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Seeing things in terms of black and white, talking about race baiting. people are sick of that junk. >> i think you have to take some ownership in the fact that in this instance it was a group of republicans, fred davis in that memo, it was scathing about what he said about john mccain, an american hero how stupid he was to not have used this issue. so clearly there are some on your side who think this is a viable issue to use in the context of the campaign. >> i think jeremiah wrights an issue,...

Their bachelors or masters degree for tomorrows careers. this is your moment. let nothing stand in your way. devry university, proud to support the education of our u.s. olympic team. all right so today fighting words from both sides of the aisle over the proposal to use jeremiah wright in ads attacking president obama. now president obamas senior campaign adviser david axelrod and rnc chairman, raince priebus went at it. >> we wish that governor romney would stand up as strongly to refute the...

Get there. obviously police are not going to let them get right up to the building. back to you, thomas. >> kevin tibbles in grant park. thanks very much. front-page politics and fresh reaction to the latest reverend wright controversy on the sunday talk show circuit. >> the issue is not reverend wright. the issue is the economy. the election is going to be about the economy. in getting americans back to work. and i think governor romneys prescriptions are much better. >> thats not what the el...

Basically newt gingrich who brought up vulture capitalists and they made that fair game in the primary? >> sure, but they were both wrong. >> were sort of in this interesting thing. so if we talk about mitt romneys record, when he said here are the things i want you to judge me on, like my record at bain, thats character assassination. but when you bring up the possibility of something like jeremiah wright, with clear racial overtones, i mean the language in that memo about metrosexual african-a...

Spot but lets skip that, do we have "new york times" headlines, threatening a pac ad. talk to us about this? all thank you is not to run an ad but where a group of campaign consultants approached the founder of td america trade a billionaire, who wants to defeat the president and they came to him with a budget of $10 million and an idea to run ads going after reverend wright and that connection. >> romney said dont do it. >> we have this guy and a lot of very rich people on both sides of the spe...

Reverend wright. whats your take, do you think this controversy is over now and while everybody is being asked questions about wright, they can now get on their digs, left and right, about what the economy and the jobs need to be in this country? >> i think erin is generally right that neither. it is in neither candidates best interest to pursue this course. and i think that one of the reasons why this was sort of a one-day story after this, this super pacs consideration of making jeremiah wrigh...

Bad. its one that opens the door to these types of blind donation campaigns. funded by special interests and this case one person donating $10 million to fund a character assassination on the president. but hes also said that family and faith are off-limits. and he is not going to stand for that. mitt romney, on the other hand, missed an opportunity to strongly repudiate this attack. and his response was tepid at best. he came back and said he stood by what he said when he invoked jeremiah wrigh...

Reverend jeremiah wright in campaign super pac ads against president obama. house speaker john boehner tried to downplay the debate saying abcs "this week" saying the real issue is the economy. in an election cycle thats been super pacs spend an estimated $100 million. their influence and potential to damage candidates raise serious questions about unchecked power and political spending postiz me is kirsten kurkowsky, national press secretary for the rnc. lets talk about this as we get to the su...

Politics, erin mcpike. i want to start with this. were hearing new reaction from both sides, speaker of the house, john boehner and house democratic speaker, nancy pelosi. elaborating their thoughts on the latest reverend wright controversy. is the issue going to continue to attract attention until november? or do you think this is just something that were going to see for a couple of weeks in may and its going to go away as fast as it blew up? >> neither of the campaigns or their allies are goi...

Americans, but i think again, with this sort of wholesale, all hands on deck approach to same-sex marriage, naacp, jay-z, black pastors coming out, writing editorials in support of this and framing it as a civil rights issue, i do think it will matter. i want to in move on, we had sparks when we had obama campaign senior adviser david axelrod, rnc chairman rainc raince priebus. reverend wright, where a superpac was presented with a pitch. >> we wish that governor romney would stand up as stron...