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denny hamlin and joe gibbs racing avoids the helmets and the finger wags and wins the race. >> like a hockey game or wrestling. thanks, lou. >>> that's the news for now. "nightly news" is next. we'll be back here for news 4 at 11:00. i'm barack obama and i approve this message now mitt romney's attacking the president on medicare? the nonpartisan a-a-r-p says obamacare "cracks down on medicare fraud, waste, and abuse and strengthens guaranteed benefits." and the ryan plan? a-a-r-p says it would undermine medicare and could lead to higher costs for seniors... and experts say ryan's voucher plan could raise future retirees costs more than six thousand dollars. get the facts. this bipartisan reform successfully reduced welfare rolls. on july 12th president obama quietly ended the work requirement... gutting welfare reform. one of the most respected newspapers in america called it, "nuts!" saying, "if you want to get more people to work, "you don't loosen the requirements -- you tighten them." mitt romney's plan for a stronger middle class

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this morning on "morning joe" robert gibbs was pressed about this ad. >> this is an ad by an entity that'sknow the specifics of this man's case. i do think there is a lot of concern in the country about what happens when people lose their jobs. we know that when they lose their jobs because most of where people get their healthcare is in their jobs. they tend to lose their healthcare. people will decide whether it's factual. >> if the ad is not true, mark, it one be effective. if there is an ad that's not true, it shouldn't be running. one thing i'm not going to do is get involved in super pacs and think i need some lawyer to explain to me coordination. shannon: chris hahn and chris plante, gentlemen, good to see you both. christopher, i want to talk about a couple things robert gibbs said. he said if an ad is not true, it one be effective. is that true? >> yeah. this is about business. and in romney's case business is business and business must grow. he doesn't care about the consequences of his actions. the consequences of him closing down that steel mill where this man lost his job and

democrats meanwhile are trying to deflect harsh criticism of joe biden after his now infamous chains comment. former white house spokesman robert gibbs told fox news sunday's chris wallace biden is not a liability. >> i'm happy and proud of joe biden and happy and proud to have him on the trail every day. >> reporter: but the cracks about biden continue. listen to this on face the nation. >> this guy is like one gaffe after another and he's a joke on late night television. i think they've also locked him in his room for the rest of the campaign. >> reporter: romney's team complained loudly about negative attacks. now the democrats summoned their indignation. >> the fact is joe biden throughout his career has fought for equality and opportunity and to suggest something else, it may have been a misuse of words, but to take it to that extreme is just too much, mr. mayor. >> how about apologizing for it instead of the white house backing him up on it? >> reporter: on meet the press maryland governor martin o'malley admitted biden put his foot in his mouth. >> it was certainly an in delicate choice of words. >> reporter: then followed up

i don't know if you heard a caller who was just saying robert gibbs was on morning joe and they werehen bain took over. how is that unfair? >> caller: yeah, i mean, unless they--unless it's mitt romney romney personally pulling the plug on this person's life support system, which obviously did not happy. it's policy. the policy that we are discussing this is why people ought to get out there and vote. these are real world consequences. what sort of policies we're going to term in healthcare, social security. these are real world consequences. if we can't debate these issues in the media particularly morning joe, that's what they said this morning. that's crazy. >> stephanie: why didn't they have an romney spokesperson on to say this welfare ad is based on a complete lie. this ad is completely false. that's what i'm saying. >> caller: right, too much of the media often says, well, obama campaign and romney campaign and the dust up of welfare reform. no, it's not a dust up. it's one campaign lying about it and the other campaign is telling the truth. that's what drives me crazy in the

joe is that fair? >> the fact is, they know the facts. robert gibbs is a bright guy. he knew what was going on when he was on yesterday morning. don't tell me that he -- he and bill burton, who were inseparable during the 2008 campaign, don't tell me that he didn't know the facts. don't tell me that jay carney didn't know the facts. and stephanie cutter, of course. these are all people we know. these are all people we like. these are all people who are being told to do something that's making them look bad, making their white house look bad, making their president look bad. and i think it's a real mistake. >> i think that -- at least where we differ is that i would give gibbs the benefit of the doubt of not having seen it but when you saw it say that's going too far. here's one good point you could be trying to make in that ad but the bottom line is we wouldn't put out that ad. that's going too far. >> yeah. everybody around the table knows that gibbs and cutter -- >> i'm not going to accuse them of being in cahoots with bill burton. >> no, but everybody knows they ar

