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Abortion profiteer in the eyes of abortion opponents. romney successful evaded questions about this the during the presidential campaign, because he claimed to have retired from bain capital after bain made the investment in stericycle. but nine months after romney supposedly retired from bain capital, he was listed as both an active participant in the investment in stericycle and had, quote, share voting and dispositive power over the investment. joining me now, the man who wrote todays investi...

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>> i want to read a posting on an anti-abortion website about just how much they hate this company, stericycle. they say stericycle and other corporations like it must be stopped from furthering the abortion holocaust in our nation and around the world. the campaign to stop stericycle is committed to aggressively pursuing stericycle, along with its officers, service providers, and investors -- that would be mitt romney -- until they end their collaboration with the abortion industry. join us in ...

>> go ahead, karen, quickly. >> as david points out, its not just the tax returns, but the nature of his awareness in what these companies were doing and what their interactions were in addition to the tax implications. >> and was he making tens of millions of dollars off this? did he know what was happening? >> weve got to break it there. david, before you go to bet to find, can you find out how much stericycle is making from romney care in massachusetts? surely she have contracts in massachuse...

>> thats exactly right. and as david points out in his reporting, in addition to those questions, there are new questions that seem to be raised in the responses that the romney -- from the romney campaign to davids piece, that raise questions about how -- what did he know and when did he know it? which are always the classic questions that get people in trouble. and, again, you know, this plays into a couple of narratives that are deadly for mitt romney. number one, that he will say or do anyth...

Days ago, and the campaign or bains responses that romney had left the company by that point in time, thereby trying to absolve him of involvement in these sort of deals that would look bad for a political candidate. but in this deal, and in other deals too, it turns out, there were s.e.c. records and other indications that he was more active than he has claimed to be. so theres a whole little wishy-washy mystery here to what romney was doing at bain after he supposedly left. >> and karen finney...