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Crisis and attempted to make people believe that president obama was a terrorist sympathizer. lets turn to john soels, chairman of votevets.org, and sam stein, political reporter for the "huffington post." gentleman, great to have you with us tonight. >> thanks, ed. >> john, why do you think this is worse for mitt romney than his comments about the 47%? >> well, i think the 47% is pretty bad, especially when we have a lot of national guard and reserve soldiers who are on things like food stamps....

>> now, youve benefited from government programs. tell us about that. and do you consider yourself a taker? >> not at all, ed. in fact, i consider myself a person who lived the american dream. i was a guy who, like you said, i benefited from programs like government cheese as a child. i was only able to get an education because of pell grants and stafford lowans, and i was able to go on and live my version of the american dream, started my own business, employed people, creating wages and benefi...

Theres never been a march on washington to get rid of anything that mitt romney wants to privatize. thats the bottom line. hes out of touch. joining me now is congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz of florida, chair of the democratic national committee. congresswoman, great to have you with us tonight. >> thank you, ed, great to be with you. >> i get this feeling that democrats want the election tomorrow. that this is just going too good. that every time romney opens up his mouth, he sticks his ...

People believe that president obama was a terrorist sympathizer. lets turn to john soels, chairman of votevets.org, and sam stein, political reporter for the "huffington post." gentleman, great to have you with us tonight. >> thanks, ed. >> john, why do you think this is worse for mitt romney than his comments about the 47%? >> well, i think the 47% is pretty bad, especially when we have a lot of national guard and reserve soldiers who are on things like food stamps. but i certainly think its te...

>> now, youve benefited from government programs. tell us about that. and do you consider yourself a taker? >> not at all, ed. in fact, i consider myself a person who lived the american dream. i was a guy who, like you said, i benefited from programs like government cheese as a child. i was only able to get an education because of pell grants and stafford loans, and i was able to go on and live my version of the american dream, started my own business, employed people, creating wages and benefit...

Theres a chance that paul ryan could be voted out by the so-called takers in his own backyard. his opponent joins me tonight. joining me now is rob zerband, the democratic candidate challenging paul ryan for that congressional seat. rob, good to have you with us tonight. im curious, every candidate is confident. every candidate hears good things. but what is your instinct on how the comment of 47% and the entitlement, and all of the things that have surrounded this tape, how is this going to pla...

People are not only going to reject paul ryan and mitt romney on the top of the ticket, but also reject him in the congressional race as well. >> now, youve benefited from government programs. tell us about that. and do you consider yourself a taker? >> not at all, ed. in fact, i consider myself a person who lived the american dream. i was a guy who, like you said, i benefited from programs like government cheese as a child. i was only able to get an education because of pell grants and stafford...

>> and yet, hes struggled because of it. look at any of the polls in the wake of what happened. they, by and large, the public has soured on -- >> but nobodys calling him out on it. you know, where are some of these senators who are sitting on foreign relations, that they dont even call romney out for something like this? i mean, that is so below the belt and beyond the pale. great to have you with us. say it again? >> thanks, ed. i would tell you that governor romneys statement emboldened the a...

But he probably this is he has better things to do. >> weve had over 700,000 sign the petition to ask paul ryan to come back to the district and to debate me. so the grassroots organizers are logging on to my website at robzerban.com and theyre signing the petition and anyone can go on there and say, please come back to the district and debate rob zerban. people understand this is an important part of their democracy and want to have their questions answered about why paul ryan is trying to make...

Overseas, it is as low as it gets for the republican party. >> and yet, hes struggled because of it. look at any of the polls in the wake of what happened. they, by and large, the public has soured on -- >> but nobodys calling him out on it. you know, where are some of these senators who are sitting on foreign relations, that they dont even call romney out for something like this? i mean, that is so below the belt and beyond the pale. great to have you with us. say it again? >> thanks, ed. i wou...