is harry reid a dirty liar? >> i don't know, but harry reid is playing old school dirty politics by doing this. his story has been changing, which is amazing. first he said, i can't say for certain. then he gets up on the floor of the united states senate and then makes a claim. then he comes back with another interview and says, oh, well, lots of people are saying that. what is it? this guy, he can't get his story straight, and frankly, it's inappropriate. it goes beyond the pale, especially on the floor of the u.s. senate. >> lizz? >> if we didn't hear throughout the course of this past couple years, ellen west saying, oh, there's 80 communists in the house of representatives. michele bachmann accusing keith ellison and hillary clinton's aide they're part of the muslim brotherhood, i often wonder if this is one of those things where harry reid finally said, we have been sitting through a political climate where we have heard the president's a muslim, show us the birth certificate. what if i just say -- hold on

. >> harry reid doubled down on this. he went on the floor of the senate and said, well, you know, it's out there that he hasn't paid ten years. its orlany out there because harry reid said it two days ago without any evidence whatsoever. >> i take it from your answer you're not going to repudiate the charge. >> if chicago wanted reid to stop, he would stop, but they don't. >> if republicans hoped a full force push back on harry reid would shut him up, they rur pistaken. they called the republican noise makers a bunch of cowards and henchmen for romney. liberals, are they fighting good enough now? reid weighs in saying the whole controversy would end very quickly if mitt romney would just release his income tax returns just like everybody else who returns for president. today marked the fifth time he reiterated his initial charges. he refuses to slow down and the president's top advisers are not asking reid to hit the brakes. >> as governor romney's father pioneered the release of tax returns when he ran for president, ga

covering harry reid a lot of years. there are times he says things off the cuff that make aides wince, like smelly tourists in the capitol. this is not that. he is doing it for purpose for political reasons, he wants romney taxes talked about on programs like yours, wants it to be headlines in newspapers and wants mitt romney to respond on this issue which they think is a negative for romney opposed to issues romney wants to talk about. >> went back and forth with paul begala, it isn't fair to compare what reid is saying to bachmann and, but it is a powerful center without any evidence. that's what i am trying to focus on. we will talk to begala and mary matalin in a second. in that interview in huffington post, his poor father must be so embarrassed for his son, what does that tell you. that's a very personal comment. >> it is very personal and it is very harry reid. look, first of all, back up and say you pointed out the interview with the huffington post. evidence, it is a friendly outlet. he did it very strategicall

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harry reid goes on the floor of the u.s. senate and we're paying for and puts out the smear and lie about the republican nominee for president and he's on the floor and says the word is out. the word is out because harry reid is reciting a vicious lie. >> doesn't mean it picked it up. governor romney released two years of tax returns and not like he's stonewalling the whole thing and now i think that governor romney is it not going to release any tax returns this lie is so egregious and the press is protecting harry reid. can you imagine if a republican went to the senate floor and said a barack obama in a vicious lie. news would be page one. >> you sound shock. it's campaign season, an election year. >> jon: but harry reid is not running for office. >> his party has everything at stake here with the president, come on, we can accept it -- let's not protest too much. >> jon: and unnamed sources? i mean. >> well, the press gets beaten up all the time reciting unnamed sources and harry reid the master of going off the press fo

reid rage activated. and that was apparently still just a warm-up act because last week, the new 100% more rage harry reid really went off the rails. the big story in the presidential campaign right now is of course mitt romney's tax returns and why nobody is allowed to see them except for john mccain. on tuesday of last week, harry reid decided to offer his own theory that the reason his tax returns are kept under lock and key is because mr. romney did not pay any taxes over a ten-year stretch. none at all. senator reid offered no evidence for that claim whatsoever. other than saying a bain investor told him so over the phone. now who knows, maybe harry reid is right. but he has not produced any evidence. it's just a wild allegation. it is hearsay. and yet, the next day, the newly activated harry reid man of rage not only didn't dial it back. he cranked it up to 11. saying when he was pressed for evidence to back up his claim, quote, i don't think the burden should be on me. the burden should be on him.

