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It's about them, not from them. as our own john harwood pointed out last night, it may be after all of the mistakes on the foreign trip, it may be that the biggest screw-up of this awful blown campaign stunt full of screw-ups is that upon the candidate returning to the united states after this mess of a trip, what are they still answering questions about? mitt romney's tax returns. they were hoping to leave that behind, but it is not something they've been able to pivot away from because they will not answer questions about it, and it turns out that doesn't help. when abc news did get a formal...

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%? >> well, i haven't calculated that. i'm happy to go back and look, but my view is i have paid all the taxes required by law. from time to time, i've been audited, as happens i think to other citizens as well. >> that's mitt romney's answer to a simple yes-or-no question. senator harry reid thinks that he now knows why mitt romney refuses to answer that simple yes-or-no question. senator reid tells sam stein at "the huffington post" that he spoke with a bain insider who to...

Johnst johnstont johnston, pulitzer prize-winning writer for reuters. david, it is not inconceivable to me that he would not know the yes-or-no answer to, is there ever a year you paid no taxes? the returns get presented to him and a couple things get pointed out. if they're really in a big hurry, they point out, here's where you sign and here's how much you owe. when it's zero, the accountants probably point to the zero. >> it is beyond belief, lawrence, that this man who has worked so hard, as you've pointed out, to go from being rich to super rich, to replace the silver spoon with a thick p...

How would it look?" bloomberg's "businessweek's" josh green speculates that mitt romney likely did not pay any taxes in 2009 after suffering investment losses in the financial meltdown. politico asked the romney campaign on july 18th if there was any year in which romney paid zero dollars in taxes. romney press secretary andrea saul then replied, not true. team obama released this ad today. >> was there ever any year when you paid lower than the 13.9%? >> well, i haven't calculated that. i'm happy to go back and look. >> abc news reached out to the campaign today after romney's answer. a spoke...

David, it is not conceivable to me that he would not know the yes-or-no answer to, was there ever a year you paid no taxes? the returns get presented to him and a couple of things get pointed out. if they're really in a big hurry, they point out, here's where you sign and here's how much you owe. here's how much you're paying this year. and when it's zero the accountants proudly point to the zero. >> it is beyond belief lawrence, that this man who has worked so hard, as you've pointed out, to go from being rich to super rich, to replace the silver spoon in his mouth with a thick, solid platinu...