no one is calling mitt romney stupid. >> mitt romney is drowning in stupid people. they work for his campaign, they send clint eastwood out on the convention stage, they contribute money to his campaign. they ask him incredibly stupid questions at his fundraisers when we now have on tape. but as that same tape proves, the very stupidest person in mitt romney's life tonight is mitt romney. >> well, okay, but that was like 24 hours ago, which is like a year ago in this story so i forget about that part. what i meant to say is no republicans are calling him stupid. but wait, i guess a few are. so some are calling him stupid, but not all of them. but they will, all be calling him stupid around 9:00 p.m. on election night. tonight, nate silver of the new york times blog's forecasts that on that night, president obama will win 305 votes and president obama has a 75% chance of winning the election. >> that was a long lonely piece of tape. he was not for romney at the beginning. it was the establishment types that were for romney. rush was hoping for someone real and conser

mitt romney contradicted once again, mitt romney. and in the rewrite tonight, the things paul ryan can't say anymore thanks to mitt romney. for example, paul ryan never talks about the cayman islands anymore. and he used to talk about the cayman islands. and tomorrow is the last day that crazy congressman todd akin can drop out of the senate race whichever republican including mitt romney wants him to do. so why was newt gingrich at todd akin's side today urging him to stay in. newt can't stop making trouble for mitt. that's coming up. i'm so g lad you called. thank you. we're not in london, are we? no. why? apparently my debit card is. what? i know. don't worry, we have cancelled your old card. great. thank you. in addition to us monitoring your accounts for unusual activity, you could also set up free account alerts. okay. [ female announcer ] at wells fargo we're working around the clock to help protect your money and financial information. here's your temporary card. welcome back. how was london? [ female announcer ] wells fargo.

mitt romney is telling nbc news, the race is tied. really? oduce the romney campaign to the concept of arithmetic. this is "the ed show," let's get to work. >> president obama and i both care about poor and middle class families. the difference is, my policies will make things better for them. >> mitt romney is still trying to clean up his 47% problem and america isn't buying it. tonight, e.j

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bob shrum on the victims mitt romney is dismissing. and richard wolf on romney's disastrous view of the middle east. >>> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. for the better part of the year, mitt romney struggled to let voters know who he is. finally the real mitt romney stood up and it's not a pretty sight and very confusing. the hidden camera video from a fundraiser has been released in full. at one point during the $50,000 per plate dinner, romney talked about how he is refining his stump speech. less than 60 seconds after romney said president obama puts americans against each other, romney answered this question. >> romney claims the president is causing resentment mean americans. but romney himself is outlining a class war between two distinct halves of the country. romney stumbled to address the comments he made at a fundraiser in a late news conference last night. but romney made the matters only worse for himself. >> it's not elegantly stated. i'm speaking off the cuff in response to a question. i'm sure i could state

bill crystal is defending mitt romney. he says romney is right to seize on this moment as an occasion to explain the difference between his foreign policy and president obama's. he's right to reject the counsel of the main stream media. how would you respond to that? >> i think bill crystal has a lot of equity in the romney/ryan ticket and he's trying to defend what i think is indefensible. what bill is not getting and what americans are becoming to get, it's not just this abhorrent day where he used the debt of an ambassador and a staff to take a political swipe of obama, incredibly unamerican act. but when you add it up with what was supposed to be a safe trip to israel, england and poland that really blue it up on romney, when you add it up with his comments about russia in the past, and you basically see a guy who's so mal adroit at large, his first two speeches had no sense. i've been trying to give him the benefit of the doubt at the time i said bad speech but he's got relatively good advisers around him. but those wh

tax fairness is one of mitt romney's biggest problems. i have to tell you no wage earner i have spoken with thinks romney's 13 or 14% rate is fair. let's hear mitt romney's take on it one more time. >> is that fair to the guy who makes $50,000 and paid a higher rate than you? >> it is a low rate and one of the reasons the capital gains tax rate is lower because capital has already been taxed once at the corporate level. >> so you think it is fair? >>, yeah, i think it's the right way to encourage economic growth to get people to invest, start business, put people to work. >> let's turn to analyst richard wolffe and dean baker, co-director for the center for economic and policy research and author of the book "the end of loser liberalism." gentlemen, good to have you with us. richard, mitt romney overpaid to get a 14% tax rate. how is he going to sell that to the middle class? >> especially when he said he qualified he -- would not qualify to be president if he overpaid. he's going to spend the next several days answering questions about hi

