mother jones has been breaking news about this all week. the romney campaign is obviously fighting back against these bain attacks but haven't they been caught red-handed essentially? >> i think they have. i don't think it gets much more red-handed than s.e.c. documents, those are government documents. and some of the documents are signed by mitt romney himself. so it is hard to dispute something that you yourself signed. >> right. they say -- a lot of the documents, as you guys have discovered go as far as may of 2001 which is long past the day -- when romney stayed on in some kind of a limited capacity at bain when he was at the winter olympics. what piece of information do you think most clearly shows that romney was tied to bain when his company offshored american jobs? >> well, the piece that i like the most is that these massachusetts state financial disclosure forms from 2000 and 2001 and they show that mitt romney is running this entity called bain capital new york. and the really interesting thing about bain capital new york is tha

because as "mother jones" reported earlier this week, bain invested in a chinese company involved in outsourcing prior to when mitt romney says he left bain, sh so he's not -- even if, somehow, mitt romney proves he had zero involvement with bain as he says, there are still other things that happened prior to 1999 involved with outsourcing he can't just wave away. >> the reporting "mother jones" has done on this is tremendous. in fact, we covered that story last night. i think it's one way or the other, there is still responsibility there on the part of mitt romney. adam, the romney campaign, of course, keeps maintaining as we discussed that mitt had no operational control at bain. he was listed as president ceo chairman of the board owner all of that. if a guy in charge of a company takes no responsibility for its actions, what do you think the american people are to make of that? >> i think this is what is perilous is, over the past four years, we've seen an economic crisis in which precious few financial elites have paid any price whatsoever and what mitt romney is saying, i owned

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meanwhile, mother jones has its own story out today on an investment plan made during the period when even romney acknowledges he was in charge. on the campaign trail romney likes to say... >> we will not let china continue to steal jobs from the united states of america. [ applause ] >> eliot: but according to mother jones in august of 1998, bain threw a vehicle romney owned invested in a chinese company whose entire business model relied on outsourced u.s. jobs. among the firms that shipped jobs to global tech while bain was enjoying the profits hamilton beach, mr. coffee revlon, proctor silex and vidal sassoon. for more on when romney left bain capital and what it means let's go to callum borchers who reported the story. >> glad to be here, eliot. thanks for having me. >> eliot: every day there is more evidence that mitt romney in fact did not leave bain bain capital in 1999. tell us how you interpret this. >> i guess it depends on how you define left. what we found is through a combination of government documents, some filed with the securities and exchange commission some filed w

msnbc political analyst david corn is washington bureau chief of mother jones magazine and the author of showdown. rick tyler was a spokesman for newt gingrich and the pro-gingrich super pac winning our future gentlemen, new details about romney's role at bain, post 1999 continue to drip out today. various news organizations reported according to the testimony that he gave to the massachusetts ballot commission in 2002, romney continued to attend board meetings for businesses acquired by bain, including staples. this comes after reports from david corn in mother jones and yesterday the boston globe showed that romney was still the ceo of bain through 2002 according to s.e.c. filings. now why is this important? well, it was beginning in 1999 that bain invested heavily in companies that were pioneers of outsourcing, according to "the washington post." there's evidence that romney's standing has taken a hit recently. take a look at the latest real clear politics average of polls. obama has a 2.5 lead over romney now. and today the romney campaign hastily arranged interviews with all the

director of government studies of the heritage foundation andy croll investigative journalist with mother jones magazine and associate editor of time dispatch and horace cooper a conservative commentator and senior fellow at the national center for public policy research gentlemen great to have you all with you just heard my conversation with congressman kasich what role brian what role do you think wall street should play in arcata. an important role but i agree with congressman kucinich that the thread needs to be it needs to have transparency the fed is trying to do too much when you have the federal reserve being the regulator the chief regulator of wall street in trying to look into these issues there's a problem with the fed there's a problem of the fed i think conservatives liberals agree that the fed is not serving a very good function for our society right now so i think there is bipartisan agreement before the fed and we had banks blowing up we never went more than fifteen years without a banking panic in history the united states until the mid thirty's and there are some who argue th

