what do we know about mitt romney?n evangelical, ivy league-educated, and he's from massachusetts, so just at face value, he's not a natural fit. - i was seen as being moderate because i was from massachusetts, and-- and that obviously was a challenge. - yes, sir. howdy. - when rick perry got in, big state governor, he was 10 to 15 points ahead. shot to the top of the polls. natural kind of guy that republicans would nominate. - one of the areas in which they went after rick perry was to position mitt romney to his right on the issue of immigration. - everyone said, "oh, if rick perry gets in the race, it's his to win," and i knew we had a secret weapon on our side, which was my dad. - mitt is an incredible debater. he always walked onto the debate stage with a goal in mind for that particular debate. - texas has had 60% increase in illegal immigrants in texas. - the high point of illegal immigration was 1995 to 2000. all: el pueblo unido jamás será vencido. - we as latinos are being made the scapegoats for the socio-e

mitt romney? republican party has watched amazed as mitt has gone off script, way off script to take on donald trump. >> whatever happened to trump airlines? how about trump university? >> for a guy who really let us down. mitt romney, it's sad. >> then there's trump magazine. you say, wait, wait, wait. isn't he a huge business success? >> he is a sad case. he choked. do you know what a choke artist is? >> when my grand kids say what did you do on stop donald trump, i want to be able to say something. i was not going to stay on the sidelines. >> back in 2013, even before there was a trump, romney talked about running for president a third time. >> it never goes away. you always want to be president. if you wanted to be president one day, you want to be president until the day you die. >> it is a real thrill. an experience we will never forget. and frankly, i would do it again. >> you would? again? >> i would do it again. but it's not my time. >> okay. i'll go with that. >> i would love to do it ag

>> looks. >> mitt romney and obama appear about equal.candidate. at this obama rally, people were already seated behind the podium when a staffer, highlighted here, came on stage and got some white people to move out. >> if you look at a candidate for president, he's got a bunch of people behind him, half will be men, half will be women. >> and a certain number will be of a different race. in this case, the result is that the camera now will see some minorities behind obama. >> there will be a percentage of blacks, hispanics, a percentage of asians. that's the way you do it. >> i thought it just worked out that way. >> you did? that's why you're sitting where you're sitting and i'm sitting where i'm sitting. you don't have a clue how this works. >> people have to be cynical about baby kissing. >> kids are a particular attraction. i like to use kids. i'm always worried they'll pick up a baby and drop it. >> how much superficialallity, >> how much superficialallity, but for all ♪rock guitar ♪yeah ♪(rock music) ♪you can't do this, you can't

>> looks. >> mitt romney and obama appear about equal.ltants even worry about the people who stand behind the candidate. at this obama rally, people were already seated behind the podium when a staffer, highlighted here, came on stage and got some white people to move out. >> if you look at a candidate for president, he's got a bunch of people behind him, half will be men, half will be women. >> and a certain number will be of a different race. in this case, the result is that the camera now will see some minorities behind obama. >> there will be a percentage of blacks, hispanics, a percentage of asians. that's the way you do it. >> i thought it just worked out that way. >> you did? that's why you're sitting where you're sitting and i'm sitting where i'm sitting. you don't have a clue how this works. >> people have to be cynical about baby kissing. >> kids are a particular attraction. i like to use kids. i'm always worried they'll pick up a baby and drop it. >> how much superficialallity, but for all happy birthday! ♪music ♪music thank yo

, carl brought up mitt romney so i'll bring up mitt romney. he didn't hi he would ask mitt romney to prove he was born in the u.s. or for john mccain is that correct? >> i agree. i definitely think that's true, brooke, we have to acknowledge there's a heavy race element into what donald trump has done with this birtherism. he has engaged in racist rhetoric and bigoted language and we're wrestling with the issue of race. you have folks that are -- >> because you guys keep bringing it up. >> pardon me, bruce, did anybody interrupt you? i'm speaking. donald trump is the person that brought this up. his took place the "washington post" -- >> he never brought race up into the birther irv shoe. you did. >> bruce, black people in this country, people of color, mexicans, hispanic, native americans, we can be the most educated folks in the room, the most knowledgeable people in the room, the most brilliant but the moment we get in charge of something somebody -- it seems someone is always questioning if we deserve to be there, if we are legitimately ta

