meanwhile, jeremiah wright is now all over the news agenda again. and you can bet your life that they will be repeating now all over cable stations in america, they'll be playing his incendiary comments. >> chickens coming home to roost. >> all that stuff. so he's back in the forefront of people's minds in relation to the president. >> you might be right. my belief is that what this does is not help romney with the independents, that small group of people truly in the middle who can go either way. this looks cynical and wretched and unappealing. >> yes. however, it may help him with lots of other peoples and galvanizing people who have a race element to their thinking. >> if you're an african-american, 90% of whom voted for president obama in the last election, you're looking at the republicans thinking this they're trying to make this race issue part of the issue again. >> is there any part of wright that's relevant to this campaign? is it unsellable for a republican like mitt romney or his campaign to use anything that jeremiah wright stood for ag

meanwhile, jeremiah wright is now all over the news agenda again. and you can bet your life that they will be repeating now all over cable stations in america, they'll be playing his incendiary comments. >> chickens coming home to roost. >> all that stuff. so he's back in the forefront of people's minds in relation to the president. >> you might be right. my belief is that what this does is not help romney with the independents, that small group of people truly in the middle who can go either way. this looks cynical and wretched and unappealing. >> yes. however, it may help him with lots of other peoples and galvanizing people who have a race element to their thinking. >> if you're an african-american, 90% of whom voted for president obama in the last election, you're looking at the republicans thinking this they're trying to make this race issue part of the issue again. >> is there any part of wright that's relevant to this campa n campaign? is it unsellable for a republican like mitt romney or his campaign to use anything that jeremiah wright stoo

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he fenced off to the best of his ability, the jeremiah wright story. here is what we will discuss and here is what we will not discuss. in romney's own way, whether you buy it or don't, he was trying to fence off or redirect that which is discussable and that which is not, and the context of the story that covered up the best news of the day which is that he ran $40 million to run against obama. >> chuck, you study this all the time, we're only preseason, we're just getting started welcome but the preseason so far, the training program, we watched romney was very tough negative campaigning. basically a bombing of his opponents. he erased them as issues of his opponents, but he says don't talk about me or engage in character assassination. is that a way of saying any attack on my background or business career is character assassination, meanwhile i will release the super pacs. >> it was an interesting strong man. i would say the difference with reverend right and bain, which is obama repudiated the things things wright said. will he do that with bain? t

this week we're talking about jeremiah wright and they seem to bubble up and then they fade. but either -- neither campaign could ignore it because you don't know what is the tipping point. >> mitt romney was eager to denunsyate this effort an they wanted to send the message to all republican wealthy contributors that we want this message to be on the economy. now, at the same time, i mean, there are some people in the republican world who are fine with the fact that jeremiah wright storyline because it reminds people wait didn't we have some questions about the character of this president. gwen: any of those people who have been affected by it, haven't they voted for barack obama anyway? >> probably not. this has been nonstop. >> does that mean all the talk that we heard at the end of the primary campaign about how romney had been dragged to the right and damaged, was that a momentary phenomenon and we're in a neck and neck race? >> i think what we're into is this race has gone back to what it was all goings to be. mitt romney has a less favorable public image at this point,

his spiritual mentor for decades, jeremiah wright. i understand what alice is saying, but you wonder why would people think that bringing up something like this would be beneficial to anyone? >> i think honestly if mitt romney thought this was work, he would bring it up. in fact, in february, he was o sean hannity and mitt romney did bring up reverend wright. if it could work, he would do it. i want some politician to go on tv and say, we don't have a silver bullet answer. the reality is, at some point romney is going to come off the economy and go to social issues. that moves people. >> do we have the romney sound bite? let's roll it. >> i'm not sure which is worse, him listening to rev recommend wright or -- reverend wright or we must be less of a christian nation. >> he brought it up in february on sean hannity's show. i have no doubt that mitt romney will say anything to get elected. this guy is a special case. he would use this jeremiah wright if he thought it would work but he knows it can't. barack obama has a record now to run

