they want from mitt romney? >>> and political tv today includes michelle obama's appearance on "the view." tv wizard andy cohen is here to analyze the first lady's interview and to make her an offer she cannot refuse. >>> and in rerun, 65-year-old mitt romney is now lecturing us on civil rights, that's right, the same mitt romney, who sat out the civil rights movement. the man who does not know that the civil rights issue of his era was civil rights. [ barking ] i'm your dog, holding down the fort while you're out catching a movie. [ growls ] lucky for me, your friends showed up with this awesome bone. hey! you guys are great. and if you got your home insurance where you got your cut rate car insurance, it might not replace all this. [ electricity crackling ] [ gasping ] so get allstate. you could save money and be better protected from mayhem like me. [ dennis ] mayhem is everywhere. so get an allstate agent. are you in good hands? >>> mitt romney spent an hour today talking to real billionaire sheldon edaddels

they elected mitt romney. he made it sound as if the election was just the house republicans. >> schieffer: we have to end it there. it's a lot of fun. we'll be back in a moment with our "face the nation" flashback. ,,,,,,,,,,,, >> schieffer: finally, with mitt romney all but certain to be the republican nominee, we bid a wistful fairs well to the republican primary and all who took part. that is our "face the nation" flashback. >> it's three agency of government when i get there that are gone, commerce, education-- and what's the third one there? let's see. >> schieffer: who is michele bachmann, and why does she want to be president. >> it's very odd to me that someone would run up a half million dollars' bill at a jewelry store. >> go talk to tiffany's. all i'm telling you is we are very frugal. >> 9-9-9 plan. >> that's what i'm talking about! >> when they ask me who is the president of ubeki-ubeki-stan-stan, i will say i don't know. do you know. >> can we stop the pious baloney. you ran and lost and that's

that will be a good day for mitt romney. >> that would be a good day for mitt romney. joining us now is steve schmidt. who said it would be a good day for mitt romney when president george w. bush endorsed him? do you still feel that way? >> it means mitt romney is the republican march, this bush endorsement would have meant that mitt romney was the republican nominee because that's the threshold by which president bush would have entered the race. >> once he wrapped it up, he didn't have to get the george w. bush -- >> i think it's a pro forma endorsement. mitt romney is the republican nominee. he's going to endorse him. i don't think you'll see him actively campaigning for him. there's a terrific new book out there by nancy gibbs and it charged the relationship between all of the former presidents going back from truman and hoover and it's a fascinating dynamics and there is a traditionalist approach to this. a library and -- >> a political speech. >> he's giving paid speeches but he's not on the campaign speech. >> he's doing policy stuff. he was doing his paul ryan

they elected mitt romney. he made it sound as if the election was just the house republicans. >> schieffer: we have to end it there. it's a lot of fun. we'll be back in a moment with our "face the nation" flashback. [ male announcer ] are you paying more and more for cable and enjoying it less and less? stop paying for second best. upgrade to verizon fios tv, internet and phone for just $89.99 a month guaranteed for two years with a two-year agreement. act now and we'll add a special bonus: $250 back. but hurry, this offer ends june 2nd. unlike cable, fios is a 100% fiber-optic network that delivers america's fastest, most consistent, most reliable internet plus the best tv picture quality. why keep paying so much for cable? switch to fios for just $89.99 a month guaranteed for two years with a two-year agreement -- plus your special bonus: $250 back. save $600 in your first two years. but hurry. this incredible offer ends june 2nd. call 1.877.707.fios. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities t

mitt romney's vegas style campbell with donald trump. romney headed to vegas where in a few hours he's going to be dining with the donald for a campaign fund rafund-raiser. ramps up his birtherism rhetoric, the latest remarks on cnbc. >> a lot of people are questioning his birth certificate, they're questioning the authenticity of his birth certificate. i've been known as being a very smart guy for a long time i don't consider myself birther or not birther but there are major questions. >> when asked about his association with donald trump, romney refused to condemn those specific remarks. >> i don't agree with all of the people who support me. my guess is they don't agree with everything i believe in. i need 50.1% or more and i'm appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people. >> the obama campaign released this web ad, two republican nominees, how john mccain corrected his supporters' offensive remarks about the president in 2008 to romney's response now. >> why doesn't he show his birth certificate? he doesn't have a birth cert

