% approved, 48% disapproved. much closer. i'd say there was another question i was struck by. do you believe the president can do a lot, any president can do a lot about the strength or weakness of the economy? a majority, now, it was 51%, but still a majority, 51% said a president can do a lot. that's up ten points from september of last year. add those two sets of numbers together and you see people are not happy with how president obama's handling the economy and they believe that a president does have a real impact on what the economy does or does not do. those two numbers together are not great for president obama. >> plus, it's very early in the game, and the president's been spending a lot of money, a much faster burn rate of his funds. mitt romney is sitting on all this cash. they're going to just unload a tsunami of campaign advertisements in the cl

andrea?bama did when he was a candidate in 2008 when i was on that trip with him, why isn't mitt romney going to afghanistan? not to iraq, not to afghanistan, to either war zones or the scene of the former war? >> reporter: it's a good question we posted to the campaign as well and they've given us very few reasons why that was the case except logistically, it wasn't an option. going to afghanistan, it reminds the audience at home of president obama's greatest success story. even as you and some of your guests already in this broadcast were discussing, one of the images is even in the speak a couple days ago, he appears to address it with the timetable of 2014 for removing troops from afghanistan. >> thanks so much, peter. good travels. and in our daily piks today, the mud slinging is sticking. according to the nbc news/wall street journal polls, it's taking its toll on both mitt romney and president obama. managing editor and joins us from new york. hi to both. first let's go through these n

i'm andrea mitchell live in washington.in our "daily fix" today, the president is on the bus traveling through ohio and pennsylvania, attacking china for alleged unfair trade practices against american-made autos and suvs. meanwhile, the "wall street journal" and "the weekly standard" are both jumping on mitt romney, who is now calling the health care mandate a tax, not a personality, despite what eric fehrnstrom, his top adviser, told chuck todd the other day. chris alyssa is managing editor and nbc news' white house correspondent and political director chuck todd, host of "the daily rundown," and it's all your fault, chuck todd. why did you make eric fehrnstrom say that? let's go back to where we begin. if you want to hang on just a second, i want to ask chris where you think we stand to set the table here. you've got the president in ohio today, pennsylvania tomorrow. we know the jobs numbers are coming tomorrow. he's today, coincidentally, perhaps not, announce another trade action against china for alleged unfair trade

and you know, i think, andrea, you said it the best.of her extraordinary life, but how far we've come as a society and how young of a society we are. but to be able to see her be in the dining car ofç a train and fulfill a wish 60 years in the making was special for all of us. >> now, your background, you were an nfl player, you were in the olympics. how did you come to this foundation and to this ability and desire to fulfill dreams for seniors? >> you know, when i was traveling around the world with the u.s. ski team, we would ski and compete in just about every country outside the united states. and i started seeing things when i was 17, 18, 19 years old in other countries, where their culture would just really respect the oldest people inside their country. and you know, one moment happened to be in japan. i was on this really crowded bus and an 80 or 90-year-old woman started walking on to the bus and everybody jumped out of their seats. they helped her on to the bus, gave her a seat and bowed to her, and i was really struck by th

always a pleasure to see you, governor. >> thank you, andrea. best to you. >>> back where it all began. the president is in iowa this hour selling his plan on taxes. stephanie cutter, president obama's deputy campaign manager, is up next. >>> still to come, sigourney weaver on "political animals." this is "andrea mitchell reports." you age... would you take it? well, there is. [ male announcer ] it's called ocuvite. a vitamin totally dedicated to your eyes, from the eye-care experts at bausch + lomb. as you age, eyes can lose vital nutrients. ocuvite helps replenish key eye nutrients. [ male announcer ] ocuvite has a unique formula not found in your multivitamin to help protect your eye health. now, that's a pill worth taking. [ male announcer ] ocuvite. help protect your eye health. [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where you don't back down from a challenge. this is the age of knowing how to make things happen. so, why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. 20 million men already have. ask your doct