with me, former mitt romney campaign adviser, stuart stevens. corey lewandowski. clinton supporter, national moveon.org spokesperson, karine jean-pierre. and gloria borger. karine, do you think this has lasting repercussions for secretary clinton? it does play into, you know, some of the suggestions and narrative that we've been hearing from donald trump and the donald trump campaign. does it have lasting repercussions? >> i think it has a -- it's a distraction, right, but no lasting effect. look, she has a common illness that 5 million to 10 million americans get every day, right, and in the short term she'll get over this and she'll move on. >> isn't it more about how the campaign handled it and not disseminating the information even on that day after people knew something was going on? >> the campaign has said themselves, look, they could have handled this a lot better. they're right. they could have done that. one thing i wanted to point out, you had sanjay gupta in the 8:00 hour. he was able to list out all of the medications that hillary clinton takes and th

it's mitt romney. this is a question posed to mitt romney. let's begin with this question. >> who would youic pk to play each other in themovi >> let's see. >> all right. who does mitt romney pick to play his wife in the movie? here are your choices. natalie schafer? please tell me gene hackman or carrot to tell me he didn't say carrot top. >> i would love for it to be d. but let's go a, ann hathaway. >> take a look. >> you think about that. my favorite actor is gene hackman. i'like gen hackman. >> of all the could have picked jessica alba but with his wife next to him he says gene hackman to play his wife. he could have said james comwell. but he still in a little bit of a hole. the question now is how does he what does he say? here are the choices. a, i love gene hackman, what can i say. c, i meant to say gene kelly or, d, he didn't say yeah. what was that movie, bird cage? >> man, these are so tough. let's see. let's go with a. i love gene hackman what can i say. >> what was that movie he was in? bird cage. >> yes. got him by referring to

no, he wouldn't take advice. >> mitt romney wouldn't have? >> he would never do it. and immune to this in a certain way. look, roger ailes could help donald trump in these debates, he's pretty good at it. >> and that's why he's helping. that's the bottom line. that is why he's helping. yes, they are friends and they have been friends, i'm told, by many people who have talked on the phone obviously during his fox years but since he was fired from fox. and roger ailes has attended at least a couple of donald trump's sunday debate sessions. as suzanne said, maybe he's not a debate coach but he doesn't have a coach. i'm told he is working with him on the things that roger ailes made his name on, which is the one-liners and sort of channelling donald trump into something that is authentic to him but that is more palatable and memorable in terms of -- >> kirsten, we understand the clinton campaign is doing a deep dive on trigger points for donald trump as well. it makes sense to have somebody from a purely debate standpoint i would assume -- >> if you take out all of the s

seemingly just to provoke a response from the nominee, such as an anonymous source telling him that mitt romney hadn't paid any taxes for a decade. not true. but romney did budge. and finally he joined the ranks of presidential nominees to release tax returns. how do i remember such an obscure date? someone was lashing out at romney after a person insinuated that trump was hiding his tax returns. that person decided to vet their anger on twitter. mitt romney didn't show his tax return until september 21, then only after being humiliated by harry r. a bad messenger for the estab. you might be thinking to yourself, wait a second. donald trump hasn't released his tax returns, correct? ro don't worry. senator reed is on the case. >> donald trump desperately wants people to believe that he's a brilliant, rich, rich businessman. in reality he's a silver spoon toting fraud who would never make in it the real world without his father's money. >> on the floor of the senate, harry reid's full assault, thing 2, in just 60 seconds. >>> senator harry reid managed to shame mitt romney into releasing his tax

obama came in about four or five points ahead of mitt romney. ame out of it about a point and a half, to points ahead. didn't went the election for romney. that's the wildcard. people on the trump side say even if donald trump didn't win the first debate, neither did mitt romney or barack obama or george bush. george w. bush in '04, you came in ahead. when you're obama in '12, you are ahead. you can take a loss. >> so we'll watch to see what the effect is on the polls and the durability. but he's in a worst place than she is. stay with us. >>> are you registered to vote? do you know for sure? do you definitely remember registering? i'm going to put in four slides. if your state begins with a-f, it's listed here. that's the date by which you have to be registered if you want to vote in this year's presidential election. as you can see, time is getting short. these are states g through l. you see registration deadlines. generally this is the date in which a registration has to be postmarked. here's the third. these are states that begin with m and

