bob kerry in nebraska and hidy is someone for whom this could make a difference. republican governors as well. bob mcdonald, nicky haley and bobby jindal saying they will keep fighting by not implementing the law. >> every governor has two critical decisions. do we set up the exchange or expand medicaid? >> is it posturing? what is the problem here as you see it, david, going forward? are we going to continue to see the members of the republican party from congress to governors and contradicting what their party's candidate has to say? >> i think they will on the overall approach to the health care. i think a lot of governors are talking tough and some will stick with the stand against expanding medicaid. a lot will sort of falloff, particularly if barack obama wins reelection. you have governor martinez in new mexico already saying that she isn't with the republicans for repeal. i do think in terms of the senate races, bob kerry and elsewhere, you will see this issue where the republicans attack obama care as a big concept and say it's a government take over of he

behind this ad and similar ads were run against tim cain who is running for senate in virginia and bob kerryin nebraska. all of these things are destructive to our democracy. >> jennifer: but here's the problem. the the fcc does not have a strong record of resolving these things. and are you concerned that the decision could come after the election and make this moot? >> absolutely. and the fcc and the irs have been pathetic. neither one of these agency versus been doing what they should be doing to keep the elections free and fair. fcc with a particular problem with commissioners waiting to expire. and they said flat out they have no intention of following finance campaign laws. he said his job is to help republicans from his perch on his commission. >> jennifer: that's so frustrating to hear. from your perspective, what has to happen? >> one of the things that has to happen, president obama needs to appoint new commissioners. this is a power he has and he has to appoint new commissioners. >> jennifer: do they have to be confirmed. >> they do. it's a tough battle but it's a battle the ameri

and for bob kerry running for senate in nebraska told politico, kerrey believes the $250,000 limit is too low but is evaluating how specific proposals would affect the ballot. claire mchaskel said she would look at it to reign in the deficit. by the way, the president made sure to argue that the bush tax cuts never worked. >> we were told that it would lead to more jobs and higher incomes for everybody and prosperity would start at the top and then trickle down. what happened? instead of creating more jobs, we had the slowest job growth in half a century. >> one of the reasons the white house is sticking to the 250 and didn't agree with senate democrats in the effort to push up the threshold to a million dollars is the math doesn't work. you have a deficit gap. you lose about half that deficit reduction revenue that the white house is looking for if you move that threshold up. so it may help on messaging, but it hurts them in the accounting. the obama campaign likes the tax issue, not just because it polls well. it does. but because they believe it allows them to tie together a core c

it's a rating that ranks him lower than john mccain in 2008, john kerry and bob dole.t's the economy that continues to be the president's political achilles heel. with a majority disapproving of how he's handled the economy. romney leads the president on who has better ideas for improving the economy, 43-36. it's by the margins people say the negativity has been making an impact. the hits seem to be taking a greater toll on romney. 46% of voters say they didn't like romney personally. that compares to just 31% who said the same about the president. perhaps mindful of the toll this nasty campaign is taking, both campaigns are out with much softer hits on each other this week. >> sometimes politics can seem very small. >> he tried, you tried. it's okay to make a change. >> you know, today the focus of the back and forth was foreign policy. romney took his turn in front of the veterans of foreign wars in reno. he gave a fiery speech of the president's record. foreign policy is one of the president's strengths. when matched up with romney, he leads him in every major forei

bob shrum. he saw the wind surfing attacks first hand when he was senior adviser for john kerry's 2004 campaign.nd former communication's director for the democratic committee. thank you both for joining me tonight. >> glad to be here. >> bob, let me start with you. what would conservatives be saying about the jet ski vacation if he was a democrat? >> they'd say the same things as a democrat. if you look at the kerry ad, what hurt there was not the rush limbaugh and all of that. what hurt was it gave a visual for another factually false, by the way, statent about flip-flopping on the iraq war. at the end of the day people who fought harder for the middle class, kerry won that against bush. that's the heart of the problem here. jfk left his convention, was seen on his sailboat. most americans didn't have big sailboats in 1960. franklin roosevelt left his convention in 1932. took off on a yacht that went up the coast. and people didn't mind. they didn't mind because they thought they would stand for them, fight for them. they knew they were rich but they thought they were on his side. romney's pro

travelq to t forw 40%, that's lower than john mccain at this point four years ago and john kerry in 2004. >>> bob mcdonald will travel to iowa tomorrow to campaign for mitt romney. he will appear at two events. louisiana governor bobby jindal will appear at one of them. both will stump for romney while he is overseas. >>> mitt romney's campaign í looking intoparticipa attorney general as to for hav why voter addresses of deceased relatives, children and even family pets. the voter participation center accidentally mailed the forms which have been ending up in predominantly democratic voter blocs. >>> 72 degrees, whe th your >>> so if you like to sleep with the tv on, thank you for that. but also you should know that the habit could be making you a little more depressed. researchers at ohio state university say sleeping with too much light in the room, even the glow of a tv, can lead to some depression. hamsters used in that study were exposed to dill light at night for four weeks. those hamsters lacked energy and motivation. the good news, within two weeks of going back into a dark room the hamst

