and so i think now, and you saw the chairman of the rnc, you'll continue to see more of that. and from mitt romney himself. but again, these kind of toand fro eg it's the din of the situation, they'll figure out if they're angry about it or give president obama a chance to see what what he did do for the next four years. this story has to play itself out a little bit as we head into the fall. >> i couldn't believe when i saw those polls this morning, especially that huge number of people who said they had already decided. >> that also happened in 2004 with george w. bush. the difference between bush and obama is that bush was at 50% or a little above in the polls and president obama is at 47% in the polls. you see those numbers again. 92% say, i'm not going to change my mind. >> 79% definitely decided. gloria borger, thank you. >>> a lot more news developing this hour. roll it. >>> it's known as the most gruelling training program for marines. 86 days, no mercy in the school just opened its doors to women. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. >>> the u.s. spent millions in a h

the rnc chairman follows obama to roll out obamanomics, outsourced.com. the site will show instances where the president's policy led to job creation overseas. this morning, david plouff responded to criticism of the use of a washington post story on bain's history of supposedly outsourcing in their own campaign ads. >> the romney campaign trying to get them to pull back the story and they refused. it's accurate. >> that's not what -- >> well, people who look at it closely. one fact. mitt romney wants to continue tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. he would do that as president. this president wants the focus on insourcing. >> what plouffe is talking about is the tax code and companies that ship jobs oversaes. the washington post has a story today that criticizes the obama administration saying the rhetoric is there but the policy follow through has fallen short. finally, democrats do believe they have one added bonus of starting the tax cut debate now. it could make house republicans look silly for relitigating health care for what they say

earlier this year the rnc promised a big new voter outreach effort to court african-american voters. the republican party said they were going to introduce a brand new website that supposed to, quote, go live in the next two weeks. featuring testimonials from the party's most prominent black elected officials. including florida congressman allen west and south carolina congressman tim scott. in the wake of mitt romney's not so excellent adventure at the naacp yesterday, the website talking point memo decided to see whatever became of the planned rnc outreach program. quoting tpm, the site cannot be ready found on the web page. an official told tpm they don't currently have an african-american website, raising the speculation that it nifr r never came to fruition. and never it's been taken down and when it was up nobody noticed it. they're right. there's nothing there. if you go to the republican website, there's nothing there. they said in april, week, two weeks it will be there. it will be awesome. now it's july. there's nothing there. you know, give him credit. the republican party

the campaign says it raised $106 million in the month of june along with the rnc. president obama and the dnc raised $71 million. . now some 200 protestors gathered at one of the romney fundraisers in the hamptons. an unknown donor who attended this said it was interesting in an interview. the donor was not identified but the individual was quoted in an article saying, my college kid, the baby-sitters, the nail ladies, everybody who's got the right to vote, they don't understand what's going on. i just think if you're lower income one, you're not as educated. two, they don't understand how it works. they don't understand the system and how it works. they don't understand the impact. joining me nbc's peter alexander. peter, make it clear, this was an unnamed romney donor. this was not someone who worked for the campaign. >> sure. >> never theless, when you hear something like that, those protesters, by the way, many of them were occupy associated according to the informing, but when you read a quote like this, a donor going in shelling out a lot of money, it does ma

and now the rnc is saying obama is the real out-sorcer in chief. today, governor romney making that argument himself. >> it is interesting that when it comes to out sourcing that this president has been outsourcing a good deal of -- of american jobs himself. by putting money into energy companies soular and wind energy companies that end up making their products outside the united states. if there is an out-sourcener chief, it's the president of the united states, not the guy who is running to replace him. >> greta: who is doing a better job of making that argument? is it legitimate? brit hume is here. >> thank you, greta. >> greta: it's a battle of who is the bigger out sorcer and is it fair? >> i suppose. but i don't think either one of them is much of one. i think the most telling thing about the flap over outsourcing is that the obama campaign got this idea out of a story in the washington post that was thinly sourced to begin with, a weak story and they went with it. which tells you something about the obama campaign. we think of this enormous