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as mother jones has put it, ufo sitings are more common than voter fraud. you are more likely to get struck by lightning or eaten by a shark or struck by a lightning shark with a winning lottery ticket. voter suppression affects very real people in very real ways. in wisconsin, ruthelle frank. there she is an 84-year-old former elected official has to pay an unconstitutional fee to get a birth certificate, which because it was misspelled is going to require hundreds of over other fees. look at her picture. clearly a subversive. right? or in tennessee, 96-year-old dorothy cooper who has voted in every election since she was he will eligible she couldn't register to vote because she didn't have a copy of her marriage license. look at her. >> that's an an arkansasist. or in texas jess could cohen who lost her id papers in a burglary has to race against the clock to get documents from her birth state of missouri. you can tell she is obviously part of a vast conspiracy. right? there is a conspiracy among those who want to steal the election. these americans have

david corn of mother jones uncovered a february 1999 "boston herald" report about romney leaving for olympics. romney said he will stay on as part-timer with bain, providing input on investment and key personnel decisions. well, in july of 1999, romney was identified as the boss in a bain press release about the departure of two executives. bain capital ceow. -- willard, that means. mitt romney currently on part-time leave of absence to head the salt lake city olympic committee for the 2002 games. while we will miss jeff and mark, we wish them well. well, romney was on part-time leave for three years. all the while he collected a paycheck and benefitted from the company's investments. today bain capital is now in the mix. they explained this three-year gap. why are they in the news all the sudden? they said due to the sudden nature of his departure, he remained the sole stockholder for a time while formal owner ship was being documented and transferred to the group of partners who took over management of the number in 1999. bain does not explain why it took three years to transfer ma

mother jones washington bureau chief david corn has advanced the story.sive reporting on how romney's bain capital invested heavily in companies that pioneered outsourcing of manufacturing of jobs could be a game changer this fall. his reports include details on whose then-ceo said outsourcing is good for america. and bain investment global tech, a chinese company that built profits on outsourcing. a major presidential candidate connected to sending american jobs overseas? are you serious? joining me now is msnbc political analyst david corn. he's the washington bureau chief for "mother jones" who has reported extensively on bain's activities during romney's tenure. he's also the author of "showdown." david, thank you for your time tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> now, you've done a lot of digging in romney and bain. you looked at how the company was deeply involved in outsourcing. tell us what you found. >> thanks for asking. there are two key things here. bain capital which would buy up companies and help manage them. and a few weeks ago the washing

well, it happens that just a few days ago, we at mother jones put together a list of things that mittomney is hiding. and that includes not just the olympic records, but also his bundler s s s bundlers. his e-mails and correspondence while he was governor. they were destroyed. in fact, he had his own people buy their own hard drives and put them god knows where so there was though way you could access them afterwards. even letters s s between him and his dad seem to be missing from the george romney archives. and of course, don't forget those tax returns, his offshore tax havens, and his i.r.a. so there's a lot that he's hide hiding. so the olympic flame doesn't cast much light anywhere on mitt romney's past. >> and then there's the question of, who profited from the olympics? there's a lot of contractors, there was a lot of money made in the olympics. there's a lot of money raised for it. and they attack -- you know, they like to attack president obama for what they call crony capitalism, but the state of utah spent $59 million, the federal government spent $342 million in direct aid

his new mother jones report is called, "i couldn't love him more: how romney steered a key olympic projecta friend." welcome back to "democracy now!" tallis, who are mitt romney's friends and how do they relate to the olympics, which is one of the few things on his resume that he is really touting to show why should be qualified to be president? >> when your producer, yesterday i said, with all the gaffs, i think he's going to give up even as part of his resume. his given at massachusetts, bain has been taken away, in the last thing is the salt lake olympics. he embarrassed himself so badly, i did not think he would be stressing desperate a few hours after i spoke to your producer, they put up this ad. he has got a very weakened resume. let's give him full credit for what happened in salt lake. i think he was a managerial success. i think he overstates what he achieved there, but i think he was the managerial success. the problem is that he was brought in because of the worst olympic scandal in history, and he a friend it and awarded contracts to people deeply involved in the scandal that

