when coolidge was vice president they were stuck at the willard. she loved animals and couldn't have them. the coolidges were like the theodore roosevelts. she only had one animal who happened to be a rodent who came to eat all the food that all of the people came to -- when she had to receive as vice president and all of this -- and -- they were already talking about a new vice president for the next term because coolidge worked out when their president harding die and suddenly she is in the white house. wait a minute, she's waiting outside the white house at the willard for mrs. harding to be ready to leave. the negotiate that when the president before has died and the widow is there and you want to show respect for the widow, they did that beautifully. the coolidges. mrs. harding wanted to leave and then decided not to and another week at the willard, if you can imagine. they were extremely gracious. as gracious -- looking at theodore roosevelt, how to handle when a president dies and you come in because, of course, theodore roosevelt had that. w

they were stuck at the willard. she -- she loved animals. she couldn't have them, and in that the coolidges were like the theodore roosevelts, they had she only had one animal of rodent. when she had to receive as vice president. and all -- and they were already talking about new vice president for the next term. suddenly she's in the white house. or wait a minute, she's waiting outside the white house at the willard for mrs. harding to be ready to leave. to geesht that when the president before died and the widow is there and you want to show respect. and they were extremely gracious. looking at theodore roosevelt. how to handle when a president dies and you come in. of course roosevelt had that. and what to do when she's there and we have her letters to her sorority sisters. she says i'm like a babe in the woods or alice in wonderland. pray for me. i'm paraphrasing the last part. then she rose to it. she learned this was not about her. this was about service. when you see it's a role and you play it, that's all right. another time we're goi

wait a minute, she's waiting outside the white house at the willard for mrs. harding to be ready to leave. the negotiate that when the president before has died and the widow is there and you want to show respect for the widow, they did that beautifully. the coolidges. mrs. harding wanted to leave and then decided not to and another week at the willard, if you can imagine. they were extremely gracious. as gracious -- looking at theodore roosevelt, how to handle when a president dies and you come in because, of course, theodore roosevelt had that. what to do when she's there and we have her letters to her sorority sisters and said i'm like babe in the woods or alice in wonderland. pray for me, basically. paraphrasing the last part. then she rose to it because she understood this was not about her. this was about service. and when you see that it is a role and it is not about you -- that's all -- all right, and -- another tomb we are going to talk about how that clashes perhaps sometimes with your marriage, should i mention the thing we discussed this morning. >>

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they were stuck at the willard. she -- she loved animals. she couldn't have them, and in that the coolidges were like the theodore roosevelts, they had democracy in the middle east. something other people picked up later when things took -- a plug at the bush institute and bush center, we have a big emphasis on women in democracy with these groups coming like the egyptians who were mentioned earlier. visa veeshgs i want to talk about grace since i have her on the show. she didn't expect to be the president's wife. their status was low in washington. when coolidge was vice president they were stuck at the willard. she loved animals and couldn't have them. the coolidges were like the theodore roosevelts. she only had one animal who happened to be a rodent who came to eat all the food that all of the people came to -- when she had to receive as vice president and all of this -- and -- they were already talking about a new vice president

what about the what about the 3 million jobs that stimulus saved? willard's have glanced over those. here's the truth. romney has decided to abandon facts when talking about the stimulus and how it's helped the economy. and along the way he also conveniently forgot now much he used to love the stimulus. like when he was pushing his own stimulus plan in 2008. >> a plan i would like to see enacted within the next 30 days, provide stimulus to our economy as well as ignite long-term growth for the american economy. >> or when he slammed john mccain for not backing a stimulus in 2008. >> he said that he would reduce government spending. that is not stim u lative. both need to stimulate the economy, not slam on the brakes. >> how about this doozy from 2002 when romney bragged how much stimulus he could get from washington. >> i'm a big believer in getting money where the money is. and the money is in washington. i want it to go after every grant, every project, every department in washington to assure we are taking advantage of economic development opportunity. >>

auto industry back from the brink, stock market up 63%. how do you advice willard to run against that as the one with the better economic plans and policies. >> the key is not just to see the opposite. there is still a lot of anxiety among american voters and small business owners. they don't have a high degree of confidence. when things start picking up we get bad economic news. we can engage this debate, but romney needs to engage it and talk about what the opposite means. that will be talking about his view and version of the stimulus and why it did or didn't work, and defend will defend on that, and romney will have to say what he did instead of government creating jobs, programs he believes would create more private sector jobs that would be more permanent through tax cuts and whatever it might be. that would have to be clearly articulat articulated. if the economy is the issue, romney will have to make clear what that plan will be. >> let me ask you this, governor, richard gernell, a romney foreign policy advisor who is openly gay, stepped down saying his rol