his spiritual mentor for decades, jeremiah wright. i understand what alice is saying, but you wonder why would people think that bringing up something like this would be beneficial to anyone? >> i think honestly if mitt romney thought this was work, he would bring it up. in fact, in february, he was on sean hannity and mitt romney did bring up reverend wright. if it could work, he would do it. i want some politician to go on tv and say, we don't have a silver bullet answer. the reality is, at some point romney is going to come off the economy and go to social issues. that moves people. >> do we have the romney sound bite? let's roll it. >> i'm not sure which is worse, him listening to rev recommend wright or -- reverend wright or we must be less of a christian nation. >> he brought it up in february on sean hannity's show. i have no doubt that mitt romney will say anything to get elected. this guy is a special case. he would use this jeremiah wright if he thought it would work but he knows it can't. barack obama has a record now to ru

the plan would bring back jeremiah wright the reverend in a big way. the world is about to see jeremiah wright and understand his influence on barack obama. our plan is to do what john mccain would not let us do. the 54 proposal for a five minute video would portray wright's blackal and anticipated charges of race-baiting, suggested hiring an extremely literate conservative african-american as a spokesperson who can argue mr. obama misled the nation by presenting himself as a metrosexual black abe lincoln. give me a break. the proposal also suggested listing a group of black business leaders to endorse the effort. this morgan, mitt romney said he hadn't heard anything about it. once his campaign got their act together, he said this. >> as i read the article, i want to make it very clear i repudiate that effort. i think it's the wrong course for a pac or campaign. i hope our campaigns can respectively be about the future and issues and about a vision for america. i've been disappointed on the president's campaign to date, which is focused on character a

the plan would bring back jeremiah wright the reverend in a big way. the world is about to see jeremiah wright and understand his influence on barack obama. our plan is to do what john mccain would not let us do. the 54 proposal for a five minute video would portray wright's black liberation theology, proposal and anticipated charges of race-baiting, suggested hiring conservative african-american as a spokesperson who can argue mr. obama misled the nation by presenting himself as a metrosexual black abe lincoln. give me a break. the proposal also suggested listing a group of black business leaders to endorse the effort. this morgan, mitt romney said he hadn't heard anything about it. once his campaign got their act together, he said this. >> as i read the article, i want to make it very clear i repudiate that effort. i think it's the wrong course for a pac or campaign. i hope our campaigns can respectively be about the future and issues and about a vision for america. i've been disappointed on the president's campaign to date, which is focused on chara

this lefty crazied guy that will leap out because of jeremiah wright? >> four years in office is what i call vetting. i think that's a full vetting. you have the job, you have done it for four years, and so people can decide. they like what he has done or they don't. they like what he might do or not. >> let's do a psycho analysis of shawn hannity. is this showmanship? or does he really believe there is another person under this guy. we have a big cool. all of that is a crazed revolutionary? >> you saw newt gingrich in the campaign talk about sal linski that he is waiting to be a socialist dictator when he's elected. sean is saying this on fox news, that there wasn't a vetting of barack obama on jeremiah wright? they went 24/7 wall to wall about it. >> he is like a black revolutionary with the automatic weapon, the sun glasses. is that the image? not a guy that likes to play golf. >> yeah, he is trying to learn -- he won't tell us his score. >> this is an image that sarah palin is saying he is paddling with terrorists, it goes back to a notion that he's

the plan would bring back jeremiah wright the reverend in a big way. the world is about to see jeremiah wright and understand his influence on barack obama. our plan is to do what john mccain would not let us do. the 54 page proposal before a five minute video would portray wright's black liberation theology, proposal and anticipated charges of race-baiting, suggested hiring an extremely literate conservative african-american as a spokesperson who can argue mr. obama misled the nation by presenting himself as a metrosexual black abe lincoln. give me a break. the proposal also suggested listing a group of black business leaders to endorse the effort. this morning, mitt romney said he hadn't heard anything about it. once his campaign got their act together, he said this. >> as i read the article, i want to make it very clear i repudiate that effort. i think it's the wrong course for a pac or campaign. i hope our campaigns can respectively be about the future and issues and about a vision for america. i've been disappointed on the president's campaign to

