they have mitt romney on. the question is, does the high road lead to losing? >> the high road -- who is he going after. is he trying to get conservatives to vote for him because he went after usama bin laden? our side wishes george w. bush would have gotten usama bin laden. but when you are president of the united states you are president to all the people. that press conference yesterday was about prime minister and president. about what was going on in japan and the united states of america. that's what it was all about. an should have left it right there at the presidential level. not bring it in to a campaign level. save that for another time, another place. there are many of those -- well, many of those times that he has or he makes. this man has been on 11 -- 191 fundraisers so far and we are still counting. megyn: is this a function of barack obama or is this a function of the modern presidency and what it takes to win the election. >> the people want a president. and barack obama never has assumed the

but what is behind the new support for mitt romney? what is his campaign strategy? and, how will the president react? let's bring in shane de april the editor of "campaigns and elections campaign", and, shairshairne, great to have you back. >> good morning. >> jamie: it is about the money and mitt romney, the donations are coming in, even in small dollars, has he done anything different? >> i tell you what, if he's able to keep parity with the president's campaign, in terms of what they are able to raise month by month, that is a huge deal because mitt romney as we know has significant help out there and there are outside groups, on the republican side of things and with coffers that are filled and are already spending those -- >> jamie: talking about tax money? >> absolutely. super pac money, crossroads, has a television buy right now and, that is really going to level the playing field and if mitt romney's campaign can keep par with president obama's campaign, that is trouble for the white house. >> jamie: you can raise money and then you can spend money. which ca

mitt romney was running the olympics during this time. wasn't even running bain during the time period in question. i think the individual who was running bain is a big obama contributor. more to the point, chris, they used private capital to try to help struggling businesses. president obama is gambling with taxpayer money and giving corporate money to campaign contributors like solyndra and losing taxpayer money. what we have with the obama administration is it corporate welfare where president obama thinks it is right to take taxpayer dollars to give to private companies and take bets on the private companies. that is wrong. what is right is the private sector that you have risk capital. you put capital in businesses to try and grow the businesses. some succeed, some don't. when mitt romney ran bain they were very successful. they traded thousands of jobs. great success stories. more to the point we don't think the government h should be in the position of picking winners and losers in the economy which is result of the president's eco

mitt romney. [ applause ] >> heather: mitt romney delivering a commencement speech at liberty university a christian college in virginia. welcome to a brand-new hour. i'm heather childers. >> gregg: i'm gregg jarrett. the presumptive presidential nominee looking for support in a key swing state. >> the american culture promotes personal responsibility. the dignity of work. the value of education. devotion to a purpose greater than it's a self and pre-eminence of family. >> greg: molly has more. >> molly: governor romney did not shy away from the gay marriage debate to what is like lay crowd of socially conservative voters. those principles he spoke about in the sound bite, he says not everyone may agree how they play out in the culture. >> as fundamental as these principles are, they may become debatable, so it is with enduring institution of marriage. marriage is the relationship between a marriage of one man and one woman president obama steered clear of social issues, saying that he is in favor

mitt romney does it hourly. >> i am not talking about mitt romney. i am talk being about the president's record on gay marriage. he was for it or against it and then for it. >> it is the flip flopping that romney does every day. >> that aside for a moment. conservative christians were among the americans least likely to support mitt romney. do you think he will have to be more forceful in the opposition of gay marriage in hoping to get evangelicals to the polls. >> no his issue is clear can consistent unlike obamas and there is no need to double down. there is a political purity to the choice. there is a honest debate . alen, you admit it is it a gamble on the president's part. >> do you continuing is it a gamble. >> it goes to show he is not putting his finger in the air and polls before he is doing the right thing regardless of the political consequence. we'll remind you mitt romney when he ran for senate. don't talk to me about flip flops on the part of obama. >> alen, let me ask you, in a term of a political risk. africa-americans are more conser

for mitt romney, saw i? >> he does not win florida. >> bill: so barack obama wins florida he is re-elected. >> looks good we feel positive about it. >> bill: who is we? >> i'm a republican. from a patron perspective. i'm not a cardinal so i shouldn't be talking we. >> bill: there you go. so you think that florida is state and romney did very well there. >> ultimate media state. >> bill: and john kasich is the governor of ohio and that is going to mean something. economics is improving there. ohio is traditionally a republican bastion. >> seos are two we have to win. >> bill: what do you see in ohio? is it favorable flying florida? >> it's getting better by the day. john has done a lot of things that is unpopular but he is built an organization. >> bill: how important is it to have a republican governor, like in virginia you got mcdonald? >> they have built a good structure, it's very important. >> bill: you get the vote out. >> they can raise money and do a variety of things. >> bill: virginia is the next on

