it sounds like mitt romney is holding a grunge. let the candidates release their tax returns. charles: i'm shocked romney hasn't endorsed anyone yet. but we know it will be someone from the so-called establishment side of the aisle. why is he picking this particular fight? >> we don't know who he's going endorse. if you want to have a discussion about releasing tax returns, there is a precedent for presidential candidates going back 20 years to release 9 to 10 years of tax returns. mitt romney only released 2 years of tax returns when other presidential candidates released much more. he said he called on donald trump and marco rubio and cruz and the democratic nominees sanders and clinton to also release their taxes. in general i have no problem tax returns and as many as possible. but let's not single out trump. charles: i think what i heard was in addition to the sound bite we listened to, what was trump hiding and has he not been as charitable to vets as he claims he is. has he done some hankie panky? is he worth $9 billion? that's what i'm hearing from this interview. but n

you got to ask yourself whether mitt romney is trying to push the establishment together in anothingeron. >> why are you smiling? >> because i think they both raise excellent poents. i remember the delay in 2012 by romney was perplexing because we always knew he would be running for president again, paved the way for john mccain's nominee and she's got a point about not play fwhieg rules. i was thinking how well donald trump would do under ted cruz's tax plan. you file on a post card. we wouldn't evilen have this discussion. >> that's what i call a pivot. your earn it, jason. >> the reality is nobody's going to become president of the united states without releasing their tax returns. marco rubio released his tax returns when he ran for senate in 2010. and listen, by donald trump's own admission, his are very comment plex so we probably need a lot more time to go through them, so the sooner he releases them, the better. >> kaly. so, last night three big blowout wins for donald trump. is the game over? is he unstoppable? >> i think he's unstoppable. politics is crazy at times but to me

, donald trump was defending mitt romney at that time. let's listen to what he had to say. >> going back to tax returns, barack obama released seven years, john kerry released 12 years, mitt militaromney's fath released a dozen years. what's to stop your friend mitt, people still don't see the offshore records, here it is going back 12 years. >> as far as i'm concerned, i'd la like to do a swap. his returnss are beautiful. i looked at them. those returns are perfect. i would say if i were mitt and i'm not and i've never discussed this aspect of it but if i were mitt i'd say i'll released all. rest of them, he's already released a lot, i'll release the rest of them if you release your college records and your college applications. >> and there you have donald trump defending mitt military ju -- mitt romney just a few years ago. donald trump is on a roll heading towards the presidential nomination, mitt romney part of the republican establishment. the republican national convention establishment is doing their best or trying to figure out ho

then mitt romney went onto win it. again, for the second time. it was closer in 2012 than in 2008 but mr. romney got 50% of the vote. ron paul was back. he came in third with 19% of the vote. to this day, it's weird, mitt romney remains the only human who has ever won the nevada republican caucus. he's the only one. because this caucus and this state is freaking crazy, this is what it sounded like. this is what happened when it came down for the nevada delegation to cast their official votes for mitt romney at the republican national convention in 2012. he had won nevada. this is what happened when it came down for nevada to submit their votes for mitt romney. this is what they did. this is what happened. watch. >> in the spirit of freedom that inspired the founding of our country and in honor of the liberty that is made the united states the greatest country on earth, we proudly cast 17 votes for congressman ron paul. [ cheers and applause ] five abstentions and five for romney. [ cheers and applause ] >> and five for romney. mitt romney was the

other tweets have been directed at mitt romney. a few over the last 24 hours or so endures one saying, quote, mitt romney who was one of the dumbest and worst candidates in the history of republican politics is now pushing me on tax returns. dope. and he has a near -- 0 to do with network sec statements are, quote, great. the topic of trump's net worth doubted by many of their. ted cruz was one of them, ted cruz also said he thinks mitt romney has a point. >> an awful lot of people speculate he hasn't made as much money as he said. who knows? he doesn't release his tax returns. i think mitt romney has a good point that voters are entitled to know before the vote because you better believe the democrats if there's anything in their democrats are going to go to town on this. >> for comparison we looked at when the last few eventually nominees released their back taxes like mitt romney is calling for. amid criticism to do so romney release his in january of 2012. he was still locked in a primary battle at that point. john mccain relea

