a tom good to be here and i've got some good news for you it looks like the republican national committee has now broken ties with this firm they fired this firm after more evidence voter registration fraud by this republican firm has been discovered in florida including apparently dead people signed up registered as new voters in one of the florida counties according to n.b.c. news late tonight wow and now i understand that this firm you were reporting that this firm was taking democratic voters and essentially reregistering them at addresses that were like strip malls and things commercial addresses so that when they go into the polling place they'll be told you're in the wrong place of they'll be given a provisional ballot and will be caught it by the right. yeah you do have that right i interviewed the supervisor of elections down there in palm beach county susan booker yesterday and she said that addresses were moved on existing registration forms to the commercial building so that yeah when people show up to vote they may not be able to vote at all they'll be disenfranchised because

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they were performed by a consulting political consulting company hired by the republican national committee called strategic allied consulting. in colorado, a woman who may have worked for the company was videotaped trying to register only mitt romney supporters, take a look. >> yeah, hi. >> do you volt for romneyor obama? >> i thought you were registering voters a minute ago. >> i am. >> and who are you registering? >> all voters. >> i'm actually trying to register people for a particular party because we're out here in support of romney actually. >> and who's paying you for this? >> let me see, we're working for the county clerk's office. >> you cannot come out here and register one party, lady, are you working for the county clerk's office, i got it all on tape. you're working for the county clerk's office? >> i believe so, yes. >> and you're only registering republicans? >> no. >> a top official of the el paso county republican party in colorado says the woman trying to register voters actually worked for strategic allied consulting, not the county clerk's office. cnn has not confirmed

the republican national committee in damage control has fired the firm across the country and the floridalican party has submitted its own complaint against the firm to the secretary of state's office. i have talked to nathan spool. he says he's the victim here. it was bad apples that he hired here to register voters across the country but i think some people are asking questions where there was certain oversight that should have been done by the party in florida and perhaps the rnc as well as to how the firm is conducting the business. >> how possible is it that the gop knew something was going on? >> well, look, there's no evidence of that. we do know that sprool has had a somewhat controversial past. he's been accused of election irregularities going back to 2004 when democrats accused him of throwing away voter registration forms. no criminal charges were filed against him but it is interesting that sprool has said that the strategic allied consulting was only formed in june, that it was formed under this different name, a new name, so that democrats and the media would not raise ques

in virginia, a key battleground state, the republican national committee took advantage of a romney rally fairfax to register attendees. when you have this many people in one place, uh ittmakes rrgistering folks a lot easier. that ease is also parttof the appeal for voters.i picked up a form at thh library laat week, but i hadn't actually done it, so this is great, to be able to just sit and do it and get it done right now.we have one of the best ground games here in virginia. we've registered and made contact with 300,000 people just n the last week, 150,000 just last weekend alone.a few days later, we caught up with obama supporters in nearby herndon, virginia -- regiitering voters at local businesses.they won't havv a voice unless they vote, unless they register. so that's my purpose. 14:58:47 // 14:58:577what i try to do is gg where the folks are an night--and this is a good s, - live before?alexandria.in alexandria. yeah, you would need to re-register to vote. registered, caapaigns say it's also important to make sure voters know what to bring to the polls. virginia, like most states

republican party. that company allied consulting had been fired by the national republican committee after hundred signatures showed up in palm beach county florida that are allegedly fraudulent. they blame one employee for listing a statement that said, we were able to identify that the cause in question were the work of one individual. we are very proud of our work product. when someone commits voter fraud it's an affront to everyone living in this country. election supervisor who runs

republican national convention. >> one of the ever-growing lists of young people who have joined in the republican cause, the chairman of the college republican national committee, jack abramoff. >> a self-described "rabid right winger," abramoff headed the organization that launched the careers of many republican power brokers, including karl rove and the crusader against taxes, grover norquist. >> fellow republicans, i come before you today representing american students, the future of our republican party. >> it was as college students organizing campuses for ronald reagan that jack abramoff, grover norquist and ralph reed first met. >> good morning. my name is ralph reed. i'm the executive director of students for america. >> reed was a junior from the university of georgia and a $200 a month intern with the college republicans. he and the other young pols embraced the spirit of the cold war against communism and applied it to domestic politics. in war, their aim was to destroy the enemy. >> it was very simple, very black and white. we used army metaphors. we talked about being hard core. >> they dreamed up headline-grabbing stunts in the shadow of the capi