and mitt romney is against it. (inaudible). >> states are able to make decisions with regard to dome mess anything partnership benefits. such as hospital visitation rights, benefits and so forth. it could be determined state by state but my view is marriage itself is a relationship between a man and a woman and that's my own preference. other people have differing views this is a very tender and sensitive topic as are many social issues but i have the same view i have had since, well, since running for office. (inaudible). >> i'm sorry? (inaudible) i believe based upon the interview heo6aq gave today onc it's said he changed his view with you are a better judge of that than i just saw the reports he previously said he opposed same-sex marriage and now according to abc news he is saying he supports it. so if that is the case, you can make that determination. >> thanks. (applause) >>neil: not a big to do for mitt romney, the man most likely to oppose president obama this fall for the presidency of the united states,

for mitt romney, saw i? >> he does not win florida. >> bill: so barack obama wins florida he is re-elected. >> looks good we feel positive about it. >> bill: who is we? >> i'm a republican. from a patron perspective. i'm not a cardinal so i shouldn't be talking we. >> bill: there you go. so you think that florida is state and romney did very well there. >> ultimate media state. >> bill: and john kasich is the governor of ohio and that is going to mean something. economics is improving there. ohio is traditionally a republican bastion. >> seos are two we have to win. >> bill: what do you see in ohio? is it favorable flying florida? >> it's getting better by the day. john has done a lot of things that is unpopular but he is built an organization. >> bill: how important is it to have a republican governor, like in virginia you got mcdonald? >> they have built a good structure, it's very important. >> bill: you get the vote out. >> they can raise money and do a variety of things. >> bill: virginia is the next on

i want to see mitt romney win. we have a great team out there, people like ralph portman, chris christie, marco rubio, jindal. bill: why is virginia favoring barack obama at the moment. some polls have obama up 8 points, 6 points. this is aefr average of all the polls put together obama has a slight lead on mitt romney. why did virginia go democratic in 2008. what was happening in your state that gave him the edge? >> it's the first time in 44 years. in the next year i won by 18. we picked up 3 congressional seats the last year. we won the largest number of republicans in the virginia house of delegates. it's trending back right center. you look at the last ten cycles of elections, five republican governors, five democratic governors. they vote the issue. the issues are debt, jobs in the economy and energy and leadership. on all those scores i think mitt romney has got the best record. we can do better. bill: on that point, are you saying republicans will win your state in november? >> i'm saying it's going to be a

>> he can take him on as number two because mitt romney will set the policy. and you can believe he'll say things like that, as long as he doesn't follow up by giving the specifics. that's why we're going to have to raise taxes or that's why social security can't continue to cover everything, or that's why medicare is going to have to face some tough cuts. it's all well and good. he can talk about honesty until he and the rest of us are blue in the face. but they will not be, i predict, specifics from either side about unpopular steps like tax increases or changes in benefits to social security, the kind of third rail stuff in american politics. >> rick: it is. it's tough to talk about, cutting people has programs that they love and that they've gotten used to. thanks so much. always good to see you. thank you for joining us for joining us from l.a. >> thank you. >> rick: all right. >> arthel: nice to see you as well. stick around because there is much more right here on fox news channel. the fox report with harris faulkner is coming up next. enjoy the rest of

he kept picking at mitt romney and picking. the list of things he said about mitt romney is longer than my arm, bigger than the cube. newt gingerich now we assume to make it official. [ applause ] >> well, thank you all for coming up and just about a year ago, on may 11, we formally announced a candidacy. and i want to start by thanking everyone who helped over the last year. it has been an amazing year for callista and me and the entire family. i want to thank kathy and paul, kathy's here. and jimmy and jackie and of course they brought with them -- i think the two best debate coaches. [ applause ] to whatever degree i did well in the debates, i ascribe it to maggie who briefed me before the debate. thank you to callista's mother, who is not here today, but who faithfully watched the campaign on line, filled with questions and occasional moments of wondering what was going on. she put up with almost as much as we did. i also want to single out first of all the over 179,000 donors who helped us at newt.org and randy and his wif