we expect mitt romney to eventually endorse rubio. for now the rubio campaign says marco will release his taxes in just a couple of days. erin? >> all right. thank you very much. joining me now amanda carpenter, she was communications director for ted cruz, and jeffrey lord, a donald trump supporter. jeff, let's start with both these issues. >> where do we start? so much, so little time. >> i cannot resist playing the ex-president of mexico one more time. here he is. >> i'm not going to pay for that [ bleep ] wall. he should pay for it. he's got the money. this nation is going to fail if it goes into the hands of a crazy guy. what is trump? he's not a republican. absolutely not. those are not the republican principles. he is not a democrat. he's just himself. he's egocentric. >> i suppose listening to this again i hear him actually take the wall as a de facto thing. he's saying trump should pay for it. >> i'm waiting for the news to leak it that vicente fox is on the trump payroll. trump is blessed in the enemies that he attracts. to

he's dealing with mitt romney as you know, john, over the last 24 hours, he and mitt romney have been in the twitter war over trump's tax returns. the gop front-runner has not released his tax returns. last time around, four years ago, you know that all too well, there was a controversy about mitt romney's tax return, when are his tax returns coming out. so mitt romney is sort of dishing this out to donald trump, saying, hey, i did this, all the traditional candidates did this. you got to do this too. just in the last hour, mitt romney put out a tweet saying #whatishehiding, so i think that's a clear indication inside the gop establishment, john, there's some panic going on about donald trump and they're trying perhaps what is a last ditch effort here to weaken this gop front-runner to perhaps give people like marco rubio and john kasich a chance to shine on this debate stage later on tonight, john. >> jim acosta, thank you so much, inside that debate hall where as we said, it may be the last best chance for some of these candidates to shake the momentum that trump does seem to have n

this started after mitt romney, the 2012 republican nominee, who trump endorsed back then, called on all of the candidates in the race to release their tax returns. romney says that there could be a bombshell hidden in those returns for trump, since trump has resisted releasing his returns to this point. let me bring in right now senator lindsay graham, a former republican presidential candidate. a man who has no love lost with donald trump, as we well now. senator, it's great to see you. >> i think donald trump will be the gold standard for stupid republican candidates. i just want to be on the record for that. >> you are on the record saying that, senator. so to the issue at hand right now. mitt romney says there is reason to believe there could be a bombshell in these returns. what do you know? >> well, i know that he's not going to turn them over, and in 2015, february, he said he would turn over his tax returns. we're not asking him to prepare a new tax return. we're asking him to give the american people and the republican voter his tax returns, because i find it highly unusual

and there's no better measure of the elite's desperation than for them to send in mitt romney into they as their hatchet man, romney. hatchet man. doesn't sound right, does it? he was a poor presidential candidate in 2012 and certainly shown himself to be a lousy political hatchet man in 2016. romney's done enough for the gop. doesn't it seem so to you? our quotation of the evening. this one from benjamin franklin who said -- could this be a setback to the entire political profession. coming up next, take up the lighter side of politics with red eye's andy levy and joanne nosuchinsky, we're coming right back. stay with us. >>> donald trump says political endorsements don't mean much to him. now that he's got three big wins. >> we weren't expected to win too much and now we're winning, winning, winning the country. lou: trump hasn't surprised the former chairman of the south carolina republican party certainly, but van hipp doesn't want any unpleasant surprises for donald trump in november either. and the newest atlas robot is the closest thing to humanoid you'll see, at least for a lit

