tackle the problem of pre-existing conditions, then these are tough problems. we have make choices and the choices we have made are ultimately benefitting middle-class families across the country no, i have to respond to that. my experience as a governor is if i come in and lay down a piece of legislation and say, it s my way or the highway, i don t get a lot done. what i do, is the same way that tip o neill and ronald reagan worked together some years ago. when ronald reagan ran for office, he laid out the principles he was going to foster. he said he was going to lower tax rates. he said he was going to broaden the base. have you said the same thing, simplify the tax code, broaden the base. i want to bring down the tax burden on middle-income families. i will work with congress to say, what are the ways to bring down deductions? one way would be to have a single number make up a number, 25,000 50,000,
that part is true. the president is right about that. romney said from the very beginning, he s consistent so nothing he said last night was new. it s important to put that clearly. he s always said he will pay for that tax cut. that tax cut will not be passed the way it is currently in. he will work with congress to find offsets. romney has not named any offsets or shown how to pay for it, and it s not clear that he can, given the size of it and given his promise of not letting it become a tax cut for the rich. that s what romney did last night. every time obama said you have a $5 trillion tax cut, he said no i don t. the truth is we don t know what it is. as he s running for president, i think it s information that we re frankly entitled to. let me play another clip. the president criticized romney for a lack of specifics in the tax plan and wall street reform and health care. that s how that went down. my experience as a governor is if i come in and lay down a piece of legislati
president nomination paul ryan, who insisted time and again, it s my way or the highway. and with substantially responsible for the lack of progress. the person you didn t mention was mitt romney because he s not part of the dc mess. so let s bring a dc outsider in to fix the mess, the clown show needs to go. no question about that. arthel: we ll find out come november 6. thank you very much. all right, rick. rick: thanks. a man recovering recovering fros tiger attack will be facing criminal charges. police say the man claims he jumped into the tiger enclosure on purpose, because he apparently wanted to become one with the big cat. that s what he said. and he says despite his serious injuries, he was able to pet the 400-pound beast before help arrived. our emergency response staff, along with the nypd stationed at the bronks zoo immediately went to the site and they used a co 2 fire extinguisher person.
running for county commissioner who is a republican called it appalling, and said this is as close to indoctrination as he has seen, and we should note that the teacher said that you could be arrested for speaking ill about a president, and then she went onto use a bad word to describe former president bush. shannon. shannon: she did. now because there is a recording in this particular situation, do we know, has the student said that this had happened before and maybe he wanted to get an account of this thing on tape? reporter: yeah, that s exactly what he said. he said that every week, maybe twice a week there were these types of conversations in class, and this teacher would go forward and say, no, you can t believe that. this is the way it is. it s my way or the highway, basically, and so this student told his friend, look, after we start having this conversation start recording this. and again that recording was ten minutes long, and you heard a lot of it yesterday, and there is
all right. before we go to break, explain to me why payroll tax cut extension wouldn t be good for the middle class at this point. can republicans and democrats agree on that without any string attached? shouldn t that be possible at this point? yeah, it should be. i wanted to settle that. we were having a little throw in a pipeline. no, the pipeline thing the republicans. it s my way or the highway. no, joe. if you don t agree to the president s approach. if they attach the pipeline bill to this payroll tax cut extension, then they d have to go through a 30-day review with the department there and it would die, so they re killing it. so if i were in the house of representatives right now. you cannot agree on a payroll tax cut for middle class? no, i can t. if i were in the house of representatives right now with a $15 trillion debt and i looked