>> andrea: hi, doctor. it's andrea tantaros.you even begin to treat someone who was in the theater, someone so close to this? how would you go about this? something so serious as this? >> it's very serious. post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and reliving the event. this happens over and other and over in your mind -- over and over and over if your mind. if you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat. the key, this is crucially important, get involved in treatment immediately. sooner the better. i'm talking about tonight or tomorrow. the sooner they start seeing a professional to deal with this, the better they will do. what you are doing, you have to uncouple the event from the emotions that goes with the event. that sounds hard to do but that's how the therapy works in these conditions. earlyer the better. >> bob: kimberly, you have a question? >> kimberly: i had a question for dr. archer regarding the suspect. right now we have been discussing whether or

andrea? >>> right now, we focus on the district and efforts to get peak power back and cleanup after the storm. joining us is muri al buzzer. you are probably still getting complaints. >> absolutely. we have still people with very hot homes and downed trees. many people have completely left their homes since last friday. we know we're now to the areas where a couple of houses are on a block or several blocks. we have one area near 18th and quincy street where we have about 24 homes continuously out. so we know they are getting to them. people are hot and frustrated. >> people who are frustrated call their representatives. i was one of those frustrated who called you. what can you actually do for residents, especially seniors or the disabled who we've heard on television talking about they can't get out, they are hot. can you get them ice? do you have money to get them battery-powered fans? what can you do? >> we make sure nobody's being forgotten in my ward. we give pepco the chance to let th

i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. in our daily fix, an exclusive first look at your new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll at mitt romney begins a week long foreign policy push with a speech today to the veterans of foreign wars, that about an hour from now. our new poll shows that he still has work to do, trying to persuade voters he is ready to be commander in chief. romney trails the president on that score by ten points. but mitt romney leads the president by seven points, 43-36, on the quality that may be most important to voters this year, having good ideas to improve the economy. chris cillizza is an msnbc contributor and managing editor of post politics.com and nbc news chief white house correspondent and political director, chuck todd, hosts the daily rundown. chuck, you have gone through these numbers. these questions show first of all the distance mitt romney still has to close in narrowing the gap but he's ahead on the key indicator of the economy. >> he is. there's another part to this question that we s

. >>> i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. in our daily fix, president obama and mitt romney are taking their fight over the bush tax cuts and outsourcing to the swing states. romney is wrapping up a town hall in grand junction, colorado. you can see these live pictures. this hour the president is about to speak in cedar rapids, iowa. we will bring that to you as well. chris cillizza is an msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com. this outsourcing story, chris, we should also point out not to outsource, but insources the author of the gospel according to the fix, now in book stores as of today. congratulations on your pub date. >> thank you. >> let's talk about this whole outsourcing controversy because mitt romney is just trying to take it to the president, saying that he is not the commander in chief but the outsourcer in chief. this is after a "washington post" story which took the president on and said that it is the president also has to explain his record to democrats, particularly on the left who say he

here's mike and andrea.morning guys. >>> thank you anny. the report on the penn state child sex scandal found top university officials failed to properly investigate after hearing about the allegations against jerry sandusky. >> former redskin and nittany lion la rash arrington found dug -- lavar arrington found out during the trial that he knew one of the victims. we have more this morning sports. >> well, good morning everyone. bill o'brien man has a tough job. he's the guy tasked to lead penn state football out of the darkest moment. he has a deal on the field and maybe he'll do well but the stain from the off the field behavior of his predecessors is going to be around for a long time. louis freeh and his team of investigators releasing a thorough scathing report yesterday which outlined a culture ovine global by four of the most powerful people at penn state. what now? the ncaa punished schools before for a lack of institutional control and local sports reporters discussing yesterday whether the ncaa sh

. >> have you ever met rachel and andrea? >> krebs has been in custody for some 30 days.ince police found a bb gun at his job. a violation of his parole. but both krebs and his interrogator know that's not why they're here. two young women, students at nearby colleges, have gone missing. one taken off the street, the other from her home in the middle of the night. police suspect the women have fallen victim to a sexual predator. >> the county had a lot of people that had been convicted of sex offenses and just about any one of them could have done something like this. >> rex krebs is one of dozens of sex auchblders interviewed by police. he and hobson have been talking for weeks. since krebs' parole agent notifies the task force there's a parallel between the way the women apparently vanished and the suspect's past. >> back in may 1987, he committed a rape. he had broken throughç the bathroom window. and at the end of that crime, he hog tied the victim and left the residence. i'll never forget this. he said to the victim have a nice day. >> krebs served ten years for the