mark: mitt romney. back, romney struck back again and so far, as elton john would say, he's still standing. john: two winners today. mitt romney but also donald rump who dom name it would poll. check tout website for our debate coverage and mark's comments. those are key. mark: "bloomberg west" coming up. see you tomorrow, sayonara. ♪ >> you're watching "bloomberg west." let's start with a check of your first word news. apple wants a federal judge to vacate an order that was force it to hack into the iphone of one of the san bernardino shooters. apple says the f.b.i. is seeking dangerous powers for the court. the case may set a precedent for smart phone access. a poll shows republican presidential frontrunner donald trump with a substantial lead in southern states ahead of next tuesday's super tuesday contest. trump is backed by 37% of likely primary voters in alabama, arkansas, georgia, oklahoma, tennessee, and virginia. senators marco rubio and ted cruz are tied at 20%. navy governor brian sandoval, m

this was the argument against mitt romney in 2012. release it now, while republican voters are still making their estimations and see if there is anything there that could hurt the republicans in november, do it now so republicans can make their judgment now. >> yeah. and there were many republicans that privately communicated to the campaign in 2012 that holding back when governor romney initially resisted, or at least took his time in releasing those tax returns, that it was a mistake. and to put it out, disclose it, and go on. >> and he did that, and it ended up not hurting him at all. >> he eventually did. and if you remember during the general election, what the democrats did was make requests for additional disclosures. and when those additional disclosures didn't come, the democrats framed it as this is somebody you can't trust. what is he hiding? now even though there is nothing to hide and he could be trusted, those questions in the voters' minds were oftentimes crucial in whether or not people decided -- >> what's so interes

mark: mitt romney. back, romney struck back again and so far, as elton john would say, he's still standing. john: two winners today. mitt romney but also donald trump dominated the poll. check out the website for our debate coverage and mark's comments. those are key. mark: "bloomberg west" coming up. see you tomorrow, sayonara. ♪ ♪ rishaad: this is "trending business". i am rishaad salamat. ♪ rishaad: it is just after 10:00 in hong kong. the pboc looking to shore confidence and china's economy, calling it impressive and positive. sharp shares plunging after foxconn puts off signing its takeover. the taiwanese company says it needs new material information. ,eyond search, earnings baidu.ors welcome b let's have a look at what's going on. a toward time of it in shanghai. where making up some of that lost ground. looks like the pboc governor trying to shore confidence. looks like it's working slightly. shares up, but not nearly enough to recover what we saw yesterday when small cap and tech stocks plummet

one of the problems mitt romney had.e's grown on me in the last three years but one of the problems is he was very awkward about his wealth. donald trump is not. he's told everybody in the loudest voice he can muster. i'm rich. >> donald trump said tonight and i try to pay as little taxes as possible. getting that out of the way. i'm -- if i can, i pay as little as possible. >> who amongst us doesn't? >> i think it is an interesting question. we know donald trump is a walking exaggeration. the one thing he does value is his wealth, how much money he's worth. frankly, i think it's interesting to find out how much he is worth because he takes that as such a large measure of value for himself and for a reason why he should be -- >> he's also dodging and weaving on the question because the -- how does -- most candidates release two years of their last returns. he keeps saying they are very complex and takes a lot of time to put together. those returns are already filed. he can release them today. >> the story is there are --

what mitt romney did, mitt romney knew he would get rid of for that. he did it anyway.s frustrated. he's essentially saying, hey, guys, let me teach you how to throw a punch punch. you've let this gone too far. you shouldn't be waiting a couple of days before super tuesday, where you might fall so hopelessly behind you can't catch up. >> it's interesting, so many people have tried to define donald trump and he's resisted all efforts. nikki haley said, he's the angry guy, and he said, i am angry. i'll be the angry candidate. others have tried to say, he's a flip-flopper. he said, look, i was playing the game that i've played the game, i know how not to be vulnerable to anybody else who's trying to game me. >> even on taxes, he's inoculated himself by saying, look, i try to pay the lowest tax rate i can possibly pay. which is not -- you know, mitt romney had some problems on that front, because his tax rate was lower, because it was investment income. so i think in many ways, what amanda was talking about, the character, the temperament, all those -- i think it's been thr

