dismisses half the population as free-loaders.invites clint eastwood to insult the office of the presidency. how is he going to do in two weeks? >> i think you set the bar where it is, incredibly low. he'll look more presidential standing next to a president. the president looks less than presidential because he's standing next to mitt romney. typically presidents get impatient because it's like why on earth do i have to debate this man for this long because he's clearly an idiot. why can't people do that. you know, they don't like it. it takes them out of their bubble. mitt romney has been prepping for this for months now. i think he will do better than expected because expectations are so low. but the debate won't change a lot. john kerry was a supremely good debater. george w. bush was a terrible one. still couldn't even up that race. >> david, final word to you. >> well, i've talked to one top obama person who says that he, indeed, is worried about the debates for the same reasons that richard just put out there. you know, the

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the truth is when romney says 47% are nontax paying free loaders, he's wrong. many of those he considers free loaders, specifically retirees and white working close voters, fit the romney voter profile. ezra cline is a policy analyst for msnbc. joe klein. just to break this out and to show that of the people who don't pay federal income tax, two-thirds do pay payroll tax and two-thirds of the other one-third are basically retirees who are benefiting from having worked their whole lives, paid taxes their whole lives and are in retirement. what's wrong with that? isn't that the american compact itself? >> not only is there nothing wrong with it but mitt romney's policy shows he doesn't think there's anything wrong with it. he says he won't raise taxes on anybody making less than $20,000. there are some tax increases hidden there for some people making very little. he says he won't touch any medicare or social security benefits for the current generation of retirees. so he's saying essentially he wants to keep this status quo exactly as it is. one other thing on t

even this city-don't front loader races through the intersection. >> the way these people drive, i have no comment. you just have to be careful when you're out here on these roads. >> we reviewed nearly 600 tickets issued to government vehicles in 2012 pin 688 were four red-light running 145 or at least for going 21 miles per hour over the speed limit. >> i am definitely very conscious of it. >> the mayor says that it takes safe driving seriously. employees who racked up more than 670 -- $367,000 worth of tickets are expected to pay for them.

. >> the poor of this country are just free loaders off society. >> something is wrong in the romney campaign. >> 50 days before the election. >> 50 days to go. >> mitt romney's campaign is now recalibrating. >> a new article depicts a campaign rief with inner turmoil. >> questions about its internal management. >> i've got a terrific campaign. >> the chief strategies stuart stevens. >> cobbled together a speech from scratch. >> republicans are baffled. >> he doesn't seem to be good to me. >> so no changes in your campaign? >> no. >> this race would turn on the economy unless. >> foreign policy is front and center. >> things happen abroad. >> my foreign policy as it relates to the middle east is to stand firmly with our allies. >> i think it's a -- >> i think they're in trouble. >> he's got a problem. >> the candidate needs to take control. >> just 50 zas left until the election. >> 50 days to go. >> he has seven weeks to get things right. >> i actually think this is the week that mitt romney cooked his goose as far as winning the presidency of the united states. i do. >> there are e

home video caught a drunk man in russia barreling a stolen front-loader, front end loader into severalen his rampage was over this angry mob descends on him, pulls him from the cab and beats him up. look at this. not clear how that ordeal began or whether anybody involved would face any charges. >>> yes, eating your veggies is important but paying more to buy organic foods may not be worth it. it can cost twice as much as conventional. new research finds no significant difference between the two when it comes to nutrition and safety. researchers at stanford university says organic food did have less pesticides but not any more vitamins or nutritional value. it has the same risk for bacterial contamination caused by salmonella or e. coli. it's not so much about the nutrition maybe. it's about how much pesticides you want your children to ingest. >>> time right now is k67 27. still to come, the big decision first lady michelle obama says she hasn't made yet. >>> hundreds of thousands of school children are waking up a little earlier than they would like. the message police have for drive

