let's look at what he said about corey booker moments ago in the press conference. >> corey booker isstanding mayor. he is doing great work in newark. helping to turn the city around. i think it's important to recognize this issue is not a "distraction." this is part of the debate we're going to be having in this election campaign. about how do we create an economy where everybody from top to bottom, folks on wall street and folks on main street have a shot at success? >> dana: so we'll talk about whether it's a satisfying answer for some. politics first of all, yesterday, when i first saw the meet the press comment i said that is a big story. then this morning, politico talked about the corey booker ad and call at it hostage video which is a good description. what do you think? >> eric: first, you sent it out immediately. talk about corey booker comments. he called the attack ad nauseating is interesting. he is turning around newark. he's a democrat. he stays near the center. he was out in 2007 campaigning for senator obama. for him to say that, the left started to get all up in a ti

. >> along comes corey booker. supposedly a surrogate for president obama. >> corey booker slammed the campaign's attack. >> they are furious. >> is he an ineffective sewer gat? >> this is nauseating. >> nauseating. >> nauseating. >> in this particular instance he was just wrong. >> i got this. i got this. >> booker decided to take to youtube to clarify. >> a hostage video. >> it is reason tobl examine that record. >> that is the definition of a hostage video. >> when you're president, your job is not just to maximize profits. >> your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot. >> the issue is not private equity, it's mitt romney. >> i standby what i said, whatever it was. i'm not concerned about the very poor. we have a safety net there. whatever it wasser. >> whatever it was. >> $10,000 bucks? >> i standby what i said, whatever it was. >> good evening. today the president's reelection campaign made its strongest case yet against mitt romney's argument that his experience as chief executive

>> corey booker is nothing more than a passing reference. ose -- but to compliment his other performance in his other job. >> i think booker is an outstanding mayor. he is doing great work in newark and helping to turn that city around. i think it's important to recognize that this issue is not a quote distraction. >> but the tone towards booker from the obama campaign was equal parts compliment and condemnation. david axelrod delivered that message this afternoon. >> i love corey booker. he's a great mayor. i would hope he was my next door neighbor. i agree with what he said later. i think this is a legitimate area for discussion. in this particular instance he was just wrong. >> reaction from the romney campaign was swift and predictable. >> have you had enough of president obama's attacks on free enterprise? his own key supporters have. democrat corey booker. >> i have to say from a personal level, i'm not about to sit here and indict private equity. >> the republican party has launched an online petition. i stand wit to stay on their feet

and corey booker is a high-level surrogate. he is not surprised. >> i admire corey booker.met him once: but he was buddy buddy with chris christie and supported chris christie. so he has sort of a mixed message here or record i guess. but mitt romney has the center piece. you have been out on the road with him. you have been there a lot more than i. the economy is broken. i can fix it t look at my record. okay? his record is head of bain capitol. >> that's his business experience. he says i know how to create jobs. look at my record at bain capitol. tal. right? >> you know. >> ted kennedy did? >> it's a 70ser peace of his campaign. that invites scrutiny from opposition and reporters. that said, there is probably some truthiness to the way both sides. you are never going to get the full story from one or the other. >> like i guess he is referring to the obama ad that came out about the steel plant in kansas city. >> my hometown. >> they shut it down. >> right. >>. >>> nobody disputed the facts. it was shut down. jobs were lost. pensions were destroyed and that was a bain cap

i'm looking forward to the corey booker interview.s the interview in politics in the world right now. >>> thank you. that's an incredible segway. i'm looking forward to it. >> glad you're back. >> thank you. i appreciate it. thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. if you go to the homepage of republican party right now, if you type gop.com into your web browser, the front page of the

