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Spokeswoman said no one is questioning private equity as a whole, but then went on to say, it is legitimate to question whether those are values america needs in a president. i mean, which is it? >> well, first of all, lars, i wore it just for the vampire deal, blood red lipstick for you! and if the president is not doing so well in the polls then mitt romney is crying because they're neck and neck. that being said, this is not from the president an attack on private equity. and i know what you're saying, it's been said, megyn, but we have to remember, the ceo of the blackstone group is not ru...

Honest about it, lars dear. but when -- i don't hear the president saying private equity, very bad, i'm not going to take money from them. i'm hearing listen, my opponent is saying when he ran this company in the private sector, he was so successful, lars, you're right, he wasn't there for some of the closures and jobs shift overseas but was that the case for american pad and paper, was that the case for dd corp and can we ignore that blackstone group just saved a refinery in delaware city, saving over 700 jobs? megyn: quickly lars. >> leslie, let me tell you something, the fact is the way you...

Their country. megyn: go ahead, lars. >> i have to tell you something. number one, the claim of 100,000 jobs, creating staples alone, which was the creation of romney and the team at bain, created 90,000 all by itself and this is exactly what private equity does, it buys troubled companies, it tries to improve them, in some cases, the companies are so troubled that they end up going out of business. nobody buys a company intending to lay off the workers and stop making the product. that's not how you make money. but if the president honestly has a problem and he's saying so through his ads, wi...