mitt romney's father knew the civil rights issue of mitt romney's era was civil rights.ey did not protest his church's racial discrimination, he did not have the courage of the reverend schuler who has been publicly protesting his ban on female priests and his church's ban on priest's marrying. in his 65 years, mitt romney has never protested the actions or decisions of any figure in authority other than the people he has met on campaign debate stages. mitt romney came of age in an era of protest. if you are a 65-year-old american, the civil rights issue of your era was civil rights. martin luther king jr. knew that, james cheney knew that, andrew goodman tow knew that. michael schwerner knew that and republican governor george romney knew that. but mitt romney, the man who now has the soulless audacity to read the teleprompter words of a lecture to us written by his speechwriters about civil rights, that same mitt romney does not know that the civil rights issue of mitt romney's era was civil rights. emily's just starting out... and on a budget. like a ramen noodle- eve

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that will be a good day for mitt romney. >> that would be a good day for mitt romney.joining us now is steve schmidt. who said it would be a good day for mitt romney when president george w. bush endorsed him? do you still feel that way? >> it means mitt romney is the republican march, this bush endorsement would have meant that mitt romney was the republican nominee because that's the threshold by which president bush would have entered the race. >> once he wrapped it up, he didn't have to get the george w. bush -- >> i think it's a pro forma endorsement. mitt romney is the republican nominee. he's going to endorse him. i don't think you'll see him actively campaigning for him. there's a terrific new book out there by nancy gibbs and it charged the relationship between all of the former presidents going back from truman and hoover and it's a fascinating dynamics and there is a traditionalist approach to this. a library and -- >> a political speech. >> he's giving paid speeches but he's not on the campaign speech. >> he's doing policy stuff. he was doing his paul ryan

they elected mitt romney. he made it sound as if the election was just the house republicans. >> schieffer: we have to end it there. it's a lot of fun. we'll be back in a moment with our "face the nation" flashback. ,,,,,,,,,,,, >> schieffer: finally, with mitt romney all but certain to be the republican nominee, we bid a wistful fairs well to the republican primary and all who took part. that is our "face the nation" flashback. >> it's three agency of government when i get there that are gone, commerce, education-- and what's the third one there? let's see. >> schieffer: who is michele bachmann, and why does she want to be president. >> it's very odd to me that someone would run up a half million dollars' bill at a jewelry store. >> go talk to tiffany's. all i'm telling you is we are very frugal. >> 9-9-9 plan. >> that's what i'm talking about! >> when they ask me who is the president of ubeki-ubeki-stan-stan, i will say i don't know. do you know. >> can we stop the pious baloney. you ran and lost and that's

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mitt romney -- first of all, mitt romney in 1994 said he was going to be better on civil unions and gay marriage than ted kennedy. he has come a long way since then. this is about being on the right side of history. there is also poll numbers that show among independent voters the support for gay marriage the spread is like 16%. this is going to be something the white house brings up again and again and again and again. you hear the white house talking about mitt romney being a severe conservative. here is your evidence. >> i am so struck by the fact. it was just eight years ago. the entire campaign was run with this as tz key wedge issue. with conservatives prosecuting the cultural war both because it amped up their face. they had to essentially choose their own base, the preferences of independent voters. what i have been struck by all this is the tentativeness and the defensiveness of mitt romney. this is something the other side, the republican party and conservatives saw as something to lead with just eight years ago. >> they are on the defensive now. it is really remarkable to me

he said he could ultimately support mitt romney. when it started to become clear that mitt romney was going to be the nominee, mr. adelson started publicly criticizing him. >> the problem with romney and i've talked to romney many, many times, he's not the bold decision maker like newt gingrich is. he doesn't want to, every time i talk to him, he says let me think about it. everything i've said to mitt, let me look into it. he's like obama. >> he's like obama. mitt romney, according to sheldon adelson is like obama and he doesn't mean it in a good way. he says he has another $75 million he would like to donate, but he's been lukewarm on mitt romney today. today was a big deal for mitt romney. his one-on-one meeting with sheldon adelson. if he could be charming, it would result in large mitt romney payday. that very important meeting, that very important prospect was overshadowed by other mitt romney news. the other rich guy that romney met with in las vegas today. picture is worth a thousands words, right? the second major las vegas

