mr. romney told that to a close friend in his dorm. that friend a few days later, quote, entered mr. orm, and they shouting about a plan to cut his hair. the younger student screamed for help and mitt romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. one man who is joined in having restraining the boy that they attacked, told "the post," quote, to this day it troubles me, what a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do. a childhood friend of mr. romney who saw it all happen that day told "the post," it was vicious. even though the incident was confirmed to "the washington post" by five different students who were at school with romney, his campaign spokesperson initially responded to the story today by saying it was a lie. she said, "the stories seem exaggerates and off base and governor romney has no memory of participating in these incidents." mr. romney himself later said he did not contest that the incidents had happened, but that he didn't remember anything about them. he didn't remember anything about them, but he somehow definitely remembers that he did not think the ki

mr. romney' business record. how would you have handled that situation differently if you were in his shoes? >> first of all, mr. romney has characterized one of his qualifications for the united states senate is his business background. it is legitimate to look for what kind of jobs he has created. the kind of jobs he has created are part-time jobs and minimum- wage jobs that do not have any health insurance. that is not the kind of job i want to create. there are different ways for venture-capitalists to deal with the situation like indiana. either you close the plant down, throw the people out of work, only hire back the younger workers. or you can retrain the workers, further education and training, invest in those companies and create full-time jobs at good pay with good benefits. that is the kind of record that would have impressed me in terms of creating jobs. what is wrong with mr. romney's companies providing the same thing? [applause] >> i have a lot of things to answer on that. in my view, the attack o

mr. romney's female surrogate. she voted no on the fair pay act. mr. romney himself will not say whether he would have signed the fair pay act. that president obama signed. republican governor scott walker of wisconsin who mitt romney has been praising as a hero repealed the state-level version in wisconsin of the fair pay act. if you recognize that there's a problem with women getting paid less than men, a political party opposing or refusing to support policy to fix that problem seems like hostility toward women's interests. if you don't recognize there's a problem with women getting paid less than men, then policy debates about how to fix something that's not a problem don't seem that important to you. and so you downplay the importance of policy and you can't understand why everybody keeps saying this war on women thing is going on. and your 17-point deficit with women voters, that's just the product of not putting your candidate out there with enough women standing next to him regardless of how they vote and what they think. that brings us to what'

mr. romney seems to think he needs it, which makes mr. nsistence that president obama may not be an american citizen that much more of a question mark from romney's campaign. yesterday mr. trump told the daily bees all the nice thing he is says about mitt romney. when he said, a book publisher came up three days ago saying he was born in kenya and raised in indonesia. his mother never spent a day in the hospital. donald trump is not letting the birther thing go, but oh world dilemma, he's also still useful to mitt romney. on tuesday donald trump will attend a fund-raiser with mitt romney in las vegas. then he's offering members a time to dine with mr. trump and mitt romney. while donald trump continues to travel the country telling reporters and everybody he meets that president obama is secretly not the president, he's a kenyan surfer. after the latest trip to birther land, an adviser to the romney campaign said next week's fund-raisering with romney and donald trump is still on. if you like mitt romney or barack obama, they do not have t

mr. romney for not disavowing donald trump. mr. romney would only say he believes his arrival was born in the u.s. with opinion polls showing romney and obama neck and neck, this promises to be not only an historic election, but a bitter and expensive one. bbc news, washington. >> talking to john zogby the program that on how mr. romney was able to deflect early critics. china and russia not convince military action is needed and syria as both reinforce their position ahead of the u.n. security council briefing later today. there have been more reports of fresh shelling in the city of homs today after an international peace envoy kofi annan warned of a to pinpoint following the massacre of more than 100 civilians in the town of houla. a gruesome find in the canadian capital ottawa. police say the package containing a blood soaked human foot was sent to the headquarters of the canadian conservative party. officials have since confirmed the discovery of another body part believed to be a hand in a parcel inspected in the post. wikilea

