of course, i'd forgotten, you know, you can be so naive that our embassador to iran was helms, richard helms. the last thing he wanted was, you know, people talking about, as you said, that the president had told the cia to -- so that wasn't his favorite topic, so no speaking in iran, the american wild west. but in india they booked me into parts of india that were quite anti-american in their traditional kurala state in the south was a communist state, and my message was the system works, the system works. and it was -- they couldn't dispute it. they couldn't touch it. so, there the embassy loved it, because it was such a positive message about our constitutional system and how it worked. the only problem i had in india is that sometimes after my talks, i'd be approached by a group who was interested in impeaching gandhi and they would come up and say maybe we could talk about -- which, of course, i wouldn't do. but it was basically that the system worked. that it was not seen as just a political thing that basically a serious inquiry had been made and a determination had been made about wh

richard nixon on this. he's refused to release more than one year of tax returns when his own father released 12 years worth of returns. they could clear up questions about whether he was at the helm of this country while it outsourced american jobs and it could clear up questions about whether he was avoiding taxes by parking his personal finances offshore in a swiss bank account and the cayman islands and a corporate established in bermuda. >> ben, as always, it's a pleasure, have a great weekend. >>> barbara comstock, senior advise for the romney campaign will be here in the next half hour. we will of course be having a similar conversation. >>> we bring in msnbc political analyst, and editor and chief of national journeys hot line. good morning to all of you, alice, we'll start with you, you just heard from ben labolt about team obama's questions surrounding bain. what are your reactions? >> these are sat and desperate attacks from a campaign that's clearly not doing very well. >> i didn't mean to cut you off so quickly there, but you're saying what we have heard from a lot of folks, but these attacks seem to be working. >> the polls show governor romney and the president neck