. >> he might think he can have an kmalkt, but i don't believe that's possible. >> in 2012 when mitt romney said u that russia was the nation's number one geopolitical foe and they mocked him for it, i think that it's possible that romney was right and the generals all say russia is the number one geopolitical foe. i think a lot of people out there watching think -- you weren't saying that in 2012. but a lot of people are getting whiplash. they are saying now russia is our number one foe. four years ago the media was mocking republicans for saying that. >> i i wouldn't say russia is the number one foe. counterterrorism, top of the list. north korea, russia, china, they are all in a group at the top. russia has been an adversary for a long time. somebody who has been in the intelligence business knows that. they never stopped play iing th intelligence game. this is a bad guy. this is a thug and a bully. s that guy who only understands relative power. this is a guy that doesn't believe it's possible to sit down and have a negotiation. this is a guy who if he punches you in the face, you have

. >> they were comparing this with mitt romney. people are insulting each other, but when you unresult people, the voters, that's what she did. right or wrong? >> she meant to say this. mitt romney gave an off the cuff remark that people are dependent on the government and it is hard to not vote democrat and want to expand government. this was prepared text she read from.. she snickered and laughed and her millionaire friends thought it was hilarious. they were laughing and cheering her on. she thought it was perfectly fine. but then when peoplewreact to the fact that you are offending huge portions of the american people who live outside the palace gates and live outside the belt way and live outside beverly hills and the other fancy places she is raising money from and she is insulting them for agreeing. >> and many are independents. >> they are independents. >> that is the massive swath of people they are both going after. she is insulting a lot of people. this is not a partisan race. this is not a typical race in any sense. if

seemingly just to provoke a response from the nominee, such as an anonymous source telling him that mitt romneyt paid any taxes for a decade. not true. but romney did budge. and finally he joined the ranks of presidential nominees to release tax returns. how do i remember such an obscure date? someone was lashing out at romney after a person insinuated that trump was hiding his tax returns. that person decided to vet their anger on twitter. mitt romney didn't show his tax return until september 21, then only after being humiliated by harry r. a bad messenger for the estab. you might be thinking to yourself, wait a second. donald trump hasn't released his tax returns, correct? ro don't worry. senator reed is on the case. >> donald trump desperately wants people to believe that he's a brilliant, rich, rich businessman. in reality he's a silver spoon toting fraud who would never make in it the real world without his father's money. >> on the floor of the senate, harry reid's full assault, thing 2, in just 60 seconds. ♪ ♪ ♪ geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. ♪ ♪ take on any road with in

educated voters, independents, even republicans -- he's really underperforming mitt romney with those kind of groups and it's a electorate. there was a thought by the trump campaign that they could make minority communities. we've seen them do outreach but not seen minority communities open to that. gwen: i would dare say he's not appealing to minority communities but to people who may be offended that he's not appealing to minority communities and when you go to a black church at the age of 70 after having lived in new york whole life and you've never been to one before, that seems, notn't know -- maybe unusual for most people but very unusual for a presidential candidate. dan: one interesting thing we'll watch is whether we've moved persuasion part of this campaign. most people have ideas of what they think about these and reallyright now what it's about is convincing the people who are already leaning your direction to actually come out and vote, in a year where enthusiasm is herhtly better for him than but pretty low. the electorate is not excited election, even if we're fascinate

i mean, this has been the centerpiece with mitt romney.became an issue in 2012, but it was not the defining issue of the campaign.ca this was the defining issue for donald trump, by his own volition, when he came in. he made this an issue, not thattism congratulations had noh been a controversial issue inis the country, but he made it the centerpiece of his candidacy and he is consistently spoken in disparaging, pray jourtive, ugly terms about undocumented -- there niece undocumented immigrants who graduated as valedictorians of their school, joined the united states military and served the country well. he treats them all as though they're criminal suspects.su >> sreenivasan: david brooks,oo i heard your doubt on the building of the wall and who'swh going to pay for it. really, that has become not just one to have the slogans, but he repeats it at every speech, every opportunity he gets, not so much in front of the mexican president, but certainly when he came back, and you're saying, no, we won't actually build that wall? well, you know,