reid rage activated. and that was apparently still just a warm-up act because last week, the new 100% more rage harry reid really went off the rails. the big story in the presidential campaign right now is of course mitt romney's tax returns and why nobody is allowed to see them except for john mccain. on tuesday of last week, harry reid decided to offer his own theory that the reason his tax returns are kept under lock and key is because mr. romney did not pay any taxes over a ten-year stretch. none at all. senator reid offered no evidence for that claim whatsoever. other than saying a bain investor told him so over the phone. now who knows, maybe harry reid is right. but he has not produced any evidence. it's just a wild allegation. it's heresy. and yet, the next day, the newly activated harry reid man of rage not only didn't dial it back. he cranked it up to 11. saying when he was pressed for evidence to back up his claim, quote, i don't think the burden should be on me. the burden should be on him. he

you have covered harry reid. what do you make of how he's doubling and tripling down without citing any evidence. >> sometimes you see this stuff out, you know, first there was an interview with huffington post, when harry reid comes to the floor of senate and makes an outrageous charge, mitt romney paid $3.1 million to the irs. he paid taxes. it's completely a false charge. reid loves it. the democrats love this. no matter how much he takes in, no matter how much he gets attack here or jon stewart, it gets the story out and out again. romney should have laughed it off, made a joke about harry reid's imaginary friend and moved on. it's an unbelievable -- >> harry reid's source, if we are to assume that he has one, is identified as investor in bain. i owned some microsoft, as a stockholder have an insight into bill gates' tax returns. he said i have in my hand of 205 communists in the state department, didn't have a list. harry reid doesn't have any evidence. >> i don't disagree with either of you guys on harry re

harry reid's quietness, after the smoke cleared, harry reid was the only one left standing. let me tell you something, they did the same thing to jerry tark anian and jerry tarkanian sued the sports people. they were wrong. reid knows where that body is buried. >> stephanie: i think so. she got that out of her system. >> i know where the body is buried. [ explosion ] >> stephanie: wow. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] speaking of shady stuff in vegas -- money laundering probe. >> that says in china. this is u.s. now. >> stephanie: this is romney's biggest donor. las vegas sands controlled by billionaire sheldon adelson. is the target of a federal investigation of possible violations of u.s. money laundering laws, the "wall street journal" reported. [ wah wah ] >> previously it was china macau, now it is the u.s. that makes it different. >> stephanie: oh dear. okay. let's go to kevin in d.c. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi kev. >> caller: good morning. is this stephanie? >> stephanie: yes. [ ♪ magic wand ♪ ] >> stephanie: hello magic man. >> caller: let me give

. >> but harry reid doubled down. went on the floor of the senate and said well, you know, it's out there that he hasn't paid ten years. it is only out there because harry reid said it two days ago witht any evidence of it. >> first off, there's tons of evidence. there's evidence of tax avoidance, incredibly aggressive tax avoidance. >> harry reid said there's evidence he hasn't paid taxes in ten years. >> he is pointing out he has a long, incredible history of tax avoidance. shell corporation in bermuda, cayman islands, swiss bank accounts, blocker corporation in bermuda, whatever that is. and freshman philosophy. when confronted with something with limited information, you choose the simplest, most obvious choice. what do you think it is, anderson. do you think he secretly owns the bunny ranch brothel? i don't. he is a man of extraordinary personal morality. impeccable personal moral character. i don't think he is secretly owning inner-city liquor stores that sell to children. no, i think -- i am trying to show it i

