i went back and i looked at 20 years of reverend jeremiah wright's church.end jeremiah wright. that was the last interview he did in that election cycle. i looked at relationship with bill ayers. he started has political career in the home of an unrepentant terrorist who was part of a group that bombed the pentagon, the capitol and new york city police headquarters. throughout the course of the campaign, he was asked one question, about bill ayers. he said he was just some guy in the neighborhood. do you think his policies represent some of his radical background? do you think he's more radical than you thought? yes? hands up. anybody? yes? yes? no. >> no. >> sean: would you hang now the reverend jeremiah wright's church 20 years? >> that part, no. >> sean: would you give a speech with an unrepentant terrorist who was part of a group called the weather underground. >> i should clarify-- >>> i am being really mean. >> no, ask the question. the truth is, is that i don't know the things that you are peeking on, then i can't have an opinion on t. but what i do b

a republican donor who was just thinking about super pac ads tying the president to reverend jeremiah wright. >> john: interesting developments on this story. ed henry bringing it to us tonight. thanks. romney is resting up before hitting the road for four days, shaking hands, kissing babies and eating diner food. chief political correspondent carl cameron tells us the number one item on the menu continues to be the question of who will be standing at romney's side on the final night of the g.o.p. conventio convention. >> reporter: romney huddled behind closed doors at the boston headquarters ahead of the upcoming bus tour looming hype for the debut of the vice presidential pick. he will visit four key battleground states where the romney aides who briefed reporters off-camera noted voters have been beseened by tv ads and campaign and outside interest. $91 million in ohio since april. $68 million in virginia. $50 million in north carolina. $95 million in florida. >> even though the team in terms of resources in the state, the bad economy continues to hang over obama like a tough cloud. >> a

when he was forced to by the jeremiah wright scandal. but since then, not so much. daniel gillian, a political scientist at the university of pennsylvania looked at nearly all public presidential remarks for recent presidents and found that in his first two years as president, obama talked less about race than any other democratic president since 1961. in this month's issue of the atlantic, a remarkable and brave piece in the race and age of obama. it's a big piece that contains a lot and was written long before romney's comments. it's really not about romney, republicans, and how they talk about race at all, it's about president obama and how he doesn't. the truth he writes is even if obama would prefer to ignore race, it won't ignore him. quote, race is not simply a portion of the obama story. it is the lens through which many americans view all of his politics." joining me now is ta-nehisi coates and one of my favorite writers. ta-nehisi, great to have you here today. >> thank you so much. >> i am somewhat petrified about this whole segment. >> don't be scared. i

we know about jeremiah wright, we know about others. roberto unger was a professor at harvard. he is a brazilian socialist. and he is a guide that has written that he would like to see brazil and china, india and russia getting up on the united states. he says it's a bad idea for america to be number one. he calls that american hegemony. he says it's time to end it. he wants them to come tonight and pull america together. lou: what does he bring to the students of harvard university. what kind of madness is that. >> it's like the fools who thought that the euro who would replace the dollar. these wonderfully sophisticated transit winning genie says the top of the dollar's days were gone. >> at harvard this guy is not only tolerated but celebrated. obama took a bunch of his courses and the two of them maintained a close relationship so that when the 2008 campaign came around, this guy skipped town and he declined all interview is when he says i'm a leftist and revolutionary. if anybody can ask me what barack obama, it will hurt obama. lou: he is represented as some kind of insig

if there were no tapes, i don't think we'd know very much about jeremiah wright.ould you imagine if he had a friend where he started his political career in his friend's living room, and the friend used to blow up federal buildings the way bill ayers did? i mean, the media would show far more attention if that were the case than they ever did with barack obama. that's, that's where the double standard comes in, and that's bias. megyn: so negligent was the coverage of barack obama when he was running that somebody, somebody actually wrote a book about it. who was that? [laughter] >> a slobbering love affair. megyn: bernie goldberg, thank you so much, sir. good to see you. >> thanks, megyn. megyn: coming up, a new report on the u.s. auto bailout delivering devastating news for the american taxpayer. just a few weeks ago president obama said gm was roaring back. we'll bring you an update on that. >>> plus, a fox news exclusive. brit hume in the first one-on-one interview with governor romney's vp pick, congressman paul ryan. brit joins us at the top of the hour, that