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corey booker says president obama's attacks on private equity make him sick. let's get to work. >> this kind of stuff is nauseating to me on both sides. it's nauseating to the american public. enough is enough. stop attacking private equity. >> president obama is firing back at liberal criticism of his bane attacks. >> this issue is not a distraction. this is part of the debate we're going to be having in this election campaign. >> a victim of romney's vulture capitalism will tell mayor booker what's really nauseating. >>> the fighting irish are fighting the contraception mandate. the naacp says gay marriage is a civil right. tonight, our panel will react. >>> rush limbaugh's tanking in the ratings thanks to the sandra fluke fire storm. >> what did i say? i said if we're paying for this it makes these women sluts. >> michael with what it means for america. >>> scott walker might be headed back to capital hill to explain his divide and conquer bombshell. >> you never had a conversation? >> no. >>> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. the obama campaig

here it is exemploymenting mayor corey bookers comments. i have been talking about it and amazed by it. >> have you had enough on president obama's attacked on free enterprise? his own colleagues do. >> i have to say from a personal level, i'm not about to sit here and diet private equity. >> harold ford jr. from tennessee. >> private equity is not a bad thing, it's a good thing in many, many instances. >> the last thought before we take a break, it looks to me that as nuanced as you have been understanding problems in the democratic party and the pobs of fundraising. here you have the republicans understanding it in high concept. they have music, personality there, and they're going to town with this. >> if they think it's working for them, they will do this all the way through to november. these are precious sound bites gifted from booker and harold. >> we're going to hear it, booker has laid down the counter attack line that romney is going to use throughout this came pain. barack obama's strategy is to deny mitt romney as a fixer -- >>

newark mayor corey booker trying to cleeb han his copy book.r strategist david axelrod slapped booker down, prompting booker to appear with rachel maddow last night. >> i love corey booker, he's a great mayor. if my house was on fire, i'd hope he was my next door neighbor. in this instance he was just wrong. there are specific instances here that speak to an economic theory that isn't right theory for the country. >> it wasn't until the gop went across that line that i -- >> cow canyou can't equate the negativity on the right by what's happening with some sectors on the left. >> chris cillizza managing editor of post politics.com and political director chuck todd host of "the daily rundown" both with us now. first, to you chuck, because, chris, listen in, we've got a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll we're breaking out, two weeks after the gay marriage, same-sex marriage from the white house or maybe not quite announcement. >> sure. >> decision. >> decision, sort of spoke out if you will. >> right. >> from the white house. >> hand forcing

form, your job is not simply to maximize profits. >> president obama in chicago talking about corey bookering he was against ads going up against private equity firm saying they had done a lot to support and grow businesses, specifically talking about bain capital, mitt romney's company that booker said the kind of stuff, the ads are nauseating on both sides. enough is enough. president reacting to that. bring in the panel. steve hayes for "weekly standard." a.b. stoddard of the hill. juan williams columnist with the hill. a.b., we didn't hear from booker there. basically he has been used now in a mitt romney ad defending the ads that are coming after bain capital. >> he was on meet the press this weekend and very honest and said he thought that this line of attack was nauseating. he said he wouldn't join the fry an attack private equity. mention and unions invested in firms like bain capital in my state and my city. he was taken to the wood shed. in hours released lengthy statement on youtube better explaining his view. >> bret: not walking it back. >> no. he defended himself but he also

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>> look, i say the obama campaign should free corey booker. version one was corey booker unplugged.hat's the rising star corey booker, the youtube video that obviously appears i'm sure in lots of communications in the obama campaign was the obama campaign underwraps corey booker and i think he's at rick of diminishing his own political brand if he doesn't stick to what he said the first time on "meet the press" when he said if you look a the totality of bayne capital's record, that's governor mitt romney's record, they supported jobs and created jobs and this is one of the democrats' rising stars and one of president obama's biggest backers saying that he believed that bayne capital's record in its totality supported jobs and grows jobs and that's what has the obama campaign in a tailspin yesterday, trying to walk back his words but i say free corey booker, let the real corey booker speak, unplugged. martha: it was fascinating. we'll talk to both of you soon, kirsten, justin, good stuff. thank you guys. gregg: we are on jury watch in the john edwards corruption trial. he just arrive

it wasn't only corey booker but it was harold ford, jr.. so the romney campaign put together an ad. >> you have had enough of president obama's attacks and democratic mayor corey booker of new jersey. >> i have to say on personal level i'm not going indict private equity. >> and ford junior. >> private equity is not a bad thing. it's a good thing in many instances. >> former obama advisor and auto czar steven ratner a leading democrat. >> i don't think anything bain capital did they neal need to be embarrassed about. >> they've done a lot to support businesses to grow businesses. >> even obama's own supporters have had enough. it's nauseated together american public. >> sean: the big bain backfire, what do you think of that ad? >> those were beautiful messages in there because what the free market can provide in terms of job creation. so it's except to how to spend other people's money in order to create jobs and yet his surrogates there come from in many respects the private sector and each one of those individuals has a lot of private sec

