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Taking in $20 million and paying an effective tax rate of 24%. let's talk to don stein of the huffington post. dan, last week i was here for chris and i interviewed mark allen. he's writing this book "inside the circus" a lot of details about the presidential race thus far. in his book he points out it was all mitt romney who was reluctant to release his tax returns in the first go-around, and the question i guess i have is, for a campaign that is so controlled, how do they screw up their approach? for example, today we learned he's going to file an extension. we know we're going to see the re...

An extension but it showed him taking in $20 million and paying an effective tax rate of 24%. let's bring in sam stein, and van jones, author of "build the dream." in the book "inside the circus" he says mitt romney was reluctant to release his tax returns in the first go round. for a campaign that is so controlled, how do they crew up their approach. today we learn he is going to file an extension. you know we're going to see the returns, we know they'll show a very wealthy guy, why do they create all this intrigue and drama and prolong it? >> i don't know if this guy is ready to be president...

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Co-author of "inside the circus" and former editor at large of "newsweek." and jackie kucinich, who covers politics for "usa today." good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> so it took just a little bit of time before the obama campaign put out a web video featuring lilly ledbetter. so evan, you know how washington works. how do you decide that you're going to sort of shift your campaign into this war on women mode and not seem to know where your candidate stands on an issue like this? >> it's not great staff work. i mean, the romney campaign's actually got good staff work. they ran a ...

Christ." i read the book. serious. >> talk about your research for that movie because you covered it on "scarborough country." >> i read his e-book. >> "inside the circus." god bless you. >> there it is, political playbook 2012. mike allen is here with the morning playbook. how is the e-book going? >> fantastic. thank you, "morning joe." >> this week, the republican super pack, american cross roads is going to target independents with attack ads against president obama. the group which has more than $200 million aims to -- what is this going to mean for the race? >> they are going to have $300