we know tagg romney does this on the regular. ann romney goes on "the view" to say today her husband is against embryonic research yet their son, tagg, used a surrogate mother to have a child and in that contract it was the permission for abortion should an emergency arise. so they talk a came on one end but contradicted their behavior on another end. >> tagg romney is a senior adviser in the campaign. what if a senior adviser in the obama campaign made a comment like that? is the media doing a disservice right now to the public by not calling out? i mean, tone is a big part of this election. i mean, we have got -- we're supposed to have some kind of civility. i guess that has all left the building. but the fact is there is a pattern of disrespect. what if an obama adviser had said that about romney? what would the reaction have been? >> there would be -- there would be all the cat calls and the crocodile tears being cried by the far right. >> i mean, heck, they're upset about the moderator of a debate. what do you think they'd s

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go to four twenty one thirty four also like father like son mitt romney founded bain capital so son tagg romney had to start his own little shady pirate equity firm to what's the story behind solo marriage capital and what role is a plane in mitt romney's presidential campaign. welcome to your take by take it live our phone lines are now open so if you want to tell me your opinion make a comment shouldn't romney be arrested for buying votes ask a question live on the air give us a call into it two nine zero four twenty one thirty four so the first caller the night mariana bethesda maryland a maryann thanks for calling. you've been doing some wonderful programs the corruption by large corporations they couldn't be getting away with without the corrupt court and why don't you do some programs on the corrupt couric that's an excellent question marianne thank you for calling i appreciate your raising the topic in fact if you go back to one hundred seventy three when lewis paul wrote this memo and gave it to his best friend next door neighbor that of the u.s. chamber of commerce three months

tagg romney saying he wanted to hit the president.nie: john says frankly it is hilarious when you talk about respect of the office of the president when the president himself has been disrespectful to the office. [ applause ] >> how? >> stephanie: it doesn't go on to say how. >> it's so obvious. >> you are stupid for not knowing. >> stephanie: i have been had. >> you have had by tucker carlson, and by some -- some douche. >> stephanie: doofus named john. all right. forty-five minutes after the hour. right back on the "stephanie miller show." >> i'm getting embarrassed for you for what goes on on your show. it's just dirty stuff, and you all laugh so stupidly like a bunch of idiots. >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." hard to know what candidates are thinking. unless, of course you've stood at the podium yourself. with governors granholm, spitzer, and vice president gore, watch the only truly experienced presidential debate coverage. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ voice of dennis ] ...safe driving bonus check? every six months without an accide

, go, tagg!ly values, thank you mitt and ann. >> is that a threat? it could be taken that way. >> bill: i'll ask my friend who works for the secret service. >> you should! >> bill: let me -- i'll tweet him right now. i'll text him right now. we'll find out. on the libya thing again just nonsense to think what the president said of the morning after in the rose garden and i was there friends talking about benghazi, talking about libya, talking about nothing else, the secretary of state standing right by his side. praises, condemns the attack, condemns the attack, expresses his sorrow and praises chris stevens then expresses his resolve. dan, i want to hear it one more time talking about benghazi and other attacks against the united states. >> obama: no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation. alter that character or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. >> bill: romney says oh, we don't know for sure he was talking about libya. as outrageous as that is, it is a

some other campaign news, mitt romney's son tagg went a little off script during a radio interviewed when asked about tuesday's debate. tagg said the president's attacks on his father made him want to jump out of his seat and rush down to the debate stage and take a swing at him. tagg continuing by saying, but you know you can't do that because, first, there's eight lot of secret service between you and him and this is the nature of the process. they'll do everything they can to try to make my dad into one he's not. we signed up for it. we have to take our punches and send them right back the other way. on the other side, bruce springsteen made his endorsement of president obama official offering his support in an open letter on his website. the boss will be campaigning for the president today in the state of iowa and tonight both presidential candidates wrap up their days in new york city at the annual alfred e. smith memorial foundation dinner honoring the state's late governor. >>> in the final weeks of the campaign, new york city mayor michael bloomberg will have a new influence

it's tagg romney, mitt romney's oldest son talking to president obama. you might remember a few days ago tagg romney after the second debate in which mr. obama went after his father said that sometimes he felt compelled to run down on stage and take a swing at the president. tagg romney, we're told by sources, apologized to the president last night, and the president accepted that apology. diane? >> all right, jake, thank you, as you said the one-liner of the night was his response about fewer horses and bayonets in the military now. viewers went crazy, as jake reported, writing online about horses and bayonets 60,000 times in 60 seconds. so we wondered exactly how many bayonets are still in military use today, and we're told the u.s. military still has more than 600,000 in its inventory just in case. >>> and we move on now to your money and a jolt to american 401(k)s. if you checked the markets, you saw the downward spiral today. the dow tumbling more than 240 points, the worst day since june. so what is going on? abc's sharyn alfonsi tells us. [ bell r