is mitt romney among those? we'll never know since he refuses to release his tax returns for the years before he was running for president. >> do you think that this renews the pressure for romney to release more returns? or is just harry reid having fun with this whole thing? >> no, i agree with harry reid. i mean, we've got a candidate for president, mitt romney, writing off half the country, and calling them victims and dependent on government, because supposedly, they don't pay income taxes. well, they pay state and local taxes, property taxes, payroll taxes, and mitt romney, who has invested overseas in the cayman islands and has money in swiss bank accounts, and in bermuda, and won't release anything more than a year and a partial year of his tax return, has the nerve to call half of america victims? it's -- >> i think another key point in all of this, the man who hosted that fund-raiser back in may in boca raton has apologized to mitt romney, and it's now out there, of course, everyone was told that this w

mitt romney is mixing up a whole bunch of ideas. the 47% who do not pay income tax which is a result of reagan, bush, and it bush jr. tax policies. half the population has no stake in income tax rate. it is a huge issue but not the way you want to talk about it. there is this culture of dependency which the obama administration is increasing in changing the welfare to work requirements. that is an issue. this way, he has an argument but he has to work his way out of a paper bag first. >> a couple of polls this week. nbc wall street journal poll. obama does not do well with foreign policy. what do these numbers tell you? >> there is a 19% one where obama will help the middle class more than mitt romney. that is a huge gap exacerbated by the 47%. mitt romney can get the conversation back to the economy and maybe can be more specific. but what he has to do is have a personality transplant said the middle class can identify with him. >> here is a number that would scare me. 43% now agree that each would do equally well on the economy. >

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now, mitt romney wants to set the record straight. s he actually wanted to rebuild the automobile industry by sending it into bankruptcy? maybe romney can explain his stance on the automobile industry for voters in michigan and ohio during the debate. where he is trailing. here's the second thing that mitt romney wants to clear up for all of us out there. >> he says i'm in favor of lowering taxes on wealthy people. no, i'm not. i'm not going to reduce the taxes on the wealthy at all. in fact, i want to lower taxes on mid-ld incodle income people. he says i want to raise them on middle income people. that's completely inaccurate. >> really? it will be interest to watch romney set the president straight on his tax cut plan. we spent time on "the ed show" trying to figure out how he'll balance the budget without raising taxes. in fact, romney might have revealed too much about his tax plan to a crowd in ohio yesterday. listen as he tells them not to expect any tax cuts. >> i want to bring the rates -- don't be expecting a huge cut in taxe

mitt romney is clearly hurting himself. for the first time since his 47% remark, a poll shows voters, they don't like it. 36% say that they are less likely to vote for romney because of his remarks, compared to only 20% who say that they are more likely to vote for him. among independents, the margin is also 2-1 against romney's remarks. as for the senate races, a top election analyst put it this way. "i'm not prone to hyperbole, but a gop senate map is imploding. chance of a takeover now just 21%." now, let's take a look at the state of wisconsin. one of my favorites. the latest poll shows president obama widening his lead over mitt romney to seven points in this vital swing state. senate candidate congresswoman tammy baldwin, our next guess, has also been surging in the latest polls and it's gotten the attention of karl rove, which i think is good. cross roads gps made a $961,000 ad buy against baldwin this week. meanwhile, baldwin's opponent, former governor tommy thompson, is complaining about romney's effect on his fort

are we still talking about who's the real mitt romney? here's where they see the opening in the romney campaign. they've been doing a lot of furious spending this week. they've been shooting everywhere hoping they can get one thing. they point to the gallup poll, which has them tied. it was tied 47-47, when shows the sense of humor. if you look at that poll on who connects with voters. inside poll if you ask who can do a better job with jobs? romney wins. there's still that glimmer that he can do it on jobs, but in other polls we've seen the president now come to parity with romney on the economy. >> consider the swing states. nbc-"wall street journal" had three polls this week. last week they showed florida, ohio, virginia, president oo-- obama had a clear lead. same thing was true this week in wisconsin, in colorado and iowa. iowa we showed an eight-point lead in all of those states, obama was at parity or better with mitt romney on the economy. in the nine battlegrounds that the two campaigns are contesting most aggressively. mitt romn

