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those days you give up really matter. >> i don't know if you want to be giving advice to kevin madden but you just did. >> they're not going to take it. i can say whatever i want. >> thanks very much. shrum, great to see you. >> thanks. congratulations, kevin. >> congratulations. lots of luck on the road. >>> coming up next, mitt romney's world tour. more on that, where he's headed, why he's going. you're watching msnbc. [ dad ] i'm usually checking up on my kids. but last year my daughter was checking up on me. i wasn't eating well. she's a dietitian and she suggested i try boost complete nutritional drink to help get the nutrition i was missing. now i drink it every day, and i love the great taste. [ female announcer ] boost has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to help keep bones strong and 10 grams of protein to help maintain muscle. all with a delicious taste. your favorite patient is here! [ dad ] i choose great taste. i choose boost. that's a good thing, but it doesn't cover everything. only about 80% of your part b medical expense the rest is

looks like mitt romney may be taking some words to heart, announcing today that senior adviser kevin madden will take on a bigger communications role, starting, drum roll, right now. hey, how are you, kevin? >> great to be with you, erin. >> so tell me. obviously, you were a senior adviser before. tell me what you're going to be doing differently. obviously, you do tv. you do well on tv. viewers know who you are, they've seen you on this show and others. i assume your elevation in communications is an acknowledgment they needed more of those skills. >> well, you know, i think that this is -- we're entering that critical phase of the campaign. we're looking at 19 weeks to go. about 120 days. i think right now a lot of voters are beginning to focus on the campaign, we're going to be doing a lot more travel. so i expect that as the press corps begins to travel more with the governor, i'll be working with the press corps that's traveling with the governor, to articulate his message to the american people about how he wants to see a stronger economy and what his plans for a stronger america are.

robert gibbs for obama and kevin madden for romney. >>> and our powerhouse roundtable with george will, donna brazil, dana loesch. >>> plus -- >> i'm jon karl outside of dick cheney's home, we just had the first interview with the former vice president after his heart transplant. >>> a abc news is at the olympics. is very latest from london. >>> good morning, everyone. george stephanopoulos has a well-deserved morning off. as you just heard, it's been a rough week for both candidates. let's get right to it with their senior advisers. robert gibbs with president obama and kevin madden for mitt romney. >> good morning. >> who are the junior advisers? >> i tried to get that title before, nobody will give -- >> i make my own coffee >> i always wondered that. i want to start with, we're 100 days out. dead-even race. robert, what is going to make this race out, or is it going to stay this way until the end? >> i think it's going to be a very close race throughout. that's what we prepared for. i think what's going break this race out ultimately is the choice between two candidates and two ext

spokesman kevin madden says, quote, some investments in some foreign countries can be tax havens but mitt romney doesn't hold any such investments. keeping them honest, though. a tax shelter expert who has investigated, written an article on romney's holdings says it's not so clear cut. my interview with him in a moment. it's important to point out no one is accusing governor romney of breaking any laws, either in how he earned that money or how he does his taxes. democrats are certainly having a field day where some of romney's fortune is or was invested. >> this is a man who says president barack obama is out of touch. out of touch with the needs of the american people. this coming from a man who recently had a swiss bank account and millions of dollars invested in the grand cayman islands beyond scrutiny. and the president obama is out of touch? >> that was just part of a democratic tidal wave. >> when he put his money in swiss bank accounts and tax haves and shelters and also set up the secret company, shell company in bermuda. >> -- about why he opened a corporation off shore in

>> that was me. >> kevin madden. he's good. he's not sweating a bit. he's smiling, he's happy.he point here. >> i didn't even need caffeine this morning. >> here is the argument. listen to this argument and there's this tax return issue. where do we begin? i'll let you start. go ahead. make a choice. tax returns, bain, all these questions, rich guy. you got a problem, do you not? >> no. because i think right now what you're looking at is an american public that wants to see the candidates talk about the iss s issues. they want to hear from energy to health care to trade to even to brian's point they want to hear about comprehensive tax reform. there's only one candidate talking about that and that's governor romney. also only one candidate talking about the future, president obama who ran on all this hope and change and talk about changing washington in 2008, failed to change washington and has totally obsessed with talking about the past and actually seeded the argument of what we're going to do to fix our economy in the future. how we'll have more jobs, greater prosperity in

kevin madden, senior romney advisor and paul ryan, wisconsin congressman said to be on romney's shortt of possible running mates. we'll get analysis from moody's mark zandi, former clinton labor secretary robert reich, john fund of the "national review," rana foroohar of "time" magazine new york magazine's mike rich, michael gerson of the "washington post" and our own john dicker son and norah o'donnell. >> this feels kind of good! i need to cool off a little bit. >> schieffer: he may have something there and we'll try to make sense of all of it because this is "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again. stephanie cutter, who's emerged as one of the main point people for the obama campaign and kevin madden, the long-time top advisor to mitt romney are at the table together with us and, i must say, this campaign did get down and dirty last week. and i want to start with the very latest, stephanie, i want to play some more of that new ad going on the air in some of the key battlegroun

