but ann romney will be front and center in this campaign, as you know. you are going to interview mitt romney and his wife. >> on monday, i'm going to be sitting down with mitt romney and his wife, ann, and we want to hear your questions for the romneys, as well, so, send them to us, on twitter, using the hash tag ask romney, or sent them to me at abc news or yahoo! again, that will be monday. thank you, david. >>> and, at this hour, the clock is ticking in the menacing nuclear nation of north korea. they are ready to fire that long range rocket. a rocket powerful enough, it could eventually threaten the united states. it is a dramatic statement by the mysterious new dictator there, and abc's bob woodruff is in north korea tonight. bob? >> reporter: diane, morning is breaking here in the capital of north korea. this is a very big moment for their new, untested leader. he is only 29 years old. and this launch will put him right there at the center and front of the world's stage. the u.s. says this new rocket, now waiting on the launch pad, is big enough th

, not her children. >> i look care of anne davies who is married to mitt romney. >> wow. >> i took kayin bloom field hills. i take care of her until -- i took care of them until i had my child, and then i had to leave. i took care of her and her two brothers -- >> so what is your take on all of this? >> i think when the lady said the lady never work addai in her life, she didn't because i took care of anne. anne came from a family that was very privileged. she was a child of privilege, and i took -- cleaned for them cooked for them, and just took care of her, the whole bit. >> hum. >> so what the lady said about her, she never worked day in her life is true. >> she seems like a nice person though is she? >> she is a very nice person. and mitt is nice also. >> yeah. >> because i remember when he would -- they would entertain -- they would entertain the romneys, you know, they would come to their house, and i would cook and do all of the -- everybody that a maid would do, i was their maid at that time, but -- what the lady said about anne is perfectly true. she has never had to work a da

ann romney spoke so well, i don't need to say anything. ising five boys that are hard working, decent, honest, giving children is not bad. plus ann did choose to stay home with her children, and that's a lot of volunteer work. i don't think people are very understanding of the fact that she has ms, works hard for them. she has had breast cancer and she works very hard at for at-risk youth. some people choose to stay at home, raise their children, some people really aren't built that way, they can do both. but five boys is a handful, trust me. racing george walker was not easy. megyn: not on were you married to a president, you raised a president, you raised a governor. by want to ask you about this comment. because this seems to be something that's really struck a chord with a lot of our viewers. pitting stay-at-home moms against working moms. other suggestion if you choose to stay at home and raise your children as you did, that you don't or cannot well understand the plight of working women. your thoughts on that. >> well, i think i can u

but ann romney will be front and center in this campaign, as you know. you are going to be interviewing both mitt romney and his wife. >> i want everyone to know, too, on monday, i'm going to be sitting down with mitt romney and his wife, ann. and we want to hear your questions for the romneys, as well. so, send them to us, on twitter, using the hashtag, ask romney, or send them to me at abc news or yahoo! again, that will be monday. thank you, david. >>> and coming up, what you don't know about eggs that end up on america's breakfast table. and my dad moving in. so we went to fidelity. we looked at our family's goals and some ways to help us get there. they helped me fix my economy, the one in my house. now they're managing my investments for me. and with fidelity, getting back on track was easier than i thought. call or come in today to take control of your personal economy. get one-on-one help from america's retirement leader. my son and i never missed opening day. but with copd making it hard to breathe, i thought those days might be over. so my docto

she never said i respect ann romney. she never said what a marvelous woman who has beat breast cancer and is fighting ms and raised a family of five wonderful children. she never said one word like that. the so-called apology, with all due respect to ms. rosen, was a half apology. she started the phony war on stay-at-home moms. it was not contrite. i think there are people in chicago who are happy that hilary rosen has said this thing and has ejected this into the campaign -- >> oh, they have thrown her under the bus already. >> yeah, and in a 140 word tweet. you know, nobody has called -- >> well, they threw her under the bus a lot faster -- they have thrown her under the bus a lot faster than reverend wright. >> i repeat with a tweet, they should have called up debbie becauser man schultz, the democratic national charm who they instructed to put rosen in as a senior visor and say publicly fire her as a senior advisor but they don't do that because one of the person who coined the phrase war on women and probably used i

