the very blue suit has new jeans and a fleet of "i'm just a reg ural guy" shirts, and gop doctor mark mckinnon finds it frustrating. he wrote romney, a ceo worth hundreds of millions, should put his tie back on and run as a businessman. voters can't tell if you're really a bowler or really into porkrinds and country music. as fate would have it, sarah palin was also in new hampshire this week. a tour grayhound would envy. only she wasn't riding in one. but it made this statement hard to believe. >> it's not about me, it's not service. >> she went to philly, she wint to boston. when she met donald trump in times square for pizza, her event was cemented in the historic visit. >> there was excitement in a photo shrouding in excitement. a twitter photo sent out of anthony weeper. now that it's out there and days of disastrous press statements, he won't say it's not his business. >> it's not a picture of you sdm. >> i can't say with certitude. >>> and we also saw what courage could look like. the head of the irs apologizing at a hearing for personal identity theft. >> i want to personally apologize

about that joining me now is richard wolffe, msnbc political analyst and former bush adviser, mark mckinnon who is founder of the no labels group. mark, i will start with you, i just don't get it. i mean, just tell me, what is it? how can this last ten years of tax cuts be such a disaster economically and republicans with a straight face can tell us the anticipate is more tax cut? >> let me say a few things. first from the no labels point of view and current budget debate, i support our view, which is that everything should be on the table and everybody should be at the table. but on the issue of the bush tax cuts, you know, there is a conventional notion that the fiscal melt down that we experienced was a result of tax policy when that wasn't the case at all. it was a result of house regulation which president bush tried to strengthen and democrats opposed. and i support the democratic position at the time. i thought that was -- i agreed we should make housing easy but we made it too easy. let me just -- >> no, no, no, no. i'm sorry, but that is just not true. >> can i finish? ky just fini

mark mckinnon investigated sino-forest for two weeks in china. >> i think that what you can fairly sayin general is that one of the more troubling conversations that i kept having in hunan was people weren't surprised by the allegations. they didn't think this was necessarily that out of character. >> reporter: for its part, sino-forest has released documents to try to show it owns the assets it claims and says it's brought on price waterhouse coopers for an independent probe. results are expected in a few months. investors will be watching. cnn, hong kong. >>> shares of the toronto-listed company have been pretty much in freefall since the allegations about it, overstating its assets first, merged. since june, shares have plummeted 86% to $2.62. and it shows no sign of letting up either. its stock price tumbled more than 18% last week alone. charles? >>> coming up next, andrew, how saudi arabia is diversifying its economy to create new job opportunities for its nationals. it's me? alright emma, i know it's not your favorite but it's time for your medicine, okay? you ready? one, two, t

former clinton white house press secretary, dee dee myers, and mark mckinnon, republican political adviserepublican strategist to john mccain and george w. bush and abc news political correspondent, jonathan karl. thank you all for joining me. let me ask you first, mr. cain. are you surprised? >> we're not surprised, we're surprised how quickly that the media and others are catching on. our strategy from the beginning has been to develop a very strong ground game. i've been doing that since the beginning of the year but i am priced how quickly we're starting to show up at the top of the polls. >> let me ask all of you. you can weigh in as well. you heard hayley barbour say unit is what we need, purity is the enemy of unity. what is this saying about a conference like the one we had in washington. should there be a truce on social values in order to gather around and focus on what matters to the americans right now? >> it does not need to be a truce. you can simultaneously address the social issues as well as fiscal issues. i think that was the key message. the other good thing, if you look

mckinnon who is a great public servant himself. he chairs this committee and is the word and he is for the presidency of word. we have john connell, professor candy nelson, professor mark rozelle and hal bruno who couldn't be with us today. get a round of applause to them. [applause] we will hand out the awards in just a second. reading the stories on the bubble around the presidency in the white house. to imagine how different it was. when dad became president, he had been vice president. we lived in the house across the river in alexandria, virginia. there is no vice president mention anything like that. we lived in the suburbs. when you assume the presidency on that day in august, 1974, you know, the helicopter left and dad got sworn into office. to the picture in the oval office. we didn't get to move in the white house. he got a chance to move in the white house and nixon had left so quickly, so unexpectedly that they were enabled to pack up their belongings. and so, it took six, seven days. after dad took the oval office, we went back to her three-bedroom house in alexandria, virginia. i'll never forget my mother standing over this does that make cooking, thinkin