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They don't necessarily have a right to the documents that were created in response to the justice department. if the theory is right, it's an inappropriate use of power. that's their problem. >> it is certainly something that we will be following. we did not get to discuss the issue of commerce secretary john brycen resigning. >> he's glad. >> he's glad. he's out of there. thanks again to ari, mike, maggie and michael. that's all for now. i'll see you back here tomorrow at noon eastern. 9:00 a.m. pacific. when i'm joined by martin bashir. eric bates. buzzsy ben smith and "andrea mitchell repor...

in today and happy to follow-up off line with any additional questions. >> mike halperin, couple things to unpack from that. the romney campaign has been focused on the economy as we know. how angry, how upset, how stressed out are they that immigration has become such a major priority in terms of the national dialogue? >> they have great faith in the notion that over time if they keep talking about the economy, that's what the election will be decided on. they put out the excerpts from governor romney's speech, and contrary to some people's expectations or hope that he would weigh i...

your original point, i don't think they're worried by this. they have great faith as they must in the notion the economy trumps everything else. >> maggie, i mean, okay, in terms of policy prescriptions the general thinking is that team romney is not going to get specific at all before november. the question, i guess, then is, why bother doing this event? if you know you're under water with hispanics, if you're not going to put out any policy specific in any way, why do this? >> i think it's worse to not show up at all, i'm not going to do this because i don't want to answer the ques...

About job creation, which is exactly the point the president is making. >> okay. all right. carol, you're a white house insider. i'm going to call you a white house insider. you're a great reporter. you've seen how -- is risk adverse being too unfair? after the hilary rosen comments, after the corey booker stuff, i'll give them a pass on joe biden, but there's been an immediate sort of disavowel, let's put daylight between us and you. or let's get you to retract your comments in a home made youtube video. >> now when these things happen the fallout is republicans tuesday very did come around q...

Eric bates of rolling stone is sitting next to me. >> my boss, yeah. >> so, ben, you have a story in the magazine talking about the relationship between george and mitt romney and one of the things i thought was interesting is the stoenotion of institutiod organization, how george romney was a believer in the notion of institutions and that mitt romney is to a certain degree, those institutions don't really exist anymore. and i wonder how you think that sort of translates to his relationship to wall street, and i think almost a belief romney has, an institutional belief, the markets will resol...