if we are going to talk about jeremiah wright then we have to talk about the presidents of the latter-day saints. he has answered the question about his church not allowing black people into heaven until 1978. >> well, there with no black people that were qualified before 1978 as you know. >> they believe that was there were white people here before jesus ascended into heaven. >> yeah. >> but there are scores of other questions that he should have to answer if we're going to be talking about candidate's faith. >> you know what else is rude to mention, that george bush's grandfather was a nazi. [ alarm sounding. ] >> i meant george bush's grandfather was a nazi sympathizer! >> jacki schechner need to raid glen's video vault. >> all right. rush limbaugh. >> what is there about what obama has done that we want compromise with. all the democrats call compromise is us caving in our principals and going with them. the democrats don't care to compromise. >> dear god in heaven. i mean really? really? >> the budgeting process starts in the house of representatives. and rush limbaugh's version of c

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but shawn was saying on fox news there wasn't a vetting of obama on jeremiah wright? >> first of all -- well, he's like a black revolutionary with the automatic weapons, the sunglasses, the beret. it's not just the guy who likes to play fault. he's trying to learn. >> this is an imaging of the bill ayers, it all goes back to this that he's not associated because he's not black or whatever it is. >> look at michelle. doesn't she look like the campus type? she's a fashion plate. >> no, she's the angry black woman. >> that's what i don't see. they're raising perfect kids, they are mr. and mrs. perfect. >> they have fooled you. you've fallen for it. it's a ruse. >> somewhere someone must be believing this crap. >> i'm sure it's good for ratings at fox. >> did you hear that, dear? come in here. did you hear what shawn said? >> there are people who believe this stuff but they were not going to vote for barack obama positi position? here's romney, well he had indicated guy, here's what he thinks. he himself brought up reverend wright in a radio interview. he brought up comme

the jeremiah wright a factor in 2012 in evaluating the president's character? >> oh, i think if you look at his entire biography of pluses and strengths, you can look at the rhetoric from reverend wright and say a little too much. maybe you should have said something. it's not the center of the campaign. i don't think it'll be a major issue. i got to fault "the new york times" quickly. there are a lot of rich guys running around under the new laws who want to put money in the campaigns. this is one such case. nothing got done. inflammatory incredibly stupid campaign document got to "new york times" and they ran with it. romney was out publicly against this thing before the ink was dry on it. that's the real story. >> kim strassel, part of the tifltty on both sides they're going to be hate rs. there's going to be people -- they can do it to romney on his mormon faith. one of the things that i got from talking to romney advisers this week, again, this recognition that a lot of voters like the president. >> right. >> beyond that, a lot of voters felt very proud, r

he fenced off to the best of his ability, the jeremiah wright story. here is what we will discuss and here is what we will not discuss. in romney's own way, whether you buy it or don't, he was trying to fence off or redirect that which is discussable and that which is not, and the context of the story that covered up the best news of the day which is that he ran $40 million to run against obama. >> czehuck, you study this all e time, we're only preseason, we're just getting started welcome but the preseason so far, the training program, we watched romney was very tough negative campaigning. basically a bombing of his opponents. he erased them as issues of his opponents, but he says don't talk about me or engage in character assassination. is that a way of saying any attack on my background or business career is character assassination, meanwhile i will release the super pacs. >> it was an interesting strong man. i would say the difference with reverend right and bain, which is obama repudiated the things things wright said. will he do that with bain? t

that's jeremiah wright. what do you make of this? >> this is a part of the republican play book to wave the race card and wave it widely. reverend wright preaches no different than hundreds of black ministers. what he said and what we've seen in the videos about him, you would hear in many churches on sunday morning. many would say that's just the reverend. he's emotional and gets excited about these things. i think this is a pocket of nothing. and i'm glad the man who was going to do it has backed away. he realized it was a mistake. and he's not going to do it. >> why would you think in a strategists, this was something we were talking about. this was so five years ago. why would -- why is -- why is reverend wright, the boogie man, a big enough boogie man for someone to bring him up again to scare away voters? or to scare republican voters or conservative voters into voting for mitt romney and not barack obama. >> most of us had never heard of reverend wright four years ago. and the republicans waved him in front of the electorate,