mitt romney -- first of all, mitt romney in 1994 said he was going to be better on civil unions and gay marriage than ted kennedy. he has come a long way since then. this is about being on the right side of history. there is also poll numbers that show among independent voters the support for gay marriage the spread is like 16%. this is going to be something the white house brings up again and again and again and again. you hear the white house talking about mitt romney being a severe conservative. here is your evidence. >> i am so struck by the fact. it was just eight years ago. the entire campaign was run with this as tz key wedge issue. with conservatives prosecuting the cultural war both because it amped up their face. they had to essentially choose their own base, the preferences of independent voters. what i have been struck by all this is the tentativeness and the defensiveness of mitt romney. this is something the other side, the republican party and conservatives saw as something to lead with just eight years ago. >> they are on the defensive now. it is really remarkable to me

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of mitt romney's win a in texas. the ap so far saying he has clinched the win. the texas primary offering 152 delegates seats. he just needed 58 to secure the 1144 needed to become a nominee for the republican party. >> this is essentially a formality. ron paul who is technically still in the race was not campaigning either. it is a formality. it is a symbolic move up forward. now we are looking toward the campaign convention in tampa. newt gingrich suggests he would push mitt romney all the way to the convention in august. that is not going to happen now. he can focus his guns on president obama. >> just to reiterate, the ap said in mitt romney has clinch the nomination for president with a win in the texas primary. the associated press saying the delegate count says mitt romney has surpassed 1144 delegate seats needed to win the nomination. we are maybe hoping he will speak. if we get any live coverage of him addressing his supporters, we will bring that to you on bbc news. the un special envoy to syria has told pr

he said he could ultimately support mitt romney. when it started to become clear that mitt romney was going to be the nominee, mr. adelson started publicly criticizing him. >> the problem with romney and i've talked to romney many, many times, he's not the bold decision maker like newt gingrich is. he doesn't want to, every time i talk to him, he says let me think about it. everything i've said to mitt, let me look into it. he's like obama. >> he's like obama. mitt romney, according to sheldon adelson is like obama and he doesn't mean it in a good way. he says he has another $75 million he would like to donate, but he's been lukewarm on mitt romney today. today was a big deal for mitt romney. his one-on-one meeting with sheldon adelson. if he could be charming, it would result in large mitt romney payday. that very important meeting, that very important prospect was overshadowed by other mitt romney news. the other rich guy that romney met with in las vegas today. picture is worth a thousands words, right? the second major las vegas

they want from mitt romney? >>> and political tv today includes michelle obama's appearance on "the view." tv wizard andy cohen is here to analyze the first lady's interview and to make her an offer she cannot refuse. >>> and in rerun, 65-year-old mitt romney is now lecturing us on civil rights, that's right, the same mitt romney, who sat out the civil rights movement. the man who does not know that the civil rights issue of his era was civil rights. [ male announcer ] the inspiring story of how a shipping giant can befriend a forest may seem like the stuff of fairy tales. but if you take away the faces on the trees... take away the pixie dust. take away the singing animals, and the storybook narrator... [ man ] you're left with more electric trucks. more recycled shipping materials... and a growing number of lower emissions planes... which still makes for a pretty enchanted tale. ♪ la la la [ man ] whoops, forgot one... [ male announcer ] sustainable solutions. fedex. solutions that matter. >>> mitt romney sp

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like when mitt romney is talking about it. here is what christians sound like when they are not timid. here is ted kennedy 29 years ago speaking at the same university that mitt romney spoke at this university. with the mission to produce christ-centered men and women. listened to ted kennedy say this. >> in short, i hope for an america where neither fundamentalists nor humanist will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at live and into their own souls. i hope for an america where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser american because of religious doubt or religious belief. >> that's what not being timid sounds like. that's ted kennedy saying that religious doubt does not make you a lesser american than the most doubt-free believers at liberty university. that is something mitt romney would not dare say at liberty university and it is something that mitt romney clearly does not believe. in 1984, the catholic governor of