tell us a little bit more about ann romney. ocratic strategist unleashed what widely considered the romney campaign's best asset and for months mrs. romney told cnn's piers morgan she's had a job. >> it's my job and a great job with making sure people see the other side of mitt. >> even then you knew these moments would be fleeing. >> with raising five boys it's tough billing on the campaign's website. >> i miss having all of them under my roof. >> and she's a natural on interviews responding to rosen on fox news. >> look, i know what it's like to struggle. namely her health struggles as her husband has detailed time and again. >> she was diagnosed with multiple skreres onnis and most recently with breast cancer. yes, she now lives a life of privilege. >> ann drives a couple of cadill cadillacs. >> and she reminds where her family comes from program. >> it was demonstrate individual of the tweets in her defense. the president's top strategist david axelrod to democratic party chair to debbie wasserman schultz to meshel obama. it

got hard attacks, it was a real attack against [overlapping speakers] and the democrats because ann romneyis now going to be a much more sympathetic figure when she campaigns for mitt romney. she is a sympathetic figure, they have five wonderful kids. and it's -- now a platform from which to speak. >> also -- [overlapping speakers] >> denied that distance themselves from it. but if you pause michelle's words she didn't succeed in doing that. >> no, it's out there. this is not going to go away just because -- >> there's a longstanding tension between women who are home and women who are in the workplace. and a lot of women in the workplace feel they're disrespected if they had the choice to stay home 3 don't. so touched a number of nerves and a different level, and also haven't heard the phase militant feminism for quite a long time! >> hillary rosen is a feminist. >> of course she is! >> and this is right. >> i suspect -- [overlapping speakers] >> could be off limits to attack candidate spouses? >> yes, off flights politically, if you're not idiotic, you don't do something like that. >> ja

we are pleased to be joined by ann romney this morning. romney good to have you with us. >> good morning, martha. martha: i'm curious on a personal level, because i know how it can feel when these kinds of things are said. what was your personal guthri gut reaction when you heard her said those words. >> she said have come to my house when those five boys were causing so much trouble. it wasn't so easy. martha: no indeed i'm sure it wasn't. we've had a ton of people tweeting the show this morning when they heard that you were on basically telling similar stories. anybody i guess who is a mom knows what it's like to actually have tow do you'l all of that hard work at home. your son josh also tweeted about that. he said, my mom could have done anything she wanted in her life and she chose to stay home and raise me. i thought that was very interesting and very kind comments from him this morning. you did have a lot of choices. and why did you make the decision that you did at that point in your life? >> you know, this is what is so interestin

it's not that he's talking about ann romney about women, it's that he's only talking to ann romney.orate is women, he goes to his wife exclusively. >> how about saying he was going to get rid of the department of education. >> he said that's dynamite. it's the politics that he's worried about. >> why would he say i want to consolidate or reduce the impact. >> i thought he was off the record. >> education, as it happen, i've looked at the poll numbers, it's another huge area where there's a gender gap. >> i'm not being judgmental, but i can be. ask any guy who the kids teachers are. the mother tends to be aware of every teacher. has an attitude about them. who are the teachers again? >> i'm staying silent. i don't want to get in trouble with my spouse. >> today, after we have gone through four or five days of hilary rosen, the republicans are in no better shape than they were. >> thank you very much. when we return let me if i thinkish when why what's good for latin america is good for the united states. i was very impressed. things are looking up south of the border. >>> let me fini

i wonder if we would know exactly how many nannies ander is can'ts ann romney has? music ] >> joe biden. president obama and i believe it's simply wrong to have a system that is so riddled with loopholes and preferences -- >> yeah, the side shows. >> i'm not going to do the roger head hog thing -- >> talk. >> hum? >> roger hedgecock. >> i'm sorry. i keep getting that wrong. asked about public approval which is huge -- >> huge >> for the buffet role preibus said it's no more than a shiny object to detract from obama's record. i see we're idiots. >> yeah. >> so thank you. thank you for that respect. let's go to marlene in indiana. you are on the "stephanie miller show." hey, marlene? >> hi, steph. how are you doing? >> good. go ahead. >> i love your show. i love those guys on the show. especially the one with the white hair. >> oh, well, hello! >> but i don't know what ann romney's mother was doing in the 40s, but my mother worked constantly. >> yeah. >> and i want those democrats to stop apologizing to this lady ann romney, because i have five kids, and i worked all m

the champion of my life, my sweetheart, ann romney. ann romney. romney. >> reporter: but this week, the always upbeat mother of five let something slip. the campaign is taking a toll. she thanked supporters for their prayers. >> and i can't tell you how much i appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard and the trials are there. >> reporter: one of those trials -- her battle with multiple sclerosis. now, in an interview with "entertainment tonight," ann talks about her struggle behind the scenes, those long days before the super tuesday primary in march. >> i was quite fatigued and i knew i couldn't quit. i didn't tell anybody i was tired. >> reporter: but she kept going. >> i start to almost lose my words. i almost can't think, i can't get words out. i start to stumble a little bit and, so, those things were happening and i thought, oh, no, big trouble. >> reporter: in just the week leading up to super tuesday, ann romney visited five states, attending more than a dozen events with her husband and two on her own. a grueling schedu

