ann romney's firing back and so is her son, josh, who joins me now.mother had never done a day's work in her life, what was your honest reaction? >> well, quite honestly, i think about my mom and the work that she did do and, i mean, she did some of the hardest work you can do. i mean, she was part-time psychiatrist, part-time ring leader, ring master, and boxing coach, and you know, she was a chauffeur or cabbie, and really, i mean, she held every job imaginable, raising five boys and we were a lot of work for her, i assure you. >> i have three sons and i can't even imagine what five's like. it must have been just been relentless with all the sports and the school stuff and everything else, fending off the women that must have been throwing themselves at your doors. >> we didn't have a lot of the last thing, but the former stuff, yeah. a lot of fighting. i mean, i got to admit, we used to fight like crazy. and we were all pretty close in age and pretty competitive and played a lot of sports and got into a lot of flights, a lot of bloody noses, a lot

josh romney said -- ann d. romney is one of the smartest, hardest working women i know. could have done anything with her life, chose to raise me. now the white house was quick to condemn rosen's comments. jim messina tweeted, i could not disagree with hilary rosen any more strongly. her comments were wrong and family should be off limits. she should apologize. deputy campaign manager stephanie cutter responded to his tweet saying, families must be off-limits on campaigns and i personally believe stay-at-home moms work harder than most of us do. rosen did apologize. that apology did not stop the criticism. today first lady michelle obama tweeted, every mother works hard and every woman deserves to be respected. just hours later, president obama weighed in. >> there is no tougher job than being a mom. and when i think about what michelle's had to do, when i think about my own mom, a single mother raising me and my sister, that's work. so anybody who would argue otherwise i think probably needs to rethink their statement. more broadly, i don't have a lot of patience for co

. >> well, let me play for you josh romney, who last night was asked if the campaign is secretly happy about all of this. >> it's an issue my dad cares passionately about, about moms and dads who stay home and work hard. the works that moms and dads do at home is the most valuable work that's done in the world. that's something we all agree on. we're not trying to score political points and worry about that. >> amanda, they're not trying to score political points, but they are sending out e-mails and asking people to buy bumper stickers to raise some money. so is this the kind of thing that we're just going to deal with for the next six, eight months? >> oh, we'll see a lot more of this in the next six to eight months. i find it hard to believe that the romney campaign wasn't happy about hilary rosen's comments when she said this about stay-at-home moms. i may, the day before the romney campaign was incredibly on the defense. first they were trying to insist there is no war on women, then they were saying there is a war on women but the obama campaign is the one that's waging it. they

. >> talk about uncomfortable, unzip mitt romney. josh? >> mitt romney.tion campaign. he's got a president who is a very smooth campaigner and romney has to bring the very strains of things he has had out there, different ideologies, bring them together and weave a tale and quickly. >> the same thing. it's not just a matter of is he going to run to the center but all the criticism about him as a candidate will continue as he moves into general election mode and will he be able to change that. >> we will see. mitt romney, if there is a peep-sized marshmallow, perhaps accept send him out this weekend. that's all for now. i'll see you back here monday at noon eastern/9:00 a.m. facebook. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. happy tried to you. >> happy easter to you. and thanks so much, alex. coming up here, the documentary and bully" gets a new rating and will be seen by the very kids it is meant to help. the director and one of the teens featured in the film will be joining me with their reaction. ladies still will not be bearing the green jackets as the augu

josh romney, one of their five sons cuts in the act tweeting his mom is one of the smaefrt, hard-working women i know, and could have done anything with her life and chose to raise me. thursday morning hilary rosen under fire was back on cnn still not backing down from her original point. >> this isn't about ann romney or i or other women of some means can afford to make a choice to stay home and raise kids. most women in america, let's face it, don't have that choice. they have to be working moms and home moms and that's the piece that i am not hearing from the romney camp. instead everybody is attacking me. that's fine. attack me, but it does not erase his woefull record on this issue. >> reporter: at 10:42 in the morning ann romney went on fox news and in just 12 hours the controversy had gone full circle from cable news to social media and re-emerged on tv with new power. >> my career choice was to be a morgue, and i think all of us need to know that we need to respect choices that women make. other women make other choices to have a career and raise family which i think hilary rosen

