and here explain what life is like in the romney bills and what the demonstrators are planning over the next few days is mile from the dia benjamin co-founder of human rights group global exchange and the peace group code pink and author of the book drone warfare killing by remote control in india great to see how it has our power how's life in the romney bill's. well i hope you can hear me ok tom i'm in a. at an event that's just about to start here around the corner where there's going to be a gala for people like congolese to write a rumor is that dick cheney is going to be there marco rubio and we're about to get geared up for our millionaires for mitt where we go in our taxi to those in our gallons and we say tax the poor because we need more. marvelous. is the occupy movement part of the driven driving this year getting people from a you know what's up with the occupy movement down there and around the country that's coming in there have been protests all day today starting out with a march in the rain and there were maybe about five hundred people then there was a that w

convention in tampa hundreds of occupy protesters have set up camp and they call it romney bill we'll take you inside the thirty but go to one of these consistently fourteen fifteen percent and then decide it's twenty plus percent for african-american males that's that's a crisis president obama is working hard to appeal to minority voters however many argue he's overlooking the african-american community of mitt romney is not doing much better so well obama went over this demographic by default. class bradley manning's defense team is pleading his case in court today exposing the brutal treatment the alleged wiki leak there was reportedly subjected to at the military's hands we'll bring you the latest developments. it's wednesday august twenty ninth ten pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching our t well it is day three at the republican national convention day two of actual convention activities and speeches and it would be an understatement to say things haven't gone according to plan hurricane isaac of course the main distraction from the r. and c. but yesterday

the republican side, by the way, which is still not enthusiastic about mitt romney. >> bill: it wouldging the tea party on board, making it easier for them to like romney. reid wilson is our guest, he is editor and chief of the national journal hot line. you can follow reid on twitter at hot line reid r-e-i-d. how do you think this is going to roll out, some veep rollouts have worked well and some haven't. some have fallen on their face. >> there you go. and the reason we go through all of the veep vetting process, is of course, you know, back when -- when -- what is his name -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> was the pick and just a few days later they found out he has undergone electric shock therapy, and four years later jimmy carter paid a lot more at attention to which candidate he would select. so now the veep process is a long drawn-out affair and ends in people handing over a whole bunch of tax returns which is an irony. so i expect it to be a barn storming tour, with them declaring themselves the comeback kids or the comeback team, something like that focused on what they can do

furthermore i do not think mitt romney is concerned. billresponse from the romney team. president obama's allies continue to use dishonest attacks the to mask obama's deplorable economic record. just a couple facts here. the romney team says he left bain in 1999. this gentleman lost his job two years later. his wife unfortunately died but that was five years later in 2006. tucker, on its face what do you make of it? >>en its face face the's ludicr. it has no relationship to what happened. she died 7 years after romney left. and again as you just said, five years after company closed. is it romney's fault that this man didn't have health insurance for five years? did he murder this woman? it's indefensible but it's consistent with the obama campaign story line so far which is mitt romney is a bad person who doesn't like you, he doesn't care about you, he doesn't understand you. bill: alan, weigh in on this. do you defend this ad? >> i can't defend it. the time line doesn't match up. but this is not the campaign doing it. it's a pac doing it.

bill: the o'reilly factor is on. tonight: >> she passed away in 22 days. i don't think mitt romney realizes what he has done to anyone. >> bill: pro-obama campaign ad accusing mitt romney to the death of an american woman. is this a new low? dick morris will analyze. >> ah-ha, maybe i'm a social -- >> a california college professor accusing me, your humble correspondent of right wing buffoonery. wow, that man on the factor tonight. also ahead, jesse watters goes to madison, wisconsin. >> on your head tattooed that girls make me stupid. >> that is right. >> yeah that is right. >> dennis miller back from vacation. >> when it's time to go, it's time to go. you know that. >> caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. playing dirty in the presidential campaign. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. president obama was elected last time around largely because he promised a new tone in washington, transz (is i, looking out for the folks. well, with all due respect, that