mr. romney. when conservatives were wondering if one should be pressured to drop out in order to give conservatives a better shot, sheldon adelson made it clear that not only was newt gingrich his first choice, but he didn't like rick santorum at all. he made clear he would not support rick santorum if he became the nominee. he said he could ultimately support mitt romney. when it started to become clear that mitt romney was going to be the nominee, mr. adelson started publicly criticizing him. >> the problem with romney and i've talked to romney many, many times, he's not the bold decision maker like newt gingrich is. he doesn't want to, every time i talk to him, he says let me think about it. everything i've said to mitt, let me look into it. he's like obama. >> he's like obama. mitt romney, according to sheldon adelson is like obama and he doesn't mean it in a good way. he says he has another $75 million he would like to donate, but he's been lukewarm on mitt romney today. today was a big deal

mr. romney did not endorse the idea, but he seemed to like it." quoting from mr. , "you see, then he or she would understand that the policies they're putting in place have to encourage small business, make it easier for business to grow." however seriously or hypothetically or just for kicks, mitt romney is publicly entertaining doubts about president obama's qualifications to serve in the office that he now holds. he's wandering out loud whether he ought to change the constitution to make it harder for people whose backgrounds do not like mitt romney to run for office. and donald trump has become central to the romney campaign. he's given radio interviews for him in every state, while at the same time, mr. trump has resurrected the rattling claptrap about whether mr. obama was, in fact, born in the united states. whether he is, in fact, qualified to be president of the united states. before last night's event in las vegas, the romney campaign promised their candidate would speak up if donald trump raised the birtherism issue at that event right in front of mitt r

through the cached version of kingofbain.com, you can see the documentary called "when mitt romney came to town." mr. gingrich is a supporter but before he was a supporter, at the time he was using this line of attack, frankly, newt gingrich was beating mitt romney by 13 points in south carolina. now that mr. romney's locked up the nomination, the you want to talk about bain, okay, let's talk about bain baton has been handed off from rick perry and then newt gingrich no now president obama's campaign. this new ad for which there is a two-minute version and six-minute version was released by the baobama re-election campaign today. it highlights a kansas city steel factory that mitt romney and bain capital shut down. >> they made as much money off it as they could and they closed it down, they filed for bankruptcy without any concern for the families or the communities. >> it was like a vampire. they came in and sucked the life out of us. >> it was like watching an old friend bleed to death. it makes me angry. those guys were all rich. they all have more money than they'll ever spend, yet they didn't

mrs. romney spoke in detail about raising her children and doing so while dealing with her own serious illnesses, breast cancer and multiple sclerosis, ms. diagnosed 14 years ago. >> there were days where i thought my only future was going to be in bed, and too weak to even have any kind of a normal life. he would remind me all the time that my job was more important than his. >> mrs. romney's "job" was the subject of a back and forth with democratic national committee strategist hillary rosen, who had told cnn that ann had "never worked a day in her life." mrs. romney had responded that raising five boys was "hard work." she alluded to the episode. >> i know what it's like to finish the laundry and look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again! i know what it's like to pull all the groceries in and see the teenagers run through, and then all of a sudden all the groceries you just bought a few hours are ago were gone. some people think that i didn't work, but those were -- [laughter]

romney secures the nomination. whatever it is that mr. for mitt romney, it seems to be working and mr. romney seems to think he needs it. which makes mr. trump's continued inas i say tense that president obama my might not be an american citi that much more for the campaign. he said this, quote, a book publisher came out three days ago and said in his written synopsis of his book, said he was born in kenya and raised in indonesia, his mother spent a day in the hospital. donald trump is not letting the birther thing go. but oh, moral dilemma, he is still useful to mitt romney. on tuesday he'll attend a fund-raiser with mitt romney in las vegas. next month, another fund-raiser, the romney campaign offering a chance to dine with donald trump and mitt romney. while donald trump continues to travel the country telling reporters and everybody he meets that president obama is secretly foreign, and is secretly not really the president. he's aitkinian usurper. of after mr. trump's latest trip to birther land, an adviser said next week's fund-raiser

