of bain capital, which even though bain capital sounds like it's been named after a batman villain andlook a company whose logo is a giant fist squeezing the global, we are assured bain capital is in no way evil. >> bain, for the most part, they have a lot of different businesses, but their primary business is private equity. >> bain capital, for example, looks for companies that are vulnerable but still have a decent business model, and they say, "we can make it better." >> jon: gee whiz, these guys sound great. they come in and fix up up what's wrong, like what the "year eyed guys" did for say the strait guys. or what jimmy smitss does for tv shows. it's like when wayne bought wesley jesson vision care for six million bucks. they were in the specialty contact lens businesses. wesley jesson specialty contact lenses for when you absolutely, positively, want to freak out your friends. ( laughter ) so bain refocused on the core business, cut ad spending, and two years later took wesley jesson public and brought themselves in a cool $300 million profit. cha-ching, ( bleep ). or there's da

because newt has attacked reallyny for bain capital. do you think that there is anything wrong with the amount of money that romney has made and its amount he's kept? david i will go to you. >> well, i'm a capitalist. >> right. >> i'm glad i didn't know that you were that kind of capitalist when i used to kiss your poster on my wall. i mean there are different kinds of capitalists. >> stephen: david, david, david-- david, heads up. >> you've got the talking

people like mitt romney do this at bain capital.n the company can't pay back the $300 million, they say that's not my problem, it's your problem. that's not being a financial generous. it's robbery. once they got rid of the financial problems they made good products and they got back out of bankruptcy, and they were successful and profitable once bain capital left. that's part of the injustice in this system and private equity, and i wanted everybody to understand that. now when we come back graham nash, look at that. he's in the studios with the young turks. of course from crossby stills nash, and young. we'll talk about what he came to planned parenthood. anna talked to a conservative and it got a little contentious. drama, when we return. polar shifts will reverse the earth's gravitational pull and hurtle us all into space which would render retirement planning unnecessary. but say the sun rises on december 22nd and you still need to retire td ameritrade's investment consultants can help you build a plan that fits your life. we'l

people like mitt romney do this at bain capital.n the company can't pay back the $300 million, they say that's not my problem, it's your problem. that's not being a financial generous. it's robbery. once they got rid of the financial problems they made good products and they got back out of bankruptcy, and they were successful and profitable once bain capital left. that's part of the injustice in this system and private equity, and i wanted everybody to understand that. now when we come back graham nash, look at that. he's in the studios with the young turks. of course from crossby stills nash, and young. we'll talk about what he came to and i appreciate you coming on and sharing what is going on in california. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. hearing in the house. the republicans sent cops after him and arrest him. for what? it's outrageous. we're going to explain it when we come back. mornin'. i guess i'm helping them save hundreds on car insurance. it probably also doesn't hurt that i'm a world-famous advertising icon. che

mitt romney's got a million dollars from former bain capital ceo.l was run by romney for several years and he got $500,000 from marriott hotels. jon huntsman got help within the family. jon huntsman, sr. gave his super pac nearly $2 million. it's likely a lot of them we won't know because if a super pac creates a nonprofit arm their donors can remain anonymous of the $53 million that super pac spent on ads. 29% were positive and 71% negative. here a sample from the romney and gingrich campaign. >>> who has more baggage than airlines. newt was fined for ethics violations. >> mitt, claims to be pro-life but here is what he told voters of massachusetts when he was running for governor. >> i will preserve and protect a woman's trite choose. >> you may know that steven colbert his on own super pac. he pulled down nearly a million bucks as of december 31. and in his filing to the sec, how do you like me now. i got 99 problems but non-connected independent expenditure only committee ain't wrong. probably funnier when he said it. >> shep: trace is live. it

newt, attacking romney on bain capital? then on romney you said, "i've never seen a guy change his positions on so many things so fast on a dime, on everything." go ahead. >> well, i think maybe i reflect some of the confusion that all those republicans out there have that are having a hard time making up their minds. to credit newt with what he did was, i did make those comments. newt called me. we talked it over. newt explained why he had said what he said. i thought he was wrong but he had an explanation for it. then he stopped it. i mean, he's moved on to the issues in the campaign. governor romney, i think that's the big issue with governor romney. i think that's the reason why he's having a hard time getting to that 50, 51, 52, 53%. newt pointed it out before when he was interviewing you. he has changed his position virtually on everything. he was a traditional moderate republican, strong on fiscal matters, conservative, strong on foreign policy, but basically socially moderate. he changed all that. i am a moderate re

