we begin tonight keeping them honest on the campaign trail. the obama campaign trying to walk a very fine line against mitt romney. the criticism is coming, and as you'll see it's not just from the romney side. the campaign launched a new five minute documentary attack ad. >> i feel in my heart people need to know what romney did to indiana in 1994. >> we had been bought and sold in the past. we never had a problem. >> when bain capital bought us, that was a whole different story. >> mitt romney takes from the poor, the middle class and gives to the rich. he's just the opposite of robinhood. >> today they drew a response from the romney campaign which used obama supporters to make its point, including corey booker. >> have you had enough of president obama's attacks on free enterprise? his own key supporters have. cory booker of new jersey. >> i have to say, i'm not here to indict private equity. >> even obama's supporters have had enough. >> enough is enough. >> mayor booker criticized the attacks on bain. but the ad left out what else he said. >> this kind of stuff is it nauseating to me on both sides. it's nauseating to the american public. enough is enough. stop attacking private equity, stop attacking jeremiah wright, this stuff has got to stop. it undermines, to me, what this country should be focused on. >> that was mayor booker sunday morning. by sunday evening, mayor booker was out with a youtube video downplaying his differences with the campaign and towing the the official line. >> mitt romney has made his business record a centerpiece of his campaign. he's talked about himself as a job creator. therefore, it's reasonable and i encourage it, for the obama campaign to examine that record and discuss it. i have no problem with that. >> by the way, the obama campaign absolutely insists they had nothing to do with mayor booker making that correction. moving on, david axelrod today echoed cory booker's youtube remarks. >> when with governor romney offers his experience running for office, he never talks about his years as massachusetts governor, i think for a good reason. they weren't stellar years. this is his argument, i was a businessman, i can lead the economy. who are we to ask, what did you do? some of these cases are disturbing and they need to be looked at. >> president obama echoed what axelrod just said. >> governor romney's main polling card for why he thinks he should be president is his business experience. he's not going out there tauting his experience in massachusetts, he's saying, i'm a business guy, i know how to fix, and this is his business. and when with you're president as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, your job is not simply to maximize profits. your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot. >> president obama essentially double downed on the bain attacks today, saying this is not a distraction of the campaign, it's going to be a centerpiece of the campaign. the attacks on bain are hypocritical others say. the previous bain ad, when it came out, president obama was fund-raising at this man's home. a private equity firm like bain that cut payroll and companies. this weekend's events with mayor booker show why many within the president's own party think the obama campaign's bain strategy is a double edged sword. joining me tonight, ben labold. ben, how can president obama attack mitt romney on his time in private equity highlighting times when bain cost company jobs and at the same time, hold high priced fund-raiser with another private equity firm? >> mitt romney hasn't been forthright with the american people about what he did during his tenure as a corporate buyout specialist and what his goals were. he's been campaigning across the country telling people that he was a job creator, he's never been able to sfan shubstantiate number of jobs that were created. his partners admitted the goal was wealth creation for themselves. it wasn't a focus on this middle class family across the country. for his wealth creation. >> private equity is about wealth creation for investors. that's not what he's saying, that's what it is about. i don't understand why it's okay for the president's private equities supporters to bankrupt people and put them out of work, but it's not okay for mitt romney's equity firm to do that. >> the president had support from across industries who agree with his vision of building an economy that's built to last. where hard work and 1307bsability are rewarded. where everybody from main street to wall street plays -- >> you said yourself -- >> they believe it was -- you. >> you said that's not what private equity is about, and yet the president is accepting money from private equity firms, isn't that hypocritical. >> to ensure we never have a financial crisis like we did in 2008 and that middle class families are not held hostage by risky financial deals. governor romney would with take a different approach. the fact is -- >> you're not answering any of the questions. i'm trying to figure out what is different between bain and governor romney's experience in private equity and the experience of private equity firms that the president is taking money from. here are the facts. governor romney has based his candidacy for the oval office on his corporate buyout specialist. that's the record we should evaluate. that's the type of philosophy he would bring into the oval office. and we took a look at the record. took a look at the fact that he loaded up companies with debt across the country. 