how big law at them to sleep so but because the light makes them sit at an hourly minimum 1 thomas mitt romney them into one room to sleep >> maummar confident that we will be pretty safe. >> as of this morning the fire was only 10 percent contained. >> overcast skies and cooler temperatures throughout the bay area. a look at highs for today, they dropped as much as 24 degrees. it is going to be cool and cloudy through the evening. if you plan on being at the giants game tonight, first pitch is that 7:15 p.m.. it will continue to court as we have to the evening. as for the rest of the bay area we will continue to see a cooling trend for saturday. we will have sounded the we will see cooler temperatures. if you want warmer weather and more sunshine you have to head to fairfield, antioch or livermore. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. some of the cool down by monday and a slight warm up as we head towards the next weekend. >> remember what it was like to take -- to catch the ice cream truck down the street? her hough her behalf >> for those out of earshot as of the al airtran, had no

as you know, thomas, mitt romney also going after the veteran vote nothing it will make a big differencen the key battle ground states. he'll be here at the vfw tomorrow. he'll criticizes the president on his foreign policy and sequester cuts, cuts that will come to defense spending. certainly it's going to be a hard fought vote to get right through november. thomas. >> thanks to nbc's kristen welker traveling with the president in reno. thank you, again. back in new york joined in the studio by msnbc military analyst colonel jack jacobs. good to have you here. when we hear what the president is proposing today, this overhaul to help veterans with civilian life. employment data suggesting some room for improvement with disproportionately high rates of joblessness among vets. will the new initiatives help with veteran voerts, though? as kristen pointed out the big difference when they came out in '08 for john mccain. >> it will. the younger ones who have recently left and having a hard time finding work and the ones about to leave, i think it's going to show a great deal of success betwee

thomas. this increasingly negative tone of this campaign. mitt romneyor an apology from the obama campaign saying that his attacks have been unfair, that they have mischaracterized romney's record at bain capital. the obama campaign showing no signs of backing down. according to cantor media group, both campaigns, the overwhelming majority of the ads that have come out of both campaigns have been negative. president obama was asked about that. here is what he had to say. take a listen. >> we've done a whole slew of positive ads that talked exactly about how we need to change our education system, how we need to change our tax code, how we need to rebuild america, how we need to promote american energy, so those just don't get attention in the news. >> and, thomas, at the end of the week president obama heads to the other big battleground state of florida. so we'll be tracking all of that for you. thomas. >> kristin welker stay with us. i'll bring in our political power panel. we have perry bacon, msnbc contributor and political editor. ted strickland an

i'm thomas roberts. is mitt romneyt odds on messaging after the supreme court's health care rule something after days of hearing gop leaders stress that the mandate is a tax and the authority of the congress. here was romney's senior adviser the infamous etcha sketch guy an hour ago with a different take. >> the governor go does not believe the mandate is a tax, that's what you are saying? >> the governor believes what we put in place in massachusetts was a penalty. he disagrees with the court's ruling that the mandate was a tax, but again -- >> he agrees with the president? he agrees with the president that it is not and he believes that you shouldn't call the tax penalty a tax, but call it a penalty or a fee or a fine? >> that's correct. >> i want to bring in the power panel. we have the political editor for thegrio.com and republican strategist allison stuart. >> big news for this morning. a mixed message after most everybody on the sunday talkers was saying this was a tax coming from the right. they reneged that th

the expectations of what mitt romney will deliver today to those vets. >> hey, there, thomas. od day to you. i think what mitt romney is going to deliver is what president obama tried to deliver yesterday, is that these veterans, americans have wanted to take care of these veterans. now, mitt romney is off after this speech today, he's off to london for the olympics. he's then going to go to poland and then also another trip in israel, in the middle east. so he is going to try to impress upon these folks that he wants them to know that the president has failed them, the veterans. he's failed the veterans and he wants to be able to replace what the president has not done for them when he takes office in january. so mitt romney is going to come here today, address these inadvertence. we saw some of these folks last night. they are worried about their benefits. they're worried about defense cuts and cuts to their benefits. so we'll have to see what mitt romney has to say about all of that. of course, the president has been talking about small businesses. mitt romney is trying to e