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of mitt romney's win a in texas. the ap so far saying he has clinched the win. the texas primary offering 152 delegates seats. he just needed 58 to secure the 1144 needed to become a nominee for the republican party. >> this is essentially a formality. ron paul who is technically still in the race was not campaigning either. it is a formality. it is a symbolic move up forward. now we are looking toward the campaign convention in tampa. newt gingrich suggests he would push mitt romney all the way to the convention in august. that is not going to happen now. he can focus his guns on president obama. >> just to reiterate, the ap said in mitt romney has clinch the nomination for president with a win in the texas primary. the associated press saying the delegate count says mitt romney has surpassed 1144 delegate seats needed to win the nomination. we are maybe hoping he will speak. if we get any live coverage of him addressing his supporters, we will bring that to you on bbc news. the un special envoy to syria has told pr

i was doing fantastically in the polls i became friendly with mitt romney. >> all of this comes as mitt romney prepares to clinch his party's nomination tonight. let's bring in today's "news nation" political panel, peter alexander, national syndicated radio talk show most, michael smerconi smerconish. we understand romney's campaign has released a statement to you, just moments ago, now being more specific about donald trump and the language that he's using from this morning. >> reporter: a lot of people asking questions about what mitt romney said on the campaign plane latst night was sufficien and saying what donald trump said he disagreed. here what happens we are hearing specifically from the campaign in the last hour. governor romney has said repeatedly that he believes president obama was born in the united states, the democrats can talk about donald trump all they want. mitt romney is going to talk about jobs. and how he can get our economy moving again. those are the words from andrea saul, spokeswoman for the campaign. the goal, that's been on message recently, focus on jobs,

now, mitt romney is siding with limbaugh.. >> governor, would you go as far as rush limbaugh did yesterday in saying this is the first president in modern time who is going to run a campaign against capitalism? >> it certainly sounds like that's what he's doing. no question but that he's attacking capitalism, in part, i think, because he doesn't understand how the free economy works. he 's never had a job in the free economy. neither has vice president biden. they spent their lives as either community organizers or members of the political class. >> the big panel tonight. let's turn to jack rice, alice hogue, michael ledbet. we have a conservative, liberal and middle of the road. can you give us concrete examples of president obama running against capitalism? >> obviously, what mitt romney is responding to is all the attacks on his success in bain capital. part of what he means is what he did in bain capital is basically take over a lot of companies when he was running the company and in 80% of those occasions, they transitio

more than 1.1 million ad against mitt romney calling him wrong for women. >> when mitt romney says --planned parenthood, we'll get rid of that. >> he'll deny the birth control women depend on. >> -- he's saying he'll deny women the right to make his own medical decisions. and when his campaign can't say if he can support equal pay protections, romney is putting your paycheck at risk. >> planned harnthood's campaign against mitt romney comes just as the senate is gearing up to push for the paycheck fairness act that would combat wage discrimination against women. it's an issue romney has been silent on. according to the conservative newspaper, the "washington times", mitt romney's campaign didn't respond to five messages left over the last week seeking his stance on the paycheck fairness act. despite his silence on this issue, mitt romney is sounding better to some women voters. a new "washington post" poll shows romney's favorability improving with women. in april, 58% of women said they had a favorable view of president obama, compared to just 27%, who then said they had a favorable

this is what he had to say last night about mitt romney, his candidate, mitt romney and china. >> thisl trajectory where during a campaign season you'll talk about china in way you're hearing today. we have seen that in elections gone by. you get in the office, mitt romney has the ability to do what is most important. >> he is saying he's saying one thing now and will do something different and better when elected president. this is not the first time jon huntsman has gone off the reservation. i posed the question to the daily rundown team, is jon huntsman the worst surrogate of 2012. he's at least interested in jon huntsman as mitt romney. >> that is always the case. jon huntsman made the point during the nomination season when china would come up, this was actually at the crux of some of his debates on the stage with mitt romney, that he thought there was demogragry, you would need to perform in a different manner. this is not helpful at all but this is not going to hurt mitt romney in any way. >> you don't vote against mitt romney because jon huntsman doesn't like his china policy.

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mitt romney, not so much. it is the -- less than 20% of his contributors have contributed under $200. host: alexis simendinger who covers the white house and politics. guest: i was listening carefully any were talking about president obama being a head. we have seen a lot of polling suggesting that these two candidates in may are head to head. i'm interested in your, i guess the assurance that you have that the democratic party is going in the right direction with some of the harsh rhetoric, the early negative campaigning, and president obama taking mitt romney head on. are you concerned that independent voters are seeing a narrative about president obama that may not pay off by november? guest: on the contrary. what i am confident about is that mitt romney, who has made the central premise of his candidacy his experience at bain capital. that is the case he is putting forth for the american people and why he is saying we should elect him president. a close examination of his record is really important. we nee