. >> but harry reid doubled down. went on the floor of the senate and said well, you know, it's out there that he hasn't paid ten years. it is only out there because harry reid said it two days ago without any evidence of it. >> first off, there's tons of evidence. come on. the one release he prettied up -- >> evidence that he has not paid taxes in ten years? >> evidence of tax avoidance. aggressive tax avoidance. >> harry reid said there's evidence he hasn't paid taxes in ten years. >> he is pointing out he has a long, incredible history of tax avoidance. shell corporation in bermuda, cayman islands, swiss bank accounts, blocker corporation in bermuda, whatever that is. and freshman philosophy. when confronted with something with limited information, you choose the simplest, most obvious choice. what do you think it is, anderson. do you think he secretly owns the bunny ranch brothel? i don't. he is a man of extraordinary personal morality. i grant him that. impeccable personal moral character. i don't think he is sec

you think harry reid's a dirty liar? >> i just said. >> i'll triple down on my comments from yesterday. he's a dirty liar and we're moving on. we're moving on to defeating this president and saving this country. >> but republican campaign veterans are finding it harder to defend, including former reagan campaign manager, ed rollins. >> i would have put out five or six years. i would not put out 20 years, and i obviously wouldn't respond to anything that harry reid states. >> i think at this point in time, it's going to dog him all the way. and he needs to get it behind him. he's paid a lot of money in taxes, he's made a lot of money. >> wait a minute, do you think he should release more taxes? >> i think he should release more taxes. >> really? >> absolutely. two years is not enough, obviously. >> and "the wall street journal" editorial board. "mr. romney's problem is that he can only disprove the charge by releasing his tax returns, which he says he will not do for years other than 2010 and 2011. these columns argued in

you think harry reid's a dirty liar? >> i just said. >> i'll triple down on my comments from yesterday. he's a dirty liar and we're moving on. we're moving on to defeating this president and saving this country. >> but republican campaign veterans are finding it harder to defend, including former reagan campaign manager, ed rollins. >> i would have put out five or six years. i would not put out 20 years, and i obviously wouldn't respond to anything that harry reid states. >> i think at this point in time, it's going to dog him all the way. and he needs to get it behind him. he's paid a lot of money in taxes, he's made a lot of money. >> wait a minute, do you think he should release more taxes? >> i think he should release more taxes. two years is not enough, obviously. >> and "the wall street journal" editorial board. "mr. romney's problem is that he can only disprove the charge by releasing his tax returns, which he says he will not do for years other than 2010 and 2011. these columns argued in january when other republ

they couldn't hold a candle to harry reid. what harry reid said was the fact of what he was told. to turn it around, all these childish rants this weekend about calling him a liar and all that, it just shows you how scared they are that harry reid was telling the truth. that's a good staff guy there. you're standing up for the boss sticking it to the other side and making points. such as how can you call a guy a liar if he says i talked to someone i assume i have create credibility on their part and they told me this. if you made up you talked to somebody, that's one thing. what do they mean he's a liar about this? >> whatever their meaning is, they're behaving in such a destructive way it trumps everything. there's a debate whether mitt romney should have to release more than one year. the democrats have the better of that argument on the politics and substance. then there's another thing which is what reid is doing. using the senate floor this way is out of bounds and something most leaders wouldn't do. that republicans have so badly mishandled this. not just who you shows but m

they couldn't hold a candle to harry reid. what harry reid said was the fact of what he was told. to turn it around, all these childish rants this weekend about calling him a liar and all that, it just shows you how scared they are that harry reid was telling the truth. that's a good staff guy there. the kind of guy i was trying to be for years. you're standing up for the boss sticking it to the other side and making points. such as how can you call a guy a liar if he says i talked to someone who i assume has great credibility on their part and they told me this. if you made up you talked to somebody, that's one thing. what do they mean he's a liar about this? >> whatever their meaning is, they're behaving in such a destructive way it trumps everything. there's a debate whether mitt romney should have to release more than one year. and the additional year he's going to release of his returns. the democrats have the better of that argument on the politics and substance. then there's another thing which is what reid is doing. which even some democrats will tell you privately using t

