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Why didn't he do this before and shut this down? >> why now? his big message with the white board was about medicare and his vp pick. why now? that could be the bumper sticker on this whole campaign. >> let me go to you, rebecca. he says he paid at least 13% in taxes over the past ten years. if that percentage is correct, is that fair? i mean, when you look at the fact that he's worth an estimated $250 million, if he paid 13.9% in 2010. but a worker who earned $60,000 a year pays 29.9% in taxes on average. so given the percentage he said today he did over the last ten years, is it fair? >> it'...

For awhile. when you look at the tax rate that romney pays, based on what we have seen, and the average secretary, mitt romney pays a 13.9% rate, and the average secretary pays 29.9% rate. it's not about begrudging his wealth, it's the balance and how fair people are handling it in this country. >> right, and it's the fact that the issues are on the agenda this year. we're talking about income inequality now. we're talking about the tax loopholes that allow peep with lots of investment income to pay a very low rate. part of that has to do with the occupy wall street movement. it injected these...

Meaningful to americaning, when you have unemployment over 3%, - 7%, over 6%, this is disastrous to american families. bill: to your point, i had a guy in the elevator tell me, i said, how you doing, he said, doing all right. but we're going from terrible to awful, and i think it feels great. [laughter] i said, all right, i feel that a little bit. here's ott thing -- another thing x you believe this is the true barometer. median earnings over the past 11 years. put all three of them up, guys. that's from 2000, 2008 and 2011. screen left is the dollar amount increase, went from 29.9 up to 39.3....

Didn't work. they are changing their mind on it. can we talk about why dodd-frank is in place? more importantly, yesterday we found out that the fannie, freddie executives are paid out $30 million in bonuses. fannie and freddie took 1p 0 -- so far, took $170 billion. the interesting part of dodd-frank is fannie and freddie were left out of dodd-frank conveniently because it's a government sponsored enterprise. in other words, obama can do the games, home loan, student loan and throw them to fannie and freddie and they won't be subject to overwhelming regulation. >> bob: why do you think dodd-f...

Didn't work. they are changing their mind on it. can we talk about why dodd-frank is in place? more importantly, yesterday we found out that the fannie, freddie executives are paid out $30 million in bonuses. fannie and freddie took 1p 0 -- so far, took $170 billion. the interesting part of dodd-frank is fannie and freddie were left out of dodd-frank conveniently because it's a government sponsored enterprise. in other words, obama can do the games, home loan, student loan and throw them to fannie and freddie and they won't be subject to overwhelming regulation. >> bob: why do you think dodd-f...