mitt romney had a chance to march with romney when he was 15 years old. to march with history and he didn't do it. the last time he was running for president, he lied and said that his father did, but he didn't. the civil rights issue of mitt romney's era was civil rights. just -- the civil rights martyrs, james cheney, andrew goodman and michael schwartz were murdered trying to help people get the right to vote in mississippi. that was when hundreds of college students just a few years older than mitt romney were pouring into the south during the civil rights movement. a month after james cheney, andrew goodman and michael schwerner gave their lives for it. the civil rights act was signed into law because the civil rights issue of mitt romney's era was civil rights. the voting rights act was signed into law two months after mitt romney graduated from high school. did mitt romney attend any of the civil rights demonstrations in detroit during his high school years? no, not one. did other american high school kids both rich and poor, white and black throug

romney. romney. romney.e said, quote, i'll take a lot of credit for the fact that the industry's come back. whoa. by the way, i'll take a lot of credit for man having landed on the moon, because although i was in school, i rooted for it. >> see what i mean? 19 direct shots in today's speech alone. finally, why are republicans bigging big ing -- digging up four-year-old attack lines on president obama? here's the latest. this is u.s. congressman from colorado mike coffman at a fundraiser last week. >> i don't know whether barack obama was born in the united states of america. i don't know that. but i do know this, that in his heart, he's not an american. he's just not an american. >> coffman found himself backpedalling that last night in a quote when he said, i have confidence in president obama's citizenship and legitimacy in the united states, however, i don't believe the president shares my belief in american exceptionalism. his policies reflect a philosophy that america is but one nation among many equals

mitt romney issue alert. he says the next president doesn't need foreign policy experience. >> if we want somebody who has a lot of experience in foreign policy, we can simply go to the state department. when you're an empty suit, and a lot of ideology is thrown at you, you go with it. that's what happened with w. and iraq, and what can happen again. >> i this no individual walks into the oval office with foreign policy experience. >> if hillary clinton is elected she will. >> when she ran for president of the united states she didn't have the experience she had now. barack obama didn't have any foreign policy experience. >> but he had interest. >> this guy says he has no interest. >> you know his point is, if you want somebody who is going to walk in the door with all of this foreign policy on their back, then that's the way we need to go, but that's not -- >> i want to give you an open door here. tell me something mitt romney said that's of interest or important to you. >> i have not red a journal or -- >>

mitt romney -- first of all, mitt romney in 1994 said he was going to be better on civil unions and gay marriage than ted kennedy. he has come a long way since then. this is about being on the right side of history. there is also poll numbers that show among independent voters the support for gay marriage the spread is like 16%. this is going to be something the white house brings up again and again and again and again. you hear the white house talking about mitt romney being a severe conservative. here is your evidence. >> i am so struck by the fact. it was just eight years ago. the entire campaign was run with this as tz key wedge issue. with conservatives prosecuting the cultural war both because it amped up their face. they had to essentially choose their own base, the preferences of independent voters. what i have been struck by all this is the tentativeness and the defensiveness of mitt romney. this is something the other side, the republican party and conservatives saw as something to lead with just eight years ago. >> they are on the defensive now. it is really remarkable to me

where does that leave milt romney? >> it's a very tough place and he has struggled throughout this campaign to articulate a narrative about himself, either has a business person, a job creator or -- if you want to see what mitt romney's policies are like, let's revisit the bush years, you can also take a look at romney's own time in massachusetts. he ran that state very much in the way that he ran bain capital. he loaded it one a lot of debt and he ended up taking the prestige that he got from that position and moving on and killed a bunch of blue collar jobs in the meantime tame. >> ari, i want you to listen to more of the president's speech. listen to this. >> the challenge we face right now, the challenge we faced for over a decade is that harder work hasn't led to higher incomes. bigger profits haven't led to better jobs. and you can't solve that problem if you can't even see that it's a problem. >> ari, he's right, isn't he? if you can't acknowledge that problem, how can you resolve it? >> that's right and mitt ro