the word demonstrate means, bring it. >> it's up to harry reid to prove -- >> harry reid is not running for president. >> can we just say mormon fight. because that's what this is. [ laughter ] >> it's your friend eric etch-a-sketch fehrnstrom. he is majoring in huffiness. >> every day they seem to reach a new row. harry reid's charges are baseless and they are untrue. >> prove it. >> and i would ask him one central question. have you no sense of decency? >> oh. [ laughter ] >> he's a joe mccarthy victim. >> yes. yeah. isn't that something? >> the problem is -- i hope harry reid is right because the burden is on him. and he has given a real early christmas gift to the right-wing. he has to disprove it. and they are coming out nasty and dirty over harry reid over this -- >> which means he has hit a nerve. >> yes, but i don't want his credibility destroyed. >> so it's okay to compare him to mccarthy? >> no that's stupid. he didn't compare harry reid to mccarthy. he compared himself to mccarthy's victims. >> that's my point. he said this reminds me of the mccarthy hearings back in the 50s.

. >> but harry reid doubled down. went on the floor of the senate and said well, you know, it's out there that he hasn't paid ten years. it is only out there because harry reid said it two days ago without any evidence of it. >> first off, there's tons of evidence. the one release that he prettied up and -- there's evidence of tax avoidance, incredibly aggressive tax avoidance. >> harry reid said there's evidence he hasn't paid taxes in ten years. >> he is pointing out he has a long, incredible history of tax avoidance. shell corporation in bermuda, cayman islands, swiss bank accounts, blocker corporation in bermuda, whatever that is. and freshman philosophy. okay when confronted with something with limited information, you choose the simplest, most obvious choice. what do you think it is, anderson. do you think he secretly owns the bunny ranch brothel? i don't. he is a man of extraordinary personal morality. i grant him that. he's got impeccable personal moral character. i don't think he is secretly owning inner-city

. >> harry reid doubled down on this. he went on the floor of the senate and said, well, you know, it's out there that he hasn't paid in ten years. it's only out there because harry reid said it two days ago without any evidence whatsoever. >> i take it from your answer you're not going to repudiate senator reid's charge. >> if chicago wanted reid to stop, he would stop, but chicago doesn't. >> if republicans hoped a full force push back on harry reid would shut him up, they're mistaken. in an interview with politico, they called the republican noisemakers a bunch of cowards and henchmen for romney. hey, liberals, are they fighting good enough now? reid himself weighed in today saying the whole controversy would end very quickly if mitt romney would just release his income tax returns, just like everybody else that runs for president. today marked the fifth time he reiterated his initial charges. he refuses to slow down and the president's top advisers are not asking reid to hit the brakes. >> well, it was governor romney

is harry reid a dirty liar? >> i don't know, but harry reid is playing old school dirty politics by doing this. his story has been changing, which is amazing. first he said, i can't say for certain. then he gets up on the floor of the united states senate and then makes a claim. then he comes back with another interview and says, oh, well, lots of people are saying that. what is it? this guy, he can't get his story straight, and frankly, it's inappropriate. it goes beyond the pale, especially on the floor of the u.s. senate. >> lizz? >> if we didn't hear throughout the course of this past couple years, ellen west saying, oh, there's 80 communists in the house of representatives. michele bachmann accusing keith ellison and hillary clinton's aide they're part of the muslim brotherho brotherhood, i often wonder if this is one of those things where harry reid finally said, we have been sitting through a political climate where we have heard the president's a muslim, show us the birth certificate. what if i just say

it from your answer you're not going to repudiate senator reid's charge. >> if chicago wanted reid to stop, he would stop, but chicago doesn't. >> if republicans hoped a full force push back on harry reid would shut him up, they're mistaken. in an interview with politico, they called the republican noisemakers a bunch of cowards and henchmen for romney. hey, liberals, are they fighting good enough now? reid himself weighed in today saying the whole controversy would end very quickly if mitt romney would just release his income tax returns, just like everybody else that runs for president. today marked the fifth time he reiterated his initial charges. he refuses to slow down and the president's top advisers are not asking reid to hit the brakes. >> well, it was governor romney's father pioneered the release of tax returns when he ran for president, gave out 12 years of tax returns because he said one year can be misleading. why don't they just put this to rest? what is it that he's hiding? >> i have never seen anyone jump through more hoops to say, a, that somebody is lying but also no

