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With his party which hasnt exactly been happy with his flat footed response. and if it is a tax, does that mean romney raises his taxes in his plan in massachusetts? according to romney, not exactly. well get to his verbal gymnastics at the top of the program. meanwhile, president obama is on a bus tour through ohio and pennsylvania. can he make inroads among those working class voters? and speaking of those voters, how will they respond to the new reports of romneys extensive offshore bank ...

>> how wig of an image problem does romney have when it comes to his wealth? now, according to "vanity fair," mitt romney has several offshore accounts about which not much is known cht he has money stored in tax havens where according to the magazine, he has personal interests in at least 12 funds worth as much as $30 million. in his 2010 returns, romney listed a $3 million bank account in switzerland. eugene, smart finance, stupid politics. >> absolutely. you read the kicker of a column ive wr...

Moment yesterday. i mean, most -- i would say most of the american public probably was absolutely stunned to arhea the statement he was not being vetted, made no sense whatsoever, hes well-liked, personal, given the republican partys image problem with the hispanic community at this point in time, you had to scratch your head and say, why wouldnt you consider marco rubio? and i think mitt romney woke up by the end of the day, and said, man, weve created a huge problem here. >> and on the hill, j...

Members only two dozen of them are women. just as republicans seem bewildered that putting sarah palin on the ticket in 2008 did not help them do better with women voters, they still seem baffled by the fact that their problem with women voters isnt necessarily a image problem. its not about whether they look female enough. its a policy problem. they may have unveiled something called a womens policy committee but it has nothing to do with policy. they are keeping the same policy. they are keepi...

Today, house republicans are doing the same thing that the young guns did but doing it for the whole republican caucus. they have announced the formation of something called a womens policy committee. thats a committee for women in congress that are interested in policies that affect womens issues. do not be fooled. of course its not that. its a committee for house of representatives who are female and who are republican. house republicans have also shown a light on the fact that of their 242 ho...

Just as republicans seem bewildered that putting sarah palin on the ticket in 2008 did not help them do better with women voters, they still seem baffled by the fact that their problem with women voters isnt necessarily a image problem. its not about whether they look female enough. its a policy problem. they may have unveiled something called a womens policy committee but it has nothing to do with policy. they are keeping the same policy. they are keeping the policies that earn the war on women...

Bring you in on this. obviously the romney team feeling the need to get out there and discuss this. it is not because of our prime time coverage that theyre doing that. they see this could be a potential problem for them. timing aside, we are talking so much about same sex marriage. our first read team points out that it reminds people he was a privileged kid which no one was bad mouthing that. but you have as you well know in popular culture, this image of the prep school kid and his jacket wit...

chairman of the homeland security committee, also with us this morning, cnn national security contributor frances townsend, former bush homeland security adviser. congressman king, give me some more details of this plot as you know this and the man at the center of the plot whom we havent heard much information about. >> soledad i really cant give you all the details. this is an ongoing operation. it was an unmetallic device, i can tell you it involves a number of countries and that at...

It is his second day in that state and it is part of the slugfest were keeping an eye on. the super pac is out with a $4.3 million ad by today. look at that map. >> the company brought almost all our employees to new york. he said i dont care how long it takes. were going to find her. >> that ad may look familiar to you. interestingly it is one of the same ads that ran during the primary and the same ad romneys campaign ran in 2007. it is called the search. and it details romneys efforts to find...

before. at last slow down in that trend. private sector is carrying things here, no question. but the private sector slowing down a bit too, ali. >> christine, something that you and i study very carefully, this is a consumer-driven economy, so we study retail sales. the retail sales for the last month came out this week, and they were exceptionally strong. much stronger than economists were expecting. so why did we see losses in retail jobs? >> its so interesting, because you saw 33,8...