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Offshore investments and other financial transactions. this morning things got heated on "morning joe." obama campaign advisor robert gibbs. >> are you suggesting that mitt romney is guilty of some kind of felony here? >> dale, what i'm suggesting is nobody has any idea because the only person with the tax returns is mitt romney. >> this wave of attacks against mitt romney, they're a distraction from the real discussion which is we're in a jobs crisis and we're not talking about jobs. >> release the tax returns. put all of this to rest. joining me now, "news nation" political columnist for t...

Respond to this, if they think -- if they remain unconcerned, i think that these attacks will have a larger affect than the bain commercials. >> keith, let me play a little bit for you, i know you saw it, what the democrats had to say on the sunday morning programs. t's play it back to back. >> they ask themselves, why does an american businessman need a swiss bank account and secretive investments like that. >> i've never known a swiss bank account to build an american bridge, a swiss bank account to create american jobs. >> you get a swiss bank account to conceal what you're doing or you bel...

He knows if we see all of those years, this conversation is going to stay on that and democrats will pick up something for attack ads. i don't know if they will let up if he doesn't release them, but i couldn't tell you whether they've decided they're going to be forced to come through with that in the end. >> i think there's a bigger narrative, too, about who mitt romney is in terms of he's in the hamptons over the weekend, then goes to aspen. this is a guy who, forget about the car elevators, all of the other stuff, this is a guy the american people are still trying to figure out. i think th...

Congress to what is happening in europe and china and i believe that could cross the shore. the president is giving them an immediate sense of certainty and of remedy if the republicans would only come for that part of the tax cut where 100% of the congress is for, and that's the 250,000. you have great division when it comes to people who go above that because that gets to the upper middle class and even beyond. >> representative eleanor holmes norton, thank you so much for your time. let me bring in our panel today, keith boykon, and chip sals man, republican strategies. former mike huckab...

And trying to take care of osha, epa, not their own business. i think that's the biggest problem. the tax cuts are a good start, but there's a lot of other pieces of this puzzle. >> keith? >> the problem, chip, is that we've tried this approach before and it hasn't worked. you know, if you look back to the clinton administration, we had a top marginal tax rate of 39.6%. that's higher than it is right now and yet we grew the economy. we reduced the federal deficit and we created 22 million new jobs. under the bush era, however, we've lowered the tax rate, the economy has begun to shrink and we ...