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Storied relationship. thanks. joining us now to discuss, cnn s political director. and former communications director for the republican national committee. david, trump s twitter reaction, how he is responding to romney. would you consider it a measured response? well, i would consider it a totally unsurprising response. i m sure mitt romney won t be surprised a bit. he knew he would draw the president s reaction when he published this op-ed. you can determine if it is a measured response or not. it clearly he is a bit perturbed. you got to remember, he is probably entering the united states senate tomorrow and probably maybe the most well known senator of all of them and will garner a ton of media attention and will have the ability when he does want to critique the president, there is ....
Up, he thought it was time to come out and do it now. and also with the fact that mitt romney is coming up to speak at cpac. it is a war on labor coming from the right and it is a war on people that are in the middle class and he wants to make sure that the american people know exactly that they re going back to the same old narrative and he was willing to inject himself into it. he has had a real tough time, you know, since this tape came up. he is somewhat of a marked man and he knows it and he ll explain all of that tomorrow night. wow. just amazing. i m glad he sought you out or that you found each other. ed schultz, host of the ed show on msnbc. congratulations on this big scoop. this is the big remaining question mark from the campaign. and you have answered it. ed, congratulations. thank you, rachel. good to be with you. ....
Campaign was being run, but mostly what was going on in july was mitt romney was being dodged by the question of his old tax returns. business week, what s romney hidinging in his tax returns? reuters said what romney hiding? this one, why mitt romney won t release his tax returns. this was becoming too much of a focus. republicans were in danger of the candidate getting swamped. mr. romney was getting swamped by the mystery of the tax returns, which he would not release, so republicans at that time of the campaign, july, they were trying as hard as they could to get the focus off the campaign, all these small questions about mitt romney s character and his financial history. they were trying to get the focus off those meddling questions and instead, turn the focus to big ideas. big ideas like the republican vision for the country. the clash of big, different ideas about where the country should go. republicans were stepping in as ....
Do you see how it shoots straight up like it hasn t in 11,000 years? at the time when the headlines look like that, but the idea of climate change is still a laugh line for one of two parties. republicans are opposed to doing anything about it. what is possible? some of what has been possible so far is encouraging the development of other forms of energy and other types of energy usage that could compete with traditional fossil fuels. in the presidential election became part of the stump speech, that there have been loans for the electric car company, tesla. mr. romney said that was investing in losers. now, they have released their annual report saying they will start early repam on its government backed loans. it is moving ahead of schedule to repay the investment, an investment that was made to try ....
So far is encouraging the development of other forms of energy and other types of energy usage that could compete with traditional fossil fuels. in the presidential election became part of the stump speech, that there have been loans for the electric car company, tesla. mr. romney said that was investing in losers. now, they have released their annual report saying they will start early repam on its government backed loans. it is moving ahead of schedule to repay the investment, an investment that was made to try to goose the american development of cars that run on electricity instead of gas. here s the thing. that loan to tesla that republicans made such fun of, that loan that turned out great in the end. that was made through a loan program created in 2007. signed into law by a previous president named george w. bush ....