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weather help them or make their efforts to battle this giant blaze even harder. we begin with crime and punishment tonight. jerry sandusky. faced one of his accusers on the first day of testimony in his child sex abuse trial. in court documents, the accuser is known as victim number four. hes the first to take the stand for the prosecution. the former penn state assistant football coach sat with his lawyer through often graphic testimony about their so-called relationship. victim numbe...

♪ he wants another stimulus, he wants to hire more government workers. he says we need for firemen, more policemen, more teachers. did he not get the message of wisconsin? the american people did. its time for us to cut back on government and help the american people. >> do you think governor romney is talking about getting rid of more teachers and firemen? >> no, i think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help and the answer is not more big government. i kn...

>> eric: ill get to you in a second. i know you want to jump on this. sometimes -- >> dana: sometimes you dont need to say anything at all. let it go. let president obamas words speak for themselves. what romney there did is give them an opening to create an ad against them saying he doesnt care about the most important public workers that we have, teachers, firefighters and police officers. i dont think its necessarily true. but again, context is mythical place. >> bob: give it context. the rea...

For 23 years. his math doesnt end up. we need have to less firemen and less teachers and invest in people i dont understand that math at all. i think itself the firemen, police and teachers that are delivering to the american public. they are the one that is bringing incredible service to kids, preparing the next generation and he says what we ought to do is build wealth. that is different of building wealth in a small group of people than doing it for the nation. in the last 29 years, productiv...

Compared to that in the private sector. this is who he is. >> bret: what about the statement by mitt romney and the reaction to all of that, that its time for to us cut back on government? he specifically members firemen and police. >> bret: he was responding to president suggesting we need to hire more of each. its not clear whether romney meant that anybody should be laid off but sounded enough like it, it gave obama campaign something it didnt have, way to respond to fire storm created by the...

Horribly. and john mccain was trying to do the same thing. he wanted to be reassured. he wanted on the one hand to say that he understood how deeply troubled we were as a country economically but that we were strong as a nation. and thats republican talking point. and after all, he was coming after two terms of a republican president. he didnt want to completely say the country is a disaster because he was following george bush. >> lets shift the other side of the aisle now, because as david men...

Government. that is a contradiction. obviously insincere. he believes big government is the answer to every problem including up employment. >> bret: speaking of slinking government, democrats are pointing to mitt romneys comment on friday about doing just that. >> he wants another stimulus and wants to hire more government workers. he says we need more firemen and policemen and more teachers. did he not get message in wisconsin? american people did. time to cut back on government and help the a...

Reductions in aid that would translate into firemen and teachers. >> that wasnt the fight romney was trying to pick with obama. romney was saying these arent the only kind of jobs we should be adding to fuel our economy. >> let me ask you this. is "usa today," is that still the most read newspaper in america? >> its the most widely circulated. >> most widely circulated. >> yeah. >> probably good reason for it, because we could talk about spain and euro -- >> not there. >> i dont -- >> instead --...

>> the chance of a lifetime. kidding? he two more weeks, got to do it right. anyway, the last she week from friday that will do it for us, however, today, im dylan ratigan. you want more information go to dylanratigan.com. mike smerconish is in the chair now with some "hardball," however. obama versus romney. whos gaffe is worse? lets play some "hardball." good evening, im michael smerconish. chris matthews is on a shoot at mount rushmore. he will be back tomorrow. leading off tonight, a t...

>> the private sector is doing fine. where were seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government. the private sector is doing fine. ♪ >> he says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers, did he not get the message in wisconsin, the american people did, its time for us to cut back on government and help the american people. >> turn governor romneys tenure local government was cut dramatically. we lost police, firefighters, teachers at rapid rates, people th...