so if i may have important to mention that what you saw there at romney bill this is not party specific a whole lot of people angry at some of the policies of republicans but also angry at the system in general they think a whole lot of things need to change in terms of policies that come forth to help real people and i do want to switch gears here and sort of talk about what we've been seeing here at the convention as you know paul ryan is scheduled to speak tonight it's sort of his grand introduction to the country as a whole in washington he's certainly a famous congressman. the paul ryan budget but it's going to be a big deal and it's going to be something i think that a lot of people are going to watch i want to talk to you about sort of romney the candidate we got to talk about what we showed you yesterday unfold on the convention floor the chaos that happened with a whole lot of people who supported ron paul but also with some of those delegates who just were not comfortable adopting the new rules put in place by the r n c and the republican establishment to sort of try to make s

bill: i want to make it clear. colmes did tell you the truth when he said governor romney has no specific tax plan on the table. >> on anything. >> bill: but president obama says he does and just assigned him that you say? >> first of all the tax policy center, one of the two authors of what we are talking about here happens to serve on obama's economic advisors in 2009 to 2010. >> bill: it doesn't matter whether he served. it's all conjecture. >> right. and there are biases built into conjecture. >> it's all could, might, might have to do this and he assigns it as fact. >> correct. and that's very irresponsible on the part of the president. >> bill: people should know this. >> of course. >> hold on. both of you guy, listen, romney put out a 59-point economic plan. you are correct to say that it doesn't have specifics on which particular deductions and loopholes he would close in order to lower all the rates. broaden the base in order to achieve revenue neutrality. that much is true. he does have a specific pro-growth tax plan on the table. >> i don't care what he has, all right? i don't care at this point. what i

t will percolate up like that. >> bill: which it did. >> larger issue is how romney responds to this whole line of attack on bain capital. >> bill: let's stay with this for a moment. because i think this is important as far as morals are concerned. this is -- this ad to me, look, i have been doing this 35 years. i know what you and your ilk, morris, i know. but this is way beyond the beyoe pale. this is using a guy accusing romney of contributing to his wife's death. when romney had nothing on earth to do with it. that this man falsely, falsely, because that family, his family had insurance for two or three years after he left his job. >> yeah. >> all right? falsely saying that. the obama campaign and carney and everybody else knows exactly. there isn't -- answer me this. because morris was in the clinton white house. there isn't one chance on earth that carney. >> of course not. as you are talking, bill. i'm thinking about this. i think what i would do is that i would urge them to do a factual answer to the ad, just like you did. >> okay. >> about the time frame you did. seven or 8 s

people there trying to get there is their voices heard in any way they can over at occupy tampa and romney bill how do they plan to get their voices heard as this convention sees its final days. but it's really difficult lives because we don't see one unified major protest against mitt romney or against the r. and b. what we see are various protests taking place outside of the convention center the other night there was a march of people against the new voter id laws as you know liz florida is the state with wind if you elderly people and many of them have never needed to use a driver's license or an identification card to vote and that's going to change this year and it's happening in states across the country so that was one of the protests that we saw happen excuse the music here they've been doing rehearsals all day but so far live i mean i think it's just a matter of continuing to down on the corner and yell their messages and really trying to get those who are here in town for the convention to list them ok so it's clear that for from yours from your report there that there are huge romne

governor romney has had secret service protection with him since january. bill are tracking the romneys there in massachusetts, and moment ago, governor romney and ann romney left a building heading back to their home and he was asked how the meeting went. he said quote i like my speech, i really like ann's speech. our sons are already in tampa. they say it's terrific there, a lot of great friends. that coming across the wire there on the romneys today. security also a major concern as you can imagine at the rnc. police arrested a knife-wielding protester believed to be part of a group occupy tampa. he was seen walking around with a group of other protesters inside the eventone. police say he was spotted with an 8-inch machete strapped to his leg. he faces charges of carrying a prohibited item and resisting arrest. martha: the rnc's keynote speaker may be helping out in tampa as well. speaking to delegates on sunday morning he referred to one of his more well-known statement that got a lot of attention as a possible inspiration for them meeting him around here.

