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Says "politico", for two months, now, democrats have pummeled romney with a relentless stream of character attacks, casting him as a soulist political flip-flop. have the attacks by democrats hurt romney at the polls do you think? >>guest: well a frontrunner is going to get criticism from those outside his party and those inside his party and i dont know if tey have, really, torn romney down, but the polls when you look at the support, it is still there for romney. but there is a surge with ging...

Arms. we are doing this live. by taking it live we allow the viewers to determine for themselves how the sharks respond. do the sharks make more attention to our guinea pigs, or are they ignoring them. heather: live, there is potentially a lot of danger there. what if something bad happens, the character attacks? >> yeah, we are not kidding ourselves, what we are doing is dangerous, there is no getting around that. what we have done is put together probably one of the most experienced shark divi...

Investigators found while not 100 percent conclusive, based on the evidence, investigators blame mexican drug smugglers for at least some of those fires, which, again, seems to back up what senator mccain was saying. and heres his response to the report. i hope this report is the lesson to the activists and public officials that would prefer to engage in partisan character attacks rather than focus the discussion on the vital need to secure our southern border. the head of the u.s. forest servic...

Had enough. >> you said in the political context given the choice between losing and lying, i chose lying. john, im sorry to say that it appears history is repeating itself here, as you deal with half-truths, as you deal with blatant character attacks. as you fail to own up to the mistakes you have made that hurt our nation. >> thats a pretty strong attack there, and im really tempted to respond. but im reminded of the advice of my friend senator bob dole who told me one time, "never get in a wr...

Bid in 2000 6r attacked mccains record from how he voted on taxes to immigration, hayworth accusing mccain supporting amnesty for the illegal immigrants and the former presidential candidate had enough. >> you said in the political context, given the choice between losing and lying, i chose lying. john, im sorry to say that it appears history is repeating itself here as you deal with half truths, as you deal with blatant character attacks, as you failed to own up to the mistakes you have made th...

Character attacks and as you fail to own up to mistakes you made that hurt our nation. >> jump-starting the economy and immigration were among the most heated topics discussed. we have want to play the rebuttal of senator mccain calling j.k. hayworth a pig but well have it in next hour of americas news headquarters. by the way, mccain has a comfortable lead in the polls, jamie. >> jamie: all right, thank you so much for the report. well stay tuned for that as well. thanks. president obamas check...

Street executives in exchange for their support. minority leader mcconnell himself having struggled to explain the purpose of the meeting or what was discussed. >> we sure didnt talk about blocking this bill. i met with kentucky bankers, the little banks, community banks on main street. we were talking about financial regulation as everyone in the country is talking about. most of the people supported the president. the vast majority are on his side, supported him during the election, they still...

Take one more whack at people they dont like. thats "hardball" for now. "countdown" with keith olbermann starts right now. which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? secret meeting. senate majority leader reid accuses republican leadership of holding a closed-door meeting with wall street executives earlier this month. reid demands senators mcconnell and cornyn reveal what secret deals and carve-outs republicans are offering wall street. >> far more efficient way of proceeding ...

Exonerating hillary clinton before he even interviewed makes him a discredited witness in this investigation. i think character attacks on james comey as a credible witness in this investigation are going to continue in the weeks and months to come because they know the investigation is heating up and going broad and thats making people around the president very nervous. >> jon: clearly this is a topic that occupies the presidents time and occupied some of sarah sanders briefing yesterday. let m...

Maine. joining us now to talk more about this, cnns senior political ammist and senior editor of the atlantic, ron brownstein and washington correspond, jay newton small. jay, let me xwin with you. so, you know, polls have shown donald trump you know, popularity has split particularly after that access hollywood videotape was revealed. so, is there a feeling now from trump and his campaign that going after the accusers will help bring some of those numbers up or is it simply trying to get the la...