the presidential election, new swing state polls show that the secretly recorded tape revealing mitt romney's intention to abandon 37% of the american people if elected president is actually having the effect you would expect. romney's secretly recorded words are crushing his campaign. a new poll shows president obama running ten points ahead of mitt romney in ohio, which is where abc news found mitt romney tonight and confronted him about the heavy words he dropped on 47% of the american people. >> about the people you said you couldn't convince to take greater responsibility. those are heavy words. >> what i'm talking about is a political process. i don't expect to get 100% of the vote. i hope to get 50-plus % and make sure i get the next president. >> that was his answer to the worst possible thing he could have said in his campaign, that was the best he could respond with. notice that no where in that answer does mitt romney attempt to actually repair the damage of his secretly recorded words. he simply says i'm just trying to get more than 50% of the vote. no word of explanation. no atte

instead it's mitt romney's problem. >> reporter: just before romney faced the press to take questions reporters could be heard conferring with each other. >> i would say regret to your question, i mean your statement not even the tone. >> media watchers including john stossel conversations like that one are note necessarily rare. >> they have a limited time with the president or candidate and they want to get an answer to that question so they do a little coordination. >> reporter: in the end rather than being pressed for details. he elected not to cancel a fund-raiser in las vegas, the president in a sit down interview was given a chance to criticize romney. >> it couldn't play better for the president. he is the president. he is the one whose policies that are under question right now. much of the heat is being taken off of him. >> some of the questions that romney took from reporters were about his statement rather than the events in libya and egypt. after the president gave his statement, he took no questions. >> jon: shannon raises a number of questions about the events of the we

mitt romney is struggling with hispanic voters. mney's latest stunt didn't help in the numbers a bit. if you watched romney's univision forum on wed, you may have thought you were watching a tea party rally, because you were. >> how are you? nice to see you. thank you. and jorge, how you, my friend? good to see you. thank you so much. thank you. thanks, you guys. thank you. hi there. >> as buzzfeed reports, the romney campaign originally agreed to a crowd of mostly students from the university of miami. however, when they couldn't find enough students to fill the seats, the campaign started playing dirty. romney's campaign threatened to reschedule the event if they weren't allowed to bus in activists from around south florida. organizers caved and activists were brought in and ignored requests to hold the pause. one univision host said this, "we were a little bit thrown because it was supposed to be a tv show. it wasn't a rally. it was a little bit of disrespect for us." this wasn't the only demand from the romney campaign. romney a

and on the big 47% video mitt romney and ann romney came out yesterday and said poor mitt, his remarksow is exactly what context is it okay to say that 47% of americans are moochers and freeloaders? maybe ann romney ought to stick to dressage and get out of politics. all right. we'll get into that and a whole lot more. first, let's didn't to l.a. and say good morning to lisa ferguson with today's current news update. good morning. >> hey bill, good morning everyone. with a slew of criticism against him, mitt romney is trying to turn the focus away from the 47% and toward -- well, pretty much anything else. today his campaign is out with a new ad about medicare featuring florida senator marco rubio. >> mitt romney and paul ryan get it. medicare's going broke. that's not politics. it is math. anyone who wants to leave medicare like it is -- >> here's the problem with that claim. the romney/ryan plan is actually the one that speeds up the bankruptcy of medicare and would cause the system to go broke in just four years. that's because romney's promising to repeal the affordable care act an

mitt romney's week from hell just ended with a bang. tonight the republican candidate's newest tax returns is leaving more questions than answers. romney also tells "60 minutes" his campaign doesn't need a turn around. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> i believe he genuinely believes that nearly half this country is made up of people who see themselves as victims. >> the obama team release the biden. mitt romney released his taxes. it turns out he has already disqualified himself from being president. >> i don't pay more than are legally due and, frankly, if i had paid more than are legally due, i don't think i'd be qualified to become president. >> tonight the epic campaign day that ended an epic campaign week with former ohio governor ted strickland and the nation' ari melber. a full analysis of romney's sketchy tax return with david cay johnston. and bernie sanders joins me to look at paul ryan's attempt to fool people at the aarp convention. >> the first step is to repeal obama care because it represents the worst of both