bill is coming up. see you tomorrow. the o'reilly factor is on tonight. >> it's like robin hood in reverse it's romney hood. >> bill: wants to take money from the working folks and give it to the fat cats. can that possibly be true? crawl and colmes will analyze. >> the feeling when people get when they hear barack obama speech i felt this thrill up my leg. >> favoring barack obama over mitt romney. how much will that effect the vote? we will tell you. >> if you ran into o'reilly at a cambridge cocktail party what would you tell him? >> i would probably avoid him. >> bill: jesse watters traveling to unfriendly factor territory. cambridge, massachusetts, home of harvard. >> are you an o'reilly fan. >> for comedy reasons, yes. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. factor begins right now. hi, i'm bill o'reilly, thanks for watching us tonight. president obama and the american media that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. last night on the factor bernie goldberg said this about the political media and president obama. they droold all over him four years ago and now they can find gaffes

romney. what is left? >> that's a good question. i was wondering yesterday whether or not i could just go home -- >> bill: if romney had given his speechave wrapped it up. >> bill: yeah. >> but what we have got the next two nights is really the end of the foundation they started building last night. we still have to know who mitt romney is. this is between two people mitt romney and barack obama, rather than on a referendum of the president. therefore, you know, you can't win a choice election if nobody actually likes you and the likability numbers that we're seeing for mitt romney right now are disastrous. the latest "washington post" abc poll say 61% of registered voters say president obama is the likable guy, and just 27% chose mitt romney. that's an incredible gap. so he has to come out and if you don't want to get a beer with him, how about a diet coke. >> bill: yeah. >> one thing that struck me is the roster of speakers have all been very young, sort of fresh faces, first term governors, senator, up and coming stars like ted cruz and marco rubio, mia love from utah. the thing i think we're getting is this is sort of the changing

we already know a lot about mitt romney, don't we, madam chair? >> billgue in cheek saying is that i was surprised when i was at the convention hall the other day because we've got our romney economics for the middle class war room set up in tampa making sure that we can draw the contrast. i was surprised that there wasn't a giant etch-a-sketch behind the podium in the convention hall. because that's what they're getting ready to do here is convention reinvention for mitt romney because the first introduction hasn't worked out so well. understandably so because his policies obviously are focused on helping millionaires and billionaires who are already doing really well do even better while barack obama has been fighting for the middle class and working families. >> bill: the convention -- i love that phrase. the convention reinvention. >> has a nice ring to it doesn't it? >> bill: it does have a nice ring to it. to humanize mitt romney or to talk about how his experience as a businessman prepares him to be the leader of the free world right? we've seen hi

you're seeing that in the polling numbers about how it is all shaped up for the romney team. >> bill:as out yesterday. just yesterday the very day that mitt romney gave his acceptance speech. and among the questions they ask, likable which one do you mind more likable? barack obama 54%. mitt romney, 31%. davening that he -- which one do you think cares for people like you? mainly 98% of americans. barack obama 52%. mitt romney, 36%. what do the numbers mean? >> that means people don't have trust -- when mitt romney is left alone in the oval office, when the cameras are off, he's going to make a decision in the interest of their families. so maybe he's a good manager of corporate businesses but he's a good manager on behalf of the stockholders and shareholders, not on behalf of the workers who have to earn $20 an hour, $15 an hour. >> bill: how do you square this with all of these polls show that on the national level it's 47-47 or 46-44 or something. >> let's remember, john mccain in 2008 got 47% of the vote when barack obama was like a god walking on earth. he will never be as popula

for school that they don't buy anymore. >> bill: i appreciate your call corky. his point is mitt romneyly not like you and me and all of rest of us. >> really? you don't say. he does enjoy aircraft and sport and things like -- that other humans enjoy at least he says so. >> bill: and dressage horses. >> dress an. gotta love dressage. >> bill: come back again soon. tommy christopher from mediaite. mediaite.org. judd legum is next. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." her unique mix of comedy and politics to current tv. >> it's like a reality show, they're just turning cameras on and we just do our thing. >>politically direct to me means no b.s., the real thing, cutting through the clutter. i'm energized to start my show everyday because it's fun, because i care about what's going on in this country, rather than some sort of tired banter it is actual water cooler talk it's the way people really talk about these issues. we've always considered ourselves a comedy show. let me just say i am not ready for my close up. i think it's important to laugh. i think it will be exciting, becau