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plus mitt romney hearts bill clinton? romney said he has more in common with bill clinton than president obama does. really? clinton supports the health care law, supports financial reform and he champions tax rates that obama says will destroy the economy. the only thing clinton and romney has in common is romney has the job that clipt on wants. >>> are catholic conservatives trying to draw liberal comics of what they want. chuck todd's nbc political director and correspondent major gary covers the national journal. the "new york times" wrote a wealthy super pac backer. the reason is to show president obama really is a radical after all. our plan is to do exactly what john mccain would not let us do. show the world how barack obama's opinions of america and the world were formed. and why the influence of that misguided mentor and our president's formative years among left wing intellectuals has brought our country to its knees. chuck todd, front playtime on l placement on left front side of the paper. >> the idea that th

he doesn't help mitt romney. a lot of people are questioning his judgment as people questioned john mccain's judgment when sarah palin chose not to be running back. >> headlining is time for romney to fire trump. make your case. >> i just think i hope clarence is right that it's not going to do much for him. i agree with him that trump doesn't care. all trump cares about is getting attention. i call him an attention0 phile. he is tapping into the worse of a republican base that is not as enthusiastic about mitt romney. donald trump makes it look like he walks down the park avenue and people are screaming at him like go donald. he is appealing to the sliver of the republican base and it probably goes beyond the republican base that are really enthusiastic hearing this stuff. i hope it doesn't help mitt romney because it shouldn't. you would think mitt romney would not want to stand on a stage with a guy doing this stuff. so far he will take the money and run. >> and what he has said is he himself and his people ar

it's mitt romney. if he's elected president europe has instituted extreme austerity measures, the same cuts republicans want to make here in america. i'm joined by e.j. dionne. great to have you with us tonight. really you couldn't write a better script against what the republicans want to do. is this not just a perfect example with two elections in europe and a double dip recession tells us what we could be in for if republicans get ahold of the budget? >> i think that's true. the conservatives took power and had a more moderate brand than what our conservatives will do here. at the end of this program they have just thrown britain back into recession. that does not seem to be where we want to go. the voters in france had a choice in this election. on election night when he won, he said austerity need not be europe's fate. it need not be our fate either. i think the results should scare people about when you drive the average living standards of working people down. it's not only that they rejected th

where mitt romney has been a candidate. and in five of those six, his record at bain, his ties to bain have become a central line of attack at some point from his opponents. that's happening again here. this is expected by the romney campaign to a certain degree. the real, the $64,000 question here is this. if you look at the polls right now, the one basic advantage that mitt romney has over barack obama is when you ask people, who is better on the economy? romney is actually edging out obama. who is better on job creation? romney is doing well there. he does really bad in a lot of issues. this is an economy election in people right now are saying that they like romney better than obama. >> but isn't that a bit strange given the claim of job creation by romney have been slowly declining and yet the president's control of the economy, if you like, as president of the united states, has been going up. i find that -- >> this is a matter of perception. right now mitt romney is playing on the fact that while all the indices say

mitt romney. that will not necessarily work. joe may be right. the other interesting question is both sides will have armies of persuasion. the democrats will build this thing on internet technology and applications and the web and social networks attempting to takeoe and link them up with others who look like joe and hope he will reach out weird guys who live up -- they will take the social characteristics of joe and match him up with other people in order to have joe work with them. we found it worked beautifully in 2004 when we late joe up with people in his neighborhood to do that. that victory committee framework or that existed is still there in the battleground states. the chairman in warren county, ohio, the person who led the volunteer task force in florida -- most of em are still there. a lot of them in 2010. this republican national chairman understands this and has been worng behind the scenes to have that there. we will have two competing business models. one says it will use the inte

more than 1.1 million ad against mitt romney calling him wrong for women. >> when mitt romney says -- >> planned parenthood, we'll get rid of that. >> he'll deny the birth control women depend on. >> -- he's saying he'll deny women the right to make his own medical decisions. and when his campaign can't say if he can support equal pay protections, romney is putting your paycheck at risk. >> planned parenthood's campaign against mitt romney comes just as the senate is gearing up to push for the paycheck fairness act that would combat wage discrimination against women. it's an issue romney has been silent on. according to the conservative newspaper, the "washington times", mitt romney's campaign didn't respond to five messages left over the last week seeking his stance on the paycheck fairness act. despite his silence on this issue, mitt romney is sounding better to some women voters. a new "washington post" poll shows romney's favorability improving with women. in april, 58% of women said they had a favorable view of president obama, compared to just 27%, who then said they had a favor

