steroids. if you look at what the vice president said and what he has been saying on the campaign trail, is that the middle class has been buried by the exact same policies that mitt romney and paul ryan want to go back to. so, kevin madden didn t want too touch that 2007 obama video but the campaign certainly wanted to touch on vice president joe biden s comments. they have got a t-shirt up now, says honest joe, applauding his comments regarding the middle class being buried. what do you make of this back and forth, ab? will it matter tonight? i think it might come up and the president will find a wake as he has in the past, that s joe bind, he didn t mean that and what he meant was because of the financial collapse of september of 2008 and even the beginnings of the recession we saw once before that the middle class has been buried and hasn t been able to come out from under what is the sequences of an economic downturn. i think vel to explain that away. of course, will have to
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opposed to what kevin madden says answered the campaign would like to talking about, the priorities getting this economy turned around? is there a divide within conservatives in the party on how to fight back? when you are running a campaign and there s other groups doing everything, always doing something else. kevson very smart, keeping it focused on jobs and the economy and the romney campaign. and i think the only a ha is going to matter today about 9:01 when the debate starts and these two guys are on the same stage together. i think we are not going to be talking about videos or gotcha videos or anything else tomorrow or tonight or tomorrow, it is going to be about the debate it is going to be reset about 9:01 tonight. i don t know if that is necessarily true. we may not be talking about a ha moments but chip don t you think we are going to talk about that 47% will not come up in the debate tonight? i think it will come up very early in the debate. mitt romney has got to
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to romney, go unanswered without the candidate being specific? well, i won t be surprised at all but the nice thing about a debate is that i think the moderator, jim lehrer, is going to take a step back and allow the clash between the candidates. i think if romney gives a nonanswer to that question we just talked about obama will say, no, answer that question and that will generate an exciting back and forth and make for a great debate. sfeefrnlt it all goes down that way. james, thank you so much. have fun in denver. coming up, former pennsylvania governor ed rendell joins me live what does he make of the new nbc news/ wall street journal poll shows president obama and governor romney tied with a among voters would an interest in the leeks. earlier today, the president tweeted 20 years ago today, i married the love of my life and my best friend. happy anniversary, michelle. first lady, twitter replay, thank you for being an incredible partner, friend and father every day. i lov