convention in tampa hundreds of occupy protesters have set up camp they call it romney's bill and we'll take you inside. and we value work we're a society which celebrates hard work and we look to a government to make it easier for jobs to be created and people to go to work mitt romney talking jobs and the economy earlier this month in ohio thing is the people standing around him were reportedly forced to take an unpaid day from work to be there does anyone else find see the irony in this. the that's a good one of it is consistently fourteen fifteen percent and there it is right it's twenty plus percent for the american males that that's a crisis president obama is working hard to appeal to minority voters however many argue he's overlooking the african-american community but mitt romney is not doing much better so will obama win over this demographic by default. it's wednesday august twenty ninth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r t. it is day three at the republican national convention day two of actual convention activities in speeches and to say thin

furthermore i do not think mitt romney is concerned. billmitt romney is not concerned and also the 22 days. yesterday's obama's deputy campaign manager saying she did not know any of the details surrounding that man's story. >> you do know we don't have anything to do with priorities u.s.a. by law we are not allowed to coordinate with them and by law we don't have anything to do with their ads. i don't know the details of when joe sopic's wife got sick or when she died. stephanie cutter was hosting a conference call featuring that same steel worker. >> you can't expect much from someone who says he likes to fire people with no concern about their families. i turn the call back over to stephanie. >> thank you, joe, we appreciate you and david sharing your experiences. bill: we are late in august. former governor john sununu served as chief of staff to former president george w. bush. bill burton used to work in the white house and worked for senator obama during this run for the white house in 2008. now runs the super pac. he apparently was o

>> bob white. >> bill: bob white, of the romney campaign. >> long-time friend of romney. >> bill: alsoartner in bain capital. so we expect him to talk about bain capital to try to get that a little bit more defined for the folks who are hearing bad things about it? >> he'll talk about mitt romney, the sort of businessman he was, the teach person he was. in other interviews, bob white has said, the most difficult moment of mitt romney's life is when ann romney was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and how that impacted him, how he said he was going to take more time away from the firm because he had to deal with it. it shows that regardless of where he was in his business, family was of utmost importance to him at that period of time. >> bill: so from this moment until about 9:00 o'clock, we're going to have these humanizing the governor speeches, then get into more politics this evening with marco rubio, right? we expect him to give a broad based feat, but some on the hispanic front, this is why the republicans are good for the hispanic community. then we have eastwood who god knows wh

after a few years, the company's ceo and under toer bill bain asks romney to head up a spinoff. t was hesitant. he was making a good salary. he had a growing family and he essentially said no and bill bain said run this new company called bain capital and if it fails i'll bring you back to bain and company so you sort of can't lose. >> bain capital initially invests in startup companies. in 1986, after a tough two years, bain strikes it big. >> we invested in staples early in the year and staples in pretty short order started doing well. we also helped starts sports authority, all within a six or nine-month period. >> romney helps launch staples, not only with money but with business and strategic advice. >> this can be a hundred stores so it looks like it could be something big. >> mitt was critical. he acted as our lead investor. a oo lead invest ser very important because they manage your relationships with other investors and the board. having somebody with mitt's savvy at your side was really helpful. >> next for bain is funding leveraged buyouts, acquiring mostly troubled c

economist who worked with governor romney on that health care reform bill. r an inscribed picture of the bill signing. >> there is no explanation but pure partisan politics for this. there's none because look at it, this was a conservative idea. it's only because the democratic president endorsed and passed it, now it's the devil's work. there is no other explanation. >> as president, i'll treat our allies and friends like our friends and allies. >> on foreign policy, he would align himself more closely with the israelis. >> a president romney would take the u.s./israeli alliance to a whole new level and strengthen it. >> romney also calls for tougher stands on russia and china and iran where he says president obama should have backed the iranian democracy movement and imposed tougher sanctions on iran sooner. >> in my opinion, the president's mistakes on iran are in part responsible for the fact that iran is closer to a nuclear weapon today than it was when he was elected. >> the one word i would use to describe his foreign policy would be tough minded. >> a

