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Indeed, he is wrong. and clearly, romney does not want to open the taxes. you have to conclude there's something in there he doesn't want us to see. >> the big calculation is he thinks this will hurt him with the american people. they won't comprehend any of this stuff because they don't 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 ever any year when you paid lower than the 13.9%? >> i haven't calculated that. i'm happy to go...

White house press secretary jay carney basically said, well, put up or shut up. >> you all probably know senator reid well, and, you know, he speaks for himself. there's a question for governor romney, right? he, as recently as last week, i think on abc, said that he would be happy to check if he paid a lower effective tax rate in previous years than the 13.9% that he paid in the year related to the tax return that he did release. >> romney has yet to satisfactorily answer that question or this one. >> instead of just going back and forth with harry reid, why not just release the tax returns a...

Starts asking what's wrong with the other three or four years. it's very hard to win. >> they called on jack kennedy to release his tax returns so they could know more about the man. >> i get the feeling he can tell you right now his last 12 years of taxes each year what he paid. he's that kind of guy. so tell us. >> he told abc news and would look back and tell them if he paidnd 13.9%. >> he says i want to reduce the corporate tax rate and keep at least the bush tax cuts for the rich. he's always talked about that's the way to stimulate the economy. if you're going to constantly focus on taxe...

That's why i'm so anxious for him to give us the names of the people who have put this forward. i wouldn't be surprised to hear the names are people from the white house or the obama campaign or who knows where they're coming from. >> romney is dragging the white house into it, and he says he paid a lot of taxes. we only know what he paid for one year. that's all he's released so far. romney's 2010 tax returns show he just paid a 13.9% tax rate. that's less than half the rate that a worker making $60,000 a year pays. it's enough to make you wonder how much romney paid other years. it's why sen...

What could conceivably be unfair about a range of speculation about what's in those tax returns, as long as the candidate refuses to release them and then lies to the plead yeah, to the media that you say is uncomfortable with speculation, that man lies directly to that media on television about something he's going to tell them and then he never tells them. >> all right, so on the one hand it's perfectly fair to call mitt romney out for lying which he technically did to abc news when he said he would go back and provide an answer whether he paid the 13.9% rate. he hasn't done it. that was the...