. >> for every bill kristol, and they'll be-- >> and accusing the republican national committee of race baiting and the l.a. times had a headline, republican national convention puts a brown face on a white party. is this race baiting by the media? >> i was struck by the coverage of nbc, and m. snbc, how unabashedly biased it was. has a point of view and clearly came out on the coverage whether it was tom brokaw speaking about backward looking speech, about a man who is less inclusive than his father, to saying things that made joe scarboro and miss brasinski uncomfortable on morning joe. >> and got the opinions through. >>, but they're supposed to have straight coverage of a convention, hard to find that on nbc. >> and david challion, the former, now former head of yahoo! news, washington bureau, who was overheard on an abc webcast saying the romneys are happy to have a party as black people while black people drown, referring to the hurricane, referring to the hurricane hitting the west coast-- i'm sorry, gulf coast, he got fired for that, but a guy political director for abc news, an

>>> well, the republican national committee is in damage control mode after a firm they hired to registerters in florida and four other battleground states was hit with allegations of fraud. republicans abruptly had to cut ties with strategic allied consulting after it was linked to more than 100 questionable forms submitted in of all places, florida's palm beach county. >> some of the information on the florida voter registration forms were trying to register people with addresses in new york. some of the address changes that were being requested on the forms were actually being transferred from a home address to commercial buildings. in one instance, the couple was being reregistered to an address in miami that's a shell gas station. >> can't make it up. michael scott, we planned on being joined by chairman of the republican party in florida who had to cancel this morning. mike, walk me through this story and what happened. >> it is causing headaches at the rnc this morning. the rnc goes out and hires this firm, newly created firm, strategic allied consulting, run by a somewhat question

with us tonight, the former chairman of the republican national committee, currently she a politicalyst for msnbc, please welcome back to the program michael steele! >> it is so nice to see you. you were the rnc chairman. >> yeah. believe it or not. >> jon: and so now the rnc gentleman is a person named a made-up name. reince priebus. >> yes, sir. that is correct. >> i saw him, i wanted to show you this. show the tape quickly of reince priebus. >> president obama has never run a company. he hasn't even run a garage sale or seen the inside of a lemonade stand. >> jon: now, i don't know if you have ever seen the movie arthur with -- >> very much. >> jon: and how was that? >> i don't know. >> jon: no love lost. now what happens when you leave do you get to enjoy the fruits of your labor at this convention? or are you persona non grata in the halls of party power. >> yes, that would be all by myself. >> jon: oh, really? .. >> no invitation. no credentials. >> that is what happens. >> jon: that is not right. how do you repair that type of relationship with a party? or are you not interest

you might nt to o read the republican national committee platform that politico just posted.all business, take a look at the associated press' interesting compason of the presidential candidadates' posisition on smallusiness contracting. finally, when evaluating a local candididates, take a look at if they serve on a congressional committee important to your business. links to articles in this sesegment t can bebe found at >> welcome back. we have a a few more mininutesitith kate andersen brower and peter momorici. i want to talk about ben bernanke's commen on iday in wming, where he dropped a pretty big tent that he would like to do more, perhaps as early as the next meeting in september. isis there more to do? >> not really. mortge r rates are at record lo. putting more l liquidity in the system will not help a lot. we have already y had th. coitions in eururope -- a lot of it comes from there, pushing down the market. my feeling i tt it is over and the's not a lot that monetary policy can do. >> the argument is tt theob market's weakness has beea result of a cyical problem

times, the republican national committee paid sproul's company, $3 million to recommendster vote forslorado nevada north carolina, and virginia this year. and the romney campaign paid sproul an additional $70,000 for five month's of work but he is being investigated again. florida election officials aledge that sproul's company submitted over 100 fraudulent registrations this year. they dismissed the incident of this fraud as the case of quote, one bad apple in an organization. this from the party that has otherwise by screaming about voter fraud all year. when it comes to voter fraud me thinks the republican party protest too much. joining me now is lee fang, who has been writing about the issue for "the nation" magazine. great to have you back inside "the war room." >> thank you for having me. >> nathan sproul as you mentioned worked for republicans for years, and there were allegations back in 2004. this came up in oregon minnesota, west virginia pennsylvania, and there are many other types of hijinks that have been associated with his firm. so the republicans wanted to hire him, j

