corporate responsibility or discuss this with me is mike sacks supreme court correspondent for the huffington post mike thanks so much for joining us tonight if you're here i mean when you say about the timing i would say that it's kind of perfect right because suddenly in the national popular discourse we hear so much about corporate personhood about corporate responsibility in this case gives the court an opportunity to show whether it has a real to the public opinion. when it's faced the question of whether corporations to be held responsible for international human rights abuses the question of corporate personhood comes in our corporations natural persons or artificial persons you know the artificial person is this by would mitt romney tells us that the rich person yes the there are rich persons but the question in this in this case is whether there's a difference between natural and legal persons when it comes to this statute you said before in whether or not corporations can be defended give us a little background i tell us more about this. alien tort statute so the alien sort of statute was pas

with us onset this morning msnbc contributor mike barnicle, the chairman of deutsch inc., donny deutsch, wes moore, political writer for the huffington postam stein and political writer for the national review robert costa. good to see all of you guys. you're kind of the chaperone today, i've noticed. >> risky business. >> you go upstairs, we're going to be partying in the basement. let's start briefly with that sound bite from mitt romney. i think we have to. donny, you're an image man. did that feel authentic to you? >> i'm going to say again, i like bunnies. there's nothing authentic about this man. i mean, you buried the lead there and i like the trees in michigan are the right height. i go back to something i started saying in an interview when his wife said he was actually a very funny guy and the reporter turned to him and said, really, tell us. he said i love comedy, i love laurel and hardy. what human being from this century? this guy -- it gets worse and worse. >> it is that is the real mitt . he's a square guy. that's who he is. >> that's exactly right. >> that's not square, that's more of like a trapezoid. >> he just proved wi