romney campaign senior adviser kevin madden joins me next. plus, we're going to dig deeper into a brand-new nbc/"wall street journal" poll. we're going to let you know who the undecided voters are. there are some undecided voters. first, i'll look ahead at the president's schedule and mitt romney's schedule. the president, feels like a never ending trip, i'll be honest. he goes to the urban league where he gives a speech in new orleans. he wakes up in seattle. mitt romney, of course, is in london, and will be sitting down with brian williams on the in the nightly news. e of its effic. i bought the car because i could eliminate gas from my budget. i don't spend money on gasoline. it's been 4,000 miles since my last trip to the gas station. it's pretty great. i get a bunch of kids waving at me... giving me the thumbs up. it's always a gratifying experience. it makes me feel good about my car. i absolutely love my chevy volt. ♪ one golden crown. come on frank how long have we known each other? go to e-trade. they got killer tools man. they'll he

kevin madden, you're on tomorrow. >> it's "morning joe." the goatee is up next. don't go anywhere. >> on the table, the supreme court's ruling has not faded into the background yet. republicans in congress get ready for another repeal vote and they seen opportunity. >>> top republican governors say they won't set up exchanges or expand medicaid. on the air waves, the obama campaign keeps growing. the romney campaign decides it has to fire back with harsh words from an unexpected source. hillary clinton circa 2008. >> and on the road to 270 as president obama gets ready to roll, a deep dive into whether romney can win the white house without any of those states. they could make or break the whole thing. no holiday week yet. the fireworks starting early. republicans try to make lemon nate out of the lemon that was dealt to them. the court's justification is actually a tax. the democrats are insisting it's a penalty and guess what? a sunday war of words broke out. >> what is in the laws of penalty? >> we have said it was a tax all along. >> this is a penalty on free

playing out on the sunday talk shows and cutter facing off with romney's senior campaign advisor, kevin madden. the obama campaign continues to focus on these afact even though fact check after fact, and investigative journalist after journalist shows that governor romney left bain in 1999. >> instead of whining about what the obama campaign says, put the fact out there rather than trying to hide. >> and how are they explaining the status at bain at this critical period? >> i think that the governor was retired retroactively because he never did return to bain. questions about bain capital have occupied much of the campaign's time the past few weeks and he claims it's an effort by the obama administration to draw attention away from the bad economy and romney aides are slamming the president for his negative ads. >> we've got these baseless charges on moving jobs overseas who fact checkers have said they're not true, indeed a lie and reckless and unfounded allegation that-- of criminal activity and so it's sad to see, we now know that this president will say or do anything to keep the highest

spokesman kevin madden says, quote, some investments in some foreign countries can be tax havens but mitt romney doesn't hold any such investments. keeping them honest, though. a tax shelter expert who has investigated, written an article on romney's holdings says it's not so clear cut. you'll hear my interview with him in a moment. it's important to point out no one is accusing governor romney of breaking any laws, either in how he earned that money or how he does his taxes. but democrats are certainly having a field day with where some of romney's fortune is or was invested. >> this is a man who says president barack obama is out of touch. out of touch with the needs of the american people. this coming from a man who recently had a swiss bank account and millions of dollars invested in the grand cayman islands beyond scrutiny. and the president obama is out of touch? >> that was just part of a democratic tidal wave. >> when he put his money in swiss bank accounts and tax havens and shelters and also set up the secret company, the shell company in bermuda.

we'll have kevin madden, who is one of the senior advisers on governor romney's campaign. he'll be here as well. but i got to tell you something. our jan crawford interviewed governor romney this afternoon and he is livid about all this. her interview will be coming up tonight on the cbs evening news. so that is the first thing you'll want to watch and i hope everybody will be around for face the nation on sunday. because we are certainly going to continue what is a hot and heavy conversation, quite frankly. >> and of course right here, we'll be there for both. thanks a lot. catch face the nation sunday morning right here on channel 9. >>> a little steamy. the heat is building. >> good news s the clouds kept temperatures down. we might hold in the 80s tomorrow. then it's off to the races, so to speak. let's take a live look outside. this is a live look outside our weather cam. it is brought to you by michael and son. temperatures, because of the clouds, pretty comfortable. 87 downtown. look at the dew point. that's what i want to emphasize. upper 50. that's fantastic. desp

