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Making about bill o'reilly. he thinks these people are crazy too. i don't mean to in any way associate him with that. but he also has sealed himself off from information, as ezra klein showed, republican congressman have, about what president obama has proposed. and it seems to be this contagious phenomenon of sealing people -- people sealing themselves off from real, easily available information. mark potok of the southern poverty law center, thank you very much for the information you've delivered to us in this study and ari melber, thank you for joining us tonight also. >> thanks, lawrence....

A home with a gun. i'm not worried about that. i think background checks and these other proposals are common sense and work, if you're open to understanding how they work. when you have that blockage and you have a lot of institutional support for ignorance, because it's politically useful, then you get into these really bad feedback loops. >> yeah, this phenomenon of believing that a one world government is going to take over depends on sealing yourself off from information. and that's the only point i was making about bill o'reilly. he thinks these people are crazy too. i don't mean to in a...

earth. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." mitt romney is using ads, web videos, speeches to hammer away at president obama on welfare. romney is taking a lot of heat though over his claims about the administration's policies, but with support from an unlikely ally he's raising the stakes today. here's our national political correspondent jim acosta. >> reporter: wolf, mitt romney is not backing away from his accusation that president obama is trying to make it easier for the poor to receive welfare checks and to help make his case he's getting some help from an old r...

>> john mccain didn't. john mccain released two years. >> right, but john -- >> he wasn't elected president. >> but it was deemed acceptable. i don't recall this fight. >> here's the other thing. don't you want to know why mitt romney has $100 million in an i.r.a.? i do. i want to know how that works because it doesn't work for regular folks. that's a giant thing that exists. i think everybody deserves to know that because i -- >> thanks for joining us tonight. appreciate it. a lot more coming up. stay with us. >> we're treating this as a domestic terrorist type incident. and, therefore, the...

Poverty law center says his group has been tracking the alleged white supremacist for ten years. mark joins me tonight. good to have you with us. thanks for watching. good to be back with you. republicans have a new public enemy number one and his name is harry reid. the senate majority leader started a firestorm in washington last week when he said he had a source that told him mitt romney didn't pay any taxes for ten years. the chairman of the republican party kept the fire burning on the talking heads. >> i'm not going to respond to a dirty liar who hasn't filed a single page of tax retur...