so when mitt romney is not in ohio, tagg romney is there. >> jennifer: for sure.s like ann and tagg also had some impact behind the scenes on how mitt's stump speeches are rolling out, do you think it is that that caused the swing in the polls? >> i think it's the debate, and don't you love the idea gov that someone needs to be humanized, which puts out the idea that people thought he lacked that character. the anecdote that he told in the debate, is well, the president is a liar just like my five sons. >> jennifer: i know and that was being raised again today. >> there is a trust issue. it doesn't really matter what your issues are, until a voter wants to invite you home to have dinner with his family he is not going to listen to what you say. >> jennifer: go ahead. >> i would like to say one other thing about the debate i do have sympathy for the president in that this was such a -- just a stream of lies -- and it completely different candidate than he has been -- that he was preparing to debate that just changed his position based on complete untruths, so i thi

we have a prepty bully named tagg. one molly wing wald away from this being a john hughes movie.had a lifetime of hearing, tagg, you're it, i would probably have anger issues. i'm always it! i don't want to be it! [ applause ] his father, mitt romney, has been very focused on female voters lately. he and president obama are neck and neck in that department. some believe mitt romney's comment of having binders full of women on the debate on tuesday may have hurt him but today he released a slew of new campaign ads that are clearly targeted at the female of our species. >> hi, ladies. mitt romney here. you know, i love women. i love just everything about them. shape of them. the way they talk about their relationships and diets all the time. and they menstruate, which is a miracle. and they're always in the workplace and i have no problem at all with that. we romneys have always loved women. heck, my great grandfather married 12 of them. how do you keep 12 women satisfied? i have no idea. but i believe women are just terrific. my own mother was a women. on the front page of my bind

i wonder how tagg romney's comments are going to play. think people are probably forgiving of family members. >> the family member of someone running for president is nearly unbearable. if there's any political family in this country right now, you know, i think people have an appetite to see more of what they're really like. it's the romneys. so, it's sort of nice to see them express something incredibly human and real. >> one of the things that both candidates have compete for after the debate is not enough talk about what they would actually do over the next four years. >> i find it stunning that that whole debate started and ended and president obama never made a single reference to the future. and mitt romney made precious few. whoever wins, they will have done so, spending the least amount of time talking about the future, out of any campaign in modern history. and campaigns are almost always about winning the debate of the future. and i think it's a sign of how cynical this campaign is on both sides, that neither one is talking abo

>> all: no, tagg is the oldest brother, so he deserves it. out of the house because now we can play with his matchbox cars. ha ha ha. >> i love matchbox cars. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: okay. well, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourselves? >> all: i am craig, and i have two children. i am ben, and i'm a doctor. i am josh, and i have a lovely wife named jen. [ clears throats ] excuse me. [ laughter ] and i'm matt, and, hmmm -- let's see. what can i say about myself? hmmm. oh! my favorite band is coldplay. yes. i love coldplay. they're the best -- >> band of all time. they're so good. chris martin. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: thank you very much for being on the show, guys. [ cheers and applause ] >> all: thank you, jimmy. >> take care, man. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that one son seemed a little bit more fun, yeah. big sports news, you guys. lance armstrong could be pegged as the biggest cheater in sports 'cause of this new report that shows that he might have run the most sophisticated doping program in sports history. when news of t

so last night tagg had his big opportunity. the president was on stage without any protection.d give him his best shot. but, like a lot of pampered children, the young romney did no such thing. instead, he took the opportunity of speaking with the president. now, we're neither experts in lip reading nor body language, but to watch the moment, you wonder if tagg maybe said something like, mr. president, i'm sorry for my childish threat, i had no idea the size of you. or i recognize you have been fighting since you were born and i wouldn't stand a chance in the ring against you. or mr. president, the only things i ever took a swing at is my father's rolodex. whatever he said, here is the ning about this president, you can make up a bogus narrative about a so-called apology tour but if you apologize to him, he'll shake your hand and thank you for you. stay with us. today's "top lines" are coming up. >> so i'm asking for your vote. i'm asking to you help me finish the job. i believe in you and i need you to keep believing in me. and if you stand with me and knock on some doors with