joining me now is david corn, msnbc political analyst and washington bureau chief for mother jones and and the mccain campaign's while assembling their opposition research, believed they could make him answer for anything that happened at bain, even after he left, since he created bain. >> and he owned bain for many of those years. >> yes, as cal's reporting has shown as well. it took him a few years to figure out how to get out of his ownership of bain with, , but the romney camp and his few friends who are supporting him in this regard on the right are trying to draw this line, when he had daily, day-to-day control and when he didn't. but all you have to do is say, romney's company, romney's companies, romney's funds, engaged in outsourcing, and you're there. you can't deny that. so in some ways, this has become a bit of an absurd argument, with him trying to determine or create this bright line, which doesn't really exist, and cal's reporting, my reporting on the piece out today even, keeps chipping away at that story. and as you mentioned earlier, back in '98, before any of this wa

msnbc david corn is washington bureau chief of mother jones magazine and the author of showdown rick tyler has a spokesman for gingrich and the gingrich super pac, winning our future. gentlemen, new details about romney's role at bain post 1999 continue to drip out today. various news organizations reported that according to the testimony he gave to the massachusetts ballot commission in 2002, romney continued to attend board meetings for businesses acquired by bain, including staples. this comes after reports from david corn in mother jones and yesterday the boston globe showed that romney was still the ceo of bain through 2002 according to s.e.c. filings. why is this important? well, it was beginning in 1999 that bain invested heffully companies that were pioneers of outsourcing according to the washington post. there's some evidence that romney's standing has taken a hit recently. take a look at the latest real clear politics average of polls. obama has a 2.5 point lead over romney now. today the romney campaign hastily arranged interviews with all the major networks. rick, your c

. >>> "mother jones" reports conservative blogger wes riddle running for republican for texas said president away several islands to russia and slavery was a net positive for blacks because now they've freedom in america. >>> another texas congressman blasted arizona senator, john mccain, for criticizing michele bachmann for attacking a state department aide for alleged connections to muslim brotherhood. congressman louis gomert called mccain, numb nuts and former ar oar governor mike huckabee is throwing a bone to the chick-fil-a chain, telling people to eat there in opposition to same-sex marriage. >>> and twitter mystery of mitt romney adding 140 foll,000 foll in two days. questions whether the romney camp purchased twitter bot fake followers. that's your morning's dish of scrambled politics. >>> elsewhere last night on politics nation, vermont senator bernie sanders talked with host al sharpton about a report quoting economists saying the gop's plan to create jobs won't produce any jobs at all. >> it is worse today in america than at any time since 1928. last study i saw between 2010 and

all of that has prompted publications from "the new york times" to "mother jones" magazine to sharply criticize the president from being far from the champion of transparency he claims to be. bottom line, it looks like both candidates need hiding from the transparency twister as it tears through the race. david from, bill adare, from politicfact, extensively covering both campaigns, and roland martin. bill, let me start with you. this wide question of who is being more transparent, is this president any better, any worse, about the same as other presidents? >> he's made considerable progress. he made a big promise. he said he would be the most transparent and open president in history. so he's set a high bar for himself. and he's had mixed success. there are definitely some things that he achieved in terms of putting data online, putting data from the economic stimulus. putting up the white house visitor logs. he has been very good at posting data. where he has not done well is resisting the gravitational pull of washington. to do things behind closed doors. he promised that he would

take a look at this map created by mother jones the states in red are the states that have introduced legislation to restrict voter access. to the polls in the last year as of april of this year twenty four states of attempted to do this and nine states including texas wisconsin iowa and several others have passed new laws requiring voter i.d.'s just to vote these laws will affect three point eight million voters but here's the bigger picture exactly who are these voters who are going to be most affected by these voter id laws take a look at this chart compiled from data by the brannock brennan center for justice it shows the populations who are going to be most affected by the by the head of the photo id laws who doesn't have right now a valid photo i.d. twenty five percent of the african-american population twenty percent of the asian population one thousand percent of the latino was eighteen percent of eighteen to twenty four year olds eighteen eighteen percent of seniors fifteen percent of all people earning less than thirty five thousand dollars a year eleven percent of all voter

