mr. booker and we asked him to come on the program. he's not doing any media interviews but things changed during the day so he's going to be with rachel maddow tonight, which is great. i would like to know if mr. booker has thought about what the country would look like if these righties get control of our government. have you read the ryan plan? do you know what it says? go read that, then you're going to want to throw up. i'm nauseated by people being laid off and losing health care who all they care about is increasing profits for their shareholders. democrat don't be surrogates like there. if mitt romney wants to be president of the united states, his record is the private industry is not only fair game, it's the only game. this is what we have to talk about. this is what he goes out on the campaign trail and says president obama doesn't know anything about the economy. bottom line here is we should all be throwing up if mitt romney gets into the white house because the ryan plan is a recipe for disaster. i think corey booker, you

mr. booker did not stick to the talking points, however, the great irony is a lot of people agree with mrbooker. apparently just not the obama campaign. there's a problem with that. if you're going to talk about him, you need to stick to the campaign talking points. i don't have a problem with what cory booker said. what he said was the same thing obama said in 2007-'08. >> we'll come back to the money. it was bad politics. >> two things, number one, the part of bad politics, in general, not part of the campaign. i think we make too much of disagreements within a party because our country was founded -- >> it's good theatre. >> right, it's good theatre, but disagreeing is not a bad thing, necessarily. however, to jimmy's point, having worked with surrogate and been a surrogate, generally the conversation goes something like this. here's the talking points, here are the likely questions, and you say, you know what, i don't think you're going to like my answer on this, then probably you're not the person who should be on "meet the press," so we're going to switch you out. i mean, seriously.

mr. booker was not. what's interesting is that the dirty little secret is out.alth creation and extraction of wealth. there's nothing wrong with that. this seems to be lost on folks. once again, mitt romney is incredible on an issue. he's running around saying he created hundreds of thousands of jobs. his campaign changed that to tens of thousands of jobs, now it's thousands of jobs. he's incredible and has a lack of credibility. if i were the obama campaign, i would hark on this all day long. you have someone running against the president of the united states who you cannot believe anything that he says. >> i want to get to the notre dame lawsuit. caroline, the fight over basic health care for women apparently is not over. how do you read today's lawsuit in the move by notre dame? >> frankly not surprised that these catholic institutions are getting together and suing over this. kicking and dragging, bringing them into the 21st century, this is a classic case of religious traditionalism clashing over what is best for women and what is best for the country. the

mr. booker said yesterday.ant to see all three bites if we can show them in a row now of how he went after the main three points. the first point he made was that private equity is a good thing and creates a lot of jobs, bain creates a lot of jobs. he later got into some of the other topics saying, i've fired people. it's good because it creates efficiencies, it's good for the city and it's good for private enterprise to be firing people. he also made a point that he was, in fact, speaking as a surrogate for the obama campaign. he went into detail about saying i have here in my hands the surrogate notes that were provided me by the campaign for this appearance here. which here we go, let's take a look at this. i've never seen anything quite as well done as what mr. cory booker did to obama yesterday. here he is, mayor booker. >> i'm not about to sit here and indict private equity. if you look at the totality of bain's record, they've done a lot to support businesses, to grow businesses, and this to me i'm very

mr. booker is the democratic progressive fire brand mayor of newark, new jersey who supports president obama's re-election. the republican party is making a big show of saying they are standing with him because they say cory booker is a victim who needs people to stand up for him because he can't stand up for himself. because it's the republican party, the person that is victimizing cory booker is mathra, i mean godzilla. i mean president obama. it does do you know what obama does with people who stand up for job creators, he silences them. they had pressured booker into taking back support of the free market. this is how far president obama has sunk running an all out assault on job creators and in his own democratic party anyone who dares to defend them must be silenced. if you agree sign our petition. i stand with cory booker. if you sign it you will give your e-mail address to the republican party which will make infinite use of your e-mail address from here to spamternity. he promptly followed up the endorsement by saying there are he promptly followed up the endorsement by saying there a

mr. booker to do an explanatory video later and it is why david axelrod said on your show. >> loud and clear indeed. the president, we should point out, after leaves nato today will go to joplin, missouri. the first anniversary of the fatal horrible twister. he's going to go zo the commencement at the joplin high school. that's a very important stop. >> the single most deadly tornado in american history. 160 plus people killed. may 22 is the anniversary. a nice night for joplin to get the president to come give your commencement address. >> indeed. our congratulations to all the brave people and the people who fought back so hard in joplin, missouri and their commencement. thank you for being with us. that does it for this special edition from the windy city. angela mitchell reports. tomorrow on the show, texas senator kay bailey hutchison following us. remember to follow us online. and my colleague has a look at what's next on "news nation." hi, tamron. >> not a peep or a tweet out of cory booker. he is silent today after criticizing president obama's attack on mitt romney

