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anthe obama campgn,s dad poted out,s stl onhe tackboutit. i dot kn ihe cpaig was ve ccesul.se about releasing more tax returns. here's what he said about that. >> i understand that the posion rearceopl a the amaampan wtore infoatiotheyan t andig thugh. u kn at? ve p outs mu ase're gointo putut, ce ie add th ar, and that's the information that gives people more information than is required by law. >> he released, shira, a t of formionso thmcca campgn i 8 wh thewere vettg his a posbleeep caidat why t reasehe lt fo yes ofax retus? i mn, you kw what it leads people to believe? >> it leads people to believe the worst, al elf. it leads people to believe he is dingometng,heth or t hes. mitt romy i ght, the oma mpai wou lik himo rease s taretus becse it i me oositneseah foer fhemo dthugh. t when heited the requirement by law, the truth is the law doesn't require candidates to release that much about the psona fincial siatio. we aoll cl ghrou rson fincial dcloses r evyembeof cgresnd theyon'tell ttmuch in my ws he i actllot releing at much infmation by just releasing what is required

but you don't want to show, espeallyn th campgn,s anform o weaessr lf-dbt. wt doou thin ricrd, 's rhtthe. >> the question about the communication about the american story is telling his story, what kind of aresint wase gng be was h t inserakin des, oras he t outderr t form and thi thegot e bance wrg. couave tked more about the kinds of reforms that he wants to do in his second term, that he didn'to in h fst term he sd iwas a ssio may half missn. mayb y don wto sh wenessutou'v got to sho honey an one of e strengths he had in 2008 was he smed to be answer the question. if you want tay tre i a probm inhe ssag lk a thighlhts inhis ll who would do the best job of provg thonombamaas 48 is tho adsheyave en hammingitt mney i i thosswin states. they have been showing that mitt romney is a better manager than president ama. buhoseain aave en hittg hi ha. e healle the predent liarthisas gten be realud fht. but this is a problem for mitt romney, the other problem is at sef th chion i tnk esidt oba h sar i thateoplrealke hi thihat se of the cushion that you're seeing in

>>ooki bkt th debe foage, as e fir psono prs mi rney in at campgn abohat ppen at bain capital and whether he was responsible for bain capital's actions,re you surprised to see it coming up again no is ts th samssueou we confntinhim th? >>t is theame sue d he critizedeeepl f hing done sethi like that having dain to question his truthfulness a it's taken ten years to figure out that tually may he sn'telli the uth. >> obvusly t oma cpaig has en gng aer m romy fo theppart cflic i the cord ha you bee i ctact wh the obama campaign. are they interested in what you know or following your lead from what you raised wi him dede a? >> cerinly thi a l of rerdreatn 22he oma peop areooki. i essou'vadhe videotape of one of our earlier debates from 2002. i really think that after ten years, it's really ming se at y hol seone acuntaeor the stemes at ty ma. you knoworme gerno romy ha donstted atte of noteingomplely transparent about his financial dealings. on thene hand he says that the reasone should be the presidenof tnitestat isecau he' aob cator and e reane shld belve he ia j creor bausef hiantaic traec

hower, i don tnk tss a oddea durg pitic campgn. is admirable and i appreciate the president's self-reflection. i don't want to hear that again until after the elecons. is i notooddea talk likeis. idisaeeith jtire. i d't tnk i wooki do on the arica peop. u c't shony wknes whsoev in presential campaign even if it means enoughing the question and not answering it. you hav to be tough-minded about this >> govnor dn t predent haaood sto to tel a i painhimhateasn'een ab. hehimsf hn't bnble to tellhe stor thissn'tnything new. we're hearing the president say this now, but i have heard this for at least a year, that the presidt feels tha tss h greast faing. heocus ohepoli, di't fos on telng tmerin oplehy has dnghate was doin >>on'talk abo you failgs ding an election campaign. >> upside down, what he's saying, i'm so serious and i had my nose to the grind stone so 'sot aitti any faile. micel sele,hat do u dohen ked? >> ihink hard dea has it ad righ in coestik tsou d't adt that kind of feeling or failing. but the reality o it is this, we can

