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like most republicans willard mitt romney is okay to bash freddie mac and fannie mae. e and slammed the company's behavior. >> the failures of fannie mae, freddie mac and barney frank and chris dodd are so prevalent we need to see how we're going to support a growing housing industry. >> apparently what he thinks is a failure for america is great for his own personal bank account. the "boston globe" reports romney has up to $500,000 in mutual funds that invest in fannie and freddie. last year alone romney made up to $50,000 in interest from that investment and romney seems to be fully aware of this investment. the "globe" says, quote, unlike most of romney's financial holdings which are held in a blind trust this, particular investment was among those he would have been knowing -- known to him. did romney think we wouldn't notice that he'll publicly attack agency but privately profit from them? nice try, willard, but we got you. [ venus ] what are they doing to stufy? they're making him triple double. why? this! new triple double oreo. ♪ yo stufy, come here! [ shoes squ

willard romney tweeted that the president's plan came 960 days too late and bragged about the 25,000-plus downloads of my job plan. americans are looking for a leader with real-world experience in the real economy. the president's speech was focus grouped in richmond, virginia, last night by hillary clinton's 2008 pollster jeff garren who's working for usa. many respondents came into the room feeling discouraged, dispirited, and disappointed, but in last night's speech, they saw the barack obama they hoped they were electing in 2008. their simple message to obama is keep it up. they saw the speech as a beginning, and they want the president to continue pressing the case for the agenda he laid out before congress. joining me now are howard fineman, "the huffington post" editorial director and msnbc analyst and chris hayes, editor in large of "the nation." chris' new show launches next weekend, next saturday morning. thank you both for joining me tonight. howard, in the excerpt of the president speaking today, the line that got applause was, "i'm an eternal optimist, i'm an optimistic p

willard romney tweeted that the president's plan came 960 days too late and bragged about the 25,000-plus downloads of my job plan. americans are looking for a leader with real-world experience in the real economy. the president's speech was focus grouped in richmond, virginia, last night by hillary clinton's 2008 pollster jeff garren who's working for usa. many respondents came into the room feeling discouraged, dispirited, and disappointed, but in last night's speech, they saw the barack obama they hoped they were electing in 2008. their simple message to obama is keep it up. they saw the speech as a beginning, and they want the president to continue pressing the case for the agenda he laid out before congress. joining me now are howard fineman, "the huffington post" editorial director and msnbc analyst and chris hayes, editor in large of "the nation." chris' new show launches next weekend, next saturday morning. thank you both for joining me tonight. howard, in the excerpt of the president speaking today, the line that got applause was, "i'm an eternal optimist, i'm an optimistic p

. >>> and willard m. romney a promise in his jobs speech to file five bills on his first day in office, to actually make them law on his first day in office. a complete impossibility. robert reich joins me with everything romney got wrong. that's next. >>> still to come in this hour, we have led the world in aid to those desperately in need, and now the republicans in the house want to make sure that we don't lead that way any longer. they don't want the usa to be number one in that category. that's in the rewrite. >>> and mitt romney wants you to buy into the lie that all it takes to fix everything that's wrong with america's economy is a lower corporate tax rate. that's next. [ male announcer ] for sore muscles use new bengay cold therapy. it's pro-cool technology releases armies of snowmen masseuse, who cuddle up with your soreness and give out polar bear hugs. technology. [ male announcer ] new bengay cold therapy. the same technology used by physical therapists. go to bengay.com for a 5-dollar coupon. it's

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we can raise taxes -- of course they are. >>> willard mitt romney is pretending he has an incredible plan to create jobs, the same way this multimillionaire pretended to know what it's like to be unemployed. >> well, maybe i should also tell my story, i'm also unemployed. >> joining mess is malika from "the washington post," and syndicated columnist bob franken. are you surprised his job plan is aimed at corporate interests? >> well, unfortunately most of the corporations thinks days are laid laid off people except for a few at the top whose idea of a job plan is to hire a few people to build an extension to their mansions and maybe work for minimum wage, and that's only because they can't get rid of the minimum wage. the simple fact is quorpgss in today's society are really just financial instruments, the play things for the wealthy to get wealthier. >> when we look at former governor romney's record, look at the state of massachusetts and we look at where they are, 47 out of 50 in job growth. he has these plans for job creation, it seems like if he had them, they would have worked

