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Let me ask you specifically. where are you and simpson bowls? if simpson/bowles were enacted in whole would you be comfortable with that fiscal plan? >> i'd be more comfortable than i am today. i think it was a very good starting point. it was incomplete and as far as it went it wasn't fully adequate to the extent of the emergency we are facing. >> but that's compromise. >> it would have been -- but wait a minute, chuck. who was it that threw simpson/bowles over the side? it was the president. he created this commission then completely ignored it. has sent two budgets forward. >> so the house ...

So, so far beyond that. >> by the way, in a quick reminder that all politics is local among the reasons the ricketts family ran so fast from this proposal as owner of the chicago cubs they're working with the city of chicago hoping to get city money in hopes of redoing wrigley field. read the chicago papers this morning. a certain mayor of chicago, mr. rahm emanuel, had quite a few things to say about the ricketts proposal. finally, president obama kicks off back-to-back summits with foreign leaders today. first up a gathering of the g8. the leaders of eight of the richest economies at camp da...

Was never a plan to be accepted but only a suggestion for a direction to take. fred davis, whose firm drew up the proposal attempted to absolve anyone involved and, quote, said the ricketts family never approved it and nothing has happened on it since the presentation. the vendors listed were as proposed and had nothing to do with this proposal. republican pollster whit ayres said to me i will say the aversion that i was involved is flat wrong. despite avowels president obama tried to turn it against mitt romney once again, it was said governor romney fell short of the standard john mccain set...

For a pac or a campaign. i hope that our campaigns can respectively be about the future. >> romney tried to turn td prospect of an ugly attack on the president back on obama campaign. >> i've been disappointed in the president's campaign to date which has focused on character assassination. i certainly hope that you get a chance to see our first ad. it's contrasting with the president's ad which came out again as a character assassination ad. we can talk about a lot of things but the center piece of this campaign is quite clearly character assassination. >> but in details of the proposal hit s...

For the time being. it did without being aired for a day as walking from the rickets proposal became a full fledged split. in the morning romney didn't have an answer for reporters on the plane who asked him to respond to the story. >> have you seen the report in "the times" this morning? >> haven't seen the papers this morning. >> governor, do you think reverend wright is off limits in this campaign? >> but by midday romney was running in the other direction from the ricketts super pac. first criticizing the proposal to conservative media and then, quote, exclusive that ran on the website tow...