the presidtoesn rlly meion in scifillyn t campgn trl. mneynvesdn bines wh ouourcjo. that will be an argument you hear repeatedly. partularly resonant in ohio which oious haseenard hitith manactungloss. is i anoerssue tha mitt romn -- ahough h did fiv inrvie witthe netrks idayhink tha he wil ve to explain mor about what his role at bain was because if you don't know what bain is now, if you are justunin in vors a goi to ow or e ne coue omohs, ink. >> iustant tate ather qutiono yoabou oo becae w heenat r portn camigni hisome ste the th weend. he ishae saiesteay in cincinnati. >> i am going to tell what you i think. i think he isunni a camign th - sti wit me her -no frh ids. wh youave campgn wit no fresidea youse sta taics sca vors. y hav no recd t run , you paint your opponent as someone to be run from. guess who iust quot? >> barack obama. >>arack obam ur yrs ag >>ith theenat bei ohe shorlistf vpicks tentlly,ha kd ofmpac youhink h wld hen threpuican tket? i d't tnk tre ia lo ofvidence the vice presidential pick sways voters 'opinions on w

bush -- he said campgns are about creating cartoons about t your opponen. obama is the out of touch incompetent guy who does not know how to run the economy and wants to turn america into european socialism. mitt romney is the out-of-touch rich guy who hides his money and wants car elevators in his house and a dog on his car roof. we tend to concentraten enormous amount of time on the cartoons because t media is set up for that. >> we cannot win the candidates, we have to blame oururselves. >> we have to blameme ourselves to some extent. ii talalked to a democraand republican, and each one thought that the only way they were gog to win was to savage the other guy. if you turn on youtelevision now, it is and disgsgusting. i don't want to see it. the american people don't want to see it, probably, either. but it has worked in the past, and therefore they think it will wowork now. maybe they are right. it will be a very close election. that is not a way to run a democracy. >> everybody should calm down a little bit. the important things will be detes. that wil

addion th,he oba campgn i ectlyght. itoesnound rht t pple thatou wld sn yo nam to offial cumehatoes the s.c.- doe'tound right to me, karen. i'm sorry, it doesn't sound right to me. >> right. it doesn't sound right. >> in full knowlge and it lives for thr yea but y clm y've pyedo par eve thouou'r10wner othe mpan >>hat'exacy -- the oth thg in commicatns, ving beenhrou cris mmunatio a f tim, yo know, it's the drip, drop pieces coming out that kills you. that's part of why, i think, again the romney cpaig i trng tdohesenterews angeearsre causthe- juss i s cong ohe r, buzeed w repoing tory aboew domentthat sayometng else. another story about another guy who said yeah, while he was at the olympics, i reported directly to him. this is gng t connue t op o unls ty can rlly get eir ms aund . 's gngo kl th. >>aren finyndicha crley. falousthe ir oyou. ank u souch. >> tnk y. >>> next, the president admits he's fallible and his critics pounce. ay wh us jusin ce yorien or ighbs an unc jim ws a ttletubbn aeen wahing f new -- [ laughter

. >> rorte in hted campgn tt's bece crealy nty wh predent oband romney's teams accusing each other ofey said it's the president being dishonest to the american pele. theesidt's cpaig has beenhinkoutreousn maki thein ofharg the have i thk thkindofttacre beath e dnity of e presency the obama campaign is trying to raise new qstions about romney's business experience at bain citalspecic cp when hetoppunni the fi. roey ss heetir i 19 tourn oundhe wter olymcs asaltake city thesdocumentsist him as the chief executive officer in 2000 and 2001. >> i think most americansigure if you're the chairman, o a priden ofcompy, tha you are resnsib forhathat coany does >> if y are oiciayhe ss in tho year why a you still responsible for bain capital's actities, including the outsourcing of jo at that time? >> in febary o1999i lef bainapit and lt all manamentuthoty a reonsilityor t firm ad nogoinctivyr volven the affairs of bain capital. >> if it is the case you left in february of 1999 and some depeentact ccker suesthat thaisxact the caseis i fairhen toake editor js cated by bn pita afthat ti? cayou hav i

you're looking aa live picture, president obama is about to kick off a twda campgn sng i ttatee wolastimey day' dat boi dno li, ar,ants onfi. >>> coi what? just who launched that trial balloon? >>> and new calls for internatiol action in syria after a suscted mascrey gornme fors tt may he ken e lisf0 ople >>plus bh 41nrade asking who the hell is grover norquist, anyway. >>> good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. in our daily f today, momts om now, tresint isoing to kkff two dsf campgninin rgin, in virgia beh. u'reooki at le pture comi up president obama became the first democratic presidential candidate since lbj to carry virginia and both campaigns are vyinforhe ste' 13 eltoravote c's nior polical edit, mark mury, ihereith and nbwhite crespdentkristen welker joins us from virginia beach. kristen, since you're down there, this crowdbvioly waiting for the presiden it's aemoctic prd, milary ea of etideter. theame me, is i sh a crital ste a iis vy cle. viinia haseen gting me anmoreonseativin rent years. >> reporter: absolutely. and the importance of virginia really can'te overated

