pastor steve cory says things calmed down until he toured the u.s. talking about arab struggles. >> i was on cbn and needing to grow in east jerusalem. unfortunately a lot of people's mindsets, it is to put fear and submission in the heart of every christian in the middle east. >> they are pretty effective. >> within 24 hours, cory was given an eviction notice even though they are paid a year ahead. >> the lord to make a miracle, we can have our own place. we found a five-story building. he wants christians to stand with him practically and in prayer for their own building. he believes the only way is to be there. julie stall, cbn news, jerusalem. >>> u.s. state department hail today revolutions taking place in the middle east and it will take time to end human rights abuses. department issues the annual report, even though there are free elections take place in egypt -- there is a christian mother of three who faces death. the country convicted asi bibi. >> we are concerned about the effec effects, the blasphemy law, asi bibi's case. it is a tough d

. >> pastor steve cory leads churches in bethlehem. cory says they do many unorthodox things that hope is only built on the solid rock of jesus christ. >> recent 60 minutes report blamed israel for the christian exodus. holy land arabs must share the blame. pastor cory told gary lane what palastinian believers are facing. >> you have christians afraid to walk with crosses. christians afraid to walk with bibles. the fear doesn't come out of shame. it is continuous being harassed and oppressed and pushed aside by uneducated extremists. i heard people say i will pray them. i don't think so, pray for boldness. i want christians to come to pray at the churches. we need churches to pray and give to evangelicals so we can expand. we have seven active ministries. only way to make seven fourteen, is to pray. >> what is your experience, how do you respond to them being antiisrael. >> you can't be christian and antiisrael. jesus was a jew. god spoke about the nation of israel. i love the palastinian muslims, the palastinian christians. i love the

bain ads are important, that's why what cory booker did yesterday is very damaging, maybe even over the long run to the president. >> let me ask, howard first. steve carnacke saying when cory booker was on "meet the press," he was trying to get support financially. he was basically serving his donor base, not the president. but what about this problem with the president? if all obama has to face is the possibility -- someone is running against brand x whose name is mitt romney, he just offered himself saying, i can do a better job. i've made a quarter billion bucks. all businessmen create jobs. in a sense, the president has to take on that argument because it sounds factually true. obama has to come in and say, he didn't create jobs. that was his job description. >> yes, but what that means is, the president has to dive systemically into a careful explanation of how the economy works for good or ill, how jobs, in fact, are created. what's the good part of business? what's the responsible part of business? what's the irresponsible part of it? he's got to get down in the weeds with us. if this is going to be a debate over how economic principles are

so it's cory booker, steve ratner, but he cannot be ridden.ming mitt romney's position on bain will be i can't remember what i did, but i stand by what i did whatever that was. >> he's happy to take credit for any successes, but as soon as you start to talk about any of the failures, any of the things that went wrong, oh, that's off limits. we're not allowed to talk about that, right? and the president is exactly on point here. i think to what david just said, not only did he up the ante, not only did he really focus in on what the problem is and why this is so important, but he did it in a very measured way that didn't seem nasty. you know, it made sense to people. it was logical. >> he made the point that i am not disparaging private equity, i'm not writing off a whole sector of the economy, i'm not attacking people who work in these sectors. >> right. >> i'm actually saying that people are as or more important than profit. >> that's exactly right, and if you're going to be president, you're going to be president of everyone, and if you're r

. >> now, steve, as dana mentioned, mayor cory booker, last night our network. cory booker complained about the gop's distortion of his words and this is the only issue they seem to want it stand with him on. watch this. >> anyone watching the entire "meet the press", not only was i defending obama's position on issues but i also talked about super pac and my outrage and frustration about the cenacle negative campaigning. manipulating of the truth. so here they are, plucking sound bites out of that interview to manipulate them in a cynical manner, to use them for their own purposes. and that slogan is really what had me and basically my entire staff really fit to be tied. if anybody listens to the entire "meet the press" and they want it stand with me, they will see that i stand firmly with the president. >> in fairness to mayor booker, who i know and have worked with him, and will continue to work with, when i did the question, what was he thinking saying this, if you look at the full context of what he said, let's play when a said, he was concerned about more