today it endorsed president obama and attacked mitt romney. >> when mitt romney says: >> planned parenthood, we're going to get rid of that. >> romney is saying he will deny women the birth control and cancer screens they depend on when romney says. >> do i believe the supreme court should overturn roe v. wade? yes. >> he is saying he will deny women the right to make own decision. mitt romney is out of touch and wrong for women. >> bill: can you decide if that statement is true but what is undeniable is that mr. obama is sympathetic to the pro-abortion movement. as a senator in illinois seven times, seven times he voted not to restrict things like late term abortion. partial birth abortion. mr. obama would also not replace restrictions on under age girls who seek abortions. so it's clear the president and planned parenthood are simpatico. the question and it is a complicated one, is whether or not americans care. latest gallup poll says 50% of americans now call themselves pro-life. 41% pro-choice. with science establishing that human d.n.a. is present upon conception, the proabortion lobb

and mitt romney. on the day after the president announces that he has flipped and flopped -- i'm sorry, evolved for the fifth time on his position on gay marriage you think a coincidence or do you think the white house is coordinating with the washington post? >> i think coincidence but helpful. think about what we learned in the last 48 hours about president obama's decision making. apparently according to white house leaks to the media he made this decision at some time in the past. he was sitting on it and going to hold it until the time just before the conventions in order to get the maximum political benefit from it. how callous is that. this important ref renda coming in north carolina and he can't be counted on to be heard on one side or the other? it is ironic. it weakens the image that we have of the president as a strong leader. he made this change and was going to sit on it until he thought he could milk it for the best political advantage for h his reelection campaign. >> sean: i'm viewing

why are you voting for mitt romney? they say by a margin of 43% they're voting against president obama. when you ask president obama voters the same question, it's only 11% for mitt romney. that's a huge opposition vote that romney has that i think shows that people are galvanized and going to be showing up to vote against president obama. >> ladies and gentlemen, the perfect fair and balanced debate and andrea and juan. >> it was fair and balanced today. >> it absolutely was. have a great day. >> you, too. >> look at your tv. what's happening in this video could be the key to detecting autism. what you can do at home right now to see the very first signs of a problem. then kim kardashian claims skeechers shoes helped her tone up and look like this. but the company now admitting that may not be true. and they are paying for it. all multivitamins give me the basics. they claim to be complete. only centrum goes beyond. providing more than just the essential nutrients, so i'm at my best. centrum. always your most complete.

look, it's mitt romney who wants to talk about his experience at bain. he doesn't want to talk about his experience creating jobs as governor of massachusetts because his record is not strong there so he talks about his experience at bain. meanwhile, that experience really underscores a lot of what we know about mitt romney. he has a hard time reaching out to and relating to middle class voters. and, you know, he thinks corporations should be -- he thinks it should go bankrupt. it's part of one story. >> bill: now that we know that the obama campaign isn't going to have stop with it, he'll have to define his campaign and see if he can do it. pinheads and patriots on deck starring fox news anchors and their celebrity >> pinheads & patriots, starring fox news anchors and their celebrity look-alikes. but first, a big thanks to all of you buying father's day stuff. some very worthy charities benefit from your largess. if you buy personalize the, signed copy of killing lincoln, you get a free american flag, just in time for memorial day. if you get dad a prem

he met with mitt romney last fred. we will see if that is forthcoming. >>> speaker gingrich and senator santorum were considered by some to be the last true conservatives in the race especially on social issues. mitt romney echoed a lot of their positions. but will he have to about about pivot in the general election. how would conservatives react to that. the former north carolina governor san ford joins us live. what do you make of the question about whether or not governor romney is going to pivot to the middle? >> well, that has been the $94 question and i think much of the basis for some of conservatives in lack of ease if you will with romney as a candidate. the question is did he really believe this stuff in terms of conservative government, less government, market principles. a lot of people look for instance to the healthcare referendum in massachusetts and said that is a bellwether and i don't know if he really believes as we do. so as he possibly transitions to the center he think you will see a whole lot of