romney you are not going to get any excuses. you are not going to get him blaming anyone else. that's as oblique. >> billt going to blame bush the younger? >> he may blame clinton somewhere along the line. >> but you guys both agree with me that paul ryan, we know him. and the factor viewers know him but the folks don't know him. >> right. this is his debut on the national stage. >> he gets on tonight. everybody is going to carry the clips as i said tomorrow he is on "the today show." he is the lead guest. even bumped me from the lead from "the today show." what's going on? >> remember what happened four years ago at the convention. not many people had heard of sarah palin. the day after her speech, that's all anybody is talking about. that may have been her high point. and ryan will not want to repeat that trajectory. he wants this as his starting point. >> he has got to make an impression tonight with a couple of lines. a couple of ba booms, you know. right in there so that it's carried on the internet and carried on all the news programs and he establishes himself. he has got to be a tough guy. >> i h

bill: four pin yoke -- pinnochios. >> last four pinnochios from mitt romney for one of his ads. nging subject, andrea. i back reid 100% on this. i think his source came from bain capital, an investor in bain capital is a, --. bill: where is ire source, bob? >> where is my source? harry reid. bill: you just said think his, you think his source is strong. >> excuse me. before we go to that, if you listened yesterday to priebus, who, republican national committee chairman, well, anyway, he called it a dirty liar. he is dirty liar, priebus knows about the taxes. put up or shut up. if mitt romney wants to end the things, release taxes like every other presidential candidate has. what he is hiding paying low income taxes if any, a putting them in the cayman islands. >> doesn't that highlight obama hasn't done his job reforming the tax code? that was one of his pledges. bill: hang on one second, andrea. how can you say that? >> how can i say that? bill: where is your information? >> my information is, when i look at somebody who refuses to release their taxes --. bill: you're guessing.

[cheers and applause] bill: i want to bring in dan see more, romney campaign adviser to talk about thath last night. >> good to be with you. bill: where does america stand, she repeated that over and over. the mission last night, without prompter, only notes in front of her, was quite impressive. i think if the audience at home did not realize it, or if the folks in the arena did not realize it this is something that she feels deeply in her message because she had it known by heart, by memory. >> it was fascinating to watch. she took her personal story, her personal narrative, which is one of sort of, only in america, her story, and applied it to the story of america, america's exceptionalism, america's role in the world. it's something she knows well and she is comfortable talking about. could are somsome news prompters, some do not. you can tell when a speaker owns the speech. she owned that speech. paul ryan owned his speech. governor christie owned his speech. these are all people who immersed themselves in the drafting of those speeches owe when they were up there it was electric.

the company's ceo and founder bill bain asks romney to head up a spin-off, bain capital. >> mitt was a good salary and had a growing family and essentially said no and bill bain said run this new company called bain capital and if it fails i will bring you back to bain & company so you can't lose. >> bain capital initially invests in startup companies. in 1986 after tough two years, bain strikes it big. >> we invested in staples early in the year and staples in short order started doing well and helped start sports authority. all within a six-month period. >> romney helps launch staples not only with money but with business and strategic advice. >> this could be a store. it loose like it can be big. >> our lead investor and lead investor in the early stage company is very important. because they manage relationships with other investors and board. having somebody with mitt as savvy at your side is helpful. >> next for bain is funding leverage buyouts. acquiring mostly troubled companies using loans or leverage and then restructuring and selling them off for a profit. >> bain usually

