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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...

Reid, but obviously he can't release those tax returns. 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 ...

Due, i don't think i'd be qualified to become president. >> if i don't hustle and exploit you for all i can get you for, i don't deserve to be in the oval office. mitt romney says he doesn't recall if he ever paid less than a 13.9% tax rate. of course, we have to take romney at his word since he has only released two years of tax returns. but now senate majority leader harry reid says he knows why he's keeping the tax returns locked up. reid tells the huffington post about a month ago, a bain capital investor called the office a month ago, he said, harry, he didn't pay any taxes for ten years....

Well, esurance is now in a relationship...with allstate. and it looks pretty serious. esurance. click or call. mitt romney was asked a very simple yes or no question about his taxes this weekend. the question, was there ever a year when you paid less than 13.9%? >> 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. i don't pay more than are legally due. >> ain't got a calculator that big. so romney's endured weeks of pressure about his taxes on every network and in every major newspaper, everyone from president obama to george w...

Palestinian culture. but what mitt romney really wanted out of this trip was what he got on the front pages of every newspaper, was the picture of himself at the wailing wall. it sends a message to conservative jews or jews who may not have voted democratic, but also to conservative christians, evangelicals who have adopted the cause of israel as something that is core to their political set of beliefs, and that could be successful and could wash over a lot of the words that have been said, but i have to say, rachel, i think one of the things from the trip that will live longer than any of the...