sherrod brown is fighting off tea party republican josh mandell. he's ahead by seven points. new poll out today shows senator brown maintains an 8-point lead over mandel. this is why he's still a threat. dark money campaign ads. one super pac spent more than $1 million on pro-republican ads in ohio so far. republicans have spent $15 million against senator brown just this year. mandel tried to distance himself from those ads, but he repeats their attacks on the campaign trail. here's what he tells fellow tea partiers about brown. >> never met a tax he didn't hike. never met a regulation he didn't like. thinks the constitution is a living, breathing document. tramples on our freedoms, says the government is the engine of job creation. >> mandel says he's against tarp and he's against the automobile loan rescue. but when the editorial board of the cleveland dealer pressed him for specifics on job creation and health care reform he said, i think there's some issues that i'd like to wait until i'm a senator and deal with them in a bipartisan way. so voters are just going to have t

plus, ohio senator sherrod brown, on the 47% fallout in ohio. and could paul ryan actually lose two elections, in one night? i'll ask ryan's congressional opponent if the candidate stands a chance in janesville. >> president obama's policies are feverishly putting more people in the column of takers than makers. >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. mitt romney cannot escape his 47% comment and the undercover tape exposing it. many republicans are running for cover after these comments set off a chain reaction in the republican party. >> well, there are 47% of the people who will vote for the president, no matter what. all right? there are 47% who are with him, who are dependent on him, who believe that they are victims. who believe that government has a responsibility to care to them. who believe that they're entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. >> i mean, how do you get away from that? the comments are what they are. the comments are taking on a life of their own. here's how bad it's getting. last night the romne

on slot of corporate and one percent cash let's ask one joining me now on the phone to senator sherrod brown democrat from ohio senator brown welcome tom thank you your cynical guy to think that sheldon adelson actually want something from mitt romney well in republican house so how can you think that well because he actually said it at that meeting with the koch brothers and he said there was a new gingrich i mean that's you know it's tax savings but it's also anti labor law it's when it's the sort of guy stillman's or the koch brothers or that boil interest it's it's weakening environments repealing environmental rules for all of its worth of scaling back labor law i mean it really is they are they really want to buy the government internists and do a country of a few really wealthy people and everybody else and that's a clear yet take us back to the days that charles dickens wrote about in. what's it like being a senator who's devoted his service to taking on moneyed interests run for reelection in this post citizens united air well it's it's i mean i will not i will never whine or compla

we just talked to sherrod brown in the last hour. sherrod brown is up in ohio.y baldwin great candidate. good friend of ours up in wisconsin. claire mccaskill, of course, thanks to todd akin, right. >> a gift. >> bill: up there. elizabeth warren up over scott brown in massachusetts. they had their first debate last night. some of these races they didn't expect democrats to have such an easy time then, right? >> no. i think a lot of states were written off early on. and you know, there are others. shelly berkeley is doing well. >> bill: joe donnelly in indiana. i saw him yesterday at the house. very strong candidate. i think he was up. he told me he was up in the latest poll. >> heidi in north dakota is doing extremely well. and then, you know, you have some nondemocrats, independent angus mccain of maine who is a breath of fresh air. i was at -- got to meet him yesterday and at the end of his prepared remarks you know, he did a -- sort of the ten-line quote from lincoln by heart. and we're all -- all of us in the room are looking at him going we need this guy in

today's sherrod brown? he just votes the party line. >>> and josh mandel got ohio's credit rating upgraded at the same time sherrod brown's congress got america's credit rating downgraded. josh mandel, protecting tax payers. >>> but the so-called government integrity fund, according to propublica, that's an investigative journalist organization, is shrouded in mystery. it isn't required to reveal donors. the only contact information is a p.o. box. but no one answers their questions and they don't have to do so, do they? >> you know, these groups have great names. >> yeah. >> they all come up with the -- and it sounds like mom and apple pie, but more importantly, it's designed to tell you nothing. if it was a group that at least said, "the coal company's organization," you would know where they were coming from. we don't know anything about this. and you're right, they don't have to tell us. one of the things that i discovered in doing my research for the colbert show, is these groups don't actually have to

