richard wolf will join me to discuss the comments. stay tuned. >>> good to have you back with us on "the ed show." mitt romney's comments about the >>> good to have you back with us on "the ed show." mitt romney's comments about the 47% of people who don't pay income taxes, it's wrong on a number of levels. now we'll break down the numbers and explain why he's insulting his strongest supporters in a moment. first, here's what romney said. >> well, what you say behind closed doors is really who you >> well, what you say behind closed doors is really who you are. i'm joined by david k. johnson who is a columnist and author of the book "the fine print." romney was basically right about one thing. 46.4% of americans don't pay federal income taxes. but here's the real break down from the tax policy center. two-thirds of romney's 47% actually do pay payroll taxes. david, the rest are elderly who make less than $20,000 a year. >> that's right. they are either elderly so used to pay taxes or are working hard at jobs that pay very little money

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joining us now is richard wolfe. mitt romney keeps talking about this false allegation that the president apologizes four america. but isn't it time he apologized first to the consulate staff who don't need a set of circumstances that are inflamed by the bluster and nonsense that comes out of his mouth, but also, what about the relatives of those who were killed. is there no courtesy, could he not have waited to release that statement until their next of kin had been informed. he's the man who needs to apologize. >> you need to recognize that there are times when a president is a political partisan figure and that job is about campaigning and there are times when you are speaking about a country a country in mourning. that's when you're really head of state, the president does most things, that's what mitt romney fumbled really badly. >> the world fumbled is inadequa inadequate, richard. >> well looking back at what actually happened and considering his own behavior, i think romney needs to reread the words of presid

joining me tonight is msnbc political analyst richard wolf. great to have you with us >> they have dozens of different messages. the path was to say we're only going to talk about the economy. the problem is that their idea was if we talk about the economy, they are going to say that's obama's fault. it never worked because some blame the president. there are plenty of people who blame the bush administration. so the argument hasn't stuck. there was another track for them, which is to say let's go for reform. a non-washington crowd, as your clip showed. if you pick someone like paul ryan as your vp, you get tied into a pretzel. there are things you'd like to say, but you have picked someone from washington so they have reform off the table now. you have got the economy, there's a mixed message. and that's how you end up in this hole of trying to talk about social policy when you've got a very flawed message on this and everything else. >> here's a bump. there was a news in the fundraising race. obama campaign raised more money than the romney

. >> tonight, richard wolf on mitt romney's definition of fair and dean baker on romney's ability to game the tax code with chinese investments. >> my expectation would be in the crunch in october, governor romney is going to be for todd aiken. >> republicans turn to newt gingrich to try to save todd aiken in missouri and save the senate. howard fineman has the latest. >> it turns out he stacked the crowd with supporters. it's not the first time. >> i do love that music. i have to tell you. >> good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. mitt romney tried to create a distraction from his 47% comments. instead he gave himself more headaches. friday afternoon the romney campaign released the 2011 tax returns. the romneys paid 14.1% and would have paid an even lower rate if they took all of their deductions. the tax returns put the focus back on the issue of tax fairness in america. romney was asked about his tax rate during an interview with "60 minutes." >> is that fair to the guy who makes $50,000 and paid a higher rate than you did? >> it is a low rate. one of the reasons

. >> joining me now msnbc's richard wolf and time international editor jim frederick. is the new calculus? >> it goes back to the fact that before the arab spring you had dictators who might be bad guys but they had hold on their countries. what we're looking at is these democracies have flowered but they don't have good control, security apparatus, things are changing all the time. even obama said today he doesn't know whether he considers egypt an ally or an enemy. so now you have a much more chaotic environment where you really don't know where the attacks are coming from and the local security apparatus can't really stop local and spontaneous demonstrations like these quite as well as they used to. >> richard, what is your sense of how spontaneous this was? first of all, very few people could possibly have seen this movie. but still, there's hundreds of people there. at most. reacting to this. and the vast majority, 99% of the people in these countries are not at all perturbed by this movie they're supposed to have heard about. >> you don't get many spontaneous dem