let me give you ann romney's reaction.'s watch what she had to say. >> what was your personal gut reaction when you heard her say those words. >> she should have come to my house when those five boys were causing so much trouble. it does sont easy. [ laughter ] >> this is what is so interesting about this. my career choice was to be a mother, and i think all of us need to know that we need to respect choices that women make. other women make other choices to have a career and raise a family. i respect that. that's wonderful. but there are other people that have a choice. we have to respect women in all of those choices that they make. >> justice ana kasparian how do you respond? >> politically speaking it is brilliant. the romney campaign took what rosen said and completely twisted it. she said nothing disrespectful about stay at home moms all she said was ann romney had no place talking about the economy when she doesn't have to work and she is married to a very rich man. so they are twisting the words. >> the think that

. >> this is not about ann romney. a diner in, you know, some place in nevada who has two kids whose daycare funding is being cut off because of the romney/ryan budget, and she doesn't know what to do. this isn't about whether ann romney or i or other women of, you know, some means can afford to make a choice to stay home and raise kids. >> then just last hour ann romney said this on fox news. >> my career choice was to be a mother, and i think all of us need to know that we need to respect choices that women make. other women make other choices, to have a career and raise family which i think hillary rosen has actually done herself. i respect that. that's wonderful. but, you know, there are other people that have a choice. we have to respect women in all those choices that they make. >> so, roland, let's start with you. hillary rosen has definitely managed to unit republicans and democrats. they all disagree with her. sproo s >> she screwed up. he's a lobbyist, this communications expert, she's supposed to be a pr guru

when the democrats ran away from an opportunity to point out that ann romney and mitt mitt romney areoth out of touch and have no idea what you have to put up with to make ends meet, i think they miss a point. mark in hearns ferry. >> caller: i couldn't agree more. this is a case of poorly-chosen words. i think if she had used the term ann romney has not spent much time in the work force i think it would have carried a little more strength. i also think the republicans have been looking for an opportunity to spin this. they know they've got a gender issue. they've got a problem with women. they saw this as their opportunity to flip it back on the democrats and i think that we have really been remiss in not taking this opportunity to back hillary up on this and allow her to clarify exactly what she was trying to do. >> bill: amen, mark. hey, great call. thank you. when we come back, we'll get some numbers. we'll get some numbers from think progress on mitt romney and women. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." the ted conference held here every year in southern california is an

up first, ann romney defends her choice to stay home and raise her kids. presumptive republican presidential nominee mitt romney went full force for women's support this week. romney blames president obama for the recession that has placed so many women out of work. meanwhile a firestorm erupted over one cnn analyst's remarks that romney should stop citing his wife on women's issues because she quote "never worked a day in her life," and therefore doesn't understand women's economic concerns. the remarks prompted ann romney to post her first tweet saying: "i made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. believe me, it was hard work." >> will anne romney help her husband win the women's vote? >> she is trying but you can't put a burden on a wife to lift mitt romney out of the sinkhole is he is in on women's issues. >> she may have some ability to help because i think more and more women are feeling that women on the left are judging the choices that they are making, the choices they make, if they choose to stay home, maybe they are not the right choices. >

rmitt romney unloaded a mountai of lies today, but it was ann romney who was the real star of the show. this is "the ed show," let's get to work. >> let me give a shout out to all moms that are working. >> the romney campaign is trying to disguise their anti-woman policies and rush limbaugh is lending a hand. >> if i had a daughter, she would look like ann romney. >> karen finney and richard wolffe on ann romney surprise. >> they are paying a lower tax rate. >> senator sheldon is fighting for fairness before monday's vote. >>> newark mayor plays super hero saving his neighbor from a fire. >>> 100 years after it sank, we're getting the most detailed look at the titanic. tonight, we're taking you to the bottom of the ocean. >>> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. the republicans have found their new rock star and i want ain't mitt romney. >> there's one more person i would like to introduce. this is a hero of mine. i happen to believe that all moms are working moms and if you have five sons, why your work is never over. ann romney. >> she's been pushed to the forefront of the