250 workers lost their jobs. romney and his partners came in. they loaded the company up with debt laid off all the workers. security guards bolted the doors, they went through -- >> i get it, people were laid off. >> the benefits were stripped down. >> and romney -- >> romney supporters walked away. >> cory booker said, if you look at the totality of bain capital's record, they've done a lot to support businesses, to grow businesses. do you not agree with that? >> you know what he also said. >> do you not agree with that? you're picking and choosing what companies -- >> we're not questioning romney's right to run a business as he saw fit. and we're not questioning that the private equity of the street generally. what -- >> but you are. you're -- >> the lessons -- are the lessons and values the less sons and values and experiences that governor romney took from that, and whether he would apply the same lessons and values to the oval office. and it's not focused on resto restoring economic security for the middle class. >> cory booker stated the attack 5ds on both sides are nauseating. don't these ads that you're running, attacking romney's. don't they attack his personal values? you have people saying he's the opposite of robinhood. you can tell by the way he acts, he talks, he doesn't care about the middle class or the lower class people. isn't that personal? >> well, you know what? mayor booker also said it was a discussion of milt romney's tenure in the private sector was legitimate. >> that's what he said in the 35 second edited version you tweeted out. but in the longer version, that's what he said. isn't -- do you deny that you're engaging in any kind of personal attacks on mitt romney? or is it okay to do that? >> governor romney believes that any discussion of his record is automatically negative campaigning, which i think tells you something about his record. he's put this forward as his economic record. we'll talk about the president's economic record. we're with losing 750,000 jobs a month when he came into office. manufacturing was in decline, the auto industry was on the brink. we'll talk about the president's record and governor romney's record. >> appreciate you being on, thanks. >> thanks for having me. let's try to get some more answers, raw politics with david gergen. the president's campaign doubling down and making mitt romney's record a central part of the campaign. is that a mistake? >> it's a surprise. the president enters this fray with a lot of evidence that shows that bain is a respected company. and the president himself as you pointed out, he has people on his staff, a wonderful man who has helped to direct a private equity firm. he has people in his reigns of fund-raising. president obama's auto bailout czar, the guy who does an excellent job with that he said, he's written that bain capital is a very respectable, even imminent private equity firm, he went on to say that bain capital has created an incalculable number of jobs. >> which is what cory booker said. >> exactly. let's remember who these investors are. many of them are foundations, pension funds. university endowments, they're not just a lot of fat cats, this is the way capitalism works. i'm surprised the president -- it's fair game to go and talk about whether being at a private equity firm is good background to be a president or not. just as it's fair game to ask about a community organizer. to make it a centerpiece of his campaign was a big surprise. >> do you think it gets interpreted as him attacking private equity? >> no, i think he gets it interpreted as something more than that. there has been an anxiety of fear, anger on the part of many in the business community by what they regard as a hostility toward private enterprise and the job creation that ceo's do, that's part of what their job is. they helped create the jobs. it's worth remembering how many democrats in the past have supported private enterprise. a strong democrat. he once said, you cannot love employees and hate employer p.m. the message that many are taking away from the president's campaign right now is not just about bain capital, it's about people who are in the private sector. i'm not sure that's with a they mean to communicate, but it's what's coming across. >> is it surprising that they're not focusing more on mitt romney. mitt romney is saying, my experience at bain helps me as a leader, i know how to create jobs. they could point to his job creation when he was governor in massachusetts. >> that's right. >> they ranged very low in job creation. you heard axelrod say it a little bit. you don't hear that as the drum beat. >> that's right. and i assume they'll get there. i think this is -- the bain capital is a beginning of a longer narrative that the obama campaign is trying to paint mitt romney as someone who's rich, all he cares about is enhancing his rich friends, he doesn't care about suffering of middle class americans. they run this ad with this person calling romney a vampire. that's a personal attack. they can say all they want about it not being negative. i think the point is this, when cory booker spoke yesterday, he gave an expression to what a lot of americans are thinking. there are too many distractions in this campaign, we need both candidates to face the hard issues about spending, about taxes, about how we create jobs in this country. immigration. we're not hearing all of that, we're hearing all these marginal issues and we need to get to the heart what the presidency is about. >> let us know what you think, we're on facebook, follow me on twitter @andersoncooper. i'll be tweeting tonight. a lot of people tweeting about the light sentence dharun ravi got after his roommate committed suicide. why he only got 30 days not ten years. and the message this sends about bullying if any. 