joining us is the senator from ohio sherrod brown. he's the lead sponsor of legislation addressing the china currency issue, a bill that, surprise, is currently stalled in congress. the romney campaign is hitting the reset button again. they are resetting by going to ohio and talking about china. why are they picking ohio? >> they are picking ohio because we lost between 2000 and 2010 the nation lost millions of manufacturing jobs. many were in ohio. what they are not talking about is how we have gained 500,000 manufacturing jobs back across the country. a number of them in ohio. it's about the automobile rescue. it's about reenforcing a steel mill. there are new steel mills because of the jobs by the administration and those of us that pushed the international trade commission steel jobs in cleveland, tire jobs in finley, aluminum jobs in heath. it's because of the recovery act. it's because of of the automobile rescue. mitt romney could help us by writing a letter to speaker boehner and tell him to pass the legislation. we passed th

senator sherrod brown ahead ten points in ohio. cusack, the managing editor of "the hill" newspaper will be here in studio with us as a "friend of bill" a little bit later. and we'll also be talking to teddy kennedy jr. about how the obama campaign is going. and here's my question. what the hell is wrong with white males? >> wake up, white people. >> bill: but first -- >> this is the "full court press." >> headlines making news on this friday. a standing ovation for the returning union nfl officials at the ravens/browns game last night. the crowd went wild when referee gene and his seven-man crew took the field before the game in baltimore. refs were a bit surprised but smiled and tipped their hats to the crowd as a thank you. ravens player ray lewis even came over and gave a hug. >> lewis doesn't give hugs, by the way. it is a big deal. >> espn spoke with players and coaches after the game who all had nothing but high praise for the officiating crew. the ravens won the game 23-16. >> bill: right up the road here. right up the park

neosporin® eczema essentials™. >>> we have senator sherrod brown from ohio. what our vision is for china. you sponsored a bill. what policy might look like under a democratic or republican administration. >> well, i think you look back to -- sometimes you want to look back to look forward. you look at the history of the two candidates, for one china. mitt romney's never shown much interest in enforcing trade rules in china. you've seen the ads and heard the president's discussion of what romney did at bain capital so i don't have very high hopes for him doing much of anything positive with closing the trade imbalance between the u.s. and china and strengthening our economic relationship that way. president obama has been the most aggressive president actually since reagan in enforcing trade rules. i mentioned the steel, the aluminum, the tires and some work on solar panels and some other issues that the president has been aggressive in enforcing. the next step is our legislation. i organized 20 senators to send a letter to john boehner asking him to move forw

sherrod brown joins us. >>> this is "hardball," a place for politics. hey. hey eddie. i brought your stuff. you don't have to do this. yes i do. i want you to keep this. it'd be weird. take care. you too. [ sighs ] so how did it go? he's upset. [ male announcer ] spend less time at gas stations with best in class fuel economy. it's our most innovative altima ever. ♪ >>> today a number of conservatives criticized romney for his ill-timed statement. peggy noonan on fox. >> i don't feel that mr. romney has been doing himself any favors. say, in the past few hours, perhaps since last night. sometimes when really bad things happen, when hot things happen, cool words or no words is the way to go. >> and according to buzz feed a number of republican foreign policy experts, quote, senior republican foreign policy hand called it an utter disaster and said it was romney's lehman moment, referring to senator mccain's tone deaf response to the financial crisis in 2008. he said, they were trying to score a cheap news cycle hit based on the embassy statement and now it's just comple

we're join the by senator sherrod brown, democrat from the great midwestern state of ohio. sir. >> thank you. good to be back. thanks. >> now, you're locked in one of the most important senate races in the country right now. i wonder if you could tell us how mitt romney's secret video is affecting that race and how the vast majority of your constituents respond to his analysis that they are dependent, entitled and victims. >> i think -- i don't know. i mean, i don't know precisely because i haven't talked to people a whole lot. i was in the state last week, as i always am on weekends and when i'm not here. but i think that people -- it plays into the whole perception that, you know, my opponent, mitt romney, the republicans of 2012, want to do more tax cuts for the rich and their theory is it trickles down. we tried that from 2001 to 2008 and it didn't work. instead, you know, you focus on the middle class and growing out that way. that's a foreign concept to mitt romney and to a number of republicans. and i think that's why the voting numbers are starting to shift our way.