and more intense conversations with great minds and it's a whistle blower's thomas drake kirk wiebe and right about now mitt romney is probably rethinking his decision to travel to london this week what can we learn about the republican presidential candidate based on his gaffe laden trip abroad oscar tonight's big picture rumble and later more americans die from televisions falling on their heads think of it voter fraud than those very few cases of voter fraud guess who seems to always be behind the tell you in tonight's g.o.p. take. but i had conversations with great minds i'm joined by n.s.a. whistleblowers thomas drake and kirk we both men were involved in exposing the n.s.a.'s massive arguably illegal domestic spying program known as the trailblazer project initiated in two thousand spite not leaking any classified information and exhaustedly going through all the protocols required for members of the intelligence community to blow the whistle on wrongdoing both men face serious retributions for going public with what they knew about the n.s.a. surveillance program in two thousand and seven after a reporter f

thomas roberts. topping the agenda, release the returns. pressure on mitt romney all

thomas roberts. topping the agenda, release the returns. pressure on mitt romney all directions, even romney's side of the table. >> i'm a big believer, no matter what office you are running for, you should be as transparent as you can be with your tax returns and other aspects of your life so that people have the an appropriate ability to judge your back ground. >> romney is still taking a pounding. groups like moveon.org is asking what romney is hiding. >> what doesn't he want us to know? the felony he may have committed about his role at bain. we understand, mitt, sometimes the truth is tricky. tricky, mitt. he's not a crook, right? >> and the democratic national committee using romney's words to hit the message home. >> governor, will you release your tax records? >> if that is the tradition, i'm not opposed to doing that. most likely, i'll get asked to do that in the april time period. i'll keep that open. >> let's say good morning to the political power panel. joy reed, david goodfren and alice stort. it is great to have you here. alice, i want to start with

i'm thomas robs topping the agenda today nearly 100 days until the election but no gold for mitt romneyo smooth over what could be called an olympic fail during his visit to london. romney went out of his way to praise thrown while meeting with some of britain's biggest leaders yesterday after telling brian williams the day before he was disconcerted over some of the security problems leading up to the games. as you know the british don't mince words and today's headlines let romney have it from the guardian, mitt romney's olympic blunder stuns number ten and hands gift to obama. from the mail online, mitt romney's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day in london. and the sun, mitt the twit. prime minister david cameron and london mayor boris johnson didn't let romney's comments slide either. >> we are holding an olympic games in one of the busiest most active bustling cities anywhere in the world and of course it's easier if you hold the olympic games in the middle of nowhere. >> i hear there's a guy called mitt romney who wants to know whether we're ready. he wants to know whether

i'm thomas robs topping the agenda today nearly 100 days until the election but no gold for mitt romneyo smooth over what could be called an olympic fail during his visit to london. romney went out of his way to praise thrown while meeting with some of britain's biggest leaders yesterday after telling brian williams the day before he was disconcerted over some of the security problems leading up to the games. as you know the british don't mince words and today's headlines let romney have

mitt romney's sworn statements. therefore, all the right questions are being asked about what his role was as president and ceo of that company in that period. i have to say, thomas, when you look at that record, when you consider that mitt romney is holding this up as his chief qualification to be president, i mean this is somebody who claims that somehow he's gone back in time and retro actively retired from the company, dent have control over a company he was the president of. he has yet to disclose the taxes. this sounds like the dossier of somebody running to -- or is going to be the next bondsman in the next james bond film. so stephanie is asking all the right questions. our campaign is asking the right questions. increasingly the american public really wants to know what mitt romney is hiding. >> meanwhile, mitt romney is trying to change the campaign conversation, the campaign, the romney campaign that is out with this new strategy of accusing the president though of crony capitalism, the rnc reinforcing it with this new web ad. take a look. >> meet steve wesltly. he raise $500,000 for the obama campaign. they received $500 million taxpayer dollars. obam