they really put in the real time and get the most done and let's go do a last month report by mother jones reporter david gill sent me a pretty cheeky calculation taking campaign finance data from each member's last election assuming that they raised money forty hours a week fifty weeks a. here gilson found out of the average house representative would have raised three hundred sixty seven dollars per hour per hour and that's if it was a full time gig now under the same assumptions the average senator raised eight hundred and nineteen dollars per hour if you ask me that is absolutely insane so what other words houser percent of this rate of seven hundred thirty four thousand dollars per year and senators raise over one point six million dollars annually and a quarter of the new york times that amount would legally or would annually would place both sets of legislators firmly within the one percent in terms of income now you have to also take in mind that those are just averages for the top five fundraisers in the senate and the house take in enough money to pay for lindsay lohan's bar tab

rolls in texas take a look at this map that was created by mother jones magazine the states in red are states that have introduced legislation to restrict voters' access to the polls just in the past twelve months as of april this year twenty four states have tried to do this and nine including texas i always constant several others have passed new laws requiring voter i.d. these will affect three point eight million voters and as this chart shows this is the one that's the real shocker who is going to be affected by this the vast majority. of those affected by these laws are african-americans asians latinos young people college students eighteen to twenty four year olds seniors people earning less than thirty five thousand dollars a year and the so that these are this is the democratic voters voting constituency by and large the republican voting constituency pretty much everybody else who doesn't fall out of those categories and whites eleven percent and eight percent respectively the the big group the big national group that has been pushing for these kinds of laws that would affect

people in the house that could have killed her. >> okay. >> you or your mother. >> but police apparently don't believe melody joneswant to know -- i really want to know why. >> why what? >> why you would kill your sister. >> i wouldn't. >> but you had to of. if your mother didn't. >> i didn't kill her. i know i didn't. >> i'm finally starting to realize that she was dead. i'm scared. i'm getting a bit frustrated at the police for asking me all these questions. pushing me over the edge. i start to break down. >> you killed your sister. >> i didn't kill her. i didn't. >> it'll feel a whole lot better if you just tell me. >> i didn't. god. i didn't kill her. i did not. >> then who killed her?p &h(lc% it had to have been you, son. >> i didn't do it. i didn't kill my sister. i love her. i wouldn't kill her. is there any way i can prove that to you? >> it's going to be difficult. >> i'm going in circles. there's nothing else i can think about but what -- there had to be somebody else that had to get in there. but the cops kept saying that wasn't the case. >> let me ask you this. i'm not saying that you killed her. >> o

and joining me now is "mother jones" reporter adam serwer.you so much for joining us inside "the war room" on a friday night. >> thanks for having me. >> you bet. why are jewish voters such a coveted voting block? >> well, first of all i would like to say to the extent that obama has a jewish problem is that there aren't more jews in america. his approval rating is higher than just about any other group along with african-americans and hispanics. this election is going to be close, but it is not going to hinge on the jewish vote. romney is not going to win over the vast majority of jews who have very liberal values. >> well, except that there are large jewish communities in several swing states, and could those ad make a difference in those states if the vote is really close? >> like i said american jews have a culture and history of being devoted to social and economic justice. i think it's highly unlikely -- they are not single-issue voters. they are not going to decide that -- they are not going to simply decide to vote for a republican ju

we've got nick baumann from "mother jones" magazine, his publication has been breaking news all week with bain and we'll speak with ed kleinbard, an expert on offshore tax havens. if you want to get to the bottom of mitt romney's finances, you need an expert like that. we're going to get to the bottom of it at the top of the hour. >> sounds great. i think everybody should have an offshore account and at at least three swiss bank accounts. >> you may need one. >> i used to try to serve subpoenas on him. bizarre thing. we had a client, we couldn't get a single document or word out of the swiss bankers. >> i'm sayin'! it is the -- the swiss vault is not kidding. >> more "viewpoint" coming this week, failing is good and wall street is bad. what else does vc billionaire vinod khosla think? >> between barclays, libor scam, glaxo's $3 billion settlement and one story we haven't yet covered today allegations that jpmorgan chase sold its own inferior mutual funds over better products, today's headlines just beg for outrage. until recently, jamie diamond was the good guy banker. his bank was s

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