that is why the rnc in spite of the fundraiser in chief's work we he have got enough money in the bank to be able to fight the ads and we doll that and mitt romney is going to do that. the only job we need to make sure we outsource in this country is barack obama's job and we have to do that. number one, he hasn't been truthful to the american people. hasn't fulfilled the mission. as far as china goes to your question, barack obama hasn't done anything in regard to what he promised he would do in making sure that we have a level playing field with china. he is in the sandbox with china every day. he hasn't stood up to china. so and as far as outsourcing goes, what about fisker and what i'm talking about is barack obama using taxpayer money and sending millions of dollars overseas to companies that aren't giving a single job to any american in this country. i mean as far as outsourcing goes the bigger crime is taking taxpayer money by millions and millions of dollars around sending them overseas and then the companies file for bankruptcy. that is barack obama's legacy. mitt romney's leg

. >> romney's campaign in the rnc outraised the president obama the dnc for the first time in may. one week after democratic primary for new york's 18th district charlie rangel is fight forge his political life. the 21 term representative saw his lead over state senator drop to just over 102 votes over the weekend. a difference between two candidates shrinks to less than half a percent an automatic recount takes place. local officials look into why 15% of precincts report ad vote count of zero on election night. the error has been corrected and the votes have been properly counted. it was suggested the rates were caused by vote are fraud. rangel is gearing up for a legal fight. more than 2,000 absentee ballots are waiting to be counted pap 40-year house incumbent does not go down easily. this could drag out for a while. >>> in the words of marlin governor the mid-atlantic suffered a close hurricane impact. as of yesterday, 2 million people across five states and the district of columbia are still without power after severe storms ripped across the region. nbc tom costello reports.

the victory operation is a joint effort of the rnc. and the focus is to get republicans elected from the top down on the ticket. enthusiasm . but in fact, his change curbed our hope. he failed to fix the economy. he hadded millions of dollars to the national debt and aided many with his bad apologies. chief among them was the obamacare. i watched how quick the media was to say this is a great victory for president obama the wind is now at his back. i don't view it that way at all. this thing was sort of hanging around. he owns it totally now. it is a dish a meal that has been held up and now he is going to serve that to the american people and the american people do not want it and it is not good policy for any state in america and in particular, my view, the western states. now they try to spin it a little bit, saying listen, it is constitution constitutional. we don't make decisions because it is legal it means it is good. and they have changed this penalty and said, no, it is not a penalty, it is going to be a taxation and somehow t

. >>> but the head of the rnc says stagnant job growth underscores the president's failed strategy and the obama white house has had plenty of time to turn the economy around. >> if they kept their promises there would be 8.5 million more people employed today than there would be four years ago. the fact of the matter is this president can't fulfill a promise. they're living in fantasy land. we'll put this dream to an end of theirs in november, save america, fire barack obama and hire mitt romney. >>> this week house republicans begin their move to repeal the affordable care act. mitt romney has made it clear, if elected president, he will abolish the law on his first day in office and has used the supreme court's recent ruling to rally backers. but democrats have been eager to associate the plan with romney who created a similar program as governor of massachusetts. >> let's get down to the bottom line here. mitt romney is the obama care daddy. he gave birth to this baby up in massachusetts and now he doesn't recognize it and can't pick out any strains in the hereditary chain there th

the chair of the rnc claims that president obama is the most negative campaigner this country has ever seen. that might be the craziest thing they've claimed so far. richard wolffe, great to have you with us tonight. is the obama campaign running a negative campaign? >> well, they are running negative ads but that's not all they're talking about. you know, as in any campaign, certainly as it happened in 2008, they're running positive ads. they've got a positive agenda and they're talking about their opponent in yes, critical way. that's the nature of politics. you know, i'm just surprised that these republicans many of whom gained power and elected office through the bush years have norection at all of this guy called karl rove and the politics that he's brought through that period and into the current one with his current organizations like crossroads. this is their kind of politics. they should recognize it, but they should also recognize that's how these elections get played out throughout america by the way, that's what the founders intended a vigorous contest and ask the historian

