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last week. >> i was so devastated to see the decision of the grand jury deciding after viewing that video saying that a trial will not happen so that the community, the family, will have a day in court to understand why eric garner was killed. however, i wasn't surprised. as you said, as amadou diallo's mom, when my son was gunned down in february, 1999, we plain clothed police officers, guns drawn in the middle of the night driving unmarked cars and the trial was moved to albany, change of venue. my son was blamed for his own death. after that, we did everything we can not justice for amadou but to prevent this from happening again. and years and years later what is going on is so sad.
>> melinda had been head of her own public relations business, a firm she sold in 1989, but she still continued her career. >> i sit as a board member of a bank and still represent a number of clients that are, i guess, holdover from my company in new york. >> ron worked in investment banking and was head of corporate finance at his firm. in 1996, melinda gave birth to their son, reece. ron loved being a father and a weekend baseball coach. then in february 1999, 3-year-old reese developed what seemed like a flu. >> he started having some respiratory problems.
capital entity in any way. and he continues to deny he had any role in bain after he left to run the salt lake city, olympics. >> i had no association with the banishment of bain capital after february of 1999. that's when i left the firm. i'm very pleased with the experience i had with the firm. as everyone knows, i went off to run the olympics. after that i came back and ran in massachusetts for governor. i had no role with bain capital after february 1999. >> joining me is jack gillum. he broke the story today. and eric mcpike, political reporter for real clear politics. often frequent helper of mine on the show. jack, let me ask you.
times" reads no evidence has yet emerged that mr. romney exercised his powers at bain after february 1999 or directed the funds investments after he left. so, the reality is, he wasn't there. he had no practical involvement in the firm during those couple years. and the obama campaign is trying to make something out of nothing. >> well no, i think -- >> we should have a discussion about what's going on in the economy than this side show. >> what this plays into, the fact that you kind of don't know who mitt romney is and this is helping people feel like oh, maybe that's what he's like. why won't he release his tax returns, why won't he tell us what went down at bain. retroactively retired. the narrative that is going to stick if he's not careful. >> let's be very specific about the attack that they are focusing on, that the president himself doubled down on that clip you played at the opening of the show. he is saying, the president and advisers are saying, mitt romney was working somewhere and involved in the company's decisions at a time that everyone who was involved in the
capital, he said i'm not going to return to my part time or full time status. instead, i'm going to retroactively elect to not come back. this is really a slight of hand the president and his campaign are running as if governor romney were show in charge of bain. "the boston globe" who wrote a book on governor romney said he left in february 1999, i think this is more of a political statement. >> the slight of hand is not obama's, but it is romney's because if you retire, you retire. you put the date out there. you cease to be paid, but when you retroactively retire, that means you extend beyond the date and you, you've got some gray area here. don't you understand why the rest of us find that a bit fudging of the facts? >> governor romney was the one shareholder as we know, but of course, he did not have any
twitse twitsersphere on yesterday. >> something that he did between february 1999 and 2002, it's only going further this story and keep the romney campaign on the defensive. >> on the issue of tax returns, mitt romney has been quite defensive. he said this this morning. >> john mccain ran for president and released two years of tax returns. john kerry ran for president. his wife how has hurricandreds millions of dollars, she never released her tax returns. the obama people keep wanting more to distort and be dishonest about. >> this is nothing new. he didn't release tax returns when running for governor in 2002. will this issue die or become an issue for the campaign? >> i think the obama campaign is going to be able to invoke this anytime they want to. anytime there's bad news in the
basically gone from bain february 1999 and never came back. everybody's saying that. t "the new york times," "washington post" fact checkers -- >> who's a big democrat. >> and bring in sam stein as well. go ahead. >> saying sam, there are people that are lining things up here. i'm not suggesting that romney campaign or mitt romney may not be telling the truth four, five days later. but it's been a long, bumpy road to get here. just the out and out denials to now saying that he retroactively retired. it seems dan, for once we won't say he runs the mitt romney campaign, but other than dan, there's been some sloppy campaign work coming out of boston, hasn't there? >> yeah, and i think it reflects
obama has a 2.5 lead over romney now. and today the romney campaign hastily arranged interviews with all the major networks. late this afternoon, romney talked to nbc's peter alexander. >> the president's campaign has been, i think, outrageous in mark making the kinds of charges they have. the attacks are beneath the dignity of the presidency. >> i want to clarify this. after february 1999 you never attended a single 3450e9ing for bain, a business meeting, even by phone attended a meeting regarding bain or bain-controlled entities? >> you have asked quite a few questions there. so let's go through. i didn't involve myself in any way with bain capital's enterprise after february of 1999. >> not participating in a single meeting either in person or by phone? >> i don't recall a single meeting or single participation in a investment decision by bain or personnel decision. >> rick, your campaign, newt gingrich brought this up in primary season and he was criticized.
>> well, you know, he has the option of saying, i departed, it was chaotic and it took us two, three years to sort things out. but that's not what he's saying. he's saying that he had nothing to do when -- i was the first to report that he signed documents, he signedthem. it wasn't just that his name was there, he signed documents that enabled a $75 million deal to go through. this is months after he supposedly left the company. he declared on his financial disclosure form, i'll have a story about this in an hour or so and i'll put the link on my twitter feed, but he signed a financial disclosure statement saying that in no way, not in any way was he involved in bain operations after february 1999. but there are these examples again and again of him signing records. now that's being involved. i'm not saying he's running things day to day as "the boston globe" guy said, but he was involved. the big thing again is he's not going to be able to put this behind him. my story yesterday about his
>> in some ways it is a phony distinction. but in some ways it isn't. that's why we're litigating and fighting over it. after '99 bain made some investments in certain companies that were involved in outsourcing jobs to china, india, and mexico. and so mitt romney is trying to basically claim that he wasn't involved in those sort of decisions. even though he still owned the company, even though he still benefited from that company, and even though he put the company on that path, he's trying to separate himself from those particular deals and there were some bankruptcies, too, in companies that happened after that stage. that's why he's trying to make february 1999 this bright line. but i had a story out just yesterday, michael, that had bain in '98 when romney was the head of it investing in a chinese manufacturing company that was making money off u.s. companies outsourcing jobs to them. so even prior to this '99 bright line, there are lots of problems