thomas. both president obama and presidential candidate mitt romney are putting politics on the back burner today to address the tragic events that have unfolded in aurora, colorado. both campaigns, in fact, have pulled their tv ads from colorado, certainly a moment of national mourning. president obama addressed what happened here in ft. myers, florida. this was supposed to be a campaign event, thomas, as you mentioned. instead, it turned into the president speaking for just about ten minutes, extending his condolences, the condolences of the entire nation, to those who are suffering right now in aurora, colorado. here's a little bit more of what the president had to say. take a listen. >> i was looking forward to having a fun conversation with you about some really important matters that we face as a country, and the differences between myself and my opponent in this election, but this morning, we woke up to news of a tragedy that reminds us of all the ways that we are united as one american family. >> now, president obama canceling the rest of his campaign events today again so that he can hea

there is still a lot of pity for billionaires, particularly for mitt romney. thomast all of our regular term. cyprian has the day off. monte is here as our videographer. we are well served in the video department as well. and thomas, i don't know whether you saw that. do you prefer tom or thomas? >> it doesn't matter. you can call me mad dog. >> that's cool. >> okay. mad dog. >> my debate nickname. we had debate names. >> mad dog frank on the radio. good morning everybody. >> did george bush give you that name? so i don't know if you caught up yesterday with the news that the uniforms for team u.s.a. at the summer olympics have been designed by ralph lauren but made in china which is just disgusting? >> doesn't surprise me somehow. >> the u.s. olympic schmidt got lauren to design the uniforms and he gets money from selling uniforms, about a thousand bucks each. and then they put them up, you know, they can buy uniforms that you can walk around pretending you are a member of the olympics as well. he has his clothes made in china. >> unbelievable. if they had, he would

answers to a story that has left a community perplexed sean thomas or to some other main news in brief for you now a senior adviser to mitt romney says the u.s. presidential candidate would support an israeli strike against iran to prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons statement was made a during a visit i visit by the white house hopeful to israel just after american president barack obama signed a new law to strengthen u.s. israeli military ties iran insists its nuclear program is entirely peaceful but is under increasing e.u. and u.s. pressure with fresh sanctions targeting its oil industry. spain has announced that it's repatriating all of its aid workers from refugee camps in western algeria but drought has acted in response to fears over security in the country recently a growing al qaeda presence in neighboring mali has brought instability to the region. for many and are heading to the polls to decide whether to send their president packing but i am also school is facing the impeachment referendum after being suspended by parliament for abuse of power has also become unpopular for opposing e.u. austerity measures w

i don't think mitt romney wants to remind people that is the policy he is promoting. >> ron, nice to see you. thanks for your time. >> thomasbe here. >>> straight ahead, if you loved your iced coffee on a hot summer day, you should drink it up. it is very good for you. it can help you prevent cancer. >>> plus, girl power. why women seem to be donating this year -- or dominating this year at the london olympics. what do you think about the team usa's chances this year? let's talk about the athletes. tweet me @thomasaroberts. ile a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. celebrex can be taken with or without food. and it's not a narcotic. you and your doctor should balance the benefits with the risks. all prescription n

. >>> president obama and republican mitt romney are both in san francisco tonight. abc7 news reporter thomas roman joins us from the inter continental hotel where the president is spending the night. thomas? >> we are on fourth and howard. howard street is actually closed between fourth and fifth because the president is staying at the inter continental hotel down the street. this closure has caused a big traffic jam. and while mitt romney has finished his fundraising in san francisco, president obama is just about to start. air force 1 arrived at san francisco international airport at 8:15, an hour behind schedule after the president's visit to colorado. president obama gave a short wave, but there was no fanfare. the only people here to greet him were the media since the public was not invited to his arrival. early monday morning president obama will be taking air force 1 to reno, nevada. there he will be attending the national convention of the veterans for foreign wars. later on monday the president will fly to the fox theater. the cheapest ticket is $100 if you can get one. and then ano

