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Lighting their hair on fire trying to get as much media attention as they can criticizing this, priorities usa, this third party outside group noncam pan ad about this steel worker and his wife dying of cancer after they lost their health insurance, the right is losing its mind about this ad, that is not running anywhere, so far there's not been a peep from the right about an actual obama campaign ad that is not only out at the same time but is actually running on television. in florida and in ohio and in virginia and in north carolina, all swing states, where mitt romney is due to visit next ...

♪ every mom needs a little helper. that's why i got a subaru. announcer: love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. was there ever any year when you paid lower than the 13.9%? >> i haven't calculated that. i'm happy to go back and look. >> did romney pay 10% in taxes, 5%, 0%? we don't know. >> right, we don't know. nevertheless, that's the ad from the obama campaign that is running in four swing states right now. it suggests that mr. romney may have paid zero% in taxes at some unspecified point. you would expect the romney campaign to set its hair on fire over an ad like that, but the romne...

You paid lower than the 13.9%? >> i haven't calculated that. i'm happy to go back and look. >> did romney pay 10%, 5%? 0? we don't know. but we know personally approved over $70 million in fictional losses to the irs as part of the notorious summit boss tax scandal, one of the largest tax avoidance schemes in history. isn't it time for romney to come clean? >> laura: governor romney has already released two years of tax returns. and just days after president obama's super pac implied mitt romney was a cold hearted killer, mr. obama said this. >> over the next three months, 89 days to be precis...

To look at taxes, and that's what the people in america are really aching for. >> well, you know, i actually think that, in a way, you have a point. because they are talking about how to lower taxes, that's the center of his campaign, we should know how much taxes people like him pay. he's running on the idea people like him need a big tax break, and so if he's paying, well, we already know he paid 13.9%, which is a lot less than i pay and a lot less than most viewers pay and the other years are almost certainly less than that, and so how is that not germane to the kind of central issue in thi...

Opportunity to question romney on his taxes produced this ad yesterday. >> i'm barack obama and i approved this message. >> was there ever anything lower than the 13.9%. >> i haven't calculated. i will have to look. >> did he pay 10%, 5%, 0? we don't know. we know he had $7 million in fictional losses as part of a tax scandal, one of the largest tax avoidance schemes in history. isn't it time for romney to come clean? >> he told senator reid to put up or shut up about his source. >> the lawyer for the shooting suspect said his client is mentally ill. the 24-year-old is charged with shooting an...