he said mitt romney is a path backward and he's a path forward. so, just stay with me a little longer. will it work? it is hard to say. it depends on how the romney campaign continues to respond to president obama. but, yesterday, he showed with the big campaign rallies he can draw a much bigger crowd and enthuse voters, in a way mitt romney cannot do. it seems superficial but it worked for the president in the past. >> jamie: especially with the young vote it worked, without a doubt, in 2008. but, dozen enthusiasm on campuses like we saw yesterday, in ohio, translate into votes, this time? >> reporter: it may in the way: the president has been going coalition-to-coalition, trying to talk to women voters, trying to talk to young voters, and, mitt romney is just beginning, his general election campaign, he has not really gone to some of these coalitions, the president has to try to shore up on specific issues-based things like the student loan extension that he is talking about. so, will it work? it is hard to see, but if he can talk to them on spe

come august we will see where mitt romney is stand. if he is as strong as he is in august as he is right now the obama campaign is in real trouble and they realize that it is going to be a tight election. i think the ups and downs of the weeks are not as important as how the voters are internalizing the messages now. >> chris: inup cumbent presidents generally tend to be some what show in getting off the presidential mantle, pedestal in attacking their opponent. usually mid summer, july, sealed air before they start sayinaugust. this president is going it after romney personally, negatively, by name. and david axlrod the president's chief strategist is there is no point in being coy about this. >> i think the brand has to be of a fighter. that is what some democrats wanted to see a all along here. it is no mistake that this is happening. they are doing it on purpose because they are trying to define mitt romney. who better to try and define him but the president himself. they tried surrogates defining him for the last year or so so the

is mitt romney, first of all, making it? is he moving more toward the center after the republican primary battle? >> yes, jon, he is on issues like student loans, especially on immigration where he said he would initially veto the dream act, a scaled-back comprehensive bill on immigration reform, then he backtracked and said he would only veto part of it. this happens all the time. barack obama did this in 2008 after he defeated hillary clinton, and mitt romney is going after those independent voters that embraced obama in 2008 but then rejected democrats in 2010. jon: well, it was one of his campaign advisers a couple of months ago who made that famous etch a sketch comment. he said you start over in the general election, you kind of shake the etch a sketch and start over. is that what's going on here? >> it is. obviously, they don't like to say that term, but it is. i mean, they are trying to do this. it's very hard for romney, though, it's tricky because democrat have already attacked him as a flip-flopper. they're saying

mitt romney put his dog on top of his car and drove to canada. what about that? oh, yeah? well, barack obama ate a cocker spaniel in indonesia. what? what does that have to do with romney's situation? now, we have a front page "the washington post" report says when mitt romney was 18 years old, about 50 years ago, he hazed a gay guy in prep school. and then i turn on the tv last night and instead of dealing with the absurdity of that story, some pundits are referring to other politicians doing even worse stuff. here in america we often justify bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior, which is what they do in 3rd grade. now, let's take a look at this romney prep school thing. it's dumb. i shot justin mcdevitt in the back with a b b b gun. justin was unarmed. i don't know why did i it. i hope can i keep my job. if there was a pattern of behavior, if mitt romney was hazing people all the time, if while governor of massachusetts, romney shaved barney frank's head, then you might have a story. but a prep school prank? come on. >> i don't recall the incident myself, but i

look, it's mitt romney who wants to talk about his experience at bain. he doesn't want to talk about his experience creating jobs as governor of massachusetts because his record is not strong there so he talks about his experience at bain. meanwhile, that experience really underscores a lot of what we know about mitt romney. he has a hard time reaching out to and relating to middle class voters. and, you know, he thinks corporations should be -- he thinks it should go bankrupt. it's part of one story. >> bill: now that we know that the obama campaign isn't going to have stop with it, he'll have to define his campaign and see if he can do it. pinheads and patriots on deck starring fox news anchors and their celebrity [ kate ] most women may not be properly absorbing the calcium they take because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption. twell hello,y doctor recommends welcome to hotels

he will make mitt romney into the third term of george w. bush. >> chris: you think that is right, a.b.? >> i think that bill might be right. he might have to say are you better off now than you were in november of 2008 when you elected me. yes, you are. he is running out of time. the estimates for growth have been downgraded and we will not see the kind of growth in the next six months before people go to the polls that is going to boost hiring and the picture is not going to change that much. if this is not enough progress for americans they will vote him out. >> chris: before we get overly negative about that, i mean we do need to point out the fact that is that he is either leading or tied in the polls and experts would say he has a much easier path to 270 electoral votes than mitt romney does at this point. liz, one quick political question to ask you. are you considering running for the senate from wyoming? >> i love, wyoming, and wyoming is my home and what i have been hearing about from people across wyoming is how important it is th