you can find the entire documentary called when mitt romney came to town. mr. gingrich is a supporter but before he was a supporter, at the time he was using this line of attack, frankly, newt gingrich was beating mitt romney by 13 points in south carolina. the you want to talk about bain baton has been handed off from rick perry and then newt gingrich to now president obama's campaign. this new ad for which there's a six-minute version and a six-minute version was released today. it highlights a kansas city steel factory that mitt romney and bain capital shut down. >> they made as much money as they could. they filed for bankruptcy without any concerns for the families of the community. >> it was like a vampire. they came in and sucked the life out of us. >> it was like watching an old friend bleed to death. it makes me sick. they didn't have the money to take care of the very people that made the money for them. >> bain capital walked away with a lot of money that they made off of this plant. we view mitt romney as a job destroyer. >> the last time the details

mr. romney is now going to plan b, trying to change the subject. over the last two days, mitt romney is trying to change the subject to education. before these last couple of day, he has had some trouble communicating with voters on the stump on that issue. >> was curious, if he elected, what you would do with regards to college tuition, making it's easier for me and my classmates regards to that. >> it would be popular for me to stands up and say i will give you government money to make sure to pay for your college. i will not promise you that. what i will tell you is shop around, get a good price. i do feel this. i feel if you're willing to serve your credit in the military, for instance, that's place, we're going to say, yeah, hey, we'll give you help. >> to be clear, neither mr. romney orny of his five sons served in the military. other than shopping around, looking for a good price, hoping you can find something cheaper, that has been the only concrete thing he has offered as a suggestion for somebody who can't afford clench because they were -

mr. romney and i want you to respond to mr. romney doing the political knee-jerk, and relished he had a good night's sleep and up early and loaded for bear and here he is enjoying the bad numbers. let's watch. >> we should be seeing the numbers in the 500,000 jobs created per month and this is way, way off in what should happen in a normal recovery and it is a terrible and disappointing report this morning. clearly the american people are wondering why this recovery is not happening faster, and why it is taking years and years for the recovery to occur. >> and e well shg well, there y. can you respond to romney, mr. krugman? >> well, the last time we had 500,000 a month job numbers was a president by the name of bill clinton. this recovery is better than the recovery that george w. bush watched over, and since mr. romney wants to recapitulate bush policies, this is terrible. he is completely right that this is not what we wanted to see, but is romney proposing anything that would not make it worse? it is important to take a look

mr. romney leading a group of boys and pinning one student down and mr. y cutting off the boy's long hair while the kid cried and screamed for help. the next day is friday. the next day is today. today is the day that gq magazine published this profile of mr. romney's to strategist and close aid. he outed a massachusetts state representative transgender. by outing her as transgender, he killed her career. he was the first one to put that information into print. i can remember his glee when he found the birth certificate said former reporter robert connolly. the senior advisor outing this woman in the state house brought a swift end to the representative's future on beacon hill. you know how some days are red letter days on the calendar. this has been a rainbow lettered week in the campaign to elect mitt romney to president of the united states. but if the way too gay mitt romney week started on friday, it is only friday. that means his way too gay for him week is not over. tomorrow mr. romney is giving the commencement address at jerry faldwell's universit

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mr. romney supporting their core beliefs and the mormon faith. ey are hoping that the development on social issues. and the president supporting gay marriage it will mobilize the christians to back romney. how will it impact the campaign when the economy remains a top concern for most americans. joining us for a fair debate, radio host mike gallager and alen cole. >> good morning to you. >> alen, let me start with you. so many observers believe that it is focus on lifting us out of the tough economic times, it appears the the culture wars are dominating the political debate. does this mean social issues with deep religious reverbiations still matter? >> they matter but not what the people will vote on. 50 percent of the country support the quality in marriage and i ultimately they vote the pocket book and what happens between now and november will dictate economically how people vote i think. if the trend continues and the unemployment rate continues to go down. it is now 8.1 percent and the economy gets better as it has in 18 months of job growth