kerry healey joins me now.hair of the group political parity and the process, what are you asking about questions wanting to know when he was making this decision about to endorse you, to really work and drew obviously a lot of effort because you were running against somebody with a lot more money at the time? what were the kinds of questions that he asked? >> i think you need to back up a little bit. mitt and i first met, as you mentioned, out in utah when i was party chairman and many, many people from my state have been e-mailing me, calling me, saying mitt romney is the person who can hold this state for the republican ticket. we need to reach out to him and convince him to come back to massachusetts. so when i flew out to meet him -- >> did you know him then? >> i did not know him then. it was a complete cold call. we met and had a great conversation about politics, about massachusetts for more than an hour and that was really my first time and right in the olympics and right before the closing ceremony an

kerry healey is a romney campaign adviser, former lieutenant governor as well. nice to see you.. talking with us. >> good to see you, soledad. >> in "the washington post," they talked to several people who recall with great detail and what sounds like a tremendous sense of guilt about that attack on this kid. it's a hack job, it was vicious. you see the look in the eye, you never forget it, phillip maxwell. to this day it troubles me, thomas boouford, he was easy pickens, matthew friedman. people might wonder governor romney says he does not even recall the event today when others seem to remember it so clearly. how is that possible? >> we have to take governor romney at his word about this. obviously our memories of the past are very different. i just spent a week sitting in the hospital with my 86-year-old mother talking a lot about the 1960s and 19 0s and we remembered very different things and the same things differently so i think we have to take him at his word. what everyone wants to know, the real question here is mitt romney a bully and the answer is no. mitt romney is a

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