that was all perfectly legal, just like it was all perfectly legal for mitt romney to pay a rate that really wasn't that much less in retrospect, but remember what a big deal fat cats, supposedly dodging the tax man then and ask yourself why the president, paying not much more, isn't remotely a big deal now. either for him or the media covering him. >> neil: welcome. glad to have you. here's the deal. barack and michelle obama paid taxes on $609,000 and that's how you get to the 18.4 rate. that's where the president's critics are only starting to get irate. >> obviously the president gives a lot to charity every year and that brings down the effective tax rate. when you walk through the numbers, that's what brings that number down. as you noted, the president's salary is $400,000 a year. the extra income that gets him up to $608,000 a year, is based upon book sales. book sales are actually down in 2012, down from 2011. you see that effective tax rate of 18.4%. as he pay 112,000 in federal taxes. he gave $150,000 no 33 different charities, including fisher house, which helps wounded wa

the world that people spend money and don't keep money here the united states on the other top mitt romney's swiss bank accounts and in some ways your swiss bank account of mine we're all going crazy on our us with the bank and neither do i tried to get into a swiss bank one time they kicked me out of his will i actually when i lived in germany i tried to open a swiss bank account you have to pay them to take your money i know it's amazing it's a matter of fact i went to switzerland we when you and i went to africa to get anyway i know i don't think that this should be i agree with the word fair but i also think our definitions of fair are different for example a fair flat tax for example just for example where the guy that's made in the least amount he's paying ten percent i'm paying ten percent mitt romney's paying ten percent we're all paying the same amount we're all contributing to ramos using a lot. in lots of the commons private jets use it all kinds of runways and things and i was working all guys are the guy i work at yeah but there were going to wal-mart i mean how much of the comm

last year's campaign when the president went after mitt romney for his tax rate. at an event at virginia beach the president said this. quote. my opponent thinks that someone who makes $20 million a year like him should pay a lower tax rate than a cop or teacher who makes 50,000. president obama released his tax return this week showing that he paid an 18% tax rate. so a guy who i hear is worth $14 million, he is paying a tax rate far lower than what a teacher pays. i'm speaking slowly so this sinks in, andy, the hypocrisy is mind boggling. that this president plays class war fare for a year and a half on the campaign trail. let's keep this graphic up. he attacks mitt romney for paying a lower tax rate than school teachers repeatedly! democrats repeatedly attack mitt romney for paying a lower tax rate than teachers, than warren buffett secretary, god help her, god bless her, and, yet, this president, after demagoguing this issue for a year and a half, pays an 18% tax rate which, by the way, is half of the tax rate that i pay. i would guess it's half of the tax rat

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the question is, were they actually going to mobilize for mitt romney? o we weren't worried they were going to leave the republican party and go help president obama. but, you know, it's something you deal with -- we talked a lot more about it in the primary than we did in the general elections. remember, governor romney was still a mormon when he became the governor of massachusetts. we said remember, this is a guy that the mormon millionaire who won for governor in massachusetts. so i don't think -- we never really saw it as a problem from the general population. it was something we talked about much more in the primary than the general. >> and did it hurt him in the primary? you think he might have wrapped it up earlier if he had not been a mormon? >> i think the running in 2008 certainly paved the way for him in 2012. the questions we got in 2018 -- 2008 didn't exist in large measure in 2012. >> ok. let's talk about the online dimension of this. juliana, why don't you talk a little bit about the quick donate button and the, you know, what they someti

the thing about mitt romney, if people think chris sh -- chris christie was the cause of mitt romneyot winning the election, the republicans could not win future elections. mitt romney's campaign leveled his chance for winning the election. >> i agree completely. it is weird to blame it on christie's response after a hurricane. i saw that last debate where mitt romney handed the election over to president obama when he could have actually buried him under benghazi, but he backed off. christie is a republican governor who washed up on the shores of a blue state like a red manatee. he must play the game because he needs to get re-elected, get him a national office and this goes away. it is idiotic and stupid. >> good point. he wins the election next year. then what? does he hold back to the right -- >> i don't think he moves right or left. >> bob, you tell me. he is a republican governor? >> i don't think he has to worry about getting re-elected. here is another thing to keep in mind, do you know for the first time in the history of the united states blacks voted at a higher percentage

. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar.nd the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? >> if you believe in state's rights but still support the drug war you must be high. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> do you think that there is any chance we'll see this president even say the words "carbon tax"? >> with an open mind... >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> ...and a distinctly satirical point of view. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >> watch the show. >> only on current tv. [ explosion ] >> are you ok? >> i can't hear. i can't hear. get out of here, please get out of here. >> oh, my god! >> please get out of here! cenk: that was the explosion in west texas at a fertilizer planted. 14 people were killed, unfortunately and more than 160 injured, and dozens of buildings were destroyed. when you compare to boston, which was another horrible tragedy, three killed and 176 pe

>>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar.d the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? >> john: this week our wtf america series looks at michigan where the wtf-ness is off the charts thanks to state resident gail horalek who demanded that a pornographic book be removed from school curriculum. the offending work of smut? none other than "the diary of a young girl by anne frank." it's the passage about anne discovery of her own genitalia you see if impressionable teens are allowed to read such filth how can we expect them to become believers. she suffered the ravages of tyranny, she said i think people are good at heart. but she also discovered her own body and we must protect children. now the superintendent said the committee will be assembled to review the concerns. really? wtf, michigan. if you're going to deprive students in your schools of the greatest powerful, moving books of the 20th century because one lady is uncomfortable about the part about lady parts? there is no bet

here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a dog. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot but you sir are a fool you know what that is my theory sells. wants us to defeat terrorism the only liberal that kristen. stewart. you know the corporate media distracts us from what you and i should care about because their profit driven industry that sells of sensationalistic garbage. he calls it breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break that it's. looking pretty down the field that you won't find it here if you're looking for relevant stories you need back to from top my skin's. in screw news remember the bird flu and might be worse than ever in march the chinese government announced a new form of the avian flu known as h seven n nine as spread to humans an earlier version of the that very one disease called h five n one created panic when it spread to humans in two thousand and three killing hundreds around the world and reigniting memories of the global epidemics that were so common before modern medicine almost twent

mitt romney. u.s.a. today reports mayor bob milner plans to ask the former governor and failed presidential candidate to be the honorary chair of the city's bid. romney oversaw the 2002 winter games in salt lake city. >> by most people's account, he did a very good job, and i think that should probably be the top of his resume from here on out. don't mention running for president a couple of times. >> darryl isa signed a lot of autographs over the weekend. not because of who he is. rather of who people think he is. he regularly is getting from mad machine. he says he signs the autograph and doesn't say anything because, he says quote if you are mistaken for somebody popular, as a politician, take it. >> he looks like john hamm? >> yeah. >> signed his name or john hamm? >> you would have to be pretty drunk to confuse isa and hamm. they beth have black hair. >> at the dinner a lot were drunk. >> that's true. even still my god. >> if you are looking to get out of town memorial day weekend, there is a little

but i'll say what mitt romney just said really doesn't bother me.h ana that he was never the best joke teller out there at all, but you know what, what he said i think was just completely innocent and a lot of people would say that sarah palin is very attractive. i think she's very attractive. there's nothing wrong with that. i do agree with ana that we are living in a hypersensitive, completely over the top politically correct society and president obama does need to think about that, and that is why he apologized. there happen to be some liberal women who cringed when he said that and some did take offense which is why it was right that he apologized. but i still believe it's completely overblown. >> what if the attorney general said president obama's my friend and he's the best-looking president in history of this country? would anyone be offended by that? i certainly would not. i would love compliments. >> she didn't say it because she knew it was inappropriate. >> i just want -- we have to take a closer. one time i went to a dinner and governor

evangelicals do believe it wasn't them who cost mitt romney the election or john mccain the election. in their view of it, those two candidates didn't talk about culture conservative issues and lost because evangelicals stay home. republicans do have some risk. >> hogan, i don't know if you picked a horse yet, i hope you do because we'd like to have you on to talk about it. who do you think could win the republican nomination with a culturally conservative view, not a libertarian view, but believes we ought to be doing something, restricting abortions, to basically fight history, if you will, on the same-sex marriage front and deal on the issues that are trickery socially. do you think someone like that who's willing to hold the line on the cultural right could be the nominee? who would it be? >> that's a great question. i'm not sure yet. joy brought up a great point. 50% of voters are the most conservative, at least that's what we think. for the last two cycles we put forth moderate candidates, and i think one of the issues here is in that piece that jonathan martin wrote in "politic

