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Indeed, he is wrong. and clearly, romney does not want to open the taxes. you have to conclude there's something in there he doesn't want us to see. >> the big calculation is he thinks this will hurt him with the american people. they won't comprehend any of this stuff because they don't live like this. here is romney asked about his tax rate by abc news. >> we know that there was one year when you paid about a 13.9% tax rate. can we clear this up by asking you a simple yes or no question? was there ever any year when you paid lower than the 13.9%? >> i haven't calculated that. i'm happy to go...

I -- i -- it's up to obama to prove it, the allegation is out there. what do you mean the burden is on me? i don't have to prove anything here. look, the burden is on obama. he is the one that i have alleged got the worst grades in the history of harvard. >> just to go back on this, before this trap, it's a ridiculous statement that someone says i got a call who invested in bain and said mitt romney hasn't paid taxes for ten years s it irresponsible? absolutely. and is it out of line for him to say his dad would be embarrassed that his son didn't pay tax necessary yes. but you talk about bain ...

You know, governor romney, his main calling card for running for office is his business experience. and so, understandably, the american people have been asking, well, let's find out what you've been doing. and, you know, if your main experience is in investing in companies that are called pioneers of outsourcing, then that indicates that we've got a different vision. because i don't want to be a pioneer of outsourcing. i want to be a pioneer of insourcing. >> mitt romney may not be running bain anymore, but he still make millions of dollars every year in his investments, from his investments ...

You're trying to tell me because mitt romney said he was at the company at the time, the deals are done, mitt romney's name is on there? his name is not. >> bob: yes, he did. right here. >> eric: number two, unequivly, board of directors, if the ceo, chairman not in the boardroom he is not running the company. going on for three years. he wasn't running the company. >> bob: why did he say he was ceo and chairman -- chairman -- >> eric: he owned the company. he found it. >> bob: i see. >> eric: he discovered the company. like inventing this chalk. >> bob: if we have this one chalkboard here? th...

Those are good deals for bain? >> those deals were made by -- those decisions were made by folks that were running the company differently, so i don't have the details of what the decision making went into it. >> they don't have the tails. that's a key word, key phrase, they don't have the details. have you noticed ow the romney camp is short on details. eric fehrnstrom was asked who was running bain between 1999 and 2002? his response, you should check with bain, but it wasn't romney. the huffington post checked with the security and exchange commission in six different filings between april ...