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Its justifiable. >> specifically what harry reid said there about -- >> about it being okay that he lied about mitt romney. >> what i just said is i dont think that you can justify anything you say by saying, well we won. i dont think thats justifiable in politics. you cant say anything you want. you know as to the particular point. honestly, i dont recall every word that harry said back then in 2012. i know he was trying to provoke romney into releasing his tax returns and he went very far in t...

youre in the situation room. its part economics snapshot, part political football and theres only three more jobs reports coming out before the november election. the latest one released today has something for everybody. the labor didnt reports better than job gains in july. the unemployment rate still picked up a notch. dan, how does all this play out on the campaign trail? >> reporter: for mitt romney it allows him to say see, i told you so. unemployment still going up. its still ...

Better. and he is somebody whos very good with words, and very good with sound bites. and i think in that way, he could be a good choice, but i think people still seem to think, at least the conventional wisdom is that it would be rob portman. >> my boy, pawlenty, embarrassed me a little bit with that beer and foam thing. he went way too far with the foam thing. jonathan capehart, theres a surprise here that we have in a public policy polling robo survey. not the most reliable form in the world,...

Jonathan capehart, theres a surprise here that we have in a public policy polling robo survey. not the most reliable form in the world, but it says that condoleezza rice, as a running mate, could give mitt romney a six-point advantage in swing states of michigan and pennsylvania. that would put romney into a tie at 45-45 in pennsylvania, narrow the gap in michigan, very significantly. i think more attention needs to be paid to condoleezza rice, because we dont see that kind of polling effect fro...