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motivate, because it's a turnout game, too, what effect those ads are having there, not whether cory bookner or steve ratner or snin else sitting in the salons of washington -- >> okay. a lot of fund-raisers. a lot of private equity people that used to be for obama have walked away. but let me ask you one other one, here, john just at the beginning of our conversation. i don't think you wrote about this. but the whole issue of the obamacare contraception mandates and what i'm going to call the revolt of the catholics. and you just had the 43 catholic institutions including notre dame file 12 lawsuits. what does that do? obama, it seems to me, is in danger here too of dividing democrats, some of whom may anybody favor of obama, last time might have been, but they're furious at his attack on the church and religious freedom. >> well, i'm not sure that -- that's certainly a very opinionated characterization of what he's done. but i think if i would tell you what i think ought bama campaign thinks, is they think they need to win a massive gender -- they need to have a massive gender gap to win. they thin

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once cory booker and the others came out, even steve radner who had attacked, even steve radner who had been obama's auto czar who attacked this backed down in a column in the "new york times" several days later. the obama campaign staff thinks this stuff is dynamite. >> the focus group is incredibly powerful in swing states. they have tested it. chris: it works. >> absolutely. chris: we asked 12 of our regulars what is the most effective ads out there this season, the ones that are a referendum on president obama's record the last four years or present the election as a choice between two candidates. nine says presented as a referendum of the last four years, three say the choice between the two will be the better adment joe, you're with the minority here. you start. you think the choice ads will be the strongest? >> the main reasons is i don't think -- i have done 10 presidential elections, god help me, i have never seen a referendum election for the presidency. it's a chose. we're electing someone to live in our houses for four years. i have seen congressional elections like 2010 tha

. >> yes, so what is nauseating, in the words of cory booker unfair in terms of steve ratner your good-- >> who did the op-ed today that said the president is correct in saying that bain is fair became. and the first job at bain is to create a profit. when he went to massachusetts and turned massachusetts 47 out of 50. do we want to be 47th out of 50 count thinks in the world in job creation? >> no. >> the problem with the bain attack is those jobs were let go two years after romney left bain. so the guy that actually was there when those cuts were made wasn't even running it -- it's just like rick snyder does something this fall and blames you for it two years after you left. >> i got to break for time. it's just the job description of somebody who runs a private equity firm is not to create jobs. but hang on, after the break, duf is going to tell us why all of the smart money in california is going to go to mitt romney, and christine is going to correct him. direct line to jennifer granholm. >>our goal is to bring you behind the scenes with access to stories that you've never seen be

the mayor of newark, cory booker, and steve ratner, both disparaging the attacks on mitt romney.hey will talk about how bain dealt with an indiana paper company. >>> let's get to josh with the morning headlines. >> we're going begin with break news n from mississippi. a nearly day-long prison riot has turned deadly. authorities regained control of the prison overnight. not before one guard was killed and five others were injured in the mele rks. >>> it's been an especially violent 24 hours in yemen. gunmen opened fire on car carrying three u.s. military instructors. this morning, word of a suicide bombing. abc's martha raddatz is in yemen. she has the very latest. good morning to you, martha. >> reporter: good morning, josh. a suicide bomber strapped on a belt. he was among many, many yemeni arny soldiers practicing for unity day. he blew himself up, scores were killed. scores more were wounded. this comes on the heels of an attack on american contractors in southern yemen, wounding one. al qaeda took responsibility. despite what happened here today, the u.s. and yemeni army will

mayor cory booker and even today steve rattner writing in "the new york times" called "the bane attacks" narrowly accurate. that's a nice way of saying you're barely lying. they're cherry-picking a lot of facts about this company and what it's done. and the -- >> steven, you can't -- >> a lot of democrats are saying the same thing. >> you can't dismiss the fact that those ads have had an impact on mitt romney. in south carolina, for instance, when newt gingrich rolled that out, a lot of folks say, that's the reason he won south carolina. back to the mid '90s when ted kennedy made the claims, they were very effective then. at what point do you think mitt romney steps up and said, this is what i did at bain, this is what it represents? >> i'm not here to give advice to the romney campaign. but 54% of voters said they thought the bain issue made no difference to them in terms of how they saw the different candidates. most voters are concerned about -- here's what i think a lot of democrats are rejecting the bain attacks the obama campaign is launching. most people are hungering for a real