mitt romney is there. but they're bostonians, they're people from massachusetts. first and foremost, their hearts go out to those who have suffered. >> today is about obviously remembering what happened monday. but it's also, i sort of also view it as preparing people for what might happen in the days and weeks to come. the reason why you want a united front of right, left, center and all denominations and all backgrounds in boston is eventually someone's going to be caught or some people. they might be from some group or another. they might be from the right or the left. we don't know. i think that this message of having everyone come together and say, you know what? it really doesn't matter. this happened. we're together as a community. whoever did this is not going to sort of separate all of us. i really think this has symbolism for the future. >> the president's words, i'm sure he's worked hard on his speech that he's going to be delivering. his regular speech writer, john fabros, no longer on the payr

you used to work as a senior adviser to mitt romney's campaign.you. >> yeah. >> so it sounds like the super pac wants to do for hillary what democratic super pacs did to mitt romney, define him early and get him established. all the bad stuff. >> there is just a lot of stuff out there. hillary clinton's been public life for the better part of two decades so one thing i think the republicans figured out after this election, the democrats did a very good job of researching and putting in opposition research on candidates and doing it early. and so the group that erin references in her lead-in there i think will probably be thinking a lot about that and using outside resources essentially to make sure we have a good understanding of what's going on with hillary clinton and joe biden and andrew cuomo and martin o'malley and a bunch of other folks. >> they're focusing on hillary first. >> we learned a lesson. put it that way. >> so the philippes of the world look at us and think they are so annoying. she is just living her life. yes without question we

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>> megyn: ben, let me ask you, as i i recall, the president did make a fairly big deal out of mitt romney's or under 15% and went that specific point many times and here is a sound bite in which president obama did that last september. >> governor romney said he thought was for someone making 20 million dollars a year like him to pay a lower tax rate than a cop or a teacher, or somebody working over at one of the casinos that's making 50,000. now, i don't think that's fa fair. >> megyn: hypocrisy? >> absolutely. i mean, look, this is the party president. this is the guy who says that he's for the common man and somebody who believes in the common man, but when it comes down to it he's enjoying cyndi lauper howling her lungs out at the white house on the taxpayers' dime. i'm happy to pay my taxes and most people in the country are happy to pay the taxes although they don't enjoy it, while i'm paying for his golf vacations and he's paying a 18% tax rate. it's hypocritical for this president to take the position that rich people aren't paying their fair share and he makes a pr move i'm giving

mitt romney, right? governor of massachusetts. pushes for an individual mandate, health care. presidential candidate, opposes the individual mandate. for health care. arlen specter, as a republican, right? mostly as a republican moves the democratic party. his voting record shifts to the left. my own senator, evan bayh, when he was positioning himself for a run for the presidency, had a pretty liberal voting record. as soon as he withdrew and decided to run for re-election to the senate, he had the most conservative record of any democratic senator, even to the right of ben nelson from nebraska. or even our own academic peers. harold lowe, critic of president bush's, right? pushing executive power. works for the obama administration and changes his tune and takes positions he harshly criticized when he was outside the executive branch. so i think, you know, the desire, as i said, to leave a legacy, that's what drives presidents, and a lot of their statements and posture -- it's posturing much more than true commitment to ideology that they can't compromise. so let me conclude

kevin, former senior adviser to mitt romney and ron brownstein, cnn political analyst. republicans are worried about this seat. they're worried he will not be able to keep it. >> yes, they are. and his answer is about as good a response of formulation that you can have in a situation. and voters have shown they are willing to forgive or look past this imperfection. having said all that, the specifics of the case make it it a big hill to climb. the republicans are concerned, at least temporarily. >> kevin, you worked for mitt romney. i hate to bring up bad memories for you. do you recall who won the south carolina republican primary? >> newt gingrich. >> and if you compare personal lives, mitt romney versus newt gingrich? >> like in sports, there are come jk ban stories. like in politics, there are comeback stories. the bigger challenge is a redemption story is one that's about you. right now voters with the anxieties that they're facing, they want this election to be about them. for mark stanford to be successful he has to get away from this redemption and make this abo

. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar.nd the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? very, very excited about that and very proud of that. >>beltway politics from inside the loop. >>we tackle the big issues here in our nation's capital, around the country and around the globe. >>dc columnist and four time emmy winner bill press opens current's morning news block. >>we'll do our best to carry the flag from 6 to 9 every morning. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> michael: i love that music. i love it. on the campaign front it is election day in massachusetts. the polls close in about 90 minutes. they say primary voters are selecting who will square off for the senate seat now vacated by john kerry. the massachusetts marathon bombings change the tempo and entire campaign. here is the latest ad. >> my heart goes out to the victims of this unthinkable terrorist attack. i want to thank those whose actions saved lives and the police whose heroic efforts brought it all to an end. in the face of th

have to sit through these classes and hear these teachers have these views about scott walker and mitt romney, but they also see another student getting harassed or bullied and they don't know what to do. as a student, it is scary to stand up to a teacher. >> tucker, by the joking about this. but really, he is a modern version of the rebel. what he's doing is more nonconformist than a goth or a biker and he's in a war zone. it's not about him against students because students don't care. what he's dealing with, and i know this personally because i have a niece and a nephew in high school and one in junior college, that deal with this all the time. it's the teachers doing it, it's not the students. >> i have three teenagers. i see this kind of thing all the time. >> you have kids, too. and three of them are teenagers. no, i mean, this kid has some huevos. i'm definitely impressed. if there is an argument against tenure, it begins here. apparently the teacher swore at him, attacked him for his views. >> did you look like that when you were younger? >> yeah, well, i've always had shaggy hair, ju

. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar.nd the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? current tv is the place for true stories. with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines. real, gripping, current. documentaries... on current tv. alright, in 15 minutes we're going to do the young turks. i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. >> john: the united states may not be able to avoid military intervention in syria much longer. this as president obama was discussing its situation in syria back last august. >> we have been very clear to the assad regime, but also to other player

that mcgain achieved down to 27% to the exit polls that mitt romney achieved. wasn't the modern day low for the hispanic vote. it went to bob dole and that was at 22%. and as they began to spin the narrative and it was all about i will gracious and many of the advocates had for a long time. these were the promoters and i will put it in quotes comprehensive immigration reform, closed quote, and that's the language that emerged during george bush's administration when they advocated the modern-day amnesty that much of it was written off the 1986 amnesty act. their argument was mitt romney would have been president if he had a better outreach to the hispanic vote. first i realized that the open borders people have had the agenda to suspend the rule of law and grant amnesty and path to citizenship to people who came here i will lely. but it always was their agenda and pretty convenient excuse to analyze failed election results. now we must pass comprehensive reform or the party will become irrelevant in the future and we will never win another national election. in

nearly two-thirds of the people who voted for mitt romney say global warming is a hoax.h administration mislead the country on weapons of mass destruction in iraq? definitely no. no, not if you're a republican. there was no misleading. three quarters of republicans polled say no, there was no misleading heading into iraq. if you ask democrats, the response is almost exactly the opposite. three quarters say yes. i mean, ray aye lot of americans of all stripes are susceptible to one theory or another, conspiracy theories and the like. but it seems like republicans and conservatives and people who voted for mitt romney are more susceptible than the rest of america to conspiracy theories, especially about people being out to get them. and looking at the way the elected republicans approach governing right now might be a clue as to why republicans are more susceptible to conspiracies than the rest of us. this is the international arms trade treaty, 13 pages long, the idea for countries that sell weapons to other countries to consider what those weapons might be used for in th

. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar.nd the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? this show is about being up to date, staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding. (vo) later tonight current tv is the place for compelling true stories. >> jack, how old are you? >> nine. >> this is what 27 tons of marijuana looks like. (vo) with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines, way inside. (vo) from the underworld, to the world of privilege. >> everyone in michael jackson's life was out to use him. (vo) no one brings you more documentaries that are real, gripping, current. cenk: we're back on "the young turks." now, in the first district of south carolina, we've got a very interesting special election, pitting elizabeth colbert busch against mark son ford, both famous in their own right in some ways. mark son ford was the f

managers low taxes on capital gains and the carried interest loophole allow wealthy financier's like mitt romney to pay lower tax rates than regular working americans just because they make their money from investments and absurd idea when you consider the tens of millions of dollars romney and other hedge fund managers reap in every year our current tax code is the modern day version of the feudal laws of medieval europe its myriad loopholes and deductions create a system of privileges that help the rich stay rich while sucking billions and billions from the treasury and the working class every year putting in the public interest research group tax breaks for the wealthy cause the average us taxpayer about a thousand dollars every april most small sum for the millions of americans struggling to make ends meet. the worst economic downturn since the great depression or is manipulating the i.r.s. isn't the only way the financial elite stays on top i'm joined now by leslie a paul journalist and author of the new book how to make a million dollars an hour why hedge funds get away was siphoning off a

ron paul rally back in the day when ron paul was running for president and two to, let's say, a mitt romneye of them was like going to the old folk's home. the romney rally, all of the people were very elderly. if you go to a ron paul rally, these are young people. >> most of them are stoned. >> i refuse to -- >> i'm sorry. >> what the pauls have been very smart about doing is realizing that ayn randism, libertarianism, has an appeal to younger conservatives. it tends to be where young conserve datives are. this idea of being on my own, having the government out of everything and drinking milk that isn't pattureized and all that stuff. >> rand paul is not a libertarian when it comes to social problems -- >> they believe about government out of everything except your womb. your womb, the government needs to get right in there. what ron paul failed to do is make his sort of wing of the party palatable to the mainstream. what he wants his son to do, a lot of people believe this is why ron paul didn't run as a libertarian, an independent. he wanted to preserve enough of his republican brand for

. >> and o'brien was able to work in a few jokes at the expense of mitt romney and the nra's wayne lapierre. >> if in 1995 you told me in 2013 we'd have an african-american president with a middle name hussein who was just re-elected to a second term in a sluggish economy, i would have said, oh, he must have run against mitt romney. by the way, no offense, mr. president. i do congratulate you on your victory, but as a late-night comedian, i was kind of pulling for the rich guy whose horse danced in the olympics. here's a fun fact about tonight's food. everything you ate this evening was personally shot by wayne lapierre. don't worry, it was during a home invasion, though. the fish came in through the window. that wasn't peppercorn, that was buckshot, ladies and gentlemen. incidentally, you may not know this, but wayne lapierre is merely the executive vice president of the nra, which begs the question, how freaking crazy do you have to be to be the actual president of the nra? >>> all right, still ahead on "way too early," much more, of course, of our coverage of after sandy, restoring the c

. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar.nd the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? (vo) this afternoon, current tv is the place for compelling true stories. >> jack, how old are you? >> nine. >> this is what 27 tons of marijuana looks like. (vo) with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines, way inside. (vo) from the underworld, to the world of privilege. >> everyone in michael jackson's life was out to use him. (vo) no one brings you more documentaries that are real, gripping, current. >> announcer: radio meets television. the "bill press show" now on current tv. >> bill: all right. here we go. 25 minutes after the hour. it is just delicious to watch these people say ah, had nothing's gonna happen. when it does, say oh, no! oh no! of course, they won't admit they made a big mistake with the sequester. you know what? it's going to get worse and worse and worse and worse! and at some point americans will be down on their knees saying please get rid of thi

tell us a little bit about mitt romney's future since you know him pretty well. he just did an interview. he's going to speak at cpac. what do you think his role in the republican party going forward? >> let me first say that working for governor romney while the outcome wasn't what i and many others hoped it would be, it was an honor and privilege to work for that man. he is a man of decency be he's a man of integrity and that's what attracted me to governor romney and his family. i would not have dedicated the amount of time and the years that i did. this isn't what i do. raising money for political campaigns isn't what i thought what i be doing. i did this because i believed in mitt romney and the person i thought would be a great president. when you lose a campaign particularly for president, there are aren't a lot of case studies. you can't look and say, well, what if someone that is not current an office holder that already built a very successful career and then loses the presidency go and do next? it's not go back to the senate, it'll not go -- it's not g