. >>> president obama and republican mitt romney are both in san francisco tonight. abc7 news ro thomas roman joins us from the inter continental hotel where the president is spending the night. thomas? >> we are on fourth and howard. howard street is actually closed between fourth and fifth because the president is staying at the inter continental hotel down the street. this closure has caused a big traffic jam. and while mitt romney has finished his fundraising in san francisco, president obama is just about to start. air force 1 arrived at san francisco international airport at 8:15, an hour behind schedule after the president's visit to colorado. president obama gave a short wave, but there was no fanfare. the only people here to greet him were the media since the public was not invited to his arrival. early monday morning president obama will be taking air force 1 to reno, nevada. there he will be attending the national convention of the veterans for foreign wars. later on monday the president will fly to the fox theater. the cheapest ticket is $100 if you can get one. and then ano

thomas roberts is here. >> good morning. the agenda next hour, mixed messaging monday. mitt romney agrees with president obama. the penalty to avoid having health care is not a tax. our director will join me. president obama's cash call, will big donors heed the pe's flee from air force one. it is not your typical hollywood divorce. more details about why katie holmes is breaking free and why she wants to keep their daughter suri away from tom cruise's religion. that next hour. afternoon's overhaul starts with more pain. more pills. triple checking hydraulics. the evening brings more pain. so, back to more pills. almost done, when... hang on. stan's doctor recommended aleve. it can keep pain away all day with fewer pills than tylenol. this is rudy. who switched to aleve. and two pills for a day free of pain. ♪ [ female announcer ] and try aleve for relief from tough headaches. on my feet and exactly where i needed more support. then, i got my number. my tired, achy feet affected my whole life. until i found my number. i tried the free dr. scholl's foot mapping center. in two minutes, i got my foot map and cust

thomas roberts. putting on the pressure. team obama ramps up demands for mitt romney to release more tax returns while doubling down on questionss reign and retirement from bain capital. president obama holding four campaign stops this texas today. they will crisscross the battleground of pennsylvania. a new obama campaign ad that poses the question what is romney hiding? >> tax havens, off shore accounts, carried interest. mitt romney used every trick in the book. romney admits that over the last two years he's paid less than 15% in taxes on $43 million in income. makes you wonder if some years he paid any taxes at all. >> obama campaign staffers doubling down on doubts about romney's business background to make sure the bain strain keeps weighing heavy on romney's shoulders. >> mitt romney made the central premise of his candidacy his tenure at bain. >> you can't sign your name on a federal government document saying you're the head of this company but then tell the american people you have nothing to do with it. both of those things can't be true. >> let's dive in now and talk more about this. joining me is executive directo

obama desperately tries to raise money stateside mitt romney is collecting big bucks from anonymous donors like banks involved in libel or in london but thomas a theory about who some of those anonymous donors might be take a look. we're just now finding out that at the end of last year anonymous donor gave karl rove's crossroads super pac a ten million dollars donation to run ads against president obama and thanks to the supreme court's citizens united decision the wild west nature of political spending now that that ten million dollars dollar will likely remain completely anonymous we probably won't know ever who it is ever during the two thousand and ten midterm elections there was another anonymous donor who also gave ten million dollars to rove so it might have been the same person for all we know one person dishing out twenty million bucks to karl rove to help elect mitt romney and other republicans. that donor could be a person like charles koch it could be a corporation like goldman sachs it could be a special interest group like multimillionaire lobbyist grover norquist norquist americans for tax reform we just don't know but i'm he

listening to mitt romney addressing the naacp trying to accomplish what many consider a mission impossible. making his case to african-american voters. a very good day. i'm richard lui in for thomas roberts. this is romney's biggest overture toward this traditionally democratic voter group. a group that president obama won by 95% four years ago. the presumptive gop nominee trying to chip away at that numb number this november. the target of his strategy, their hearts and their bank accounts. >> i believe that if you understood who i truly am in my heart, and if it were possible to fully communicate what i believe is in the real enduring best interest of american african-american families, you would vote for me for president. now i want you to know that if i did not believe that my policies and my leadership would help families of color and families of any color, more than the policies and leadership of president obama, i wouldn't be running for president. >> governor romney saying that just about 20 minutes ago. romney's economic appeal to the naacp comes at a time when unemployment among african-americans is higher than the national average. you see those numbers there. 14.4% to