this is no where close to what corey booker did to the president. >> let's talk about that.ome surrogates for campaigns, everybody out on cable television talking about it. how responsible is a campaign or should a campaign be for the corey bookers of the world, jon huntsman of the world. i don't think he's in mitt romney's inner circle. >> we would realize sure gats are their own people with independent minds, probably get talking points and as booker demonstrated sometimes they listen, sometimes they don't. they're not outfitted with pain collars. >> campaigns would love that. >> i'm not worried -- ahh, getting back on message. if somebody is a campaign spokesman, if you're paid by the campaign you're probably held to a higher standard, stay on message, don't deviate don't talk about your guy's flaws. isn't it true for every politician puts their interests first? >> the good ones, i hate to sound cynical the good ones are one eye on themselves, half of of an eye on the candidate. >> you don't find -- >> not many surrogates will say all the positions i've had before i endor

again, you can replay this corey booker all day.ill of actual people, that's going to carry more weight than this conversation right now. >> at the end of the day, we've been debating this all morning so we've been going back and fo fort on this, isn't the question about bain, private equity is about making money for your shareholders and sometimes they are foundations as you were discussing the anderson interview yesterday talking about that and sometimes those shareholders are pension funds and sometimes those shareholders are people who don't mind if companies are blown up in order to make money. and at the end of the day, isn't this going to -- could this potentially provide a big problem for governor romney. this is what ted kennedy brought into the debate and that was devastating for governor romney when he was -- >> what's devastating is for the past 3 1/2 years this president has been killing jobs. we have 23 million people unemployed. sustained unemployment over 8%. the unemployment rate and underemployed and stop looking f

after the hilary rosen comments, after the corey booker stuff, i'll give them a pass on joe biden, but's been an immediate sort of disavowel, let's put daylight between us and you. or let's get you to retract your comments in a home made youtube video. >> now when these things happen the fallout is republicans tuesday very did come around quickly and use it against the president, saying there are divisions within the party and that drives the campaign and the white house crazy. there's a very concerted effort to keep everybody on the same page and push back very quickly or distance themselves as you mentioned to keep that from happening. >> also in the season of the super pacs where eric, as we discuss, anybody with a million bucks becomes a surrogate. talking about foster friess and he had his comments about you know bayer aspirin, keeping it between your knees, incentive remarks about contraception and bill mahr on twitter yesterday who said, why litten to mitt romney on foreign poll circumstance his entire foreign policy experience is trying to brow beat frenchmen into his cult. mon

so corey booker and i support barack obama for president. back up a moment. >> we support his programs, and wroeu that don't take it out of context. bill: i'm not but just to be clear, what booker was saying is there are good people who work on wall street, don't classify them all as evil. >> that's correct and i do take issue with the ad, it is fair game to question romney's claim that he was a job creator while he ran bain, and it's a fair game, i think, to examine his record at bain. what there was a problem with the ad that i saw is that it was misleading, because it omitted a number of important facts that the viewer should see. romney wasn't even there when that plant went down, that plant was about to go bankrupt before bain bought it, brought it back, and in fact, created jobs, and then it went under as the head of the union said because of foreign imports. so the ad is misleading because it omitted those facts, apart from the fact the person at bain is currently an obama buttonedler, when that company went bankrupt. it's just not a

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the funny part about it, corey booker was an obama spokesperson.put him out as a surrogate on the talk showsome body didn't bother to talk to corey booker and he spoke his mind which is really interesting because, you know, here in washington dc, you sort of you know, follow the party line, if the president says this, you have to say this. but in the real world, you are allowed to speak your mind. corey booker spoke his mind he got taken to the wood shed and had to come up with i guess the press is calling it the hostage video. he had to stand in front of something and say all these things he really didn't mean. that was probably a mistake i think from the perspective of the white house because america is like didn't he say this yesterday? i think it contributes to the sin simple in this country >> they may want to stop sending surrogates to the sunday morning talk shows. if the negativity is there and you agree it is there, it is very different from the campaign that the president ran, four years ago, when he was running for the presidency first t