mr. booker's remarks made for a little morning fodder.ning joe" today. >> that is a hostage video will. >> that is the definition of a hostage video. can we see that one more time? >> does the fbi field office know that they've got the guys loose in newark? >> like they were referring to that web video made by cory booker later in the day. did cory booker's criticism undermine team obama's bain strategy? what does your gut check tell you? go to facebook.com/newsnation. we asked is facebook really a 104 billion company? only 13% of you said yes. 87% said no. okay. facebook is not a $104 billion company right now. the shares are falling almost 10%. shares are now about $3.50 below the price of $38. that does it for this edition of "news nation." thank you so much for joining us. the results of that brand new nbc news "wall street journal" poll. a lot of you already tweeted us about the poll. mark murray will hopefully join us live. martin bashir is up next. with the spark cash card from capital one, olaf's pizza palace gets the most rewards

mr. booker has, more than half a million dollars in wall street investor type donations irony here president obama gets lots of wall street money too and one of his biggest bundlers, big democratic donations is jonathan levine, managing director at bain capital who was directly involved in one of the companies that closed down under bain that democrats complain about and blame romney even though he left the company before, bain before that actual firm shut down. jon: carl cameron in washington straightening some of that out for us. thank you. for more on the controversy over these bain capital ads i'm joined by a.b. stoddard the associate editor of "the hill." president obama came out at the news conference and defended himself and said, you know, governor romney is essentially not ready to run the country just because he led bain capital. that seems to be the attack line he is embracing. >> that's right. he made a it perfectly clear yesterday he said this is not a distraction. it is the essence of the debate. he said he, governor romney has contrasting view what is grows the economy, what t

mr. booker's attempts to sort of put a little softer edge on his defense of romney has now prompted folks like former tennessee congressman harold ford to say he wouldn't have walked it down and mitt romney deserves to be defended. >> jon: carl cameron, reporting live from washington, thank you. >>> still let's talk about all of this with karl rove, fox news contributor. karl, when you see these ads, when you see some steelworkers who have been put out of work and you know, bain capital had a role in running that company for a time and paper company workers put out of work, is it effective? >> well, first of all, let's put this in a little bit of a tactical frame, if we could. the initial buy by the obama campaign was $83,000, in about five or six states, which is inconsequential. outside of ohio, in fact they didn't get into five digits. the latest ad today is a 6-minute video which will never appear on tv. they've simply put it up on the internet and hope to drive traffic to it. so tactically, this is not going to have a big impact, because they're not putting enough weight behind it. n

mr. booker, i think the president is on line one! calling! why it appears he may have gotten an angry call from the white house and had to walk it back. >> on you tube. billboard awards interrupted by tragic news. >> we wanted to take a moment to remember robin gibb. his voice and music from the beegees. >> this morning, remembering the music of the beegees. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> good morning, hope you had a great weekend. what a fantastic weekend on the east coast. finally it felt like summer may be on the way just in time to watch clayton do that major obstacle course on our plaza. >> i did the tough mudder competition but you didn't do it as well as you did, brian. you were able to fly over that wall pretty quickly. i looked like the little engine that could, hopped up the side of that wall. >> you know what? everybody was cheering for you in america. there was such build-up as to whether or not clayton would actually do it. >> we raised, i think, over $ $15,000 for our wounded warrior project. thanks to all the folks that d

couples should have the right to marry in this country, we are joined now by newark mayor, cory booker. mror being here. >> it's very, very good to see you. >> it's a little weird to make you sit there and look at three minutes of yourself. >> it's also weird to hear that, as you called me many other things. >> i called you, hey, you, for a long part of our adulthood. cory, you were publicly here on this issue a long time before the president said he agreed today. >> he's done a lot for equality, but to have barack obama, the president of the united states, to stand on the public stage and say, once and for all, i believe in equality of all citizens, i think, it has a very powerful symbolic effect, i think it puts the light on many people, democrats and republicans, who have the same personal sentiments, but haven't had the courage to come forward and say it, and i think that there are kids in my city today who finally, image this, feel validated by their president. i am an equal citizen in your eyes as well. and to me, that's an historic thing, when a president comes out and says, i belie

booker." thank you for joining us tonight. mr. secretary, let me begin with a simple question. o is right cory booker or president obama. >> i have the greatest respect for mayor cory booker, but president obama has the argument because this is the core of mitt romney's campaign. that he is a job createor. it is perfectly appropriate to go after that core to question his experience with regard to creating jobs, the creation of jobs, look, i mean, private equity is part and parcel of a wall street culture that we've seen in this country get a lot of people in a lot of trouble. i mean, you have people making--who are in private equity like the rest of wall street making huge bets with other people's money. and if the people who are making the bets get a lot of money, as is the case of private equity they get their money in financial gain. but they are not risking their own capital. and if the bets go wrong, you know what happens. i mean, we've seen it already. those bets going wrong not can effect the financial system but can cause an awful lot of people to lose their jobs. the po

