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. >>> also, a special interview with the son of the former florida governor jeb bush, george t. bushay. he's trying to generate support for younger americans for republicans and for mitt romney. we'll talk to him about what's coming on. our strategy session. all of our reporters. lots of important news coming up at the top of the hour right in "the situation room." can you hear me? >> i can hear you now, wolf blitzer. thank you so much. i appreciate it. see you in a couple minutes. >> and now to this i need to finish a tweet. wait. i need to return an e-mail. it's beginning to feel like this clip from portlandia. >> dvr. face book update. >> wait. wait. you know what's happeng, right? you're spiraling. you're out of control. there's too many things going on. help me breathe. >> be honest. does that feel familiar? that constant pressure to stay connected. so check this out. the new issue of "newsweek" front and center cover story. i crazy. is the web driving us mad? tony wrote the article. he joins me now. tony, you quote a neuroscientist who says the computer -- this is the part that

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george h.w. bush -- he said campgns are about creating cartoons about t your opponen. obama is the out of touch incompetent guy who does not know how to run the economy and wants to turn america into european socialism. mitt romney is the out-of-touch rich guy who hides his money and wants car elevators in his house and a dog on his car roof. we tend to concentraten enormous amount of time on the cartoons because t media is set up for that. >> we cannot win the candidates, we have to blame oururselves. >> we have to blameme ourselves to some extent. ii talalked to a democraand republican, and each one thought that the only way they were gog to win was to savage the other guy. if you turn on youtelevision now, it is and disgsgusting. i don't want to see it. the american people don't want to see it, probably, either. but it has worked in the past, and therefore they think it will wowork now. maybe they are right. it will be a very close election. that is not a way to run a democracy. >> everybody should calm down a little bit. the important things will be detes. that wil

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george w. bush , sarah palin, dan qyl 's t tca d thno's nrubau ruthnydy e either, but governor romney is someone who is so furious and tone and style and intellect in mission they can do that holeustihes isolal kler. he is not john mccn, god love him, and i respect mccain. ge h. bhbob dole, and he's not oves ta, d al t theeyunng the sort of old tired campaigns. they ran 20th century mcasyigns. aidunrabaantho rneotfeo that and all. there is no bigger political killer on the scene than barack obama. you he to send aolitic pol coranh llg y, gery heant.ife if he contends th presidency, and he will run and do everything he can to win this office. oba.s not afraid of barack 's afm. ng teally co oaniz sending buses -- [applause] yes. sendinbuses now ulece omand gate eyoavlr axd, tay ting of community organizing. this sort of master of modern day astroturf. he didn't know what to do. ydro uphett useo ihe iraccs ey'tw t ey. team romney is getting really good at i his ability to take out the other side in debate, if you wahreouatf athi a mas hesnaknyru es a ter seo aninn a. so i am all lot more optimistic

. >> we let george bush cut taxes for everyone and put us in the hole everyone t president has been tryingo dig us out of. i don't think we need to give everyone a tax cut across board. we need to have a fair, targeted tax system. tax reform is a good system. we need to have a fairer system until we get there. >> john? >> the fact of the matter is that we have way too many loopholes in this tax code. the republicans push -- >> thank the republican zbs. >> fairer tax code that will get more money into the economy and actually more -- more people will pay. >> what george bush did with the tax sxuts put news this hole, vote for the republicans. barack obama -- >> morris, i wish -- >> we brought you on to throw flames at each other. you are doing a good job of that. but we are pointing fingers at a time we need to do something about this problem we face in the economy. john, realistically -- we would all love to see tax reform of in kind. i have been doing this 30 years and have been hearing about tax reform in that whole time. it has never happened. why should we even believe that what -- mem

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george w. bush. is his power now doubled, tripled, tenfold given what he can do with t system now? ed gillespie looked at mccain-feingold and said we are in trouble without some changes. now with the koch brothers, the chamber of commerce, rove having a billion dollars to spend on the election. >> when i came in as chairman and a lot of people with the narrative in washington is about fund-raising and all of that. my first call with a major donor, i'm giving to rove's group. i said, you can give to rove's group and our group. that's the reality for the political parties. these entities. citizens united. >> it's frightening. >> they can have a bigger impact bit boils down to this. the bottom line is the ground game. that's where they don't get to play yet. i suspect down the road, they will. watch for that. >> it's also, i think, scary because as much as we express concern about past negative campaigns and goodness knows we can think of them, there was a degree of accountability when the primary spending was coming from the candidate or the party. certainly transparency about where