romney as well as the party. therefore, they get energized. bill: how much of that was a calculation or how much of that has simply happened? >> the romney people will take credit for all the good things that are happening. that's what politicians do. bill: were if you st. paul in 2008? >> yes. bill: how does this compare based on the feeling you get in tampa opposed to st. paul. >> i think the delegates feel much more confident they have at least an even shot of victory. and back in 2008, because of the bush unpopularity, because of the economic situation, it was a very different feeling. they knew it was more of a long shot. this is not a long shot at all. bill: i get that same impression. when you talk to the hard-core of the party, their attitude four years later is much different than what we found in minnesota. also in this poll. i don't know if you are tapped into this. but 14% of democrats in that policy after the pick of paul ryan made them more likely to vote for mitt romney. i don't know how that compares historically. but 14% of democra

i'm only hoping that this will hurt him with the women voters so much that he does it for romney. >> bill what you're saying justin. look, i think this is really going to hurt the ryan/romney ticket with women voters across the country. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." i'll look it up during the break. a phrase there. but he said -- exactly what ed to the best political foresight. >>>first pick, i'm going to shock the world and pick, paul ryan. >>>brillant. okay... >>>with the number that just came out he's more inclined to throw long. in which case, i think the long one is paul ryan because the risks are higher. here in the obama war room... >>>putting satire aside, i agree paul ryan would be great for democrats. for us it would fame the intellectual debate. >>>see the future "live" weeknights starting at 7pm. uygur. spitzer. granholm. only on current tv. >> announcer: heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill: what do you say? 33 minutes now before the top of the hour. it is the "full court press." 33 minutes after the hour i shou

romney would include it to $986 billion. >> right. almost a trillion. >> bille problem actually. so romney and ryan want to be tough on defense, and where they demonstrate their toughness is not doing anything about syria, but throwing money at the pentagon. what that would mean is in ten years you would have a trillion dollars revenue budget. where are you going to get that money? the only way to get it is to viciously cut domestic programs. it is fiscal suicide to increase the military budget by that much. and there's no clear plan for why. he wants to buy more ships. obama wants to cut 100,000 troops. he says no keep them. he is designing a force that we can't possibly afford. >> bill: and you would have ever weapon system and plane or ship proposed ever. >> right. that's his plan. the worst part of this platform is this section on nuclear weapons. where they want to build more nuclear weapons. and we're about to spend $650 billion on nuclear weapons and nuclear programs. and he wants more. he wants to make these weapons more usable. >> bill: oh, great. who

when he was governor of massachusetts. >> reporter: on april 12th, 2006, a jubilant governor romney signs the billceremony in boston's nathaniel hall. he wants the world to see what he's done, but he also credits his old adversary, ted kennedy, who worked with romney to get the bill passed. >> my son said that having senator kennedy and me together like this on this stage behind the same piece of landmark legislation will have slow global warming. that's because hell has frozen over. >> my son said something too, and that is, when kennedy and romney support a piece of legislation, usually one of them hasn't read it. but that's not true today, is it, governor? >> the health care bill becomes romney's crowning achievement as governor. he even has it placed on his desk in his official portrait. >> would you call health care your best accomplishment in massachusetts or simply the most famous accomplishment? >> well, it certainly was an important accomplishment, to get republicans and democrats to find common ground and to solve a problem for our state in a way that was creative and, i think, is workin

>> bill: who respond to that in any other way than laughing at it. >> remember romney girl we talked >> bill: romney girl. >> that video came out agenda project action fund. progressive group they came out with that video in 2011 when ryan released his whole budget thing and part of that released it again. like the reducks as the rappers like to say. released in ohio, colorado and florida. >> bill: they actually think that's going to influence somebody's vote? that is dumb and insane. >> the democrats are fighting the war of yesterday with the tools of yesterday. the ryan budget, when it comes to medicare has not been explained, i think. except by the democrats who basically had completely created lies. >> bill: okay. look, all i know is it's so absurd that i don't know why even bother with it jay leno, our pal, he does a motorcycle charitable event, right? and coming up? tell me about that. >> it's actually. [speaking french] >> it's an event at pebble beach on the 18th hole that they have every year in august. it's big event. and they have all of these beautiful cars and motorcycle