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Concerned about deficits? does this play on the campaign trail? >> well, i think that they may be concerned about something completely different than that which is jobs. and obviously tax rates and deficits have effect on the jobs picture. but the -- the president has had the winning hand on taxes for a long time. and it's a weird thing, right? traditionally republicans promising to cut taxes wins the argument. the president said i want to raise taxes and has gone into the teeth of that, raising taxes on the wealthy. romney's plan is obviously vague and ridiculous. we can talk later about the ...

Facilitated discussion. look, that's code for follow-up but a word that spooks the campaign so the debate commission left the actual word follow-up out. no closing statement. up to hall debate format always guaranteed surprise. this morning, one of the candidates who par faced in the first-ever town hall debate for a general election for the presidency back in 1992, he provided one today. ross perot endorsed romney and the des moines register, writing, our country faces a momentous choice. the fact is the united states is on an unsustainable course. at stake is nothing less than our position i...

Middle income families. i will lower taxes. you cite a study, there's six other studies that say yours is completely wrong. >> i have six studies that say i'm great on the deficit issue. no worries. all the giant numbers stuff doesn't make any sense to me either. look. here's a small number. i have six studies that say i'm fine. those six studies for the record are not actually studies. two are blog posts by a conservative think tank. one is a report by a think tank. and the others are a blog post and a "wall street journal" op-ed by a mitt romney adviser. calling those things studies is like ...

I will lower taxes. you cite a study, there's six other studies that say yours is completely wrong. >> i have six studies that say i'm great on the deficit issue. no worries. all the giant numbers stuff doesn't make any sense to me either. look. here's a small number. i have six studies that say i'm fine. those six studies for the record are not actually studies. two are blog posts by a conservative think tank. one is a report by a think tank. one is a paper by a former george bush advisor. and the others are a blog post and a "wall street journal" op-ed by a mitt romney adviser. calling those...

Base than like moderates in certain states but he's going to be everywhere, going to be in the debates. the big use of him is firing up conservatives as molly noted. conservatives have been lukewarm about molly. getting the base really excited, really revved up, eager to volunteer, eager to give money. i think they've raised $3 million since yesterday. so that's what his real value is. >> molly, as we look at congressman ryan recently telling the new yorker he was miserable in the bush years, voting yay for policies that led to enormous defer sits like t.a.r.p., medicare, part d, the bush tax ...