george bush had. ,. mo women to look at than - many meomo lat an pdegas. w,sten hng s't know how harriet miers will do in those. thank you. >>ava. yolkut hucu ta t hawle and what they -- what they shed on her ture? that's a good question. a l ofup coon e pecy b pos bui o rv wlale th bretheran was entirely built around interview ws law clerks. i probably intviewed --aybe abou lle aal anmermbtl william brennan that was a chamber that i wanted to get inside and find out how he felt tord her. because i was lucky enough s t-octsid elt n isreha o cl dt t go on on the paper trail. when justice brennan and justice o'connor got into a kind of flap, a rivry or oral ment andhe scnualum stindus brnte a ry sg teut h tht t her proposal could only lead to potential corrupt ruling and that if the court adopted her propal, wou gli l he csneot t wcudng st. so f ime bw clerks, i would never turn my back on a law clerk who wanted to tell me something but didn't feel as much that i had to rely onhemec i h eseaocts boctsese o ui pl,ch aow in aee a frankly, a real untapped resource and since she was so close to justice powell, there were a lot of nice notes in theret

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t presumptive nom nooe next week. he'll visit england and poland. they're calling it a learning trip. they say he'll not be criticizing president obama while abroad. >>> and george bushgoing to the national convention in florida next month. he's enjoying his time off the political stage. >>> it's time now for the weather. over to ginger gee. i mean ginger zee. >> ginger gee works. i want to show you what 3.23 inches of rain does. it floods it. another 2 to 4 inches of rain will fall in that region. i want to show you exactly what is happening here. high pressure off florida. it's pumping moisture in. trapping it on the stationary front. that's the moisture on the map. you go farther north, it starts to dry out north of new york and really pleasant weather. temperatures so much cooler than we have been seeing. philadelphia at 79 today. >> this weather report has been brought to you by k9 advantix ii. dan and bianna? >> thanks, ginger. >>> coming up, we'll continue the coverage out of colorado. stories of bravery in the face of chaos. you'll hear how one man made his escape and then stopped to help others, even with the gunman bearing down on all of them. >>> and you'l

t quick word about reparations? i'll say a quick word too. >> you know, it was in the 1988 when the first george bush but ronald reagan set it in motion, i mean, allele bot agnd -ey ob, kn cis w,gh mpared to ore republicans. other republicans. but the reparation at that point was $20,000 to each japanese-american family which if you think about it, right, lo fheri,arei of theseolks eeld,ir it arouw? and many of the young men who were then drafted out of the camps, you know, i mean, that's crazy, you know? you imprisoned my family, then you're going to ask me -- well, youmprison me me fr nt aousk urmoych't take part of? i understand 20,000 is a lot -- i'd take $20,000 right now, but, you know, it was such a gesture, you know, kind of a it is in this time of model minority and, manehe cf years after the by we put those people to rest, we'll keep them quieter by giving them 20,000. my feeli on reparations was, you know, the investme in education that we have been talking about. i was thinking throughou this whole past centu when we're pped to be the li yw,ve llhetum any century, right? and we've been in a war in asia sin

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george bush is not easy for barack obama. is done things. i think i trying to contribute 10. i think there a timt bguy. liilinwal. tkat lat prm.w he irceived as being part of the problem. win after the cairo speech he gave three years agow a pe.s feewrk g he oe teat gelen, virginia, i was asked the question by the interviewer, do you think a hnge de.t can el i mof anrytoe di oththan he does with conservative republicans here in america. because the stuff they were saying that they he gave that speech, lzhn n oman ner ehma ich agiormr. epai a mrll l le between isral and arabs. he lied about our history. they said the most outrageous things. and with the subxt that he an itin ht si oftm pevethe very big towards grading the problem that is part of the. and one of them. inreothink that's an intes inetnise chatter from extremist right wing racist organizations. and some of it was about having an african-americapresent aest wumo zits ot f w,t y in part anda black race and to assume an african-american president is not himself in control his mira b ial tthrymso tre n newi. ge uss i aggressive in outreach and speaking out

t the tax plan romney is putting forward is another big tax cut and reminiscent of what republicans did during the george w. busht was actually a negative job growth. but he gets to just sort of toss this out there. and in our fast-paced media environment, very few of us challenge it point by point. and he puts himself forward as this successful businessman with a magical elixir, which is why the obama campaign is aggressive in trying to get the ba capital stuff out. there the outsourcing and outshoring. in this period of time, it's a race to frame romney in the eyes of the american people. >> part of this is about defining what we mean when we say successful businessman. i have an appreciation for small business people. i was thinking about black community folks who owned funeral homes and barbershops and bultty salons. folks start with little capital and make something. i have enormous respect for that and feel like we can learn a lot from folks on that. that is not what bain is and the businessman story of mitt romney is. >> this tells you wha his vision is. his vision of the economy is the vision of having a

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