josh said, "ann d. romney is one of the smartest, hardest working women i know. have done anything with her life, chose to raise me." now the white house was quick to condemn rosen's comments. jim messina tweeted, "i could not disagree with hilary rosen any more strongly. her comments were wrong and family should be off limits. she should apologize. deputy campaign manager stephanie cutter responded to his tweet saying, "families must be off-limits on campaigns and i personally believe stay-at-home moms work harder than most of us." rosen did apologize. today first lady michelle obama tweeted, "every mother works hard and every woman deserves to be respected." just hours later, president obama weighed in. >> there is no tougher job than being a mom. and when i think about what michelle's had to do, when i think about my own mom, a single mother raising me and my sister, that's work. so anybody who would argue otherwise, i think, probably needs to re-think their statement. more broadly, i don't have a lot of patience for commentary about the spouses of political c

mitt romney's son josh, turning up the heat on rick santorum.win wisconsin and after he loses must-win pennsylvania in three weeks, what will rick santorum's next must-win state be? >>> baylor win zryan the hero. let's go down to the wire. the baylor lady bears are the ncaa national basketball champions. they beat notre dame 80-61, and that's not just what makes this time so great. they were unbeaten all season. they're the first team in ncaa history to win 40 games. >>> the duke and duchess of cambridge are making an appearance in new york, all right, wax versions. an impressive likeness, don't you think? unveiled at madam tussaud's in times square. wax figures will be unveiled in london in amsterdam. >>> is ryan goss lengling a sup? he saved her by pushing her out of the way. she was looking the wrong way and a female witness confirmed her hero's i didn't. this is not the first time gosling has shown his superhero abilities. he broke up a street fight in new york last september. >>> and that's going to wrap up this hour of "jansing and company

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will work to repeal the federal healthcare law if he is elected the wife of mitt romney ann.romney one of his sons and joshed campaign advisers are all talking today and taking to twitter to criticize, and said democratic strategist made about mitt romney is wife's lack of employment experience and her first tweet ever ann.romney said " i made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. believe me, it was hard work " she was responding to the democratic strategist hilary rosen who said that mrs. romney never had to deal with the kind of economic issues that a majority of women in this country now face hilary rosen said later that she meant that mrs. romney never had to care for children and earn a paycheck like most american women the senior adviser to president obama's david axelrod said that the comments by hilary rosen about ann.romney or " inappropriate and offensive " we will have more after the break c'mon dad! i'm here to unleash my inner cowboy. instead i got heartburn. [ horse neighs ] hold up partner. prilosec isn't for fast relief. try alka-seltzer. it kills heartburn fast. yeehaw! ♪ ♪ ♪ pop goes t

asked about another development today the rnc officially endorsing mitt romney as the republican nominee. >> first question comes from josh here. your line is open. >> hi. thanks for doing the call. i wonder if you could clarify your comments from earlier today about mitt romney and rnc. one of the headlines i saw is that the rnc endorses romney. your endorsing romney or making the fact that he seems to have locked up the nomination. >> i mean, i'm not going to -- i don't know what the label is. but the fact of the matter is, i think as a practical matter here at the rnc, historically there's been a moment in a primary contest when the rnc names a particular candidate the presumptive nominee which allows the rnc to then move forward with coordinating its efforts with that particular person and what we did yesterday after yesterday's victories that mitt romney had in five states is that we went forward as a committee and i directed our staff to start opening up lines of communication with the romney campaign that included people from the romney campaign to act as sort of communication liaisons with us and we spelled that o

romney up until april 21. of that number, 16, including dc, were won by obama in the 2008 general election, roughly 69.5%. so do you think as joshointed out that this will be a problem for romney? >> look, i think this election ultimately is going to frame around the economy and jobs and who has got the best vision to unlock the entrepreneurial free intersurprise system for our country. immigration will be an important discussion and i think that there are a lot of republican voices offering a different ideas around how to best tackle this issue, this is going to frame around jobs and the economy and who has got the best plan for that. so looking at the map, flank i think we feel pretty good about where we sit vis-a-vis, the electal map from four years ago. >> heather: josh, there is at least one poll that does speak to what phil is saying and it supports what he's saying and this was a poll that showed obama garnered 39% versus romney 43% when it came to this question, regardless of how you intend to vote, who do you think would do a better job on immigration? this poll showing mitt romney. this is a national poll. >> yeah. i t

romney firing back with her first tweet ever. i made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. believe me, it was hard work. her son, josh, jumping in. ann romney is one of the smartest, hardest working women i know. could have done anything with her life. chose to raise me. but rosen didn't back down. responding, i'm raising children, too. but most young american women have to both earn a living and raise children. you know that, don't you? all of this comes as romney tries to close a big gender gap. our latest poll gives the president a 19-point advantage with women. and while rosen doesn't work for the obama campaign, campaign manager jim messina engaged in instant damage control. i could not disagree with hilary rosen any more strongly. her comments were wrong and family should be off limits. she should apologize. rosen later wrote an article, saying what she was questioning was ann romney's connection to women and their economic problems. i'm sure you'll hear more from mrs. romney today. >> all right, george. >> no question about that. >>> now to the miracle baby. a jaw-dropping story of a last-minute discovery that