mitt romney didn't fight hard enough, i will. mitt romney didn't win, i will. his supporters. you'll continue to see that, which is that's the past. i'm the future. >> do you think romney continues to kind of be in the forefront? >> i do. first he cares about the direction of this party -- sorry, the direction of the country and thinks it would be important for him to lead some of the criticism against somebody he thinks would be a -- would not be a good president. also would not be a good nominee for the party, a good representative of the party. he believes that's deeply and will continue to have a voice in this process. >> interesting. >> it's got to be incredibly frustrating for mitt romney. he's got to be tearing the beautiful head of hair out because, look, mitt romney got labelled a flip-flopper. donald trump has flip-flopped on every possible issue under the sun and yet the label has not stuck to him. >> different time. donald trump is seen as an antidote to the ills of that party and the process. >> donald trump has embraced his wealth and said i'm ver

donald trump has been feuding with mitt romney since the beginning of his campaign and yesterday romneyk his strongest swipe yet at republican front-runner. calling on the candidates to release their back taxes. a question that dogged his 2012 campaign suggesting trump has something to hide. >> frankly, i think we have good reason to believe that there's a bombshell

he came in third behind both mitt romney and ron paul. led in 14% of the vote and came in second. you know, that should have been kind of the end of that story, the first caucus. interesting, romney, ron paul, and mccain. that was only the beginning. because when you vote in the nevada republican caucus, they elect delegates to the state convention and it elects delegates to send to the national convention to select a presidential nominee. oh, democracy. and in 2008, when ron paul did not win on caucus day, his supporters decided that nevertheless, they would still out box the other campaign. they would still get all of their delegates sent to the state convention. so it was nuts. a couple months after these caucuses, which technically mitt romney had won, when the noh republicans gathered at their state convention, the ron paul delegates mutiny basically they took over. it was complete chaos. and what they were threatening to do is send a slate of themselves as ron paul delegates to the national convention, even though mitt romney had cau

this morning, a lot of talk about donald trump versus mitt romney after the last republican nominee called on the current frontrunner to be the next republican nominee. romney called on trump to release his taxes. this morning, donald trump seems to have a new stance on the issue. the billionaire businessman leaving open the possibility he will not release his taxes. he told anderson cooper overnight, he will make the determination over the next couple months. this comes after speculation from romney that trump could have something to hide. >> we have good reason to believe, frankly, there there's a bombshell in donald trump's taxes. >> what do you mean? >> i think there is something there. either he is not as wealthy as he says he is or he doesn't pay the taxes we expect him to pay or he is not giving money to the disabled vets like he says he is doing. that is the reason i think there is a bombshell in there. every time he is asked about the taxes, he dodges and delays and says we're working on it. >> my taxes are complicated. nobody's been bringing it up except mitt romney. he brings it

why is mitt romney relevant?n itself, suggesting there could be a bombshell in trump's tax returns. mitt romney channeling harry reid, it seems. >> this is so fascinating, chris. this debate comes at such a pivotal time. this could get very heated very fast. donald trump and marco rubio dropping hints they are preparing tonight to take each other on. >> i will be totally prepared. people have not done very well against me. >> the gop frontrunner is set to face-off with his four remaining rivals tonight in the last debate before super tuesday. >> so far everybody that has attacked me has gone down. >> donald trump already has double the number of delegates than his closest competitors, marco rubio and ted cruz combined. >> there has never been a candidate like trump. >> trump absent from the town hall last night, and they are arguing it's only a matter of time before his ballooning lead pops. >> we are the only campaign in the position to beat him on super tuesday. >> obviously, once this race begins to narrow a l

going to interview mitt romney, i was shocked to see him do this. >> yeah, mitt romney essentially was channeling his inner harry reid. harry reid said mitt romney hasn't paid tax, in ten years, and i can prove it. well, as it turns out mitt romney went on cavuto to say this about taxes and mr. trump. >> i think we have a good reason to believe there's a bombshell in donald trump's taxes. i think there's something there. either he's not as near wealthy as he says he is or he hasn't been paying the taxes we'd expect him to pay. or perhaps he's not giving money to the vets or disabled like he's been telling us he's doing. >> i did think it was kind of strange that donald trump released his financials and said, i got big beautiful taxes that's very complicated. nobody really has released their taxes, but i just believe this is beneath mitt romney. this was the mitt romney that was attacked ridiculously by harry reid, although he did it from the senate floor which was inappropriate. but just to come out and make accusations that we have reason to believe there's a bombshell. does he have a