we're going to close, as we started, with archival footage frhe 1916 campgn. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> next sunday wenue our contenders series with alex smith. you can watch the contenders each sunday at 8:30 a.m., 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. through labor day weekend. >>> this is the 40th anniversary of the june 1972 watergate break-in. next, president nixon's first televised speech about watergate, almost a year later in april 1973. from the white house, he announced the resignation of several members of his administration, including bob haldeman and john dean. and the appointment of a new attorney general elliott richardson. president nixon's resignation comes more than a year later in august 1974. this is 25 minutes. >> good evening. i want to talk to you tonight from my heart on a subject of deep concern to every american. in recent months, members of my administration and officials of the committee for the re-election of the president, including some of my closest friends, and most trusted aides, have been charged with involvement in what has come to be known as the watergate affair. these include

an ector ofce,he bh baage,his not aea ory,his let's move beyond a disastrous week for the romney campgnedestctio >> ts isrudg bein th ca ofmney a romylaey, that the rltory he. >> do you guys remember, anybody here, the vice presidential administration of fnk atin doou kw wh fnk kting evens? >>es. i000 tig ddg exclive rhe smer was at governor romney's vp was going to be frank keating. >> ty alys wt ito be surise >>nd tyant t cate - onf ththin i d joy, i shoun't y joy,ut one of the things that caught our attention is eric erkson reonse here a qte froric ericon, donnow wt's ssinthe ack roc tonight in the rumor mill. >> i said early on on the cycl if i we mt roey, wou ink abo cdi ri,ecau e bngs a lo the tabl t ion't thi ty'reoing too i bause she as a ris averse. i think she has a lot of appeal to an independent audnce. t shs nooingo behe esidtialomin. >>he mht sre uthe se >> tnkhat's intesti about her when a talking about romney's vp selection, she would not shore up a base. mittomnehas moref prlem th tepubcan se,ut geral theomin don't he the be tt mneyes. threstricts who he can choose. >>

president needs to start talking about his reco, his issu andhat' gng o in thonom >> thihingone byhebama campgn i pe diractn? soluly. ho on,old . >> sean had his say. a distraction, boston globe reported this story. they did the report onhe stor >> wha d we ve he? at ithis >> firf all, mtomney saideforhat sam eleion commsionn 20, hsaide repeatedly flew back to massachusetts to attend board meetings. >> that's not true. >> t ft cheers - i tel you y weealkibout i we'r tking abo i becse mi rneys a serl outsrcerfjo. u wa toalk aut outsourcing, let's tk about outsourcing. the "washington post" said every one of your charges against the pridenwithespe to outsrcinwaslie. eversing o of em. o ycknoedge- no , tual,t dn't saithathe cimf th rncs actually true. this is the biggest issue of outsourcing that this administration doesn't want to talk out. since this presidentas bn i fice whaveccumated $ trilon o ndebt we heutsocedhat tohe chine tofince. theyon'teemo ha a oblewith the chinese buying all the bonds so they can ntinue to spend money, and when we talk aboutank accounts, let's talkboutank acunts t'sa

cheney with a hand shake and his wife with a kiss, but reporters wererompyscord ou b the campgn., quot oncet m chen'sriva resince, repter thin eahot mr.romn'sremarks, heard mr. romney invoke mr. bush but was not able t make out t context a wasgain escted awayy a ceaiaffe the romyampanent t grealeng to low ere be a meeting but also squelching evidence the h had anythg too wh eh othe d in t seews cle, in at se new cycl sebod in romy ld had t gens ea ofloangs mr. romney's vice presidential nominee, the highest profile person from the bu/cheystrion o w n gege w bhrick chen. so thereettiew mmunatio in er a mneynd. ems ke a goodea. with or without these, i'm sure excellent new communications folks coming in to try to tune up the shop at rom m, is gointo beard forhem t r fr the rl cnectns betwn mrroey's camign andhe ltepubcan esidcy. mean even if mitt romney has so far managed to avoid being seen next to george w. bux, there are now a bh of statemen on eecor o h andick cney makg overal gooy eye a eh othe mneyayin dicchen is a man of wisdom and judgment, somebody he would model his own v

