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because i had the rnc on a little while ago.a fine line they run, trying to cheer on seeing the american economy fail in this election season. >> they are cognizant of that, as is mitt romney. and so what it does is force him to sharpen his message. which he did just this past week, when he went to iowa and gave a speech on the debt. and his own views for how to reduce it. so in other words, he might have to shift from simply talking about the unemployment rate to talking about other issues like debt and the deficit. >> david, your take on this? how does mitt romney and the rnc for that matter. and those trying to usher him into office, make it look as if they're not trying to root for the downfall of the current american economy? >> i think that they can't be seen as rooting either way. but they have to hope in their heart of hearts, that the september jobs numbers, we should just for a preview of coming attractions, the national jobless rate for october will be announced the friday before the election. but at that same time, w

mitt romney coming into the rnc today was the kickoff of this merger between the rnc and our presumptive nominee. >> greta: so who is in charge? is it governor romney or you? i mean -- who is calling the shots? there are obviously some areas that are yours. but whether it comes to the presidential campaign. i realize it's like a symphony, great if you worked well together. but who will be calling the shots on this? >> actually, i mean, it is both parties. i mean, that's why it's a merger. it is not a takeover. it is not one entity swallowing up the other. it is two entities working together to make sure that we keep one thing in mind, which is that we can't have another four years of misery of this president. you know, i think that it's important for our grassroots and all the people out there to know that this is the republican party. we believe in these principles of liberty, freedom, the constitution, james madison, all of those things that make our party great. so does mitt romney. together, between governor romney and the rnc and all the resources we have, we need to defeat barack o

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. >> the rnc would like to make him the poster child. >> the rnc want to talk about romney's record ates apart. let's keep that as the front line. >> exactly. there are a couple of national polls out today of registered voters showing president obama's leading washington post abc news has the president up 49 to 46 nationally. wall street journal has it at 47 to 43. again, the president up. what do you make of that? >> nothing. >> i agree. >> we are an eternity away from the election. >> so far away. these are just voters. why are people wasting their time on polls? >> they have to write a story and there is not much else to talk about right now. so we are sort of at a lull period in the presidential campaign. >> that's very normal this time of year and every four years. it's quiet relatively quiet. the voters aren't paying attention yet. what will really matters, the point, there are two things voters should look for. one is, look for the third week in september. that has in the last couple of presidential the third week in september. >> why? >> last time i don't know make the full moo

launched by the rnc called stand with cory. is there -- is there something wrong with saying something the white house might disagree with? >> well, no. in a democracy and especially ours you should be able to disagree with the president, disagree with the administration, disagree with the reelection effort. but on the other hand, when you're a surrogate for that administration, for that re-election effort, you should be a little more careful in how you talk about certain things. i mean, cory booker is a man of principle. he believes firmly in everything that he says. so i don't fault him for feeling the way he felt. but he shouldn't be surprised by the amount of pushback and reaction he's gotten from both sides. >> it would seem like cory himself pivoted rather quickly. that video out hours after he made his appearance on "meet the press." beau biden is joining us now from north carolina where he will be campaigning later today on behalf of the obama/biden ticket. it is always a pleasure to see you on our air. >> thanks for ha

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the rnc chairman, with a first term, we can't afford to see the second. sequels are always worse. that's what he had to say. >> oh! rim shot. i think for $15 million, the dnc and the obama campaign are willing to take the hit from the chairman of the rnc on this one. this is a significant battle lines here. at least familiar battle lines. we will hear republicans criticize the president's and the hollywood parties's nexus. try to use that as a tool for voters in heartland states and even some of those counties that domenico was talking about. let's have a look at the figures and the president's travel itinerary over the next couple days here. you're right. he is about to land in seattle, washington. he has two fund-raisers there. washington state is a blue state. any time the president goes to california, washington or even organize orange there is usually a fundraising component attached. the dave matthews band will help warm thing up for the president on this swigs. there are two fund-raisers in seattle this afternoon. the dave matthews band performing

i think the rnc chairman raises a good point that this election will be about the economy.about gay marriage because they have so many other things to worry b. you mentioned high gas prices earlier. i think they'll be worried about paying their mortgage. there are so many more important issues that voters are thinking about in terms of their pocketbooks that gay marriage probably won't be their focus come november. >> shira toeplitz, thank you. >>> a heartfelt message and plea from trayvon martin's mom on mother's day. she asks supporters to voice opposition for florida's stand your ground law, which was cited by george zimmerman in the shooting death of her unarmed teenaged son. she spoke of her sadness at spending mother's day without him. >> this will be my first mother's day without my son, trayvon. i know it will be hard. but my faith, family and friends will pull me through. on sunday, i'm going to say a prayer for other mothers across america who share this unbearable pain. >> sabrina also posted a message on twitter saying quote although i am down today it reminds m

