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We said earlier, i think most of us agree, we believe martha will do a good job. it's a transparency issue. >> it's a bigger issue. >> it's a bigger issue, and that's abc news, not on martha so much. but you say pretty much nothing to see here. >> well, look. i mean, it's better to disclose these things than to not disclose them. the idea that you'd have a personal connection to one of the people on the major party tickets and not disclose it, look, you should put that out there so people can draw their own conclusion. but theyed that a moderator is going to skew questions over the gravy boat ...

Talk about governor romney's tax runs rather than the issues that matter to voters such as putting americans back do work, fixing the economy and pulling in the spending." 24 hours ago the white house spokesman carney was batting back questions of vice president biden's gaffes by saying, this is what the romney campaign wants to talk about, distractions, and the president wants to talk about the economy and big issues. here we are, 24 hours later, the obama camp throws out this letter and romney says we want to talk big issues. >> everyone wants to talk big issues. is there a distinction betwe...

Completely wrong in that i think the biggest problem is the transparency issue and that he's contributing so much more to cross roads gps. if i could point out one of the great ironnys going on here, when romney talks about the great threats to america besides a second term for barack obama, a nuclear iran and what? the economic mite of china. where is sheldon adelson gotten all of his money from? >> coming here. >> i think that's suf a great irony. because of what the court decisions say, you can't really stop sheldon adelson from spending the money. but we should know with the internet, real...

Of money. >> it depends on the billiona e billionaire. go ahead, karen. >> look what was happening over the last several weeks with alec with what's come forward about what they've done with the stand your ground laws and voter i.d. laws. people found out that coca-cola and pepsico, who were able to sell their products in the area they were targeting, they said, i'm not going to buy coca-cola. so you had corporations who had to end their membership. you lose a lot of power, potentially, if your customers don't like it. >> transparency doesn't require constitutional amendment, doesn't require a...

Answers. martha: well, the president's been challenged on that transparency issue now a number of times. i'm glad to be joined now by senator charles grassley, he's the ranking member on the senate judiciary committee. good morning, sir, good to have you with us. >> good morning. martha: what was your reaction? jay carney came out at the white house press briefing and said, you know, we've done our investigation over the weekend, we have cleared white house staff and administration staff of any potential wrongdoing related to this whole colombia prostitution mess. >> well, first of all, until ...