the plan would bring back jeremiah wright the reverend in a big way. the world is about to see jeremiah wright and understand his influence on barack obama. our plan is to do what john mccain would not let us do. the 54 proposal for a five minute video would portray wright's black liberation theology, proposal and anticipated charges of race-baiting, suggested hiring an extremely literate conservative african-american as a spokesperson who can argue mr. obama misled the nation by presenting himself as a metrosexual black abe lincoln. give me a break. the proposal also suggested listing a group of black business leaders to endorse the effort. this morgan, mitt romney said he hadn't heard anything about it. once his campaign got their act together, he said this. >> as i read the article, i want to make it very clear i repudiate that effort. i think it's the wrong course for a pac or campaign. i hope our campaigns can respectively be about the future and issues and about a vision for america. i've been disappointed on the president's campaign to date, whi

he said on a radio show he recently linked jeremiah wright to the president. here's what he had to say about that. >> i'm not familiar precisely with exactly what i said, but i stand by what i said, whatever it was. >> mr. romney confirms he is an empty suit. a vacuous and ambitious man who can't even recall what he said, but he's stand big it, anyway. frankly, i'm completely speechless, so i'll leave the final word to my cat mia. >> meow. >> thank you. hi, dylan. how are you? >> i don't know if it was the nature of your behavioral observations, your behavioral critique of the man who is mitt romney, the integration of some of the other mammals with the feline characterization, but as i was listening to you, i was thinking that in addition to your extraordinary work here in broadcast journalism, you could have a future as, like, a narrator on nature programs. i could listen to your voice. i could watch like the planet earth stuff. we could get you one of those gigs. i wonder if they would let you do that.

did someone offer jeremiah wright money to keep quiet in the 2008 campaign? that's what wright claims. we have the exclusive audio and please like our facebook page. love saying that. go to facebook.com/thefivefnc. if you see, eric won't show you his secret tattoo he had done of dom deluise. >> welcome back, everybody. president obama's former spiritual mentor, the reverend jeremiah wright is back in the news, two big stories, we'll start with some very serious allegations from reverend wright. he claims that he was offered money to stop preaching back in 2008 after he became a political liability to the obama campaign. last night, hannity aired exclusive audio from an interview author ed klein did with the reverend for a new book. listen to the reverend describe a secret meeting he had with then senator obama in 2008. >> saying that we can't trust ed klein but we just heard directly from jeremiah wright himself so does bob owe ed klein an apology? >> this is what bob he can he will does. if i have to deal with bob every day and i don't get an apology, he's g

he said on a radio show he recently linked jeremiah wright to the president. here's what he had to say about that. >> i'm not familiar precisely with exactly what i said, but i stand by what i said, whatever it was. >> mr. romney confirms he is an empty suit. a vacuous and ambitious man who can't even recall what he said, but he's stand big it, anyway. frankly, i'm completely speechless, so i'll leave the final word to my cat mia. >> meow. >> thank you. hi, dylan. how are you? >> i don't know if it was the nature of your behavioral observations, your behavioral critique of the man who is mitt romney, the integration of some of the other mammals with the feline characterization, but as i was listening to you, i was thinking that in addition to your extraordinary work here in broadcast journalism, you could have a future as, like, a narrator on nature programs. i could listen to your voice. i could watch like the planet earth stuff. we could get you one of those gigs. i wonder if they would let you do that. >> i doubt t but where are you because the backdrop loo

stop attacking jeremiah wright. this stuff has to stop. it undermines to me what this country should be focused on. it's a distraction from the real issues. it's going to be a small campaign about this crap or a big campaign in my opinion about the issues the american public cares about. >> the ad was undermined this week, too, a couple of things. as this ad was coming out you found out the president was going up to new york for a fundraiser with the president of the largest private equity outfit in the united states. he's happy to take money from private equity if it's helping his campaign and go out and attack. the other problem, this particular issue, the one plant they're talking about, the more people looked into it they found out actually it's not the story they told. bain went in there. this was a failing steel plant. they gave a lot of money. kept it open for an extra nine years. it arguably would have closed in '93 rather than 2001. it's a tough story as well. >> if the election were held today, mike, what is the leadership lesson