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richard wolf and dean baker will join me next. stay with us. >>> coming up, mitt romney says he has paid his fair share of tax. but can he convince voters? richard wolffe and dean baker will weigh in next. >>> newt gingrich, he's back at it. joins todd akin on the campaign trail and says mitt will change his mind. about supporting this candidate. i'll ask howard fineman how long the republican party will go, how far they will go to try to win the senate. >>> and romney says the uninsured can rely on emergency rooms for health care. but five years ago, he called the same practice socialism. we'll have the details. share your thoughts with us on facebook and on twitter using the hash tag edshow. we're coming right back. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." tax fairness is one of mitt romney's biggest problems. i have to tell you no wage earner i have spoken with thinks romney's 13 or 14% rate is fair. let's hear mitt romney's take on it one more time. >> is that fair to the guy who makes $50,000 and paid a higher rate than you? >> it

host: the interview with ross perot conducted by richard wolf, you can watch it tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern time. haley peterson is saying -- next is sandy from indiana. caller: thank you. i think third parties are very relevant now, more now than ever. if ross perot had gotten elected, maybe all of our jobs would not be overseas and we would not be in the miss we are in. i think the green party should be able to get in there and get in the debate. libertarians, whatever. i am tired of voting against somebody instead of for somebody. host: thank you for the call. from one of our viewers saying -- some of your comments on our twitter page -- join the conversation on our facebook page. next is tom from michigan on the democrats' line. caller: good morning. the only point i wanted to make is, of course third party candidates are relevant because -- it is enough -- if enough people vote for the third party, it affects the other aspects of the election. going back to ralph nader, if he had started his own party -- the consumer advocates party or something -- maybe he would have gone furt

march against portugal of luzhniki stadium which will take place in just about a month's time richard wolfe lead artsy tel aviv israel but in the meantime world and european champions spain avoided an upset in their opening qualifiers they squeezed out a late one nil win against minister george or in tbilisi it took until the eighty six when it until the world's number one team scored against the team ranked eighty six in the world that i finally breaking the battle of spain ply second in the fourteen group by behind france who won their second match against terrorists three one while the spanish feel lucky to snatch the three points. i want to express my compliments for the georgian team who are defending well and were very enthusiastic and counterattacks when they could have many difficulties and we were trying hard to score the goal but it was difficult i think we're looking to score the goal. callers were injured also suffered a scare roy hodgson's side trailed ukraine after thirty eight minutes at wembley following a great kick from the anchor and it took a late penalty from frank lamp

you can find richard wolf's article on "usa today' and on usatoday.com. tomorrow on "washington journal," previewing the upcoming supreme court term. our guest, correspondent from "the wall street journal," jess bravin. he will be followed by a libertarian presidential candidate gary johnson talking about the obstacles third party faces in the two party system. later, we talked about the more than $10 billion in federal funding for public transit systems including buses and light and heavy real. our guest is emil frankel. live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. -- "washington journal." >> c-span is not biased. there are no ads. i'm a firm believer that the c- span video archive is a gift to the american people. it is one of the most historical archives there are. i'm primarily watch "washington journal," the house of representatives proceedings and c-span2 for the senate. cableated by america's companies in 1979 and brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >> see the first of the presidential debates wednesday night live on c-span, c-s

. >> ross perot interviewed by richard wolf on the economy, and the deficit, at the debt, and how it does change as he ran for president. find his article on monday and usa today.com. >> joining us this week on "the communicators" is david cohen, comcast executive vice president. the last time you were on this is april

perot had to say in his interview with richard wolfe of "usa today." >> if i told you i don't want to dig out of my debt problem until i go broke, you'd say, what are talking about? that's what you just said. but in very polished terms, recession. you're not going to pay your debt if you don't have the money. and if things are going downhill and you're running your debt up, you make it next to impossible to pay your debt, and we've got to put the brakes on now and do this now and start to get it done. it can be done if we in the house and senate and white house have the will, and certainly they should have the full support of the american people to get it done. host: we're talking about one-party versus divided government for about the next 15 minutes of the "washington journal." our next call is from pat on our line for republicans. she's calling from new jersey. caller: hey, robb. i think divided government is best, because for the last 60 or 70 years, one-party government has usually coincided with a massive growth in the federal government. in the past -- most of our history, we h

