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>> jennifer: all right. were now smack in the middle of what so far has been a no good very bad week for mitt romney. but dont you dare count your chickens. first to the campaign trail today where romney tried to shift the conversation away from his outrageous and offensive 47% line, so his latest outrageous attack on the president. that the president would stage a soviet style plot to redistribute the wealth. >> this is how america works. it does not work by america saying it is kille...

country. later, when it comes peek behind the curtain, theres no more compelling real estate than the u.s. supreme court and nobody has a better knack for it than jeffrey toobin. it is tuesday >> jennifer: youre back inside "the war room." im jennifer granholm. so mitt romneys 47% remarks are certainly not the first or the last time that a presidential candidate has stepped in it. remember this infamous quote from 2004. democratic nominee senator then john kerry of massachuse...

>> jennifer: back in 1926, the peak of the roar 20s and three years before the great wall street crash sent this country spiraling into a deep depression, f. scott fitzgerald, famously wrote "let me tell you about the very rich. they are different from you and me." now, he wasnt talking simply about their vast material wealth. but about their world view. as nobel prize winning economist paul krugman put it "many of the very rich expect a level of deference that the rest of us never exp...

>> jennifer: have a disastrous week that had rom any slipping in the polling and bungling his response town rest in the middle east. his campaign is going into serious reboot mode. what is he doing now? he is rolling out new ads, hyping up his stale-old, five-point plan. a detail free document that didnt get any traction the last time he rolled it out. >> trade has to work for america. that means crack down on trade fors like china. next balance the budget. we have got to cut the defic...

>> jennifer: have a disastrous week that had rom any slipping in the polling and bungling his response town rest in the middle east. his campaign is going into serious reboot mode. what is he doing now? he is rolling out new ads, hyping up his stale-old, five-point plan. a detail free document that didnt get any traction the last time he rolled it out. >> trade has to work for america. that means crack down on trade fors like china. next balance the budget. we have got to cut the defic...

grandholm. >> jennifer: oh, right. ♪ >> jennifer: were going to start with big news on the campaign front today. mitt romney who staked his entire campaign on the premise that he would do a better job on the economy than the president, is now trailing the president on the issue of the -- wait for it -- the economy. thats right. likely voters think the president would be best on the economy, 47-46. thats a narrow lead but its the first time the president has lead on this pivotal issue...

grandholm. >> jennifer: oh, right. ♪ >> jennifer: were going to start with big news on the campaign front today. mitt romney who staked his entire campaign on the premise that he would do a better job on the economy than the president, is now trailing the president on the issue of the -- wait for it -- the economy. thats right. likely voters think the president would be best on the economy, 47-46. thats a narrow lead but its the first time the president has lead on this pivotal issue...

>> jennifer: if tonight were election night, mitt romney would lose. would lose! and in a big way! a brand new nbc news "wall street journal" marist poll released just this evening shows that mitt romney is losing in the all-important swing states. the poll of likely voters, likely voters shows the president up 50% to 43% in ohio. hes leading romney 49% to 44% in florida. and virginia. and those polls were conducted sunday through tuesday before romneys missteps and the embassy attack ...

>> jennifefeff tonight were election night, mitt romney would lose. would lose! and in a big way! a brand new nbc news "wall street journal" marist poll released just this evening shows that mitt romney is losing in the all-important swing states. the poll of likely voters, likely voters shows the president up 50% to 43% in ohio. hes leading romney 49% to 44% in florida. and virginia. and those polls were conducted sunday through tuesday before romneys missteps and the embassy attack t...

>> jennifer: the conventions are over, the candidates are back on the trail and mitt romney is back to his old tricks. secrets, lies, flip-flops and evasion. and this weekend he flip-flopped again! so here we are again at our shrine to mitts flips. home to so much of romneys best double talk. the latest edition comes from this issue of healthcare. here he is on "meet the press" yesterday. >> part of the federal plan -- >> im not getting rid all of healthcare reform. of course there are...