gather around the water cooler to watch stephan colbert chance to hillary rosen's comments about ann romney's resume. >> folks, i don't know if you have heard, mitt romney has been hurt by the so-called republican war on women. mitt romney turned that attack against obama using the ancient art of jumitsu. >> the real war on women has been waged by the obama administration's failure on the economy. >> the latedy public didn't respond to mitt's reverse takedown of obama until there was a cable news miracle. when democratic campaign strategist hillary rosen criticized stay at home mother of five, ann romney. >> guess what, his wife has never really worked a day in her life. now, now, play the quote on a loop. play ton a looit on a loop. >> his wife has never actually worked a day on her life. >> now drop a beat on it. ♪ ♪ his wife has never worked a day in her life ♪ ♪ >> oh. that is catchy. now, sadly, ms. rosen has since apologized to ann romney, profusely. do we have that clip? no? then what do we have? ♪ >> oh. we have to give a "way too early" shout-out to new jersey super man, newark mayor

ann romney, i think that's ann romney. that's hillary rosen. that ann romney as a woman who stayed at home and raised her five boys, she never had worked a day in her life. well, since then, the president of the united states has denounced it. he said it was ill advised. what's going to be curious, though, is whether or not the president actually apologizes to ann romney as he did to sandra fluke. you think that's going to happen? >> no, it's not going to happen under any conditions although we see the entire democratic party apparatus in full crisis mode responding to this saying we're for motherhood and apple pie now. listen, we have nothing to do with this woman. somehow, she used to be a democratic strategist who has been to the white house 30 times but now we really don't know her and i don't know what she's talking about. >> she's under a bus somewhere. >> i don't know her at all. >> hillary rosen has apparently been to the white house many, many more times. three times as often as leon panetta, the defense secretary but here is how this

this is not about ann romney. a diner in some place in nevada who has two kids whose day care funding is being cut off because of the romney/ryan budget and she doesn't know what to do. this isn't about whether ann romney or i or other women of some means can afford to make a choice to stay home and raise kids. most women in america, let's face it, don't have that choice. they have to be working moms and home moms and that's the piece that i am not hearing from the romney camp. instead everybody is attacking me. that's fine. attack me. but it does not erase his woeful record on this issue. >> i talked to a lot of conservative women who say these kind of comments prove once again that liberal women really have no clue how conservative women choose to live their lives. and by your comment i think that's just opened up that wound and widened the kasim once again. >> i don't think that women across this country who have to work to support their families and raise their children look at the divide between liberal women

ann romney confides that multiple sclerosis recently left her weak and struggling to talk on the campaign trail. >>> and no fair? this smiling fan grabs a foul ball. but what about the boy who thought he had it? >> oh, my god. they can't give it to the kid? >> all america weighing in on this one tonight. >>> good evening. just as we come on the air this night, we have breaking news out of chicago. a delta flight from detroit landed at midway airport there and is now under quarantine. passengers held on board. this is a shot on the plane on the tarmac. there's the delta plane. word of a medical emergency on board, possibly because of a passenger from africa. and passengers were tweeting out pictures of what was happening on the tarmac and they were showing pictures of people wearing masks. officials huddling, trying to figure out what to do. let's go straight to senior national correspondent jim avila to find out what's learned at this moment. jim? >> reporter: first of all, the faa nor delta at this point is giving any clarification of what is going on in that plane. we do know this is a

ann romney under attack and ann romney fired back.e a listen. >> my career choice was to be a mother and i think all of us need to know that we need to respect choices that women make. >> all right. by the way, i looked up the word economy, it means household management. that's right. do you know how much a stay-at-home mom's salary could be worth to the economy? st state- -- stay-at-home moms deserve an average salary of $113,000. the value of stay at home moms is incalculable. rachel, thank you for coming. let me ask you, when you heard this from hilary rosen, a left-wing democratic lobbyist, how offended were you? >> i was so busy eating bon-bon think about it. >> you raised six kids, ann romney raised five. did you have get angry? what did you think? >> i did. i was angry. who is this woman to say only well heeled democratic strategists have the right to comment not only on the cam bain on the state of the economy. you're slightly right. all moms, whether they're home or not, are the best gauges of what's going on in the economy.