. >> they're not the only ones blaming the president, the willard mitt romney acts as if the republicans had nothing to do at all with what happened to the economy. >> the lessons of the last four years teaches a great deal about the next four years. the president's plea that we simply ignore the last four years, is actually his latest effort to escape responsibility for the failures of the last four years. his early attempt, as you recall, was it try and blame other. his predecessor, congress, the 1%, oil companies. failures were not caused by others. they were caused by wrong choices. >> governor romney, congress is responsible. republicans have blocked the president's efforts. senate republicans filibustered the president's jobs bill. they blocked the 9/11 first responders bill. house republicans demanded budget cuts before agreeing to disaster relief. and house republicans pass willard mitt romney's favorite social program slasher. the ryan budget. which guts programs that help millions of americans while rewarding yet again the richest in the country. republicans have admitted they

not the willard, but the w hotel and that is because nobody foiled a complaint. >>> the colombian prostitute at the center of the is essex scandal calls the agents fools. she spoke for the first time on a colombian radio station saying they were drinking heavily when she met them in the bar. she was clear about the money before going back to the hotel. [ speaking spanish ] [ through translator ] >> you have to give me $800. that is the gift i want and he told me ah, okay, baby. let's go. let's go to the hole hotel. >> suarez said the agent fell a soy lope error error in the hotel room leaving the files in the open and claimed he refused to pay and kicked her out. she called police and sparking a public scandal. at least eight agents were fired or resigned. >>> following developing news from ellicott city. two women were shot at a church and one died of her injuries, the other is in critical condition and will perhaps survive, we hope. the reverend is on life-support so that her family may arrange for organ donation. john henrehan has more. >> reporter: congregants have been trickling in for

and lots of republicans oppose the legislation. including willard romney. e '90s we supported a similar bill but had flip-flopped on it by the time he ran for president, the last time. >> sponsor the employment nondiscrimination act. do you support it? >> at the state left, i think it makes sense at the state level. >> you said you sponsor it at the federal level. >> i would not support it at the federal level. >> he wants the federal government to ban gay marriage. did he think we wouldn't notice the hypocrisy? nice try, but we got you. so did the country that came in 17th place. let's raise the bar and elevate our academic standards. let's do what's best for our students-by investing in our teachers. let's solve this. ♪ power surge, let it blow your mind. [ male announcer ] for fruits, veggies and natural green tea energy... new v8 v-fusion plus energy. could've had a v8. and then treats day after day... who gets heartburn new v8 v-fusion plus energy. well, shoot, that's like checking on your burgers after they're burnt! [ male announcer ] treat your frequ

willard mitt romney likes big business. after all, he thinks corporations are people. and there making it very clear they like willard back. romney's top six donor groups are people and political action committees affiliated with big banks. of course president obama is getting money from wall street too, but willard really got their guy. in fact, the securities and investment industry gave $20 million to the proromney super pac. that's 100 times more than they have given to the super pacs supporting president obama. what's so appealing? well, he wasn't worried when jpmorgan lost $2 billion on trades. >> that's the way america works. some people experience a loss in this case because of a bad decision. the $2 million they lost, someone else gained. >> yeah, $2 billion. who would notice that. and it's not a reason to strengthen regulations over wall street, right? >> if i'm president, we'll reign back the regulations and say no to the regulations of the obama years. >> we have to repeal dodd frank. >> willard wants to repeal dodd frank financial reform. romney has remained mostl