. >> and this is an rnc ad that fascinated me first and all of the times i have seen since being from virginia. will et me plme play a clip of >> president obama came to the white house with big plans, he'd halve the deficit, and strengthen the economy and lower unemployment, but what did we get? national debt $18 trillion and climbing and unemployment for 40 straight months and economic crisis with no end in sight. >> i feel like this is therapy for the voters in some way. right. i know you really, really like him, but it is okay to vote against him. >> the north star as ken suggested the race involving a incumbent president is the president. he can run with three points above that poll, and not much above it, and primarily a referendum on him, but the other half is the challenger acceptable. can obama get a few million people who are disappoint ed in him to say that i would prefer mitt romney even less. that is the focus of the obama campaigns advertising and why the heavily trying to disqualify romney, but obama's favorable ratings are above his approval ratings, so people who like

. >> the rnc announced that christie will give the keynote address on tuesday. which means he is out of the running. christie said a day later that it may not happen, but i think he is out. pawlenty is rising. perhaps, if it turns out that the attacks on romney about the wealth and attachment andy card lif an attack -- and the card list and the tax returns that you want for seven year -- 70 years -- [laughter] if that becomes the issue, then pawlenty is a guy with humble roots. he actually said on fox that he is a log cabin republicans before i realized that it has a new meaning. [laughter] i think i.t. is not going to make a lot of difference. >> this was a week of apologies. john sununu apologized for saying president obama needs to learn how to be an american, the democrats apologize for putting a dancing chorus in one of their ads. it was alleged to be shot at ann romney. >> charles those us an apology, too, because you don't have to record your contribution if you give $20. for an independent expenditure, $10,000 for an organization. >> don't hold your brea

i want to remind you, the only reason why the rnc can run a video of who contributed to obama is because we have full disclosure on our side. mitt romney has yet to disclose who is bundling for his campaign. there is no basic honesty and folks are asking and demanding more information. >> the dnc's spokesman. thank you. >>> we want to bring in the political power panel. it's great to you have all here. chip, "the washington post" fact checker gives romney 3 pin oak yoes for the reasons he gave for not releasing more tax returns calling his arguments misleading. so if you were, you know, in his ear telling him what to do, what would you say? why not just end this, release more of the tax returns? he was willing to give john mccain 23 years. what did he learn in that vet that he's afraid of this time around? >> we certainly don't know. it will be a lot easier to release the taxes. if you release the taxes, i think governor romney made the pain point, they'll go through every line and try to find something else to pick on. the obama campaign is going to push on let romney release taxes. if

mitt romney and the rnc outfunding the president and the dnc by a wide margin. the republican candidate and his party allies brought in $106 million in june. president obama and the democrats raised $71 million. it marks the second month in a row the romney campaign has won the cash race. a new "washington post"/abc news poll shows the candidates in a dead heat, tied at 47%. 59% of romney supporters say are more against president obama than for romney. 23% of obama supporters said they were more against mitt romney than for the president. in the wake of disappointing job numbers, mitt romney has a slight edge when it comes to who could best handle the economy. when it comes to who would best handle taxes, the candidates were even at 46% despite having radically different visions. >>> kofi annan is expected to meet with top iranian officials to determine what if any role tee raun might play in his six-point plan for peace in syria. annan met with syrian president bashar al assad yesterday where they reportedly agreed on a new approach to end the 16-month-old cris

the rnc says, fine, this may not be illegal. it's only illegal if they're asking specifically for campaign donations from official offices. but they say that this shows that the president is, quote, out of touch. you've probably heard that out of touch phrase coming from both sides a lot. they're trying to lob it at each other. but, of course, it's not surprising the white house says, you know, there's ample precedent for this and that this is really just a distraction. we'll see what comes out of it as it goes through time. >> it is true. george w. bush filmed all kinds of ads. it has happened before. athena jones, thanks. >>> 32 minutes past the hour p celebrities cutting a lot of checks in the 2012 race. more for the democrats. but it's not all one sided. cnn compiled a list of celebs who donated to the campaigns or political committees in may and june. we have a list. they include robert downy jr., billy crystal and eddie murphy who each gave $40,000 to the obama effort. morgan freeman who topped the list with a $1 million d