doesn't mention ann romney.on the democratic strategist hillary rosen but put out there today around noontime. we wanted to share it with you. as we hear more about this story we'll bring it you. laura bush will join megyn kelly on her show, "america live" to weigh in on the issue you. jon: that mo designation, michelle obama wrote that one herself. jenna: not like you when you have your assistants tweet for you. jon: that's her. jenna: that's right. jon: new video of a bus versus a house. check this out in miami. police say an suv ran a stop sign hitting a bus and sent it plowing right into a woman's bedroom. the homeowner just stepped out of the room when the wall came crashing in. thankfully she did not have a scratch. two women and children on the bus. the driver of the suv apparently ran away from the accident scene. jenna: you can see why. a new weapon in the fight against breast cancer. the fda approving widespread use of what is called an automated breast ultrasound t may help detect cancer early in some

than anything -- hilary's a friend, but even an obscure democratic strategist said in april about ann romney. and i want to bring in susan del percio and -- republican strategy exist strategist and an msnbc contributor. in the end is david right? is this not going to make a difference if mitt romney doesn't come in and say okay here are the affirmative actions i'm going to take to help american women? >> i actually think it's very helpful to romney in a different way. because he was able to jump on this issue. the fact that he has a campaign that is agile enough right now to turn a situation around is very important. so politically, it was also very helpful to romney, you know, after he came out of such a terrible primary really, to show that he has what it takes to go toe to toe with president obama. and i think that you do have -- that romney does have to address obviously issues in the gender dpa gap, but it is going to come down to the economy. it's not going to come down to these fights over words. >> one of the things hilary rosen said yesterday, and i'm going to quote her, "let's decl

third sentence she said her words from a poor choice. 8th sentence she says she apologizes to ann romney any one who is offended. in the ninth sentence she goes back and reinsults romney. let's put this phony war on stay at home moms behind us and get on. wait a minute. you were the one who started the war on stay at home moms. >> i will say in defense of hillary rosen. i know her and her remark was about -- she was not critical of ann romney. >> sure she was, greta. >> absolutely she was. >> no. no. >> she is never worked a day in her life she doesn't know these things she said. it was very dismissive. >> i think, karl, the way that i red it, i don't think she has been critical of the fact that she is been a absolutely spectacular mother. she raised five children. >> she never said that. >> i don't think they woushe wo been critical of ann romney if the issue was ann romney and what she faced because of a physical problem. >> voters are also talking this morning. the president is dealing with poor poll numbers. >> take a look at the brand new fox news polls. mitt romney taking a lead ov

ann romney is very charming. she's articulate. gives the robotic mitt romney a humanizing factor he needs, but to mary's point, she's not on the ballot. as charming and articulate as she's going to be, it's going to be mitt romney's policies, which right now and all the polls are showing this, independent women do see those policies as anti-woman and that's why 53% of the electorate right now is not supporting mitt romney and that is not the kind of chasm that you need going into the general election with 53% of the electorate. that's not a trend that is going to be easy to make up. >> mary, you do know the gender gap was certainly one of the biggest factors behind the obama win back in 2008. as of right now that gap is even bigger this time around. here's the question. can republicans win the white house again without reversing this trend? >> when mitt romney is running against barack obama and he's not being attacked every day in his own party and every day by this president who's declared that he's going after women in the super

fascinating article about ann romney and her relationship with the media and ann romney.xt marco rubio name has taken up a permanent resident on the vp short list. later the entire western world maybe be done with the gop primaries, but that does not mean that brett is. >> we will not settle for easy answers. (vo) the former governor of ny eliot spitzer, joins the new news network. >>every night we will drill down on the days top stories in search of facts that inform. >> we don't stop until we get answers that are truthful, serious, and not based on simplistic answers. >>we're here because we're independent. ♪ >>> there is only one choice running for president that will help us reclaim and recapture the things that make this nation of ours different from all of the other countries on the earth, and he happens to be here today. his name is mitt romney! the next president of the united states! [ cheers and applause ] >> that was florida republican senator marco rubio, in the philadelphia suburbs, thumping for votes with mitt romney today. rubio's name keeps showing up on t

romney defending her husband. >> this is not about ann romney. this is about the waitress at a diner in someplace in nevada who has two kids, whose daycare funding is being cut off because of the romney-ryan budget. and she doesn't know what to do. this isn't about whether ann romney or i or other women of some means can afford to make a choice to stay home and raise kids. most women in america, let's face it, don't have that choice. >> if maybe i haven't struggled as much financially as some people have, i can tell you and promise you that i've had struggles in my life. and i would love to have people understand that mitt and i have compassion for people that are struggling. >> indeed. you can see why mitt relies on at-bat as such an effective surrogate. but it was a little later in the interview when ann made the more telling remark. >> mitt romney is a person that admires women and listens to them. and up grateful that he listens to me and listens to what i am telling him as well. what women are facing right now. >> you see that's what rosen wa