point one million foreign workers yet no one's talking about this in charlotte other than senator sherrod brown who's all talk about it anybody who's listening or in tampa last week since republicans love free trade as much as democrats president obama has embraced so-called corporate free trade signing more free trade agreements that will lead to even more american jobs losses point is it isn't time we consider the issue that bill clinton refused to consider last night the issue of how we protect domestic manufacturing again by dropping out of all these so-called free trade agreements joining me now for more on this is austin peterson libertarian commentator and director of production at freedom works austin walkable thank you for having me tom thanks for joining me don't we have. actually even before we get to free trade. the whole idea of creating a middle class middle class is are not normal things economically if you look at the history of economics of the probably. the number of good writers on this. desert to tracy was probably the best but that that the normal state of an economy is to

part of it is sherrod brown's voting record. it has worked to a degree. have come to the conclusion that dollar and outside group spends, and do not think it has the same punch as the candidates had. brown has run a strong campaign. i do not think mandel has run a bad campaign. i still put my money right now on sherrod brown. >> how do you see the senate races in nevada and hawaii is shaping up? >> i am making a play to go cover hawaii for the rest of the cycle. i am losing. hawaii is a really tough state for republicans. it is the president's home state. republicans have a really good candidate in linda. she is run a terrific campaign. she has beaten her once in the 2002 governor's race. what l'engle has to do is walk a fine line. this is to convince voters to separate their vote between the presidential and senate race. that is a really hard thing to do. i still have that race in tossup. then we have nevada. nevada is one of those states that is getting near the center of the political universe. i am still recovering from 2010. you have republican and d

sherrod brown was on the show yesterday in ohio. he's got a 7 point lead among likely likely voters. bill nelson has a lead over tim kaine and alan is doing well. >> alan is doing better than n is doing better than romney. allen is doing better with independent voters. >> you can see it's more conservative and -- >> well, they have been pound kaine and trying to do a liberal party -- i still can't figure out how kaine loses if the president carries the state. >> the last liberal senator from virginia? >> it's something to watch as this race develops. and with more of the states credibly in play and senate races is republicans adopting a message they would not do it now, check on power. obama might win, elect a republican to strain -- >> that's what haley barber did, remember? >> however, wait a minute. plan b, stay with you are. ever wonder what check this out. that's mitt romney campaigning in fairfax surrounded by everyone on that stage. all for the introductions that fairfax virginia rally today were made by woman. >>> up next, w

in the straits president obama is pulling, sherrod brown pulling up the polling is up.ing is going with president obama. mitt romney is a drag on his ticket. >> the most telling part is jim demint saying give up on mom knee don't worry about the president, we've got to save the senate dog. i'm predicting, karl rove, the koch brothers will start shifting the money from the presidential race which they are going to realize is a loft cause soon into the senate and house races. that move is going to be eminent and jim deminute is signaling that. i want to do a really quick if i were romney, i do this if i were president obama if i were romney what would i do to rescue the situation. here, pack up and go home, son. there ain't nothing you can do about this. this is real bad. this is what i would do, i'd head to the sunset. now you wouldn't really gallop, i suppose you'd do one of these like... >> hey michael how are you doing? >> how are you? >> ok. anyway romney, you are in a lot of trouble man. this guy's dreaming about as michael tweeted earlier today is it too late for a

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and could win with democratic incumbents, ohio against sherrod brown, michigan against debbie stabenowohio, i'm sorry, i'm blocking on the others. but there are a whole series of those, new mexico with heather. >> bill: morris, button t. >> okay. >> the house is probably going to maintain republic, correct? >> and i think expand the republic margin. >> bill: okay. move on. you had a quibble with my talking points memo. you have got 30 seconds, go. >> i did. this was not a rough week for romney. the media loves to paint something, do it out of proportion and then yell gas gas gas and and -- gaffe gaffe gaffe and try to make the story that romney is screwing up. the fact of the matter beginning of this week romney was still suffering by the democratic bounce. by the middle of this week by monday or tuesday he had caught up and the bounce was over. now, he is finally told the truth about the 47%, first one with the guts to say it and the media is assuming that's going to be a big negative. i think it may be a positive and inject entitlements and welfare into this campaign. the crisis abro