the rnc gets it.e a huge national significance. i couldn't agree more. so do you think president obama himself, ought to come in and campaign for at least a big rally for tom barrett? >> i sure do. i mean democrats and progressives have been wondering where the white house has been the past 16 months when we had 100,000 people in the streets. we were wondering where obama or joe biden were. obama promised during the last presidential campaign when people were out there striking he was going to get his marching shoes on and join the picture line. we had a strike and they didn't show up. in wisconsin it seems like they are abandoning us. >> we were talking -- we are talking with matt rothschild, editor of the progressive magazine, progressive.org. great magazine if you want to keep up-to-date. matt, tell me again when the progressive -- when did this start? like 100 years ago? >> yeah, we are 103 years old and we still have teeth. if you can find that. founded by fighting bob lafollett, the man who ran

. >>> and the rnc pounce right on those comments from governor deval patrick. they're comparing him to cory booker. >> it is not perfect. it is not the only answer. it is be the only cause of people being overweight. we have to do something. >> fresh new comments from michael bloomberg, the mayor of new york city about the city's proposal to ban jumbo sugary drinks. some say this is going way too far. guess what, you can tell us what you think. join our conversation on my twitter page. what do you think of the ban on jumbo drinks? yoo-hoo. hello. it's water from the drinking fountain at the mall. [ male announcer ] great tasting tap water can come from any faucet anywhere. the brita bottle with the filter inside. >>> another obama surrogate aiming for mitt romney hit the president instead. this time it was governor deval patrick. on morning joe, governor patrick took a few hits at romney but also defended bain capital. >> i think that the bain strategy has been distorted in some of the public discussion. bain is a perfectly fine company. they've got a role in t

.: some of the biggest surges rnc a declarative become its differences coach of the contra costa. this house on the market of people 2011 and was sold within 10 days. >> in the past five-seven years, this is the most competitive market. it is very good for sellers. they're getting better prices. for buyers, they still have low rates. >> overall, bay area home prices are up 8.3%. the first increase in almost two years. >> in marin county, prices are dropping. overall, home prices in the bay area are rising. >> a recent uptick in king related shootings. on monday amy and was killed in a drive-by shooting. just yesterday near its street, another man was shot five times. >> donald washington was shot and killed yesterday on the street. police say that king members could try in retaliate against rival gang members. authorities say is, a procedure for extra officers to patrol the areas where there have been gang shootings. >>brian: is a blustery evening are around the bay area. chrysolite you at city hall. >> in applause and held there is in and out minya. the burger joint opened its do

that like to attack me, and i'm trying to keep them employed, they have to deal with the fact that rncs people are saying this is the bush agenda a little updated. >> we can take that one step further. there is a wonderful piece that points out of romney's top donors what their issues are. guess what, some of these guys want regulation particularly that pesky. it's not just the same agenda, but the donors, the major donors to his campaign and super pac are people to whom he will be holden around that agenda. so he's got really, as wes was pointing out, where is the leadership? there's no reason to leave that strategy because it's paying the billing. >> when you look at the romney tax plan, does it help the rich? the top .1% would see a tax cut of more than $735,000. and with this kind of imbalance, even john bolten, no liberal or democrat, he said i think people would agree with obama that he was left with a mess. >> and you can't talk to a single economist on the right or left and look at where we are now, and we still have a stubbornly high unemployment rate. we have an economic swin

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apparently, mitt romney, however, along with the rnc campaign machine think joe biden's inability to prevent himself from telling you skktly what he is thinking is not an asset, but a liability. so their plan is to target the truth teller. >> see what the mega panel thinks. imogen, jonathan and robert are here. you are man of d.c., a man of political intrigue and war, jonathan, what say you of new strategy. >> i don't know if it will work for the republican prty. remember, traditional role of the vice president or vice presidential nominee is to be the attack dog. the one going after -- who goes after the presidential candidate. joe biden has shown no shyness about going after mitt romney. and mitt romney is imminently easy to go after, given his shifting position answers all sorts of other issues that he has with his own candidacy and that voters have. republican primary voters have with his candidacy. going after joe biden is not -- is not going to help them. the thing about joe biden is that when he makes those gaffs, they actually end up being endeering, to my mind. they make him