does governor romney not agree?governor romney has said he believes the president was born in the united states. he said it repeatedly. he said that he thinks the issue is closed. and that he's focused on jobs and the economy. and, you know, democrats put out a web video on this yesterday. they can talk about donald trump all they want. we're focused on jobs and the economy. how mitt romney's going to get people back to work and i think that's what voters care about. so, you're going to hear a lot, you know, of stuff on the sidelines, you know, whether it be from people outside the campaigns or the media, but at the end of the day, voters want to get a job. they want their paychecks to go up. they want gas prices to go down. and those are the things that governor romney's focused on. >> i understand that. but i guess why -- the campaign chooses who they raise money with. why raise money with somebody who is using what a lot of people believe is poisonous language? >> look, as, again, you know, they don't agree on ev

mitt romney. romney has seen the greatest improvement among republican women.t month 59% of women had a favorable view of romney. today 80% do. a 21-point gain. joining me now, judith grey, contributing writer for the daily beast, and karen finney, former dnc communications director and msnbc analyst. judith, in your piece in the daily beast, titled gop to women: obama is your guilty pleasure, you explain how republicans are trying to win the women voters. how are they doing it? >> well, what they're doing, and i think they're being extremely clever, is they're painting barack obama as a guilty pleasure that you indulged in 2008. he made you feel wonderful. he made you feel euphoric. you were moved by his lofty speeches. but now given your economic situation, it's time to atone for that indulgence. it's time to consider a candidate like mitt romney, someone who doesn't feel very good right now. someone who isn't as instantly as gratifying as barack obama felt in 2008, but in the long term, if you vote for someone like him, your life will be much, much better. i

romney.ake a question to this, if you will. >> whenever they talk about providing education for low income kids, they always talk about sending them to a school, somewhere else. >> that's right. >> why can't we have good schools in this neighborhood? >> mitt romney never did answer that question, perhaps because he touts a program simply to move students somewhere else, never addressing the core issue, which is the school itself. >> not only that, but one of his proposals is to take one of our seriously underfunded programs like special education and turn special ed funding into a voucher program for people to be subsidized at a private school. but he also talks about our global competition, countries like finland and singapore, but he never talks about what makes them so great. one of the things they did is they said, which are going to have every public school as good as the best public school. wouldn't that be a great thing to run on? to say the kind of school that the governor went to, it

they elected mitt romney. he made it sound as if the election was just the house republicans. >> schieffer: we have to end it there. it's a lot of fun. we'll be back in a moment with our "face the nation" flashback. ,,,,,,,,,,,, >> schieffer: finally, with mitt romney all but certain to be the republican nominee, we bid a wistful fairs well to the republican primary and all who took part. that is our "face the nation" flashback. >> it's three agency of government when i get there that are gone, commerce, education-- and what's the third one there? let's see. >> schieffer: who is michele bachmann, and why does she want to be president. >> it's very odd to me that someone would run up a half million dollars' bill at a jewelry store. >> go talk to tiffany's. all i'm telling you is we are very frugal. >> 9-9-9 plan. >> that's what i'm talking about! >> when they ask me who is the president of ubeki-ubeki-stan-stan, i will say i don't know. do you know. >> can we stop the pious baloney. you ran and lost and that's

now to nmitt romney.hio senator rob portman, just how much excitement would a romney portman match-up bring to the table? just ask steven colbert. >> nothing fires up the base like boring. just look at these two together. it's like the bland leading the bland. although, i got say, now that i see them side by side, i wonder if portman might have too much charisma. maybe romney should go with something blander like a manequin or rice cake or a heel of white bread. no, they're all to fascinating. >> last night portman himself weighed in on that bland leading the bland comparison. >> my kids love that. i'd like to think i'm a serious legislator and try to get things done. that's my goal in life is to get things done. and it's not about sizzle for me. >> so 2012 is the anti-sizzle election? >> i don't think mitt romney has a sizzle. don't get me wrong. i think he is a dynamic guy. >> well, when is the last time i heard the words mitt romney and sizzle in the same sentence? wow. >>> up next, republicans have be

the president did not take governor romney's advice. romney, romney, romney. romney, romney said "i'll take a lot of credit for the fact that the industry has come back." whoa. by the way i'll take a lot of credit for a man having landed on the moon. because although i was in school, i rooted for it. >> see what i mean? 19 direct shots in today's speech alone. why are republicans digging up four-year-old attack lines against president obama. we have the birthers that have yet to put to bed that issue. this is u.s. congressman mike coffman at a fundraiser last week. coffman found himself back pedaling that one this week in a quote that says "i have confidence in president obama's citizensiip and elect ma si as president of the united states of america but i don't think he shares my beliefs. his policies reflect that -- >> so this congressman says the president is an undocumented alien, and he is out right un-american. who votes for these odd ducks and political quakes? up next, mitt romney wants you to believe that he has more in common with bill clinton than o

