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They dont necessarily have a right to the documents that were created in response to the justice department. if the theory is right, its an inappropriate use of power. thats their problem. >> it is certainly something that we will be following. we did not get to discuss the issue of commerce secretary john brycen resigning. >> hes glad. >> hes glad. hes out of there. thanks again to ari, mike, maggie and michael. thats all for now. ill see you back here tomorrow at noon eastern. 9:00 a.m. pacifi...

in today and happy to follow-up off line with any additional questions. >> mike halperin, couple things to unpack from that. the romney campaign has been focused on the economy as we know. how angry, how upset, how stressed out are they that immigration has become such a major priority in terms of the national dialogue? >> they have great faith in the notion that over time if they keep talking about the economy, thats what the election will be decided on. they put out the excerpts from...

your original point, i dont think theyre worried by this. they have great faith as they must in the notion the economy trumps everything else. >> maggie, i mean, okay, in terms of policy prescriptions the general thinking is that team romney is not going to get specific at all before november. the question, i guess, then is, why bother doing this event? if you know youre under water with hispanics, if youre not going to put out any policy specific in any way, why do this? >> i think it...

About job creation, which is exactly the point the president is making. >> okay. all right. carol, youre a white house insider. im going to call you a white house insider. youre a great reporter. youve seen how -- is risk adverse being too unfair? after the hilary rosen comments, after the corey booker stuff, ill give them a pass on joe biden, but theres been an immediate sort of disavowel, lets put daylight between us and you. or lets get you to retract your comments in a home made youtube vide...

Eric bates of rolling stone is sitting next to me. >> my boss, yeah. >> so, ben, you have a story in the magazine talking about the relationship between george and mitt romney and one of the things i thought was interesting is the stoenotion of institutiod organization, how george romney was a believer in the notion of institutions and that mitt romney is to a certain degree, those institutions dont really exist anymore. and i wonder how you think that sort of translates to his relationship to w...

this. newt gingrich actually offering word of advice perhaps for president obama, bain didnt work for him, its not going to work for the white house, what do you make of that? >> i dont think the president will take advice from newt gingrich in terms of how hes going to run his re-election campaign. if you look at what the president said yesterday, its obvious hes not going to back down on this, double down on it, clearly wants to get into the debate. when asked at the end of the nato ...

in the bottle, so to speak? >> i think every day we spend talking about cory booker, were spending talking about bain. and thats a very good day for the obama campaign because of what bain stands for, buying these companies, piling on debt, looting them and having very rich investors walk away with tons of money while the workers are out jobless, no health care, no penchant. thats what romney hes said he likes about the ryan budget. thats the same consequence. can booker walk it back? ...

itself isnt a bad thing, its just the clarification the president made, these are his credentials for running for president, and he doesnt get it. >> i think what the president did yesterday really made it clear why it matters. i think what he did was a good thing, alex. i think that saying its one company demonizing private equity, all of these things that theyve thrown back at him i thought he handled it well to say mitt romney has made this the centerpiece of why you should elect hi...

Im joined pa trish i cant believe murphy it, eric bates and joan walsh is back for more. double down. until then, you can find us at facebook.com/nowwithalex. and degreeal mitchell is live from the windy city. good afternoon, andrea. >> good afternoon. thanks so much from the nato summit here. were live in chicago with special coverage of the nato summit. joining us today, chuck todd, john yang, former secretary of state madeleine albright. obamas senior campaign adviser david axelrod and romney...

his campaign. i encourage it for the obama campaign to examine that record and to discuss it. >> if the presidents advisers were pressuring booker to mitigate his criticism, heres why. this morning obamas campaign released a new five-minute web videotape highlighting an indiana paper company shuttered after it was bought by bain. >> to me romney takes from the poor and the middle class and gives to the rich. just the opposite of robin hood. >> jonathan capehart, on the heels of all of ...