a group mitt romney won by 14 points. is only leading clinton by 11 points among all white voters. this will pose a major challenge for donald trump. mitt romney won these white voters by a 20-point margin fur years ago. and remember, whites are still the biggest part of the electorate, so that nine-point difference is enormous. this is the problem for trump. he has to do much better than mitt romney somewhere to win. because romney lost in 2012. it's not going to happen with african-americans. we know it's not going to happen with latinos. and if it's not going to happen with young voters, it's got to happen one place. the one place it has to happen is the white vote. romney won the biggest share of the white vote since 1988 and still lost. clinton has her own struggles but tpsz hait's hard to see a p the presidency for trump if he doesn't dramatically improve somewhere particularly amidst college educated whites zblmpls co . >>> coming up, debate moments we remember but i'm sure the candidates would like to forget. >> r

mitt romney won these white voters by a 20-point margin four years ago.r, whites are still the biggest part of the electorate. that nine point difference is enormous. this is the problem for trump. he has to do better than mitt romney somewhere to win because romney lost in 2012. it's not going to happen with african-americans. we know it's not going to happen with latinos. if it's not going to happen with young voters, it has to happen some place. the one place it has to happen for him is the white folk. romney won the biggest share of the white vote since 1988 and still lost. clinton has her own struggles. it's hard to see a path to the presidency for trump if he doesn't improve somewhere, particularly amid college educated whites. coming up, some debate moments we remember that i'm sure the candidates would like to forget. >> let's see. i can't. the third one, i can't. sorry. oops. ♪ using 60,000 points from my chase ink card i bought all the framework... wire... and plants needed to give my shop... a face... no one will forget. see what the power of p

you've got a medical report on me that meets the same standard as mitt romney and barack obama. trump's doctor said he would be the healthiest president in history. that is not serious. i released 40 years of actitax returns. he has not released one. this is a man with unknown partners and investors who says he is doing 120 foreign deals. the american people deserve to know what he is up to and what he is hiding. i talked to my staff. we take responsibility for that. the information is out there. you can't say the same thing about donald trump. >> brian fallon from your campaign said your campaign will release more records. i know donald trump said he has had a physical on friday and will release that soon. will you be releasing more details about your medical history and do you know how detailed it will be? how far back it will go? will it include 2012 when you fell and hit your head? >> we will be releasing more information. i think it is fair to say we already met the standard of disclosure of past presidential candidates like mitt romney and president obama. we'll add more i

mitt romney made a mistake. something that's done two weeks before the first debate, i think she's sharpened the focus on who tru to associate with trump. when you realize and think about it, trump is not your normal conservative. >> but to say that half of his supporters. >> she said she was generalizing but the point and i think the point taken away from this, the republican point is the one about condecension. trump is trying to mainstream a lot of fringe groups, the birthers, racists. 35% of americans think trump is a racist. about 56% think he has negative attitudes towards women, immigrants and minorities. so for them to say that there are a b group of people who associate with trump who have deplorable views i don't think is that shocking. i think the question is how do they take hillary clinton. hillary clinton's democratic supporters aren't turned off by this at all. the question is about independents. i think independent minded republican, college educated women. how will they react? >> lisa, trump had

or florida, you know, when you do the math, would that be enough to hold on to those states that mitt romneymney won in 2012. >> here is the problem for trump. not only would he have to sweep all of those states that you listed ass to ups and i don't agree all of them are toss ups. i think one are another. >> sure. >> even if he won all of them, he would have to turn a blue state red in order to win. so is it possible? of course it's possible. is it likely? it doesn't seem so now. >> why the tightening. why are we seeing the tightening? >> part of it is natural. inevitably clinton's convention dance was going to fade. it's completely gone. we are really back to the numbers we had in june. you know, we're a polarized country. we're relative lly closely divided. democrats have an edge. that shows up. >> when we see the sharpening comments from the clinton campaign. they're aiming at something rating high in terms of they can move them from one category to another. the gender gap? the gender space they're looking at here? >> i think it has to be a combination of things. it has to be geared to i