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and there's one ledgend that it comes from the lobbies of the willard hotel. it exists far further back in american history than that. it's a term that's used in england before it's used here. but you find it as early as the 1820s. and it's -- i mean, lobbying is as old as the government, from the minute the government opened, there were individuals pressing for claims, asking for compensation, looking for pensions for the revolutionary war service. it's protected by the first amendment. and that's something that a lot of people don't understand. so in the 1870s, when reporters are calling for the abolition of the lobby, hello, you know, you just can't do that. and to lobby for the abolition of the lobby is an interesting exercise that was pointed out by many advocates for lobbying. and sam was one of them. he gave an impassioned testimony before the house ways and means committee on the importance of the lobby. and its regard in london, that there were lobby agents that had a certain time and a place to lobby before members of parliament. so it's very old. >>

the regular life. phillips'. >>> willard mitt romney can't help himself saying something that isn't true, and for some reason the media is not calling him on it. take a look at his latest attack on barack obama. >> he is attacking capitalism in part i think because he doesn't

the response from willard spoke volumes. listen. >> we have a president right now that is operating outside the structure of our constitution. i want to know -- yeah, i do agree he should be tried for treason, but i want to know what you are going to be able to do to help restore balance between the three branches of government and what you are going to be able to do to restore our constitution in this country. >> i'm sure you do, i believe that the constitution was not just brilliant but probably inspired. i would respect the different branches of government if i'm fortunate enough to become president, and -- [ applause ] >> try the president for treason. folks, this is stunning. governor romney wants to lead the party and yet he refuses to denounce this type of talk. only when pressed later on if he agreed with the questioner or not, did he say, quote, no, no, of course not. when asked why he didn't denounce her comments outright, this was all he could muster. >> governor romney, do you think president obama should be tried

the 150 passengers? well, it was actually captain willard piloting that plane. d, the avengers broke all kinds of box office records, grossing a whopping $200 million in the opening weekend and, get this, willard directed it. yep, he gets that credit. and remember that big stink about al gore and the internet? he can't take credit anymore. twitter, google, funny videos for kit ken, all of that stuff that makes it harder to concentrate at work is all because of willard

the super pac supporting newt gingrich. democrats and republicans found something they can agree on. no one thinks willard is a great job's creator, not even his friends in the gop. >> we need to have more venture capitalism and less vulture capitalism. the idea that you come in and destroy lives and come in for a quick profit. >> this company, bain capital, i'm sure he would worry he would run out of pink slips. >> they luted the company, and they left workers bankrupt and went off with millions, that's not traditional capitalism. >> even willard can't remember how many jobs he supposedly created. he started off saying he created 100,000, but when the facts didn't back it up, he changed it to tens of thousands, and down to thousands. >> if you take -- we started a number of businesses, invested in many others, and overall created tens of thousands of jobs. >> later i help start companies and they began with an idea, and somehow they made it through the difficult times and were able to create a good return and thousands of jobs. >> willard, i know it gets confusing, i'll lay the facts out for you. 22% of

you don't remember what happened the last time we tried it his way. >> cynthia, is part of the motive of willard romney and his campaign to make this about the president being anti-capitalist because he can't run an advocate what he is doing without reminding people about the bush tax cuts and what happened under bush? so he has to try to put this in another narrative as i said today? >> i haven't heard a thing from governor romney that suggest he has a plan that is any different from what george bush did for eight years. he said he will not raise taxes and he will increase military spending significantly. that's the same economics that got us into an incredible deficit hole. in fact, it just makes we crazy that conservatives blame president obama for the whopping deficit. it started under george w. bush with the very same policies. you remember in the clinton years, the end of the clinton years, the budget was balanced, we were building surpluses, george bush came in and instituted tax cuts and kept spending money. that's what helped get us in the hole we're in now, and mitt romney has not said