mitt romney totally blew an election made him look like a fool playing tough guy. dumbest and worst candidates in the history of politics, pushing me on tax returns. dope. romney responded with a tweet of his own, me thinks the donald doth protest too much. show voters your back taxes. #what is he heightiiding. gop establishment, as for the man, establish the is turning to this election cycle to save the day from trump scenario, trump tweeted, why doesn't he endorse rubio already. he should have done it before nevada. joining me now, charlie pierce, writer for esquire, latest piece called republican bigwigs panicking about the trumpster monster. >> fascinating mitt romney, in trump's response, right. people wanted him to come out and endorse marco rubio, and people realize, that would be a disaster for rubio. it would be the end of his campaign. >> yeah, i don't know who it was that thought it was a good idea to light up the mitt signal, but mitt romney has less influence in the republican party now, than he did when he ran for president. he didn't have a lot then.

pull up a chair so we can hear mitt romney emasculated. >> mitt romney is pushing the untax returns. mitt romney who blew the election on tax returns is looking like a fool now playing tough guy. kennedy: anyone who runs for president is crazy, and anyone who thinks they will best donald trump on half cocked insults need on cart out on a stretcher and lobotomized. can rubio and cruz combine forces to stop trump? o.j. simpson's prison guard is going to be here. and he will tell me what happened when he asked o.j. if he killed his wife. find out how apple escalated it brawl with government surveillance. i'm kennedy. mitt rap any is joining the fray and the scramble against trump. let's ask the party panel tonight. joy is the co-host of red eye, steve smith is here, comedian and host of with part of the problem." tonight he will be part of the solution. mike barrack, former cia officer. so we'll start with you. is he projecting on to donald trump what he should really be telling harry reid? i mitt romney frustrated from 2012? >> why is he still upset? i have gotten over breakups sooner

speak of big money, mitt romney dropping a trump bombshell. here is the clip. >> we have good reason to believe there is a bombshell in donald trump's taxes. >> what do you mean? >> either he's not anywhere near as wealthy as he says he is or hasn't been paying the kind of taxes we expect him to pay, or perhaps he hasn't been giving money to the vets and disabled like he has been telling us he has been doing. deirdre: personal net worth statements. it's only a problem if you say those things under oath which apparently donald trump did. it could be a problem for the irs. if he's worth less than he says, it's not a problem for taxes, but overall it's a credibility issue. >> the establishment is expected to hurt trump, his manner, his speaking, his boorishness. people might be trusting he won't release them. i don't know what a bombshell means in some ways. i think we can expect -- deirdre: it's the implication of a lie. he's been covering up something and we'll unveil it. >> he could say he's worth a trillion dollars but combining all of his bu

fox news. >> i think mitt romney has a voters are entitled to know before they vote. you better believe if there's anything in there, democrats will go to town on this. >> reporter: marco rubio and ted cruz have the most to gain, both claim to be the best alternative to donald trump. >> he has alludeed to the fact he thinks part of obama care are pretty good. >> reporter: polls show cruz leading in his home state of texas by 15 points. donald trump leads marco rubio in his home state of florida by 16. >> anchor: texas is the biggest prize super tuesday. residents able to safely escape after fire broke out in catawba this morning near hickory. flames broke out 5:00 this morning in the basement of this home. the chief says heavy smoky filled the house, took firefighter about an hour to put out the fire. investigators are working to a lawsuit is being filed against the university area apartment complex where a unc charlotte student was shot in november. claiming they failed to provide safety for tenants. he was shot outside his apartment complex two days after thanksgivi

