first of all, the rnc video, what a voek, thomas. i mean, the jobs council recomm think 82 recommendations, 70 of those recommendations the president has forwarded on to congress in some form or fashion. actually, most of them are in a bill to create jobs that mitt romney opposes. i mean, it's no wonder that mitt romney wants t jobs council to meet again. he opposes the recommendations that they came up with. the job council has done its work and now congress needs to do its job. with respect to the other charge, it's been shown to be completely above the -- off the pale. the president said in his remarks, he was talking about roads and bridges and the internet. they've clipped his remarks to totally distort them. that shouldn't be a surprise coming from a romney campaign. they do this all the time. >> i want to talk but about this wall street journal report out with a piece today titled the obama's bain connection. here's a quote from one of those connections. saying according to the dow jones lp source investors in bain have includ

the rnc has another ad. let's roll there and get your professional opinion. let's roll this. >> if you have been successful, you didn't get there on your own. you didn't get there on your own. i am always struck by people who think, wow, it must be because i was just so smart. there are a lot of smart people out there. it must be because i worked harder than anybody else. let me statistical tell you something, there are a whole bunch of hard-working people out there. if you were successful, somebody along the lines gave you some help! there was a great teacher somewhere in your life. somebody helped to create this unbelievable american system that we have that allowed ow to thrive. somebody invested in roads and bridges. if have you a business, that -- you didn't build that. somebody else made that happen. >> the republican national committee is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> sean: that's it. no suppliesing, no dicing, in context. >> that's a better ad because it's barack obama's words. in the testing we have done, two things matter t. ha

. >> so i have katrina, editor, part owner of the nation magazine and the former rnc chairman on "the ed show" agreeing that mitt romney should come clean on his taxes? there's a bipartisan effort, is there not? >> because the political narrative in the optics aren't good for the romney campaign right now. we're talking about this when we could talk about something else. >> could he go to the convention with this hanging over his head? >> i don't think so. maybe there are people who are better and smarter at the game, but i have been in it a long time and i don't see how you hang that over your head and that not be a part of the conversation for five days. >> he campaigned for so many years. how is it that he has just failed to deal with this? this came up in the primaries. it may be that his opponents were weak. it may be the hubris of thinking the money would get him through or vote suppression, but now the narrative is such and deeper than just releasing. it's about the system. >> when does newt gingrich engage? his spokes guy was on the program last night, but when does he get in

that's part of the narrative that the rnc and republicans around the country will be driving home which is why what was said yesterday on the program was kind of a gaffe because it then flips the script and all of a sudden you have romney or at least his suppose people say it is a penalty and agree with with the president. it gives the president a wider swath to to make the argument about house health care plan. >> thank you for being here. coming up, congressman joe walsh is is at it again. the man who told president obama to quote stop lying. now says his opponent who lost her legs in iraq isn't a true war hero because she talks too much about her military service. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> politico is out with the list of competitive races. here are the top five. number five, missouri, where democrat claire mccaskill is in a tough fight against a yet to be determined republican. number four, nevada, where den heller faces shelley berkeley and number three, montana and senator jon tester's battle against rehberg. virginia at number two. tim kaine and george allen

it cited no sources so i guess we need to take the rnc's word for it. mr. romney certainly did. >> this president has been outsourcing a good deal of american jobs, himself, by putting money into energy companies, solar and wind energy companies that ends up making their production outside the united states. if there is an outsourcer in chief, it's the president of the united states, not the guy who is run to go replace him. >> but the republicans are not the only ones questioning the president's record on outsourcing. the washington post today also called out the president citing his lack of action on tax reform, his support of free trade and failure to push back against china's currency manipulation me. joining me is carol lennig whose headline was: obama's record on outsourcing draws criticism from the left. thank you for your time tonight. >> sure. >> this is a fulcrum of debate within the presidential campaign right now. is it bravado on mitt romney's part to try to bounce this back against the president saying you are the outsourcer. not me. what are

that's part of the narrative that the rnc and republicans around the country will be driving home which is why what was said yesterday on the program was kind of a gaffe because it then flips the script and all of a sudden you have romney or at least his suppose people say it is a penalty and agree with with the president. it gives the president a wider swath to to make the argument about house health care plan. >> thank you for being here. coming up, congressman joe walsh is is at it again. the man who told president obama to quote stop lying. now says his opponent who lost her legs in iraq isn't a true war hero because she talks too much about her military service. this is "hardball," the place for politics. more suntans... in alabama we had more beautiful blooms... in mississippi we had more good times... in louisiana we had more fun on the water. last season we broke all kinds of records on the gulf. this year we are out to do even better... and now is a great time to start. our beatches are even more relaxing... the fishing's great. so pick your favorite spot on the gulf... and com