do you think mitt romney is rich? like 50-some odd percent said president obama is rich and 60 some odd percent said mitt romney is rich. there is not a big difference in most people's minds. when you get up to having, you know, net worth that are measured in the tens of millions, it all starts to get blurry. and i think the obama campaign is wasting a lot of time and making a mistake by engaging in this type kind of class warfare like we saw this past week joe biden. it sounds hysterical. i have greater faith in the american people. >> bill: you know, i always have and i always have a lot of confidence in the american people. but i'm seeing more and more and more that this entitlement society is creeping here. it's getting in more and more people are saying hey, i want mine and that's it it this guy is going to give me it and this guy won't. >> every action there is a reaction. >> i want to throw up your electoral college because this is where it is all about, obviously. six months out. but you still have north carol

mitt romney is. mitt romney himself said listen, i'm not a politician. i'm a businessman. and when i was head of bain capital, this is what i did, falsely claiming to create 100,000 plus jobs. this is how i would run america. i think it's fair that his ponent, being the president, points out to the american people what they would get if they had the former head of bain capital running their country. megyn: go ahead, lars. >> i have to tell you something. number one, the claim of 100,000 jobs, creating staples alone, which was the creation of romney and the team at bain, created 90,000 all by itself and this is exactly what private equity does, it buys troubled companies, it tries to improve them, in some cases, the companies are so troubled that they end up going out of business. nobody buys a company intending to lay off the workers and stop making the product. that's not how you make money. but if the president honestly has a problem and he's saying so through his ads, with companies that buy other companies and then try to improve them to make more money and more profit

and the position of the washington post, mitt romney, detailing the g.o.p. front runner as a gay bashing bully. what was behind the timing of this? >> that simply is not accurate. >> and another underwear bomb plot is uncovered, foiled by a british double agent. the associated press breaking the news of the plan this week, but they he knew about it last week and was holding the story the right thing to do? >> joe biden strikes again, giving his off the wall take on the iran's nuclear threat. is it time for the media to i go dor the vice-president. and does dancing on stage bake you a bad journalist? on the panel this week, writer and fox news contributor, judy miller, syndicated columnist, john thomas and jim pinkerton, the magazine and daily beast columnist, kirsten powers. i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on now. >> at a certain point i've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that i think same sex couples should be able to get married. >> jon: after a bit of hemming and hawing there, president obama making it

talking about mitt romney's first general election ad but saying mitt romney doesn't necessarily have to compete with the democrats. he has to compete against his own allies, meing super pacs putting out ads getting a lot of attention. in fact jon will talk about with our panel a potential, a an idea for a super pac ad not even becoming a reality but everyone is talking about. how do the candidates, president, or mitt romney bring the attention to them and not let the super pacs take control of their campaign? >> this is going to be a very tricky balancing act for all of them because on the one hand you can let the super pac do the dirty work but if it gets too dirty, the dirt will spill off on you and you're going to spend your time as romney did yesterday trying to defeat an ad that supposedly sponsored by your own supporters. and i think both obama and romney are going to find that the super pac advertising is very much a double-edged sword could really prove to be distracting. they have no direct control over it. so it could be really problematic, jenna. jenna: will be very intere

serious questions about a report on mitt romney's high school years. a story about something that happened over 45 years ago, based largely on details provided by a guy who now admits he never saw the incident in question. bernie goldberg is here on the issue of fairness in "the washington post" report, and in its track record, plus governor romney's response. stay with us. >> i did some stupid things when i was in high school, and obviously if i hurt anyone by virtue of that i would be very sorry for it and apologize for it. [ male announcer ] there are only so many foods that make kids happy. and even fewer that make moms happy too. with wholesome noodles and bite sized chicken, nothing brings you together like chicken noodle soup from campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. that bringing you better technology helps make you a better investor. with our revolutionary new e-trade 360 dashboard you see exactly where your money is and what it's doing live. our e-trade pro platform offers powerful functionality that's still so usable you'll actually us