and msnbc political analyst, richard wolf, the author of "revival." thanks to both of you for being here tonight. >> thanks, reverend. >> congressman, how would you assess the politics of september 11th? >> can't hear him. >> i said, how would you assess the republicans' history of playing politics with september 11th? i don't think you hear me. let me go to richard. richard, how would you -- >> they have not been shy about doing this before. it's interesting that they've raised all sorts of worries and criticisms of the president for making his references to the mission that killed bin laden. so, they're playing by a different set of rules. it doesn't matter what they say about the president's policy. voters know, this president made the gutsy call to order that mission that killed america's number one enemy. and it didn't stop there. core leadership of al qaeda has been decimated by this president's approach. we can decide and argue about whether that's appropriate and whether civil liberties have been protected. but his position has been strong. yo

let's turn to political analyst, msnbc political analyst richard wolf with us tonight, and van jones,resident of rebuild the dream and author of the book by the same name "rebuild the dream." great to have you with us tonight. richard, you first, if the convention waw a reflection of mitt romney, what did it tell us last night? what did we learn? >> well, it tells us they have a strange world view. the romney campaign, romney himself, has run a very tactical affair here, and we do focus on shows like this on punching, the back and forth, the lies and distortions, but if you listen to thototality, what you heard was an image of america that many people would find unreal. never mind about the lies and the truth of it, for a start, they don't want to talk at all about the crisis that this president inherited. they say, you can't talk about that. it's a bit like saying if you're president bush, you can't talk about 9/11. the crisis was real, he turned around a situation of losing nearly a million jobs a growth to a situation where we're growing, all be it, not enough, but still, it's a tu

our moderator for today, many of you have recognized him as richard wolf. he has been at "the financial times" for many years. he is the author of "renegade, the makings of a president." i think that president kennedy would have to revise what he said many years ago, please welcome this very distinguished panel. [applause] >> thank you for that generous introduction. thank you for showing up today. as moderator, in addition to having to live up to that, i have to keep the trains running on time. the plan, for the next 40 minutes or so this panel will be solving the problems of the world. and we're willing to open it up to -- to questions from the floor. i believe that there are two microphones on either side. these are not precise groups, but if you are technologically proficient, we can take your questions from twitter. news this-tag and we will get to those questions. let me try to set up a tour of the horizon. by the way, this is the most challenging foreign policy environment ever. i thought the first cold war was pretty challenging. i thought that the

he is interviewed by richard wolf on the economy, the deficit, and debt and how it has changed since he ran for president in 1992. that is monday night on c-span and c-span radio at 9:00 p.m. eastern. find the article in usa today on monday at usatoday.com. >> ahead of next week's first presidential debate, at the center for american progress looked at both your demographics and how they affect campaign strategy. the report also talks about perceptions of the economy, medicare, and hispanic voters. this is 1.5 hours. >> good afternoon. i am buys president for american values and new communities. i want to thank you for the revisited.p i want to wish you a happy book your registration day. i am sure everyone is registered to vote. this is the list of by two great teams. two weeks before the election, i know that may seem like a very short time. in politics it is a lifetime. we were interesting digging into what is happening in this space. what trends are occurring? how do people feel about the economy? you are the people who show up to the polls in november? we want to have a discussi

. >> "usa today's" richard wolfe talks with ross perot. and to confine his article on monday in "usa today." >> my opponent and his running mate are big believers in top down economics. they basically think that if we spend another $5 trillion on tax cuts that favor the very wealthy -- [audience boos] don't boo. vote. vote. vote. >> he has one new idea. he has one thing he did not do in his first four years, which he says he will do in his next four years, which is raise taxes. does anyone think raising the taxes will help the economy? >> no. >> his plan is to continue as before. the status quo has not worked. we cannot afford four more years of barack obama. we are not going to have four more years of barack obama. >> wednesday, president obama and mitt romney have their first presidential debate. joins the stand for the debate and post-debate coverage. join us live. >> now a debate from the 2000 presidential campaign. vice president al gore was nominated by the democrats and texas gov. george w. bush was the republican choice that your.

