we'll talk with republican national committee communication director shawn spicer, wall street legend, louis lehrman, and fdic chair sheila bair is joining us, our first guest said that republican ground game, is beginning to show impressive results, absentee and early voting operation is now in full gear. and enthusiasm on the side of governor romney with just those 28 days remaining, joining us now is shawn spicer, republican national committee, communications director, you have to be delearous when you look at poll results in my career, i have never seen a one-week reversal like this. >> it is phenomenal, i think going back to the comments you talked about with respect to the debate, what i think really happened there, the obama campaign started with you know talking about how tired he was, al gore innocentiated it might bal -- insinuated it might be altitude, but they saw both candidates on stage together and could compare and contrast. governor romney onstage with a plan, talking about promises of the country how we'll fix them. president obama, not that his style was off but i d

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let's bring in shawn spicer. communications's director for the republican national committee. thanks for being with us. >> you bet. >> governor romney has been in ohio 34 times since securing the gop nomination, 11 times since winning the first presidential debate. paul ryan will be campaigning there in the next hour. we'll be watching that. the governor trailing the president. mitt romney is leading in ten of the battleground states in politico's poll. trailing in the washington post political poll. what's your thought? does the governor think he can become the first republican to win without taking ohio? >> we're going to take ohio. the ground game that we put together there is exceedingly doing very, very well in terms of the number of contacts both on the phone and door to door. as you noted, he's been there quite a number of times. i think we continue to make up grounds. some of the polls have it tied. so i think in the final weeks we'll continue to make this about a clear choice in the election and governor romney will take ohio. >> take us into the back room for a secon

shawn spicer of the republican national committee saying that they are not doing business with him or. democrats pointed their tankers to the american crossroads promising to help republicans help when office. however, this was also going from 2010 from door-to-door outreach but has not worked with 2012. he has not returned overcalls or also not working with democrats. we have best for an interview but he has declined through his lawyer with this lawyer that he wants to keep this outside the realm of politics. and he is been cooperative with florida officials and the investigation of irregularities. >> it was very upsetting to me and members of our committee on the democratic side. we're very upset about it because it is unusual for us to have this investigation. to say that i'm not going to cooperate with you. i'm not going to provide documents and i'm not going to appear. >> although there has been no request for interviews he has spoken to fox news. here is what he said about the investigation. >> what they will find is that our company had a systematic control that look for people

let me bring in shawn spicer. good morning, shawn, how are you? >> good morning, chris, i'm doing great. thank you. >> mitt romney during the debate and we just played that clip suggested sending disaster management back to the states or even the private sector. isn't that essentially suggesting eliminating or at the very least curtailing strongly fema? >> no, it's doing exactly what he just said, which is letting the states and localities lead because they know what's best when it comes to their state. and you're seeing that right now, whether it's governor bob mcdonnell in virginia, governor christie or maybe bloomberg in new york who are saying, hey, we know exactly what we need in our state or in the case of new york city, we know what needs to get done, how to do it best. we know where everything is -- >> but isn't that essentially the way fema works? >> hold on, chris. what the governor said and what is -- his point is, is that the federal government should let states lead where they know best, in localities where they know best. getting the

. >>> earlier we talked to rnc communications director shawn spicer about is several big campaign issues the other side of the conversation. we are joined by brent colburn to get the other side of the debate. thanks for joining us today. >> thanks for having me. >> shannon: i want to talk to you first about an issue that you all have done very well with female voters we have seen in polling again and again that the president maintains an advantage there. i want to run a new ad that is out tahoe light that that higha female voter and then get your rehe action. this ad i believe is called melanie. >> sure. >> i'm disappointed in barack obama as my president because he promised to bring us all together and we will all be able to prosper. i don't see the prospering. in 2008 i voted for barack obama. he doesn't have my vote this time. being a woman you think about your children and you think about their future and what i want to think about is a future that has jobs, our economy is growing again. that is important to women and it is important po me. to me. >> i'm mitt romney and i approve thi

contacted today shawn spicer said they're not doing business with sprule or any of his companies.pend millions to help republicans win elections, but american crossroads told cnn that it hired one of sprules companies in 2010 for door to door outreach. sprule's lawyer did not our calls. congressman cummings asked him to sit for a questioning and information. but he denied in this letter that says he wants to keep it outside of the realm of politics and that he is cooperating in their investigation of irregularities there. >> it was very upsetting to me and to the members of our committee on the democratic side. and we're very upset about it. >> why? >> it's very unusual for us to have someone we are investigating to say i am not going to cooperate with you, i'll not going to provide documents,ly i will not appear. >> he has talked to fox news where he defended his company's voter registration efforts. >> what they will find is that our company had an effort of quality control. when we found them, we fired them immediately, and we have a long paper trail. and those cheating the sys