>>> also, tim pawlenty becomes the new top mitten for willard mitt romney. and john mccain gets it wrong, really wrong, on america's exit strategy for iraq. welcome to "politics nation" i am al sharpton. tonight's lead, what a difference a weekend makes. remember last week? it seems that just maybe we had a chance to get something done on jobs. speaker boehner was talking golf with vice president biden, and not once but twice boehner and congressman kantor said the president's jobs bill, quote, merits consideration, unquote. but that was then. this is now. today the president sent his jobs bill to congress, and called for more of the goodwill between the parties. >> this is a bill that will put people back to work all across the country. this is a bill that will help our economy in a moment of national crisis. this is a bill that is based on ideas from both democrats and republicans. as this is it is bill that congress needs to pass. no games, no politics, no delays. i'm sending this bill to congress today, and they ought to pass it immediately. >> shortly a

this goes to willard mitt romney, because once again, last night he was forced by the other candidates to edit his history on romney-care. >> your economic adviser talked about romney-care and how that was an absolute bust and it was exactly what obama-care was all about. as a matter of fact between books, your hard-copy book, you said it was exactly what the american people needed. in your paper back, you took that line out. >> it's clear that romney appeared stronger than the other candidates last night, but won't this history of flip flopping hurt him in the end? mark? >> well, actually i think the one thing that's been remarkable is he hasn't taken more water over his health care plan. he's done a pretty good job of blowing through it, and as he did last night, so -- and the one thing i've been impressed by, by the way, is the extent to which he's gone to some of these tea party forums, and he hasn't kissed the ring. he hasn't turned himself into a pretzel, and has been more of the romney i think he is, the jobs creator, the governor, and he's not making the same mistakes as last t

then you have my friend willard, mitt romney. he's an everyday man, one of us, just a regular guy. and michele bachmann. how do you handicap your opposition. if you're getting your fighter ready to go into the ring against these people, what do you tell them? >> well, i mean, obviously what they have decided to do is cater to that tea party republican faction, and what's -- what is clear after several debates is when it comes to economics, all of them are basically saying the same thing, which is let's go back and do the same thing that we did in the last ten years, let's give tax cuts to the people at the very top, tax loopholes for big corporations, let's roll back the last time mitt romney rolled back the rules on wall street. let's unleash wall street, which of course is where he made all of his fortune. that is their prescription. we've seen this movie before, reverend. we know how it ends. it's not good for america, it's not good for the middle class. it's not good for people who are aspiring to become middle class. so there was this -- you remember the whole to-do about when

willard m. romney released a statement calling this further proof that president obama has failed.s language got a bit stronger during a speech to the republican national hispanic assembly this morning in tampa. >> i don't know if you saw the news this morning. there were no new jobs created in the last month, no new jobs. we stand near a threshold of profound economic misery as a nation. four more years of the same extremely misguided policies could be disastrous. career politicians got us into this mess, and career politicians won't get us out. >> the fast-fading michele bachmann tweeted "americans don't need speeches, they need jobs." which doesn't exactly sound like the kind of tweet that's going to reverse her slip in the polls. talking to reporters this morning from the bottom of the polls, former utah governor jon huntsman tried to use colorful language to energize his colorless campaign. >> our nation's economy is sucking wind big time. we need a plan, a bold proposal. the president has had two and a half years to get something out there, he hasn't. in two and a half months

but the white house has a problem when it comes to willard m. romney.ney edges out president obama in this economic poll by four points, 46% to 42%. and with "time" magazine reporting today that the white house is eyeing a campaign like reagan's in 1984 or fdr's in 1936, republican world is already working on its rebuttal. weekly standard founder bill crystal blogged today in reaction to the time magazine reporting, when barack obama took over, unemployment stood at 7.8%. it's now 9.1%, and gdp growth under obama has so far been running at about 1% a year. the bottom line, obama's economic record is unlikely to look anything like that of roosevelt's or reagan's. but if the analogy provided a lift for the obama team, that's great. they undoubtedly needed a little cheering up. the rest of us can look forward to being cheered up in november 2012 by the change in the oval office we've been waiting for. >>> joining me now is chris hayes, msnbc political analyst and editor at large for "the nation." his new weekend show premieres here on msnbc later this fall

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rick perry is in washington this morning where he'll raise money at the willard hotel. mitt romney held multi. fund-raisers in new york. no press, no pictures. he hid from the cameras so people didn't see him with donald trump. then there's the guy who repeatedly has said he's not running for president whose packed fund-raising schedule is raising some eyebrows. he holds the last of three fund-raisers in missouri today, then he'll fly to california for a keynote address at the reagan presidential library. he's calling that speech "real american exceptionalism." his aides say we'll use president reagan's transformative leadership to talk about how the u.s. role in the world is defined by who we are at home. then wednesday, chrissie gets an assist raising money from newly named hewlett-packard ceo and former republican candidate for governor meg whitman. thursday, off to louisiana and a campaign rally with governor bobby jindal. he's up for re-election this year. christie continues to say a 2012 run is not in his heart. this is what he said thursday. >> i appreciate all the wonderful