. >> but harry reid doubled down. went on the floor of the senate and said well, you know, it's out there that he hasn't paid ten years. it is only out there because harry reid said it two days ago without any evidence of it. >> first off, there's tons of evidence. there's evidence of tax avoidance, incredibly aggressive tax avoidance. >> harry reid said there's evidence he hasn't paid taxes in ten years. >> he is pointing out he has a long, incredible history of tax avoidance. shell corporation in bermuda, cayman islands, swiss bank accounts, blocker corporation in bermuda, whatever that is. and freshman philosophy. when confronted with something with limited information, you choose the simplest, most obvious choice. what do you think it is, anderson. do you think he secretly owns the bunny ranch brothel? i don't. he is a man of extraordinary personal morality. impeccable personal moral character. i don't think he is secretly owning inner-city liquor stores that sell to children. no, i think -- i am trying to show it

you think harry reid's a dirty liar? >> i just said it. >> greta: rnc chair reince priebus joins us. i'll give you a do-over. do you want to standby that still? >> it's the truth. he is what he is. using the position of majority leader on taxpayer money on the floor of the senate, i mean, it's just a pathetic maneuver on behalf of harry reid. i do have another good job for him, since we have a new sherlock holmes among us in harry reid, he ought to find all of his anonymous sources and tipsters out there, and he ought to investigate what david fluff is doing with the group affiliated with the iranian revolution army. we'll take our sherlock holmes, harry reid, and put

you have covered harry reid. what do you make of how he's doubling and tripling down on this charge without releasing any evidence? >> first of all, it's the most outrageous charge i have seen on the floor. sometimes you see this stuff out, you know, first there was an interview with huffington post, but when you see harry reid come to the floor of senate and makes an outrageous charge, mitt romney paid $3.1 million to the irs. he paid taxes. it's completely a false charge. reid loves it. the democrats love this. no matter how much he takes in, no matter how much he gets attack, here or by jon stewart, or anywhere else, it gets the story out and out again. romney played into it by saying put up or shut up. romney should have laughed it off, should have made a joke about harry reid's imaginary friend and moved on. it's unbelievable. >> is he right about that? >> harry reid's source, if we are to assume that he has one, is identified as investor in bain. i owned some microsoft, as a investor in microsoft i now have

>> well, harry reid really has to put up or shut up, all right? >> this is the guy who won't release his tax returns talking about his tax returns. saying somebody else needs to put up or shut up. >> let me also say categorically, i have paid taxes every year. and a lot of taxes. a lot of taxes. so harry is simply wrong. >> instead of just going back and forth with harry reid, why not just release the tax returns, just put the issue to bed? >> actually, you can go on our website, and you can see my financial disclosure statements go back to 2002. you also can see the tax returns that i put out for 2010. go on the website. you'll be surprised to see the amazing amount of data associated with our campaign's disclosure. thank you. >> thank you. you can in fact go on the mitt romney website and look at what haze campaign has put out for his financial disclosure and they have done their best to make it look amazing. still, though, it's only the one year, the 2010 tax return. that's it. the aforementioned harry reid who is a senate minority leader and t

that is harry reid saying i'm not certain. so you would think that not being certain about the truth of an explosive allegation you would keep it to yourself? well, instead, harry reid went further with local reporters say saying he had a quote number of people tell me that, unquote. so it went from one person telling him to now a number of

