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were glad you are right here. lets start at the top of the hour with republican presidential candidate mitt romney. hes facing criticism and questions for being a mormon. this time its coming from the pastor of a mega church in dallas. his name is reverend robert jeffress. you may recognize that name and face. jeffress introduced governor rick perry at the conservative values voter summit in washington, d.c. he was critical of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and told ou...

believes that mormonism is a cult and that mitt romney is not a true christian. so i tell you all that to set up what were seeing today. mitt romney taking the stage. a lot of people wondering if he would address the controversy. he just took the stage moments before we hit the air here. were going to start this from the very top and let you hear all of mitt romneys comments and he started by going after the president. lets listen to him now. ♪ >> thank you. thank you. thank you so m...

protestant denonnation in the world is a cult. i think hes a good moral man but those of us who are good followers of christ should prefer a competent christian to a competent nonchristian like mitt romney. >> well, reverend jeffress leaves a huge baptist church and we should note that he also supports romneys rival, rick perry, for president. bill bennett today joined the debate, linking the ministers comments about romney and mormonism to bigotry and questioning the pastors political...

she out front tonight. she is in washington and came to talk us to. we really appreciate you coming in. >> i appreciate it. >> so you and i were talking before. you said you set up this petition just a week ago. >> one week ago. >> and what made you decide to do it? what made you say ive had enough? >> well, im 22 years old. im working two part time jobs and i dont have an extra $60 a year to give to bank of america. and i knew that thousands of other americans would feel the same way....

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to watch the president of the government give up on leading and governing and spend full time campaigning. >> but the president dares the republicans to say no. >> if congress does something then i cant run against a do-nothing congress. if congress does nothing, then its not a matter of me running against them. i think the american people will run them out of town. >> democratic political strategist jamal simmons is here along with karen hand ready and john avlon here with me. jamal, ...

republicans to say no. >> if congress does something, then i cant run against a do nothing congress. if congress does nothing, then its not a matter of me running against them, i think the american people will run them out of town. >> democratic political strategist jamal simmons is in our washington bureau along with karen ready. do you think the president is right, he has found way to get the jobs bill with a tax increase, too? >> i think he does have it right. lining up for the repu...

tone deaf they are at bad time. the person that led the petition is 22-year-old molly. shes here and we appreciate you coming in, molly. >> thanks. i appreciate it. >> you and i were talking before. you said you set up this petition a week ago? >> one week ago. >> what made you decide to do it? what made you decide ive had enough? >> im 22 years old and working two part-time jobs. i dont have another $60 a year to give to bank of america. i knew thousands of measures feel the same way....

numbers and what it tells us about the economy. right now this morning at 9:00 a.m. eastern time. >> its a solid base hit. hows that? not a grand slam, but a base hit for the economy. you had job creation a little better than people had thought and remember the big zero in august, no jobs created in august. well, the government, kyra, came back and upgraded its assessment for what happened in august. now, 57,000 jobs created in august. also, july revised higher, as well. so, when you l...

defended a controversial $535 million government loan to a california solar panel company that eventually went belly up. the solyndra drama continues. >> reporter: continues, and will for some time. the president when asked about that, jonathan silver, the man who has been heading up the loan program, which, of course, is the controversial part of this program, because of a guaranteed loan that was given to that solar panel company that president obama visited, and that went belly up i...