mitt romney won by 20 points four years ago. remember, whites are still the biggest part of the electorate. that nine point difference is enormous. this is the problem for trump. he has to do better than mitt romney somewhere to win because romney lost in 2012. it's not going to happen with african-americans. we know it's not going to happen with latinos. if it's not going to happen with young voters, it has to happen one place. romney still lost. clinton has her own struggles. it's hard to see a path to the presidency for trump if he doesn't improve somewhere, particularly amid college educated whites. some debate moments we remember that i'm sure the candidates would like to forget. >> let's see. i can't. the third one, i can't. sorry. oops. hey, jesse. who are you? i'm vern, the orange money retirement rabbit from voya. yep, vern from voya. why are you orange? that's a little weird. really? that's the weird part in this scenario? look, orange money represents the money you put away for retirement. save a little here and there

obama came in about four or five points ahead of mitt romney. of it about a point and a half, to points ahead. didn't went the election for romney. that's the wildcard. people on the trump side say even if donald trump didn't win the first debate, neither did mitt romney or barack obama or george bush. george w. bush in '04, you came in ahead. when you're obama in '12, you are ahead. you can take a loss. >> so we'll watch to see what the effect is on the polls and the durability. but he's in a worst place than she is. stay with us. marco...! polo! marco...! polo! marco...! polo! marco...! polo! marco...! sì? polo! marco...! polo! scusa? ma io sono marco polo, ma... marco...! playing "marco polo" with marco polo? surprising. ragazzini, io sono marco polo. sì, sono qui... what's not surprising? how much money amanda and keith saved by switching to geico. ahhh... polo. marco...! polo! fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. polo! tmom didn't want another dog. she said it's too much work. lulu's hair just floats. uhh help me! (doorbe

obama came in about four or five points ahead of mitt romney. out of it about a point and a half, to points ahead. didn't went the election for romney. that's the wildcard. people on the trump side say even if donald trump didn't win the first debate, neither did mitt romney or barack obama or george bush. george w. bush in '04, you came in ahead. when you're obama in '12, you are ahead. you can take a loss. >> so we'll watch to see what the effect is on the polls and the durability. but he's in a worst place than she is. stay with us. on the road again ♪ [ front assist sounds ] [ music stops ] [ girl laughs ] ♪ on the road again ♪ like a band of gypsies we go down the highway ♪ [ beetle horn honks ] no matter which passat you choose, you get more standard features, for less than you expected. hurry in and lease the 2017 passat s for just $199 a month. what would help is simply being able to recognize a fair price. truecar has pricing data on every make and model, so all you have to do is search for the car you want, there it is. now you're an e

let's talk about what happened to mitt romney back when he went after some other folks on, you know, he basically said that there's 47% of americans out there that, you know, don't really have any skin in the game. and this cost him. let's take a walking down memory lane. here's mitt romney. >> there are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what, all right? there are 47% who are with him, who believe that they're victims, who believe that the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they're entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. it's an entitlement, the government should give it to them. and they will vote for this president no matter what. trish: david, it was very hard for him to recover from that. that was really a turning point in his campaign. do you think this is a similar turning point in hillary clinton's campaign? >> it really isn't for the liberals because they've lined up, those that like hillary like hillary, those that like trump like trump. we'll see the polls on thursday, that'll be the real testin

deidentical to mitt romney the d president obama.ally identical to president obama the lead over mitt romney. hillary clinton is leading among college-educated white voters. white collar voters. no republican nominee in the history of polling has ever lost those voters. as long as clinton retains those voters, like in pennsylvania, colorado, west virginia, combination of college whites and minority trend makes it an uphit climb for donald trump. >> glad you brought it up. the minority bandwagon donald trump jumped on a couple weeks ago, that poll showed whether or not it was working. broad strokes here. asked if donald trump is or isn't biased against women and minorities, 66% said he is. >> 74% of minorities said he is in that poll. >> i could break the demographics one. the most important, the one you mentioned. the message they say it was aimed at. college educated whites. 57% of college educated whites said donald trump is prejudiced. that may not have been working. that whole minority outreach. erroll, you're in new york, that's