who are the free loaders?o to college or the retiree on social security or medicare? personally, i think he is a kind decent man who says stupid things because he's pretending to be something he's not, some sort of cartoonish government hater. but it scarcely matters. he is running a depresley inept campaign. when will the incompetence stop? >> i had a chance to have dinner with tom clancy, and he was enthuing over some gun. and i was sitting, you can't fake it. if you don't have a passion for those kind of guns, you can't write those kind of tom clancy novels. mitt romney doesn't have a passion for the things he's talking about. he is a problem solver. he is faking it. so if i were him, i'd go to what he's been for the last several decades of his life, be a power point guy. say i'm making a sales pitch to the country. here are the four things i'm going to reform. you don't have to love me, but i'll do these four things for me. i'd do a much more detailed thing than he's done so far. >> bay, do you have to loo

he called them a bunch of free loaders who want breakfast in bed and who want people at the 50k dinnersfoot the bill. tonight the morning after, and yes, we've got more tapes of that infamous dinner to remember. that tony get together where the republican nominee for president of the united states shared his deepest beliefs about the two kinds of people in this country, those who give, like him, and those who take and loaf and vote for obama. joining me now is david corn with mother jones the author of "showdown," out in paper back, and "new york times" jonathan heilemann. we have new tape to show you from that fund-raiser including what he said about the israeli/palestinian conflict. before we get to that, here is that shocking tape from romney talking about the 47% of americans who he says are definitely not voting for -- are definitely voting for obama, not for him. he was answering a question from a donor apparently. the tape was first posted by the great mother jones magazine. let's watch. >> 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. all right. there are 47%

surface showing him telling wealthy donor that 47 percent of americans are basically government free loadersght romney held impromptu news conference to try to clarify what he said and what he meant. here's karen. >> just as mitt romney campaign was hoping to hit reset button new video out tonight may complicate the message. mother jones left leaning magazine posted the clip of what they say is romney talking to do nor at fund raise they are year and talking points are very different than what voters are used to hearing from him on the trail. >> there are 47 percent of the people people 47 percent who are with him who depend on government and are victims and government has responsibility to help them and who believe they are entitled to health care to food to housing to you name it. entitlement. government should give it to them and they will vote for this president no matter what. >> mother jones posted the clip not the full romney remark of what they say is romney talking to do nor at fund raise they are year. >> that's what they celebrate every 4 years. so my job is not to worry about tho

gary b, you call them free loaders? is this going to hurt the economy? >> i think it's going to hurt the economy for two reasons, one, i don't think the number is going to be 6 million, i think it's going to be a lot more than that. the problem is that the irs is going to have a hard time finding that. is it within their capabilities if i have blue cross/blue shield or don't or make up a phony number on my tax form? i don't think so, i think a lot of people are going to find ways around and it the number probably 12 million. second of all for this money if you think the government spends money more efficiently than i do, a good thing. make my fine and spend it, but i don't think that's how government works. any dolly give them through taxes or fines, whatever, is going to be spent inefficient and has to hurt the economy. >> brenda: i've got to move on. jim, do you think it's going to hurt small business? >> i think it will hurt small business, but the fact of the matter is, how are they going to track the people down, these are people that hardly pay for

surface showing him telling wealthy donor that 47 percent of americans are basically government free loaders. tonight romney held impromptu news conference to try to clarify what he said and what he meant. here's karen. >> just as mitt romney campaign was hoping to hit reset button new video out tonight may complicate the message. mother jones left leaning magazine posted the clip of what they say is romney talking to do nor at fund raise they are year and talking points are very different than what voters are used to hearing from him on the trail. >> there are 47 percent of the people people 47 percent who are with him who depend on government and are victims and government has responsibility to help them and who believe they are entitled to health care to food to housing to you name it. entitlement. government should give it to them and they will vote for this president no matter what. >> mother jones posted the clip not the full romney remark of what they say is romney talking to do nor at fund raise they are year. >> that's what they celebrate every 4 years. so my job is not to worry abo