we have talked about jeremiah wright. and i think this is probably the most unappreciated and remarkable influence of them all and especially during those crucial mentoring years. >> bill: all right, doctor, we appreciate you coming on, the book is the communist. you know, look, president obama obviously the most powerful man in the world and we should know about his upbringing and background and who influenced him and who did not. we appreciate it thank you very much. harry reid still in trouble for accusing mitt romney of not paying taxes. we'll have the latest on this story. it's getting very bitter. jesse watters going to the places where the factor is notps >> bill: impact segment tonight, our good pal harry reid has never appeared on the factor although i know he secretly likes us, continues to cause angst among republicans. says mitt romney has dodged paying taxes. >> word is out that he has not paid any taxes for 10 years. let him prove that he has paid taxes because he he hasn't. >> i'm not going to respond to a

whole hour-long specials about mormonism when somebody seemed to want to do any specials about jeremiah wright. >> andrea: there were a couple of specials we found done about wright. i would have been interested to see a full special on who president obama was, though, too. he writes "in dreams of my father" he was raised, these are his own words as a muslim to get in-depth picture of who he is. academic records. where he went to school. a lot of that we talk about on the show. it's examined. i think it's okay for the specials on mormonism. >> dana: one more sound bite. people are like what is it about? romney never had caffeine or alcohol. look at the sound bite here. >> here come the question that everybody has. do you drink caffeine? >> no. >> have you ever, ever had a cup of coffee? >> never had a cup of coffee. i had a coke once. >> here it comes. literally one coke. >> isn't that funny? >> in your 43 years. >> caffeine. i may have a dr. pepper once in a while. i can't lie to you. >> no smoking? >> no smoking. >> not a sip of wine, a glass of beer? >> no. >> dana: i know people are curiou

one ad brought up jeremiah wright and romney went ahead and denounced that ad. at this point not a lot of responsibility, nobody wanting to take any kind of responsibility for these things, perfectly willing to let the mud fall wherever it goes. >> it seems as if iowa is right there with the four cities in the top ten. is this going to be the mantra as we move forward about iowa, iowa, iowa? >> well, right now it is and it certainly tells you which is a big swing state. iowa now, new hampshire this weekend. paul ryan is going to be in florida talking about and going to be asked about medicare. so iowa, very important. president is there today. he's talking about the wind tax credit as well which mitt romney is against and republican governor in the state is for that. we're hearing mitt romney is going to be in ohio today and he's going to be talking about coal and hitting the president on that. so all about the midwest, the industrial midwest, certainly that's what the pick of paul ryan was all about. >> so i know that you, chuck todd, mark murray all sit around

domestic terrorist bill ayers and jeremiah wright can be summed up as god damn america. >> i am noommunistanctions on iran were tightened. he tightened sanctions on north korea in june. he has made a lot of mistakes. we have talked about it. you know what, he doesn't have an hidden agenda. he isn't far enough in the center. >> sean: you interviewed barack obama half-brother. lives in a hut, third world port. you go over there and interview him. during the 2008 campaign didn't meet his brother. he saw the conditions. didn't he say we were to be our brother's keeper but he is generous with other people's money. he is a millionaire. >> at least irt tells american people he a hypocrite. he says one thing, spread the wealth around, help the less fortunate. be your brother's keeper but he is actually brother but third world poverty with sewage and slums. obama won't help. i think it's more hypocrisy. he despises the fact that brother won't worship at shrine of father. >> i think frankly it says a lot. >> would you give your half-brother. >> i would. i support my family. bottom line, the real tra

