here's my letter to dan bain the c.e.o. of trader joe's have also included a copy of the good samaritan act which was signed into being in one thousand nine hundred six by bill clinton and that encourages grocery stores to donate food and it protects them from being sued so i'm just asking him to consider moving trader joe's into the next step of simply not wasting as much food and giving it to people who need it i figured the c.e.o. of trader joe's probably wouldn't get back to me after one letter so i've decided to send him. a letter a day for the next month a letter went out to t.j. c.e.o. dan bain every morning and we continue diving as normal time passed dumpsters swelled with food and then suddenly the landscape changed we began seeing more people at the dumpsters and not your typical diverse people that seem to need the food a lot more than we did. as i waited to hear back from trader joes about all the food in our trash cans the world spiraled into a food crisis a kid. again the plan. was to be. too. big. to. chain.

dan bain every morning and we continued diving as normal time passed dumpsters swelled with food and then suddenly the landscape changed we began seeing more people at the dumpsters and not your typical diverse people that seem to need the food a lot more than we did. as i waited to hear back from trader joe's about all the food in our trash cans the world spiraled into a food crisis a kid. again he claimed. to be. coming. to try. to. change. things to meet. a man. or. to. talk. to a man. whose. after sending letters for two weeks i got a call from the trader joe's headquarters allison from public relations asked me to stop sending letters and to please stop bothering them they would not be discussing wasted food or anything else with me when i insisted on a simple conversation as a concerned citizen no cameras or interview allison hung up on me she said and i quote just so you know in our communities in which we have stores we do donate food that we feel is safe to donate seven days a week in all our stores across the country so i guess the problem is they don't feel that all this f

bain capital. it's an amazing thing. >> dan, if you do that, you open up the criticism that from the obama campaign about the investments made by bain capital, the good ones, bad ones. i would hope the campaign would move to a higher level and talk about the budget, talk about how we're going to reform our tax code, how we're going to reform entitlements and grow jobs. >> harold, come on. >> hey, harold. harold we keep hearing this, harold, but i mean as -- >> keep hearing what? >> as james carville said, barack obama's hoping the campaign of 2008 is turned into an attack campaign of 2012 as ed -- look when you start having people like james carville saying that the candidate that talks about the next four years instead of the last four years is the candidate that's going to win over voters, harold, the fact is, neither of these candidates are talking about the next four years. >> i'm agreeing with you. >> they're attacking. and the problem with barack obama is, he's president of the united states and he's talking about what happened on -- s.e.c. filings back in 1999. i just -- i understand and i s

those ads that his allies have been running against mitt romney's record at bain capital, that's having a impact as well. dan, this thing is going right down to the wire. >> a full employment act for political reporters. >> absolutely, 8 to 12 states that are going to make the difference, both ads from the campaigns and their allies all focused on those key states. >> thank you, george. love the bright pink tie. george has a big show this morning. he'll be speaking exclusively with vicki kennedy, also keith olbermann on the roundtable. >>> now let's check the rest of the morning's headlines. and for that we go to as always this gentleman. >> and i like your tie. >> thank you. >> good morning to you first, paula. good morning, dan. >>> millions of mexicans are going to the polls today to elect a new president. it has huge impact for the united states. abc's cecilia vega joins us with the latest from mexico city. >> reporter: good morning, ron. protesters here are already bracing for the outcome of this vote. it could have sweeping ramifications on both sides of the borders. violence from this drug war is at a

bain capital, those are having an effect as well. the president is opening up a lead in those key battleground states. dan, this thing is going right down to the wire. >> a full employment act for political reporters. like george stephanopoulos and those bain ads they focus in the battleground states. >> absolutely, 8 to 12 states that are going to make the difference, both ads from the campaigns and their allies all focused on those key states. >> thank you, george. as i said, love the bright pink tie. we'll see you on "this week" in just a little bit. george has a big show this morning. he'll be speaking exclusively with vicki kennedy, also keith olbermann on the roundtable. that's coming up soon. >>> but now let's check the rest of the morning's headlines. a lot of news overnight. and for that we go to as always this gentleman. >> and i like your tie. >> thank you. >> good morning to you first, paula. good morning, dan. george, good morning, everyone. >>> millions of mexicans are going to the polls today to elect a new president. it has huge impact for the united states. and the how violent drug war ri