comments from booker and your former auto czar have criticized these and call on you to pull back, and, generally, can you give us your sense, three parts, mrld you give us your sense of just what private equity roll is in stemming job losses seeking a return on investment for investors. thank you. >> well, first of all, booker is an outstanding mayor and doing great work in newark and obviously helping to turn that city around. and i think it is important to recognize this issue is not a "distraction." this is part of the debate we will be having in this election campaign of how to create an economy where everyone, from top-to-bottom, folks on wall street and folks on main street, have a shot at success. if they are working hard and they are acting responsibly, they are able to live out the american dream. now, my view of the private equity is that it is set up to maximize profits. and that's a healthy part of the free market. that's part of the role of a lot of business people. that's not unique to private equity. and i think my representatives s have said repeatedly and i will say today, there are folks who do good work in that area and

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mr. president. yesterday your friend and ally, cory booker, said an ad you released was unthinkable. view that romney is permanently responsible for those job losses at a steel mill, and steve ratner has criticized this, and -- three parts, mr. president -- could you give us your sense of just what private equity's role is on stemming job losses as they seek an investment from their investors? thank you. >> first of all, i think cory booker is an outstanding mayor. he's doing a great job in newark and helping to turn that city around. and i think it's important to recognize that this issue is not a, quote, distraction, this is part of the debate that we're going to be having in this election campaign about how too we create an economy that everybody, top to bottom, folks on wall street and folks on main street have a chance at success. if they're working hard and they're acting responsibly, that they're able to live out the american dream. now, i think my view of private equity is that it is set up to maximize profits. that's a healthy part of the free market. that's part of the role

mr. president. yesterday your friend and ally, cory booker, said in an ad that your campaign release waesded was nauseatingis that your view that romney is personally responsible for job losses while comments from booker and your former auto czar steve ratener criticized this ad calling on you to pull back a little bit. three-part mr. president. can you give us your -- could you give us your sense of just what private equities role is in stemming job losses as they seek return on investment for their investors? thank you. >> well, first of all, i think cory booker is an outstanding mayor. he is doing outstanding work in newark and helping turn that city around. and i think it is important to recognize that this issue is not a quote, distraction. this is part of the debate that we're going to be having in this election campaign about how do we create an economy where everybody from top to bottom, folks on wall street and folks on main street, have a shot at success. if they are working hard and acting responsibly, that they are able to live out the american dream. now, i think my view of private equity is t

cory booker a supporter of mr. obama said last week, he disagreed with the obama's campaign of attack on romney's time at bain capital in a sound bite that quickly became a romney advertisement. >> it's nauseating to the american public. enough is enough. >> it played out over the weekend with romney supporters looking to define the bain attack as anti-business. >> the private investment and job creators is his policies are hostile to job policy. >> reporter: on the campaign trail they fought back. >> this is nothing to do with anti-business. this is a criticism and a good criticism, quite honestly, of mitt romney's only thesis for being president of the united states, that he is some kind of economic savior. >> reporter: now, other than what you heard right there from robert gibbs, the consensus over the weekend is pretty much the obama campaign has kind of stumbled out of the gate with these bain attacks so the campaign is going to double down. they have plans to step up those attacks this week. what they are goi

job losses, will comments from booker and your former auto czar ken ratner call on you to pull back a little bit? and generally, can you give us your sense -- three-part, mresident. could you give us your sense of just what private equity's role is stemming job losses as they seek a return on investment for their investors? >> first of all i think corrie booker is an outstanding mayor. he's obviously helping to turn that city around. i think it's important to recognize that this issue is not a, quote, distraction. this is part of the debate that we're going to be having in this election campaign about how do we create an economy where everybody from top to bottom, folks on wall street and folks on main street, have a shot at success. and if they're working hard and they're acting responsibly, that they're able to live out the american dream. now i think my view of private equity is that it is set up to maximize profits and that's a healthy part of the free market. that's -- that's part of the role of a lot of business people. that's not unique to private equity and as i think my representatives have said repeatedly and i will say today, i think there are

mr. obama accuses romney of talking too much about his record as businessman saying he is missing what the presidency is all about. meantime, repub -- republicans have been; lathing comments made by cory booker an obama supporter says he is very uncomfortable with the attacks on private equity firms." >>> it's unclear if the jury dleb rating john edwards case is closer to a verdict this morning. they are set to resume work on this today. now before calling it a day yesterday, the jury asked the judge for another handful of trial exhibits. >>> and aaa mid atlantic had hosting the summer news conference this morning. reps are going to make the local travel projections for the coming season. state transportation officials will announce new traffic safety plans.>>> to coincide with the memorial day week the click it or ticket campaign has begun. they are focusing on drivers who will hold their seat belts as if they are buckled up. advertisements have been running to alert people that if you try to fake it, when you do the fakeout you will likely get caught. just click it. >> if you are going that far, what are you trying to prove? >> just click it. >> a teenage is recovering from minor injuries