not just cory booker but people like harold ford and steve ratner -- >> dana: we could go on but we havego. coming up, the election heard across the country. listen to this. >> you will not disrespect the president of the united states in this classroom. greg will have something on that, because a teacher is taught a lesson of her own. that's next on "the five." >> greg: last week a north carolina teacher scolded a student for criticizing president obama, warning he could be arrested. it started when tanya dixon nearly brought up the romney bullying incident and a student responded "didn't obama bully someone, though?" the social studies teacher went off on the kid like dana does when the waiter is late with her appletini. roll tapee. >> that is disrespectful. >> you're disrespecting romney. >> greg: wow! sounds like an entertaining version of "the view." i must hear more. >> greg: i'm so glad i'm old. i guess you forgot about the first amendment. the hyphenated heroine has been suspended but she deserves more i'm announcing the immediately deserved instructor offer tenure award. i give

cory booker's political future? >> it's hard to imagine that it has. steve is absolutely right that it does highlight his wall street ties and that may damage him in the minds of some on the left. but i think there was a lot of cheering for what he was saying on both sides, although i did hear some disappointment from people who liked his first statement that he was sort of marched in front of the firing squad and ended up walking it back. look, i spoke to democrats who agreed with booker that they were uncomfortable with this sort of veering into economic populism, that these attacks on bain were taking and felt like the president did a much better job yesterday of walking that fine line of saying, yes, we have to examine romney's record but we can't turn into -- become anti-business. >> i want to pick up on what you just said there. private equity, under fire. both sides are benefiting from these super pacs, republicans, a little bit more. here's what david axelrod said yesterday on "andrea mitchell reports." >> people admire success and understand their b

harold ford agreed with the fellow democrat cory booker and then you have steve ratner last week who agreed who works with president obama as car czar and also knew cory booker. how does the president answer that question about private equity? >> i was stunned, i was listening to this in my car driving my kids to and from piano lessons and i'm glad i caught it because the questioner actually had three parts to the country. is romney responsible for the jobs that were lost, you know, how do you respond to cory booker and do you believe that private equity has a good place in our economy? the president really dodged the cory booker part. he also dodged the is romney responsible part? but it came out yesterday what the theme is going to be now. they're going to alter what they were saying about private equity because, you know, you can't have it both ways. you can't attack mitt romney and then take money from private equity guy. what they're going to do is say this. that mitt romney is missing what the job of president is all about. your job is not simply to maximize profits. the job is

when you have, for example, what happened on "meet the press" on sunday with cory booker and harold ford junior and stevetner and it gets longer and longer. you look at a prison inmate, pulling the numbers in west virginia and ken tucky and arkansas. >> right. i would be very nervous. i was talking to a really smart observer of politics via email. he says, this reminds me of the 1994 democratic primary, where ann richards ran poorly. she was unopposed. kentucky was uncommitted and. virginia, an inmate in the beaumont correctional facility. in arkansas, it's a perennial candidate from tennessee. it's one thing if president obama had -- romney got roughly the same percentage of vote in kentucky. but he was 55 points ahead of ron paul. whose name is still on the ballot. as long as their names are on the ballot, they are going to vote for them. but these are uncommitted... a guy in the federal pokey and a candidate that nobody's ever heard of, voting against -- now, i love the obama campaign response which was, doesn't matter, we are not going to win-- >>> it's b.s. about the debt. $5 trillion in debt. i don

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>> that steve rattner was a little leery of saying, i stand with cory booker. >> leery?ain. i'm not sure. i don't want to the hear about mapi

cory booker was not alone. he's been joined by stevener, haar alleged ford, ran for democratic senator in tennessee. >> they're all in the ad by the way. >> they are because they had moments of honesty, moments of clarity where they said things like cory booker, i have to say i'm not about to sit here and indict private equity. president obama said this is what the election is about. debris with president obama. >> let's be clear, when we get to november, let's say september and october, you're not going to be hearing the voices of cory booker. mitt romney will run them. you know who you're going to hear? the people who said i had a child in cleng, they came in, stripped this company down, they ran the debt up and destroyed this town, those are the voices you're going to hear and trust me the voters out there are going to be saying, hmm, i'm listening to that person as opposed to what harold ford said or cory booker says. the honorable thing for cory booker is stop giving interviews because you're providing more oxygen to the story and

>> that steve rattner was a little leery of saying, i stand with cory booker. >> leery?ain. i'm not sure. i don't want to the hear about manscaping. i mean, really? you guys keep it to yourself. >> and we learned, shameless, actually. not much of a liar. really. donny. come on. natural? there's nothing natural about that. >> right now he's -- >> right now, he's at home tanning, end of story. >> a brazilian waxer. >> no. he does the spray tans. he has several people spraying him. >> if it's way too early what time is it? it's "morning joe." stick around for "daily rundown" with katchuck todd. >>> is it may or october? personally attacking a mitt romney saying romney does have the values to sit in the oval office, rough stuff, as both claim the other isn't even qualified to be president.