people the big bain capital's like girl scouts compared to the guys who are backing them and how they make their money there's no question that their issue with romney is not that they disagree with him it's just that they can't get him the white house they're trying to invest in some real estate here in sixteen hundred pennsylvania avenue and romney can't seal the deal and they think they do chris christie can even you know with his. kind of william howard taft approach i guess in some way his goal because he comes off it's not true he comes off as a regular guy he had a regular guy but he comes off as one he plays one on t.v. very well plus he doesn't carry with him of the baggage that a santorum comes with him of trying to run for pope christie would be able to actually run for president and that would be much more acceptable to the average american plus i should note that paul singer who's the number one donor to the republican party and it's behind mitt his son wants to marry a guy and so he's not going to be too crazy about backing candidates who are against gay marriage so that

i mean, what romney did with bain capital as far as i'm concerned, was to show great success.ean, he -- it shows that he understands o understan understands our system and spli establish new business, you know there's failures and dislocations, but the basic career of newt/romney -- newt gingrich, that -- i'm sorry, of mitt romney, was an excellent one at bain and newt's attacks i think hurt him with republicans because republicans understand that. >> can mitt win this, both the nomination and the general election without a bold tax reform plan? to go back to the growth you were saying, about anti-poverty trampoline and so forth, he has not out a bold plan yet, and should he do it soon? >> i do not know why he does not do it. probably the most telling attack that newt had against romney is that newt's tax plan is bolder and more likely to create the kind of growth we had under ronald reagan, you have to change the tax suspect substantially and return a lot of money into the private sector, newt's plan does that. and romney's plan is marginal in terms of doing that and by buyin

bain capital did a lot of good stuff. >> neil: thank you very much.were getting preliminary, 78% viewers, thought $50 was too much to pay for a haircut. >> black and decker. >> they fear him and haircut promotes the image. you don't want to mess with it. >> meanwhile, another battery is going unplugged and the white house wants to double down on green. time for spring training. @=h "why did i roll over my i.r.a. to scottrade?" "for starters, it didn't cost me anything." "and i got a one-hundred dollar cash bonus for rolling over by april 16th." "i like bonuses." "plus at scottrade, there are thousands of commission-free investments." "and if i need help, i can find it online, by phone or at one of over five-hundred scottrade locations." "it's why more investors with i.r.a.s are saying.." "i'm with scottrade." ♪ [music] in here, the landscaping business grows with snow. to keep big winter job on track, at&t provided a mobile solution that lets everyone from field workers to accounting, initiate, bill, and track work in real time. you can't live under

restore a future took him more than $10 million, big checks written by his former colleagues at bain capital. >> jon huntsman got some help within the family. his father jon huntsman senior gave his superpac nearly $2 million. >> huntsman's father, by the way, has been named official host of this year's most awkward thanksgiving dinner. in fact, half of the candidate's superpac money, $67 million came from just 22 individuals. now i am sure that the good government goo goos out there is aing this is just handing all the power to the 1%. when in fact, 22 people out of a population of 300 million people is in fact, give me one second, sorr sorry-- that's 7/1 1,000,000, of 1% so occupy wall street, are you going want to change those signs. folks, this is what the supreme court intended with their citizens united ruling. 22 billionaires deciding who our next leader would be. now i'm sure it's the way that the 22 billionaires who chose our founding father was want it. so join me in honoring these 22 patriots who have given so much and expect so much in return. ladies and gentlemen, i give you the