a political ad best record the defunct four blissful years jeremiah wright was add. and he said by the afternoon he rejected the ad and i thought we would be talking about something else which was fine, great even. i have more tax policy to tell you about. but then mitt romney said this. >> i want to make it very clear i repudiate that effort. i think it's the wrong course for a pac or a campaign. i've been disappointed independent the campaign to date, which is focused on character assassination. character assassination. we can talk about a lot of things but the centerpiece of his campaign is quite clearly character assassination. his effort to look at my work at bain is to characterize me in a way that isn't accurate. our approach was to always try to make the enterprise more successful and the purpose of the president's ads are not to describe success and failure, to somehow suggest i'm not a good person or good guy. having the campaign focused on character assassination is one of the things i find offensive, among many others in the pac description that came in t

the return of the fast exit of the jeremiah wright. >> i repudiate that effort. >> jpmorgan chase's multibil-dollar slit up. >> you cannot have the fox guaarding the hen house. >> we're back to debating the debt limit again. guess who came to sak to georgetown university's graduation the catholic bishops are not pleased. >> i tnk it is silly. captionened by the national captiong inststitute --www.ncicap.org-- >> this super pac business may be a case of be careful what you ask for. thursday, "the n york times" ran a straight talking about an ad proposal tied to a rublican super pac that would have tied president obama to his old spiritual adviser and polital nemesis jeremiah wright. it was submitted by a republblican strategist, fred dis, but it never ran. joe ricketts, founderer of td ameritrade and the owner of the cubs who "the new york times" said was willing to $18 million to finance the campaign, wked away from it. romney said at first that he had not seen the story and later in the day he said this. >> i want to make it clear i repudiate that effort. it is the wrong course for a pac. i hope o

referencing jeremiah wright and a plan to attack the president. i'm still with david corn, joan walsh and of course, jonth capehart. he said the president has been engaged in a character assassination. >> at the same time he said we should be talking about our records. i think what he calls character assassination is the obama campaign effort to go over the bain record. which it has been doing lately and also what he may have done or be done in massachusetts. so when he talk on obama's record, that's fine. when obama talks about his record, well, it's character assassination because it doesn't always work out so well for mitt romney. >> joan, he also said just now, he was asked about comments he made on sean hannity's radio program where he said, completely unprompted. i'm not sure which is worse. the president listening to the revv rented wright or him saying that we must be a less christian nation. he said i stab by what in, whatever it was. >> whatever it was. >> that's mitt romney. does that mean he does stand by the idea of suggesting as he a

this pro-romney super pac man ables to inject jeremiah wright in the new cycle and decided against the attack. did the media fall in a trap? >> no, i think what happened was the proposal got out, randi, before the organizers wanted it out and in some ways it actually worked in mitt romney's advantage, the reason why is that clearly this was the kind of message that was not necessarily going to help mitt romney. he has talked about how his campaign is going to focus on how he can turn around the economy. met le i was put on the defensive yesterday having to answer for a proposal his campaign did not put together. so while we talk about how effective the super pacs are, and they are, they can also cause serious problems for campaigns and this is an instance where it could have been a big problem for romney's campaign, dredging up jeremiah wright in the month of september before the election. >> so are we going to be seeing this a lot? candidates rejecting plans and attacks by the super pacs supporting them, that sounds like a political mess. >> we will. this is just the tip of the iceber

stop jeremiah wright. this will be a small campaign about this crap or a big campaign in my opinion about the issues the american public cares about. >> newark's mayor cory booker there coming close to earning himself a spot on the dncfrenemy's list. hours later there was this apology on youtube. >> let me be clear. mitt romney has made his business record a center piece of his campaign. he has talked about himself as a job creator. therefore, it is reasonable and in fact i encourage it for the obama campaign to examine that record and to discuss it. i have no problem with that. >> as booker was busy repairing his surrogacy, republicans were busy wrapping their arms around the young democratic political star. the romney campaign out with a brand new add entitled big bain back fire moments ago. >> have you had enough of president obama's attacks on free enterprise? his own key supporters have. >> it is nauseating to the american public. enough is enough. >> let's bring in our panel now. here in new york, jo