surface showing him telling wealthy donor that 47 percent of americans are basically government free loaderss conference to try to clarify what he said and what he meant. here's karen. >> just as mitt romney campaign was hoping to hit reset button new video out tonight may complicate the message. mother jones left leaning magazine posted the clip of what they say is romney talking to do nor at fund raise they are year and talking points are very different than what voters are used to hearing from him on the trail. >> there are 47 percent of the people people 47 percent who are with him who depend on government and are victims and government has responsibility to help them and who believe they are entitled to health care to food to housing to you name it. entitlement. government should give it to them and they will vote for this president no matter what. >> mother jones posted the clip not the full romney remark of what they say is romney talking to do nor at fund raise they are year. >> that's what they celebrate every 4 years. so my job is not to worry about those peopl people. they should

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city-shown in front loader races right through the intersection. the way i see it, the way e people drive, have no comment. yet to be careful when you're out here on these roads. we reviewed nearly 2600 total enforcement tickets issued from of 2012.the first half 688 were four red light running. going at least 21 miles speed limit. he it definitely gets my attention. $125 was what i paid for running light and i'm very cautious. the mayor's office says it seriously. riving employees who racked up more than $367,000 and tickets are them and baday behind the wheel can to cityn access vehicles being cut off. the tickets are just a small of the tickets issued every year by the district. some, like those given to emergency vehicles responding with their lights on are dismissed. pay more to fly on some big name airlines. southwest airlines announced it raise fares by $10 per round trip. after southwest made the move, american, and jetblue followed suit. hp's recall tonight -- this been pulled off store shelves at whole foods. it has been linked to a wiste

backed loan is looking for a handout or that a senior citizen receiving social security is a free loader. >> reporter: the president campaigns in virginia friday while romney heads to nevada. tara mergener for cbs news, the white house. >>> most other polls have yet to reflect the impact if any from romney's 47% comments. >>> prince george's county police are continuing their search for a killer. meanwhile, family and friends of 18-year-old marco ross are paying their final respects today. hundreds packed the jericho city of praise church in landover this morning for the young man's funeral. he was shot and killed last tuesday while on his way to class at central high school. his killer remains at large. >>> so far there are no incidents to report today at coolidge high school in northwest washington. police have stepped up their patrols at the school after a student was shot yesterday. thorpts say the victim got into -- authorities say the victim got into an argument with a fellow student. the suspect left the campus, returned with a gun and shot the victim on the school's football fiel

it's not a bunch of free loaders. >> karen finney, the 47% are still controlling everhour of is presidentialpaign now. >> indeed. but i've got to say one thing about the idea of the bounce. because a couple of days from now with the romney team yet again has not calculated, we'll all be talking about how not even bill clinton could save mitt romney. i have no doubt in my mind. but yeah. me pdeli, . president obama comes from somewhat humble beginnings. he understands the 47%. he understands that sort of lack of respect that you heard in art.ey'soice and h peoe and guess what? he's the guy that the obama campaign is going to send out to talk to that 47% and remind them why they should be voting for president obama rather than governor romney. i agree with e.j., it was a decent speech fr governor romney. yst urinro's got eug >> it's interesting that on the day mitt romney was apairing at bill clinton's global initiative, bill clinton did more anti-romney media in one day than he has done since the convention hes hen thisorni. >> we know what governor romney says, which is that his proposal for

so this idea that these 47% are somehow free loaders is not correct. >> reporter: here are the facts about those who don't pay federal income taxes. about 48% of american households still pay payroll taxes for social security and medicare. a little more than 10% are retired an elderly. and close to 7% of american households don't pay because they have incomes of less than $20,000 a year. >> it's the same thing that very wealthy people do. wealthy people take advantage of the tax code to bring down their tax burdens which is why you have very rich people in the u.s. paying you know very low percentage effective tax rates. >> reporter: romney says his remarks were off the cuff and quote not elegantly stated. but he doesn't take back any of the message. coming up at 6:00, hear from mother jones the news organization that released the video. we will tell you what the response is from the nonprofit magazine and also how they developed their source. reporting live from san francisco, lorane blanco. >>> an exclusive new ktvu field poll shows president obama is maintaining a wide lead over r

