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>> wack her again! >> thats what you need. >> greta: governor nikki haley is here. good evening, governor. >> hey, gret a. how are you? >> greta: good. i know you are tough. i know you can take t. but i must admit, i have been flooded with a lot of emails that are outraged hoping to get this closer to a time of discussion debate. you are getting hit in the head with a pinata. your thoughts? >> its creepy. i hurt every time i see it. but this is what i will tell you. this is not typical...

for president play up that experience. its their main qualification for the job. but romney is playing it down. in fact, one article calls his four years at governor the lost years of mitt romney. and when romney does bring it up on the campaign trail, its often as a punch line. >> that skill, learning the private sector, and practiced for four years in massachusetts -- >> di not spend my life in government, only four years, i didnt inhale. >> i spent four years as governor, i didnt in...

>> bain capital. >> mitt romney has not stepped up on this. >> he pivoted. >> we have an economy in trouble. >> i was astonished. >> the record when you were there. >> if you dont want to run on it dont run on it. >> i will lead this out of this debt and spending inferno. >> it has been a campaign of large falsehoods. >> he has spent more and borrowed more. >> spending has run flat as a pancake. >> over the period of four years, we get the unemployment rate down to 6%. >> the time has ...

mark crowley. the washington bureau chief. thank you for joining me. let me start off with you, the "time" magazine interview that mr. romney made this claim that he could get opportunity employment rate to 6% or lower. as noted in the "boston globe," it is not a similar time he made a similar claim while in las vegas but this is obviously getting a lot of attention today. >> sure. in large measure this election is all about the unemployment rate. this one number, it is more than that ...

but he is not only pressure from wisconsin, but hes under the glare of the national spotlight. tonight, he goes on the record. rush limbaugh has 2012 election advice from the democrats. hear from rush limbaugh in just a minute. but right now, what was she thinking? or worse, is this how she always thinks? a south carolina union leader, caught on camera, afl-cio leader beating a pinata with governor nikki haleys face on it. >> what i wont say, it looks like a tough little girl here. >> ...

>> welcome, everyone! big night last night with "american idol." and brian is here. >> i know. 20 million people about watched last night. and it turns out -- >> 136 million votes cast. >> they say. >> they say. >> right. >> most teenaged girls must be casting the votes because a woman cant win "american idol" anymore. cant win. >> yeah, but as we all know, you dont have to win to be a winner because a lot of the ones who dont win it end up being more successful. >> we have exactly the...

caught on tape, telling constituents the president is not an american. >> do you feel like voters are owed a better explanation of just, i misspoke? >> republicans cannot control their hatred for president obama. they leadership needs to stand up and do something about it. my commentary is ahead. the teachers unions dont fight for our children. thats our job. >> the republican assault on public education has gone national. we will dissect the romney education plan he unveiled today. ...

that is a good record and if all the president wants to do is talk about fail failures, he is misrepresenting free enterprise. >> the president leads in three pivotal swing states, ohio, florida and virginia. the president is not backing down that his priorities are wrong for the economy. >> governor romney, hes saying my 25 years in private sector gives me a special understanding of how our economy works. well, if thats true why is he pedaling the same bad ideas that brought our econo...

and talk with his very upset mom exclusively today, thursday, may 24th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to "today" on 7:00 on the west coast on this thursday morning. im ann curry. >> and im matt lauer. were following breaking news this morning. police are saying the man being questioned in the etan patz case lived and worked in etans neighborhood here in new york city at the time of his disappearance. that was back in 1979. >> so far the man has not b...

the republican strategy of casting president obama has un-american is going strong. yes, its a republican strategy. this is not just the birthers. this is not just the tea party. this is the republican party. the gop cant run away from this pattern. the latest example comes from congressman mike coffman in colorado. coffman presents himself as a moderate republican. but earlier this month, he told conservative fund-raisers what he thought about president obama. >> i dont know whether b...