romney is in bed with this guy. why is romney pulling up the kifrs over him and trump. what is he up to here? >> first of all, i'm less interested in what donald trump says than in what mitt romney doesn't say and what for that matter john mccain doesn't say. i tried pretty hard today to elicit from the mccain campaign or the senate office their view on latest about donald trump. i wanted know from the romney people whether they thought that association as george will said was harmful. no answer. i wanted to know from the mccain campaign, which is who mccain senate office, mccain having been used in an obama ad as the good senator who rejected this kind of politics for years ago. i wanted to know if mccain had anything to say about what was going on in las vegas today. silence. i think the silence from both romney camp and mccain camp means the following. they are willing to let donald trump root around in this and say whatever he wants to bring this topic up or keep the topic alive for those voters who are going to care about it. and they exist. they still exist in pla

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

they elected mitt romney. he made it sound as if the election was just the house republicans. >> schieffer: we have to end it there. it's a lot of fun. we'll be back in a moment with our "face the nation" flashback. [ male announcer ] are you paying more and more for cable and enjoying it less and less? stop paying for second best. upgrade to verizon fios tv, internet and phone for just $89.99 a month guaranteed for two years with a two-year agreement. act now and we'll add a special bonus: $250 back. but hurry, this offer ends june 2nd. unlike cable, fios is a 100% fiber-optic network that delivers america's fastest, most consistent, most reliable internet plus the best tv picture quality. why keep paying so much for cable? switch to fios for just $89.99 a month guaranteed for two years with a two-year agreement -- plus your special bonus: $250 back. save $600 in your first two years. but hurry. this incredible offer ends june 2nd. call 1.877.707.fios. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities t

here was romney trying out the new tactic last week. >> of course that's the same mitt romney who said this in 2007, when he was running for president. >> i do not concur, in the words of barack obama, in a plan to enter an ally of ours and their country in a manner complete with bombing and so forth. >> and now the same mitt romney who opposed president obama's intervention that saved the american automobile industry, that same mitt romney says not that he would have done the same thing, but that he actually did, himself, save the auto industry. >> my own view, by the way, was that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. and frankly, that's finally what the president did. he finally took them through bankruptcy. that was the right course. i argued for it from the very beginning. i pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy. and finally when that was done and help was given, the companies got back on their feet. so i'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry has come back. >> mitt romney taking a lot of credit for saving the auto industry c

romney does. that's why i think this vice presidential pick and how he goes is going to -- could impact that. >> when was the last time a vice presidential pick -- >> even carried his on state. i know. >> 1960. brilliant column in the "wall street journal" last week i think on this very topic. >> and if you believe robert caro's new book he carried the state because he stole it. but separate question. >> well, what else is new? please. >> as a texas practitioner -- >> 48 votes in the '48 primary you think that was an actual majority? forget it. duval county. jim hogg. >> other than 1960. >> and rahm emanuel's running chicago. >> we'll give you chicago. >> when did a vice presidential candidate really make a difference and carry a state, joe? >> well, i think that is -- i'm saying i think that's going into their thinking. it's clearly look at who they're looking at. and -- >> it could -- and i was the one that's skeptical of this. all the data show that the average vice presidential candidate has a

that will be a good day for mitt romney. >> that would be a good day for mitt romney.joining us now is steve schmidt. who said it would be a good day for mitt romney when president george w. bush endorsed him? do you still feel that way? >> it means mitt romney is the republican march, this bush endorsement would have meant that mitt romney was the republican nominee because that's the threshold by which president bush would have entered the race. >> once he wrapped it up, he didn't have to get the george w. bush -- >> i think it's a pro forma endorsement. mitt romney is the republican nominee. he's going to endorse him. i don't think you'll see him actively campaigning for him. there's a terrific new book out there by nancy gibbs and it charged the relationship between all of the former presidents going back from truman and hoover and it's a fascinating dynamics and there is a traditionalist approach to this. a library and -- >> a political speech. >> he's giving paid speeches but he's not on the campaign speech. >> he's doing policy stuff. he was doing his paul ryan

