so andrea saul, why didn't he release the full 2010 tax form that would include that document. is there something about that number that embarrasses mitt romney? mitt romney likes to talk about how successful he has been, measuring success exclusively by his accumulation of money. is mitt romney really proud of his success, proud of his money? or is he now somehow ashamed of his money, ashamed of the number in item 15? is he embarrassed by how much money that is? 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, does

joining me now, andrea saul, romney campaign press secretary. good to see you.hanks so much for being with us. want to ask you about the national review which basically said release the returns, that he's a politician running for the highest office in the land. his current posture is probably unsustainable, in all likelihood he won't be able to maintain a position that looks secretive and is a departure from campaign conventions. the only question is whether he releases more returns now or later. >> governor romney has gone above and beyond what's required of him. he's voluntarily released over 500 pages of tax return information and will release his 2011 returns as soon as they're ready. the real question here is why are we talking about this. we are because the obama campaign would rather talk about anything besides president obama's economic record. >> with all due respect, it's republicans now, barbour, will, kristol, the national review. it's republicans who are raising this point, rick perry most recently. let me play a little bit of that. >> i'm a big bel

press secretary andrea saul said milliband took questions because that was his choice. that's why romney didn't call on american reporters. we said we were doing a photo spray. it's not protocol once you end upstanding next to a leader from another country. the u.s. press corps followed mr. romney a long way. with tony blair romney stuck to pleasantries. he also met with william hague. they faced challenges in europe, syria, egypt, the arab spring and their mutual love of kit-kat bars. romney pressed the point that he doesn't plan to criticize the president abroad. he did so again in the meeting with milliband. >> while i'm on foreign soil i'm careful not to be critical of my own policies. i would be more remiss if i were to be critical of any other government's policy. >> that was a response to the question from the british press corps asking romney about the sort of definite-first approach the uk has taken and how it's affected economic growth. in a wide-ranging interview with mr. brian williams, brian asked romney ahead of the trip to israel what assurances he can gi

>> well, you know, suzanne, they put out a brief statement from the campaign spokeswoman andrea saul we can put it up on the screen for you and it is what the republicans have been saying all day, and pretty much throughout the debate of whether the bush tax cuts should be extended and for whom. this is a statement from andrea saul released earlier this morning saying basically that president obama's response to more bad economic news is a massive tax increase and shows again that the president does not have a clue how to help americans get to work again and he help the middle-class. it is interesting that one thing that is important to work out that mitt romney was at one of the fundraisers in new hampshire and one of the fundraisers shawna shepherd, one of our producers on the scene got a recording of mitt romney talking to wealthy donors at the fund-raiser saying that he also wants to be out there looking out for the middle-class, and that he is not so much worried about the wealthy donors and he said in his words they are doing just fine. it is interesting to see the president ta

romney spokeswoman andrea saul called it offshoring as if to say, yes, you may be out of a job but your job is still alive and it's off shore somewhere in some exotic location sipping mai tai's be happy for your job. bain calls it capability sourcing as if you say, yes, you are fired, not because you are too expensive but because you are incapable of being less expensive. here is how obama avoids being associated with outsourcing. >> you have heard of outsourcing. well, these companies are insourcing. >> ah-ha. insourcing is the opposite of outsourcing. assuming insourcing is a word. is insourcing a word? the question is: is there ever a good time to use this terrible word, "outsourcing"? and the answer is, of course. when you are accusing the other guy of doing it. >> does virginia really want an outsourcer in chief in the white house. >> if there is an outsourcer in chief, it's the president of the united states. >> original. i am done talking now. >> thanks, everybody, for joining us here in the war room. we are going to have a great show tomorrow night. representative jackie speier

romney spokesperson andrea saul said in a statement: other republicans offered a similar critique in advance of the president's remarks. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell told cnn the president's plan could make a bad problem worse. >> and we have got the fiscal cliff coming at the end of the year. you know, what we ought to be doing is extend the current tax rates for another year with a hard requirement to get through comprehensive tax reform one more time. >> ifill: both campaigns are appealing to middle class pocketbooks at the same time they are adding record sums to their campaign coffers. romney and the republican national committee reported raising $106 million last month, outstripping the president and the democrats, who pulled in $71 million. outside fundraising groups are raising and spending millions more. all those dollar signs add up to a debate that could easily determine which party wins the white house and the congress this fall. for more on the politics behind the policy, we turn to "newshour" political editor christina bellantoni and stuart rothenberg of the

romney press secretary andrea saul says the comments don't represent mitt romney's beliefs.the obama campaign says it won't characterize the comment as a form of racial baiting. here's what romney himself had to say. >> so i'm not sure who this person is, but i can tell you we that have a very special relationship between the united states and great britain. it goes back to our very beginnings, cultural and historical. but i also believe that the president understands that. so i don't agree with whoever that adviser might be. >> yet the anglo-saxon comments seem to be part of a pattern for team romney. earlier this week the presidential hopeful tried to paint the president as other. >> this is an ideology which says, hey, we're all the same here. it's a very strange and in some respects foreign to the american experience type of philosophy. so his whole philosophy is an upside down philosophy that does not comport with the american experience. >> you know, a lot of us understand things differently, as author edward mcclellan points out, president obama's mother is of english

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foreign policy successes when he goes to the middle east, and you know, the romney spokesperson andrea saul says president obama thinks visiting israel is a distraction, it is clear that his foreign policy is confused, ineffective and is weakened in every corner of the world. what do you make of that? >> again, certainly there's no polling information whatsoever to suggest that this is a weakness for president obama. quite the contrary. many democrats believe this is a sort of once in a generation chance to run as a strong national security candidate, something that's been very unusual historically even in the post-cold war. i think the obama team probably rightfully views their record on national security and foreign policy as an asset. i think that romney has made a pretty confused presentation so far. it's not really clear what his foreign policy is except as he said the other day about israel, he said what's my policy on israel going to be? exactly what barack obama's was and the opposite. so he's really running as a critic of obama's rather than laying out his own plan which of course

it's a penalty in massachusetts and it's a penalty for america and then you had andrea saul tweet out basically the same thing. two senior advisors. different story for mitt romney when he finally found the cameras yesterday. >> now, mitt romney is stepping out and he's saying, yes, obamacare is a tax. let's listen. >> i said i agreed with the dissent and the dissent made it very clear that they felt it was unconstitutional but the dissent lost. it's in the minority. and so now the supreme court has spoken. there's no way around that. you can try to say you wish they had decided a different way but they didn't. they concluded it was a tax. that's what it is and the american people know that president obama has broken the pledge he made. said he wouldn't raise taxes on middle income americans. not only did he raise the $500 billion already in the bill. it's clear that his mandate as described by the supreme court as a tax. >> it should have been big news yesterday but of course, it's fourth of july and everybody is out and about and nobody is paying attention to the news. >> now that h