thomas karl of noaa thank you for joining us. >> well, thank you, judy, appreciate it. >> ifill: still to come on the newshour: aids in black america; mitt romney and the tea party evangelicals; and wikipedia's founder, jimmy wales. but first, with the other news of the day, here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: eurozone finance ministers agreed today on the terms of a $123 billion bailout package to help spain's ailing banks. the debt-stricken country will receive its first payment of more than $36 billion by the end of this month. the e.u. also gave spain an extra year to cut its deficit. and speaking in brussels, the spanish finance minister welcomed the aid but acknowledged there's still much work to be done. >> ( translated ): during the next 18 months, we have to clean up the spanish financial system. that also relates to a macroeconomic aspect: the deleveraging of the spanish economy. that's the reduction of spanish debt and adjusting the prices of assets to reality of the market. we can do this thanks to the financial assistance. >> sreenivasan: the bailout boosted the spanish stock market. other european markets were cautiously opti

thomas, abc news, washington. >>> and it's a low-key week on the campaign trail. president obama and the first family are at camp david. it's mr. obama's 25th visit to the presidential retreat. mitt romneys spending some downtime at his lake house in new hampshire with all 30 members of the family. and that doesn't include the secret service detail keeping watch over the candidate. >> both those guys have deserved a little down time on the holiday. >> i think so. >> they know what's coming. >>> time, now, for weather across the country. another day of extreme heat from the plains to the mid-atlantic. also, some hail, gusty winds, also a chance of tornadoes, even, from the southeast up to d.c. and from michigan to the dakotas. thunderstorms from tennessee to indianapolis and the four corners of the southwest. >> the pacific northwest is the coolest spot on the map. only in the 60s. triple digits in phoenix. 80s in the northeast. mostly 90s for the rest of the country. >>> some surprising results released overnight about whether new safety measures in cars actually work. >>> then, an emergency landing halfway through a coast-to-coast flight. a 16-hour delay. >> unbelievable. >>> also this

thomas roberts. topping the agenda this morning, the bickering over bain as the president hits a critical battleground state. mitt romneymbers of his own party and mounts a defense against team obama's repeated attacks on his record at bain. >> they're dishonest, misdirected, and i think the american people recognize that kind of

thomas roberts. topping the agenda this morning, the bickering over bain as the president hits a critical battleground state. mitt romneymbers of his own party and mounts a defense against team obama's repeated attacks on his record at bain. >> they're dishonest, misdirected, and i think the american people recognize that kind of politics as something of the mast. it may work in chicago, but it's not going to work across america. >> both sides locked in a standoff over romney's reign at bain, and the president's refusal to apologize for his campaign's take no prisoners assault. >> as romney said, stop whining. i give him his own advice. >> i think when people accuse you of a crime, you have ever reason to go after them pretty hard. >> the president traveling to ohio today to talk the recovery of the american auto industry as the two campaigns mock each other with these dueling musical videos. take a listen. ♪ oh, beautiful, for spacious skies ♪ ♪ for amber waves of grain ♪ for -- i'm so in love with you ♪ >> nbc's kristin welker kicks off the hour at the white house. kristin, this is a lot more than a sing off between t

thomas took from the district. he is serving a three-year prison sentence for taking more than $350,000 from the district. he admitted using some of that money to buy the suv and the motorcycle. >>> mitt romney is taking some heat this morning from within his own party over president obama's health care reform law. republicans have called the penalty people must pay for not buying health insurance as a tax. however, romney has referred to that charge as a penalty when defending a similar health care reform law that he passed as governor of massachusetts. he vowed to appeal it if he wins in november. >>> virginia governor bob mcdonnell may have a tough choice accept a prominent leadership position within the republican party or serve as mitt romney's running mate. mcdonnell has been tapped to chair the platform committee for the republican national convention. in that role he helped craft a platform for the party's positions. mcdonnell is also considered to be one of romney's potential running matsz. if ticked as a ticket, he cannot serve as the platform's chairman. >>> it's been a long weekend for a lot of people and that could mean a mad rush to get out of town for the fourth of july holida