romney opposes gambling.hy isn't there more outcry about his embrace of trump and sheldon adelson for mathat matter? ? >> the mormons have their values and rules but they don't necessarily proslet ties. actually, they go around the world prosletizing. >> but no gambling, don't drink coffee or anything like that. they seem to be, you know, more tolerant. they put their money behind things they agree with or disagree with. they spend a lot of money to defeat same-sex marriage in california and that sort of thing, but i don't think donald trunk would be personallionsive to mormons. i just don't see that. i could be wrong. i am not an expert on mormon values they have rules and abide by them. just like romney i doubt that romney, if he does get into the white house, would enforce, you know, no coffee or no smoking. i think they live and let live. which is an add mirmirable it quality. >> right. >> let's meet donald trump, somebody who uses his mouth a lot and someone else who does vice president biden often thoug

ratings that both candidates -- mitt romney, i want to focus on mitt romney. president's over 50% or better. personal favorable, florida, virginia, ohio. of these three states, romney upside-down like in the nbc/"wall street journal" poll in virginia and ohio more have unfavorable impression than favorable. numbers in florida. 457-43 positive that it's moving -- again, sort of more proof that florida here of the three is probably romney's best shot right now. >> exactly. and i think this is the measure of likability and the president does better on that than he does in terms of his approval rating. romney ultimately, if he's really going to put this obama first term at risk, he's got to be a little more convincing. seems to be the case in florida, not in the other swing states. right now talking about 60 electoral votes in these three states combined. this is potentially make or break land for the next election. >> all right. let me make you get into the weeds here a little built, because explain, a lot of people will look at our party i.d. splits in these thr

mitt romney's is at 41. romney's unfavorable is at 45, which, as they say, is underwater on that. it's a big jump, though. a big improvement for romney, who in april had a favorability of only 35. president had a four-point higher favorability of 56. so that favorability gap is closing. but the president still has a significant lead over romney with it. that is the polling that indicates there's a vulnerability for romney on character. >> oh, i absolutely agree. i mean, i wouldn't read too much into the jump in his favorability. a lot of that is just republicans who waited forever to get blind mitt romney. finally at this late day saying, yeah, we like the guy. we're with him. a lot of that is at work there. i'm thinking of the slogan you just quoted from john's piece there. whether they use it or not, there's another aspect of the massachusetts record that speaks directly to it. one of the reasons why romney left massachusetts and so unpopular is because he quit on the job half way through. he was elected in 2002. he was out the door by the end of 2004. he was using the office as

mitt romney's vegas style campbell with donald trump. romney headed to vegas where in a few hours he's going to be dining with the donald for a campaign fund rafund-raiser. ramps up his birtherism rhetoric, the latest remarks on cnbc. >> a lot of people are questioning his birth certificate, they're questioning the authenticity of his birth certificate. i've been known as being a very smart guy for a long time i don't consider myself birther or not birther but there are major questions. >> when asked about his association with donald trump, romney refused to condemn those specific remarks. >> i don't agree with all of the people who support me. my guess is they don't agree with everything i believe in. i need 50.1% or more and i'm appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people. >> the obama campaign released this web ad, two republican nominees, how john mccain corrected his supporters' offensive remarks about the president in 2008 to romney's response now. >> why doesn't he show his birth certificate? he doesn't have a birth cert

he doesn't help mitt romney. a lot of people are questioning his judgment as people questioned john mccain's judgment when sarah palin chose not to be running back. >> headlining is time for romney to fire trump. make your case. >> i just think i hope clarence is right that it's not going to do much for him. i agree with him that trump doesn't care. all trump cares about is getting attention. i call him an attention0 phile. he is tapping into the worse of a republican base that is not as enthusiastic about mitt romney. donald trump makes it look like he walks down the park avenue and people are screaming at him like go donald. he is appealing to the sliver of the republican base and it probably goes beyond the republican base that are really enthusiastic hearing this stuff. i hope it doesn't help mitt romney because it shouldn't. you would think mitt romney would not want to stand on a stage with a guy doing this stuff. so far he will take the money and run. >> and what he has said is he himself and his people ar