rick you campgn,our guy, newgingch bught thi upn priry sean a he s critizedgingch w. mae roey wld he be ttererveif ts wafull tigad inhe pmari and nothe neraelection. >> i think that's probably right. it was not fully litigated. it wast fuy unrsto in ct. i gi theomnecampgn a enorus aunt cret. th wonhe aumen th basally sdy aacki mitt romney they're attacking free enterprise. not true but it was a dominant narrative and won the day. but there's still the same quesons at a outhere and obouslthesquesons ve take romyffis msage ich jobndaracobams ecomy. rackbama sto iat we're stuck at 8%. there's a $15 trillion debt. and justodaye-he hsss reveing lfarrerm fm bi clion. dav cor youe be all overhis ory. plaito seoneho h bee half paying attention the significance of 1999 versus 2002. >> in someays,t's phon distctio t inome ys iisn' th's w we' litatinand ghti oveit. ter 9 ba madsome instmes inerta comnies th werinvoed i ouourcing jobs to china, india, mexico. mitt romney is trying to basilly claim that hwasn't inlvedith ose rt o decions. en tugh sti own the compy, en thgh hstil n

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was running mike huckabee's caaign thesquesonsaveeenoing arnd f a lg time if wasunni goveor romn's campgn, wouse is aan oortuty tet i fronof ts and tal aut potivend gd o bai pitaand n't ay dense on this. >> are we at the point of nowhere to run and nowhere to hide? how soon can wexpec goveor roey tcome up wita siown tervw anperhs noon f ne and ansr tseqution >> i agrith ip. shod tr toigurut how to elaint. he's t oble hslrea in t corner. the only way to explain this is to show your investments. how do you show your investments? that would be income earned off the vestnts. w do uhow th? rease ur t rurns jus li you fatr did. thiss n mplited. ifean't relse hisax retus, iouldike kno whatlse the. >>ll right. thank you so much. great pleasure having all three of you on. i love you guys together. coming up on "news nation" -- >>hestak of my fir uplef yea w -- we' hav the resfhat e pridendmitd hat w telling interview plus new details on the d.c. police officer being investigated for alledly makghreaning coentsbout t fir la. wher i he w? joing r convsati, yo can thany te y want at'surwitt pa fi it

uncomfortable, what they consider and what romney has often suggested is the central prise hindis predentl campgn. thetherartf ts i h ntinng refalo put out re tn o yearax rurns d t ft is,sun, tt h prided jn mcin and that campaign with 23 years of tax returns, he said he was a packrat, he kept everything so a l of peoereskin w isn'heollongven the ampl theterlg exalef hifaer geoe roey, whe he raho sai heut out a don yes beuse e yr could be a fluke. >> the fact is every presidential candidate has put out more tax returns than governor romy. >>he the fir w has n doneit. >> thi at'she kd of dr beaemocts wleep up and he d,redi goveor rney wil p out some morears of t rerns. i tnk what hapningows really an effort by democrats and by the obama campaign to take away the biggest asset that goveor rneyhahich is i'm abunessn, i unrsta how e prateconowork i n fi ts ecomy. th're not argng authat his onom preriptn isor thcouny. ey'rtryi toake awahe ast ofeing auccessful -- >> to disqualify him as an acceptable alternative. because the obama campaign knows if romney is vied as a ceptle aernave t the ters consteny

theatiol sociion cored peoe d wa boo an se wa it notecesrily coindent thadayster, h comeout wittoryr his campgn wit a story where it seems to be that they are vetting very high-profile african-eric a in som wa senng the sigl tt t reblic par is ncluve on whicis a mesge weedo se to depeent ters >> bert cserviveger, eric ericsson was quick to dampen the speculation when he wrote, i don't know o is hitting the crack rock tight inhe rum milut conleez rices p aboion. e woed f grgeush for ght ars. uldonseativ lk pt thsoci posions tt she has, most notably on the choice issue, because they'd be thrilled to have a legitimate neo n shing at tick? i tnker i c i rit. yondhe dg refences ever sineomne soue i'v spen wh toy ha thrn cold wat on thimor. thay romney is running his veep search like a consultin projt. he's meticulous, tim pawlenty, paulye andre par ohe finalist condiseing fated by ose whwento t uh trea opleho fou hpeec to fansticnd ty'reuzzi toports. inside of that boston high command, i don't think condi is a short lister. let's say s was an outside ck like you id. i thk soal conrvates uld ve seonc