here's mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call adult. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot like you sir are you know what that is my son but no one he wishes to feature a sunday on clip of the christhood. kids usually. going to look at you to distract us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that sells us and facials to. garbage he calls it breaking news i'm abby martin and we're going to break that. club. play. more news today violence is once again fled. to these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing up for a shelter on the day. the mayor issued lethal. is a. welcome across. discussing syria. ok mark just before he wanted to jump in there please do. i would disagree with john in terms of the u.s. not caring in terms of humanitarian intervention i think there's a long record of humanitarian intervention by the united states in fact the u.s. often receives a great deal of criticism for that but more to the point if we are looking at what could be don

. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? ♪ [♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: okay. here we go. it is the "stephanie miller show." well welcome to it. six minutes after the hour. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. stephaniemiller.com, check it out, you can email us all there. like pam did and said that please tell us the gun debate is a video on youtube so it will go viral viral. and god is watching. >> this bill is a clear overreach that will predominantly harass our neighbors and families so i will oppose and vote [ inaudible ] on this bill. >> we're trying to take it to the violent criminal rather than the ordinary citizen. ♪ god is watching us ♪ ♪ from a distance ♪ [ applause ] >> stephanie: that's right. watching you. watching you. see. based on the michael thomasky case. you cannot sneer at the families of newtown because god is watching you, just saying. and david in north carolina has sent this. ♪ god is watc

here's mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call. a dollar. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an awful lot but you sir are a fool. to sell they want to give us a defeat terrorism the olympics and the crystal ball kids your good to. go to school for you to distract us from what you and i should care about because they're a profit driven industry that sells a sensationalistic garbage he calls it breaking news i'm abby martin and we're going to break that. emissions free couldn't taste street store charges free arrangement free. three stooges free. downloads free broadcast clothing videos for your media projects a free media don carty dot com.

. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar.nd the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were (vo) this afternoon, current tv is the place for compelling true stories. >> jack, how old are you? >> nine. >> this is what 27 tons of marijuana looks like. (vo) with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines, way inside. (vo) from the underworld, to the world of privilege. >> everyone in michael jackson's life was out to use him. (vo) no one brings you more documentaries that are real, gripping, current. [♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome it to, six minutes after the hour 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. can't we just have that delta gamma sorority girl be a bombing suspect. she will get some [ censor bleep ] answer out of that guy. >> she will [ censor bleep ] punt him. >> stephanie: right. it's like the guy that dropped the f bomb in his first news job, and the sorority girl. >> i didn't read the sorority girl thing. >>

here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that the americans call a dog. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares about. you sir are a fool you know what kind of my other terrorist cells in your neighborhood all want the usa to defeat terrorism be on limbaugh and the chris puplick comes. out of the. you know the support you to distract us from what you and i should care about because their profit driven industry that sells of sensationalistic garbage you call that breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break that. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture . of potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the north face to expected to hit stunning in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. but we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston proper earlier today it was very sticky you can see i

mitt romney could not turn out republicans. last year, overall voter turnout was 50%. 50%.hat is a little rough. down from 62%. excellent enthusiasm and back in 2004, there was a lot of enthusiasm about anything. that is a disaster, just as governor romney. president obama will muster lemaster with a historically low percentage of white voters. only 39%. 39%, the president had a little extra support in other places. 71% of the hispanic vote. 71%. 73% voted for president obama. but the black vote was spectacular. he got 93% of the black vote. talk about a consensus, that is a consensus. the key was the black voter turnout. making just about 12% of the eligible voters in the country. they turned up 13% of the total votes from last year. for the first time ever, voters turn out at a higher rate than white voters overall last year. in fact, if they turned out at the same rate as they did back in 2004, governor romney would have actually won the election. it's not clear that the democratic party can repeat last year's performance. but one thing is clear. everything the republica