we're free loaders, we consider ourselves victims. think about this. 47% of the people who voted for barack obama, that's who he's talking about, some of those people are serving us in afghanistan right now, risking their lives for mitt romney, for me, for you, for all americans. but apparently he considers them to be freeloaders. perhaps that's why he didn't bother to mention their sacrifice at the republican convention. this statement really, really, really shows his character and he's got a major character flaw. anyone who would talk about 47% of americans with the kind of disdain that he used with his words simply -- i mean, why does he want to be the president of america? how can he possibly pull us together if he at the get go has said that 47% of us are unworthy. >> it's a snapshot quickly of what we have suspected of mitt romney all along. i think this is the key part in his comment. he says, my job is not to worry about those people. i'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their liv

. >> well, i almost expected him to say you free loaders, don't expect a big tax cut.yesterday he admitted that president obama did not cut taxes on the middle class. so this guy doesn't know if he's coming or going. i think what you're showing is quinesiallth exifiehis problems. this campaign is trying to be all things to all people without be a core and center narrative about who he is and what he's trying to accomplish. so much of what we're seeing is not just desperation, but it's trying to please or appease all these different audiences. ane onsisnc plays into his fundamental flaw as a candidate, which is he's not trust worthy. opanruim so if you're an undecided voter sitting at home and you see yesterday he said the thing about obama, today he says don't expect a big tax cut, you're thinking i don't know what this guy is going to do. the incompetence in that, the uncertainty of that is not something you can afrd when u're cengoup nst an incumbent president. >> some republicans are saying let romney be romney. the obm is let romney be romney, is that there is no r

we're free loaders, we consider ourselves victims. think about this. 47% of the people who voted for barack obama, that's who he's talking about, some of those people are serving us in afghanistan right now, risking he want to be the president of america? how can he possibly pull us together if he at the get go has said that 47% of us are unworthy. >> it's a snapshot quickly of what we have suspected of mitt romney all along. i think this is the key part in his comment. he says, my job is not to worry about those people. i'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. this is a damning comment by a candidate who seems to have no concept of what people are going through in this country. it's almost as if i don't give a damn about them. i just got to get 10% of the the independents and we're going to be okay and get the kind of country we want. >> it's so sad. this man, who was born into wealth, who's never had to worry about whether his family had access to health care, whether his kids

turns out the 47% may be more victim than free loader.johnston author of the new book "the fine print: how big companies use plain english and other tricks to rob you blind." news today, mitt romney paid all of 14.1%. how does he do it? is this right? is this proper within the boundary line? >> well, he doesn't work. you and i work. we're taxed at higher rates than people who have income from their capital that they've would have paid 12% except he decided not to take all the charitable deductions that he was entitled to. this is the man who said, i pay exactly what the law requires and not a dollar more. well, no he decided to pay more so he could say he paid 14%. >> eliot: this works very bad for him. >> somewhat. >> eliot: especially in the context that 47% are moochers. now the ordinary rate or top rate for someone who has a salary is 35%. >> romney said he's quarter $250 million. i suspect it's more than that. but many of them work tax free because of the rules we have that allow them to borrow against their untaxed assets and never

video clip surfaced showing him telling wealthy donors 47 percent of americans are government free loaderstonight romney tells impromptu news conference to try to clarify what he said and what he meant. here's news reporter karen l. >> just as mitt romney campaign was hoping to hit the reset button new video out tonight may complicate the message. mother jones a left leaning magazine posted the clip of what they say is romney talking to do nor at fund raise they are year and talking point are very different than what voters are used to hearing from him on the trail. >> there are 47 percent of the people who have vote the president. 47 percent who are with him who are depend on government who believe that they are victims. who believe the government has the responsibility to customer for them. who believe they are entitled to health care to food to housing. you name it. entitlement. the government should give to it them they will vote for the president no matter what. >>reporter: left leaping magazine post the clip not full remark of what she say is him talking to donor early this year. >>