i'm not the only one who is amazed by willard, joe cline who covered many elections says "romney has a near perfect record of cowardice and lies. it shows enormous disrespect for the intelligence of the public. joining me now is a political analyst, and the author of revival, a struggle for survival in the obama white house, and also joining me is bob franken, thank you for joining us tonight. richard, do you see a pattern in how romney responds to events this week? >> well, it's been a terrible week for him. there is a pattern right now in his nonapologies. the whole construction, if anyone was offended then i'm sorry. it's not facing up to what should be a relatively easy story for him to dispatch. if he had a convincing life story to recount, he could butt that 17 or 18-year-old period into context. he can say he found purpose and got serious with his life. but it is troubling. it wasn't just the kid he pinned down, what about the blind teacher that he walked into a closed door. abuse of someone who is visually impaired is not a prank as he tried to describe it in these nonapologie

but joe biden is back on the road smacking down the claim that willard should get credit for saving the auto industry. >> he said "i'll take a lot of credit for the fact that the industry has come back." whoa. and by the way, i'll take a lot of credit for a man having landed on the moon. ♪ [ kristal ] we're just taking a sample of all our different items in our festival of shrimp. the crab-stuffed shrimp are awesome! tequila lime tacos. [ man ] delicious! [ male announcer ] it's festival of shrimp! for $12.99 try any two shrimp creations like new barbeque glazed shrimp. offer ends soon. we're servers at red lobster. and we sea food differently. [ male announcer ] introducing new dentyne split to fit pack. it splits in to two smaller, sleeker packs that fit almost anywhere so you can take them everywhere. dentyne split to fit. practice safe breath. >>> a sitting member of congress is now saying he misspoke after being caught on tape saying president obama is just not an american. i don't believe him. and i'm not misspeaking. that's next. and i thought "i can't do this, it's just too hard

apparently romney didn't hear the president praising willard's own chosen field of private equity. >> there's an important role in the free market. their main goal is to create wealth for them and their investors. that's part of the american way, that's fine. >> apparently willard doesn't realize that under the president, the private sector has added jobs for 26 straight months. a memo to romney, his fellow 1%ers are doing pretty well themselves. a new report shows that ceo pay is up 6% this year. the second straight year of increases. joining me now ed rendell, now an nbc news political analyst. and jared bernstein, a former chief economist for joe biden. thanks both of you for joining me tonight. >> governor rendell, the president is on fire here, really going on the attack. what do you make of this strategy? >> i think what the president is trying to do and the campaign is define governor romney for the american people before the campaign gets into full swing and he is choosing a great weakness. he cares more about people of wealth than ordinary working americans. that quote that c

and by the time he left 8 .2 million more people were living in poverty. those years are willard'srint for the future. romney surrounded himself with the best and the brightest from the bush administration. glenn hubbard designed the tax cuts and is now part of his tame. greg mancue was a key bush economist. now he is advising willard. these are the guys that helped romney create a plan that extends tax cuts for the rich, and gives them an extra tax cut on top of that. president obama says this is not the way forward. >> this time their agenda is on steroids, but it's not new. they want bigger tax cuts for the wealthiest americans, more cuts in education and technology. but last not new, that was tried, remember? the last guy did all this. >> folks, there may be one thing we learned at the white house today, w. stands for willard. i have a former communications director for the democratic national committee with me, and wes moore best selling author of "the other wes moore" and a u.s. arm veteran. karen, let me start with you, does romney want to take us back to the bad days of the

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it's not about the millions of dollars that willard made, it's about the human catastrophe bain capitalaked on thousands of americans. how bain capital became synonymous with killing jobs and ending lives. it's a story that has to be told. joining me now is john weissman, he saw firsthand the devastation that bain capital caused in kansas city. he worked for armco steel which bain purchased in 1993. they changed the name to gs technologies. in 2001 when john was working as the representative for the united steel workers union, they were forced to file for bankruptcy protection. they shut their doors and fired 750 workers in the process, but bain walked away with a cool $12 million profit and left the government holding the bag to pay the pension plans of $44 million. thank you for being here. >> nose in your opinions are stunning, but they don't tell the story of the human cost of what happened at gst, what happened to the people working there? >> there were 750 people who immediately had their lives turned upside down. and their entire families along with them. and the entire community