that's part of the narrative that the rnc and republicans around the country will be driving home which is why what was said yesterday on the program was kind of a gaffe because it then flips the script and all of a sudden you have romney or at least his suppose people say it is a penalty and agree with with the president. it gives the president a wider swath to to make the argument about house health care plan. >> thank you for being here. coming up, congressman joe walsh is is at it again. the man who told president obama to quote stop lying. now ys his opponent who lost her legs in iraq isn't a true war hero because she talks too much about her military service. this is "hardball," the place for politics. more suntans... in alabama we had more beautiful blooms... in mississippi we had more good times... in louisiana we had more fun on the water. last season we broke all kinds of records on the gulf. this year we are out to do even better... and now is a great time to start. our beatches are even more relaxing... the fishing's great. so pick your favorite spot on the gulf... and come

first of all, the rnc video, what a voek, thomas. i mean, the jobs council made a series of recommendations, i think 82 recommendations, 70 of those recommendations the president has forwarded on to congress in some form or fashion. actually, most of them are in a bill to create jobs that mitt romney opposes. i mean, it's no wonder that mitt romney wants the jobs council to meet again. he opposes the recommendations that they came up with. the job council has done its work and now congress needs to do its job. with respect to the other charge, it's been shown to be completely above the -- off the pale. the president said in his remarks, he was talking about roads and bridges and the internet. they've clipped his remarks to totally distort them. that shouldn't be a surprise coming from a romney campaign. they do this all the time. >> i want to talk but about this wall street journal report out with a piece today titled the obama's bain connection. here's a quote from one of those connections. saying according to the dow jones lp sourc

what 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 that the supreme court came up with the decision that it did in order to make it constitutional. >> michael, one of the ramifications i think of the supreme court decision is that many americans are walking around saying, oh the supreme court confirmed its s as a tax, and people are thinking i'm getting taxed to pay for obama care. >> yeah. there is that element of confusion that now exists out there. you're again talking about a small percentage of the people, those who do not comply with the law, who would be subject to this penalty/tax. but the broader population believes it applies to them. that is part of the narrative that the rnc and republicans around the country will be driving home which is why what was said yesterday on the program was kind of a gaffe because it then flips the script and all of a sudden you have romney or at least his spokespeople saying it's a penalty, we agree with the president and that gives the president a wider swath to

rnc chairman comes unglued in his latest attack on the president. richard wofrl is over it with the discussion tonight. share your thoughts on twitter using the hash tag ed show and like us on facebook. we're right back. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." democrats have come out swinging at mitt romney's offshore bank accounts. here's maryland governor martin o'malley. >> the rel vbs is this, that governor romney can't claim that his state actually was great at kraeling jobs while he was governor so he has fallen back and said, vote for me. i was a businessman, i created jobs. talk about going the way of europe. what went the way of europe were the swiss bank accounts and the american dollars mitt romney stuffed in the offshore bank accounts. >> this is key in this campaign. mitt romney has never been critically questions by any journalists as to why he has money over there. what's wrong with american investment? with american jobs? he's running around telling everybody he's a job creator yet his real wealth is overseas? why is that? any americans w

later this hour, we will hear from the rnc's secretary. we will bring in the political power panel for today. the national political reporter for politico. editor of double think magazine. great to see all of you this morning. president obama is going to be out there pressing the auto bailout and how it helped in states like ohio. ben is talking about the fact that one in eight jobs are touched by the auto industry in ohio. that has an appeal with work class whites saying he was against that. how is romney going to be able to be out there and counter that argument? >> he didn't tout the record in those states. ohio and pennsylvania are run by republican governor who is tried a pro growth policies and romney will support and not be in opposition the same way president obama will be trying to undermine the policies. >> i want to bring up joe the plumber. he is running for congress and told abc news that the president should be embarrassed given the economics and the state of things there. when we talk about the economics and the state of thi

bungled a response on cnn this morning. >> president romney per fernstrom, what is the rnc's position on this? >> the same as mitt romney's position is, tit's a tax, that' the only way the supreme court came up with the decision it did. >> one of the ramifications i think is that americans are walking around saying the supreme court confirmed its attacks and people who won't be suggest to an increase are thinking i'm getting taxed to pay for obamacare. >> there is that element of confusion that exists out there you're talking about a small percentage of the people, those who not comply with the law. but the broader population believes it applies to them. which is why what was said yesterday on the program was kind of a gaffe because it then flips the script and all of a sudden now you have romney saying it's a penalty, we agree with the president and that gives the president a wider swath to make the argument about his health care plan. >> thank you for being here. coming up, congressman joe walsh is is at it again. the man who told president obama to quote stop lying. now says his op

