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Certainly were clues, and the intelligence community was very active in talking about a potential threat. as we've talked about on multiple occasions, the actionable intelligence we dealt with that summer pointed to an attack overseas. what you saw in the pdboverseas. what you saw in the ped is analytical information. president bush's counterterrorism chief blamed bush in the leadup to the attacks. he spoke in 2004 after leading the white house. here's richard clark. let's watch. >> frankly, i find it outrageous the president is running for re-election on the grounds he's done such great thi...

Interview, mitt romney also made this admission. "from time to time, i've been audited, as happens, i think, to other citizens as well, and the accounting firm which prepares my taxes has done a very thorough and complete job paying taxes as legally due." joining me now, co-host of msnbc's "the cycle," steve kornacki and "newsweek" special correspondent, michael tomaski. his latest article is on mitt romney's wimp factor. mike, jan crawford of cbs actually asked mitt romney how he feels about you calling him a wimp. let's take a look at that. >> i just got a copy of a "newsweek" cover that's g...

Msnbc's "the cycle," steve kornacki and "newsweek" special correspondent, michael tomaski. his latest article is on mitt romney's wimp factor. mike, jan crawford of cbs actually asked mitt romney how he feels about you calling him a wimp. let's take a look at that. >> i just got a copy of a "newsweek" cover that's going to be hitting the newsstands tomorrow that calls you a wimp. have you seen this? >> ha-ha, no. >> does that concern you? is that fair? >> they tried that on george herbert walker bush. he was a pretty great president and anything but. >> but it did hurt him, to some extent, tha...

Which he now repudiates and won't discuss. this is a guy who has no backbone when it comes to talking to the right wing of his party. everything they want him to do, he does. when rush limbaugh says jump, he says, how high? and he just -- he doesn't present as a guy who really has a core inside him. he presents as a guy who will just say whatever it is he has to say to get those people to like him. >> mike, do we now have, finally, a counterpoint to your wimp case? and that -- he's now held his ground for months on the matter of releasing anymore tax returns. has romney finally found his spine...

To come up in the debates or it's going to be used in the ads or the obama campaign's going to attack him on it, therefore he better get it out there and get it over, because, again, we don't know what's in there, but i suspect that it's a bunch of years where his marginal tax rate is on the low end. and it underlines the thing the democrats are trying to talk about, that the obama campaign's case is well, romney and the republican party are really sort of, you know, acting in service to that sort of superrich class. and so romney really is potentially devastating to be that closely associated...