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as well and corey booker saying, look let's not attack private equity in this country, you know, theyutting a little bit of an arms length to that argument. >> is it surprising? no. i think we are seeing a little bit of a family feud. in our party as in the republican party there's significant difference about how we go and approach attacking mitt romney on his record. and i think as we just heard mitt romney put this out there as his experience to manage a global financial economy. and i think that it's all valid, and so we should be attacking -- or at least vetting his record at bain and we should also be vetting his record elsewhere. martha: not to be cynical, do you think a hundred million dollars from private equity firms has come in. there is no one who has been elected in recent history who hasn't tapped into and had meetings in new york with these folks and said, look we would love to have your support. oath bama campaign got a lot last time around, they got about a hundred million this time ae around, is that a factor here? >> this is really an attack on mitt romney and what

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if you saw that corey booker interview.king and making the statements he was leaning forward and engaged. then when he recanted what he said. >> he said i'm part -- i don't like the rebel right commercials and dealing with private equity. it seemed like the press picked up the private equity. i felt sorry for him. >> unfortunately i don't think he needed to recant. i think we need to be honest how these campaigns are financed and how both of the major parties are financed today. they are financed by big money. that is fact. so at the end of the day, arthel people want, i'm with you, people want jobs. i know about bain, i don't care about that. >> with the bain commercials, conservatives are using that the president is attacking capitalism and the president's campaign had to pull those ads about bain capital in ohio and all the swing states. >> arthel: angela is staying this is coming across the president is attacking capitalism or is the president capitalizing on the resentment toward the successful ceos who continue to be

i like corey booker, but he is the mayor of newark. what are you talking about? when you're the mayor, you have record unemployment and vulture capitalist will not ep us rebuild, corey come on. >> thank you for your time tonight. >> corey, go boy, you got it. >> boy? okay. coming up, president obama faces a stunning attack from one of the gop'sizing stars. -- gop's rising stars. >> never has we seen such an effort to divide the american people. >> and catholics, leaders way back into the debate over women's rights. this new lawsuit could backfire on conservatives. plus republicans love to talk about how paul ryan is so serious about the deficit. but he is making some laughable claims about the budgets put out by his own buddy, willard. ♪ [ male announcer ] american innovation. 29 years ago, it helped us invent the minivan. ♪ today dodge grand caravan is the most awarded minivan ever. ♪ who knows where innovation can take us next? ♪ directions to the moon. ♪ diarrhea, gas or bloating? get ahead of it! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day helps defend aga

only seven in ten said they were exciting to vote this time around. >>> we're back with corey booker who criticized the president's attack ads on bain capital. some of the democratic party have increasingly relied on wall street for money and in short, he is a fisher in the democratic party between the rank and file and the moneyed elite. we have robert reich, and eugene robinson. gentleman, i want to talk about this. i'm not sure this is true, but i have been told it's true. i've been told robert reich there are republicans that are pro private equity. they think the democratic party is in kinship with those people and don't like this populist outrage. >> this is not a new rift by the way. i remember 20 years ago, 15 years ago in the clinton administration there was the same rift. many who came from wall street or big business, and then there were raipg and filers who didn't want anything to do with them and were more populist in their inclinations. i think it's wrong to take it to the point where you see it as a conflict between the notion of fairness and the notion of ground. you

i'm looking forward to the corey booker interview. that's the interview in politics in the world right now. >>> thank you. that's an incredible segway. i'm looking forward to it. >> glad you're back. >> thank you. i appreciate it. thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. if you go to the homepage of republican party right now, if you type gop.com into your web browser, the front page of the national republican party's website comes up and today it looks like this. i stand with cory. with cory booker. i don't think i need a spoiler alert here if i let you know this the republican party in reality is very unlikely to actually stand with cory booker. mr. booker is the democratic progressive fire brand mayor of newark, new jersey who supports president obama's re-election. the republican party is making a big show of saying they are standing with him because they say cory booker is a victim who needs people to stand up for him because he can't stand up for himself. because it's the republican party, the person that is