let's listen to that. >> ted kennedy is trying to destroy romney's record on jobs. in helping to create more than 10,000 jobs. >> the thing about 10,000 is now he claims it's 100,000 and he hasn't been in business since then. how did he add 90,000 to his job creation record while being basically unemployed? >> it's tricky how to figure out the job losses and the job gapes. the important thing here is that the obama campaign knows as we all do. they have a relatively weak hand on the economy. if the race is at a referendum on barack obama's stewardship, the country understands that the president was dealt a bad hand to begin with. they have patience for him and the romney argument that barack obama has not done that much for the economy and in over his head. that's a strong argument. they want to make it about a contrast in visions and values. visions and values goes to romney's record as a job creator. did he create jobs in the private sector and as governor of massachusetts? they believe they have a strong case that the answer is no and that's going to be a big the

bob schwab who worked with ted kennedy back then with the anti-bain ads and led to kennedy defeating mitt romney in the massachusetts senate race, and also jo walsh, political editor, and this is fun, they used to say with the bayonet, you keep sticking it until you are mushed and when you hit bone, pull back. it seems, bobby, every time you hit him with bain capital, you got mush, and squeeze it and turn around and with the reference to the bayonets and obama is doing the same thing that you did without the bone mat, a matter, and it is just mush in ther there. >> well, he was paralyzed in 1994, and a worker hired boss came to see him in massachusetts, and would not see him, and as a result kept the story a live. this is the central part of his candidacy, he is a mr. fix-it for the economy, and this is a narrative arc moving from what he did in the private sector to the positions of public policy like destroying medicare and destroying lavish health care, and if that narrative is told and told effectively and told unimpeded by the end of this process, he is the candidate of the few

the man who holds what used to be ted kennedy's senate seat. scott brown has taken more money from any other from the securities and investment sector, taken more money than any other senator from the venture capital and the private equity firms. he's taken more money from the hedge fund industry. this guy isn't even from new york. nope. wall street has a guy on the inside inside. his name is scott brown. in the first quarter of this year, the city of which he received more itemized donations than any other place is new york city, which is not in massachusetts. they call him one of wall street's favorite congressmen for a republican. they call him that for two reasons. you might remember what scott brown did when they were first writing the wall street rules. you remember his specific contribution. they thought there was going to be $19 billion in implementation costs in rules. who should pay for it after it nearly destroyed the american economy? who should pay for that? it's going to be paid for by the banking sector. scott brown amended the b

in 2002, he pushed through a health care plan and standing beside him was ted kennedy. it is really interesting to see kennedy attacking him over this. we know that years later what happened and how it turned out and kennedy was very supportive about what romney did. >> in the same venue where the debate took place. let me show you what governor romney said to "time" magazine. mitt romney in mid-october of 1994 had this to say about his experience in the private sector. >> one of the ads, it has been interesting to watch the ads my opponent has put out. i do not know how to respond to them all. it suggests that my firm discriminates against women in positions of management. nothing could be further from the truth. of the 40 people in our firm, about 10 or so are women. our chief financial officer is a woman. we have women in key positions in the company. the company i ran before that, when i left, i was instrumental in having a woman appointed as the new chairman of the board. when i was chief executive, women were among the senior officers. in my venture capital busines

great politicians like tip o'neal, ted kennedy and even ronald reagan in an interesting way were ablennect with the guy on the line. the reagan democrats voted for him. this guy romney is at a particular disadvantage here. when you whack him as a job killer, he looks like one. he looks like the white collar guys in the office overlooking the plant. he doesn't look like your foreman, or your business agent at a labor union. he doesn't look like he connects with workers, does he? >> no, he doesn't. he doesn't look like it and he doesn't sound like it and he hasn't been able to learn to take it. we all got a laugh out of that aircraft line. who talks like that? >> coneheads do. >> someone who does an imitation of a human being talks like that, an earthling. he simply can't master it. i think this is going to be a crisis. bob was saying we didn't anticipate this. we were saying the same thing, bob, a few months ago when the tax return came up. it is a kind of entitlement where he's been sheltered from certain kind of questions. how dare you question me sir or madam? and now he's in the ro