. >>> nbc news has learned that the republican national committee has fired a controversial consultinged to conduct voter registration in five battleground states. potentially fraudulent registration forms have been uncovered. michael isokoff joins me with more. >> fair to say this is causing headaches at the rnc this morning. basically they hired strategic allied consulting to go vote early registration around the country in five battleground states. register new republican voters and mitt romney supporters. in florida, palm beach county, the elections supervisor finds that some of the forms dropped off at one of its satellite offices out of 308, 106 were problematic. seemed to have the same signatures. seem to link up to phony addresses, a shell gas station, a medical office building, a land recovery dealership. they reported this to local prosecutors. meanwhile, other counties in florida now up to six have reported similar irregularities with the same firm, strategic allied consulting. the florida republican party said they were firing the firm, and now the republican national commi

. >> reporter: today the chairman of the republican national committee pushed back against gop complaints that romney isn't getting specific enough about his plans. >> i far as specifics go, we're the only ones talking about how to save medicare. the president is the one that raid medicare by $700 billion. i mean we've got specifics coming out of our eyeballs. >> reporter: but some influential republicans are still speaking up like wisconsin governor scott walker who told fox news the romney campaign needs more passion. >> i want to see him lit up and ready to go because that's the mitt romney i know. the more we get off on side individuals where individual taxes or this video comment, that distracts from the largest issues at take. >> reporter: the president heads to the united nations general a sellably. he won't be meeting with any foreign leaders one-on-one, though he is taking time for the ladies of "the view" and will be addressing the clinton global initiative qferbs on-- conference on tuesday as with romney. then governor romney will ramp up his campaign appearances with a multibu

. >> all right, let's bring in shawn spicer, communications director for the republican national committee. shawn, thanks for spending time with us this morning, and i want to start with something that conservative blocker erick erickson wrote in response to the remarks we were just discussing, saying "the romney campaign should double down on what he said. they should own it. the trouble for the left and media is that most americans agree with mitt romney." what do you think here? should romney double down on these comments? >> well, what mitt romney said was that he didn't state it the most elegant way but that it's a different philosophy that he's trying to express. this administration has been focused on a government-centered society where government grows larger and larger in terms of the services. they put out an infographic earlier this year talking about the life of julia, how every american is dependent on government. at their convention, they talked about how government's the only thing we all belong to. and i think what mitt romney is talking about is the free enterprise system,

. >> the republican national committee is also out with a brand-new ad slamming the president on unemployment and the economic recovery. it's all part of a strategy to label barack obama as a likable guy, but a guy that can't get the country back on track. >>> more than a dozen neighbors, family, and fellow soldiers turned up at the montgomery county courthouse today to support a 23-year-old iraqi war veteran. 23 neerld nathan is accused of kiddalling a 12-year-old girl for sex. supporters say he's a hero, not a crook. >> a man hailed as a hero two months ago in falls church, virginia, stands accused of kidnapping a 12-year-old girl for sex here in montgomery county. a girl he met online. >> today's supporters, a 23- year-old nathan, a national guardsman who served in iraq, fill ed a courtroom. his lawyer says the victim in the case was posing as an adult online and he was fooled. >> it shows the dangers of use of social networking, not just by a minor child who could get molested or assaulted, but by an adult who could get placed in the situation. >> he was called a hero by fairfax county of

