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>> as you know, you need more than good tv ads, you need pollsters and different vendors. we talked different vendors and asked for recommendations of who we would work with. i understand she never discussed the plan with them. they never discussed the plan and was not aware of it at all. i'm not trying to be critical of it. i'm trying to make sure people understand we didn't request the plan, we didn't approve it. we had nothing to do with the suggestion of reverend wright. we are interested in working with you. we need to see a proposal. we gave no permission, no funding. no dollar has been ...

>> sure. in the spending action fund requested proposals from media vendors. fred is one who was asked to present a proposal. we never asked for a proposal based on reverend wright, however. >> when you got the proposal, what was the reaction of the family members and yours? was it immediate? >> i was immediately troubled by the proposal. it surprised me. we run an organization based on fiscal responsibility. they know we asked for a document based on ending spending, fiscal responsibility and jobs in the economy. this is far afield from that. it was so far afield, they were going to set up ch...

That is in no way an inference, suggestion or request for anything like that that we have a proposal based on reverend wright. the policy goals have always been and exclusively are related to fiscal responsibility. we never asked for anything based on reverend wright. i never spoke to the man. i don't know who he is. this is all the work and proposal of strategic. that was a meeting we said hey, we like the work you have done in the past, we are interested in a proposal from you. it was a proposal based on a rough budget of $10 million. that was it. >> i want to ask you about "the new york tim...

The only word i can really bring to the way you were describing the way joe ricketts feels is that he's extremely upset this came out this way. do you think "the new york times" coverage was fair? do you think there's anything to the story? how would you characterize the way your super pac and joe ricketts is. >> thank you. the world is full of bad ideas. this is one of them. this wasn't a proposal we requested at all. we never funded it. i tried to make it clear to "the new york times." i got the proposal on thursday. i never spoke to him about it. when i was called for comment, i made clear ...

Impact in the race beyond what others are doing in the case. it was a marriage between someone with a lot of money and had an idea of how to do it. how to make money and they thought, effect the outcome of the race. i think the biggest effect of this, it's going to be much harder for anybody to come forward with ideas to bring down the president based on character. it takes a day away from romney to talk about the economy. he's got a new tv ad out today to talk about the economy. it's where they want the race. i think i have greet respect for "the new york times" and the reporters that wrote t...