probably do an rnc prep. >> just fascinated me. the republican convention gets control of the tampa bay forums july 15th. so it's a month and a half. what happens in that time? >> the hour convention center will house the media. 15,000 journalists will be there. and the tampa bay times forum will house the event. they will take over for the month. so in terms of upgrading the infrastructure, getting id ready for the traveling and the visiting dignitaries, we will spend the next month preparing the environment. secret service will control the environment. the perimeter will be outside of this, so the closer you get, the more security will be enhanced. but it's -- it is a lot of work. it's the biggest lift, and i can probably speak for the mayor, too, the biggest lift the city has undertaken. >> rapid round. president obama's chance of winning florida again are -- >> it will be a tight race. it will be a tight race. i would say 52-48, that he will win. >> that's a landslide. >> in florida it is, yeah. in florida it is. he was down a

named judith hoback, who was interviewed by the fbi six times, all times away from lawyers for the rnc or the committee to re-elect. so she was telling the fbi the truth. and it was this testimony that allowed earl silbert in 1973 to win a verdict of not guilty against all five burglars and two men, e. howard hunt and gordon liddy. now james mccord facing a stiff sentence handed down by the judge was the furstenberg lar to crack. he wrote a letter to the judge saying that perjury had occurred during the trial and that there was a cover-up of the parties that were really responsible. and finally and most oddly, when l. patrick gray against all the odds was nominated to be the permanent director of the fbi, at his confirmation hearing, he was completely oblivious to the fact that there had been a cover-up. and every day at his confirmation hearings, he made statement that's undercut the administration's claims about what watergate was all about. it was the combination of gray's testimony, mccord's letter which was brought about by his heavy sentence. and that's what finally got john dean

what is is the rnc's position on this? >> our position is the same as mitt romney's position, it's a tax, that's the only way the supreme court came up with the decision it did in order to make it constitutional. >> but it sounds like camp romney says it was a penalty. i'm asking you specifically, republican national committee, tax or penalty, which is it? >> it's a tax and the reason why it's a tax is because the supreme court number one ruled it was a tax and number two, it's what barack obama's lawyer argued before the supreme court. here's the product, brooke, the crux of the issue. the crux of the issue is most republicans and i think most independents don't believe that obamacare should have been ruled constitutional or -- >> i have to stop you there. i have to stop you there. i was talking to republican congresswoman yesterday and i have to point this out again, we have these polls reince. you have americans reaction to the supreme court decision after last thursday, 46% agree and when you look specifically at indep

on the attack, the showdown is in iowa this morning as rnc chair priebus goes after the white house, showing up in cedar rapids hours before the president. his goal, to promote the republicans' new website out just today slamming obama saying that the president shipped the recovery overseas. >>> the war on drugs. it's a failure. chris christie mincing no words, saying his state is warehousing addicts every day and giving them no treatment. >>> the governor and the gestapo. maine's republican governor walking back comments he made comparing the irs to the nazi secret police. this morning we hear from governor paul la page. >>> and records smashed from the midwest to the east coast. and now a new record. this past year has been the warmest ever for america. so turn up the ac, grab a cold drunk. "cnn newsroom" begins right now. >>> good morning to you. thank you so much for joining us. i'm carol costello. right now, president obama is just about to head to the heartland. he is visiting the battle ground state of iowa and reaching out to middle class voters. that's who would most benefit

mitt romney and the rnc took $106 million last month. $35 million more than president obama and the dnc. carl cameron has the fall-out. house votes wednesday on republican measure to repeal the president's healthcare law. one for says he is not enforcing the healthcare law as written. we'll explain. word of a possible peace deal in syria. special report from prince william county, virginia, starts at 6:00 eastern. now back to new york and "the five." ♪ ♪ >> greg: welcome back. the worst thing about july. it's hot. just like last year, it's summer and it stinks. it's gotten worse as link fire to global warming. the media reports on thousands of broken temperature records, they egg nore what the meteorologists joe points out that half the u.s. had above normal temperatures in june, the other half was below normal. for manmade co2 causing high temperatures, data shows that the average temperature of the earth between 900 and 1300 a.t. was two degrees warmer. there were no suvs then. wildfires, they note according to the u.s. forest service in the 1930s, the u.s. saw average of 39 milli