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[ male announcer ] wells fargo. with you when you're ready to move. crime and punishment tonight, 30 days dharun ravi sentenced today for crimes that could have sent him to prison for ten years after his roommate tyler clementi committed suicide. ravi wept at the hearing but the judge said quote, i haven't heard you apologize once. he used a web cam to spy on his roommate who was meeting in his room with a man. days later he took his own life. he was accused of bias and intimidation and other charges invasion of privacy and tampering with witnesses and evidence. the jury did not say he intimidated tyler clemente, they say he felt intimidated by ravi's actions. that's the distinction. he also was convicted of invading his privacy. sentenced to 30 days in jail. three years probation, 300 hours of community service. in addition, he's going to have to undergo counseling. >> dharun's dreams are shattered. and he has been living in hell for the past 20 months. it is hard for me to say but my son is sitting here physically alive in front of everyone's eyes. while i'm shouting his pain. i need you. he knows that. i love you. as a mother i feel that dharun has rf really suffered enough. >> tyler clementi's mother was also moved to tears. >> he never really knew tyler. not the kind, smart, articulate, humble, funny, talented can be caring, thoughtful, generous, trustworthy, and dependable tyler was. all he found out was that tyler was gay. >> late today prosecutors said they'll be appealing the sentence. we want to talk about it with former new jersey governor jim mcgreevey who stepped down after announcing he was gay. and marcia clark. you wrote saying he did not think he should get a ten year sentence. is the sentence he got, you think, appropriate? >> anderson, these circumstances are so tragic. and james clementi wrote a piece talking about his pain. and to hear ravi's mother and tyler's mother. the entirety of the circumstance is there's so much pain and tragedy. i think the point i was making is that a jail sentence per se, a long jail sentence wouldn't serve the purposes of retribution. wouldn't educate society as to homophobia. and would simply make ravi a scapegoat for which there was with little benefit. so in all of this, the raw emotions, the pain, such that no one feels good. perhaps no one ought to feel good about what happened. i think what the judge tried to do who i know to be a very decent, thoughtful man, is to say you need to spend some time in jail. you need to have community service and the stay through probation we'll watch for you for a three year period. and i think ironically the prosecution was so effective in this cases in securing the indictments. ravi obviously went through this maelstrom of raw anger. and in a tragic way, the system workeded, in so far as we have brought through the judicial process a bright, glaring light as to the problems of homophobia and bullying. in addition to that, ravi has been held accountable for his actions. and the judge did what he believed to be appropriate and fair. glen doesn't react. either way i think he examined his conscience and did what he thought was appropriate. >> marcia, i think a lot of people don't understand the bias intimidation charge. it was that tyler clementi felt intimidated. you think this was too lenient, marcia? >> i do. and here's why. i understand that there's no sentence that could possibly cure ravi of any homophobia he may have. i'm not necessarily saying he was homophobic. i don't even know how we with prove that. however, we do know that he first found out the victim was gay and then planted the web spy cam in the dorm room. where this victim had a right to feel that he was in a private area. and i think my point is that there needs to be a message sent regarding personal responsibility. we have these powerful technological tools today that we are not -- we need to get up to speed with what these tools can do. and the kind of bullying impact they create. this is a situation very similar to someone going into a crowded theater and yelling fire. someone's going to get hurt. and obviously someone did. and the fact that this defendant didn't play it out accurately or didn't necessarily -- was not able to foretell that the victim would commit suicide doesn't absolve him of the responsibility for a hideous act, for which he was convicted, the invasion of privacy. he did do that. and i think 30 days is not enough to show he's being punished for the lack of responsibility. >> one of ravi's lawyers said he believes ravi was being demonized by the gay community. those were his words. do you think that's true? >> no, i don't think that's true. i think the gay community is justifiably frustrated with a legacy of homophobia. and the criminal justice system not always being responsive. here actually the criminal justice system and the prosecution and judge mcclure did an excellent job and the system worked. it's very frustrating because what happened in this case is that ravi's actions -- i work with women in jail. and there are people in jail that received much less time than ten years. so what's difficult is that many of us are so frustrated by what happened to tyler clementi that i think people are attempting to draw a causal link between what ravi did originally and the tragedy. i think what judge burrman was trying to do is look at the instances and examine what he believed was appropriate to address ravi. >> we got to leave it there. governor mcgreevey, we appreciate you being on. marcia clark as well. up next, why a government task force is now saying a cancer screening test does more harm than good. what you need to know about this kind of a cancer and whether or not you should be screened at all. new guidelines. we'll be back. 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