wants you to put out the full tape. what is your response to that? let s do it. i was on the phone with david at the time. i asked him to blur out everyone else in the room. i only wanted romney to be seen. i really only wanted romney s voice to be heard, too. in a way, i felt it wasn t fair to the people in the room. i only wanted his voice, but he came out and did this press conference. frankly, my reaction, it looks like he s a broken man. that was my impression. his hair was a mess. his face contorted. he s as stressed as you can be. he doubled down on it. he said it s a message i m going to continue to take forward. he didn t back up from it at all. then he did. he specifically asked that i release the whole thing, called it a snippet insinuating it was taken out of context.
wanted to go live in full, you know, probably when most people are paying attention. i thought that was probably around the conventions, the rnc and the dnc. i wanted his words to be the center of attention. maybe it would be fun to go on a show or do this show or that, but i thought that would change the topic of the conversation away from the primary thing that was most important to me. i thought it was too important for me to just stand-up and say hey, i did it and try to get a little bit of fame. mr. romney, at that point in that tape says he wants you to put out the full tape. what was your response? let s do it. he asked for it, let s do it. called it a snippet insinuating it was taken out of context. so, at that point, he asked for it, so i decided to give it to him. president obama used your material to close a debate at a
it a snippet insinuating it was taken out of context. so, at that point, if he asked for it, i decided i would give it to him and said david, go for it. it was a motivator for you? yeah. you are going to the firewall. he asked for it. now that the tape is out, the pressure is on candidate romney because he was asked about it everywhere. it evolved into a number of different answers. let s look at it. those dependent upon government and those who think government s job is to redistribute, i m not going to get them. there s a divide in the country. when someone is running for president this day and age, you can t always say what you believe? you can but you don t always say it eloquently. you mix it up and you have to go back and say it s not what i meant. clearly in a campaign with hundreds and thousands of
then he did. he specifically asked that i release the whole thing, called it a snippet insinuating it was taken out of context. so, at that point, if he asked for it, i decided i would give it to him and said david, go for it. it was a motivator for you? yeah. you are going to the firewall. he asked for it. now that the tape is out, the pressure is on candidate romney because he was asked about it everywhere. it evolved into a number of different answers. let s look at it. those dependent upon government and those who think government s job is to redistribute, i m not going to get them. there s a divide in the country. when someone is running for president this day and age, you can t always say what you believe? you can but you don t always say it eloquently. you mix it up and you have to go back and say it s not what i
know, probably when most people are paying attention. i thought that was probably around the conventions, the rnc and the dnc. i wanted his words to be the center of attention. maybe it would be fun to go on a show or do this show or that, but i thought that would change the topic of the conversation away from the primary thing that was most important to me. i thought it was too important for me to just stand-up and say hey, i did it and try to get a little bit of fame. mr. romney, at that point in that tape says he wants you to put out the full tape. what was your response? let s do it. he asked for it, let s do it. called it a snippet insinuating it was taken out of context. so, at that point, he asked for it, so i decided to give it to him. president obama used your material to close a debate at a very crucial time after his first debate was heavily