kennedy, and senator ted kennedy.joseph is running for the 4th district congressional set into massachusetts that is vacated by barn nee frank. here's the bio. age 31, undergraduate stanford university, studied industrial engineering. harvard law school, while at harvard worked with legal aid bureau providing free legal services to low income people. peace corps, 2004 to 2006. cape and islands, massachusetts, district attorney offers prosecutor, two years, middlesex district attorney's office, massachusetts, 2011 to 2012. question, is kennedy a shoe in for barney frank's former seat? i ask you -- >> they don't automatically hand a seat to a candidate. caroline kennedy tried to get a senate seat in new york and she was rebuffed. this young man is doing his homework. he has good credentials. and the kennedy name in a congressional district should give him a leg-up. >> oh, yeah. >> you have to favor him a a democratic district, presidential year, a big obama turnout. but his opponent is impressive young man himself. he r

ted kennedy is for gay marriage.ng is the typical flip-floper, mitt romney. >> eric: this is not a flip-flop from sunday to monday. i'm talking about flip-flop from 2008 when he said i'm for a marriage between one man and one woman. >> bob: do you think he was for gay marriage? >> eric: i don't know. >> bob: yes, he did. >> dana: everybody has issues with this. the thing is, the question is on the politics of it, president obama really, if it's evolving, then, okay, maybe he is going to have to rethink that. the worry is, this is all politics. this comes down. >> bob: romney isn't about politics? >> dana: i'm not saying it's not. i said it is politics. both candidates are going to have to answer this question. >> eric: where is he? can president obama tell where you say he is, in his own words of may 7, 2012, whether he is for or against it? >> bob: i think he would say he's against that. romney refused to comment on it. >> eric: commander-in-chief, let us know where you are on gay marriage. we would like to know. up

the man that worked with ted kennedy back there with the anti-bain adds that lead to defeating romneyok, this is fun, you have found -- they used to say you stick it in if you get mush, you keep sticking it in, when you hit bone you got it. it's like mush and you can squeeze and turn it around a lot. isn't that true? obama is doing the same thing you did with no bone matter, it's just all mush in there. >> he was perilized in 1994. he did not respond for days. the workers came to massachusetts and tried to see him, and as a result he kept the story alive. this goes to the central rationale of his candidacy. it shreds the idea that he is a businessman and a mr. fix it for the economy. it's going to move from what he did to his positions on public policy like destroying medicare, being a governor 47th in job creation. if that narrative gets told effectively, by the end of this process, he will be a candidate of the few, by the few. >> it's amazing how our language gets twisted. the worst of it is bailout. we had so in job creators. everyone that makes a buck out there is a job creator.

. >> yeah, mitt romney said he was going to be more for gay rights than ted kennedy. >> yeah. >> whichhe sort of attitude that people are going to experience. we are going to need hospital visitation rights. >> yeah. >> maybe if it is a head injury. >> basically he is down to the point, look, if you want to live like jack tripper, with two female roommates, and mr. furly upstairs i think that that is probably appropriate, but aside from that, no gay relationships. [ laughter ] >> you made a serious point. i think you were talking about younger people but i just thought what an historic moment this was. that's what made me cry. in a year we have had all of these gay suicides of kids, you go oh my god this is the day that americans can wake up and a gay kid is sitting somewhere, and go i can grow up marry the person i love serve my country. it was really i think a stunning moment in the civil rights battle of our time. don't you think? >> yeah, it gets better honestly. last night before i went to bed, i was sitting there thinking is this kind of historic. i ended up tweeting hey, guys re