i don't know whether reid is playing sorry. but he's popping this guy. >> and what he's doing is he's taking up the oxygen. any time that mitt romney is ataking harry reid because mitt romney has not released his taxes, that's a good day for barack obama. i mean, he's -- this is a tar pit. and harry reid has drawn mitt romney into this tar pit again and again in the last day or two. >> what if he says i only spent seven years without paying taxes. you were wrong. >> i only paid 5%. >> this keeps festering. last week he said if i release them democrats will distort them. they're distorting them already. >> you got close to romney? >> i interviewed him last week. >> we don't. relentless drum beat about the returns are hitting romney. the democrats may have found a way to pry him open and shake something loose in this ker f l fuful full -- ker fuf l. >> let him prove he has paid taxes. because he hasn't. >> today on reid's home turf, romney hit back. let's listen to him. >> harry reid really has to put up or shut up. so harry, who

reid recounted the person saying, he didn't pay taxes for ten years. now do i know that that is true? well, i'm not certain said reid. [ laughter ] >> jon: here say rule of thumb if you have to follow your claim with the words, i don't know if that's the truth, then shut up because otherwise you might as well put a dead cocker spaniel on your head and yell about birth sertz which brings us to tonight's segment, you harry, reid are -- should mitt romney release his tax returns? of course. but him not doing the right thing doesn't give you license to do the wrong thing. you are the senate majority leader you conditioned run to the side boob gazette with ridiculous speculations about what may or may not be in mitt romney's taxes. that's is this show's job. when mitt romney needs money quickly he beats a swiss person until they break open. that has never been disproven. [ laughter ] all right. in a campaign season people throw around baseless accusations all the time. not the worst thing anyone ever did. what is the worst thing is harry reid going on to sp

mitt romney or harry reid? a for romney, b for harry reid or go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. i'll bring you the results later in the show. >> i'm joined by george miller of california who has his own questions about mitt romney's finances. welcome to the show, congressman. >> thank you. thank you, michael. >> sir, are we going to, you know, get your latest inquiry regarding mitt romney's individual retirement account? we're going to do that in a moment, but do you think senator reid has done anything wrong here? >> no, senator reid hasn't done anything wrong. mitt romney has been dancing around the ring the whole time and finally harry reid cold cocked him with a simple question, make your tax returns public. if you what you say is true, then there can't be any problem in releasing these tax returns over the last many years, but he's refused to do it. >> there's no doubt that pugilistic metaphor does it, the rabbit punches, the clenches. let's throw it to the referee and say you decide if we're punching beneath the belt or not. is it troubling to you that romney won't just re

you think harry reid's a dirty liar? >> i just said it. >> greta: rnc chair reince priebus joins us. i'll give you a do-over. do you want to standby that still? >> it's the truth. he is what he is. using the position of majority leader on taxpayer money on the floor of the senate, i mean, it's just a pathetic maneuver on behalf of harry reid. i do have another good job for him, since we have a new sherlock holmes among us in harry reid, he ought to find all of his anonymous sources and tipsters out there, and he ought to investigate what david fluff is doing with the group affiliated with the iranian revolution army. we'll take our sherlock holmes, harry reid, and put him

i would simply say you all probably know senator reid well. you know, he speaks for himself. >> we all get it. he is just playing this game and you know, it's amazing to me that there can be any honor in a position he holds, that he has degraded so far down the tubes. is it what it is. he is a dirty liar. we're moving on. moving on to defeating the president and sievin saving this country. >> bret: charges and countercharges as the produce refuses to denounce harry reid using one anonymous source saying that mitt romney did not pay any taxes over the span of ten years. th was refrain echoed by the house minority leader today, where he told huffington post, "harry reid made a statement that was true. someone told him it's a fact. whether he did or not can be disposed of. mitt romney can release tax returns and show whether he paid taxes." what about this? start with the panel in washington. steve hayes, senior writer for "weekly standard." a.b. stoddard of the hill. and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. sometimes in august we get to the