with reports of online harassment sky rocketing around the world, nancy willard says this very publiciation is devastating. >> one of the big features of the internet is it kind of distances us from the being able to see the impact of our actions. >> the controversial movie bully shows these fights happen a lot at school. >> the law is really very clear that schools can intervene if students are attacking other students. >> were you afraid to go back to school, like you might get beat up again? >> reporter: yes. >> you felt endangered there. >> yes. >> reporter: that's hard as a mother. what do do you? >> i want everybody to be aware. if you post something on the internet, would you want yourself in the video? would you want your name in the comment? if not, don't post it. >> reporter: denise koch, eyewitness news. >> the maryland department of education says schools can demand they remove postings. >>> next up this morning, right here on wjz -- >> good morning, everyone. terrified tourists on st. patrick's day. i'm monique griego, new police reporting from that night. at bank of amer

the show. it's serious and it's hilarious. >> thank you. >> willard mitt romney that's his real name willard. he past he is governor which he is running away from everything he did as governor. he does not want to talk about it. he refuses to answer questions. yet when he is on tv on the radio, comes on stage, they introduce him as the governor romney. >> right. and you know why? because he is running on job creation, there is no way to spin that you were 47th out of 50 states in job creation when you were governor and the other three states were hit by a hurricane. there is no way to spin that. >> there is a gentlemen on another station that we watch, his name is al sharpton, and he calls him willard. he refuses to call him the governor. it irks us that there is such a conflict between what he says and the reality. >> all right. you don't need to watch anybody but me. >> blue berry pie! >> yes. we have pie here too. [ whacky comedy music ] >> let's dive into the right-wing world. >> i made two strawberry pies from those strawberries we got. >> how did that work out for you? >> awesome. >> all

wooppac. >> that was a lot of fun but seriously can you tell a lot about a man from the way he treats his pet. and willarde sheamus rides in the future. thanks for watching, i'm al sharpton. a special live edition of "hardball" starts right now. >>> obama at the front wp let's play "hardball."

yes, the campaign released the document to the public last night. willard mitt romney born march 17, 1947. we can confirm he is a pisces known for their sensitive nature. the campaign says it released the birth certificate in response to a request by reuters. it had nothing whatsoever to do with the host of romney's fundraiser, the ignoramu xiu, donald trump, taking more calls than an over worked phone sex operator. >> there are many people that don't agree with that birth certificate and don't think it is authentic, wolf. >> i don't know when you say many people who don't agree. >> many people. >> like who? give me a name of somebody. >> there are some people. >> a position of authority in hawaii. give me a name. >> there are many people. i don't give names. there is a lot of questions as to the authenticity of the birth certificate. you can believe it or you don't have to believe it. certainly there are many, many questions. i actually think it is a great issue for mitt romney. >> while romney's campaign has said he does not agree with trump, that it is a

with reports of online harassment skyrocketing around the world, nancy willard, a national expert on ullying, says this very public humiliation is devastating. >> one of the big features of the internet is it kind of distances us from being able to see the impact of our actions. >> reporter: the controversial movie "bully," shows these fights happen a lot at school. >> the law is really very clear. that schools can intervene if students are attacking other students. >> were you afraid to go back to school? like that you might get beat up again? >> yes. >> so you felt in danger there? >> uh-huh. >> that's very hard as a mother. what do you do? >> i want everybody to be aware. if you want to post something on the internet. would you want yourself in that video? would you want your name in that comment? and if you don't, then don't post it. >> reporter: now, maryland's department of education says schools can demand that students remove postings if they interfere with a student's education or their physical or psychological well being. >>> time now for a quick look at some of the stories

the prudential rules right. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. willard. our financial witness, mr. douglas eliot. fellow of the brookings institute is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you for the opportunity to testify before you again today. these are institutions most capable of triggering financial crises and merit closer regulation than most other firms and should be held to a higher standard of financial conservatism. the need for closer regulation is not erased by the steps taken to reduce the potential for government bailouts. a serious financial crisis would still lead to a cub strax of credit, sending the economy into a deep recession. as you know, the recent recession cost taxpayers far more than did the bailouts. let me emphasize a few points made in my wherein testimony and in a paper we wrote last year. first, no part of the financial industry should receive an automatic discollusion. there's too much danger of regulatory arbitrage if we go by legal category. second, there are no absolutes in determining systemic importance. there are multiple ways of measuring it will level of s