romney? >> we don't quit, we don't give up. >> governor, would you go as far as rush limbaugh did yesterday and say this is the first president in modern time who will run a campaign against capitalism? >> well, it certainly sounds like that's what he's doing. >> the reason is simple. romney is not a conservative. >> it seems -- >> impossible. >> plain foolishness. he seems to ratchet up. >> former governor of the great state of massachusetts. ♪ don't stop believing >> we begin with the specter of mitt romney's first day in the white house. and as the presumed republican nominee releases a new video featuring all the actions he would take within ten minutes of taking office. when i say actions as regards to mr. romney, i obviously mean empty bromides and attacks on the current administration. if you don't believe me, take a look. >> day one. president romney announces deficit reductions ending the obama era of big government. helping secure our kids' futures. president romney stands up to chi

romney's rivals were right. they always said it would come down to texas, but instead of being down and out, texas gives romney enough delegates to clinch the nomination. and he's not the lone star in the news today. it's some down ballot results that are turning heads. we'll have more on that. >>> and romney raises cash with the number one birth certificate authenticity enthusiast. is this a distraction that romney can afford to have with less than five months to go before election day? >>> and from raising money to spending money, we're taking a deep dive into the scientific strategy that the obama campaign is using to make sure their message sticks inside your head kind of like the old days -- ♪ by menan ♪ >>> let's get to the first reads, four months, texas was going to be mitt romney's alamo, his rivals looked to the lone star state and its mammoth amount of 155 delegates as the place that they were going to turn this race around. >> we're going to be able to go compete in south carolina and florida and nev

did romney do that?m sure it will happen. >> hang on one second. i want to bring in joy-ann. you've been about to burst over here. it raises an interesting point. job this, often time candidates will say, i disagree with what this person said. i disavow -- all of a sudden you see them standing next to them for photo ops and fund-raisers. it is quite bizarre. >> it is. i think it shows the extent to which cartoon characters have taken over the republican party. this was a perfectly acceptable party that is now in the tlal of people like rush limbaugh and looney people like donald trump. the characters, the caricatures of the party run the party. because now the proper party has decided they would give in to the ideology of talk radio. that is really in a sense what the tea party was. this was the talk radio listeners deciding to take over the poifrlt was the john birch society people. deciding when they pushed back in the '50s, they decided to come roaring back. now the republican party when i was growing

is wrong with mitt romney?uild a $19 million in california, does he? can he wait for that for a few years? and now he's got an elevator in his garage? >> i tell you what, 10,000 bucks. $10,000 bet? >> i'm not in the betting business. >> take a shot. go for it. take a risk. get the education. borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business. >> joining me now, jonathan washington post opinion writer and meghan mccain, columnist for the daily beast. meghan, first of all, it's a really ugly t-shirt. first of all, did you like that thing? >> no, it's not my style. but what's important to say is she has custom designer clothes as well. >> i believe the tennis shoes were $450. >> well, more expensive than what i wear and what the average american wears but what ann romney needs to remember is she is on the campaign trail and she should probably be more cognizant of the message. >> she should have been warned by some of these things that came out against michelle obama. on clothing they can tell, i trac

today, romney, the campaign put out a call for romney's old classmates to come forward and defend the candidate. romney did some damage control for himself on fox news today. >> i don't recall the incident, myself, but i've seen the reports and i'm not going to argue with that. there's no question that i did some stupid things when i was in high school. and obviously, if i hurt anyone by virtue of that, i would be very sorry for it and apologize for it. >> but romney also rationalized the behavior by saying he didn't know the victim's sexual orientation. romney and his friends were beating up a weaker kid, just for the hell of it? not because he was gay? >> i had no idea what that individual's sexual orientation might be. going back to the 1960s, that wasn't something that we all discussed or considered. >> i think we can all agree that people change throughout their lifetimes. no one should be held accountable today for every action he or she takes as a teenager, but these stories, i think, give us a snapshot of who mitt romney is. the guy who forced a hair cut on a helpless can kid

i'm not sure a mark rubio or a chris christie, if romney is behind, solves romney's problems. potential. we now have three out of four major players in the race are already set. a fourth is to be determined. i don't think it's ridiculous to say a fourth will matter. it's not going to end the race either way unless mitt romney picks sarah palin, which i don't think he will do, but it does have an impact, and i would agree on the euro -- >> you've set it up, chris, i'm not going to do this on purpose, but if he picks a prize, it will be born. i know it's not on purpose, but it's more interesting to say not on purpose. maggie, what do you think of this? can a vp prospect be that interesting and that much of a cannonball that it blows this thing up to say, wow, this guy is faster than i thought he was. look who he picked. >> i don't make a habit of disagreeing with chris but i'm going to disagree with him here. i think if mitt romney picked a mark rubio or chris christie, he would get press. i don't think he will because they overshadow him. i think you're likely to see rob portma