romney now on twitter. a couple of her sons tweeting in her defense. her son josh writing, she's one of the smartest, hardest working women i know. she could have done anything with her life. she chose to raise me. and in talking to romney's strategists within the campaign, it's always been part of the plan to get her story out there, they just couldn't have imagined it would be a democratic strategist, diane, who helped them. but ann romney will be front and center in this campaign, as you know. you are going to be interviewing both mitt romney and his wife. >> i want everyone to know, too, on monday, i'm going to be sitting down with mitt romney and his wife, ann. and we want to hear your questions for the romneys, as well. so, send them to us, on twitter, using the hashtag, ask romney, or send them to me at abc news or yahoo! again, that will be monday. thank you, david. >>> and coming up, what you don't know about eggs that end up on america's breakfast table. and my dad moving in. so we went to fidelity. we looked at our family's goals and some ways to help us

romney, but is that good news for the president? joining me now for some perspectives, mark thiesen a fellow with the american even tere surprise institute. josh block a former spokesman for both the clinton and gore presidential campaigns. thank you so much for being here. according to our numbers the president has this 6-point edge over mitt romney which is exactly where he was back in february of this year, 6 points ahead. he's maintaining a 6 point edge, a 6 point edge, january, february, march, and now mark, what does that tell us? >> well, it tells us that polls in april are not very good predict teres of what the final outcome will be. josh's old boss bill clinton in april 1992 was 20 points behind george h.w. bush and we know how that election turned out. if you look at the "real clear politics" average they are in a statistical dead heat. that is pretty good since romney went through six months of negative attacks and a kraoulg primary campaign while obama was being presidential in the white house. there is good news for romney. a "washington post" polls shows that 80% of conservatives now strongly favor him. he had trouble consolidat

. >> you see what mitt romney responds to marvelous today. >>> let's bring in josh elliott and the rest of the news. >> we're going to begin with a fast-moving salmonella outbreak being blamed on sushi. dozens of people in 19 states have become sick. six clusters of restaurants in texas, wisconsin, maryland, rhode island and connecticut. investigators are not elaborating any further just yet. but they say that spicy tuna rolls could be the culprit here. >>> now, to the economy and new worries about the job market. take a look at this. between december and february, the economy created an average of some 245,000 jobs per month. but experts now say the hiring momentum slowed in march to roughly 200,000. and that has the federal reserve and investors on wall street worried. stocks also dropped overseas on the news. >>> and a violent scene in santa monica college in california. students saying let us in. in response, police pepper-sprayed more than two dozen of them. the students were protesting a plan to quadruple tuition for certain classes. >>> and robin roberts, headed down to the flori

josh putnam said if you just take the demonstrate congratulatic performance, apply that to the rest of the field, mitt romney is going to get to the end of the primaries with 1122 pledged delegates. that's even if you assume he gets none of the super, automatic delegates, none of the unpledged delegates from iowa where he split the vote with rick santorum. it's difficult to see a realistic case for anyone but mitt romney winning this. >> because pennsylvania is looming, i think it's important that pennsylvania is where rick santorum is tonight. if you put yourself in rick santorum's shoes and you think what it is he's staying in for. he's joan iing it. i think he thinks it will help his issues. after having lost his seat in the senate by 18 points in pennsylvania, the only way he can go back to not just zero but maybe less than zero is if he goes back to pennsylvania and pennsylvania looks at him again and says no, rick, no. if pennsylvania votes rick down, he's worst off when he started this thing. if he loses it twice, isn't that disaster for him? >> that's the hope for the romney campaign is he will have

romney steps up his attack on the white house. >> and a growing battle between two branches of the white house. >>joshsten is joining us now. >> the supreme court battle dates back to monday were the president came out and said the health care bill that he put forward that was signed into law is before the supreme court and of the supreme court essentially would be doing something on precedent -- unprecedented and that struck down and he made comments that they were unelected people. that has caused quite a bit of controversy. >> people feel he does that have respect for the supreme court? >> the notion was that he was going beyond the substance of a legal argument. he does not think this is something the courts should do. some judges in an appeals court gave the americas summit to a lawyer and said i wanted to send a three page letter by noon today saying whether the president believe the courts have the abilities to strike down laws or not. >> the supreme court decision stands ultimately? >> and the white house has acknowledged that. the president pahang has cleric -- the president has clarified his