look, thingsre said in potical campgns whicar pretty tough. it's not bean bag. can recall when herbert walker bush called reagan voodoo economics and he ended up being his running mate. i think most people understa in the case of mitt romney and me, after the primary was over, no one worked harder for my campaign. we became good friends. and i obviously, as you know, supported and endorsed him very early, in hopes to have some impact in the new hampshire primary. >> being as dispassionate as you can be, do you think he was formally a force for job creation? or some other people say look, that's fine, he did create jobs, but he also wrecked a lot of jobs. >> you know, the problem with the free enterprise system is that not everybody succeeds. the great thing about communism and the old soviet union is nobody ever failed. so the point is that in this system that bain is involved in, they went to companies and groups that were either struggling or just beginning, and they invested. sometimes they failed. sometimes they succeeded. best example of course i'm sure you

this is exactly the incompetence that we've seen from this campgn. it was predictable.niforms, that maybe somebody would go back and check and see about the uniforms under mitt's tenure. so, again, the fact that the campaign was not prepared with an answer. that's malpractice, and i almost feel bad for mitt romney on that one. so then we go to today, the story comes out. they have no answer. here's the other problem, though, lawrence. this is exactly like the tax returns. we think that the reason he doesn't want to talk about it is there must be something in there that's politically inconvenient. they keep saying, no, that's not true. he didn't want to talk about the olympic uniforms on friday, which seemed silly, because it seemed like the perfect tee-up. then we find out, guess what, it's politically inconvenient. not good pr management by the team. >> well, he does have, you know, some strikes against him in this category when he was running the olympics. susan bonfield, who was a torchbearer the year that romney ran the olympics, in an interview with "the guardian,"

this is a lot of why i think hilly clton en runng f esidt tt waso mh a messe iner campgn,he invoemenofhe higher level industry positions. it is who is sitting in the boardroom. is it one woman out of 12 men to ke t decionsut o hing? is king sur tre a men ine for ldersp potionto bngn pple ter em, not bebatehem d y, iin later for the rest of you. the same thing is true in government. when you pointed out the lkf black women in the sena, the alend msageith nody in e om wther iis a fale prucer on ehow to say, you n't yat. we he toake sure we have women' voice or message here. at same thing is true in corporations. >> rortehe ngreman sa, lo, if demrats reke e use, youant to somen in leadship y havto ge demoatackeadehip and majority in the house because there are so many more wen in the democratic party that you'll end up with wom in positions ofower incdinghe kdf sitis toakeome o the jo pgram comthroh. we ed me wen in t role nee me peoe o col in the room. weeed meeopl whoom om bkgrods ttan relate to people in need. we need more people,e are not scared of saying the word poor. e priden cnot

he should go back to the campgn of 24i8 ecso h er chey quincy adams was a minister there and they cleaned that jacksowas actually the and of course was living n ahemaiea thtu medw sahell mrs. jackson and died suenly in 1820 and s veyvious. e e thas 82 'rthnihi thweevig-- jackson, clay and john quincy ads. and the results were split. bu dt a ao. ouar reenver w ea aith b c finished fourth in the house of wiepnterbatives for uceia said crawford h a strope. i can't ote forcrawford. i hateckni ppjouiaa s mclecry ofta people for he sold out his vote ani'm the reason i'm telling you all of this suol venalou ddti las jackson was so in the former republic. we started thinking the only way to be jackson was to be orgaized rs ae wed jannagt ew coted y state level and a national committee. we do have candidates running in m advsesps.ers to raise a to hasdeaa lialtywewi today are fced with antipathy towards andrew jackson. and then after we lost and jackson defeated clay in 1828 d cimin 1ms tol oratandced nhest te party in the jeffersonian publican in this time we only had the democrats. so you have n

now we're going to turn to matt myers, president of campgn for tobacco free kids.of the founders in 1996. that campaign has led to fight totrtb use and this had a lot more success than almost anyone had predict it. he has won major awards in the american cancer society, harvard public schoo eld and has a report tus fm t fnt s apig ttanu uc joining. >> it is a delight to be able to talk about tobacco. there's four points and going to want to make about toacco. whwedetr wow toedsasan that we have real-life examples to prove it. a second, we are able to objectively document the progress made over the last 15 years in a way that is both sit if you tma ireaalet sh er we havactually taken the recommended actions we can prove that we've saved lives, reduce health care costs and done in a way to document a bully cost effecti. bry ceo spcific measures that are the topiof a good deal of conversation these days and are relevant that we been able toease out their impacindependent from other actions. first, let me talk about h ctt dokn ho dutb s an it's not just anecdotal evide