andrea, when we discussed this and andrea knew that her risk of this virus infection was about one in a thousand each year, how did you calculate the cost and benefit? >> i think for me it was a matter of as i said, i was fine but i always knew in the back of my mind that i might not be fine tomorrow. that the quality of my life might become considerably worse. and you am given me enough information that led me to believe that the benefits of this drug would far outweigh the increased risk. and i thought to myself what will i feel, will i feel worse if i do not switch treatment? and something happens to me that i didn't take the chance to do it? or will i feel worse that i did take the chance to keep my quality of life as it is. and i happen to be a person who fell into that very small percentage. and i thought i will feel worse if i didn't try to do all that i could do to maintain my quality of life. >> i think this discussion is to profound because i think it points out which really needs to be pointed out in a set of programs like you and i are doing, that medicine is not physics.

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thank you, andrea.next hour, democrats launch a full out assault on mitt romney's off shoir accounts. >> release the tax returns. if mitt romney's not hiding something in bermuda, switzerland, in the kay mans, it'll be in the tax returns. >> we'll have the romney response. will this coordinated effort pressure governor romney to give up more about his money in the kay man islands and bermuda? in the past couple of hours president obama pressuring congress to extend the bush era tax cuts for the middle class. we'll have both sides of the argument. congressman alan west. he is now comparing, listen to this one, social security to slavery. [ engine revving ] ♪ hey, hey, hey ♪ [ tires screech ] [ male announcer ] with fuel economy that's best in class and better acceleration than camry and accord, you'll wish you had the road to yourself. [ tires screech ] it's our most innovative altima ever. nissan. innovation that excites. ♪ nissan. innovation that excites. ♪ [ acou[ barks ]ar: slow ] ♪ [ upbeat ] [ bark

reports," andrea mitchell. >> let me just say -- >> oh.'m a little distracted. >> for the purposes of this morning -- mets fan. bryce harper is [ inaudible ]. >> are we going to start right there. >> he's only 19. >> cute thing. >> for a guy that cooky you should be able to catch a pop-up. >> really? interesting. >> come on. have you ever looked at those lights. >> oh, that's bad. >> hate when that happens. >> andrea, you're going to defend that? >> absolutely. >> could i catch that. >> msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee and a man who has never botched an easy pop fly -- >> no. >> also, pulitzer prize winning editorle writer for "the washington post" and the man we all go to if we have baseball questions, jonathan capehart. >> and in new york, mike barnicle. mike, last night the national league didn't look like aaa, did they? >> they came out of the box against justin verlander, eight on the board, that game was over about 16 seconds into the game. >> so back, you know, in the '70s, back i gues

. >> reporter: good morning, mike, andrea. today is the last full session before the council breaks for the summer and mary cheh is hoping to push the pepco legislation through using the frustration of many power customers in the district of columbia. she says it's time to consider underground lines for portions of pepco service areas in dg. pepco as we know routinely blames outages on the weather knocking down trees and the overhead wires. mary cheh says burying the wires at least in some neighborhoods here in the district is at least one solution. >> we know that process will cost an awful lot of money and will be disruptive but unless we begin to do it, we'll never do it. >> the only thing that corporations of pepco's size respond to is the threat of penalty. >> reporter: the utility board here in the district says d.c.'s public service commission is partly to blame for these problems consistently with pepco. i'll explain coming up at 5:30. mike, andrea, back to you. >> delia goncalves reporting live from northwest d.c. >>>

. >> reporter: good morning, mike, andrea. it certainly will be an interesting press conference at 10:00 here inside the wilson building. i don't know how the mayor will avoid these questions that i'm sure will be bombarded by a number of reporters who will be in that room. initially he said he knew nothing about this corruption. that has changed to simply no comment. so we'll see what else he has to say today and if that changes because now we're talking about a pretty large number, more than 650,000 -- $650,000 that was secretly funneled to his campaign. let's take a look at some video that was shot just yesterday. gene harris, a 75-year-old public relations consultant pled guilty in federal court yesterday to using that money to help mayor gray get elected. she pled guilty to buying 10 thousand yard signs, 6,000 t- shirts, banners, laptops and a pa system. harris worked for d.c. businessman jeffrey thompson who was alleged have to have written the checks but did not come up with the scheme. that person was not revealed in c