herman cain ran against mitt romney in 2012. the former presidential candidate and fox news contributor joins me now. herman what is romney doing here? >> melissa, i believe that was probably one of the most irresponsible speculations on part of mitt romney i anticipated. i don't know whether he came up with that all by himself or whether or not he was advised to say that. melissa: you don't think he knows something we don't? that he has some sort of information? >> he must know something that we don't. now here's my question, how would know something about somebody else's tax return if it hasn't been made public? i call this pure political noise, melissa. because if donald trump, ted cruz, rubio, if they released their tax returns, then nosey nitpickers are going to find something to have the irs chasing to create noise from the substantive issues. melissa, allow me to share with you a personal experience which is why i think this is crazy and it is irresponsible. back in 1994 i challenged bill clinton publicly in a town hall m

now mitt romney wants some answers.e still waiting for that from the trump campaign. ♪ lots of vitamins a&c, and, only 50 calories a serving... good morning, indeed. v8. veggies for all. >>> we have good reason to believe that there's a bombshell in donald trump's taxes. >>> what do you mean? >> well, i think there's something there. either he's not anywhere as wealthy as he says he is or he is not paying the taxes we would expect him to pay or perhaps he hand been giving money to the vets or the disabled like he's been telling us he's doing. >> all right. donald trump has not released the rurm. he says he's working on it. is this a smoking gun? hard to say. we'll see what happens. in the meantime a reminder. we have live coverage there was and other issues coming up. 10:00 a.m. to 12:00. don't forget fox business later that night. lou dobbs and then taking us to the vote in a crucial must-win for hillary clinton to prove that she is able to put bernie sanders away. we'll see. >>> hello, everyone. i'm kim we areally gui

mitt romney. more on that in a minute. cnn's phil mattingly with donald trump. >> reporter: good morning, john. the victory lap for donald trump after the nevada caucuses and looking ahead to hillary clinton. >> boy, oh, boy. she has become a marshmallow. everything the president does is wonderf wonderful. what she has done is so wrong and unfair. it looks like she will be the nominee and it looks like nothing will happen. it will be discussed. it will be discussed often, often. >> reporter: donald trump will be traveling across the deep south in the days ahead in the nod to super tuesday s.e.c. primary where 25% of available delegates will be up for grabs. if you talk to gop operatives across the campaigns, donald trump has momentum that cannot be halted. and the winner take all states like ohio and florida and governor kasich of ohio. guys, there is an urgency coming about the campaign. one thing to keep an eye on is the cnn debate in houston tonight. full frontal attacks on trump. look toward ted cruz and marco rubio. t

mitt romney tweeting out today we thinks the donald doth protest too much. is he hiding? donald trump unleashed his twitter machine mitt romney who was one of the dumbest and worst candidates in the history of republican politics is now push 'ing me on tax returns. dope. and then he had this. a picture. signing a recent tax return. isn't this ridiculous? and then saying i'm going to do what mitt romney was totally unable to do, win. we're back with the panel. judge? >> i think it's a popular issue to demand of people seeking the presidency that they show their tax returns. even though we saw donald trump's tax returns. they are three feet high would take an expert to go through them. it's irresponsible of mitt romney to use a phrase like "there might be a bombshell in there." this is a donald trump technique that he is using on donald trump. you might see how donald trump reacted to it but to suggest that there is something in there when, presumably, governor romney has not seen donald trump's tax returns, i think, is irresponsible. started a great debate. >

erica is here with mitt romney' s shot at his party' s early front-runner. erika: this latest fight coming just hours before another gop showdown. former republican nominee mitt romney saying there might be a bombshell somewhere in trump' s tax returns, which have not been released. >> he is not near as wealthy as he says he is or he is not been paying the kind of taxes we would expect him to pay or he has not been giving money to the vet or the disabled, like he has been telling us he is doing. erika: four years ago romney asked for, and received, trump' s endorsement for president. romney in typical trump fashion, on twitter, mitt romney, who totally blew an election that should have been won and whose tax returns made him look like a fool, is now playing tough guy. when mitt romney asked me for my endorsement last time around, he was so awkward and goofy that we all should have known he could not win. the gop field debates tonight in texas with super tuesday now just days away. emily? emily: on the democrat side, hillary clinton is in south weekend' s pri