he did, in 1994, when he ran in the ted kennedy race, said he would be better for gay rights than ted kennedy was. that may have been a plausible thing to write considering ted kennedy, but he has things like trying to drive his base in this election, but mitt romney has taken a seat in many parts of this election to gain an appeal seat. yes, it's definitely the fact that the conservative right has reacted more strongly to this than mitt romney has in the course of the last several days. does romney see it in his interest to exploit that or not? i think the romney campaign believes that any day not spent talking about the economy is a wasted day politically. i think they ought to leave this alone because they think the economy is a winning issue. so they may not try to explore this and try not to drive it away from this campaign like so many previous campaigns have been. >> i don't believe romney will try to exploit it, but there will be surrogates out there in a very targeted way. as you know, carl rove was very good, and in key states like florida and ohio, all those things that wil

keeping them honest though, back when romney was running for senate against ted kennedy in massachusettsromney positioned himself as the gay rights candidate. romney met with the log cabin club in massachusetts, a gay republican group. and in a letter dated october 6, 1994, wrote "i am more convinced than ever before that as we seek to establish full equality for america's gay and lesbian citizens i will provide more effective leadership than my opponent." full equality, those were his words. "if we are to achieve the goals we share we must make equality for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern. my opponent cannot do this, i can and will." a promise from mitt romney for full equality for gays and lesbians. one might ask how that can be reconciled with romney's position same-sex marriage should not be legal. what does full equality mean if not fully enjoying the rights of other citizens, including the right to marry? moderator chris wallace brought up the letter and asked romney the following question, take a look. >> so you are still more of a champion of gay rights than ted kennedy wa

take a look. >> so you are still more of a champion of gay rights than ted kennedy was?do not believe in discriminating in their sexual orientation. i believe as a republican i had a chance to fight for antidiscrimination. at the same time, chris, in 1994 and throughout my career, i have said i oppose same-sex marriage. marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. >> it's true that romney has opposed same-sex marriage throughout his career, but at the same time he was pledging support for the gay community. in a 1994 interview with bay windows romney said, i think the gay community needs more support from the republican party. i would be a voice in the republican party to foster antidiscrimination efforts. romney was asked about that quote in january's nbc debate and what he's done to stand up for gay rights. here's what he said. >> from the very beginning in 1994, i said to the gay community, i do not favor same-sex marriage. i oppose same-sex marriage and that has been my view. but if people are looking for someone who will discriminate against gays or will in

take a look. >> so you are still more of a champion of gay rights than ted kennedy was?i do not believe in discriminating in their sexual orientation. i believe as a republican i had a chance to fight for antidiscrimination. at the same time, chris, in 1994 and throughout my career, i have said i oppose same-sex marriage. marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. >> it's true that romney has opposed same-sex marriage throughout his career, but at the same time he was pledging support for the gay community. in a 1994 interview with bay windows romney said, i think the gay community needs more support from the republican party. i would be a voice in the republican party to foster antidiscrimination efforts. romney was asked about that quote in january's nbc debate and what he's done to stand up for gay rights. here's what he said. >> from the very beginning in 1994, i said to the gay community, i do not favor same-sex marriage. i oppose same-sex marriage and that has been my view. but if people are looking for someone who will discriminate against gays or will

. >> but i'm talking about romney, who was for gay marriage when he was running against ted kennedy.dy beats up and cuts the hair off a gay man at 15, you have to question. >> first of all, the guy wasn't gay according to his family. >> he was gay and we know he was gay. >> you are going to excuse homophobic behaver? >> his family said it was untrue and stop talk about it. >> they said they didn't want to make a political issue out of it. >> did you play any banks on a person in high school? >> not cutting his hair because he was gay. >> first of all you don't know it was true, romney denied it and the sources, some have been proven false. >> and the drug issue of obama is relevant? is that your standard. >> no he put it out before he ran for president. i give it -- him credit for putting it on the table. >> the media put it out there. it wasn't blown up. >> different standards whether sex, drugs, rock and roll. there's another standard for democrats and another for republicans. you have sex in the office, no problem. >> only conservatives and -- they flip-flop. >> they einvolve. >>

