seeing the senate majority leader hearry reid going to the floor to address such a partisan issue in a presidential campaign race and talking he knew some guy who knew some guy who has seen mitt romney's tax returns and he hasn't paid any. >> he said in ten years. he knows romney hasn't paid according to this one source one of his friends someone who is an investor and the majority leader said look i'm not even certain it's true and he did make this charge unsubstantiated charge. but has done what the democrats want continue to talk about the unreleased tax returns. and it was still kind of strange that mitt romney ended up addressing it anyway and told harry reid to put up or shut up. but he kept it right there in play in a week that we had some new jobs reports. >> the friday jobs report came out sort of a mixed picture for the president and it was something that the republicans are trying to make the case that the obama economy has failed. and they can't make that case as clearly if romney gets constantly answering these charges these questions about why not releasing the tax retu

after hearry reid has been told mitt romney didn't play taxes for years, romney said this to sean hannity. take a look. >> it's time for harry to put up or shut up. harry's going to have to describe who it is he spoke with because that's totally and completely wrong. it's untrue, dishonest, and inaccurate. it's wrong. >> now, who's got to put up or shut up here? doesn't mitt romney have to shut up so everybody else can? >> it's time for mitt romney to put up or shut up. there's another issue here. we've got patrick, i'm going to give him this advice. think about the specter of what we've seen in the last several days. you've had democrats and our president fighting for a tax cut for the middle class while republicans blocked that. and while the republican nominee for president is pushing a plan that will raise taxes on the middle class, that is the contrast in this election. we have to take that to the people. i want every candidate -- i want candidates to explain how they can dare defend something like that. that's the put up or shut up. make mitt romney explain how it is by raising taxe