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Fund-raiser where i was caught by garrett haake talking about what he would do like close the department of education and department of commerce. he never says that publicly. he knows if he starts doing that, that isnt going to be very impressive to the voter. >> youve got to be really careful these days on the campaign trail. >> careful about telling the truth, ken? careful about telling the truth. >> how you target your message. >> telling truth, is that a problem, ken? >> its framing. >> fram...

Your candidacy or some guy whos with a wink and nod can give $10 million. >> its great. joy ann, the other thing that happened was that romney decided that he was going to take some questions at the business roundtable. but he kicked the press out. now, hes delayed filing his tax returns. he doesnt like to disclose his own financial details. this man has a problem with transparency, doesnt he? hes running for president. why doesnt he take a few questions. >> quiet rooms is, martin. its very impo...

Very good! he did it! >> and here he is, with welcome back to the "morning joe" live in chicago. joining us on set, we have the mayor of chicago -- >> this is big. >> mr. mayor, rahm emanuel. rahm. >> aris brother, zeks brother. >> zeke, rahm, ari. >> who was the most difficult? ari? >> without a doubt. >> get in a lot of fights? >> ari always try to pick a fight with you guys? >> the reason ari is the way he is, we had cribs and we literally used to jump into the crib to watch the baby jump. >>...

Said the private sector is doing fine. republicans pounced on that and said it is an indication that the president is out of touch with whats actually happening. the president fired back and said, look, the whole reason i held a news conference is because im concerned about the economy. but the white house knows this did give a little bit of an opening to republicans. theyre saying the republicans are taking the comments completely out of context, but the bottom line is it provided republicans w...

That he and president clinton were the two presidents over the last 40 years who have had the lowest increases in government spending which drew a quick response from the mitt romney campaign. a romney spokesman said "president obama suddenly claiming to be a fiscal conservative is laughable." the spokesman went on to say that the president is trying to distract voters from his "three years of wasteful spending." there was some star power last night. rocker jon bon jovi sang at one of the events...

Can fend for themselves, but the country will be okay if the big guy is doing well. >> you know, chip, the message hes sending is romney thinks his rich friends should play by a different set of rules. is it working for him, do you think? >> i think its -- joe bidens got a hard time being a secret, first of all. i want to comment on that. thanks the first time weve heard secret and joe biden together. >> the key to this is about the swing voters that bill clinton had back in, you know, 12 years ...

Very enthusiastic about the president, there has been a lot of disappointment that he hasnt moved for gay marriage. this could be very helpful for the campaign. >> admittedly, george clooney is no ted nugent but republicans are continuing to smear the president as a hollow celebrity. as we saw with that ad produced by american cross roads. but thats inevitable, is it not? they have to attack the president because their own candidate has about as much charisma as a stem of wilting asparagus, does...

Willing to cut with the far right wing are such that he is going to be beholden to all of these interests. and what chris was saying, he wont be able to have a sister souljah moment, he wont be able to stand up to those folks, because hes so in bed with those people, hes cut so many deals with those people that hes really sort of given away the farm. >> but, karen, doesnt this put mitt romney really in a tougher spot? because now he would have to come out and denounce that talk show host. and wh...

They said, we reined him back in, we yanked his chain, right? so the deals that romney is willing to cut with the far right wing are such that he is going to be beholden to all of these interests. and what chris was saying, he wont be able to have a sister souljah moment, he wont be able to stand up to those folks, because hes so in bed with those people, hes cut so many deals with those people that hes really sort of given away the farm. >> but, karen, doesnt this put mitt romney really in a to...

In, we yanked his chain, right? so the deals that romney is willing to cut with the far right wing are such that he is going to be beholden to all of these interests. and what chris was saying, he wont be able to have a sister souljah moment, he wont be able to stand up to those folks, because hes so in bed with those people, hes cut so many deals with those people that hes really sort of given away the farm. >> but, karen, doesnt this put mitt romney really in a tougher spot? because now he wou...