. >> three years ago, the death of ted kennedy reminded us of how the last surviving brother had fallen from grace when he drove a car off a bridge, killing a young woman in 1969. his quest over the last 30 years to live up to a failing ideal. the sons and daughters of those brothers have suffered too, born into what has been called america's royal family. patrick kennedy, the son of ted, spoke to abc's christiane amanpour about his own struggles with addiction, after he crashed his car while a u.s. congressman. >> i don't recall much about the night. i do know that i was under the spell of addiction. and when you're under the spell of addiction, you're just an accident waiting to happen. >> reporter: many in patrick's generation have worked valiantly to carry on their parents' legacy of public service. robert kennedy jr among them. he's a passionate and ut spoken environmentalist who has fought legal battles on behalf of a dozen franchises. after 16 years of marriage, he and his wife had separated. she had struggled mightily with alcohol abuse over the past several years. tonight multi

at the time ted kennedy was chairman of the committee, so there were two people that i couldn't wait to see in person hear what they sounded like and talk to them. c-span: when was the first time you ever had a lengthy conversation with him? >> guest: it would have been sometime during the back end of 1979 or during 1980. i'm sorry to say i don't remember the very first conversation. it would have been in the context of judiciary committee matters. when i really started to think more about him as having a fascinating story was 1981, after he became chairman of the judiciary committee. as everyone recalls, 1980 not only brought president reagan to the white house, but the senate went from democratic hands to republicans. and you went from having ted kennedy as chairman of the judiciary committee to strom thurmond as chairman of the judiciary committee, and, you know, ideologically, on the surface, you couldn't really get too much different ends of the spectrum. c-span: you were in north carolina for how long? >> guest: nearly seven years, just a bit shy of seven years. c-span: another

said he was more for gay rights than ted kennedy. then he went national, went right.e nasty on immigration, talking about self-deportation as a method of enforcement, talking about god knows what when it comes to iran, pushing tax cuts for the wealthy, less regulation, basically a return to w., that era of republican rule that no one dare mitt dare talk about repeating openly. on the personal side, good question. romney says strange things about liking to fire people and about the marvelous nature of the ryan budget plan. he has an odd manner that makes you wonder what with drew him into politics in the first place, surely not the need to share himself with millions of people or explain himself for that matter. right now he's hiding from the press. he doesn't want to talk about how he made his money, nothing about that company that made him rich. he has a plan to win this election, be the alternative. if the economy starts to sink, he'll be the option. brand x, the product that we're expected to choose for no better reason than we haven't tried it yet. this is how he

they worked back in 1994 in his race against ted kennedy. this is the obama campaign's most important effort to 2009 romney before he gets to do it himself. also on attack, obama dares republicans to vote against the violence against women act. also today, a taped appearance on the view, and a commencement address at a women's college in new york, bernard. team obama will keep pushing this republican war on women. and his deck collar ration on gay marriage. african-americans are deeply divided. we're going to talk to two black ministers, one pro, one con, on how it could affect democratic voters in november. does mitt romney have a foreign policy? what if he is the latest tool of the neo-cons? and look who made his return to saturday night live. >> well, mission accomplished. >> what's that supposed to mean? >> it's just something i like to say when a problem isn't solved, but i don't want to talk about it anymore. >> the great will farrell giving con consolation to vice president biden. and the offense for the bain of romney's existence. ma

literally he wants to etch-a-sketch that he said i'm going to be more pro gay rights than ted kennedy't me. >> republicans like to say they are all about freedom, and i dare say obama is more for freedom. >> independent strongly in favor of gay marriage. but the people -- different people pointing out different things. pennsylvania, conservative-leading independent states like iowa and nevada could be put off by this. ralph reid said this is unanticipated gift to the romney campaign. it is certainly to fuel a record turnout of voters of faith to the polls. >> there are voters of faith who don't believe in mitt romney's faith either. >> yeah, it will be interesting. this is going to activate the base on both parts. there could be really record turnout on this -- in fact the president pointing the generational aspects. >> when i go to college campuses i sometimes talk to republicans that think i have terrible on foreign or the economy, but are very clear when it comes to same-sex equality -- or sexual orientation, that they believe in equality. they are much more comfortable with it. >>