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This is not a reaction to the controversy, right? >> well, it is a nod to calls for greater accessibility to the candidate and transparency from the public. but no, its not specifically as a consequence of the controversy over the remarks he made at a fund-raiser in may. in fact, plans to open up fund-raisers to the cameras were really underway last week before this whole story exploded. mr. romney did not change his tune today. very much sticking by his assertions, though he did acknowledge the...

Problem for the campaign. >> they dont want to be specific because as soon as you get specific, about what he would do with loopholes and he hasnt said, as soon as you give specifics you give ammunition. what i find so fascinating about this, its the way you play the game if youre protecting your lead. and he doesnt have a lead. i actually think that he could really change the dynamic of this campaign if he said, im going to be the candidate whos more specific because there is a window of opport...

Brothers and sisters on the questions of religious freedom. >> thank you for saying that and i believe that very sincerely, this is not a matter where people have the luxury of dividing up among the nominations, and people of faith have got to stand together because what i truly believe is an attack on all of us. when we talked before here on the show, we talked about the amazing book you did called "the amateur" the title of it based on a conversation on assertions barack obama was-- >> thats r...

A lot of people by surprise. rescues have been upwards of about a hundred people, animals as well. weve heard of many trying to get them out as they can. the water is not going anywhere. it has not re receded. and back to the republican national convention, paul ryan accepting the nomination for vice president. today, political fact checkers are pointing out many of his assertions, saying that they were misleading. nbc political editor mark murray joins me from tampa to talk about this. ryans st...

Nearly a half dozen previously debunk attacks. the presidents campaign hitting hard against ryans comments on medicare. >> so our opponents can consider themselves on notice. in this election, on this issue, the usual posturing of the left isnt going to work. mitt romney and i know the difference between protecting a program and raiding it. >> with me now, editor of politifact.com and good to have you here. start with ryans assertions on medicare, specifically the obama campaign funneled $716 bi...

Hes this, hes this, she did a lot of telling and not a lot of showing. the vividanecdote, the story that makes the assertions about his character come alive, those were almost entirely absent from the speech and i think thats what peggy is talking about and missing for me. i believe everything she says about her husband, but i couldnt see it. and so i do think that was a missed opportunity where she could have made him come to life in a way that was not just merely saying, here are the qualities...

Charity. when people making more than $200,000 a year account for more than 40% of the taxpayers in the zip code, wealthy residents give an average of 2.8% of discretionary income to charity compared with an average of 4.2% for all item earners earning $200,000 or more. end quote. finally, we now know not one but two local tv stations were asked by romney staffers not to ask questions about todd akin or abortion before granting interviews with mitt romney. we know for both candidates the terms...

The father of the pro-life movement in many ways. he has gone around, making wild assertions about exactly what happens in rape and how many he thinks he guesses, just wild guesses, end up in pregnancy. he also has some wild, unsupported assertions about, not to get too graphic here, but a firm belief that the sperm usually does not end up in an area where it can cause rape, it ends up external, in the body. its crazy, crazy stuff that i dont even quite know how to describe, but that would be th...

So john mccain, obviously, wealthy, thanks to his wifes major inheritance. he was very brave in trying to create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants a few years ago. george w. bush in 2000 ran consciously as a compassionate conservative and had education initiatives, no child left behind, it lent credibility to that. i think that with what romney and ryan are doing today, is unique and unprecedented in that sense because all theyve done, i mean ive read all of their plans i know implica...

Citizens must whisper in the dark. >> state department spokesperson victoria nuland talked about all of that today those are all wild assertions and a complete side show, shep. >> shepard: there is certain irony. >> certainly is. if julian assange is looking for a country in which in his words journalists fall silent under the fear of prosecution he need look no thursday fan ecuador. just last year president raffle -- three he cannives from a newspaper thrown into jail for daring to suggest that...