mitt romney is facing heat over his days as a prep school bully. tonight, we'll show you how president obama is helping bullied kids. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> i did some stupid things when i was in high school. i had no idea what that individual's sexual orientation might be. going back to the 1960s, that wasn't something we all discussed or considered. >> the president steps up for equality, while mitt romney apologizes for being a bully. tonight, singer clay aiken on why the president's remarks makes things better for everyone. army captain steven hill, who was booed at a republican debate for being gay, on the president's leadership. and mike rogers on all the political fallout. >>> michele bachmann loved her ed show expose so much, today she renounced her swiss citizenship. >> i think people would be -- would love to see an expose like that. >> we'll have the latest on swiss family bachmann. >>> and scott walker is using taxpayer money to try to save his job. wisconsin lieutenant governor candidate mailen mitchell is here fo

we begin with mitt romney. michael steel, chairman of the republican party, probably still should be. howard fineman didn't think so. howard fineman from the huffington post media group, which grows by the moment, and also an msnbc political analyst. >>> at the c pac conference, norquist laid out in clear an unimbiggus terms what his republican party expects from the president. whoever president happens to be. let's listen. >> we are not auditioning for fearless leader. we don't need a president to tell us what direction to go. we know which direction to go. we just need a president to sign this stuff. we don't need someone to think it up or design it. we have a house and senate. the modern design move will come out of the house and senate. pick a republican with enough working digits to handle a pen and become president of the united states. >> that is the boldest most shameless statement by the tax cutting right as to what they really want in the white house. someone to cut their taxes and stay out of room fo

now, mitt romney is siding with limbaugh. take a look. >> governor, would you go as far as rush limbaugh did yesterday in saying this is the first president in modern time who is going to run a campaign against capitalism? >> it certainly sounds like that's what he's doing. no question but that he's attacking capitalism, in part, i think, because he doesn't understand how the free economy works. he 's never had a job in the free economy. neither has vice president biden. they spent their lives as either community organizers or members of the political class. >> the big panel tonight. let's turn to jack rice, alice hogue, michael ledbet. we have a conservative, liberal and middle of the road. can you give us concrete examples of president obama running against capitalism? >> obviously, what mitt romney is responding to is all the attacks on his success in bain capital. part of what he means is what he did in bain capital is basically take over a lot of companies when he was running the company and in 80% of those occasions, th

>>> mitt romney has a new campaign tactic. taking president obama's successes and saying that he would have done the same thing, even though mitt romney is already on record saying that he wouldn't. here was romney trying out the new tactic last week. >> of course that's the same mitt romney who said this in 2007, when he was running for president. >> i do not concur, in the words of barack obama, in a plan to enter an ally of ours and their country in a manner complete with bombing and so forth. >> and now the same mitt romney who opposed president obama's intervention that saved the american automobile industry, that same mitt romney says not that he would have done the same thing, but that he actually did, himself, save the auto industry. >> my own view, by the way, was that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. and frankly, that's finally what the president did. he finally took them through bankruptcy. that was the right course. i argued for it from the very beginning. i pushed the idea

help, it help people like mitt romney. it helps folks who have already done very well. the theory is based on the failed trickle down strategy which we know is a failure. we tried that for eight years during the bush administration. at the end of that eight years we saw a net loss in private sector jobs even though we provided these tax breaks to folks at the very top. so you know, been there, done that, didn't work. why would we try it again? >> some people would callett voodoo economics. >> he is relying on collective amnesia from the american people. >> indeed. thank you for joining us. >>> coming up, how europe could spell trouble for the president. stay with us. [ groans ] [ marge ] psst. constipated? phillips' caplets use magnesium, an ingredient that works more naturally with your colon than stimulant laxatives, for effective relief of constipation without cramps. thanks. good morning, students. today we're gonna continue... thanks. like, keep one of these over your head. well, i wasn't "supposed" to need flood insu

