the democratic national committee put out an ad bill clinton doing the narration, and in it he says that if the mission had gone bad and some of the seals had been killed or captured, it would have been really bad for obama. he says that in the ad. >> what about the seals? >> that is exactly the point. some veterans have issued a counter ad saying that this is just astonishing that they would do that, that he would think of themselves or that clinton would think of political interest over the lives of soldiers. >> you are shocked? >> the second point is that it does not just say that obama did it, perfectly ok, he should get credit. it says that romney would not have. that is a huge tactical error, it is and a cheap shot, no way you can know, and they used at second hand rotation said by wolf blitzer and not romney himself. this is a way for romney to get advantage out of this and he blew it. >> i agree it was a cheap shot but i don't think they are unusual. >> "this is one of the most courageous decisions i've seen a president make" -- robert gates. "not everybody does it" -- vice chair

host: joining us is representative debbie wasserman schultz, the chair of the democratic national committee. thanks so much for being with us. joining us with questions alexis simendinger, thank you. and felicia sonmez, the political reporter of the "the washington post". let me ask you the broad question about this campaign. is that a referendum on the president or choice election between democrats and republicans? guest: this is absolutely going to be a choice between two dramatically different directions. we could continue to go in the direction president obama has been taking as after he inherited the largest set of problems of any president since fdr, where we were bleeding 750,000 jobs per month. to now three years later, we had 26 straight months of job growth and the private sector. a resurgence in the manufacturing sector, a rescue of the automobile industry. we brought the troops home from iraq. and the contrast, the different choice is to go in the direction of mitt romney, where a millionaires and billionaires who are doing quite well. mitt romney proposes to make sure they do e

i didn't time for the democratic national committee this is a plan that would quote do exactly what john mccain would not let us do and romney condemned this yesterday as the wrong course after first kind of waffling on the topic joe ricketts the guy who was supposed to put up the ten million bucks has walked it back apparently it didn't go over well with cubs fans among other things and but have we seen the last of this plan or is it going to is this going to become an issue if so how and when and and if so does that open the door for the democrats to play the mormon card and talk about mitt romney and his his long lineage of ancestors who are polygamists. and the oh yeah. and i think that's exactly right i think that romney and his campaign does not want to get into a discussion about religion or various sects of christianity and i think that in terms of what we see more of this thing with super pacs it's anyone's guess and the thing about super pacs is that in the immediate impact we've seen is that the majority of ads are going negative attack ads normally you kind of would lead with

. >> the democratic national committee released that ad linking mitt romney to the string of recertificateand they can add one more to that list. georgia just passed a law requiring women who get an abortion after 20 weeks to "bring the fetus out alive" to induce the labor even thought the fetus cannot survive outside the womb. a law has no exceptions for rape or incest and if doctors break the law or commit criminal abortion they can be jailed up to 10 years. the war on women has gone nuclear. democratic women in the state legislate temperature in georgia walked out in protest, but it still passed making georgia the 8th state to pass such a law in the last two years. it continues to shock the conscience, this extent to which the party of personal freedom and personal responsibility, how far will they go to undermine the constitutional right of all women to choose what to do with their own bodies to have personal integrity over our own choices. this war is not yet over. here to talk about the continued assault on women's rights and how the issue will play this election is michelle brenard

brad woodhouse, democratic national committee. sean spicer, republican national committee. gentlemen, thank you very much. >>> all right. up next, does it matter to stocks here in america that greece exit the eurozone? and also ajpmorgan's $2 million bet gone bad prove that banks that are too big to fail are too big to manage, and they ought to be broken up. >>> later in the show, taxed out. higher taxes driving more of the most successful out of america. the number has gone up sevenfold since 2008. that ain't good. >>> and free market capitalism would solve the problem with low supply side tax rates if only somebody in washington would get wise. i'm kudlow. we'll be right back. it's very important to understand how math and science kind of makes the world work. in high school, i had a physics teacher by the name of mr. davies. he made physics more than theoretical, he made it real for me. we built a guitar, we did things with electronics and mother boards. that's where the interest in engineering came from. so now, as an engineer, i have a career that speaks to that passio

