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What kind of inside job is he talking about? >> this started when governor romney's team tried to get traction by going after the president 'remarks he made at the univision forum regarding bringing change to washington. >> i learned lesson over the last four years, and the most important lessons i've learned is you can't change washington from the inside. >> the president today threw in the white flag of surrender again. >> here's one of the problems. four years ago governor romney said this while running for the republican nomination against senator john mccain. >> i believe that at this tim...

We'll get to those in a moment. let's bring in a political panel, keith boykin, ann cornbluth and danny vargas, nbc latino contributor and republican strategist. pamela, let's start off with peter alexander. ear in las vegas. tell us what you know regarding the romney campaign releasing within the hour his 2011 tax returns. obviously, friday, late in the evening. this all brings suspicion as to the timing. >> reporter: tamron, mitt romney just arrived here touching down with us on the back of plane a few minutes ago, and he will be doing in las vegas what a lot of americans do, which is lay hi...

Example. >> campus and careers. what kind are those? >> these counties hold a lot of the research, academic institutions or several small ones. it's a lot of young people, well educated people, whole foods, starbucks cafes. >> uhi'm told i better speed up because we have a half hour and not a full hour. i want to bring in everybody else here on this. ann cornbluth, you know the examples. you have a question. >> yeah. i'm wondering. a lot of polling shows partisanship trumps everything and people are dug into positions. you are saying they are separated not by party identification but by where ...

>> let's bring back our panel. bill burton, michelle bernard and ann cornbluth. all right, ann, the vp audition trials, bob mcdonnell this week, kelly ayat earlier, a little bit of rubio the week before, bob portman, the no-sizzle guy. he wants this more -- i don't think people realize this. he kind of wants this more than people realize, doesn't he. >> i think there are a few people who do. i think you're starting to see it from the ones who admit they're open to it. no, no, i'm too focused on my current job. he certainly isn't. this is a win-win for the romney campaign. rubio one day, someon...

Panel, michael smerconish, talk show host -- that could be michael smerconish, not ann cornbluth. you'd make a lovely ann, we'll talk about that for halloween. nevertheless, michael, let me start off with you. governor mike huckabee just gave an interview. he described joe biden as coming off as an obnoxious drunk. senator marco rubio referred to biden as a heckler, very few of the comments coming from republicans have to do anything with perhaps the substance of what he said, meaning he lied or biden didn't tell the truth on this or that. it's all about this tone. what do we make of the asses...