mitt romney has suggested there could be a couple of people in there that could be a bombshell. one, trump is not as wealthy as he said he is or you two, in romney's predictions, that it's entirely possible that trump has not been doing as much charitable giving as he's suggested, particularly to veterans groups. maybe that will somehow be lacking and blow him up in that regard, gretchen. >> very interesting. carl, thank you. >>> for more on this, fox news contributor, bill whitman. tony, nobody cares if donald trump is not as rich as he says that he is, $4 billion, right? i mean, i don't think anybody cares about that. i'm just talking about what we've seen so far in this campaign. will people care if his charitable giving is not as much as he's said or hasn't said? i don't think so. i don't know though. what do you think? >> you're right on this. i think donald trump can't wait to share his tax returns with the american people and i think it's ironic that if this is somehow a coordinated attack from the establishment against donald trump, that they would pick mitt romney of all

and mitt romney's impact on this is an interesting sort of a side bar to it. onald trump's obviously not running against the 2012 nominee, and mitt had plenty of issues over his own taxes, and one thing the republican party did to him was call him the veil tour capitalist -- vulture capitalist and say he was paying too few taxes or heirs charitable donations wouldn't be adequate or acceptable, and when he released them, up no of that proved to be true and wasq'ç%-n. part of the process is the longer you've wait, the more the anticipation, and sometimes it fizzles out. if mr. trump thinks that is what will happen6asn]8i with his, hes leading everyone down a primrose path and he charges forth. the emphasis is this debate in texas. and upcoming on super tuesday. this is ted cruz's home state, all of his rivals will be coming at him hard tonight in the belief they can gate bad performance out of ted crews -- will cut him out at the ankles on super tuesday. >> thank you very much. now back -- to donald trump and on this whole tax issue. it is not as if he has been s

mitt romney threw that out there. that mitt romney doesn't pay his taxes. that hurt romney in the election. now, romney goes after trump in exactly the same way, surely romney should come could clean and tell us what the challenge is based on. he said we have good reason to believe. stuart: okay, what reason? what's your evidence? what do yo

other people say mitt romney is a big guy.s what's up with the tax returns of the wealthy and maybe he knows something. which is it? >> to be fair, i'm donald trump's tax returns are complicated. there's a lot of money and lots of companies. i'm sure it's a lot process toing to figure out how to release that. sometimes i think donald trump sounds like hillary clinton. that's why planned parenthood was out thanking donald trump for all the nice things he's been saying. it cuts both ways on this issue. >> let's talk about tonight's debate and where the attacks will come from. rubio is now on the attack. cruz has upped his attack. it will probably be krooucruz a rubio ganging up on trump. >> i see that. all eyes are on the front-runner. everyone wants to attack donald trump. that's the thing that's going to be so successful and fruitful for donald trump is that he is be best when he's on the attack. we haven't seen him attack rubio yet. i think we'll see that tonight for the first time. there's a lot of ammo there. rubio has to a

. >> after his landslide victory in nevada donald trump is now tangling with mitt romney over his tax returns but he's also trading jabs with the other gop candidates who are struggling to catch up. >> it's "your voice, your vote." we get the latest from abc's kenneth moton. good morning, kenneth. >> reporter: good morning, reena and kendis. it is a case of irony. millionaire mitt romney was criticized about his own tax returns but now he's making billionaire donald trump. hours before severe weather ripped through virginia overnight, donald trump was on the ground rallying supportersrs talking running mates. >> i do want somebody that's political because i want to get lots of great legislation that we all want passed. >> reporter: trump was a no-show for a republican town hall on fox news hosted by megyn kelly who had a very public feud with the gop front-runner. the candidates lined up as they worked to take down trump. >> we are not going to allow the conservative movement to be defined by a nominee who is not a conservative. >> reporter: all four promise to release tax returns thi