by the way, i think it's exactly the opposite of what the chairman said, the rnc chairman said. think the dodd-frank law can help create jobs. it's putting all sorts of space in between the regulation where there's a tremendous amount of competition. i see it happening all the time. we have to get the rules into place. one to protect people and fuel inject the economic engine of our democracy. >> jamie dimon, this is a guy who led the fight against any sort of regulation whatsoever and now he's saying we were just a little bit sloppy, that's all. here is jaime dimon. >> we support too big to fail. we want the government to take down a big bank like jpmorgan, which can be done. we think dodd-frank was given the authority to take down a big bank. the board should be fired. the equity should be wiped out. the name should be buried in disgrace. >> whatever happened to boring banking? they were separated. back in the time it was boring beaning, we had glass-stegall, we wouldn't have to worry about this kind of thing. he talks a good game. when asked about this risky bet a few weeks a

the matter of outside money, i talk to the rnc and he said the rnc was, quote, heavily invested. there was grumling from some democrats who said, why isn't the dnc here helping us? now it seems like that is kicking in. do you think the national parties realize how much what happens in wisconsin could impocket the fall? >> i think everybody understands that the stakes are big. i think the difference is the republicans have been all in from the beginning. on the democratic side, there has been a certain amount of internal argument all along and mixed feelings about whether the recall was the smart play politically, whether it was doable to defeat -- to succeed in a recall against scott walker. so you heard the internal stuff on the democratic side. certainly, the president has kept kind of a low file through this conflict. and there has been more money raised and spent on the republican side than on the democratic side. >> quickly, your sense, the questioners tried to keep them on track, talking about the issues, but it sounds like it turned into what you talked bthe broader issue

the rnc is.o ensure they can start talking to latinos about the issues they care about which is not necessarily immigration but it is jobs and education. however, is it too late for the romney campaign? >> let me bring you back in. i know you're traveling with the romney campaign. it was an excellent point made by joe scarborough this morning on his show that at least in his estimation, mitt romney is not perhaps, maybe has a tin ear to the concerns that his party certainly needs the latino vote or a great portion of it if they plan to win. >> reporter: he is certainly coming late to this party. it is partly because he is from massachusetts, a state that hasn't had to deal with the influx of immigrants. and it isn't as diverse a state as texas is, florida is, as arizona is. of course, john mccain came in at a very different place as well because he had some familiarity with these issues. you did see mitt romney a couple weeks ago overheard in a fund-raiser talking about the need to reach out to l

. >>> the rnc is playing defense today.from hispanic voters was underscored when a top gop hispanic outreach official said the former governor is, quote, still deciding his position on immigration. meantime, a new poll has president obama leading romney among hispanic voters by a 68-point margin, beating the presumptive republican nominee 80% to 12%. i'm joined now by victoria de francisco de soto. how can romney stand to beat the president when he's so far behind on hispanic support? talk about the strategy moving forward belong that crucial bloating bloc. >> we have seen how far behind he's fallen. but romney has to do three key things. he has to hold the line with cuban republicans in florida. they love him, they support him. keep that support. that's going to get florida in his column in november. he has to throw in the towel with latino democrats in other places. he's not george w. bush. he's not going to get latino democrats or independents to cross over. and finally, he's got to court that small latino republican vot

this morning the romney campaign announced a combined haul in april with the rnc of $40.1 million. the campaign has over $60 million in cash on hand. it's more proof this election will not be decided by money and romney will not have to make decisions about where to compete based on cash as mccain did in 2008 when he essentially didn't compete in indiana and north carolina. last night romney told donors in south carolina that his haul wednesday alone was $2 million. earlier in the day it became enough of an issue that romney came back for an impromptu gag el on the plane and joked about what happens at those closed door events. >> got no event today, no public event. you should see all the things we're saying in private, though. >> i know. we're getting kicked off the rope line today. >> you were what? >> we were getting kicked off the rope line today. but that wasn't your doing, right? >> just watching. just watching. >> this has been an issue simmering with the traveling press corps for days, in fact weeks. and it bubbled up big yesterday. it prompted the romney campaign to essen

