one of the president's bundlers is jonathan levine. and he is the managing director of bain. he has raised somewhere between at least $100,000 and $200,000. again, all of this is coming at a time when the president has that big assault on bain. now speaking of that bain hit, according to nbc's ad trackers, the obama campaign attack ad, two-minute ad against mitt romney's record is more of what you'd call a press release ad. it's only airing in one tv station per market for one day. it's a two-minute ad on wednesday with a total price tag of less than $100,000. that said, today, team obama is doubling down. the pro-obama superpack, priorities usa is going up in the same five states the president is targeting. but they've put real money behind this ad. $780,000. they are promising to spend upwards of $4 million this entire month. here's a taste of the ad. >> he promised us the same things he's promising the united states. he'll give you the same thing he gave us. nothing. he'll take it all. >> when the obama campaign's bain ad hit yesterday, the romney campaign responded almost

the guy, jonathan levine at bain capital. >> andrea: he has taken bain money a won't give it back. >>he catholic church that sued. churches have been absolved from this use of contra acceptives. but catholic institutions, things like that. >> eric: not use of contraceptives. but providing it for free. >> bob: okay. the churches have been absolved from that. catholic church. nobody we are talking about catholic high schools or schools. most were lead by right wing fundamentalists. and my question is what is the big news story? why cover it? >> dana: andrea, please explain this. >> andrea: catholic church never, one of the largest charity, never done anything like this in the history of the catholic church. this is why it's news story. the hypocrisy to get to your point on the media. the broadcast network has been silent for four days. you know what they decided to cover? cbs evening news covered the catholic church but it was predator priests. abc and nbc are silent. there was a long five-minute piece on predator priests but not one mention of this lawsuit. historical. >> bob: you don'

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. >> now not long ago abc news is reporting a top obama donor, a guy named jonathan levine, is a longtimeain executive. president obama has hired a number of private equity employees. last night i asked obama campaign spokesman ben labolt about that contradiction. why it's okay for the president's private equity supporters to bankrupt companies and put people out of work but it's not okay for mitt romney's equity firm to do that. >> the president has support from business leaders across industries who agree with his vision of building an economy that's built to last, where hard work and responsibility are rewarded, where everybody from main street to wall street plays by a set of rules -- >> you yourself said that's what private equity is about, and yet president obama is accepting money from private equity firms. >> we believe we need to put in those protections to ensure we never have a financial crisis like we did in 2008 and that families across the country are not held hostage by risky financial deals. governor romney would repeal those protections. >> you're not answering the questi

the record, a top romney adviser calls it performance are gibberish and abc is reporting that jonathan levinetive. president obama's hired a number of people who have worked in private equity and solicits campaign contributions from the employees as he was doing last week here in new york. last night, i asked ben labolt about that contradiction. why is it okay for the president's private equity supporters to bankrupt companies and put people out of work, but not okay for mitt romney's equity firm to do that? >> the president had support from business leaders across industries who agree with his vision of building an economy that's built to last. where hard work and responsibility are rewarded. where everybody from main street to wall street plays by two sets of rules. >> you said that's no a private equity is about, and yet, the president is getting money from private equity firms. isn't tica h the right thing to to do is to ensure that middle class families across the family are not held hostage by risky financial deals. protections. >> you're not answering the questions. i'm trying to figur

. >> one of your biggest bundlers, jonathan levine, he was a bain capital guy who was still around when this little gsk steel company went down. he is an obama bundler, 100 grand. he will probably be at one of the obama fundraisers tonight. doesn't that indict your indictment and show how silly this whole line of reasoning is? he is your guy. he is from bain capital, and he is raising a fortune for obama. >> well heck no. >> he is paying for the ad. >> heck no. that just proves our point that we're not indicting private equity. what we're talking about is what mitt romney's claims are to be qualified to be president. he says my private sector experience qualifies me to be president. well, if you think people think that -- >> there is a broader point here that we need to look at, larry. >> then let's take a look at it. and by the way, by the way -- >> all right, i got to let sean have the right word. sean's got to have the last word. >> here is the bigger picture. when you look at mitt romney as a leader, there is no question that overall he has turned around the companies that he has wo

gets lots of wall street money too and one of his biggest bundlers, big democratic donations is jonathan levine, managing director at bain capital who was directly involved in one of the companies that closed down under bain that democrats complain about and blame romney even though he left the company before, bain before that actual firm shut down. jon: carl cameron in washington straightening some of that out for us. thank you. for more on the controversy over these bain capital ads i'm joined by a.b. stoddard the associate editor of "the hill." president obama came out at the news conference and defended himself and said, you know, governor romney is essentially not ready to run the country just because he led bain capital. that seems to be the attack line he is embracing. >> that's right. he made a it perfectly clear yesterday he said this is not a distraction. it is the essence of the debate. he said he, governor romney has contrasting view what is grows the economy, what the role of government should be in the economy. he made the argument that romney's running on his experience but that

ed rendell who used to run the d.n.c., the celtics owner jonathan levine who gave $200,000 to the obamas on one of the bain capital investment boards, he was -- and there was an ad ripping what bain capital did with ampad, this guy was on the board and i assume a supporter and senator mark warner, democrat from virginia thinks bain capital was a successful base and got a good return for investors. that's what they're supposed to do. that's a lot of people who think the whole premise of the argument is wrong. >> and the former venture capitalist himself, senator warner might know a thing or two about how private equity works. this is an attack basically on what we have deemed success in this country. and mitch mcconnell yesterday really pointed that out. he said the whole notion of earned success and capitalism "seems to be under attack" by this administration. so isn't it the effort of any business to try to do the best job it can and make the most money it can? forget private equity. isn't that how business works in general? >> i'll tell you what, we know for sure the number one reason