the focus on the issue is real bad timing for mitt romney. it seems like romney's campaign is getting hit by a new mac truck every day. well, today's no different. the cover story on "the washington post" is another incident that they've got to deal with. former schoolmates of mitt romney told the paper how romney abused, abused classmates who were believed to be gay. the article describes how one victim, his eyes filled with tears, screamed for help. romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. another student who was a closet homosexual says his efforts to speak out in class were punk waited with romney shouting, "atta girl." on another occasion, romney walked a blind teacher into a closed door while class mates laugh. this is why, i guess we vet our presidential candidates, isn't it? the story is now on the record and the public will just have to render judgment on who this man is. mitt romney knows this story has the potential to really hurt his candidacy. today, romney, the campaign put out a call for romney's old classmat

quote, i'm for mitt romney. bush told abc news this morning as the doors of an elevator closed on him. that's resounding, isn't it? going down, sir? let's bring in our triple tuesday panel. here with me in new york is republican strategist ron christie. former special assistant to george w. bush. in washington, political analyst richard wolff and david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones magazine and author of the best selling "showdown." do these suggest to you the president is regarded as weak or mitt romney as strong on the economy? which of those? >> i think the public probably has a very mixed opinion of both men at this point in time. they clearly like president barack obama but they don't like that the economy has not gotten better faster. they don't like mitt romney all that much. but they like the idea of mitt romney. mr. fix-it. a business fellow who can come in and do a turn-around like did he with staples. not gst, the steel company where everybody lost their jobs. so in other words, the b

it's marvelous so says mitt romney. arizona's republican governor jan brewer agrees telling "the associated press" quote, we are the party of women, particularly here in arizona. we like women. what's the problem? we like them. the official republican line is the war on women idea is a conspiracy cooked up by the democrats in the media. republicans watch this program and will tell me this privately away from camera. you won't admit to it publicly. i have something to tell you about this. if you're ready to give up the comfort of your conspiracy theory on this issue, i'd like to help you understand where this is coming from. people saying the republican party has a war on women, it's coming from a real place. it is not made up. here is what you are doing that makes it a coffee out the nose laugh line when you say you're extraordinarily pro-woman or the party of woman. right? here's the stuff you are doing to earn the war on women title. it's tonight's inaugural edition of where that whole war on women idea came from. we'

i mean, mitt romney is right. and as we've seen here in washington, there is one, it is one thing to say that on the campaign trail. it is another to be here in washington as a sitting president, as a sitting member of the house or the senate to actually do something about those deficits. so mitt romney were to actually become president of the united states, he will find out very quickly that it is a lot easier to say these things on the campaign trail than to actually accomplish them in office. >> jonathan capehart. good to see you. that does it for us. tomorrow on the show, president obama's spiritual adviser, the reverend joel hunter. plus, senator joseph lieberman and mayor antonio villaraigosa. >>> in our next hour, the "huffington post" says president obama is taking a page from the gop playbook by being more confrontational and definitive. we'll look at the top five examples listed as proof of this strategy. ryan graham from the "huffington post" will join me live and president obama took a little time to e

romney more than the actual man mitt romney. and so the degree to which he gets bogged down in details about bain and what he actually did rather than just sort of come across as a general mr. fix it business guy who knows how to create jobs, it's very damaging to his case, and that's why he uses bain but can't get into it himself. it's a very -- i think it's a big dilemma for his campaign. even though the president kind of backed into it this week because of cory booker's remarks, it shows this is a fight -- like everything in this race, it's a 50/50 fight who is going to win the fight over the bain narrative. >> on david's point, the president speaks about the economy and joe biden was out today, the vice president, speaking. i just want you to hear what he said and respond to these remarks. listen to this. >> to quote president obama, so if your main argument -- this is quoting the president. he said this yesterday. he said if your main argument for how to grow the economy is, quote, i know how to make a lot of money for inve

mitt romney's team is a dandy. they lied about the war on women, the automobile loan and the death of the number one terrorist. tonight i'm going to set the record straight. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> i just recommend that people take a look at people's previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate to go into pakistan and take out bin laden. >> mitt romney is running away from his rhetoric on bin laden, and he's digging a deeper hole in the process. >> richard wolffe on his disaster. >>> time after time the republicans have gotten together and they've said no. >> the president makes the case to workers. republicans are the problem. >> i send them a jobs bill that would have put hundreds of thousands of construction workers back to work repairing our roads, bridges, transit systems, they still said no. howard fineman on the president's big speech on jobs. >>> it was another war on women train wreck. >> it's about policy and whether or not you want to fix the structure disc