it was the president saying, nobody accused mitt romney being a felon. how dare you suggest otherwise? >> sean: how dare i? >> i left out bob bauer, foremanly the white house counsel, now back again the counsel with the obama campaign, who joined less than five weeks with stephanie cutter and also alleging that mitt romney was a felon, and somehow or another he escaped the president's recollection as well. >> sean: what did you think? we'll throw up "newsweek" magazine. this is "newsweek." even they sit, hit the road, barack, why we must have a new president. what do you make of that? >> well, first of all, the piece is by neal ferguson, a brilliant economists, a wonderful writer, a contributor to "newsweek." my suspicion is everybody else at "newsweek" from andrew sullivan to you name it had indigestion at the piece, but it's brilliantly written, expertly done, and well worth reading. everybody ought to pick up for this one copy for "newsweek" for whom i used to write, because it's a great article. >> sean: polls last week on the economy, none of them g

romney of being a felon. and i think that what is absolutely true is if you watch me on the campaign trail, here's what i'm talking about. i'm talking about how we put americans back to work. and there are sharp differences between myself and mr. romney in terms of how we would do that. he thinks that if we roll back wall street reform, roll back the affordable care act, otherwise known affectionately at obamacare, that somehow people are going to be better off. i think that if we are putting teachers back to work and rebuilding america and reducing our deficit this a balanced way, that's how you put people back to work. that is a substantive difference. that's what i talk about on the campaign. when it comes to the taxes, governor romney thinks that we should be cutting taxes by another $a -- $5 trillion, and folks like me would benefit disproportionately from that. i think it makes a lot more sense and have put out a detailed plan for a balanced approach that combines spending cuts and asking people like me

if we deal with addiction it makes no sense to turn an addict into a felon. [applause] >> chief, you've been committed to evidence-based practices in your administration of the adult probation department. to what extent does that inform your approach when you look at senator leno's measure and deciding whether or not to support it? >> my view is not only from evidence-based practices but also from spending almost 30 years working in the california prison system, managing prisons, working in prisons, performing oversight, and what i know and what i can definitively say after 30 years is that prison does not address more change behavior. in fact, it actually, for those who do have addictions and illnesses, in fact it actually makes them worse. it's like sending individuals that have a sickness to criminal camp, they learn how to be better criminals but still don't get their addiction addressed. and the research out there tells us that incapacitation, period, does not change behavior. it also tells us that basically what changes behavior is approximate 200 hours

stephanie cutter on tape saying it makes him a felon or dishon west the voters. episode where the white house said we don't know anything about this guy and had to backtrack and say we had him on a conference call where he told that same story. people could say it was a lot of things adding up here. >> absolutely. some of this things are still on the obama campaign website. the things he he disavowed, you can see them for yourself. one thing that drives me crazy about the way a lot of the way media is framing this is saying what a nasty, negative campaign. season this is. they cite obama accuses, obama campaign accuses romney of killing a woman with cancer and being tax dodger and felon and all of these things. then romney has come back by charging obama with cutting billions of dollars from medicare. well, these are not equal things. one is a substantial policy charge. again, we have it today. romney is accusing obama of being negative. it's a factual thing that obama is being negative. not a negative attack to say so. >> john: what about this, charles? attack o

being a felon being a racist. how would you counter that as the v.p. candidate?e the presidential or the v.p. or any leader in the movement, one of the responsibilities and opportunities we have to say why barack obama should be terminated. he doesn't deserve re-election, have you to make the case why he has failed as a president. it isn't hard to do. a third grader could do this. we have an economy in massive trouble with 23 million americans unemployed, under-employed, half of our high school and college graduates can't find a job. we have a president who has never been connect to the private sector and says things like if you own a business, you didn't build that. i mean, it is an easy case to make why bam shouldn't be re-elected president of the united states. by the way, you know, he made all of these great promises and hope and change has become bait and switch. >> sean: do you think that the president -- because i agree with everything you are saying, obviously. we have been leading the case against obama. do you think the country really understands what i

i could see someone, we didn't call him a felon. that works in a court of law but the court of public opinion? >> i don't think it, would. people are i can is and tired of this little of campaigning and throwing there are larger issues that this country faces we all know and the fact that the president of the united states and his competitors are dealing in this stuff is really a problem. megyn: you're a democrat. what do you make of that, what we just saw? >> i certainly think it is interesting he said he may have committed a felony and then you have the president saying nobody called him a felon. obviously that is problem matic. problem line is a lot of questions could be answered if mitt romney would be transparent by releasing tax returns. >> now you're giving me talking points. that is not what we're doing in this segment. this segment is about whether truth matters. trust me we're about to get to the romney campaign as well. whether truth matters whether with the president owes us a duty to be honest. if he is going to make a