thomas roberts. >> i'm disgusted by the spiders, just the sight of them. >>> next hour, the bain blame game, sackizations flying between the campaigns over when mitt romneyin. is the war of words getting out of control? we're going to ask obama campaign press secretary. >>> and couldn't it be condi? new speculation over whether mitt romney will put condi on his ticket. >>> and disappointment that the red, white and blue olympic team's uniforms is not made in america. all that and a whole lot more, straight ahead on msnbc. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement available only with liberty mutual auto insurance, if your car's totaled, we give you the money for a car one model year newer. to learn more, visit us today. responsibility. what's your policy? gives you a 50% annual bonus. and who doesn't want 50% more cash? ugh, the baby. huh! and then the baby bear said, "i want 50% more cash in my bed!" phhht! 50% more cash is good ri... what's that. ♪ you can spell. [ male announcer ] the capital one cash rewards card. the card for people who want 50% more cash. what's in your wallet? ha ha. ♪

mitt romney is a happier guy. >> that's where all the big ideas come from. >> eliot: i picked it up one time. it's too fat. >> the tiny pages. >> eliot: thomasnk, author of "pity the billionaire," ironic, don't forget. thank you for your time. >> sure thing. >> eliot: banks are getting sicker the scandal of barclays bank and the rigging of interest rates coming up. >>we talk a lot about the influence of money in politics. it is the defining issue of this era. the candidate with the most money, does win. this is a national crisis. innovation matters now more than ever. >> eliot: our number of the day is good news for students but another example of congress waiting almost too long to doing is crucial. it's 3.4%. that is and will continue to be the interest rate on subsidizeed stafford loans. it was scheduled to double on sunday if congress did not extend the rate for another year. congress did literally on the last possible today that they could. they approved it in a 596-page bill that several lawmakers apparently had not read, and they argued about the legislation that passed two years ago and argued about contempt charge against attorney g

romney seems to have flipped on chief justice roberts. as president, mitt will nominate judges in the mold of chief justice roberts and justices scalia thomas and alito. seems roberts cast the deciding vote on the president's health plan and offered the opinion upholding it as a tax romney went back to his gymnastic performance. >> i certainly wouldn't nominate someone who i knew was going to come out with a decision i vehemently disagreed with. >> eliot: going one step further, i accused roberts of being political not legal in his decision. >> it gives the impression the decision was made not based upon constitutional foundation but instead, political consideration about the relationship between the branches of government. >> eliot: accusations from the white house and democrats not withstanding romney might have more to fear from the conservative media. the "wall street journal" editorial page was less than impressed with romney's attempt to clarify his position on the individual mandate. according to the journal and i quote "he offered no elaboration and so the campaign looks confused in addition to being politically dumb." romney also t

president thomas graham says the electric provider will have to fine cuts in other spending category -- find cuts in other spending categories but did not give specifics. >>> does mitt romney's experience make him qualified to handle the country's economic problems? a usa today gallup poll found 63% said romney's business background would help him make good decisions. it also showed romney has an edge in the public's perception of whether he can get things done. the poll also found people believe president obama understands americans' daily problems better and that he's honest, trustworthy and likeable. joining us now is fox 5 political analyst mark plotkin to talk about it all. people that have been watching our newscast from the top of the hour tonight they've seen the same negative ad the obama campaign is running again and again with mitt romney singing the pledge of allegiance in the background and over that are shots of, you know, him ex police reporting jobs to mexico. -- exporting jobs to mexico. it doesn't sound like that line of attack is working if you look at this poll. >> well, that's right. this is a national poll. in some of the swing states where the economy

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