and he was kevin madden who is now senior adviser to mitt romney. >> ari, would the romney camp -- allbush baggage? >> no, and let's be real here, ed, the campaign is going to pick a boring white man as their vp because they're going to play it as safe as possible. they don't want someone like condoleezza rice. she doesn't have economic experience, she reminds people of the bush administration. romney is going to go with someone like ohio senator rob porter or tim pawlenty. >> he's not going to go with rob portman because he has bush baggage as well. rob portman was budget director for jogeorge w. bush and an unlikely choice. >> there's something to the bush baggage is what you're say sng. >> condoleezza rice is someone who transcends that. she has a 3 to 1 approve disapprove positive rating from all of the polling that haas been done on her. she's one of the most admired women in america. what stuns me is why it is when even conservatives, sarah palin, said condoleezza rice would be a wonderful choice. >> that's the kiss of death right there. >> even conservatives are acknowledging th

romney's 2008 spokesman kevin madden will now play a bigger role. and other than his one interview with cbs and today's brief appearance to discuss the jobs report. governor romney has been enjoying a long planned family vacation. with the kind of optics that, don't, perhaps do him any favors. and he is letting president obama, who himself loves a good vacation or two or three turn the tables on him. >> when i think about my family or michelle's family, you know, what made us rich was spending time together. best vacation i had when i was a kid was we -- my grandmother and my mom and my sister, we traveled around the country on greyhound buses and on trains and we stayed at howard johnsons. >> that is funny. joining us now from miami republic strategist chris ba gala. chris, you know, the howard johnsons, i remember those howard johnsons, the orange roofs and great ice cream. >> sure. >> laura: clearly the president who i alluded to has taken more vacations in three and a half years than any president in recent memory. he tries to turn the table on

. >> and our old front, kevin madden, he's coming back to help them with a more active level. >> he'll more as a front spokesman for the campaign. >> what about the money? $100 million, they raised last month. that's a lot more than, we don't know exactly how much the obama and the democratic campaigns are going to raise, but they're doing well in the fund-raising department. >> they are. and the democrats are sort of tossing it off in two ways, saying, listen, he's getting the low-hanging fruit. this is a guy who can go now back to his primary supporters and saying, he can give for the general campaign, and go back to the people who didn't support him in the primary and say, time to pony up here, because i'm going to be the nominee. but the blessing for mitt romney this week is, he was having a lousy week. he really was. they leaked out the $100 million, and that always takes up air time, and it directs you away from all this criticism that romney has been taking on. and he gets this jobs report, which you can't go out and high five people about, because it's a bad jobs report, but yo

comes from kevin madden who says he hasn't paid a penny less in taxes by virtue of where the funds are domiciled. the liability is exactly the same. he is account football are u.s. taxes. some investments in foreign countries can be tax havens but mitt romney does not hold any such investments. we got to run. thanks for joining us. really appreciate it. >> thank you so much. >> and joining us from las vegas is reince about prieis bus. welcome to you, sir. >> thank you very much. >> what is on the top of your mind after listening to the chairman of the democratic national committee. >> i don't know if she is on straycation or on mars. the fact of the matter is people are not better off than they were four years guy. we can numb everybody's mind watching this with the numbers but the fact of the matter is there are almost half a million more are people unemployed today than four years ago. and if debbie or president obama were good on the numbers on the stimulus, remember, they said if we passed the stimulus we would have 5.5% unemployment today. that means if they kept their promises th

we see kevin madden who came on l.a. week. all of a sudden, it's a shift in strategy.t's, let's get out front, let's play offense. even though it was a friday afternoon, which is not the best time to play offense in the political cycle. >> he said let's get out front. it's too bad they didn't. ryan, do you think he did well in his response or it was a sign of weakness to come out and respond in all these interviews on a friday afternoon? >> i think john actually makes a good point. you've seen a personnel change. when you have any campaign of this kind, it's incredibly high stake, high pressure environment. i think mitt romney -- i don't think it was the strongest interview he's ever given. i think that's part of the point. he has to do this. he has to do this more often. and one hopes from the perspective of the romney campaign, that he's going to get better each time. this is the first time out of the gate. if he's going to embrace a more out front strategy, he's going to have to get smoother, more polishes and have a more convincing story to tell. >> well, if you ha

. >> kevin madden told fox news sunday that romney hasn't paid a penny less in taxes by virtue of where these funds are domiciled. his liability is exactly the same as if he held them directly in the u.s. as a u.s. citizen, he is accountable for u.s. taxes. some investments in foreign countries can be tax havens. but mitt romney does not hold any such investments. is all that accurate according to your reporting? can you say that definitively? >> well, no, not quite. this claim that, you know, he pays exactly the same taxes as if he'd invested in the united states, his investments through the cayman islands, exactly the same tax rate. it's not quite true. or at least it appears not to be. again this is one of the questions where we don't have clarity but there are strong indications. on your earlier point about, you know, saying it has been said by the romney campaign and others that these are not tax havens. we're not investing through tax havens. that is something that has been repeated. that is something i've seen, you know, i've been researching tax havens for many years and it's on