dan lothian. he's joining us right now. on this specific issue of romney, bain capital,o outsourcing, i take it the obama campaign thinks they have a winning issue? >> reporter: they certainly do, wolf. they're looking at polling out there and they get the sense that the american people are buying this message and certainly keeping romney guessing. and on the offensive, having to respond to these attacks from the obama campaign, because their focus also has been on hitting these key battleground states. and you see the president now for the second day in the commonwealth of virginia, it's a crucial state for the president. he won it bay slight margin in 2008. the first time that a democrat had done that decades. and what you've seen from the obama campaign, over the last several months, is this push to woo military veterans. why is that important? well, virginia is a region that obviously has a lot of military personnel. so the president hoping to tap into that group, to help lift his fortunes in that commonwealth for the second time. but not only in virginia, y

this is one of the great stories that dan has begin about from the 1980's and these companies made america more competitive. and the bainodel was basically taking business consultants who knew how to turn companies around and try and revive some of the firms. >> it's called creating capital. >> you can't have capitalism without capital, right? >> you also can't have jobs without creating wealth, you know, i think again, romney should send out the message that basically, what president obama wants to do is finish the people who have the money to create jobs. does that make sense? of course not. >> last word for mary, still ahead. a mediocre jobs report and manufacturing drop off and a service sector slump. the numbers are in and june was a cruel, cruel mont will july be any better or are we on the brink of another recession? d skips ] hi, i'm new ensure clear. clear, huh? my nutritional standards are high. i'm not juice or fancy water, i'm different. i've got nine grams of protein. twist my lid. that's three times more than me! twenty-one vitamins and minerals and zero fat! hmmm. you'll bring a lot to the party. [ all ]

bain capital. >> let's bring back our power monday panel. michael steele, casey hunt, dan balz.id on cnn yesterday that these attacks are working. he admitted that. w does the romney campaign shift the narrative here, dan? >> very difficult right now to do that. i mean, they could obviously do it if they released the tax rurntion. they're reluctant to do that. they said they would put out one more set of returns in august. that's a long time between now and august. they could do it if they were much more aggressive in going back at the president, but everything they've tried, and i thought it was interesting on friday night when he did that round of interviews with tv that that just had very little impact on changing it, and all weekend what you saw was a continuation and an acceleration of the calls for him to do something. >> i agree. i think that this is a box that has been carefully crafted by the obama team. it is a very well-packaged box. i mean, there's no escape at this point that i can see short of what dan just said, putting out the tax returns and i think then getting

dan respond. >> i'd just say to both of you there is this new conventional wisdom of the bain attacks is havingnance. the amount of money obama is putting behind the ads is amazing. the obama campaign has been spending 3-1 against the romney attack ads. how much of it is a question of this huge disparity right now? >> yes. but that's my point. that is absolutely what's happened. in may and in june -- it was more june than may. in may the obama campaign ran more positives, a few negatives. june was i'd say about 75% of their ads negative versus 25% positive. and, by the way, it's fine you bring up on the disparity between obama and romney because that numbers are true. throw in the super packs and it's been 1-1. but it actually brings up an issue that i think the republican apparatus. while financially they're at par i ity, having three different people launching a television message that isn't necessarily on the same perfect message versus obama, which is controlling say 90% of the democratic message that's in the swing states, is proving to be more effective with his dollar. that's another thi

bain capital. so that's exactly -- >> not the ceo. he was a passive investor. >> why not release the tax returns? >> why not release the tax returns, danbject like six times like the mitt romney campaign does. just like the -- >> give me a break. >> can we call -- >> give me a break, give me the tax returns. >> comes out on friday shows we're in bad shape. talk about wanting to change the subject. the wave of attacks against mitt romney are a distraction. we're in a jobs crisis and not talking about jobs. >> mika, call on me. >> i got you. >> robert? >> dan, release the tax returns. put all this to rest. if mitt romney is not hiding something in bermuda and switzerland and the caymans, it will be in the tax returns. >> right. >> why not simply do it? >> i've said this -- >> the tax returns, he's -- >> i got a bank account at a bank near my house because there's an atm that's convenient to me. okay. why would -- just -- is mitt romney, is there a convenience swiss atm machine near his house in boston? i mean, that's ridiculous. >> the tax returns you are criticizing. the accounts come out of tax returns that he released. no one -- sound