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>> getting back on a horse, started getting better and stronger. one of our finest historical and military monuments. behind me is the eequestrian centre for the olympic games. has a horse in that race. a part ownership in rafalka, which is in the olympic equestrian competition. tonight, ill be talking to the romneys about that, about the election. and, well, just about everything else. including their very enduing and very touching love story. governor and mrs. romney, it must feel --...

talks about her battle with m.s. and why she says horse backing saved her life. >> getting back on a horse, started getting better and stronger. one of our finest historical and one of our finest historical and military monuments. behind me is the equestrian centre for the olympic games. has a horse in that race. a part ownership in rafalka, which is in the olympic equestrian competition. tonight, ill be talking to the romneys about that, about the election. and, well, just about every...

We certainly didnt take governor romneys comments out of context. and weve represented the views that governor romney had when he was governor of massachusetts and when he was in a private sector, bain equity, weve made it abundantly clear that he outsourced jobs in that period, and that as a consequence of decisions that he made when he was the head of that company, american workers lost their pensions and their benefits. so weve accurately represented his views on job creation. >> hey, patrick...

Unleashing the economic growth america needs. well talk about that in one minute you brought a sign with you dave walker. www.10 million a minute.com. its not the debt clock. if you add the total liabilities and unfunded promises for social security when we roll the tour, 70, 410, 400, 000, 000. the u.s. in the hole $70 trillion. the debt clock doesnt take it all in, the unfunded social security mandate, unfunded medicare mandate. >> it doesnt take it unfunded pensions, retiree health care for c...

weather? if your nation was just a few feet above sea level, you would be really worried. well talk with a former president of just such a nation. and why am i wiggling my finger in a mirror here? to try to understand the wonders of the human brain. come along for an amazing tour. first, heres my take. the attacks and counterattacks in this presidential campaign are, i suppose, inevitable. but lets be honest. theyre largely untrue or irrelevant. whatever the paperwork shows, mitt r...

weather? if your nation was just a few feet above sea level, you would be really worried. well talk with a former president of just such a nation. and why am i wiggling my fingers in a mirror here, to try to understand the wonders of the human brain. come along for an amazing tour. but first, here is my take. the attacks and counterattacks in this presidential campaign are, i suppose, inevitable. but lets be honest. theyre largely untrue or irrelevant. whatever the paperwork shows, mit...

Important. >> jonathan ten seconds. >> a college degree is a commodity. like anything else likes a hamburger, whether its important to you. government involvement pushes up the cost and down the quality. and let a free marketplace free rein and decide. >> that was a great debate. dont move, coming up, a new alarm ringing over public pensions, they may finally help taxpayers avoid pension bailout. well, legalzoom came up with a better way. we took the best of the old and combined it with modern t...

Rat hole. a bailout with tax benefits costs $100 billion is currently on our books, our our taxpayers s book. only a third. is this a course correction adding a billion here and a billion there? maybe. but that is not the issue. this is another manifestation of people at the top deciding who the winers and losers are rather than merit or accomplishment. >>neil: we got wind of this on the same week we learned that the way they paid for the transportation pill was to take money out of the pension ...

>>neil: take the buy out money and run. or keep running with positively pension checks. thousands of retirees have to make that decision by tomorrow and one payout is $800,000 compared to the $4,800 he gets right now each month. taxpayers should be reeling. a lot of companies would prefer to get out from their pension obligations by offering lump sum payouts to workers. why is it a big deal at g.m.? >>guest: a big deal because they are using taxpayer money, neil. this would be no money to pay if...

Hour and a half on national television. isnt that the easiest pedal important the president to push? to say what about your tax returns? and then it becomes the number one story in the debates which are critical of romney to show a better person, i think. >> no good answer. >> you know what will happen. every time he throws more information out there there will be more scrutiny and a lot of it is going to be insignificant but the obama people are going to make it into something it is not. the ro...