el.tradictory to their own e fact is that mitt romney said 47% of the american people basically are free-loaderssites. he was talking about good, hard working, salt of the earth, ohioans, ic thta a narrative that built up over a series of months as we watched this man and watched this campaign. and that videoonfirmed for many ohioans exactly what they were thinking this man may be like. and he can say all he wants to sayboutlass arut he's the one waging it. you know, he pays 14.1% in federal income tax. the average ohioan pays more than 20% in federal income tax. >> i'm sorry, sir, you're wrong about that. vtaai an - he actuall paid 9% additional amount. >> that's right. >> -- in order to be consistent with his original promise. but, in fact, if he had been according to the letter of the requirements of the tax code, his tax rate would have been 9%. >> after he sd someo who paorax - that they were required to be would be disqualified to be the president. he gamed the system. he pretended he was paying a higher rate because he didn't take the full deductions from his charitable contribution. that

. >> are they free loaders if benefitting from federal benefits. >>reporter: today romney went on fox news and stood by the comments. >> we believe in free people and free enterprise not redistribution. >>reporter: mother jones headquarters in san francisco, they have never seen this kind of westbound traffic. >> the way you tube counts there's a lag but we think it's going to be 5 million by the end of the day. >>reporter: 7 news political analyst says the video won't move voters but the cumulative effect of romney gas is putting pressure on the up come debate. >> if the pistol take in this the perception that romney is not running a good campaign. if they continue then his really only moment of redemption for undecided voters is going to be how he performs in the debates. >>reporter: today obama campaign released own individual yichlt wow! sick to my stomach. i don't like it. it shows he's out of touch if he think half the country is filling lick victims. >> victim? i wouldn't say so. >>reporter: no they didn't waste any time getting out the vide

door to door by front loaders well before the storm hits. >> it's going to be bad. we all need to learn how to swim. >> crews stationed at many of the others at the storm station and our major facilities. in addition, i have crews out throughout the district. >> standing here with me now was terri quinn, she is president of the bloomingdale civic association. the council member is across the street. i have to ask you this. what did you make of this quick move to get the sandbags out and storm drains cleared? what did you think about what they were doing today? >> it's good we are getting the attention we need in terms of preparation beforehand. but we are also going to need much more work on the back end to make sure that when we do have another storm, our residents have the assistance they need and that includes financial assistance, as well as assistance from ddot, and other agenesis as well as the assistance in terms of fixing the problem from d.c. water. >> this is very stressful. every time you hear the weather report, you get very uneasy. you have to have the

people in th rlica majority in washington, in the house particularly, believe, that these are free loaders, that these are people that aren't worthy of our consideration really as human beings in our social coract mneyd out lt in his party leave and what an ideology in his party has come to embrace. it was no accident he said it. he stuck with it. >> that would be a radical shift from what a lot of people thought thisampaign would be, lynn, and certainly what t romney campaign wanted it to be whh i aerm on the president. do you agree that this could be a referendum on the republican party and republicans in congress? >> well, i respectfully disagree a bit because in the end this is more about the two men running, inou ecthe context,s cl th republicans in congress are unpopular but actually so are the democrats. here is my point. just as one video seemed to have been the game changer in this election, the 47%er, we still have three debes coming , whift ey d a turn around, he has a chance, starting tuesday -- starting october 3rd in denver, wednesday -- where he has, i think, some of the few