national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> order representative debbie wasserman schultz, the democratic national committee chair, talks about the presidential race, the political landscape for the senate and house in 2012, and money in politics. on c-span. >> new york mayor michael bloomberg, then virginia governor bob mcdonnell, followed by baltimore mayor stephanie rawlings lake, and later, oklahoma governor mary thad allefallin. the mayor of new york city was the commencement speaker at chapel hill. he addressed the crowd of 30,000 on may 13 and said north carolina's recent same sex marriage bill shows there is still a lot of work to be done on civil rights in the country. he was first elected mayor in 2001, just two months after the terrorist attack on the world trade center. here is his speech a device to the graduating class of 2012. it is about 20 minutes. [applause] >> tar, tar, tar. forgive me, but i just wanted to start this morning by shouting something, but i knew what would happen if the r saidah rah, carolina-lina. on that positive note, good morning, faculty, families, friends of the great

the issue is that the democratic national committee put out an internet ad in which it has bill clinton doing the nartion and in it, he says that if the mission had gone bad and se of the seals had been killed or captured, it would have been really bad for obama he says that in the ad. >> what about the seals? >> that is exactly the point. some vetans have issued a counter ad saying that it iss astonishing that he would do that, that he w would think of themselves, or that clinton would think of the political interests of the president over the lies of the soldiers. >> -- lives of the soldiers. >> you arehocked? >> the second is that does not just say that obama did it which is ok, he should get credit. it says that romney would not. that is a cheap shot, and they used a secondhand quotation from wolf blitz and not romney himself. >> i agree it was a a cheap shot, but i don't think they are unusual. >> "my heart was in my mouth. i worked for a lot of these guys, and this is one of the most courageous decisions i've seen a president make," robert gates. "not everybody does it," vice chai

they wanted in the democratic national committee. twice on the edge of signing the executive order on housing, the southern legislators came to him and said, first, if you sign that we will not support your housing and your economic plan. then second time he delayed it. they came and said, we're all up for election and we're going to lose the south or a lot of us, if you sign it. twice when i was booked to go on explaining the executive order on martin gronsky's radio show, he canceled at the last minute. the pen started flowing from the civil rights movement decided to send one stroke of a pen. allegedly when the pens came in, the first huge bundle, he said send them over to wofford. got me into that. on executive action, he formed a sub cabinet group on civil rights, which he asked me to chair, and which every cabinet department had to have a member of the sub cabinet committee on civil rights. we met regularly to find out and to move and to support each other in how much each department could do. kennedy launched it and supported

online petition by same-sex marriage act #1ri69s is urging the -- activists is urging the democratic national committee not to held its convention in charlotte this year. this is in reaction to the voters in north carolina passing an amendment banning same-sex marriage yesterday. the condition in which president obama will accept the party's nomination for a second term takes place in september. a dnc spokeswoman says the party will not change its plans to have the convention in charlotte. >>> the fight continues over the legality of same-sex marriage in california meantime. the voter-approved proposition 8 banned same-sex marriage four years ago. that ban was ruled unconstitutional by a follow judge. and the ruling was upheld by a ruling of the 9th circuit court of appeals in february. backers of the marriage ban filed an appeal to have the judges review the case. that is still pending. >>> the couple at the forefront of the legal battle over prop 8 is a same-sex couple from berkeley. of they believe the president's endorsement sends a message that it's time to make same-sex marriage legal in californ

today, campaign 2012 with former presidential candidate rudy giuliani and democratic national committee chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz. i'm candy controly, and this is "state of the union." >>> before we turn to memorial day and veterans a visit to the campaign trail. six months out from the election it has evened up. cnn poll of polls find 47% of registered voters favor president obama, 45% support mitt romney. the tight race makes for pointed rhetoric. >> i know governor romney came to des moines last week, warned about a prior airie fire of dea. that's what he said, prairie fire. but, you know, he left out some facts. you know, his speech was more like a cow pie of distortion. [ cheers and applause ] i don't know whose record he twisted the most, mine or his. >> with a 24/7 focus on the economy, the soon to be republican nominee has begun to paint a picture of what a romney white house would look like, starting with the jobless rate. >> over a period of four years by virtue of the policies we put in place, we get the unemployment rate down to 6% or perhaps a little lower. >> joi

romney's "job" was the subject of a back and forth with democratic national committee strategist hillary rosen, who had told cnn that ann had "never worked a day in her life." mrs. romney had responded that raising five boys was "hard work." she alluded to the episode. >> i know what it's like to finish the laundry and look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again! i know what it's like to pull all the groceries in and see the teenagers run through, and then all of a sudden all the groceries you just bought a few hours are ago were gone. some people think that i didn't work, but those were -- [laughter] those were things i was very busy doing. >> she also described the rigors of the campaign and how those grueling schedules and commitments, the price candidates' families must pay was worth it, or whether it was not worth it. >> i said i only want to know one thing. and that is, mitt, if you get the nomination, which isn't easy, and number two, if you beat barack obama, which isn't going to be easy either, can you fix it? i need to know is it too late, has america gone over th