i would simply say you all probably know senator reid well. you know, he speaks for himself. >> we all get it. he is just playing this game and you know, it's amazing to me that there can be any honor in a position he holds, that he has degraded so far down the tubes. is it what it is. he is a dirty liar. we're moving on. moving on to defeating the president and sievin saving this country. >> bret: charges and countercharges as the produce refuses to denounce harry reid using one anonymous source saying that mitt romney did not pay any taxes over the span of ten years. that was refrain echoed by the house minority leader today, where he told huffington post, "harry reid made a statement that was true. someone told him it's a fact. whether he did or not can be disposed of. mitt romney can release tax returns and show whether he paid taxes." what about this? start with the panel in washington. steve hayes, senior writer for "weekly standard." a.b. stoddard of the hill. and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. sometimes in august we get to t

reid by saying that, but romney is running for president, not senator. for him to be in a fight with a senator, anyway. the strange attack that harry reid launched on mitt romney this week has essentially become the fulcrum of all political activity in the president race now, even though it is punching down for romney to respond to it. that's where the race is right now. it started ought strangely on tuesday. senator reid gave an interview to the huffington post in which he made what seemed to be a wild accusation. here's how it appeared in the huffington post. saying he had no problem with somebody being really, really wealthy, harry reid sad up in his chair a bit before stirring the pot further. a month ago, he said a person who invested with bain capital called his office. he said, he didn't pay taxes for ten years. he didn't pay taxes for ten y r years. do i know it's true? i'm not certain, said reid. but he hasn't released the tax returns. how would it look. his wealth, not a chance in the world. it's a lot more than that. you would do well sphyou d

reid rage activated. and that was apparently still just a warm-up act because last week the new 100% moorage harry reid really went off the rails. the big story is mitt romney's tax returns and why no one is allowed to see them except for john mccain. reid offered his theory that the reason mr. romney's tax returns are being kept under lock and key, because he did not pay any taxes for ten years, none at all. a bain investor told him so, he says, over the phone. who knows, maybe harry reid is right, but he has no produced any evidence. it's a wild allegation. it's hearsay. and yet the next day, the newly activated harry reid man of rage not only didn't dial it back, he cranked it up to 1 # # 1, saying, quote, i don't think the burden should be on me. the burden should be on him. he's the one i've alleged has not paid any taxes. he truly said that. he said the burden isn't on mitt romney, not because it's traditional for presidential candidates to release tax return, not because president obama has release

harry reid looks like a milk shake. it could be anyone. because the entire republican party hates mitt. the people gives him 10s of millions hate him. >> he has the most milk toast endorsements of anyone. yeah, yeah i guess if i have to. >> stephanie: that's what the said the bumper sticker could have, mitt romney ahh. i think occupy started it. john and i were going to a lot of those on the sexy liberal tour on the road. the conversation has become about income inequality and we have central casting for the 1%. >> exactly. >> stephanie: it's harry reid finding his balls or whatever. [ laughter ] >> that was the problem the presidents had with the democrats all along, we wanted them to stand up and be stronger. there was a lot of sense that we were backing down a lot. >> as opposed to most democrats. >> yeah, that's the problem. >> stephanie: and now the president has become more deranged that morgan freeman. [ laughter ] >> yeah i read an article that said he genuinely dislikes mitt romney as a human. that's why he -- like he respected jo

you think harry reid is a dirty liar? >> i just said it. >> "the wall street journal" also weighed in in an editorial. and i'm quoting from the editorial. like the obama campaign, mr. reid wants to change the conversation from the lousy economy and unpopular democratic policies while destroying mr. romney personally. end quote. a republican strategist is joining us now from washington and cnn contributor from michigan. welcome to you both. >> thank you very much. good morning, carol. >> good morning. so the wall street journal seems to be right, this whole anonymous source thing is sucking up the political air. is calling reid a dirty liar going to make it go away? >> well, i think you see the frustration of republicans in harry reid's attack. it's unsubstantiated. it isn't backed up. republicans know every day that the democrats are making these charges against romney is one day less they're talking about the economy. however, they felt the need to push back on this issue because if they don't then seeds start to grow an