josh green has talked about it. mitt romneyditerranean, all of the things that are traditional, militaryistic, neoconservative view points. a piece in the "new york times" new ships they're building, $750 million a ship and they're untested and they're sort of self-destructing now. we're spending a ton of money in the defense budget. the question for you, because we're talking about how these things aren't getting proper attention right now, is when you look at the defense budget and look at how much money we spend on things like armament and ships, is there stuff, ways to cut the fat? if so, how do you do it in the context of the presidential campaign? >> you press me to identify where the waste is, i wouldn't be able to respond to you. look at the overall picture here is one country that is spending on military purposes as much as the rest of the world combined. obviously there is some disproportion in this, obviously there is some fat in this. we are really spending incredible amounts of money on weaponry. the world which pr

which one of the romney sons tried to duct tape his brother on the inside of the bus's bathroom in the campaign trip? >> joshh is one guess. anybody else? >> i am going with craig. >> it is in fact, josh. this is good stuff. josh is 36 years oold and he enjoys surfing and water skiing, but he put tagg in the bathroom before sealing him in. >> okay. which one of the romney sons attended brigham and young university? >> ben. >> good guess. >> i think ben. >> i think all of them. >> buddy it! all of them did as did my mom. and which of the romney son speaks spanish and recorded a romney ad in the primary in florida and puerto rico. >> i wish i had been in >> you know my answer, ben. >> it is actually craig romney who is the youngest who spent his mission year s s in the spanish-speaking country of chile, and by the way, his favorite money is "anchorman." i love you for playing with me. tyler, you are not coming back, but we appreciate your coming to talk to us. everybody else is staying with me. what republicans are doing to convince women that they love them. they really, really do. i love these guys. the romn

romney yesterday. >> and the strike yesterday. first time he named him. >>> let's bring in joshor the news. >> as john said, probably, george. >>> we're going to begin with the horrifying scene? central florida. a small plane crashing through the roof of a supermarket with dozens of shoppers inside. abc's matt gutman is at the scene right now for us. matt, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, josh. that plane punched right through that publix supermarket behind me, unleashing this giant fireball through a number of the aisles, sending all of the shoppers and employees running for the exits. within seconds, the flames, fueled from the experimental single-engine plane, engulfed the publix supermarket. randy felix was inside, just a few aisles away. >> sounded like thunder. there was a slight vibration in the store. when we turned our heads to see what it was, the ceiling started to cave in. >> reporter: the pilot and passenger aboard are alive but in critical condition. three shoppers were also burned, carried out to safety by people in the store. eyewitnesses say the p

romney a lot of republicans in the states people like josh mandel into ohio. >> right.6, 55 press. you mentioned their agenda. i have mine. screw you. >> that's not the way you put it, the way i would put it. it's perfectly reflected in whatever their economic agenda is. correct? >> yeah. >> we don't really know. >> we don't know what the economic agenda is other than hints. the same ol' stuff. rye. >> fantastic quote that the rnc spokesperson gave us yesterday to describe mitt romney's economic plan that tells you basically everything you need to know. george bush, i think that that of the entire tax benefit that he gave out went to the top 10 of 1%. mitt romney does even more than that. he goes further than that in the amount of money he is giving to the top 1%, top 10 to 1%. the top 57% of the entire tax benefits of mitt romney the top 1%. >> whoa. >> people making over $400,000. >> yeah. >> they are getting 57% of the total tax benefits. >> that gives you who these are? >> yes. >> who does he feel are the people are his champions? he wants to get into office and fig

voters generally endorse obama's critique of the tax system, they say mitt romney is the better choice to manage the economy. josh with that last point. why do they fell that way? what has he said? why is he connecting in that way? >> i'm not sure it's so much that he is connecting as that three years in the obama presidency, the economy is still in rough shape. 3/4 of people think we are still in a region is. the point in the piece is this a source of angst for democrats. if you remember back four years ago in the last election, the country was pretty much smalling to pieces, we were in the middle of a financial crisis. if you were a democrat, all you really needed to get elected was a pulse. you had to not be associated with george bush and republicans. this time it's a tougher argument to make, and the fact that obama is talking about raising taxes is making a lot of democrats leery. >> joe? >> josh, it seems that right now, the attitude of the electorate, and reading your piece and reading a lot of polls, fairness is great and fine, but bottom line it, we want to get america back to work. at the end of the da