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Behind it. when asked about that today, 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...

>> happy to go back and look. that was this past sunday on abc. there has still been no word from mr. romney on whether he went back and looked. >> abc news reached out to the campaign today after romney's answer. a spokesperson would only reiterate, mitt romney has paid his taxes in full compliance with u.s. law and has paid 100% of what he has owed. >> still no answer. that was monday on abc. two days later on wednesday, mr. romney still apparently has not given them the information that he said he was going to give them. remember, when he said he was happy to go ck and look, the question he...

Classic movie many people have enjoyed over the years. >> hey. >> something had happened. a fuse blew. and i had gone out of my skull. >> hey. hey kid. >> it will shoot you eye out. but senator reid isn't just hitting back with his fists. he's hitting back with information the romney campaign obviously doesn't want to address. this past week, abc news asked mitt romney a direct yes or no question that he did his best to avoid. >> we know that there was one year where 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 yo...

Sitting around $20 million a year, you're going to pay a lot of taxes. even if your tax rate is at 1%. that's where i think the american people are. that's a heck of a lot of money. let's take mitt romney's 2010 tax returns as an example. we know he made $21.7 million. he paid $3 million in taxes. his entire income comes from where? well, investments in capital gains. dividends and interest. the maximum tax rate he could pay on his income is at 15%. but you also have to factor in $4.8 million he declared as a loss carried over from prior years. romney's final rate after deductions is at 13.9%....

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