it is mitt romney officially the g.o.p. nominee. was all the talk about him failing to su unite conservatives, was that over blown. >> reporter: i think that is a good point. when you go back 3 or 4 months and they were duking it out and mitt romney was making his slow journey to getting the nomination there was endless talk about how we were going to have a brokered convention. remember all the talk about the brokered convention? we were going to go into tampa and still not know who the nominee was. cooler heads prevailed, he managed to put it away. and i think that, you know, obviously there are holdouts and people who do not like mitt romney, conservatives who do not like mitt romney, who are not totally comfortable with him. i think the republican party is remarkably unified, if for no other reason they are very unified against president obama, they are very dissatisfied with the kpherbgs and i think that, quite frankly, obamacare is probably the sterling light that they are all looking at and, you know, in case the supreme cour

do you think mitt romney is rich? like 50-some odd percent said president obama is rich and 60 some odd percent said mitt romney is rich. there is not a big difference in most people's minds. when you get up to having, you know, net worth that are measured in the tens of millions, it all starts to get blurry. and i think the obama campaign is wasting a lot of time and making a mistake by engaging in this type kind of class warfare like we saw this past week joe biden. it sounds hysterical. i have greater faith in the american people. >> bill: you know, i always have and i always have a lot of confidence in the american people. but i'm seeing more and more and more that this entitlement society is creeping here. it's getting in more and more people are saying hey, i want mine and that's it it this guy is going to give me it and this guy won't. >> every action there is a reaction. >> i want to throw up your electoral college because this is where it is all about, obviously. six months out. but you still have north carol

now, i thought that mitt romney should not have challenged the reporter's question. in colorado, you have a medical marijuana industry that is a problem. it's just like in california, it's evolved into a big problem. number one, i don't think it was wise for colorado to have cheech and chong write the law. i didn't think that was a good move. number two, colorado was colorado. rocky mountain high, boulder and this and that it seemed to be legitimate question. romney didn't answer it he was condescending. that wasn't the way to handle it. am i wrong. >> you are not wrong. i will tell you where i disagree. first of all, in defense of the reporter, she said in the lead-in to that piece of sound, she said that she was asking some questions that her viewers wanted to. >> bill: sure. >> i assume they emailed her or something. so, in that sense, fine. but mitt romney is absolutely correct. and he has a right to be frustrated for this reason. this country is facing some very serious economic problems and issues. the national debt is potentially a catastrophic issue. i am con

mitt romney has a good chance. numbers are good for older people who will vote for mitt. >> neil: then you see occupy wall street rallies that grew substantially with mayday events. protesting better than 130 u.s. cities, some in california turned violent. many largely young people target 1%ers, like yourself, me by exception but they go after corporate guys, even though they don't like fox news anchor guys, and they argue that you disproportionately benefited to their expense. what do you say to that? >> i say we're providing opportunities for people around the world. 50% of our manager came from within the hiring ranks. we started out with one hotel 30 years ago and we started out -- or 50 years and started out as a company 85 years ago with a root beer stand. now we have 300,000 employees so we're about hiring and bringing people onboard and giving them an opportunity. >> neil: so when you talk about i think there was an author on not long ago on the "fox business" and he was saying something to the effect, serv

what makes you sure mitt romney can do any better than president obama? >> well, i think, leslie has a good point, it is not about the minutiae of the numbers, it will be more organic, how we feel about the economy in general, the first tuesday in november and along those lines it will be mitt romney's jobs and every republican's job to have a strategy if the job numbers are actually, heaven forbid looking better and the way to approach that is to say we have enormous, crazy spending and obamacare, a dragon that must be slain and assaults on your liberties coming from this president, economically and socially, and, i want the job numbers to get better but i want governor mitt romney and, have the message they can use to win, nonetheless. >> in a move to win over female voters, the white house unveiled the julia campaign, show casing the fictional julia and how the president's policies helped women from the moment they are born, and call that for a moment, she's at three years old, for example, and, it says, because of the steps president obama has taken t