prominent african-american democrat and a good friend like cory booker, when you have the former democratic congressman from tennessee, ford, and steve ratner and when they have the more pro business democrats saying, well, mr. president, do they worry ought all there could be a negative impact? >> i am sorry? are they worried about getting negative attacks in response? >> do they worry the criticism could hurt in the end. >> they're not worried about the democratic response because they're so convinced this message works with the people they need to reach the most because, look, the bottom line is cory booker slipped on what he said. he didn't flip entirely, but he took back enough of it and they're going to continue with this message no matter what because they think it connects with the vo voters they need to reach period. you heard the president stand by this campaign strategy because they believe bottom line, john, it works. >> it is not just the romney campaign complaining that teem obama is highlighting the blemishing but ignoring the successes. bain capital is usually publicity shy but today it issued a strongly worded statem

the reason it is a problem, it was not only cory booker but steve ratner came out and said this was not a great thing. ed rendell said this was not an ad that should be running. >> now there is a run the ad that " them --quotes them. >> he was speaking up for private equity. that is an incredibly long winded explanation of what happened. >> is cory booker right, that this is out of bounds, or is it a stupid attack for the president to go after romney about this? >> he could have made the argument that what romney did as a private equity chief was good for the economy and import and and you can expect this protectionist attitude toward jobs, particularly at a steel mill. private equity at advest takes companies that are dying on the line in terms of the around and make them productive in new ways. that is not just the vincible but important. he idea that that is out of bounds when it is from his career and he is stating his campaign on the notion -- you already wrote this piece but i am telling it because i agree with you. >> it is an interesting debate to have about what private equity

cory booker is the second obama guy kind of to slam the campaign's attacks on bain. first it was the president's former car czar, steve rattner, on "morning joe." now it's booker. how can they stay on message and not veer off course like this? >> first and foremost, isn't it refreshing that a person out there who's a public official is speaking his mind and telling the truth? i think that's refreshing. but also surrogates are just that. they are clearly speaking on behalf of the campaign but first and foremost, they speak on behalf of themselves and from their own unique perspective. cory booker is a moderate democrat. he's clearly representing a city that's going through a lot of issues right now. so i applaud him for speaking his mind and for speaking the truth. here's the unfortunate truth about bain capital. the obama campaign likes to bring out that ad in terms of a lot of people being laid off and so forth. when that company was laid off, mitt romney actually left bain capital by then and actually an obama super supporter was running bain capital at that time. we need to clarify some of the remarks out there. >>

steve hayes, joining us this morning from d.c.. gregg: martha, still on the subject of politics, cory booker now responding to the firestorm over his comments on the obama campaign's assault on mitt romney's business record. the newark mayor saying the attacks were, quote, nauseating but then he quickly backtracked saying the president is entitled to hit romney's background. last night the mayor went even further, saying he felt used by republicans after they released a petition asking americans to quote, stand with cory. booker called it exploitation. he also denies claims that the obama campaign pressured him to clarify his original comments. martha: former vice-presidential candidate sarah palin also getting in on the booker controversy. she appeared on sean hannity last night. she thinks mayor should have stood his ground. watch. >> doggone it. it was a shame to see cory back down from what his answer was which was so candid. sean, he was the antithesis of the typical politician. he didn't do this before he spewed his answer to david gregory there. cory in the house, paying alongwith every other american who understands that ob

cory booker, said an ad you released was unthinkable. is it your view that romney is permanently responsible for those job losses at a steel mill, and steves criticized this, and -- three parts, mr. president -- could you give us your sense of just what private equity's role is on stemming job losses as they seek an investment from their investors? thank you. >> first of all, i think cory booker is an outstanding mayor. he's doing a great job in newark and helping to turn that city around. and i think it's important to recognize that this issue is not a, quote, distraction, this is part of the debate that we're going to be having in this election campaign about how too we create an economy that everybody, top to bottom, folks on wall street and folks on main street have a chance at success. if they're working hard and they're acting responsibly, that they're able to live out the american dream. now, i think my view of private equity is that it is set up to maximize profits. that's a healthy part of the free market. that's part of the role of a lot of business people that's not unique to private equity. as i think my representatives have s