with just 42 days until the presidential election and with a new poll showing mitt romney's path to the presidency raply narrowing, paul ryan is radly reizthe el h way to becomg the next losing vice president candidate. so he is desperately trying to avoid the stench of romney. yes, the stench. that is what paul ryan is actually calling mitt romney, according to politico. reportedly he has been marching around the campaign bus saying things like if stench calls, take a message. and tell stench i'm having finer sandwiches with peggy noonan and will text him later. today paul ryan campaigned with the stench in ohio, where the stench is trailing president obama by 8 points. 's got one new idea. he has one thing he did not do in his first four years which is to raise taxes. >> look at that worship in paul ryan's es in that shot. >> among likely ohio voters prenamad no republican has won the presidency without winning ohio. this map shows the results of recent battle ground state polls. the "washington post" notes y,madswilyio lning his more electoral votes. while mitt romney campaigns again

did mitt romney say i'm sorry, i spoke too soon. doubled down in jacksonville. >> romney: the white house distanced itself from the statement saying it wasn't cleared by washington. that reflects the mixed signals they're sending to the world. >> bill: there's no mixed signal here. not at all. president obama condemned the violence. condemned the actions. vowed to take these people to justice. he acted right away and again, when we are under attack, when america is under attack, when terrorists are attacking the united states, it is a time to stand together. that's what democrats and republicans did after 9-11. that would have been like john kerry standing up on 9-11 and saying it was george bush's fault. he sent the planes in to the world trade center. he supports al-qaeda. he supports -- you didn't hear that. this is outrageous! on the part of mitt romney. i think it disqualifies him for being president of the united states. and i'll tell you one thing, president obama kept his cool but he was asked yesterday, happened to have an

he's also an advisor to mitt romney. who according to the folks at politico serves as liaison between romney and movement conservatives. you remember john bolten as the ambassador to the u.n. remember him from the george bush years? he has a gig on fox news. you can see here he's explaining how the attack on the u.s. embassy how that was caused by the weakness and fecklessness of the obama administration. but john bolten is not just a fox news tv guy. he's also a romney campaign foreign policy advisor. so he gets to work for the romney campaign while he works on fox news. in fact, mr. bolten announced his endorsement of mitt romney during an appearance on fox news. the folks at media matters have been tracking the overlap of the analysts. a spokesperson said his joint role as a fox news contributor and advisor is totally okay and super ethical because mr. bolten is not paid by the campaign and he gives foreign policy advice to lots of people. the most amazing example making efficient use of air time is carl rove. he does

i thought it was actually mitt romney. the thought that we are asking this problem is crazy. >> the clock is ticking. we are up to mitt romney 8.0. >> two duelling messages of unit fighting it out. >> it ain't the eye of the tiger. >> it is the thrill of the fight. >> in her debate tonight, elizabeth warren tied her opponent scott brown to republican madness and mitt romney specifically. >> it is not just about senator brown's vote. this is about the votes of all the republicans. jim the senator would become the person who would have supervision over the environmental protection agency. he says global warming is a hoax. remember, at the end of the day this race may be for control of the senate. >> with 47 days to grow until the end of the election the first nail was driven today into the construction of the capitol of the campaign. the most withering assessments of team romney continue to come from republicans this week. tonight peggy noonan writes, "the romney campaign he has to get turned around. i called it in competent

paul ryan knows that hang out with mitt romney has exposed him too. now, they're not aiming this at paul ryan, because romney is the big name at the head of the ticket. but ryan knows this is hurting his game in a big way. >> yeah, i mean absolutely. you know that thing where a ceo appoints the young gun, he knows they're going to close. that's what this kind of feels like. it's sort of a corporate nightmare for ryan. because at the end of the day paul ryan was supposedly this numbers guy. his numbers don't add up anyway, but he had this idea that look, i'm the guy who's going to make conservative specific policies palatable because of my style. and i'm the guy that can serve the specifics of the conservatism to the electorate. if you were to get expect, this race would be even more of a gap between romney and barack obama. >> let's take a look at this new ad that president obama released in the swing states. >> when mitt romney dismissed 47% of americans for not pulling their weight, he attacked millions of hard working people making 25, 35, $45,000 a