trump, except mitt romney. to drive voters away, all he has to do is indulge the lunatic ravings of donald trump's rantings, and for mitt romney to align himself with this gas bag with the funny hair is tantamount to wanting to destroy his candidacy before it gets off the ground. except for contributing money there is no way donald trump helps mitt romney become the next president and if mitt romney can't see that, i'd say the lad has serious problems. here's the question, why does mitt romney continue to put up with donald trump? go to cnn/caffertyfile and post a comment on my blog or go to my post on the situation room's facebook page. by the way, wolf, the consensus i talked to is you kicked some ass on that one. you won that on points all of the way. >> thank you very much. i would have preferred not to have to win anything, but it was an important interview. >> it was a good interview. >> we'll have donald trump back at some point to explain his side of the story once again. thanks very much. >>> two deadl

mitt romney not so much. less than 20% of his contributors have contributed under $200. so there's another dramatic contract. >> congresswoman i listened carefully and you were talking about president obama being ahead. we've seen a lot of polling suggesting that these two candidates here at this stage are actually head to head really tied in the polling. and i'm interested in your -- i guess the assurance that you have that the democratic party is going in the right direction with some of these harsh, some of the harsh rhetoric the early negative campaigning and president obama really taking mitt romney head on. are you at all concerned that independent voters at this early stage are seeing a naretive about president obama that might not pay off by november? >> on the contrary. what i'm confident about is that mitt romney who has made the central premise of his candidacy for president his experience, his record in the private sector, that's the case that he is putting forward to the american people and why he's saying we should elect him president. so a close examinatio

that is something mitt romney would not dare say at liberty university and it is something that mittearly does not believe. in 1984, the catholic governor of new york, mario cuomo spoke at america's most renowned catholic university, notre dame. he was not timid. >> proitenth my ride to be a catholic by preserving your right to be a jew. or a protestant, or a nonbeliever or anything else you choose. >> there is mario cuomo not only acknowledging the existence of non-christian religions, something romney could not do, but acknowledging the existence of what he called "the nonbeliever." and acknowledging the existence of your right to believe as he put it, anything else you choose. mitt romney would never dare speak that sentence to any audience anywhere. but the cuomo position is the true american position. mario cuomo the catholic did not pander to his largely catholic audience. mario cuomo challenged his audience not to is you sum to the temptation of forcing their beliefs on others. something mitt romney will dare not do. in front of any christian audience at any time. mitt romney

where mitt romney has been a candidate. and in five of those six, his record at bain, his ties to bain have become a central line of attack at some point from his opponents. that's happening again here. this is expected by the romney campaign to a certain degree. the real, the $64,000 question here is this. if you look at the polls right now, the one basic advantage that mitt romney has over barack obama is when you ask people, who is better on the economy? romney is actually edging out obama. who is better on job creation? romney is doing well there. he does really bad in a lot of issues. this is an economy election in people right now are saying that they like romney better than obama. >> but isn't that a bit strange given the claim of job creation by romney have been slowly declining and yet the president's control of the economy, if you like, as president of the united states, has been going up. i find that -- >> this is a matter of perception. right now mitt romney is playing on the fact that while all the indices say

he doesn't help mitt romney. a lot of people are questioning his judgment as people questioned john mccain's judgment when sarah palin chose not to be running back. >> headlining is time for romney to fire trump. make your case. >> i just think i hope clarence is right that it's not going to do much for him. i agree with him that trump doesn't care. all trump cares about is getting attention. i call him an attention0 phile. he is tapping into the worse of a republican base that is not as enthusiastic about mitt romney. donald trump makes it look like he walks down the park avenue and people are screaming at him like go donald. he is appealing to the sliver of the republican base and it probably goes beyond the republican base that are really enthusiastic hearing this stuff. i hope it doesn't help mitt romney because it shouldn't. you would think mitt romney would not want to stand on a stage with a guy doing this stuff. so far he will take the money and run. >> and what he has said is he himself and his people ar

we begin with mitt romney. michael steel, chairman of the republican party, probably still should be. howard fineman didn't think so. howard fineman from the huffington post media group, which grows by the moment, and also an msnbc political analyst. >>> at the c pac conference, norquist laid out in clear an unimbiggus terms what his republican party expects from the president. whoever president happens to be. let's listen. >> we are not auditioning for fearless leader. we don't need a president to tell us what direction to go. we know which direction to go. we just need a president to sign this stuff. we don't need someone to think it up or design it. we have a house and senate. the modern design move will come out of the house and senate. pick a republican with enough working digits to handle a pen and become president of the united states. >> that is the boldest most shameless statement by the tax cutting right as to what they really want in the white house. someone to cut their taxes and stay out of room fo

