i want to get biden on rick santorum. we have to hear this. >> senator santorum said it was, and i quote, a payoff to special interests, end of quote. you know, it's kind of amazing, gingrich and romney and santorum, they don't get the facts get in their way. nobody knows better than you and your families the real price you paid to allow this reorganization to take place. plant closures, wage freezes, lower wages. they know, everybody knows. these companies would not be in existence today without the sacrifices of all of you in the uaw that you made. >> joe heilman, would the republicans be well advised to just, you know what, let's shut up about the auto bailout thing, this payoff to special interest thing provokes biden to come back like that? >> man, it's a good advice, i think. they are going to lose that argument. you know, on this show we previously talked about the fact that michigan, a state that, you know, in an ideal republican world is a state that should be a state that's contestable is pretty much off the tab

today was the kickoff of obama/biden 2012 campaign. vice president joe biden made the campaign's first official reelection appearance at a union hall in toledo, ohio. about 600 miles away, the president of the united states spoke to a community college in maryland. he addressed the hot-button issue of higher gas prices and called out the republicans for their fearmongering tactics. >> gas prices went up around this time last year. gas prices shot up in the spring and summer of 2008, i remember, i was running for president at the time. this has been going on for years now. and every time prices start to go up, especially in an election year, politicians dust off their three-point plans for $2 gas. i guess this year they decided they were going to make it $2.50. i don't know where, you know, why not $2.40? why not $2.10? but they -- but they tell the same story, they head down to the gas station, they make sure a few cameras are following them, and then they start acting like we've got a magic wand and we will give you cheap gas forever

you may remember we talked about the biden budget talks with the republicans. we talked about all these things. but not one single thing was able to get done. but if you do not start from the premise that this program, this program, medicare, must be preserved in its current form. look, folks, social security. social security is in better shape. but here again, republicans have an approach on social security that they say "saves social security for the next 75 years." and they do it by cutting the benefits. some salvation. a plan like the one that governor romney has introduced would cut social security benefits for your kids and your grandkids, cut by $2,400 a year for a double co-worker in their 40's. it would cut by $4,700 social security coverage anyone working in their 20's would get by the time they retire. here is the thing that nobody has really noticed, governor romney and the rest of supported a thing republican leaders call cut, cap, and balance. they call it cut, cap, and balance. another one of those new republican party plans which are probably th

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as fox's james rosen shows us, vice president biden called him out on the campaign trail. >> joe biden>> reporter: campaigning at an engineering firm in iowa, vice president biden unleashed a scorching tax on mitt romney casting the gop frontrunner as an enemy of american manufacturing. >> as governor of massachusetts he repeatedly slashed funding for work force training in manufacturing, specifically. our tax cuts go to companies that create jobs over here. the romney tax cut goes to the companies that create jobs overseas. >> reporter: biden also focused on romney's tenure at buena park capital relifing a line of attack used for a time by romney's gop rivals. >> governor romney has called the president of the united states out of touch. out of touch? romney? romney? i mean -- >> reporter: the romney campaign shot back with a statement arguing that, under mr. biden's boss, 800,000 fewer americans have jobs. earlier, romney had quoted wisconsin voters by phone with pledges to reinvigorate the economy. >> i don't think that what you see is america's destiny. i think this is more of a de

biden is right.ly did do something that when counter to what the public opinion polls said. but as time has gone on and people have seen the fact there are 200,000 more jobs in autos than there were before, i think they have come around to the view and the polls show that. this whole primary season, the republicans have really not talked about the core economic issues. we've been talking about everything around it. and i think what this string of appearances is going to start to do is bring out this incredibly stark difference between what the president is proposing and what the republicans are proposing. and people are going to see those choices and they're going to have that choice, i think, right in front of them. and i think it's a very clear choice. >> you mentioned 200,000 auto industry jobs. what is the reasonable projection of what the multiplier effect is and the ripple effect on jobs around the auto industry, the hamburger stand near the, you know, the plant? >> we don't know, obviously, bu

you think about someone like joe biden. you know, the choice was, whatever you think about joe biden, where you disagree with him or agree with him, there's very few people in the country who look at joe biden and don't say, this man's qualified to be president. same with dick cheney, in 2000, immediately answered the fundamental question. it said something important about both those presidential nominees, barack obama and george bush, they were taking this seriously. they wanted to have someone who could obviously succeed them if something happened to them in office. i think that's a huge, important thing that voters look to as a question of their judgment. so i think that is the lesson going forward. if you satisfy that, you do yourself a world of good politically. i also think that the best way to do that is to have the kind of process that barack obama and george w. bush and other successful presidential nominees in this regard have had, which is a serious, rigorous, well executed vetting process. not something that's d

