it's pretty much just geraldine ferraro and those back taxes in 1984 which everybody forgot about. after the ferraro scandal that year in the 1988 presidential election, george h.w. bush released 14 years of his tax returns going back to 1973. there's no exact number of years that is the standard. but when mitt romney says the president is that you don't have to release much in the way of tax returns, just a couple years will do it, that's not true. the obama campaign released this chart this week showing how many years worth of tax returns the last four presidents released as they campaigned for office. they're putting this out because they think mr. romney has been wrong when he asserted he's following precedent. he released eight years. george w. bush released ten. clinton released 12 years. poppy bush released 14 years. then they added on another guy, the last blue column, that is george romney, who is just a candidate for president. he of course never became president, but he is mitt romney's dad. so what's normal in presidential politics is to release many years of your tax r

i remember when geraldine ferraro went and said i'll get away with it. finally she had to do it.e to do it. every place he goes he will be asked a question. democrats will put people in audience saying release returns. >> greg: how many days do we pay for that obama current bus tour? how much is that? that is the anti-exceptional express. we're paying for that. >> bob: you are not paying for it. >> kimberly: a great name. so true. you are weak, you are pathetic, you can't do anything on your own. make a living like -- government is helping you. >> bob: did they respond to this? obama and biden, 11 years of taxes. george bush and cheney, eight years of tax returns. george h.w. bush, eight years. clinton eight years. what is wrong with romney? why won't he do it? >> kimberly: what is wrong with romney? >> bob: why doesn't he release his taxes? >> kimberly: he will. >> bob: he says he won't. >> kimberly: what about president obama? >> bob: 11 years he has done it. 11 years. >> kimberly: the most secretive president we've had. so what? >> bob: they are if you are mitt romney. >> dana

geraldine ferraro did nothing with the women vote.arah palin was going to get women voters to the republican side, did nothing. >> palin's a bad example. >> you have two to work from. i'm giving you both of them. >> a lot of people are talking about the fact that the pick might come sooner than later because the olympics are coming up, charging energy to this campaign. two is better than one because you have joe biden out there on the stump, the president's out there on the stump. think that will happen? >> i doubt it. i think you wait until after the olympics. you'll have a couple weeks to kill or a few days between the olympics and start of the republican convention. again, look back at the history of these things, a lot of times it's just not the names that are really out there. lloyd benson, jack kemp in '96. it's not just sarah palin who came from nowhere. >> do you think the person we've seen them, we've seen them physically be together, this is not some person that's totally off the radar. >> who knows. i actually tend to think

pat buchanan, tucker carlson, john sununu, a whole gang of right-wingers and started out with geraldine ferraroleft as well. they brought backcrossfire. we're in reruns now in jordan. and this is what the crossfire show in jordan sounded like yesterday. [ speaking foreign language ] >> bill: i lost control there. >> did you just throw a shoe? is that what the slamming sound was? >> i threw a shoe at bob. that was actually a television broadcast of an interview on jordanian television. two members of parliament arguing over a piece of legislation and one of them picked up, threw a shoe at the other guy. he throws his shoe and then same guy pulls out a gun. on live television. pulls out a gun. at which point boom, the moderator runs around the desk and tries to separate them. i'm telling you it never got that wild on crossfire. >> no? >> novack pulled a knife on you once but never a gun. you could really hurt somebody with that. >> bill: you would think they would have to surrender their -- we do that here. "full court press." before our guests come into the studio, dan frisks them. makes sure th

. >> michael, would you advise doing a kind of checkered speech, geraldine ferraro marathon press conferencego to richard's point. >> there is. i think look, you're in the middle of the summer, you've got the olympics coming up. what better time now to put this thing in the right context to get in front of the story. you have the olympics that will take all of that away because people will be focusing on basketball and, you know -- >> and the uniforms. >> and uniforms. and i think that, you know, if you let this drag beyond that point, then it becomes part of the narrative going into the convention and then once you get to labor day it's wide open. i think this is that moment where the bain story has to end, and the best way to do it is for romney to get before an editorial board and to lay it all out there, show he's not hiding anything, to donny's point he's not one of those rich guys, and move on. >> exactly. >> donny rich guy. >> josh? >> the problem, let's try to imagine that scenario. talk about the checker speech or pink press conference hillary clinton had. the problem with romney he

when the vice-president -- when geraldine ferraro got on the bus, a lot of women got on the bus. i look at people like some who hold it down at the white house and does not let them off the hook, there are great women doing this work. it does not change the work. it changes the faces doing the work, and it changes the emphasis of the kinds of questions we asked and the kinds of follow-up we demand. we're used to making our husbands and children follow-up, and that does not work, either. >> we have come a long way. i got into the business of covering politics when there were not as many. one of my most memorable lines, i had been hired as a secretary of an abc affiliate in atlanta, i kept pestering to let me go out to report. they said, we already have a woman reporter. we have come a very long way. >> advice do you give students and undergrads about the future of journalism careers? >> tell them jump in, the water is fine. coming into journalism when there is a huge transformation and change. we need smart, curious young people. there will always be questions that need answering,