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david korn who is the washington bureau chief who posted that video put the clips on the website butedited off a key portion. here is how the liberal media covered that edited portion. >>> there is a goof ball saying israel that is the unsolvable problem of my presidency. i won't even try. >> we've never had a candidate that could be ever be that stupid in front of five people, never mind 150 people. >> it's true. for someone who constantly accuses the president of throwing israel under the president. he is like thrown israel under the bus and driven away at high speed. he doesn't want to deal with it because it's unsolvable. >> jon: it brought similar reactions from other media. cbs news they say middle east peace is not possible. abc news no way there will be israel-palestinian peace and bloomberg said there is no way on the israel palestinian peace accord. keep that in mind when you hear a key portion that david korn left out on what was posted on mother jones. >> jon: shows strength and resolve on the part of america and some day palestinians, he said, will want peace. so what do

it seems, and yet a radical left wing magazine, radicalistist david korn behind this, shouldn't thatthe public has started to discount a lot of this. it took a day or two, and they lost. the fact is it is up to mitt romney. let's be blunt. it is up to his performance in that first presidential debate. he is on fire? is he passionate? does he provide this. >> he needs to come out of the box on fire. >> in the opening statement and then from there to how hard is it he need to bunch obama in terms of retorecally. >> the issue is not about punching, the issue is does he get it and will he fight for us? does mitt romney have it inside him

chief david korn, what did korn know and when did he know it? you've had this thing since may, and you waited until september, david, what happened. >> larry, you've got to go back to your guys who write your introduction, i have reported extensi extensi extensively, i didn't have this about two weeks ago. there's a great piece in the front page of the style section today. the fund raiser happened in mid-may at the home of mark laider. the source who's not being identified by me, put up a snippet of it and not the full video and not identifying where it came from, it was blurry, it was hard to make out. a guy named james carter, why didn't know it at the time who happens to be the grandson of jimmy carter points this out and said maybe we should try to find the person who put this up, there might be more to this fund raising video. he made contact with the person, and put me in touch with that person and i spent a couple of weeks basically convincing the source to give me the full video. and so this is what reporters do. >> look, if you say this,

later today, david korn who broke the story said it is ridiculous, because the point is not selectiveiting. the point is to show what was news worthy. and the romney campaign said that dylan beyars debunked the tape, he said he did no such ning, and he joining us with john king and gloria borger. and dylan, when the romney campaign points to the tape and say it is debunked and debunked by you and the column, is that true? >> no, it is not. it is true that parts of romney's remarks were left out. those parts that were left out don't necessarily debunct the rest of the film. >> does it seem strange to you that the romney campaign would talk up parts of the video saying that the governor stands by what he is trying to say and at the same time saying it is debunct. >> well, it is strange, and reflects that the campaign is in a little bit of a crisis mode right now. they are scrambling to try to offset some of the negative press that they have got, because of the release of this video. and so what they are trying to do is to sigh mmultaneously try to claim that it is somehow not legitimate

for more we're joined by david korn, the washington bureau chief for mother jones magazine and the man largely responsible for bringing attention to the secret romney video. he is also the author of, "showdown: the indside story of how obama fought back against boehner, cantor, and the tea party." the new paperback edition is out this week. welcome back to "democracy now!" talk about how you got this videotape and the significance of what is on it. it certainly has created a firestorm. >> it seems to have done so. thank you for having me and mentioning the book. there have been a lot of good stories written in the last day or two on how we got this story of mother jones. the short version, i had that a lot of reporting on bain and mitt romney's investments including in companies outsourcing jobs to china and elsewhere, which is what it does cover program to be talking to you this morning given where you are. in the course of doing that, i hooked up with a freelance researcher named james carter. he is the grandson of jimmy carter, though at the time, i did not know that. he pointed me

. >> john, you anticipated my question to the great david korn.ould convention could not be more different corks they in regard to former presidents? for the democrats, president clinton could not be more present for the republicans, president bush cannot be more absent. yet, republicans keep telling us that things are much better four years ago. yet, never mentioned bush. explain that to me, david. >> well, the republican convention last week in tampa reminded me of the old soviet union. comrade bush is no longer with us. he has been photo shopped out of the of the pictures. this is soviet style revisionism. were you off better off four years ago? december of 2008 when we were losing 850,000 jobs a month due to the bush/cheney recession? they don't go into those details. they are counting on amnesia amongst voters and really want to start the clock on january 20, 2009. bill clinton, i think -- i haven't always been a big fan of bill clinton issues but i think he will be great tonight. he will take this issue on and he will take on the welfare iss

let me go back to david korn on this.etting sununu out there, there's like a canine aspect to which he defends the president. beware of dog, and there's john sununu there, with no leash on him. he'll say anything in defense of romney. let's cut through the list of this people. dean heller, close race in nevada. tommy thompson, having problems in wisconsin. george allen, neck and neck in virginia. these people are real pros who are trying to keep alive politically, and they want some real separation, as they say in the nfl, from this guy romney. what's going on? >> romney's taking all these hits in the last four weeks from his miserable trip to london, to clint eastwood, and not mentioning the troops in afghanistan, the disaster with the libyan statement, and the video that i made public earlier this week. and the thing is, if he had a real good overarching strategic plan and message that the conservative republican elites here and members of the senate had any -- could see, could discern, i think people would be more will

let me go back to david korn on this.etting sununu out there, there's like a canine aspect to which he defends the president. beware of dog, and there's john sununu there, with no leash on him. he'll say anything in defense of romney. let's cut through the list of this people. dean heller, close race in nevada. tommy thompson, having problems in wisconsin. george allen, neck and neck in virginia. these people are real pros who are trying to keep alive politically, and they want some real separation, as they say in the nfl, from this guy romney. what's going on? >> romney's taking all these hits in the last four weeks from his miserable trip to london, to clint eastwood, and not mentioning the troops in afghanistan, the disaster with the libyan statement, and the video that i made public earlier this week. and the thing is, if he had a real good overarching strategic plan and message that the conservative republican elites here and members of the senate had any -- could see, could discern, i think people would be more will

with me now are david korn of mother jones. and bob costa, reporter.val patrick, who in the past has seemed like a mild mannered speaker. he came out tonight like a barn burner. a forceful sales pitch for president obama's re-election. let's watch. >> it's time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe. this is the president who delivered the security of affordable health care to every single american in every corner of this country after 90 years of trying. this is the president who brought osama bin laden to justice, who ended the war in iraq and is ending the war in afghanistan. this is the president who ended don't ask, don't tell so that love of country determines fitness for service, who made equal pay for equal work the law of the land. this is the president who saved the american auto industry from extinction, the american financial industry from self-destruction, the american economy from full blown depression, who added 4.5 million private sector jobs in the last two and a half years, more than in george bush's eight y