hate to criticize the host of producers - -- and producers -- the issue here is that the democratic national committee put out an internet ad where bill clinton is doing the narration, and in it he says that if the mission had gone bad and some of the seals had been killed or captured, it would have been really bad for obama. he says that in the ad. >> what about the seals? >> that is exactly the point. some veterans have issued a counter-ad saying that this is astonishing that they would do that, that he would think of himself, or that clinton would think of political interests of the president over the lives of the soldiers d. >> you are shocked? >> the second point is in that ad, it is not just say that obama did it, which is ok, he should get the credit it says that romney should not have. that is a huge tactical error. it is a cheap shot. they used a second and quotation from wolf blitzer and not romney himself. >> i agree it was a cheap shot, but i don't think they are unusual in campaigns. >> frankly, my heart was in my mouth. i work for a lot of these guys, and this was one of the most courage

. >>> this afternoon, former democratic national committee chairman howard dean will deliver the commencementaddress for the preside yo in san francisco. he will speak to more than 1,000 people. the presidio graduate school opened nine years ago as one of the world's first grad schools offering masters in sustainable management, the school has more than 250 students. >>> new exhibit will put you in the middle of a quake opens tomorrow at the california an academy of sciences in san francisco, visitors get a look at how quake as effect the planet, including a simulator that brings visitors back to the -- [ unintelligible ] >> san francisco is famous for earthquakes what better way than to be in a victorian and experience the nine time 89 earthquake and 1906 quake. -- >> that brings back memories. the voice narrating comes from dan ashley. >> the familiar face holding on for dear live was dan ashley. >> kind of shaking out there too not from a quake just from those winds. >> possibly thunder later on shake, rattle and roll, absolutely weather very interesting good morning 5:37 looking down on e

. >> the democratic national committee brought a handful of protesters out to the romney event. key to romney's case to the american people that he is a job creator. that he knows how to create jobs. the dnc is trying to undercut that message. they say that it's really just the opposite, that romney's tenure proves that he is a job destroyer, a vulture capitalist and using newt gingrich's own words to make that case to the american people. derek. >> bruce leshan, we thank you. there's a new poll out showing that romney trails president obama in virginia. even if we were to pick governor bob mcdonnell. it was released by public policy polling and says 51% of virginiaen voters would choose the president. 43% would vote for the hypothetical ticket. that poll -- >> michael gardner is headed to prison for 32 years. the falls church community activist and businessman was found guilty this afternoon on three counts of molesting three girls during a sleep over last summer. our peggy fox joins us live in the courtroom with a difficult case and a tough sentence. >> reporter: that's right.

. >> the democratic national committee says calls have been pouring in from donors today, and the president who is already expected to break a record at a fund-raiser hosted by george clooney, may now bring in an even larger haul. erica pane is a former deputy national finance director for the dnc. >> it will make the presidential's financial supporters double down their support of him. but for the electorate at as a whole, this is an economic election. >> the president's supporters aren't the only ones using the issue to raise money. social conservative and former arkansas governor mike huckabee sent this e-mail to his supporters calling same-sex marriage a defining issue of this election and asking for $10 donations. romney campaigning in omaha, also raised big money today. >> they told me it was the most successful fund-raising event in the history of nebraska. >> and he said this about the same-sex marriage question. >> i hope the issue, as tender and sensitive as marriage is, is not a source of fund-raising for either of us. >> romney also said he intends to keep the conversation focus

>> the reluctance on the part of the democratic national committee is focusing on their priority.r defense, they put some money in late on behalf of barrett but they're being outspent by the republican governors negotiation who even put in $6 million. the reason walker is in such good shape is he's had a huge financial advantage in this race. he's raised $25 million. tom barrett's only around about $2 million. now, labor has helped somewhat within this state, but as far as national support, it's pretty lopsided toward the governor. >> dave catanes, thank you very much. this is a race to watch. >>> coming up next, how could pakistan jail the doctor who helped find bin laden? >>> a closer look at mitt romney's massachusetts record with the woman who served as his lieutenant governor there. morning, pa. wait... who's driving the...? ♪ 99 bushels of wheat on the farm, 99 bushels of wheat ♪ [ male announcer ] yep, there's 8 filling layers of whole grain fiber in those fun little biscuits... so they stick with you, all morning long. kellogg's® mini-wheats cereal. [ mini ] yee haw! a big