platform is socially conservative, and romney sticks to it. >> romney's only g.o.p. rival is now ron paul who has qualified to have his name put up for the g.o.p. convention. since she popular with young voters and romney and the going like that, they are delighted to have him in hopes of attracting more young people, just overall. >>bret: thank you. president obama is back in washington attending afternoon fundraisers a day after a surprise terrorist to afghanistan. chief white house correspondent looks at a journey a mix of official business and political business. >> there will be heartbreak. and pain. and difficulty ahead. but there's a light on the horizon. >>reporter: as president obama told the troops more of them willing injured and killed, he focused the address to the american people on positive gains. including the killing of, only. to show voters he is winding down a second we war. >> we broke the momentum of the taliban and built strong afghan security forces. we devastated al qaeda's leadership. >> two hours after he left the taliban launched a car bomb

romney wants to do the opposite of that? doesn't make any sense at all. >> mark, if you were advising romney, look at the obama record, 25 straight months of private sector job growth, 4.2 1 million jobs added. auto industry back from the brink, stock market up 63%. how do you advice willard to run against that asne with the better economic plans and policies. >> the key is not just to see the opposite. there is still a lot of anxiety among american voters and small business owners. they don't have a high degree of confidence. when things start picking up we get bad economic news. we can engage this debate, but romney needs to engage it and talk about what the opposite means. that will be talking about his view and version of the stimulus and why it did or didn't work, and defend will defend on that, and romney will have to say what he did instead of government creating jobs, programs he believes would create more private sector jobs that would be more permanent through tax cuts and whatever it might be. that would have to b

romney's own father george.tatement a new article in politico is getting attention as it highlights romney's mormon faith and resurrects the conversation about an old prophecy once attributed to joseph smith, the founder of mormonism, the so-called white horse prophecy, it is important to note the prophecy was discounted by the mormon church nearly 100 years ago, but according to politico the prophecy predicted a white horse, a metaphor for wealthy mormons would rise up and lead america back to greatness after banks fail and can the constitution is near collapse. politico says romney has mentioned devine influence regarding the constitution several times on the campaign trail but the cam taken has not responded to the request to elaborate. i am joined by the deputy white house editor for politico. thank you for your time. he has not talked a lot about his faith and they have gone online and searching and trying to understand what it means to be mormon and what are the beliefs and this issue of this white horse.

romney. nbc's first read team says now this makes trump an unmistakable surrogate for the romney campaign. in four days, they'll be together on stage. but get this. donald trump just gave a new interview where he is again bringing up the birth place of the president. what will romney say? plus, $100 million and counting. we are learning more about the stunning losses created by facebook's ipo. what a difference a week has made. join our conversation on twitter. and on a holiday weekend. we'll be reading them. [ woman ] for the london olympic games, our town had a "brilliant" idea. support team usa and show our olympic spirit right in our own backyard. so we combined our citi thankyou points to make it happen. tom chipped in 10,000 points. karen kicked in 20,000. and by pooling more thankyou points from folks all over town, we were able to watch team usa... [ cheering ] in true london fashion. [ male announcer ] now citi thankyou visa card holders can combine the thankyou points they've earned

romney is stolid and dependable. if you marry him, maybe you will have a stable life, maybe with a dog on the roof. [laughter] in terms of personality, obama has a huge edge in this election, and it could be decisive. >> going to put taht in -- that in your next column. >> security is not a small thing. romney will say, "i am security, safety." >> richard nixon -- >> richard nixon and hubert humphrey. >> that is what romney would like this election to be. >> roger clemens on trial for perjury again. >> i am saying the statements about me are wrong. i have never taken steroids or hdh. >> roger clemens testifying before congress in 2008. in his 20-year major-league career, he won seven cy youngs, but is now on trial for perjury. nina, you were there. >> files or dramas that change and the pace of them changes. the prosecution's star witness was supposed to be any pen i -- andy pettite. he was not the icing on the cake. he basically recanted when the defense lawyer cross-examination said, "is it possible you are wrong?