tagg, josh, matt, craig. >> almost. >> i can also get into your professions. i find this quite interesting. private equity, real estate, real estate, real estate but about to go back to your real love, music production. right? >> that's right. >> why that's interesting is that apart from the fact you all look a bit like your dad, obviously your dad's three and a half weeks potentially away from becoming president of the united states. why when americans are about to vote now is he the guy to do the most important thing, turn round america's economy? >> he knows how to fix things. the country's got problems, big problems. he knows how to fix them. and the economy's hurting and we need someone that knows how to fix the economy. >> josh, people say he can fix things. he can break them, too. when he was at bain, as many jobs as he made, he also wiped out. that was the nature of the beast of being a venture capitalist. what do you say to that? >> not sure where you got your facts -- >> i'm not saying that. this is what people say about him. he's a ruthless machine

one of them, apparently, is mitt romney's oldest son, tagg. he told a north carolina radio station, quote, he wanted to take a swing at president obama. >>> 19 days to go. and as abc's tahman bradley reports, the candidates are crafting their messages for women voters. >> reporter: with less than three weeks left until election day, the presidential contenders have intensified their efforts to court undecided women voters. >> my mom was a single mom. >> a single mom who doesn't know whether they'll be able to put food on the table at the end of the week. >> reporter: polls show president obama maintains his advantage among women voters. but challenger mitt romney has narrowed the gap. mr. obama touted the equal pay measure he signed into law. and attacked his republican rival for not supporting it. >> when young women graduate, they should get equal pay for equal work. that should be a simple question and answer. when governor romney was asked about it, his campaign said, we'll get back to you. >> reporter: for his part, romney says women have

joked and he is been hit by tagg and the president has nothing to worry about. >>> the fight for female voters. so far polls indicate president obama does have an advantage, but governor romney of course going after their votes. tracie potts is on capitol hill this morning with the latest. >> a single mom who doesn't know whether they'll be able to put food on the table at the end of the week. >> reporter: governor romney with few references to women last night after tuesday's debate comment that seems to have taken on a life of its own. >> i went to a number of women's groups and said can you you help us find folks and they brought us binders full of women. >> reporter: the binders reference going viral online and now on the campaign trail. >> binders full of qualified women as if, my god, they exist! binders. folks, talk about out of touch. >> we tonight have to order dono order up some binders to find talented driven young women. >> he totally getting working women. >> reporter: new ads aimed at women highlight those who worked for him. his campaign points out massachusetts women's g

one is solamere started by tagg romney. joining me now is rick ungar who wrote all about the sorted details in a recently published op-ed piece aptly titled romney family investment ties to voting machine company that could decide the election causing concern. rick congratulations on a very succinct title for your piece. >> it sounded so complicated now i'm lost. >> john: could you find a way to fit more words in? >> the trick is to get to the edge of what you can tweet. >> john: 120 characters. >> i just made it. >> john: it is a fascinating piece. a lot of our liberal friends say tagg romney owns the machines that will be used to rig the election. >> that's an overstatement. >> john: i think a lot of friends on the left have jumped the gun. lay this out for us. >> the issue -- the real issue here is an ethics issue. the real question we should be asking is should people who manufacture voting machines, who own companies that manufacture voting machines, should they be giving money to anybody -- when i say anybody forget p

. >> now that we're seeing polls turn in romney's favor, his wife and his eldest son, tagg, have mounted a new approach behind the scenes. abc's david muir is traveling with romney in ohio. >> reporter: a more personal, more emotional mitt romney on the campaign trail. >> so, i was happy to put my hand on his shoulder and thank him. express my love to him and asked god to bless him. and he -- >> reporter: speaking of an old classmate he saw at a campaign event, ailing in a wheelchair. >> i got a call that he died the next day after that visit. it's rare you get a chance to tell someone you love them. >> reporter: and stopping his motorcade as children waved on. it landed him right on the front page. reports by politico that this shift is driven by ann romney and his son, tagg, arguing inside the campaign, they should show more of the dad they know. the obama campaign tried to remind people of another character that came up in the debate. romney said the cuts he would make to bring down the deficit, pbs. >> criminals, glutens of greed. and the evil genius who towered over them? one man ha

last night, tagg apologized to the president, who accepted his apology. diane? >> all right, jake, thank you, as you said the one-liner was his response about fewer horses and bayonets in the military now. viewers went crazy as jake reported writing online about horses and bayonets 60,000 times in 60 seconds. so we wondered exactly how many bayonets are still in military use today and we're told the u.s. military still has more than 600,000 in its inventory, just in case. >>> and we move on now to your money and a jolt to american 401(k)s. if you checked the markets you saw the downward spiral. the dow tumbling more than 240 points, the worst day since june. so what is going on? abc's sharyn alfonsi tells us. >> reporter: that closing bell sounded like the end of a prize fight but there was no winner today. stocks tumbled across the board after a series of low earnings reports from some big household names. first chemicalmaker dupont reported a 98% drop in profit, declining sales across the world and announced it will cut 1,500 jobs then xerox reported earnings