good friend like cory booker, when you have the former democratic congressman from tennessee, ford, and steve ratner and when they have the more pro business democrats saying, well, mr. president, do they worry ought all there could be a negative impact? >> i am sorry? are they worried about getting negative attacks in response? >> do they worry the criticism could hurt in the end. >> they're not worried about the democratic response because they're so convinced this message works with the people they need to reach the most because, look, the bottom line is cory booker slipped on what he said. he didn't flip entirely, but he took back enough of it and they're going to continue with this message no matter what because they think it connects with the vo voters they need to reach period. you heard the president stand by this campaign strategy because they believe bottom line, john, it works. >> it is not just the romney campaign complaining that teem obama is highlighting the blemishing but ignoring the successes. bain capital is usually publicity shy but today it issued a strongly worded statement criticizing the latest attack. it reads in part throughout bain capital

booker, harold ford, stephen ratner saying what they are saying. democratic governors who are dependent on the bond market to fund their plot -- pension plans will not be able to go with you, mr. obama. the president cannot see two moves ahead. he is as an amateur. host: let's look at the headline in "the washington post." listen to the president in his own words yesterday. >> cory booker is now standing there and doing outstanding work in newark and helping us turn the city around. i think it is important to recognize that this issue is not a distraction. this is part of the debate we will be having in this election campaign about how we create an economy where everybody from top to bottom, folks on wall street and folks on main street, have a shot. if they work hard and act responsibly, they are able to live out the american dream. now, my view of private equity is that it is set up to match some once profits. as a healthy part of the free market. that's part of the role of a lot of business people. that is not unique to private equity. my representatives had said -- have said repeatedly and i will say today that i think there are folks who do good work in that area and the

mr. president -- of what private equity's role is in stemming job losses as they seek a return for their investors? >> cory booker is an outstanding mayor, and it is important to recognize this issue is not a distraction. this is part of the debate we will be adding in this campaign about how do we create an economy where everybody from top to bottom, folks on wall street and main street, have a shot at success. if they are working hard and acting responsibly now, my view of private equity is that it is set up to maximize profits. that is a healthy part of the free market. that is part of the will of a lot of business people. that is not unique to private equity. my representatives have said and i will say today i think there are folks who do good work in that area and there are times when they identify capacity for the economy to create new jobs or new industries. understand that their priority is to maximize profits. that is not always going to be good for communities or businesses or workers. the reason this is relevant to the campaign is because my opponent, governor romney, his main calling card for why he t

mr. fix-it because i am a businessman. >> that's right. >> look at my record. i created jobs. and his record is bain capital. >> that's right. >> of course the president is going to talk about it. bookerrse i want president obama to be re-elected and everything but why did he say the i haddiotic thing in the first place? not ready for prime time? >> perhaps. >> eric byrnes is ready for prime time. he is here in studio with us 866-55-press. you want to join the conversation, we invite your calls. take your seat at the table, 866-557-7377 we will be right back. >> radio meets television, the bill press show, now on current tv. we have a big, big hour and the i.q. will go way up. >>tv and radio talk show host stephanie miller rounds out current's morning news block. jennifer granholm is politically direct on current tv. >>the dominoes are starting to fall. (vo) granholm is live in the war room. >> what should women be doing? >> electing women to office. (vo) she's a political trailblazer. >>republicans of course didn't let facts get in the way of spin. >>do it, for america. ♪♪ the bill press show new on current tv. >> 26 minutes after the hour. eric byrnes from bull fite strategies and s

mr. obama. it is astonishing how this president can not see two moves ahead. he is such an amateur. that is what bill clinton called him. host: let's look at this headline. [video clip] >> cory bookers an outstanding mayor. he is doing great work and helping to turn that city around. i think it is important to recognize that this issue is not a distraction. this is part of the debate the we're going to be having in the election campaign about how do we create an economy where everybody, from top to bottom, folks on wall street and folks on main street, have a shot at success. if they are working hard and they're acting responsibly, then they're able to live up the american dream. i think my view of private equity is that it is set up to maximize profits. that is a healthy part of the free market. that is part of the role of a lot of business people. that is not unique to private equity. i will say, today, i think there are folks who do good work in that area and there are times where they identify the capacity for the economy to create new jobs. but, understand that their priority is to maximize profits. that is not always going to be good for communities, businesses, or workers. h