and the story today in the mainstream media is that the democratic national committee still has not immediate a full-throated decision as to whether they're going to put in a half million for ground troops to get the vote out for the democrats, which has been requested by the democratic party in wisconsin. so you're right there. is people that have come in to help wisconsin, no question about it. >> joe joins us from carmen, indiana, indiana caller. hi, joe. >> caller: hello. i'm so glad to talk to you. i'm a combat vet from vietnam. and my -- i believe that -- the lies they told us about the tonkin gulf. i fought for three years there. it's been a nightmare why whole life, ever since then. my next-door neighbor's son went over to kuwait, believing that the babies are being thrown out of the incubators. he got shot and killed in fallujah. my other friend over here, he lost his grandson over in pakistan. and it's pretty -- you know, it's pretty hard for us veterans, you know, to watch this, knowing that our country is the muscle for the corporations. we're under corporate rule here. and vetera

in looking ahead news makeers this sunday, democratic national committee chair debbie wasserman schultz talks about the presidential race, the political landscape for the u.s. house and senate this year, and money in politics in the 2012 cycle. that's on c-span at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern. then on monday c-span's live memorial day coverage begins with president obama at the tomb of the unknown soldier at arlington national cemetery. speakers including defense secretary leon panetta and actor tom selleck will be live at the vietnam veterans memorial for an observance at the wall. our live coverage begins at 10:50 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> i want people to get from the book is a better understanding of who she was, what she was like because there have been a lot of books written and most of it has been written by people who have talked to friends and friends of friends, maybe don't have the information themselves. i happened to be there. i knew her. >> from late 1960 through 1964 former secret service agent clint hill served on the protective detail to first lady jacqueline kenne

if you go back to 1996, the democratic national committee before labor day did do some attacking on bob dole, but it wasn't the kind of stuff we heard last night from the incumbent president who's running for re-election. mr. obama stopped just short of calling mitt romney a liar, and because he was in iowa at the state fairgrounds, he also used some sort of barnyard rhetoric to go after romney and really sort of attack his credibility and character. at this time that really is quite rare. listen. oh, thought we had a sound bite, perhaps we don't. he essentially referred to some of what mr. romney has said about the obama deficit as cow pies, a barnyard epithet, bovine excrement, that sort of thing. tough stuff, and it really does come early. but for president obama it's not really that uncommon. as a first-term president, he started visiting swing states like pennsylvania and ohio very aggressively in the first six months of his term. he has been out to battleground states more than any other place in the country, he has been campaigning. the super pac that supports him and his own cam

allegations to this day are true, the burglar that is broke into the headquarters of the democratic national committee at watergate were in effect breaking into the home of every citizen of the united states. if these allegations prove to be true, what they were seeking to steal was not the jewels, money or other property of american citizens but something much more valuable, most precious heritage, the right to vote in a free election. since that day credit dually has pre veiled among our pop lis and is the constitutional duty to act

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to jump in because before we let you go i have go got to ask you that the chair of the democratic national committeesn't see any national impact if walker were to win and tom barrett, i would say, god forbid, were to lose she sees no national impact if democrats lose. how was that received among democrats in wisconsin? >> debbie wasserman-schultz i understand came to wisconsin yesterday but i heard no mention of it: the simple reality is she has been seen as someone who is kind of not up not a particularly useful player he is not desire to particularly bang on her one way or the other. i think she is totally en engaged with the obama reelection campaign and can't sort of be bothered with some of these other races but it is very fares to say that the democratic national committee's role in wisconsin has been a dysfunctional one. not because they haven't been supportive. they actually initially and at some tajz brought money in but their verbiage has been ridiculously off message whereas the republican national committee constantly uses terms like all in biggest of the year. >> all right. >> it is a c

my dear friend the chairman of the democratic national committee with. the we need to let them go to florida. on the table here's the big issue the president doesn't want to have to be confronted with priorities and spending because he has a lot of chutzpah bollock your passes that free is yours card this in people's pockets is going to be as worthless as a confederate dollar after the war between the states the great war yankee aggression. now according to a new report out by the sunlight foundation there's actually a correlation the more conservative the member of congress the lower grade level they tend to use when they speak the study utilize the widely used flesh can test to score the speech level of lawmakers based on their congressional records and of the lowest scoring members of congress the bottom twenty were very conservative republicans now i can show you a list of the top ten on here senator rand paul is number three on there mick mulvaney rob wood all you know just very very interesting the double that amount was the bottom with the for the

