this erosion of liberty to talk about the event and the libertarian movement i'm joined now by matt welch he is the editor in chief for reason magazine matt welcome so i know it's over one hundred degrees over there in las vegas but it's not stopping those freedom lovers from getting together as. well thankfully counselors in the air conditioning. joy as though the very big funny kind of crazy. events here in a lot of free market libertarian organizations and a lot of financial investment. products which money to believe that things are all on the road together in a room. and it's of on them interesting and. now all of this comes at a time where a lot of libertarians and a lot of people think that. certain freedoms are under attack i mean this is after the end i was signed into law we're seeing a number of internet bills pieces of legislation that aims to crack down on internet privacy and freedoms on the internet maybe talk about the significance of the timing of this event. well they've been having it every year for a while but this noticeable kind of jumps in and activity and then huma

erosion of liberty to talk about the movement the event and the libertarian movement i was joined by matt welch he is the editor in chief for reason magazine take a look this is a funny kind of crazy. event and a lot of free market libertarian organizations and a lot of financial investment. go to put your money to believe that things are all rode together in a room. and it goes on then the interesting and. now this event comes at a time where a lot of libertarians and a lot of people think that. certain freedoms are under attack i mean this is after the end i was signed into law we're seeing a number of internet bills pieces of legislation that aim to to crack down on internet privacy and freedoms on the internet maybe talk about the significance of the timing of this event. well they've been having it every year for a while but this noticeable kind of jumps in and activity and then human juice in it here precisely because of how you laid it out i mean what libertarians frequently say and i think that we're right is that yes the two major parties in this country are different in this wouldn't

are it's i was first i want to bring this up for you here anthony too because matt welch from reason i wrote wrote something about this in the sense that well there are military veterans you know there are dual national citizens there are people that are being kicked out of their existing swiss account that they have even though they might live in geneva they might work for some kind of an ngo and so how do you properly handle something like that i mean do you necessarily have something to hide if you have a swiss bank account i have time for each of you to give you no one answer absolute there's there's no reason to stop people from having swiss banks accounts with one hand you could have very legitimate reasons for doing it if you live there another legitimate reason is maybe you want to hedge against the dollar this is not a patriotic issue where you have to keep all of your investments denominated in dollars on the show you've talked a lot about the strength of the swiss franc why not put some money in a swiss bank account and hold it there alternately this is no one's business r

let's bring in matt welch and sharon topliz. good morning to you both. matt, you were chuckling along the way as you were listening to some of the set up for this segment. i guess no matter which way you look at this you have to chuckle in what's happened with mitt romney so far. this was thought to be a slam dunk for the governor and so some folks are asking is he ready for the world stage? >> it's definitely a bunch of unforced errors. i think that in the long haul no one will be talk about this. if romney loses by one percentage point in november nobody will bring up the olympics. series of unforced errors to be sure. it will be forgotten as obama's trip to copenhagen in 2009, he went to get the olympics for chicago and ended up looking foolish. we'll come back to what this election is about which is the economy. >> we're at halftime. 100 days to go. first quarter. >> it's more than just the olympics when we are talking about these gaffes. i want to play another clip that got romney in a bit of trouble. take a listen. >> i appreciated the insights and

matt rhoades is the campaign manager. >> i want to ask you this question, jack welch, rupert murdoch, they're all saying they should clean out, that the romney campaign does not have what it takes to defeat obama. what's your thought, robert costa, looking at this command that created this flip-flop on mandates versus tax hikes? do they have what it takes or is mr. murdoch correct? >> i've been following these guys for a year. they're pretty ruthless. in the primary they went up against santorum, gingrich, knocked them out of the race. they've been competitive with obama in the polls. the biggest concern for the romney campaign may not be the operatives but is romney himself. will he be assertive on this tax issue, campaigning on the obamacare mandate, equalling a tax or will he be as he was this week, kind of unsure? may not be the operatives. could be the candidate as well. >> thank you, robert costa, we appreciate it. lars larsen, i want to go to you on. why isn't romney saying that he will cut taxes whereas obama is going to raise taxes on obamacare? it's a nice, simple message, lars larsen. why doesn't he have the p