mitt romney won by 20 points four years ago. remember, whites are that nine point difference is enormous. this is the problem for trump. he has to do better than mitt romney somewhere to win because romney lost in 2012. it's not going to happen with african-americans. we know it's not going to happen with latinos. if it's not going to happen with young voters, it has to happen one place. the one place is the white vote. romney still lost. clinton has her own struggles. it's hard to see a path to the particularly amid college educated whites. some debate moments we remember that i'm sure the candidates would like to forget. >> let's see. i can't. th whoa. what's going on here? oh hey allison. i'm val, the orange money retirement squirrel from voya. val from voya? yeah, val from voya. quick question, what are voya retirement squirrels doing in my house? we're putting away acorns. you know, to show the importance of saving for the future. no, i'm more like a metaphor. okay, a spokes-metaphor. no, i'm... you're a spokes-metaphor. ye

let's go back, take a trip back to the very first barack obama-mitt romney debate back in 2012. f the pundits said that romney had actually won that debate. let listen to david axelrod's spin post that debate. >> the president brought his c game. what's going on here? >> i wasn't surprised governor romney gave an energetic performance, he's been practicing since june. he's a very good debater, particularly when he's on the attack. >> i'm going to break my tradition of going to the folks that aren't at the table i have to come to karine, you're an alum of the obama campaign world. >> it's his job. axelrod is a senior strategist, communicator. >> and a very good one. >> and a very good one. it was his job to do what we just saw. toif say, joy, when it comes to spin room, most voters get their information through social media, partisan media. so voters don't care about the spin. we do. pundits do. it's important to us. i think at the end of the day, the truth is the best spin when it comes to voters. >> that is true. i'll start with you, e.j., voters really take their own council, g

mitt romney with the 47% regretted saying that.ryan, is there an equivalency here. >> these all happened at private fund-raisers. that's why there's only audio. i want to know what these politicians really think behind closed doors at the events we can't afford to attend. i want to know how they feel about the electorate. those were called gaffes in 2008 and 2012. we don't have that anymore. they have been rendered obsolete by this election. seems like donald trump has proved that with a series of things that are gaffes. maybe that's what clinton was doing last night. i'm not sure she regrets saying it. >> it's interesting because i want to get you in here. bryan talked about the lack of political correctness and what she said. that's what trump has been saying this whole time. we're too politically correct. >> that is true. what i think something we have missed is how loud the audience laughed. that's interesting that they laughed after it. the words that she used that followed it, those are not laughing matters. if there's a grou

chris walace, the final debatist, said he will let them fact check each other. >> you remember with mitt romney crowley. that got chatter after the debate saying she shouldn't have fact checked romney. >> we live in area era where nobody cares about facts anymore. right? this has been a pretty fact free 2016. you think about when you come up with stats about law enforcement or climate change, people make up their minds on an emotional level. nobody is listening anymore. i think the moderator is like a three way mirror. it's to show you how everything looks all around. he's not supposed to -- the question is, somebody lies to you, what lie insults you the most? when somebody lie to you and it's -- they expect you to be dumb enough to believe that lie. that's the person you don't vote for. >> there you go. what about tonight and the role of lester holt? >> there's a lot of equivalency going on here between clinton and trump. the reason this issue is so large, has to do with the fact that when you look at the major claims made by the candidate, trump is rated as having made 60% false claims versus

he did the same thing in 2012 against mitt romney, at the time falsely saying that mitt romney never received his income taxes. b but they said he should use his perks to go after a presidential candidate, and that's why they're doing it so aggressively in the last two weeks. >> anderson, a new cnn poll shows hillary clinton and donald trump in this race closer than ever. the big leap he had back in august has vanished and while both candidates have record high unfavorable ratings, clinton a of likely wood better describes donald trump. 36% said hillary clinton. those are the latest numbers on the so-called trust gap hgd into this high stakes debate tonight. joining us now, donna brazil, the interim chair of the national democratic committee. thank you for coming in. >> great to see you, as always, wolf. >> harry reid said donald trump flat out on the senate floor is a racist. do you agree? >> harry reid is a great public server and he's not on the ballot this fall. i'm a person who i can't tell you what's in your heart. but i can tell you based on what i've seen and the things i've