we would like you to consider being the chairman of the democratic national committee. rayburn said "epitaph." the second time robert kennedy comes down, he apparently -- am i going on too long? >> no. >> the second time he comes down, each of these meetings, he wants to meet with lyndon johnson but lady bird says i did not think it ought to meet. rayburn knows the also should not meet. there's too much antagonism. the second time that bobby kennedy comes down, he said "i have to get rayburn." john connally is his campaign manager because he is the only man tough enough to handle bobby kennedy. sam rayburn is old. he has cancer at the time. he is blind. he is sam rayburn, at this massive, and smiling figure who has ruled this for a quarter of a century. >> it is almost a father and son. he loved lyndon johnson like his son. he would spend perhaps most sundays in washington at the johnson's home. he loved the two johnson girls. connally says go in there and talk to bobby kennedy. i have got to sign sam rayburn. he is a very smart, brilliant little man. he is a little tim

. >>> this afternoon, former democratic national committee chairman howard dean will deliver the commencementaddress for preside -- presidio graduate school in san francisco. he will speak to more than 1,000 people during the ceremony. the presidio graduate school opened nine years ago as one of the first offering masters in sustainable management. the school has more than 250 students. >>> they say a picture is worth 1,000 words people talking bun photo featuring former president bill clinton he took a picture with two porn stars and their friend. the picture was snapped at a casino in monaco. it sounds worse than it is he was there attending a fundraiser and he said he didn't know what their profession was >> new exhibit that will put new the middle of an earthquake opens tomorrow at the california academy of sciences in san francisco visitors will get a dynamic look at how quakes affect our planet simulator takes visitors back to the 1989 quake and the quake of 1906. >> san francisco is famous for quakes what better way than to be in a victorian and experience the quakes. >> the familiar v

going forward the democratic national committees will uphold the same standards. not take a dime from washington lobbyists or special interests. we are going to change how washington works. they will not fund my party. they will not run our white house. >> sean: the lobbyists, cut the deficit in half, blah, blah, blah. if. >> in screwed we turn up the particular lobbyists that have visited the white house 19 times. his name is dick gephardt. he used to be the minority leader of the house of representatives. democratic floor leader. he made his reputation of opposing china and nafta and opposing china getting into the world trade association. now, he works with a company that american subsidiary that had an american name that is owned and founded by a general in the people's liberation army. they have applied to the committee on foreign investment in the united states to be allowed to operate as a mobile telecommunication service in the u.s. the committee has twice rejected their application because they are worried about espionage and sabotage and collecting infor

clearly tom barrett is in trouble. >> democratic national committee chair debbie wasserman schultz isispatched to raise money for barrett. republicans say it's too little, too late. president obama's top campaign advisor tells fox news the money and manpower of the national party are with mayor barrett. >> 16 paid staffers. hundreds of lawyers to do ballot protection. thousands of volunteers now. the dnc is sending out fundraising e-mail to try to raise money for mayor barrett. >> with early voting already started, wisconsin voters spill out of the door of polling places. 90,000 absente,000 absen absent. mayor barrett called on one of the state's best known democrats for his get out the vote drive. >> you would be a wonderful governor in bringing us together. stopping this divide and conquer attitude in the state. >> democrats have been hammering governor walker for investigation about the campaign practices as milwaukee county exective. rarely do they mention fight over collective bargaining that drew demonstrators to the capital a year ago and sparked a recall. walker says that mean

and chairman of the democratic national committee. >> thanks for having me on. >> i know there are manyonth to go. but the fact that you have been showing and seeing that mr. romney is leading in the polls, is that a reason for concern for the democrats. as you mentioned he is with the police officers and as a mayor. i know he was responsible in the height of the economic calamity. you can see that it is a president that is good for people who are out of work and got them back on the job. auto industry collapse making million more cars in america . we'll focus the record and done a terrific polls come and go and a long way to know who is coming out on top of this one. the important thing i think american people have seen him perform he stands up for working class america and in a period of time over several decades seen wealth concentrated. the president said america is america. we should make money but have a fair system that gives westbound a chance to succeed . that is what collapsed the economy. the president is getting people to work. >> i know your city is faring good in tough eco