biden will be talking about republicans. he will be talking about a bright spot in the obama administration's economic record. and that of course, is the dramatic turn around of the auto industry. and the president, to a certain degree, will be on defense about gas prices. now topping $3.82 a gallon. the highest it's been at this time of year. joe biden is going to be at that uaw hall. we have exerts of what he's going to say. he's simply going to call the president a man with a smien of steel. he knew he was taking a chance in the auto industry and he will be talking to a receptive audience there. the president will be talking about his energy policy and his pursuit of developing alternative means of energy. twice last week the president was on the road in virginia and north carolina with that message. we expect him to repeat that today. >> mike, thanks so much. we want to talk politics with our panel. perry bay con, editor, and republican strategist joe watkins. good morning to all of you. perry, i want to start with you.

you know, let's take a look right now at joe biden. joe biden's on fire today. the vice president was fired up in toledo, ohio. he took on the republican candidates, naming names and leveling attacks on all their candidates. here's some of his speech from today. let's watch. >> mitt romney, rick santorum, and newt gingrich. these guys have a fundamentally different economic philosophy than we do. simply stated, we're about promoting the private sector, they're about protecting the privileged sector! we are for a fair shot and a fair shake. they're about no rules, no risks, and no accountability. i want to tell you what's real bankruptcy. the economic theories of gingrich, santorum and romney. they are bankrupt. if you give any one of these guys the keys to the white house, they will bankrupt the middle class again. >> well, let me start with howard on this. it's my sense now that they're beefing up the second half of their ticket. biden's on the ticket clearly. he made it clear today. and they want him to play the role of scranton oshkosh, destroyer of mitt romn

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sherrod, you have to be excited anytime joe biden is out there talking. >> first of all joe biden will> obama is in a good position already. >> do you think before he goes out there he sits him down for the talk -- >> do you have to screw things up so much? >> as much as you say don't screw things up -- >> he is out there with cocktail waitresses, two and three times at a time. >> the great thing about biden, you get him drunk and wants to hear what comes out of his mouth. he will deflect attention from the president and it will be biden and the president can stand back and say wasn't me. i will walk in america's funniest home video waiting. >> sandra, do you think is the gop happy that he is hitting the road? >> there is going to be an an amusing quality to it. >> he throws away any cue cards or tele prompters. there is nothing like it. it is fantastic. >> bill, not a lot of people know this. >> it is very specific. you can predict vice president joe biden's delightful gas. what can you tell us about his upcoming trip? >> he will go to cleavland, and he will tell the people there that

gwen: joe biden doesn't use the names which barack obama doesn't use the names. have the democrats decided they can't sit on the sidelines anymore? >> the morning after super tuesday, the chicago campaign was talking about the things that were stressing them out the most. this was still going on so long and romney is eventually going to be the nominee and too long for them to stand and wait for the nominee to show up. they started talking about dispatching joe biden to be the ambassador to the middle class, that wasn't the phrase they used but that was their idea. gwen: interesting they would need an ambassador to the middle class. >> but joe biden from scranton, pennsylvania. the president is spending the entire day and will not be back in washington until the morning after he has departed, two cities, five events, money, money, money and concerned about this of the independent money and super p.a.c. money and concerned about getting on the offense because the republican field is beating up against them pretty good and they are looking at the polls. martha talke

he easy the chief of staff to vice president joe biden.he wrote for blackberg writing added vice for president obama on how to keep working class voters on his side. ron is joining us in the war room. thanks for coming back inside. >> it's always good to be here, even if only electrically. >> i know. i wish you were here at the table. on election nights we break out beer and popcorn and pizza. it is a war room, after all. maybe one of these you can join me and comment on what's going on. >> that would be great. >> let's we were just talking in the last block about the republican primary. let's jump over to what the general election might look like on a strategy on the democratic side you. wrote a column for bloomberg listing specific pieces of advice for the president. i want to start with one of the pieces of advice that i love, because it came from the news today and it's also about somebody you and i love dearly, joe biden, which is don't forget the veep, using him as a weapon. why did you say that? >> joe biden's been a friend of mine

