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Romneys silence on the matter speaks volumes on who mitt romney is as a leader and as a person. lets turn to karen finney, msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications director and democratic strategist chris kofinis. chris, good to have you back with us. its about time. >> thanks, ed. >> i want to play this for you. heres romneys senior adviser, with eric fernstrom, moments ago, talking about this. >> yeah, and thats disappointing. whenever there are voices of intolerance within the pa...

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...

Think, was being able to be united in opposition against obamas stimulus plan. when they realized that they could actually get unanimous votes against that, they realized that as long as we can keep our numbers together, keep our opposition pure, then we can start to develop a narrative, and start both with what the republicans stood for and what the democrats stood -- >> was it obama? was it the man? was it the first black president? was it his agenda? what was it? >> ed, i really think that th...

Street. and certainly, if theres an apology, which is due, and there is one, it is from the crooks on wall street, the people whose recklessness and illegal behavior drove this country into the horrible recession were in right now. millions of people lost their jobs, lost their life savings, lost their ability to send their kids to college, lost their homes. and you know what? interestingly enough, ed, i have not heard any of these guys on wall street say, you know what, im sorry for my greed, i...

Romney has said enough on this? >> i havent heard him say anything. at some point, hes going to have, if you will, for lack of a better way of putting it, a sister souljah moment where hell have to stand up and say to the right, these are not my values, i dont believe in what youre saying. he hasnt done that, and until he does that, this is going to continue to haunt him. and when you look at some of the recent polling i was looking at today, hes got demographic problems with young voters, his p...

Really far, far to the right. >> chris, do you think that mitt romney has said enough on this? >> i havent heard him say anything. at some point, hes going to have, if you will, for lack of a better way of putting it, a sister souljah moment where hell have to stand up and say to the right, these are not my values, i dont believe in what youre saying. he hasnt done that, and until he does that, this is going to continue to haunt him. and when you look at some of the recent polling i was looking ...

a homosexual activist in a very prominent place in mitt romneys campaign has stepped down. >> republican homophobes claim victory after a gay romney aide quits. >> i will flat-out guarantee you, he is not going to make this mistake again. >> why is mitt romney silent on this issue? karen finney and chris kofinis are here. the republican assault on public education is getting uglier in pennsylvania. that report tonight. and new polling in wisconsin shows scott walker is in deep trou...

a homosexual activist in a very prominent place in mitt romneys campaign has stepped down. >> republican homophobes claim victory after a gay romney aide quits. >> i will flat-out guarantee you, he is not going to make this mistake again. >> why is mitt romney silent on this issue? karen finney and chris kofinis are here. the republican assault on public education is getting uglier in pennsylvania. that report tonight. and new polling in wisconsin shows scott walker is in deep trou...

quits. >> i will flat-out guarantee you, he is not going to make this mistake again. >> why is mitt romney silent on this issue? karen finney and chris kofinis are here. the republican assault on public education is getting uglier in pennsylvania. that report tonight. and new polling in wisconsin shows scott walker is in deep trouble. ill ask robert greenwald if the koch brothers can bail him out. good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. its still all about j...

shows scott walker is in deep trouble. ill ask robert greenwald if the koch brothers can bail him out. good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. its still all about jobs and all about the economy. and thats why i want to start the show tonight with a few charts. because theyre so unlike mitt romney, they dont lie. the economic policy institute has a new report out. its called the state of working america. whoa, weve got some information here tonight. this is the g...