mitt romney said his comments were disqualifying. but the big question is whether states in terms of votes, and super tuesday is looming very quickly, tomorrow, and it's unclear whether this will change the way that people vote when they head to the polls. >> he romney tweet i thought was notable in its forcefulness, as you put it. we have seen now a little bit of -- we saw him last week, we're seeing him again now. should we expect to see him on the trail now, out campaigning against donald trump? >> well, the big question is whether mitt romney will actually endorse someone. it would be hard for him to show up on the campaign trail and simply be against donald trump and not for someone else. the rubio campaign has been working hard for this endorsement. a lot of former romney staffers are either working for rubio or backing his campaign so we would seem like the most natural candidate for romney to endorse. but there is something happening with mitt romney. he seems to be taking this very seriously, the idea of donald trump become

one of the dumbest and worst candidates in history. >> nobody has been bringing it up except for mitt romney. >> ted cruz chimed in at a presidential candidate forum. >> i think mitt has a good point that voters are entitled to know before they vote because the democrats, if there's anything in there, they will go to town on this. >> both claim to be the best >> he has alluded to the fact that parts of obama care are pretty good. >> trump leads rubio by 16. mollie: tonight's debate is at 7:30 p.m. and can be seen on cnn. fire rescue crews worked feverishly performing cpr on a female inmate. helping to fight a seven acre brush fire, the woman was airlifted to the medical center. our newscast. all seven crewmembers have been rescued from the fishing boat that ran aground in queens. the coast guard got that call this morning. hansen had stepped down from their coaching positions. the couple 16 championships in their 46 seasons coaching together. this year, they lost in the regional finals. they had been coaching since 1982. let's check back with jason. jason: i feel like i have a bucket of good

turning to politics -- we did not get a mitt romney endorsement, but we have gotten a former candidate out donald trump on taxes. romney and trump have been dueling on twitter. to sort this all out, let's bring in john heilemann. us.s live at with so much better to see you. we like when it works out that way. spat onyou make of this twitter going back and forth? john: great to be with you. we were just having a discussion that tracy and carol is confusing because they can be named for men or women. very confusing. , like every romney other member of the republican establishment is horrified that donald trump may be the nominee. and it mitt romney is trying to figure out more than one different way to stop that from happening. he may endorse marco rubio or ted cruz. maybe john kasich. in the meantime, he has decided trump game.the stop senate majority leader harry reid demanded mitt romney he said taxes and then the taxes he released were not completely legitimate and that romney took great umbrage at himy reid making demands on and now romney has turned into harry reid and is doing the

millionaire mitt romney was criticized in 2012 about his own tax returns but now he's making similar attacks against billionaire donald trump. hours before severe weather ripped through virginia the ground rallying supporters, talking running mates. >> i do want somebody that's political because i want to get lots of great legislation that we all want passed. >> reporter: trump was a no-show for a republican town hall on fox news hosted by megyn kelly the gop front-runner. the candidates lined up as they worked to take down trump. >> we are not going to allow the defined about i a nominee who isn't a conservative. >> reporter: all four promise to release tax returns this week after mitt romney called on them to do so. the 2012 gop nominee even said he believes there's a quote bombshell in trump's taxes. >> when people decide they don't want to give you their taxes something they don't want you to see. attack and tweeted mitt romney who totally blew an election that should have been won and whose tax returns made him look like a fool is now playing tough guy. >> well, hello. alpha kap

i lost 26 pounds and i have >>> taking a look at our top story, donald trump firing back at mitt romney after romney challenged him to release his tax returns. romney believes there may be a bombshell in trump's taxes. the republicans debate tonight in houston. >>> a new isis video threatens mark zuckerberg and jack dorsey, the head of twitter. isis says it's responding to anti-terror efforts by the two tech giants. >>> nasty storms leave a path of destruction. tornadoes killing at least four people in virginia while nearly a foot of wind and snow cause flight cancellations and impassable roads in the midwest. >>> looking at today's weather, dry and warming up in the west. snow showers around the great lakes. mostly dry in the east and deep down in the south it looks like it's going to be kind of nice. >> not bad at awe. >>> finally this morning as we count down to sunday night's >> and when it all comes down to it it revolves around what's in the envelope. brandi hitt. >> reporter: they are the best secret keepers in hollywood. martha ruiz and brian cohen set to carry those famous brie

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