that's what mitt romney is trying to do.e american people. >> in an interview he gave yesterday, he said that he knows how to read a balance sheet. and that makes him superior to the current president in terms of handling economic policy. but again, he seem confused. he seems to think you're elected to be president of profits as opposed to president of the people. >> that's right. the balance sheets that mitt romney is used to reading are the ones that show whether he is returned a healthy turn to his investors and that was his job when the job of the president is very different. the job of the president is to make sure the entire country benefits. not just a few preferred investors. and that's where romney has it entirely wrong. in fact, if you look at the romney tax plan, and the economic plan and you want to figure out who it help, it help people like mitt romney. it helps folks who have already done very well. the theory is based on the failed trickle down strategy which we know is a failure. we tried that for eight year

simmer down, mitt romney. we begin with a general electric off to a bit of a rough start for one mitt romney. even as his former republican rivals begin their long slow march to line up behind the presumptive nominee. today it was congresswoman michele bachmann endorsing romney in sportsmouth, virginia. >> i think for all of america, this is a very simple proposition this november. president barack obama, president mitt romney. >> it only took her 119 days to come on board and work out her choreography. back then she was going around and saying things like this. >> mitt romney, can he beat obama? >> no. he can't beat obama. because his policy is the basis of obamacare. >> yeah, there is that, isn't there? as you know, it was some 200 plus days ago that miss bachmann was claiming an hpv vaccine caused mental retardation. so her credibility is somewhat compromised, i suppose. not so for newt gingrich who never had any credibility in the first place. the former speaker did manage to state his support for romney a

mitt romney. that will not necessarily work. joe may be right. the other interesting question is both sides will have armies of persuasion. the democrats will build this thing on internet technology and applications and the web and social networks attempting to takeoe and link them up with others who look like joe and hope he will reach out weird guys who live up -- they will take the social characteristics of joe and match him up with other people in order to have joe work with them. we found it worked beautifully in 2004 when we late joe up with people in his neighborhood to do that. that victory committee framework or that existed is still there in the battleground states. the chairman in warren county, ohio, the person who led the volunteer task force in florida -- most of em are still there. a lot of them in 2010. this republican national chairman understands this and has been worng behind the scenes to have that there. we will have two competing business models. one says it will use the inte

plus mitt romney hearts bill clinton? romney said he has more in common with bill clinton than president obama does. really? clinton supports the health care law, supports financial reform and he champions tax rates that obama says will destroy the economy. the only thing clinton and romney has in common is romney has the job that clipt on wants. >>> are catholic conservatives trying to draw liberal comics of what they want. chuck todd's nbc political director and correspondent major gary covers the national journal. the "new york times" wrote a wealthy super pac backer. the reason is to show president obama really is a radical after all. our plan is to do exactly what john mccain would not let us do. show the world how barack obama's opinions of america and the world were formed. and why the influence of that misguided mentor and our president's formative years among left wing intellectuals has brought our country to its knees. chuck todd, front playtime on l placement on left front side of the paper. >> the idea that th

donald trump who mitt romney has ma c campaign. less than a year ago donald trump was considering a run for president. he was campaigning for the job largely by alleging the president of the united states was not really the president of the united states. he intimated that president obama is secretly foreign. that was the basis of the donald trump flash in the pan candidacy years ago. >> why doesn't he show his birth certificate? i think she should. three weeks ago when i started, i thought he was born in this country and now i have doubt. >> based on what? >> his grandmother said he was born in kenya and she was there and witnessed the birth. he doesn't have a birth certificate or he hasn't shown it. if you are going to be the president of the united states you have to be born in this country and there's a doubt as to whether or not he is. >> that little brain curdling wallow in celebrity driven up chuck came to an abrupt end about one year ago when on a wednesday afternoon, the president of the united states held a press conferen

he is not the presumptive nominee and mitt romney is. vice president biden and president obama need to win over people who are skeptical of both parties and not republicans or democrats and mad at both parties and they need to many of them can be small business owners and who believe that starting a business is risky and sometimes people lose their jobs and they might understand that the bain capital story is actually -- there are exceptions to the stories but sometimes there is risk and reward and people lose their jobs and they might think attacking mitt romney that way and saying rich people don't understand us is a mistake. >> a.b., going back to that point and correct me if i'm wrong, there were republicans including congressman ryan who felt that it had gotten so ugly that the bain capital line of attack was hurting mitt romney and they wanted it to stop for fear that it would exactly play out the way we're watching, that the democrats would rightfully go after mitt romney on this weakness. did that not happen? >> i think there is