he is bain capital more than the political world. he grew up differently than a lot of us.guess of now if mitt romney wins michigan, and i forget mclaughlin group, i think he will come back. i think he goes own to the nomination. i think newt, you can't make that souffle rise a third time. and i think santorum has -- >> sean: last question. >> i don't think he will make it. go ahead. >> sean: last question. so if you were going to say -- governor palin brought this up. we interviewed romney this week. what would be the thing he could do to reach out to conservatives and convince them that this is, he use used e term severe conservative. in a cpac speech. he went up a liberal legislature in massachusetts and balanced budgets, has romneycare, that has a lot of people doubting and stated position on abortion. is there anything he could do to close with conservatives? >> i think mitt romney, the mitt romney at the campaign, i think would have real, real trouble beating obama. the romney on the florida campaign, came out fighting. he came back and did a terrific job in the debat

even though he left bain capital in 1999, romney still gets millions a year from bain's piece of therofits that investors get from bain's buyout funds, and pays only 15% federal tax on it. in some years, less. compare that with my social security benefits. my wife and i pay 30% tax on those. that's because 85% of our benefit is taxable, and we pay 35% percent on that, thanks to the a.m.t. this all happens because, under our current tax system, income from capital, which is how romney's bain payments are treated, is much more valuable than income from work, which is how social security is treated. i have no idea if romney would make a good president. but if he wants to offer retirement advice, i'll be his first client. i'm allan sloan. >> tom: one player, one incredible break, and one heck of a winning streak add up to big profits for shareholders of madison square garden. in tonight's beyond the scoreboard," rick horrow's take on "lin-sanity." >> reporter: lin-sanity, the meteoric rise of knicks' point guard and harvard economics graduate jeremy lin, has taken new york by storm. the

in fact, bain capital, mitt romney's old company, refused to invest in this. if the money hadn't come from the federal government, detroit's auto industry wouldn't exist today. you know, when you think about romney this is a guy who today said i wouldn't -- i'm not going to light my hair on fire presumably to satisfy the right-wing. i don't see why not. he has already lit his pants on fire with a series of deception, flip flops, extruded lies like he tells about the bankruptcy or about the transition in detroit. i mean, this guy, when you watch him and you watch obama, you have to say how are the republicans going to put him up against the guy we saw today? >> well, joan, if you look at the fact, his gavefavorgavfavor ratings was 57%. he can't leave good enough alone, as my mother used to say does interview, drops to 47%. can heant get out of his own way. >> he can't. you know, i was thinking had listening to bob, you know, i don't know why mitt romney didn't get together with his friends who own nascar teams. that would have been perfect, and raised money for

because newt has attacked romney for bain capital. do you think that there is anything wrong with the amount of money that romney has made and the amount he's kept. david, i will go to you. >> well, i'm a capitalist. >> i'm glad i didn't know that you were that kind of capitalist when i used to kiss your poster on my wall. i mean there are different kinds of capitalistless. >> stephen: david, david, david -- >> would you have kissed it anyway. >> stephen: heads up. you've got the talking ball. and here it is. >> i believe-- i'm over here, dave. >> i believe-- (laughter) >> so much show business in my life, apologize. i believe honestly that both of them are the most embarrassing, sad, patheti pathetic-- really? this is the best we can do? (cheers and applause) >> stephen: john, anybody-- best pie. >> apple. >> stephen: wrong. >> american pie. >> stephen: close. >> too much of a hardball question for you. did i throw you with that one david. >> i'm lost. >> stephen: all right. in connecticut, by the way the answer is blueberry. okay. i

romney's problem is that's the authentic after got of bain capitalism. >> come on, i love to fire -->> let me in! , michelle gets physical. >> all right. [cheering] all right. you ready? >> yes. >> all right. are you guys -- count. three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. [cheering] woo! >> that was amazing! [cheering] >> 25 times. they weren't touching the floor! pretty impressive for -- >> is the pushup regimen here that we saw unrelated to politics? seriously. do you think -- >> i want [everyone talking at once] >> people feel more inclined to vote for obama because they see his wife out there? >> her popularity is very high partly because she's so human and relates well to people. and her anti-obese ty campaign which rush him was and others have heckled her on. she's serious. >> do you invite clarence so show us what he's got! [everyone talking at once] >> i can do 10! >> anybody realizes including the people on this set. do you weighing? >> i think she's a -- she's become a real asset. she's very much -- with the people. very much i