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have ed gillespie, as well as robert gibbs, who will certainly be defending the president's medicare plans. will he, i assume, attempt to defend the vice-president, joegibbs an opportunity to defend joe biden and mr. gillespie a chaps to attack mr. biden. there are three big subjects, number one, medicare and debate over that, joe biden, is he a drag on the ticket or a plus to the ticket and also, romney's taxes, because he raised that issue again, when he said the last ten years he went back and checked and never paid less than 13% of his taxes, in any individual year, 13% in federal taxes, of his income. so, you know, there are three big issues and we'll talk about that and where the campaign stands a week before the republican convention starts. >> i'm surprised that he did say that, the 13%. >> alisyn: that he introduced that. >> mike: i've never paid less than 13%. >> alisyn: you know, chris, we're burying the lead. why are we wasting time on the-- claim the yacht. >> it's been good talking to you guys. >> alisyn: come on. >> dave: is he the host of fox news sunday or life styles of the rich and famous. >> rick: the woman on the left is my sweet

joe biden. >> gretchen: so his response, that's robert gibbs, with the obama campaign straight ahead. >> brians from hollywood. while you were sleeping, the man behind movementy "top gun," found dead. >> steve: a family owned company set to be recognized for their greatness, but their recognition got pulled because theyn?ñ speaking of tampa, two weeks from now, donald trump, who is over on our bulletin board now, he's going to be one of our guests. and also coming up, lolo jones, the hurdler, dropping by to talk about how things went in london. >> brian: calling out the "new york times," herman cain will be with us and telling us about the economic plans, the medicare plans of both candidates and how he feels about ryan and romney. >> gretchen: dana perino, chris van hollen and miss america 2012 talk being her mentoring program she's involved with. >> brian: chris van hollen and paul ryan constantly spar not guilty a fiend leeway -- sparring in the house. >> steve: brian was wondering why his cuffs appears too long. your arms are just too short. >> brian: my arms are too short. i got everyone

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also for the super pac, but when asked by members of the media, like gibbs and stephanie cutter, we don't know anything about this joested him on a conference call to reporters. so people were going, oh, come on. clearly she knows about him. but she lied, according to rudy guiliani last night on hannity. she ought to get canned, he says. listen. >> which is an accusation that a presidential candidate responsible for the death of someone, she was laughing. i prosecuted a lot of people. i saw somebody laughing at an allegation like that, i'd say, this woman's got a lot to hide. to say that the president is surrounded by liars is a pretty accurate charge and who the heck wants to be surrounded by liars? what's obama going to do about her? nothing. you going to keep that liar on his campaign? >> obviously. >> well, then that says something about the president and his own integrity if that's the case. i would ask for her to be dismissed from the campaign. >> anna: this is going to be very tough for the president to disassociate himself from this ad when initially his campaign was saying, no, we had no idea and then they'r

gibbs. >> that's right i think we touched on the main subject we will talk about who is going to do a better job protecting medicare, what -- just how much of a drag is joeen on the ticket and mitt romney's taxes how much of a continuing problem is that. >> thanks melanie. >> catch fox news sunday 9:00 a.m. after our show. >>> dallas-fort worth region getting hit with heavy rain, 4 inches within 2 hours in some parts, there is widespread flooding, even in areas that rarely see flood waters, a new number of cars were -- a big number of cars were caught in a flooded parking garage at a hospital the rain is being blamed on a roof collapse, rain can do a lot of damage, luckily no one was inside that nonprofit building gwen pictures are crazy. >> i know. amazing. there is so many parts of the country in drought situations right now we actually have a deficit here but a bit of rain coming our way but we haven't started off too badly so far this weekend. >> i got to give an a plus to yesterday. >> everybody enjoyed yesterday, sunny not a lot of humidity, numbers from yesterday, see how we did we actually were 1 to 3 degrees below the seasonal average, 86, reaga

gibbs, martin o'malley, press conference on bane capitol. >> my goodness. how excited. what did you learn? >> "morning joee to be. >> there you go, from the man who put us here. sam stein, what did you learn? >> david brooks is making fun of me, i think. >> and also that we're making fun of the dodgers for taking that deal. what did you learn? >> willie geist sock capitulator. >> i know. willie is wearing socks. i have one friend here. >> are you sure he's your friend? you keep calling him your friend. are you his friend? >> i am. >> why? >> we go back to law school together. joe's a great guy, same guy. >> he's lying now. why is he lying? what did you learn today, willie? >> there are buckets of mika brzezinski pins all over the city of tampa. >> that's disturbing. >> that's massive. lie, if it is way too early, what time is it? >> it is "morning joe." we'll see you back here in tampa. stick around. >> not normal. [ female announcer ] the power of green coffee extract is now in our new starbucks refreshers™ -- a breakthrough in natural energy. made with real fruit, starbucks refreshers™ are delicious low

gibbs called this a very angry convention. he called it a strange night. >> he wrote that line last week at a meeting they had. i hate to agree with joe.oe is absolutely right. christy made that speech for the people who were watching. the people in the audience wanted him to treat it like a town hall meeting in new jersey. but he hit that perfectly. then of course he did have to to stand up. and at the end he got them to stand up. i think he was absolutely focused on the people watching sitting there saying i'm watching this thing because i heard about him and i'm trying to figure out what this was all about. martha: it played better at home. >> there was. >> negativity about it was delivered in artur davis' speech was powerful. he said in he sense, i was with obama four years ago. for those of you watching, here were our expectations and here is what he has done. he talked about attacking success and boosting the occupiers and so forth. it was -- it didn't come across as mean spirited or vicious. but it came across as a strong contrast. he was one of the two surprises of the evening. >> one thing is people expect too much out of one