they did it with jeremiah wright.member this "new yorker" coverage in the campaign showing the obamas dressed like black panthers. the idea of the militant angry black person has been around for a while. not only has it been around, but it has been used. when they say angry an angry first lady. michelle obama was portrayed as an angry black woman. ana, do you think that the fact that they used that word, that he use "niggerrization" takes away from the argument or adds to the argument. had he nod said it would we be talking about toure. >> i personally don't have a problem with the fact that he used it. i'm upset that he felt he had to apologize for it. but unfortunately it was a huge distraction because his message was correct. his message i think had a lot of logic behind it, and rather than discussing the logic, which is something that the romney campaign doesn't want, we're now discussing this word and whether or not he should have apologized for it. i think there is a little bit of trouble in that. another thing

this latter day feeding frenzy stands in stark contrast to the media's hand off approach to the jeremiah wright story four years ago. most reporters at the time considered the inflammatory anti-american comments made by obama's pastor of 20 years to be irrelevant and i object intolerant. unseemly to pry into a candidate's religious believes. why the sudden interest in prying into a candidate's race now. klein, author of a book about president obama weighed in. >> there is talk in the obama campaign to start a -- what they call educational community about what mormonism is evangelical -- >> laura: wait a second. i thought democrats were trying to stop voter suppression this election. or is t just a problem when the voters are democrats? no matter the source, any attempt to explicitly or implicitly stocket flames of religious bigotry in this election should be fiercely denounced and that's the memo. now for the top story, president obama is having trouble running on his own record so he has turned to former president bill clinton to pitch the voters and remind them what life was like in the 90's.

just a moment he basically beat clinton in 2008, jeremiah wright, all sorts of conspiracy theorys. registered throughout the presidency. i don't think it's going to start clicking in with swing voters now that we don't like this guy after all. that's not where the republicans are going to win this election. the better thing they can do here is try to have one, really kind of rediscovered clinton at the convention. try to anchor that with romney and bring his numbers up. >> maria, governor romney was asked about these polls today and his response that he was disturbeded about this devicive tone of the campaign, but then just a minute earlier, he said basically anyone asking about his tax returns was small minded. can you hear the irony? >> we haven't had the most -- since the tea party and his running mate, paul ryan, part of the head of the tea party. he brought someone who's actually promoting as a tea party member and did it on a national stage. and i think when we start talking about these polls of likability, what we're really seeing is are they trustworthy. it's often a proxy

man that was called a professor of terror, a brazilian socialist at harvard where we know about jeremiah wrightr. so obama has been hanging out with quite a group of people who have been shaping his mind over the years. >> i'm just going to surmise if people keep going into your movie and you're going to run into 1,800 h new theatres, this is a body blow to president obama. this is not what he wants. >> the movie is making $1 million a someday. it's expanding into a lot of new markets. we're getting overwhelm response. there are people that are leaving theatres singing "god mess america." for me a guy from india to come here and make this film it's fantastic. >> good luck on the movie. now chris christie is set to take the stage. he's expected to talk about leadership and making deals to get things done. his prime time moment may be 40 million plus will be watching. meanwhile, you're watching "the kudlow report." we're live from the national convention of the gop in tampa, florida. please stay with us. at usaa, we believe honor is not exclusive to the military, and commitment is not limited to

does this go back to the jeremiah wright in the 2008 campaign. guest: sure, it does.mney is very much a part of his faith. i have been to one of these churches in massachusetts. what you see there is a very much family values -- we believe in jesus christ, in the afterlife, in being good people. those are things that are open to anyone in america to go see. you can obviously read a lot about mormons online. i don't know that there is a similarity for the church has had some positions in the past, for example, they did fight against proposition eight in california and they actually did ask people to donate money for the proposition, which is church has pillarred for later on. i don't know that there is necessarily -- the church was pillared for it later on. i don't know that there is necessarily anyone crazy about the church going after something like that. host: the gay marriage issue, was that something unusual for the mormon church or do they often get involved in public policy issues? guest: that was a little rare of a moment for them to actually use their membersh