richard wolfe has been a guest on this program. guest: our numbers tell a slightly different version of that story. if you go back longer in time -- we went back to 1978 -- sometimes the 1950's for some of our numbers -- median household income, once you adjust for changes in household size and you just for real dollars, over the longer part of modern history, household incomes for the middle-class and upper and lower class of all gone up. that is counterintuitive to many people and it has to do with adjusting for household size. today's households are smaller. once you make those adjustments, the standard of living is up by about 1/3. then what was in 1970. one reason it is up is because some money families have two incomes. that is part of a very dramatic change in our lifetime is the movement of women into the workforce. it has changed the family life of many people and there are stresses and strains about that. we see this in public opinion. when you ask people about the arc of their lives, they see progress. i think that progr

. >>> today's office politics, journalist and msnbc political analyst richard wolf takes a look at. >uld well, it's not whoo it used to be. where is the drama and the numbers are down and who really cares? all of that's true, but it's still a unique opportunity for the campaigns to take a hold of the news cycle and everyone's attention and it's not quite an etch a sketch moment but it is a moment where they can say, this is what we stand for, this is the candidate, the nominee, and pay some attention. there is a bump that you can and should expect, and it's especially important for a new nominee, right? it's one thing for a president going for reelection, but for someone who is relatively new to the national stage like mitt romney, although he's been campaigning for a long time, people still don't know who he is, what his wife looks like. >> why do we not have a better sense, though, of mitt romney and ann romney, after six years of campaigning? >> well, partly it is because he hasn't had a national position. but it's also because mitt romney has changed a lot in that time, and, you k

he is interviewed by a "usa today"'s richard wolfe. he talks about how things have changed since he ran for president in 1992 and 1996. find the article in "usa today" on monday. >> next, the federalist society previews the supreme court's upcoming term that starts on monday. they talk about cases related to the defense of project, putting rights, and affirmative action, and how the justices might decide each case. this is just over one hour. >> our next panelist knows the supreme court from the inside, having been a law clerk to justice thomas. of ourhe only member panel has over prepared by getting a mastery and list -- and linguistics. that may help her as the policy director of the judicial crisis network which advocates on behalf of the judicial nominees with conservative values. >> i will have to have my degree in linguistics to speak fast because i've been asked to talk about two categories of cases, and of which have an actual grant. i have to talk about quite a collection of cases to give me a sense of the field. one is in thi

. >> ross perot interviewed by richard wolf.d the article in "usa today" on monday and on usatoday.com. next and the national survey on use of illegal drugs, alcohol and tobacco. was published by the substance abuse and mental health services administration, part of the health and human services department. this is just over one hour. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> i am dr. westley clark, the director of the center for behavioral health statistics, and the tarp -- and the the substance abuse and mental health service administration. i want to welcome you all here. as you know, traditionally we coordinate the release of our initial report with the observance of national recovery month. this year's recovery month theme is joined the voices for recovery, it is worth it. and indeed, as we look at some favorable results depicted in this day that we are releasing today, we are making progress. and yet we must remain vigilant in this endeavor. much still needs to be done to provide quality service to those that need it. and to pr

richard gere's new thriller, coming out next friday and production under way for "wolf of wall street dicaprio in that one. this is the director in new jersey. leo courtesy of a photographer. why is wall street so frequently -- hollywood's punching bag, bob? >> when was this golden period, tyler, when hollywood was enamored when wall street? there never was a period loving wall street or rich people in general. remember, wall street, 30 years ago? that wasn't exactly promising. look. you're going to have to get used to the idea. maria's in the movie. a cameo. she interviews richard gere. that's coming up. cnbc is mentioned several times. very excited about this. >> kayla? >> i think this is wall street's sort of days of yore and historic plots. i don't think wall street lends itself to hollywood. it's a risk averse, pretty sanguine culture. >> talk about munich. this is out of left field. a snag with oktoberfest. beer makers concerned they don't have enough bottles for the big party. why can't -- kayla, you are carded everywhere you go but going to munich, you would be beautiful. >> i

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