. >> what senator obama--biden obama--biden--obama whatever. >> yeah, bla-bla-bla- >> i got winners and losers for you. the winner may an surprising one later on in the program and we have a great controversial in the g.o.p. field. >> are these magic grits? did you buy them from the same guy who told him sold jack his bean stalk bean? you know what the real shocker is? we have more news coming up. >> this morning we woke up to more sad news from afghanistan. one of our soldiers doing something terrible and hears what the news had all day today. >> afghanistan in a revenge from the taliban. >> new details about the u.s. soldier now accused of murdering at least 16 mostly women and children in afghanistan. >> he broke into three houses in two villages. slaughtering 16 people, including nine children. >> why should we continue to invest blood and treasure in over ten and a half years in afghanistan? >> well, all right well, i got to ask the same question. we'll ask that in a bit. it does not look good, and 16 people killed, mostly women and children. it's bad bad news. and president obama

>> the advice that he's been getting recently, what's wrong with joe biden by the way? the same kind of problems that concerns the democrats. >> that's true, but romney is getting more predictable about what he's going to say. what's interesting is that over the past few days anyway, he's become a little more comfortable owning himself. i think when you are who you are, he's a rich guy he's, you know, a successful businessman just own it and be who you are. >> one last comment. i think you're going to find when we get to the general election, he is going to adopt more of ronald reagan self efacement and be able to laugh at himself for some of these comments. i think he will endear himself with the voters. move that off the table. >> today he was with jeff foxworthy and he was joking about having jeff take him hunting so he could tell him which way of the gun to appointment. at least he had a little joke about himself. let me ask you about a poll that came out today. 55% of registered voters say that barack obama understands their needs and problems, but only 31% think t

lightning round. >> remi was biden right? is this the biggest thing to happen since the 1600's. >> it is so audacious and radical and so freakin cool. it seems like a weird word for the vp to use. but it is a huge thing. >> so you agree? it was the biggest thing, bigger than d-day? >> i don't know if it is bigger than d-day, but -- >> well that was the question, the biggest thing in 500 years? if you said yes it was bigger than d-day. bigger than the san francisco earthquake? >> i think it was a bold decision. >> bigger than elvis? how about when the beatle when's on the ed sullivan show? >> not bigger than that. >> that's the po nie t i was making. okay. that's it for us tonight. just kidding. tucker, i'm not sure this is true. biden mentioned if the raid failed obama would have lost the next election. but if the raid failed would we have heard about it? maybe we would have heard about it. >> i think we would have given where it took place. it was next to the large pakistani military academy. it is an interesting statement.

i voted for obama because biden was on the ticket, biden for all his gaffes is a hard-working, rock solidcan patriot and an example of old school politics with integrity. he's principled and what you see is what you get. >> paul in oregon says joe biden is to president obama what ed mcmahon to johnny carson. the best second banana in the business and the comic reliever. i'd have a beer with joe and i'd play a round of golf for joe, but not in one million years would i vote for joe for president. mark in new jersey says much more likely i would vote for joe than the tools of big corporations, congenital liar arse, taliban christians or the other assorted nut cases that ride around in the republican clown car. carol in massachusetts, wow! are we already so done with this year's election that we're speculating on an even more boring race in 2016? who would run against him? bob dole? if you want to read more about this, go to my blog cnn.com/cafferty file or to the post on the situation room's facebook page. >> i love our viewers. terrific. >> thanks very much. >> a video from afghanistan is

biden is on the ticket clearly. he made it clear today. they want him to play the role of destroyer of mitt romney. >> you're right. that's the crescent. it goes through pennsylvania, through ohio, illinois, michigan, and so on. battleground states where blue collar workers are the key. culturally conservative. it's fascinating to watch the white house try to occupy the middle ground on private enterprise. mitt romney is claiming he's the guy who is going to turn around the private sector because he was in the private sector, but the white house is not going to sit back and take that argument at face value. they are going to say, no, new york city we actually care about the private sector because we went in and saved the auto industry. it's game on in terms of who can protect private enterprise for the working class. >> who is more like a blue collar worker? joe biden or mitt romney? who is more like one of the regular guys you might meet? >> there's no doubt that joe biden is a regular guy in thatceps. he's a commuter. he took the train t

joe biden was in toledo.his is the first time the vice president has been out on the campaign trail in 2012. he talked very directly about the republican field. let's play a little bit of it and we'll come back and talk about it. >> mitt romney, rick santorum, and newt gingrich, these guys have a fundamentally different economic philosophy than we do. they started the mantra that said, we would make auto company, quote, wards of the state, was their phrase. governor romney was more direct. let detroit go bankrupt. [ audience boos ] newt gingrich said, quote, a mistake. but the guy i work with every day, the president, he didn't flinch. >> now, jonathan, what's interesting about this is president obama has done a number of campaign events around the country. he never mentions, by name, the republican field. are you surprised that biden did it? and what's the strategy behind it? >> well, i'm not surprised that biden did it in that that's what the vice president on the campaign trail is supposed to do. remember