very bad week he's had since the secret tape revealed him calling 47% of americans victims and free loaders tape has handed the obama campaign the political equivalent of a sledge hammer. in virginia today, the president was swinging it again at mr. romney's view of america. >> i don't believe we can get very far with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims, who think that they're not interested in taking responsibility for their own lives. i don't see a lot of victims in this crowd today. i see hard working virginiians. nobody believes that anyone's entitled to success in this country. we don't believe the government should be helping people who refuse to help themselves, but we do believe in something called opportunity. the values we believe in don't just belong to workers or businesses, the 53% or the 47%, the rich or the poor, the 1%, the 99% -- these are american values. they belong to all of us. >> they belong to all of us. suddenly, the talk about taxes doesn't seem so bad, and that political sledgehammer was passed to joe biden today. for the first time, he weig

something to the affect of me not caring about 47% of the country because they are all basically free loadersich. [ light laughter ] now i know what you're thinking, teet of the rich? let's leave kate middleton out of this. ha ha ha ha ha. [ laughter ] [ scattered applause ] ha. i admit what i said was not elegantly stated. perhaps i made a bit of a honey boo boo. ha ha ho, ha ha ho. ha. [ laughter ] look, 47% of voters are never going to vote for me and that's a fact. basically, the only guaranteed vote i got right now is nicki minaj. i got that super bass, super bass, boom, boom, boom, super bass. i wear bass shoes, they're very comfortable. [ laughter ] look, we've got to get back to the issues that are affecting our country. unemployment is up, wages are down. the american people are hurting. especially the ones that have been in a car with amanda bynes. ha ha ha ha. [ laughter ] we've got to get back to the things that make this country great. a strong workforce, powerful defense, an "american idol" with only three judges, not four. we already have that show. it's called "the voice." hol

. >>> finally, a candidate with the courage to say half of all americans are free loaders who believeare entitled to food. what do they think, food grows on trees? no. we job creators knee there is no such thing as a free lunch. lunch is $50,000 a plate. folks this is not a crisis for romney this is a triumph because mitt nailed it. obama supporters are nothing but lazy parasites. get a job! >> mitt romney's secret videotapes get the late night laugh treatment. those traipse causing headaches for the romney racampaign but m also hurt other republicans running for office all over the country. some candidates are trying to distance themselves from romney. others are refusing to talk about it at all. joining me now, democratic strategist dave "mud cat" saunders, one of the most colorful characters in politics today. he helped virginia democrat jim webb defeat george allen in the 2006 senate race made famous by allen's macaque comment. he steered mark warner into the virginia governor's mansion in 2001. now, mud cat is setting his sights on ousting powerful house republican leader eric ca

you should point out they were delivering sandbags on a front loader. actually going up and down rhode island avenue. stopping at the businesses to customers that alrey have dozens and dozens of sandbags. coming out to the councilman. sandbags, keeps the storm drains as clear as possible. but that is really not enough for the residents here. >> it's not enough. the response today has been inadequate. residents have been devastated by the flooding on four occasions over the last two months. and to date, all we've had are sandbags and cleaning of the sewers. we have residents who are being held hostage in their own homes and not able to leave for fear, they'll have raw sewage. >> raw sewage in the basement. destroying furniture, causing the damage. these people incuring a lot of money. what, if anything, is the city's response? >> we asked the city to provide relief fund, to date it has not been established. so i'm going to take the step of introducing legislation. in an effort to provide short- term for residents who have been devastated by the flooding.

counter some of that backlash over his comments dismissing the 47% of americans as government free loadersessentially. he says it was something entirely different. in fact, his campaign is committed to helping the 100%. have a listen. >> this is a campaign about the 100%. and over the last several years, you've seen greater and greater divisiveness in this country. we had hoped to come back together, but instead you've seen us pull apart and politics has driven us apart in some respects. so my campaign is about the 100% in america. >> joining us now is rafael romo. there were tough questions at the forum, obviously about the controversial comments on camera with regard to his immigration stance as well. so this is a tough uphill battle with this electorate. how did he do? >> well, it's very difficult because he essentially made it a challenge for himself back in the primary season when he called for self-deportation, which essentially means that the country should make it so difficult, life so miserable for immigrants that they essentially have no other choice but to self-deport, but to ma