greta: this comes to light on the heels of the 2007 video about the government s slow response to hurricane katrina. joining me is byron york. and steve hayez. steve, you are first? look, i mean, it s an interesting video. but i don t think it tells us much that many people didn t already think about president obama. he has become much more sophisticated in these arguments. but i think at the end of the day, he is making a similar argument today, high is, effect in effect, pretty open about the class warfare argument. it is not as explicit, but the philosophy is the same. this doesn t surprise me to see this. the national attitudes are set on president obottom a. people have seen him come into their living room, ever day for four years. they have a sense of who he is as a person. so as these videos come out, it is going to be hard for them to really shake things up with the independent and swing voters,
years now of accusing him of class warfare. it now off the table given romney s remarks and the gop s defense of those remarks? no. you heard romney in the days after the comment. instead of apologizing for it, kind of doubling down on it and saying i think you re going to hear more in the debates about he won t call them romney won t call obama the food stamp president, but he ll get close to doing that. this kind of class warfare argument from the republican side about the notion that americans don t pay income tax is something that not just mitt romney s view. paul ryan has talked about that. scott walker has talked about that. sure. he is going to come back to this issue, and it will be interesting to see how obama really contrasted and makes clear that we re all in this together. we re all paying taxes. we all pay payroll tax. that s what the next part of this argument will be. i want to i m very fascinated, ari melber with campaign ads. have i been since i was a littl
three things, a class warfare argument that the tax policy is in, the obama argument which we ve seen that romney is just a corporate raider, he wants to strip money from the middle class and give it to rich friends and a mediscare attack on the ryan reforms for medicare and social security and a big attack on the republicans vis-a-vis women and again, these arguments that they are almost like todd akin in missouri. they will have so many women on stage, i m surprised you haven t been invited to appear and make this such a central theme. what about the image of the democratic party and the image of the republicans. the republicans convey a positive image of themselves. i don t think you re going to see that next week, this is why. the obama democrats essentially were the party of democratic left and they captured the party from the clinton centrists, and it was
three things, a class warfare argument that the tax policy is in, the obama argument which we ve seen that romney is just a corporate raider, he wants to strip money from the middle class and give it to rich friends and a mediscare attack on the ryan reforms for medicare and social security and a big attack on the republicans vis-a-vis women and again, these arguments that they are almost like todd akin in missouri. they will have so many women on stage, i m surprised you haven t been invited to appear and make this such a central theme. what about the image of the democratic party and the image of the republicans. the republicans convey a positive image of themselves. i don t think you re going to see that next week, this is why. the obama democrats essentially were the party of democratic left and they captured the party from the clinton centrists, and it was
senator reid hasn t been able to provide any evidence to back up his claims. and speaker boehner said this is absolutely a sideshow. jenna: so, margie, sabrina saying this is a way for republicans to combat as she mentioned this class warfare argument by the democrats. what do you think democrats are accomplishing through all of this. this is not about harry reid. we ve been talking about mitt romney s tax returns for some time and we ll con continue to talk about them. we would still talk about them if there wasn t a issue with senator reid. here is why it is important, first of all what is he hiding, what is mitt romney hiding? he made a political calculation is better than whatever is in the tax returns. second thing is, what does this say about his policies? that is why . jenna: what does it say about the policies? there has been independent tax policy center, has issued a report that mitt romney s tax plan would be a tax increase in 95% of americans and decrease for the top 5