when he was forced to by the jeremiah wright scandal. but since then, not so much. daniel gillian, a political scientist at the university of pennsylvania looked at nearly all public presidential remarks for recent presidents and found that in his first two years as president, obama talked less about race than any other democratic president since 1961. in this month's issue of the atlantic, a remarkable and brave piece. it contains a lot and written long before romney's comments. it's really not about romney, republicans, and how they talk about race at all, it's about president obama and how he doesn't. even if obama would prefer to ignore race, it won't ignore him, "race is not simply a portion of the obama story. it is the lens through which many americans view all of his politics." joining me now is ta-nehisi coates and one of my favorite writers. it's that pleasure to have you here today. >> thank you so much. >> so i have to be honest, i am somewhat petrified about this whole segment. >> don't be scared. it's okay. it's all right. >> and for me, i can't imagin

we have talked about jeremiah wright.is probably the most unappreciated and remarkable influence of them all and especially during those crucial mentoring years. >> bill: all right, doctor, we appreciate you coming on, the book is the communist. you know, look, president obama obviously the most powerful man in the world and we should know about his upbringing and background and who influenced him and who did not. we appreciate it thank you very much. harry reid still in trouble for accusing mitt romney of not paying taxes. we'll have the latest on this story. it's getting very bitter. jesse watters going to the places where the factor is not it's something you're born with. and inspires the things you choose to do. you do what you do... because it matters. at hp we don't just believe in the power of technology. we believe in the power of people when technology works for you. to dream. to create. to work. if you're going to do something. make it matter. begins with back pain and a choice. take advil, and maybe have to tak

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when a republican donor was thinking about running super pac ads attacking the president over jeremiah wrightp should denounce that. >> the romney camp has an ad on welfare reform under fire too, right? >> that's right. the white house insists this is not what the president is trying to do. he's trying to tinker with the welfare reform law that president clinton signd into law and that he's doing it at the behest of some republican governors who wanted those changes and that the ad suggests that he dismantling welfare reform and they say that's not true and the claim by the romney camp got four pinocchios from the washington post. what i think the romney camp is trying to say, saying that ad never suggested that anyone caused cancer in a woman, that this went past the line and he believes it's hurting the president. take a listen to this man. >> obama is he had he was going to change the tone in washington and he has done that. he's taken it from bad to worse. >> that is going to be the question here in a lot of national polls. you see the president having a lot more likeability than governor

jeremiah wright.take a million dollars and this stop snitching campaign. >> carmelo anthony, really. >> sean: carmelo anthony stop snitching on drugs? >> i'm not defending the stop snitching video it is represent prehencible. he agreed it is reprehensible and he disowned and he was 20 years old. cut the guy a break. >> sean: cut the guy a break? >> give president obama a break. he is out of touch with the american people because he spends h his time on golf courses with hollywood millionaires and celebrities and. >> sean: george clooney. >> he is out of touch with america and what the american people are concerned about. it is not what they are are concerned about is the economy and being able to get back to work and pro slide fo provide r familys. >> they aren't concerned with something carmelo anthony did when was 20 years old. >> we don't have audio of it, the press wasn't allowed in this. he said, first of all, it is very rare that i come to an event when i'm like the fifth or sixth most interesti

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we've heard about jeremiah wright in '08. there was a racial element to it, trying to make him sound like a radical. the point here is if it didn't work in '08, hasn't registered with voters in four years he's been president, it isn't going to suddenly start working now. >> they still like him. he's still a likable guy. >> you can't deny the racially coded dog whistles have worked for the republican party in the past. that's not to say all republicans are racist or mitt romney is racist but the tactic of using the coded words has worked in the past. >>> but we've got more to get to here in "the cycle." up next, we're going to be talking about cozying up to the clintons. republicans begging for hillary? s.e.? what's up with that? we're putting that through the spin cycle as we roll on through august 16th. ll things can make a big difference. like how a little oil from here can be such a big thing in an old friend's life. we discovered that by blending enhanced botanical oils into our food, we can help brighten an old dog's min