rnc chairman comes uncl s ungl his latest attack on the president. richard wofrl is over it with the discussion tonight. share your thoughts on twitter using the hash tag ed show and like us on facebook. we're right back. why let constipation slow you down? try miralax. mirlax works differently than other laxatives. it draws water into your colon to unblock your system naturally. don't wait to feel great. miralax. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." democrats have come out swinging at mitt romney's offshore bank accounts. here's maryland governor martin o'malley. >> the rel vbs is this, that governor romney can't claim that his state actually was great at kraeling jobs while he was governor so he has fallen back and said, vote for me. i was a businessman, i created jobs. talk about going the way of jurep. what went the way of europe were the swiss bank accounts and the american dollars mitt romney stuffed in the offshore bank accounts. >> this is key in this campaign. mitt romney has never been critically questions by any journalists as to why he has

is using political hacks to here's the rnc's shaun spicer o msnbc. >> instoed of answering the questions, the romney campaign is using political hacks to dismiss these comicated financial issues. here's the rnc's shaun spicer o msnbc. >> a sterling example of romney who released 12 years of tax returns and said if less, it's ilustrative. >> there will never be enough for team obama. >> never be enough for team obama? really? well, don't we deserve more than just maybe one year of tax returns? romney's surrogates like this guy, prendz mitt romney has released all of his past tax returns. >> should governor romney release all of those tax returns? right now, he's in a unique position for a presidential cad dt he's only released one year. >> he's paid 100% of his taxes, complied 100% with what the law requires. >> i was asking if you think he should release them? not whether he complied with the law? >> i think he has released the tax returns. >> more of them. >> should he release them or not? >> no, i do not. most people don't care about this. governor romney has been very successful, get

it cited no sources so i guess we need to take the rnc's word for it. mr. romney certainly did. >> this president has been outsourcing a good deal of american jobs himself, by putting money into energy companies, solar and wind energy companies that ends up making their production outside the united states. if there is an outsourcer in chief, it's the president of the united states, not the guy who is run to go replace him. >> but the republicans are not the only ones questioning the president's record on outsourcing. the washington post today also called out the president citing his lack of action on tax reform, his support of free trade and failure to push back against china's currency manipulation me. joining me is carol lennig whose headline was: obama's record on outsourcing draws criticism from the left. thank you for your time tonight. >> sure. >> this is a fulcrum of debate within the presidential campaign right now. is it bravado on mitt romney's part to try to bounce this back against the president saying you are the outsourcer. not me. what are t

>> there has to be a nexus between resist rnc or occupy rnc and the action of the individual. >> you have to show that there was a connection and cause and affect. it is not so hard to do based upon cases in the area. they are saying we are not odvocating violence. but happy action planning and here is ways to do it. it is hog wash and a signal and wink, wink kind much approach. >> than six minutes of frightening stuff. what is not frightening is what we hear from you on justice with judge janine. >> what we are talking about this weekend. we have a teenager whose brother killed himself. someone made fun of it and he put on steel boots and almost kicked th person to death. >> thank you. >> and ice age star jon next. >> and first on this day in history. genesis had the number one song with invisible touch. what are john's favorite songs. i know. ♪ itary you apart. ♪ i only know. [ male announcer ] what's in your energy drink? ♪ wer surge, let it blow your mind. [ male announcer ] for fruits, veggies and natural green tea energy... new v8 v-fusion plus energy. could've had a v8.

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msnbc political analyst and former rnc chair, the notorious michael steele. co-host of msnbc's "the cycle." steve kornacki. and the lovely msnbc political analyst, former dnc communications director and columnist for the hill, karen finney. the longest set of introductions we have ever had. all right. moving on. team obama has been jabbing governor romney on his tax returns, asking why he won't release more. today, a new campaign ad cuts to the chase. did romney pay any taxes at all? >> 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. we don't know because romney has released just one full year of his tax returns. >> meanwhile, the obama campaign is keeping up its attacks on romney's connection to bain and the firm's record of outsourcing. >> we are not suggesting that romney committed a crime here. we're actually suggesting he's not being up front with the american people about what his involvement was with bain. but again, i find this whole discuss