that didn't happen to john mccain. >> it's like picking the rnc chairman.want one who's going to say exactly what's on his mind. >> what else? let it out. >> the fact of the matter is i think you're right. portman is my number one, jindal is my number two. at that point it really doesn't matter. the reality for someone like romney is he wants a package team that continues the narrative that they're going to be putting in place. he does not want to the go into tampa and come out with everyone looking at his vp nominee and flashbulbs going off there. and not paying attention to the narrative he wants to have on the economy and so all the high profile and all the heart beats and throbbing going on for others is a waste of energy. just get set. you're going to have the kind of ticket that is going to be argued, this is what the nation needs now. we've had the flash in the pan, the hope and the change, the hoopla and the woops. now it's time to get serious. and the woops. >> and the woops. >> there it is. >> that just happened. coming up, first there was hope. a

our weekly debate, shawn spicer of the rnc will go at it in a couple minutes. new investor poll numbers. we're unveiling them tonight. they show advantage romney among registered voters. but the advantage is much smaller than he's going to need in order to win in november. my thought, mitt romney, please give specific. a few key points will do it. also this evening, france's newly elected socialist president says his real economy is the world of finance. he's calling for increased government spending and paying for it by taxing millionaires. does that sound familiar? meanwhile, markets slugged off fears from france and greece and finish virtually flat. >>> richard fisher is my special guest this evening. we'll get his opinion on the fed battle of the beards between ben bernanke and paul krugman. team obama launching an aggressive new ad campaign. it's a battle for the battleground states. $25 million spent already this month for ads in seven swing states. there are still 183 days left until election. cnbc's chief washington correspondent john harwood joins us n

. >> also the rnc came out with a new ad today and it's called empty promises, debt and deficits, and this is the biggest julyner ability the president that. let's roll it and get your thoughts on this. >> during the campaign i said that we must scour this budget line by line eliminating what we don't need, and that's why today i'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office. >> i pledge to cut the deficit in half by the time of the end of my first term in office. >> i pledge to cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term. >> the american people are tired of politicians that talk the talk but don't walk the walk when it comes to fiscal responsibility. >> i'll further reduce our deficit and lower our debt. >> i promise to go through the budget line by line to eliminate programs of that outlived their usefulness. >> i'm not going to quit until we've found every single dime of waste and miss spent money. there's simply too much debt on america's credits card. >> i'm going to get down our debt in a way hats balanced. >> that seems to say

. >> the minute the job numbers came out the rnc put out something and this is what mitt romney had to say -- >> it's a terrible and very disappointing report this morning. clearly the american people are wondering why this recovery isn't happening faster, why it's taken years and years for the recovery to occur. and we seem to be slowing down not speeding up. >> who has the better talking point, is it that, or do people look at the unemployment number and say, hey, it's down and don't sort of dig into it any further than that? >> there's two things, one, ultimately the actual real growth in income for your median household is going to be the determining factor, i mean, do people feel like they're doing better off. there's no amount of spinning or understanding that is going to -- >> so gas costs more and groceries cost more and -- >> the economy is in terrible shape. the president will have a very, very, very difficult time being re-elected, i think that's the basic rule of politics. >> i think you and i agree on that. it's not about the eight years of the george w. bush these are the

but mitt romney and the rnc are not pulling any punches. we will talk to the chair who says that hope and change have durno turned into hype and blame. the buccaneers make a paralyzed player's nfl dream come true. i'm shannon bream. america's news headquarters starts live right now. nearly 11 years after the worst terror attack in u.s. history, the five men accused of plotting it are arraign the. but it turned into a 13-hour deal as the detainees refused to cooperate. chief intelligence correspondent has details from guantanamo bay, cuba. >> reporter: there were so many moments in court. one has become a lightning rod. one defense attorney wore a dubyah. and she explained why the women on the prosecution side should dress modestly. >> there was somebody dressed in a way that was... not in keeping with my client's religious beliefs. >> reporter: at the news conference, the defense attorneys tried to characterize the actions of their clients as peaceful resistance. i was in court yesterday. it was clear that the men came with a strategy to fr

republican national committee is seizing on his remarks with a campaign called i stand with cory from the rnc saying it stands with the democratic mayor of newark, new jersey. he appeared on msnbc with rachel last night to push back at republican attempts to raise money off his "meet the press" comments. >> anybody who watched the entire show saw not only was i defending obama's positions on numerous issues, but i also talked about super pac money and the negative campaigning and my outrage and frustration was about the cynical negative campaigning, the manipulating of the truth and so here they are plucking sound bites out of that interview to be -- to manipulate them in a cynical manner and use them for their own purposes and that slogan is what had me and my entire staff really fit to be tied. >> mayor booker went on to tell rachel he agrees with the president's position that romney's record at boehner capital should be fair game. this election season, he did say on "meet the press" private equity serves an important role in his tate's economy. >>> a new poll out finds the president and ro