two members of the governor's family often seen by his side, that's his wife ann and his eldest son tagg, have urged a new approach behind the scenes. 28 days until americans head to the polls, "your voice, your vote." abc's david muir with all the new polls out tonight. david? >> reporter: diane, good evening from the crucial battleground state of ohio tonight. some of the biggest crowds we've seen yet for mitt romney since his debate performance are lined up for several blocks and a new poll you spoke of right here in ohio showing the race tightening. the president still in the lead here, which is why we're noticing something different from governor romney. more personal stories, personal connections with people he's met along the way. a more personal, a more emotional mitt romney on the campaign trail. >> so i was happy to put my hand on his shoulder and thank him and express my love to him and ask god to bless him and he -- >> reporter: speaking of an old classmate he saw at a campaign event, ailing and in a wheelchair. >> i got a call from a friend that he died the next day after th

. >> that was probably what made tagg wanted to take a swing at him. >> stephanie: yeah.e united states call your dad a liar? how do you react to that? >> jump out of your seat and rush down the debate stage and take a swing at him. but you know you didn't do that because there is a lot of secret service between you and me. >> the only thing stopping him. >> stephanie: yeah. >> i would have felt that way when i heard my dad if i were him make the comment in the first debate, that he knew something about deception because he had five sons. >> stephanie: yeah how do you feel about your dad calling you a liar? >> if i was his kid i would not have be happy about that. >> stephanie: yeah. and here -- i'm love this -- this -- [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: obama called the attack terrorism long before romney did. romney used the term once. the first unmistakable reference came out september 20th. i mean it just -- i don't even know where they are coming from on this. it is on tape. >> that's right. and we have to remember what mitt romney's immediate reaction wa

you cut people a little slack. >> i wish tagg romney would try to do that. the idea they're saying that nonsense -- >> might make voters more excited. >> i don't know. it's exciting as of late, and there's a lot of aaggression, and it's a good thing. anna, thanks for watching your dad. that's one other conservative watching. >> a chip off the old block. >> thank you very much. anne, thank you for hanging in despite being left out a lot. sorry about that. how much are the campaigns getting into year personal life to try to get you to vote in november. campaign market research found obama supporters like to eat red lobster and listen to smooth jazz. that's keith boykin. while romney supporters like sam adams and eat at olive garden. represent. with just 19 days to go, this information is not for yuck yuck. it's critical to the election that could come down to demographics. i'll talk with a "new york times" writer about his article on the campaigns mining your personal information. plus, candidates in two of the contentious senate races face-off tonight in big

tagg romney is over 40 years old, one of his father's closest advisers.hat do you say say to a campaign official who jokes about attacking the president of the united states. >> family members are not always the best surrogates because they wear their compassion for the candidate on their sleeve. the campaign is in damage control mode, so obviously these comments are not there, but honestly his comments later on in that interview about mitt romney being terrified before he goes out for a debate, i think are even more damaging than him saying he wants to take a swipe at the president. they need to do some damage control and tag gk romney needs to get in line with the romney and ryan campaign. >> one of the striking -- one of the findings from harvard speaking about the younger generation, a new poll from harvard points out a 19-point gap among young voters favoring the president. so would you agree they have a better chance of beating mr. romney than tagg does of taking down the president? >> the president looks pretty strong. i think that would be a prett

tagg putting his hand behind the back of the president?emember what he had just said about the president after that second debate. >> we'll bring you the details ahead in the polysidebar. a better place to turn for your legal matters. maybe you want to incorporate a business you'd like to start. or protect your family with a will or living trust. legalzoom makes it easy with step-by-step help when completing your personalized document -- or you can even access an attorney to guide you along. with an "a" rating from the better business bureau legalzoom helps you get personalized and affordable legal protection. in most states, a legal plan attorney is available with every personalized document to answer any questions. get started at legalzoom.com today. and now you're protected. get started at legalzoom.com today. [ female announcer ] some people like to pretend a flood could never happen to them. and that their homeowners insurance protects them. [ thunder crashes ] it doesn't. stop pretending. only flood insurance covers floods. ♪ visit f

and flip-flops mitt's position on abortion and tagg, yes tagg, physically threatens the president. it's like we're dealing with the james gang. >> i'm michael shure. jennifer granholm will be back tomorrow. the ceos of some of this country's