tommy christopher, good to see you.ope you tweeted out to your followers you were going to be on the "full court press." >> i did. >> bill: very good. let's talk a little bit about the briefing yesterday. it was interesting that the number one topic seemed to be harry reid, right? and the attempt to tie harry reid -- you've written about this to tie harry reid to the white house. what the romney campaign wants to prove is harry reid is being driven by the white house to make the comments that mitt romney may not have paid any taxes for ten years. >> yeah, you know, this is frustrating. when you know, six people asked the same question. you know you know the first time it is asked it will never get an answer. it is weird that the process -- trying to extract like a molar the enunciation from the white house. and i think the white house is playing its mark. they're not hugging reid but they're not denouncing what he said. they're keeping the issue focused on romney. >> bill: they weren't going to condemn harry. the questi

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