. >>> also vice-president biden names names. directly attacking republican candidates as team obama shifts to a much more aggressive re-election strategy. >>> and president obama's gas price politics amnesia as he mock republicans for their gas pump photo ops. we'll take you back to a time when he looked more kindly on when he looked more kindly on such stunts. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> an important story just into cnn. the still unidentified u.s. soldier blamed for this week's deadly massacre in afghanistan now has a high powered lawyer. the prominent seattle attorney john henry brown who once representeded serial killer ted bundy. he spoke to tracy wyann. >> it's a tragedy all the way around. no question about that. i think it's of interest that we have a soldier who has an exemplariry record, decorated soldier, who was injured in iraq to his brain and to his body, and then despite that was sent back. i think that's an issue. i think it's a concern. i think the message for the public in general is that he's one

those border areas are the countryside. >> the biden plan was not to surge -- >> the biden plan was theht plan. >> we need to have a negotiated peace with the taliban. >> they'll come back. >> what is the point for them to negotie at this point? evan is absolutely right about occupation. occupation leads to alienatio if the french had stayed here for six months, the country would have thrown them out. >> democrats argued r yea that the occupation of afghanistan was the good war the war r of necessity not the war of choice. all of a sudden it is not? >> eight years >> he doesn't want t to deal withh her. i have not totold him if she doesn'know anything. >> you wouldn't listen tus. >> you are overwheingly with too much information. >> "game change," a new hbo movie about the 2008 election. rah palin comes off as a woman who does not know much. was the movie and ir? -- unfair? >> the movie is known in journalism terms as a beat sweetener. somebody who is helpful to you as a source is described as savvy, knowledgeable insisightful. there is no question that nicole wallace and steve schmidt

i love joe biden. thank god he's there.like hawaii -- you know, he's the son of a car salesman, very much got a middle-class appeal. he's just old joe, even though the second most powerful person in america. >> as a strategist, is it smart for them now, the democrats, to really have biden out there in a state like ohio, obama-care, he did four years ago, as you remember. is it smart to start naming names like this, even while the republicans are fighting among themselves? >> exactly why, because republicans are fighting among themselves. he can sort of help push that narrative forward. i think for them, for the obama campaign, this is exactly the right time, and vice presidents get to do that. >> very quickly on hillary clinton, a woman you know well, the secretary of state, maureen dowd, her column, among other things she wrote this in numbs in the meantime -- it would make the president seem weak, desperate and disloyal and get him a vice president who would pull focus and be a competent torrie. besides, before he would g

vice president joe biden is hitting the stump. tara mergener has the report. good morning. >> good morning. the gop hopefuls have been dominating the campaign trail for weeks. now the obama team is wrapping up. democrats are fighting to keep president obama in office -- >> four more years! >> with the vice president on the attack and calling out the potential competition by name. >> mitt romney, rick santorum, and newt gingrich. these guys have a fundamentally different economic philosophy than we do. >> mr. biden is set to stump in several key states over the next few weeks, amid the president's low approval rating -- >> thank you! >> and a still-struggling economy. republicans aiming to replace him continue burning up the campaign trail, promising they can do a better job. >> the president has failed. he has failed. he is not a bad guy. he just is over his head. >> mitt romney, who once had a solid lead in the polls, is trying to regroup after two tough losses in the deep south this week. [cheers} ick new surveys show r santorum is gaining ground. >> we did

as vice president biden showed yesterday. we're eager to have the debate. if mitt romney wants to explain why he finished 47th out of 50th in job creation as governor of massachusetts. and that somehow qualifies him to know about job growth, let's bring it on. >> brad woodhouse, it's good to see you. thank you. >> thanks, chris, for having me. >> let me bring in karen and michael. we've been hearing the president wants to tout what he thinks of as his big domestic accomplishments. it includes the health care overhaul and the stimulus. let me play a little part of that. >> i regularly told him, look, you don't have to spill this much political blood. >> but he knew from experience the cost of waiting. >> when my mom got cancer she wasn't a wealthy woman, and it pretty much drained all her resources. >> is it playing to the base? we know health care is going to be one of the big debates of this. the polls have been all over. where do you see this 17-minute video touting health care going here. >> look, i think it's an attempt to damage control. they know they