i love that rnc ad for one reason only, because it says it's okay to make a change. which is kind of like your concerned best friend who is troubled by who you're dating and because you constantly complain says, it's okay. you can leave him. everything is going to be fine. you're going to meet somebody new. it's okay to change. obama has to come back with, hey, no. don't leave me. i can improve. i can be better. >> it's a pretty effective line, actually. i think about it, it was pretty smart line to use all the way around. it plays off of obama in 2008. here is the good news for obama. mitt romney. his disasterous trip so far -- >> how do you define that? >> can i bring up the headlines in the british newspapers about obama? -- i mean about romney is do we got those? just tell us. >> i guess not, bob. >> i'll compare the two. here we go. this is romney's headlines, mitt falls at the first hurdle of romney's diplomatic gaffement romney loses way with gaffe about the games. let's take a look at barak obama's headlines. >> what's a gaffe? what's the gaffe from these lib

the rnc in spite of the fund raiser and's work we have enough money in the bank. we need to outsource barak obama's job. number one he's not been truthful to the american poem and fulfilled the mission and as far as china goes, bark obama hasn't done anything to make sure we have a level playing field with china. he's in the sand box with china every day and he hasn't stood up to china. and as far as outsourcing goes. what about fisca. sending millions over seas to companies that are not giving jobs to americans in this count rye. as far as outsourcing. bigger crime is taking taxpayer money and sending them overseas and then they file for bankruptcy . that is barak obama's legacy. mitt romney's legacy is success in business and making businesses and keeping promises . >> mr. chairman i know it isarily in las vegas. >> thank you, john. god bless. >> fall out of the supreme court's rulog health care. we'll talk about the repeal of the barak care effort. i am from baltimore south carolina... bloomington, california... austin, texas... we are all here to represent the

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 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 actual

the rnc is pushing that message in a new web video out this morning. >> wesley raised money for obama and then got half a million dollars. obama's friends are doing fine, the middle class isn't. >> nbc's political director joins me now and this campaign recently seems to be dominate by pain, the tax issue and now the rnc and the republicans are pushing this crony capitalism. if you look at coup goigoogle s of bain, and which don't know how much that does matter, but it is considering how much people use google. it's a newfound technology. the states where these are the biggest, massachusetts, virginia, d.c., ohio, florida, new york, north carolina, washington adds adds, six goosts in google. >> that's important one for fundraising for the obama campaign, whether or not these attacks are true what, bain actually did, and then you look at the swing states and whether or not those attacks will stick. we have seen that the president's team has been able to push this message and you haven't seen any democrats off message. the first time that this came up about a month ago, you saw a round

rots over at the rnc. we'll see. >> reince priebus says the swiss bank accounts are a diverse, so should we forget about transparency when it comes to the highest office in the land and say you can hide all of your affair, it just doesn't matter? >> of course we can't do that. >> why not? it's what mitt romney's done. good luck. >> that's all we've gotten and it took media organizations intensive investigations to uncover some of this stuff and we have a ton of questions unanswered. i think an average american would ask why does anyone need a swiss bank account? romney campaign has never explained that. as you heard over the weekend, two explanations. he's betting against the american dollar or trying to hide something. maybe avoiding trying to pay his fair share of taxes. he could clear this up if he would release more tax returns, but he won't do that. he said he won't and he hasn't even done all he said he would do in releasing two years. the american people have the right to know how he made his money,

they reported that they campaigned romney victory fund and the rnc rate combined $106 million in june. republicans believe that ultimately the election will be a referendum on economic policy. so much so, here's speaker boehner making news by making that point a bit ham handedly at a june 30th fund-raiser in west virginia. you can make me love mitt romney. he said no and said the following. mitt romney has some friends, relatives and fellow mormons. some people that are going to vote for him. that's not what the election is going to be about. it's a referendum on the president's failed policies. asked to respond from the rnc chair, he hasn't always been wild about his support for romney and a bit more refusive. >> a lot of people who know mitt romney will really, really like him and think he's an enormously generous guy. he has given incredible amounts of money to charity. there is a lot to love. the election will be a referendum on obama's policies. >> there you have it. the boehner romney thing, when this campaign got started they assumed boehner would be most comfortable with romne

the rnc chairman holding a news conference in about a half hour. he is expected to accuse the president of being dishonest on outsourcing. he started. what is profiting this new angle of attack? >> partly "the washington post" had the story about what is essentially a broken promise. to eliminate for companies that shipped jobs overseas and hasn't been able to do that. what you are seeing is a real message that romney himself has been an outsourcer in chief in those ads and they have been effective and there has been hammering among republicans about mitt romney's lack of a defense. now today there is a sense that republicans are finally having a defense against this charge that has been so damaging to mitt romney. in many ways he got a lifeline with these recent stories about obama's outsourcing record in the white house. >> sorry this a direct response to the bain attack ads? >> absolutely. "the washington post" highlighted that what's in president obama's ads on romney is not factually correct. you will have a lot of mud on who is doing the outs

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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