he's got a higher negative rating than john mccain at this time in 2008, john kerry in 2004 and bob dole in 1996, and a 14 point likability gap puts him at a major disability. negative ads like this one may not be doing romney any favors. romney has picked up on remarks the president made about small business and taken them out of context. take a look. >> if you have been successful, you didn't get there on your own. if you have a business, you didn't build that. somebody else made that happen. >> my father's hands didn't build this company, my hands didn't build this company? through hard work and a little bit of luck, we built this business. why are you demonizing us for it? it's time we had somebody who believes in us. someone who believes that achievement should be rewarded, not punished. we nee somebody who believes in america. >> i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> the star of the ad did get some help from the government, he got help. the new hampshire leader reports he has taken over $1 million in government loans and taxes and bonds over the years to help pull himself

romney is worse off. 40% is 10 points higher than mccain's in 2008 and john kerry and bob dole.and republican pollster bill mcintyre. talk about how romney is going to be upside down. you were talking about there's so many unprecedented aspects to that. not just that, july is something we haven't seen before. >> right. we're spending $30 million a week in advertising around the country. we've never seen anything like this in mord dern times because of the spending. what i said to peter, these campaigns are skwant and old-fashioned. so our standards on what a campaign looks like i don't think mattered much because no one ever 20 the 2 or $3 billion that anyone ever spent. >> so basically two weeks of ad money this year is the equivalent of what bush and gore spent on television the entire election in 2000? >> very true. the other if you think is, romney's never been on the right side of the numbers. he's never been personally acceptable to the american public. and that's what he's working again. every question we have in the poll says trouble for mitt romney on the personal front

bob doyle. when senator john kerry fell to george w. bush. when barack obama beat john mccain.commander in chief. >> here is what translates, dollars and cents. the president, just yesterday, if they didn't reach a compromise in terms of the pentagon the number is $500 billion. the pentagon will be forced to cut $500 billion. president obama said it was the republicans who were, i'm quoting the president, playing politics with our military. they have to get serious about cutting the deficit to bolster our u.s. men and women who are serving. what do we expect. how will mitt romney hit back? >> reporter: i think least going to definitely point out as something he said before that he would try to act to stop sequestration. they think it gets chopped out of the budget. this is a cut on what's estimated to be the budget over the next decaddecade. this isn't a one time chop. a lot of people in the pentagon will argue the pentagon can't make those cuts anymore. you have this battle of chicken where both sides don't want to blink. >> dana covers the blinking daily. do i see mitt romney

bob beings bix by are here. he and i co-chair that now that kerry is out running for the senate in nebraska. csis is focused on security, and on farm pots, but we believe this is a security issue. those two groups and others incoming pete very prominently and alice are going to have a set of hearings in september. we're going have four hearings, one on fiscal policy, one on entitle element policy, one on taxes and growth, and one on security. what will come of that? we don't know. we are going to get the best witnesses we can kind and get the consciousness raised around the country and get the middle of america as assertive as those on the wings. >> i think you should note, we're not trying to engage in the president issue election at all. what we want is when the election cycle is over, we want to be available for the resource whoever the spt to be able to governor well and the congress govern well. we're going give them a lot of different idea so they can accomplish that and hopefully the american people who have common sense, quite often exceeds what happens here in washington. understand

kerry and al gore. and bill clinton took out two war heroes, bob dole in the first -- >> interesting stuff.reporting. coming up by the way in our next hour, banning the big gulp. the controversial effort in new york city to outlaw those supersize sodas. in our new 6:00 p.m. eastern hour later here in "the situation room," survivors of the colorado theater massacre, they are speaking out in emotional interviews today including one who tried to save the youngest victim. building pass, corporate card, verizon 4g lte phone. the global ready one ? yeah, but you won't need... ♪ hajimemashite. hajimemashite. hajimemashite. you guys like football ? thank you so much. i'm stoked. you stoked ? totally. ... and he says, "under the mattress." souse le matelas. ( laughter ) why's the new guy sending me emails from paris ? paris, france ? verizon's 4g lte devices are global-ready. plus, global data for just $25. only from verizon. for their "destination wedding." double miles you can "actually" use. but with those single mile travel cards... [ bridesmaid ] blacked out... but i'm a bridesmaid. oh! "x" mar

we've talked about -- i can remember talking about kerry, about his individual purple hearts, and you know, but i think mccain -- someone, or was it bobho said if you didn't bleed, you didn't -- i mean, we went back and microanalyzed his vietnam experience -- >> right. >> so, this is, unfortunately, i guess this is the dirty -- >> it's how politics works. >> i know. and willie horton and the names of the past are -- >> no question about it, and none of this stuff was invented by either party. they've been going at it from time to time. while i was on this vacation, i was reading robert carow's biography of lyndon johnson and seeing when he was running against john f. kennedy for president, he put out the word that kennedy was basically about to fall over and collapse any moment because of, you know, illness and disease he had. the use of innuendo, tissue paper thin bases for allegations is something that is sim pleey the stock and trade of politics. as long as mitt romney's listed on those documents, democrats are going to take everything that happened at bain during that time and say, well, look at that piece of paper. he was in char