you will see a big change with president mitt romney. i can assure you of that. >> this is time for people in the military and people that care about america strength to vote for a change of this president and keep america strong and i will. >> reporter: veterans for strong america launched an attack ad blasting the president for his political ad for the raid statements for killing osama bin laden. >> reporter: veterans for a strong america founder, a veteran of both iraq wars and bush and mccain campaigns he has heard from navy seals. >> what concerns them is bill clinton's comment if the raid went bad, it would have been bad for president obama. that is what really can concerns a lot of vets out there. >> reporter: romney needs to put virginia one of key swing states back in the red g.o.p. win column. latest poll shows a close race and three others. romney has moved in a tie with the president. same is true in ohio a key national bellwether. in pennsylvania the president has a slight lead. >> romney will campaign in pennsylvania for to

mitt romney is saying he is for a federal ban on gay marriage. president obama's justice department doesn't enforce it. they have ended don't ask don't tell in the military. president obama is saying here i just am leaving it up to the states if they vote one way or another. that is quite different than saying let's say back in the '50s, african americans in civil rights will be left up to the states. it wouldn't have passed in most states, especially southern states. the president's position is political. is it the right stand? given the bigotry and h history of maltreatment of gay people in our society, lack of employment opportunities, the stigmatiz angle all of us has to einvolve and reflects america's shifting positive for salmonellas on this very difficult issue. >> shannon: we will leave it there with the panel. we have to take a quick break. when we come back we will talk to the panel about the washington post decision to run a front page investigative piece about mitt romney's high school years. having one of those days? tired. groggy. c

was there. >> mitt romney said -- shannon: let me just ask you this. >> mitt romney said let general motors go bankrupt. shannon: we know you don't like mitt romney clearly and it's valid to have campaign ads on both sides who question the records of both individuals who want to be commander-in-chief for this country. for the re-election campaign how troublesome is it to the president and his team when you have sroebg folks like meijer booker, and harold ford jr. who said he would have stood by the comments and won't have walked them back. and steve ratner, his car czar, does the white house just hope folks will stop talking? >> i know this is shocking, people really don't care wha what we say, brad. they care if we are better off today after 26 straight months of economic growth and of job kraoe aeurbgs ar creation, are we moving in the right direction, or do you want to go back to the policies of george w. bush and give him a third term by electing mitt romney. it doesn't matter what corey booker says or steve r atner says. shannon: i have to leave it there. i care what both of you

a pivotal moment could be coming for mitt romney. tomorrow he will deliver the commencement speech at liberty university which is the largest evangelical university in the country. that address will give him a chance to talk about his faith before a crucial group of voters. john roberts on this story for us this morning live in atlanta with more. good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning to you, martha. it is a very big platform for mitt romney. 30 to 35,000 people will be at the stadium in liberty. thousands more watching on television across the country. it is an important opportunity for him to reach out to evangelical voters that he had a problem courting during the primary campaign. jonathan fallwell is the son of late famous jerry fallwell, the founder of liberty university. some evangelicals still have a problem with mitt romney because of his mormon faith but that probably can be overcome. >> i think certainly there are people out there who have issues with the mormon faith. i have issues with the mormon faith as a pastor

and he took over from mitt romney. massachusetts had a, it was 47th out of 50 states in job creation under mitt romney. mitt romney, by the way -- talk about big government -- was the first guy to pass obamacare. he was a guy who looked to government to solve the salt lake city olympics problem. he got massive amounts of government money when he needed it, so who's changed their stripes? barack obama hasn't. mitt romney says one thing, does something else. and by the way, when he needed to make money, he didn't care -- he thought the foreclosure -- megyn: i have to go, but i want to ask you very quickly. this did not work for newt gingrich in the primary, but that was republicans. might it have a better effect on independents out there? >> no, i don't think so. they have to feed their families, educate their children, and if they have a job, they're not being paid probably what they're worth, they're underpaid or underemployed, and a lot of people have given up in this economy. this president's going so much to much --

mitt romney put his dog on top of his car and drove to canada. what about that? oh, yeah? well, barack obama ate a cocker spaniel in indonesia. what? what does that have to do with romney's situation? now, we have a front page "the washington post" report says when mitt romney was 18 years old, about 50 years ago, he hazed a gay guy in prep school. and then i turn on the tv last night and instead of dealing with the absurdity of that story, some pundits are referring to other politicians doing even worse stuff. here in america we often justify bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior, which is what they do in 3rd grade. now, let's take a look at this romney prep school thing. it's dumb. i shot justin mcdevitt in the back with a b b b gun. justin was unarmed. i don't know why did i it. i hope can i keep my job. if there was a pattern of behavior, if mitt romney was hazing people all the time, if while governor of massachusetts, romney shaved barney frank's head, then you might have a story. but a prep school prank? come on. >> i don't recall the incident myself, but i

