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Wall street journal" of what i learned running bain. >> over the course of the summer the campaign that controlled mitt romneys biography is the obama campaign. thats going to have to change over the course of this convention, over the course of the debate if mitt romney will be elected president. the argument john boehner is making, barack obama has been an infective steward over the course of his presidency is one the majority of americans already agree with. the american people have arrived a...

Wall street editorial board, real, meaningful interviews with fox news or other competent and important news outlets. the president had to be shamed today into doing something that he should have been doing all along. megyn: dick, as i wrote it down and forgive me, i just took notes, i dont have the actual transcript crept. the president said nobody accused mr. romney of being a felon. that sound bite from his campaign spokesperson, stefan yi cutter -- stephanie cutter, seems to do exactly that,...

With showing that he is lying to the american people about bain -- which he obviously was doing -- because he wouldnt have filed, they didnt file a misstatement with the sec claiming that he was -- >> he wasnt, he wasnt -- >> wait a second now. >> -- he wasnt doing a criminal act. >> he wasnt doing a criminal act -- >> so why did she allege it? >> well, because you put it in the context of he would not have done this criminal act of lying to the sec, so he must be lying to the american people wh...

Hes worked very hard not to pay taxes. theres a huge scandal in italy where he made an investment when he was running bain that returned $28 for every dollar they put in and paid essentially no income taxes. thats one of many examples of how carefully romney paid attention to legal tax avoidance and may have for all we know, engaged in some kind of illegal or questionable tax avoidance, but its not credible for him to say, gee, i dont know, especially when he said, ill go check to abc and now he...

Want us to see. >> the big calculation is he thinks this will hurt him with the american people. they wont comprehend any of the stuff because they dont live like this. here is romney asked about his tax rate from abc news. >> we know that there was one year when you paid about a 13.9% tax rate. can we clear this up by asking you a simple yes or no question? was there ever any year when you paid lower than the 13.9%? >> i havent calculated that. im happy to go back and look. >> david, is it poss...

Indeed, he is wrong. and clearly, romney does not want to open the taxes. you have to conclude theres something in there he doesnt want us to see. >> the big calculation is he thinks this will hurt him with the american people. they wont comprehend any of this stuff because they dont live like this. here is romney asked about his tax rate by abc news. >> we know that there was one year when you paid about a 13.9% tax rate. can we clear this up by asking you a simple yes or no question? was there...

I -- i -- its up to obama to prove it, the allegation is out there. what do you mean the burden is on me? i dont have to prove anything here. look, the burden is on obama. he is the one that i have alleged got the worst grades in the history of harvard. >> just to go back on this, before this trap, its a ridiculous statement that someone says i got a call who invested in bain and said mitt romney hasnt paid taxes for ten years s it irresponsible? absolutely. and is it out of line for him to say ...

You know, governor romney, his main calling card for running for office is his business experience. and so, understandably, the american people have been asking, well, lets find out what youve been doing. and, you know, if your main experience is in investing in companies that are called pioneers of outsourcing, then that indicates that weve got a different vision. because i dont want to be a pioneer of outsourcing. i want to be a pioneer of insourcing. >> mitt romney may not be running bain any...

Youre trying to tell me because mitt romney said he was at the company at the time, the deals are done, mitt romneys name is on there? his name is not. >> bob: yes, he did. right here. >> eric: number two, unequivly, board of directors, if the ceo, chairman not in the boardroom he is not running the company. going on for three years. he wasnt running the company. >> bob: why did he say he was ceo and chairman -- chairman -- >> eric: he owned the company. he found it. >> bob: i see. >> eric: he d...

Those are good deals for bain? >> those deals were made by -- those decisions were made by folks that were running the company differently, so i dont have the details of what the decision making went into it. >> they dont have the tails. thats a key word, key phrase, they dont have the details. have you noticed ow the romney camp is short on details. eric fehrnstrom was asked who was running bain between 1999 and 2002? his response, you should check with bain, but it wasnt romney. the huffington...