today, the rnc held a conference call with a pair of small business owners to highlight president obama's supposedly offensive comments. this was the backdrop at a mitt romney business round table in california. we did build it, it says. i bet romney didn't actually build that banner, but whatever any suspicions, i bett a u toda athle didn't >> you g and losi you get he for most sis your hopes, coaches guided, al c org shoulde them. we have already cheered the olympians. let's also all right. >> got that, olympians? you didn't build it. you couldn't possibly have achieved what you have achieved to this point without the help of others. without the help sometimes of even the government which helped build the venues you compete in. i couldn't believe that quote when i first watched it, actually. like david axelrod went back in time and put the precise words he needed into mitt romney's mouth. romney even praises government in there. he didn't need to do that. he didn't need to bring up venues, but he praises government. you know, the reason he said it is it's all true. you could make a pret

the rnc is making fun of the president's comments now with photos like this one laughing and telling the wright brothers they didn't build their plane. mitt romney is hammering away as well. >> the idea to say that steve jobs didn't build apple, that henry ford didn't build ford motor tors, that papa john didn't build papa john pizza, that ray crock didn't build mcdonald that bill gates didn't build microsoft. you go down the list. that joe and his colleagues didn't build this enter prides. to say something like this is not only foolishness it is insulting it to every entrepreneur in america. >> the coo blogged about risk takers remember than denigrate what they have done we need to encourage more people to be like them. >>> thank you, peter. this is exactly what people are talking about this morning. >> last night on "hannity"." romney surrogate and john sin knew knew went with raum wion williams. >> all the president has been doing is condemning success. how can you be president of america. how can you be president of this country if you condemn the success that america is noted fo

the rnc chair will be in iowa today making that case, basically calling you all a liar. and factcheck.org does say there's no evidence to support the claim that romney, while he was running bain capital, shipped american jobs overseas. >> that's just not true, george. "the washington post" did an exhaustive look at this. by the way, the romney campaign sent a phalanx of their staff to try to get them to pull back the story and they refused to do it. because it's accurate. it's very simple. >> that's not what factcheck.org does. >> well, listen -- here's one fact. mitt romney wants to continue tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. he would do that as president. this president is focusing on insourcing. wants to get rid of those tax cuts that rewards those who ship jobs overseas. mitt romney, it's clear, in his private sector experience, when he was governor, is someone that practiced in outsourcing. now, as president, he wants to say to companies that ship jobs overseas, we're going to reward you for that. what the american people want us to do is to keep jobs

the president is going to have to stand up to take responsibility for it rnc released this ad and calling obama out owe of touch, out of time. on the stop, the president pointed the finger at romney. >> look. this is a company he started were called pioneers of business outsourcing. >> voters are angry about the stagnant economy, analysts say many are still undecided. >> they're frustrated things aren't getting better but don't know if mitt romney is the person to bring the economy back. i think a lot of voters are going to make a choice between lesser of two evils. >> this was the third month that disappointing jobs numbers and there are gas prices that went up for the first time in april. >> and a volunteer shot and killed an unarmed teenager in florida walked out of jail again, george zimmerman escorted from a florida jail. yesterday had bail set at $1 million. today he had to come up with 100,000s skpdz show $1 million in collateral. it was determined he misled the court about finances and is facing a second degree murder charge. >> pun lishing heat continues to set records today. thu

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. >> the chairman of the rnc did not mince words. >> i don't know if she is on vacation in new hampshire or on mars. the fact of the matter is people are not better off today than 3 or 4 years ago. statistics bear it out. we can numb everybody's mind. but more than half a million more people unemployed today than four years ago. and if debbie and. obama were good on their promises on the stimulus, remember they said if we pass this trillion dollar stimulus that we would have 5.5 percent unemployment today. what that means is if they kept their promises there would be 8 and a half million more people employed today than there would be 12 years ago. they are living in fantasy land and put this dream to an end in november save america fire barack obama and hire mitt romney that is the best stimulus plan for this country right now, john. >> another show down is set up on the hill as the white house confirmed president obama will push to extend the bush tax cuts but only for some americans. >> good morning to you as well. president obama is preparing to make a move that may provide a measure