as i said mike leavitt is a former utah governor and leader of mitt romney transition team. i welcome you both. thank you for joining us at a busy time. bob white, speak to me first about this man that is your friend and you have been known so long and whether you believe that he accomplished the objective of showing a side of him that you perhaps know but the country does not yet know. >> i think he did. i think mitt romney was terrific tonight talking about what he would do, talking about what he has seen -- talking about the challenges we have and real solutions and restoring the american dream. mitt has been a friend for a long long time. as i spoke tonight, i wanted people to understand not only the accomplishment that people heard about being a successful businessman, turning around the olympics when they were very broken being very successful -- the budget deficit and doing well in jobs. but instead wanted -- bain capital to do that, give something back, he wanted us to do that as much as we could. and what i talked about, not only financially supported various childr

as i said mike leavitt is a former utah governor and leader of mitt romney transition team.at a busy time. bob white, speak to me first about this man that is your friend and you have been known so long and whether you believe that he accomplished the objective of showing a side of him that you perhaps know but the country does not yet know. >> i think he did. i think mitt romney was terrific tonight talking about what he would do, talking about what he has seen -- talking about the challenges we have and real solutions and restoring the american dream. mitt has been a friend for a long long time. as i spoke tonight, i wanted people to understand not only the accomplishment that people heard about being a successful businessman, turning around the olympics when they were very broken being very successful -- the budget deficit and doing well in jobs. but instead wanted -- bain capital to do that, give something back, he wanted us to do that as much as we could. and what i talked about, not only financially supported various children's causes, it was designed to give money whe

. >> governor mike leavitt, a senior adviser to the campaign. thank you for being with us. >> in the old days, other parties used to take a hiatus but those days are gone. today the obama campaign released a new web ad to counter what is happening in tampa. >> i think he hit a reset button. everything changes. you can kind of shake it up and start all over. ♪ >> when mitt romney was ceo wasbain invested in a series of companies that expanded overseas, sometimes at the expense of american workers. >> the plant went bankrupt and bain made millions of dollars in profit. >> what he did do it was at $750 million in fees. another way the government collects money. >> if he is an economic heavyweight, we are in trouble. he was 47 out of 50 when he was governor. >> i was a conservative republican governor. >> he and his wife have had millions of dollars in offshore funds in the cayman islands and elsewhere. he has kept secret many important details about his wealth, including whether he uses loopholes available to the super rich. >> the plan proposed by

having looked at all this with the advice of governors like tommy thompson and john angler and mike leavitte did this for two and a half years, and i give bill clinton credit he negotiated in a bipartisan manner, but one of the things he objected to, was that section 407 was mandatory and could not be waived. and we wouldn't yield on that because we so deeply distrusted liberals who don't believe in a work requirement. by the way, in 1996, one of those liberals was state senator barack obama who did not like the work requirement. remember, half the democrats, 101 of them, voted in the house voted against the bill even when clinton said he would sign it because they so deeply disliked the work requirement. so when they say they're going to waive what is i think legally unwaiveble, you have to assume it's because they're going to reduce the work requirement. otherwise why would you reduce -- why would you eliminate the requirement unless you elimb eliminate the requirement. it's disingenuous of them to pretend there's some reason they were issuings they regulation. >> want to draw on your rep