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President back in 2008. listen to this. >> i said that i thought the media helped tip the scales. i didn't think the coverage in 2008 was especially fair on neither hillary clinton or john mccain. i felt with hillary's election and other decisions, magazine covers, photos, campaign narrative, that it wasn't always the fairest coverage and i hope it doesn't -- i hope that doesn't happen again. >> steve: mark halprin from time said a couple days ago, the press pretty much does whatever the white house wants it to do. will it be different now four years later? don't hold your breath. >> gretchen:...

Some people might have an argument against that, like i'm just thinking of calling candidate mitt romney a possible felon. was that made up? what about the fact that the woman died of cancer and that was mitt romney's fault. was that made up? there is a slew of other things you could probably find something on the other side of the fence. but it seemed that was a bit of a freudian slip at the top of that quote. >> brian: he also says you have to lead your life as an open book. there are so many questions about his background, from his high school transcripts and colleges on down. but also he s...

We're disagreeing with the tactic of attacking bain rather than telling people what your ideas are that are better than mitt romney's so this is a tactical argument, not a policy argument. >> laura: i beg to differ. i believe that mark halprin's piece is getting at something deeper. he wrote a piece in "time" magazine that says democrats believe that president obama could lose in november and they're very concerned. >> true. >> laura: and i think when you look at this, you look at the bain capital attacks and the railing against profiteering on wall street and so forth, that goes to the heart ...

We're disagreeing with the tactic of attacking bain rather than telling people what your ideas are that are better than mitt romney's so this is a tactical argument, not a policy argument. >> laura: i beg to differ. i believe that mark halprin's piece is getting at something deeper. he wrote a piece in "time" magazine that says democrats believe that president obama could lose in november and they're very concerned. >> true. >> laura: and i think when you look at this, you look at the bain capital attacks and the railing against profiteering on wall street and so forth, that goes to the heart ...

We're disagreeing with the tactic of attacking bain rather than telling people what your ideas are that are better than mitt romney's so this is a tactical argument, not a policy argument. >> laura: i beg to differ. i believe that mark halprin's piece is getting at something deeper. he wrote a piece in "time" magazine that says democrats believe that president obama could lose in november and they're very concerned. >> true. >> laura: and i think when you look at this, you look at the bain capital attacks and the railing against profiteering on wall street and so forth, that goes to the heart ...