with edon't need it. >> i'd rather have mitt romney invetsing that 100 million than the people who gavesker and cylindra. >> jared, let me say. >> it's an ineefficient substance. >> when your friend voted for our bill as well is you can't piecemeal broaden the tax code. you have to do the whole package together. get rid of them all. lower rates at the same time. we made ours exactly revenue neutral. we dropped the highest rate and raised the lowest rate from 12.5 to 15. we dropped the number of brackets, we dropped the corporate. >> that would be much better. >> and 97 votes in the senate. >> i got to get out. >> flat tax. >> i want you to guys to stop criticizing every single loophole we fry to close. >> no. >> be still. >> jared, that's not true. >> give us a rate cut, we'll be with you. >> give us a rate cut. >> however, i apologize jared bernstein i apologize for raising my voice. i get excited about that, because i want americans to grow rich. i want to make the rich richer, but i want the nonrich to get rich. that itself way this game works. >> i know where you are coming from. >>

for all time is that our only solution we are the richest no is the only solution we can say to mitt romney sorry buddy you're going to pay the same tax rate as the surgeon to save my wife's life. you know what we've got to do in time is we have to create an environment where all our risk takers and entrepreneurs want to get back into the game company and rebuilding their businesses but we're never going to do that with this is ministration unfortunately because our will are there is a taker is an object and rices are risk takers and entrepreneurs are not the ones who create the jobs the people who create the jobs of the people who spend the money that creates the demand that people like you and i fill and if those people have no one who are they they are the long term unemployed is that our solution and bad is my point instead of instead and first of all the longer on employers are getting less and less and less in terms of money the sequester is cutting on employment benefits but instead of getting people on employment benefits why don't we go back to what f.d.r. said he said the best wel

are accumulating vast sums of wealth without anyone saying a word or raising a finger is one of mitt romney. during the campaign in two thousand and twelve there was a huge battle over his disclosure or lack thereof of just how rich he is and in the end while romney did disclose some information about his assets including the fact that he was able to hide huge chunks of money in tax havens across the globe bottom line is that the outrageous levels of wealth inequality in america have been driven in large part by our society's coddling of and the media's willful ignorance towards our nation's all of ours for too long the wealthiest americans like the koch brothers have been able to slip under the radar while robbing us blind the reaganomics era has seen the largest transfer of wealth from working people to the very very rich in the history of the world trillions of dollars tens of trillions of dollars as a loser with warren pointed out a few weeks ago if workers' wages had kept up with productivity in the years since reagan like they did during the generations before reagan the minimum wage

highlighting mitt romney's 14.1%.nd citing warren buffett who said that he pays a lower effective rate than his secretary. the white house has proposed a minimum effective tax. the buffett tax for those earning more than a million dollars. president obama and mitt romney are playing a lower tax rate. ronnie and buffett paid a lower capital gains rate. the president lowers his tax burden, taking advantage of deductions. a quarter of his income goes to charity. he deducted $45,000 worth of interest payments and 519-dollar deduction for office expenses among others. president obama in the white house say they want the president to pay more in taxes, which is thoroughly outlined in his budget proposal. gerri: what were history of other nations like? >> the biden's mae $385,000. charity would be seven grand. gerri: okay, thank you, rich. have a great weekend. in another story we have been following, mother nature causing major damage across the country over the last few days. a storm brought down trees and power lines acro

to bring this back to mitt romney, it is very similar to a proposal romney put forward during the campaignn theory pay for his tax reform plan. this idea of capping deductions in order to broaden the base and even maybe you could use some of the money to lower rates down the road, that's been something that has had a lot of support among republicans recently. the obama administration agrees. in theory it should not be a largely controversial change. it's something people kind of missed. >> ezra klein of the "washington post." congressman john yarmuth. thank you, gentlemen. >>> coming up, rand paul at howard university. while bill o'reilly waxes on about a time of an old white mickey mouse club. stay with us. >> white america was kind of uni unified. standards of behavior were very similar. that unification made it easier for society to function. [ female announcer ] birdhouse plans. nacho pans. glass on floors. daily chores. for the little mishaps you feel use neosporin to help you heal. it kills germs so you heal four days faster. neosporin. use with band-aid brand bandages. i took someth