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the republican national committee paid the company nearly $3 million this year. revelation that has the gop throwing punches. >> it's totally different. we at this point have an allegation. that mere allegation has caused us to act swiftly and boldly and sever our ties with this firm because we have a zero tolerance when it comes to this. the on other side clearly engaged in a long time for inappropriate behavior. we don't believe it's appropriate and we wanted to make a swift and bold action to illustrate that. >> let me go ahead and bring in nbc's national investigative correspondent michael isakoff. is this the first time this particular consultant has been accused of voter fraud? >> nathan sproul is a former executive director of the arizona republican party. he's been aaccused of election misconduct by democrats in the past, voter suppression, throwing out voter registration forms. none of them have led to criminal charges or any civil findings against him, but it has made him a somewhat controversial figure. so one of the things mr. sproul said and when the

they are doing it in all of these states and the republican national committee paid this company $3.1lion to do this. boy, i wonder if they knew what was happening. and then there is video from colorado springs a woman caught outside of a grocery store watch the video. >> who are you registering all voters? >> i'm trying to register people for a particular party. >> uh-huh. >> because we're out here in support of romney actually. >> you are working for the county clerk's office? >> i believe so. >> and you are only registering republicans. >> nope. >> you said we're only registering romney people. >> we're trying to do. >> cenk: she has been working for the guy that has been running all of these companies. but that's not the only time he has done it. he did it in the past. he did it in 2004 to the tune of $7.4 million. that's the bush/cheney team paid this guy in '04. the changed his name to lincoln strategies. they got caught, so he changed the name again. let me show you the break down of the years he has been doing this. 2012 $3.1 million, 2008 $175,000, and then $37,000 in two dif

michael steele is the former chair of the republican national committee. let me be fair here.does give us a sense of what he wants to do. he talks about tax relief in terms of getting rid of the estate tax. he talking about reducing substantially the corporate income tax from 35 to 25. that's a big cut. from across the board, cuts for individuals. some 35% for the highest rate now down to 28. so you get a good sense of how he's going to make people happier. but then when somebody like dave, well, david gregory, my colleague here who works across the hall here. let's look what happens when david gregory tries to find out what's underneath the christmas present as the cost of the new thing. mitt romney saying under his plan tax rates would go down for everybody. how would he pay for that? he would take away tax deductions for the wealthy. on "meet the press", he failed to mention a single example. let's watch. >> so everything i want to do with regard to taxation follows simple principles. keep the rates down. keep revenue up by eliminates deductions and exemptions and make sure

nbc's michael is could have is reporting that the republican national committee fired a firm used toign up voters in five battlegroundstates. this after election officials in oridiscore me voter registration forms that appeared to have fake signatures and home addresses. some traced back to a gas station, a medical building and car dealer. >>> missouri republican todd wase r fe for his legitimate rape comment is coming under fire again. he said that the incumbent was not as lalike in her debate last week compared to her previous campaign. >>> billionairergsoros will give $1 million behind the super pac for president obama's campaign. >>> rupert murdoch joined the wrong political party. spokesman tells cranes new york business that the news corp ceo known forupinae accidentally registered with the new york independent party, a fringe group linked to anti-semitic remarks. he says he plans to reregister as unaffiliated. >>> the endst nfl reree mygh mesn't just the result the refs top labor negotiator says that pressure from president obama and mitt romney helped make the difference. and

. >> those lines are kind of the same line of brown the republican national committee commercials. that it is ok not to re-elect president obama. is there not a whole organization going on here? >> and there has been an evolution for republicans along with line. for a while it was -- he is a good man, we are disappointed, but he is in over his head. then there were these ads were he was completely out of touch and they have tried to shift backwards to the idea of the it is ok to be disappointed and now we have to harness your disappointment. i still think that on the republican side that that needs to be filled in more directly. that there is a place to carry this appointment and i am not sure that this convention fill that out as much as they might have wished. >> peter, looking ahead, the strength for the democrats? biggest weakness? >> president obama, to some degree, will be a victim of past success. past success. there will be so many

. >> those lines are kind of the same line of brown the republican national committee commercials. at it is ok not to re-elect president obama. is there not a whole organization going on here? >> and there has been an evolution for republicans along with line. for a while it was -- he is a for a while it was -- he is a go