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>> jennifer: all right. we're now smack in the middle of what so far has been a no good very bad week for mitt romney. but don't you dare count your chickens. first to the campaign trail today where romney tried to shift the conversation away from his outrageous and offensive 47% line, so his latest outrageous attack on the president. that the president would stage a soviet style plot to redistribute the wealth. >> this is how america works. it does not work by america saying it is killed by government. this question of this campaign is not who cares about the poor and the middle cla...

country. later, when it comes peek behind the curtain, there's no more compelling real estate than the u.s. supreme court and nobody has a better knack for it than jeffrey toobin. it is tuesday >> jennifer: you're back inside "the war room." i'm jennifer granholm. so mitt romney's 47% remarks are certainly not the first or the last time that a presidential candidate has stepped in it. remember this infamous quote from 2004. democratic nominee senator then john kerry of massachusetts? >> i actually did vote for the $87 billion before i voted against it. >> jennifer: kerry wa...

>> jennifer: back in 1926, the peak of the roar '20s and three years before the great wall street crash sent this country spiraling into a deep depression, f. scott fitzgerald, famously wrote "let me tell you about the very rich. they are different from you and me." now, he wasn't talking simply about their vast material wealth. but about their world view. as nobel prize winning economist paul krugman put it "many of the very rich expect a level of deference that the rest of us never experience and are deeply distressed when they don't get the special treatment they consider their bi...

>> jennifer: have a disastrous week that had rom any slipping in the polling and bungling his response town rest in the middle east. his campaign is going into serious reboot mode. what is he doing now? he is rolling out new ads, hyping up his stale-old, five-point plan. a detail free document that didn't get any traction the last time he rolled it out. >> trade has to work for america. that means crack down on trade fors like china. next balance the budget. we have got to cut the deficit. and finally, champion small business. we put those in place we'll add 12 million new jobs in fo...

>> jennifer: have a disastrous week that had rom any slipping in the polling and bungling his response town rest in the middle east. his campaign is going into serious reboot mode. what is he doing now? he is rolling out new ads, hyping up his stale-old, five-point plan. a detail free document that didn't get any traction the last time he rolled it out. >> trade has to work for america. that means crack down on trade fors like china. next balance the budget. we have got to cut the deficit. and finally, champion small business. we put those in place we'll add 12 million new jobs in fo...