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Puts his country before everything else. and so he and i stand shoulder to shoulder with the same goal and e desire and that is to unite this party and take the fight to the president, to the senate and the american people. i really do believe it is time for a fresh start. that was the whole genesis of my campaign. we need to have a lot more family discussion because we need to find somebody that our whole body can unite behind and do what we were elected to do. so i was absolutely stunned, shoc...

A lot of them emerging from school with big debt. they are struggling in this economy. no conversations about that. governors on the stage have slashed higher education budgets in their states, and that causes more tuition increases to fall on students and parents. theres a little bit of a gap in reality versus aspiration. i think its one thing to talk about things. i think what they do about things is very different. i would agree with jonathan that, if you predicate everything on unrealistic e...

Cost that is would add. >> well, i think the point were missing here is that were -- christian used which is the fix. because remember, if theres 20 million union members who woke up one day and even the president of one of the largest unions came out and said by the way, the math doesnt work and our expenses and cost would go up and we would get less care. when he caves in on them, hes to have a fix. guess what, brenda, who else wants a fix? there are other guys and the other people and all of ...

>> thats basically what bill clinton was saying, the math doesnt work. ken conrad can do that every day and other democrats are well versed in that, and the republicans, i get the feeling they realize that argument is working. >> i think thats right. one of the arguments about mitt romney, the math doesnt add up is because they werent saying what was in the math. that was a big problem for the republicans throughout the campaign. we are now past that point. were going to have to say it. mitt rom...

But that presents some very difficult challenges in terms of the so-called tax expenditures, because if you dont go up on the top rate, you have to go deeper into tax expenditures. that means you start affecting very popular things like home mortgage deduction, the health care deduction. >> thats basically what bill clinton was saying, the math doesnt work. ken conrad can do that every day and other democrats are well versed in that, and the republicans, i get the feeling they realize that argum...

Martha: what is the big line from president obama, doug. >> governor romney your numbers dont add up, your out of touch, the math doesnt work, and governor real people are hurting, particularly women and youre not addressing their concerns. martha: well see how it goes. thank you so much. always a pleasure. bill: well be sitting here tomorrow thinking what did doug say, what did brad say? jenna lee is hanging out right now. "happening now" rolls your way in 12 minutes. i have one guest that your...

Specific, he couldnt give them. is it mitt romney tonight need to lay out specifically how his plan would work, where the money would come from, where the cuts would be? >> hes actually laid out a lot of detail. what he said is well have a big across the board marginal tax cut, but only if its accompanied by reductions in federal spending and reform of the tax code in a way that protects middle income taxpayers. its a strong proposal very much in the bipartisan tradition -- >> but the math doesn...

Getting that math. people really think that the republicans will do better on this. whats the distance between what they are trying to do and what people believe about what they are trying to do? >> this is one of the things -- you mentioned the president mentioning this in the debate. this is something youll hear the president mention tomorrow and its something we have to talk about as a party and as the presidents party every single day before this election. because you went through some of th...

>> i think that was quite an intro. i do think you make a series of great points. we forget that before barack obama ever walked into the oval office, president bush had spent a trillion dollars that year. they want to blame -- its funny. you listen to them talk about it and you forget that that was all under their watch. and so many of the policies that were trying to unwind right now, we ended the war in afghanistan. we had to put more troops in afghanistan, now were in the process of bringing...

Proposing would be a recipe for massive deficits. really there is no way you can do the things mr. romney says hes going to do without running up massive deficits. instead of making up memorable arguments that made him the more likable and effective of the two debaters president obama instead tried to prove that thing about the math. president obama tried to explain whats so wrong with thinking that mitt romney is a guy who should be taken seriously on the deficit. he was trying to explain that ...