mitt romney is behind that. if you do the counted and look at it, obama is about 240, mitt romney is about 200. romney has some advantages in some of the swing voter states, but you still by the narrowest margins to have give barack obama the edge. >> neil: frank, good seeing you again. >>> coming up.... >> heyhey, ho-ho. >> a handful of protestors no match for j.p. morgan chase ceo. his shareholders backing him out. time for the white house to back off. charlie is two different takes on this. ♪ [ male announcer ] american innovation. 29 years ago, it helped us invent the minivan. ♪ today dodge grand caravan is the most awarded minivan ever. ♪ who knows where innovation can take us next? ♪ directions to the moon. ♪ >>. >> neil: the jp morgan goes and on. they are launching an investigation into the firm trading. the judge, jamie dimon is winning the confidence of his shareholders. >> this is why we passed wall street reform. the whole point was even if you are smart, you can make mistakes. >> i'm confi

what is mitt romney's strategy for this? >> well, you know it is a good question what mitt romney is strategy for any working class people. he especially espoused same views george bush had in the last administration gotten economy where it is today, the working class keep suffering and rich keep getting rich. that is not class warfare that is reality of our economy. mitt romney did not support bailout of auto industry a huge industry affecting state of ohio. so in ohio's specifically, the last time we had a test between barack obama's world view and mitt romney's world view which is the last election of 2011, mitt romney came up very short overwhelmingly to the people of ohio supported obama's world view of collective bargaining for example, versus what romney espoused. >> with all this, mitt romney is in pennsylvania today. focus on that state and ohio and florida. they are swing states. hadley, i want to get from you, said all that from julie. he doesn't farewell with this. he loss primary to hillary clinton by large marg

mitt romney repeatedly making references to jimmy carter. why this race all of a sudden feels like a return to the 1980s. >> and we're just hours away from mother's day. new concerns across the country, the new challenge for retiring mothers in america. >> and all the talk about social issues, but the economy still reigns supreme with most voters according to polling, and both candidates well aware of that. >> if we take the right course, i'm convinced we'll see a resurgence in the american economy that will surprise the world. donovan ] i hit a wall. and i thought "i can't do this, it's just too hard." then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. [ male announcer ] every day we help students earn their bachelor's or master's degree for tomorrow's careers. this is your moment. let nothing stand in your way. devry university, proud to support the education of our u.s. olympic team. in absolute perfect physical condition and i had a heart attack right out of the clear blue... h

mitt romney would. he gets a majority. 71% of the country right now says that their economic conditions are poor. 4 in 10 say they are worse off today than they were four years ago. what's interesting is now, the republicans in congress actually have an advantage. if you look back at last august, the democrats were up by 7 points. the democrats and republicans were tied in february. and now, they've got an advantage. 50% to 44% so things seem to be going the republicans' way. >> if you look at the cbs poll that came out and you look at the "new york times" poll that came out and you look at the rasmussen poll that's been out for 10 straight days, it seems like mitt romney's policy is head to head against president obama consistently over the past two weeks. >> what else is interesting in that poll is mitt romney's likeability has gone up which i believe will be one of his biggest battles. believe it or not, we're going to probably voted on a president that we like more than maybe the economy? i know it

and he said, quote, i'm for mitt romney. joining me with reaction from the fox business network, stuart varny and dana perino, who does a much better accent than i did. >> [southern accent]. >> i wish i had an accent. >> sean: oh, oh, oh. dana was on jeopardy and you did great. this is amazing to me. >> yeah. >> sean: the president says j.m. morgan is one of the best managed banks there is, you jamie diamond is one of the smartest bankers we have. we don't know the details, it's going to be investigated, but this is why we passed wall street reform. if you passed it, why did it happen again? >> when comes to banking, wall street and the financial world, the president is frankly out of his depth. he has been handed manor from heavenned with the j.p. morgan loss. he can say, look, they lost $2 billion. if they can do that, so can everybody else. i am going to regulate, i am going to reform wall street. i am going to make sure that it does not happen again. >> sean: they already passed wall street reform. >> yes, but the rules