you mentioned a convicted felon got 40% of the vote in the democratic primary.eople weren't saying we would love to have a convicted felon to be our governor. that is illinois that does that they go ahead and pick them there. but that was a protest vote. do you think the administration and the democratic party are they getting the message yet? >> no. in fact, our elected leaders in west virginia sit there taking it. we are the second state in the nation to implement obama care yet we say we are trying to fight back. we are not fighting back. guys like governor perry in texas are fighting back. we are sitting there and taking it. and it is killing our way of life. coal powers our nation. that was our best kept secret in west virginia our low coast abundant energy. we are losing six coal fired plants this year. china is building new ones going on line. something is wrong with the picture. >> i want to address the fact that the coal industry loses jobs directly but talk about how it affects other businesses in west virginia communities that are not direct coal prod

stephanie cutter and others, accusing him of being a felon.ecause he is demanding a new civility in the country. >> sean. >> good point. and the super pac, priorities usa is funded by one of our culture's most misoginous figures out there -- pig maher -- bill maher, never been condemned by the civility police. let's talk about the war on conservative women waged by the white house, operatives and all of their acolytes and allies. look at how they talk about the palin women and how they have talked about ann romney. let's not forget what hillary rosen, very close to this white house said in trashing women who made the choice to stay home. you want to talk about the party of choice? it's the conservative, the republican party that supports choice. >> sean: let me get big-picture stuff from you here because i predict that this shows desperation. i mean, real desperation. it started. there was a method to my madness by highlighting nightly, dirty air and water and granny over the cliff. i did it on purpose. diexpect and anticipate that they would

romney of being a felon. keeping them honest, though, it looks like president obama may have forgotten what happened just last month. comments made by stephanie cutter, his deputy campaign manager in a conference call with reporters. >> either mitt romney through his own words and his own signature was misrepresenting his position at bain to the sec, which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at bain to the american people to avoid responsibility for some of the consequences of his investments. >> miss cutter, that was just a few weeks ago, was discussing questions about how mitt romney handed over power at the investment firm bain capital. that's after several news outlets uncovered securities and exchange commission documents showing romney was still on the corporate book at bain until 2002. the romney camp insists the governor left the company in 1999 to run the winter olympics in salt lake city. also asked about a ad being run by a super pac supporting him. he did not think mr. romney was r

harry reid calling him a tax cheat and stephanie cutter suggesting he was a felon.ay the other side is just as bad;ie don't remember anybody calling him a murderer, criminal or tax cheat or felon or racist. snuwill have to ask newt gingrich and santorum. i apply the same standard. when mitt romney used a quote by barack obama that he didn't understand the economy and obama was talking about mccain. you know what his response. sauce for the goose and gander. >> but is that okay to accuse him for killing a woman for cancer. >> they are deceptive and mitt romney is dirty on that basis. the cancer adhurts barack obama because his greatest asset is the decency and likeability he convey. i am supporting obama for reelection and this adhurts him. he needs to repudiate it because it is false and mr. burton who is behind it should realize he hurt mr. obama. liz, we proved they did know about that story. the president never speaks out about the negativity that is really taken politics to an all-time low. does this hurt the president in the reelection effort? >> i do. members

harry reid calling him a tax cheat and stephanie cutter suggesting he was a felon.ay the other side is just as bad;ie don't remember anybody calling him a murderer, criminal or tax cheat or felon or racist. snuwill have to ask newt gingrich and santorum. i apply the same standard. when mitt romney used a quote by barack obama that he didn't understand the economy and obama was talking about mccain. you know what his response. sauce for the goose and gander. >> but is that okay to accuse him for killing a woman for cancer. >> they are deceptive and mitt romney is dirty on that basis. the cancer adhurts barack obama because his greatest asset is the decency and likeability he convey. i am supporting obama for reelection and this adhurts him. he needs to repudiate it because it is false and mr. burton who is behind it should realize he hurt mr. obama. liz, we proved they did know about that story. the president never speaks out about the negativity that is really taken politics to an all-time low. does this hurt the president in the reelection effort? >> i do. members

. >> we do not shoot fleeing felons in the san francisco police department. he had fallen, stopped as he's getting up from the ground he turned to the officer to shoot over his left shoulder. >> police say cooper had a loaded 9 mm pistol and is a wanted felon. the chief met with the father of the suspect to talk about that. >> and a transient is in jail in what police say was a scam involving a rental car, authorities say the 59-year-old post aid car for sale on craig's list. he receive aid $500 cash deposit from a couple and agreed to meet them. the couple became suspicious, investigating and determined that he rent that had car he was trying to sell from hertz. officers posing as buyers casted him, setting up another meeting. he was arrested. >> and there is testing by a group found led levels in plum and ginger candies up to 100 times the limit. >> michael finney joins with us the warning. >> yeah. i've reported over the years about lead and toys and school products. and it can slow development of the brain and be harmful to pregnant women and unborn child