senate is lying? i really do. i think republican have kind of misplayed this. i ll triple down on my comments. sfl he wasn t doing this ringside in vegas in a boxing match. let them call names. i know that governor romney could clear this up in ten seconds. brilliant politics. i give you nothing on that. claim that mitt romney is withholding his tax returns. well, that s not a claim. he is. i would have put out five or six years. a huge amount of income, paying a tiny amount of tax. rchlt i 85 i. i give you nothing on that. i m glad i wasn t holding my breath. when the preacher can t preach to his own choir, it s time to get a new preacher. we knew it. you must have been. who else would you have for? have a nice day. i m alex wagner, in for lawrence o donnell. mitt romney thinks he s found his battle cry. after trying it out on sean hannity s radio show on thursday, romney brought it on to the national stage during a media availability day on f
romney has yet to satisfactorily answer that question or this one. instead of just going back and forth with harry reid, why not just release the tax returns and just put the issue to bed? well, actually, you can go on our website and you can see my financial disclosure statements going back to 2002. you also can see the tax returns that i ve put out for 2010. and those are, i think hundreds of pages of documents. you ll get i ve already received an estimate for the most recent year, 2011. as soon as that s completed, we re waiting for information to come in from partnerships to be able to complete that. as soon as that s completed, we ll put one more year up there, the most recent year. and i ve already learned from harry reid s action and others that the people on the other side of the aisle will try to go through anything we give them to distort it, to turn it into something that it does not say, and to try to make political fodder out of it. and i m following the
congressman pahl but paul. see what happens. peter doocy, check in with you later this morning. time to look who s talking. the focus of the race this year he says will be on president obama and also the economy. this election is going to be more about obama than it is going to be about romney. it is obama s record on trial here. no question about that. people will ask themselves what was he elected to do? i don t know if knows this to this day. he was elected to fix the economy. that was the issue that made the difference starting in september 2008 when he was down in the polls. the economy remains unfixed? does anybody think the issue that drove the 2010 mid term in which his party took a terrible bad gotten any better for democrats? they haven t at all. you can say it hurt republicans because they haven t fixed it. the republicans controlling the house of representatives should have fixed it but i don t believe that. barack obama is responsible for the people work
remarks but he was very complimentary of the frontrunner. governor romney is going to have a very good night. it is in this night that he has worked hard for for six years. if he does ind up as the nominee, i think every conservative in this country has to be committed to defeatliing barack obama. wep didn t hear from congressman pahl but paul. see what happens. peter doocy, check in with you later this morning. time to look who s talking. the focus of the race this year he says will be on president obama and also the economy. this election is going to be more about obama than it is going to be about romney. it is obama s record on trial here. no question about that. people will ask themselves what was he elected to do? i don t know if knows this to this day. he was elected to fix the economy. that was the issue that made the difference starting in september 2008 when he was down in the polls. the economy remains unfixed? does anybody think the issue that drove t
talk about domestic politics. the fate of the senate will control whatever happens to the person in the white house and where his programs will go. we re going to open up with our discussion with you about the 33 senate races, the ones you re watching in your home state or if you ve gotten a eye on an interesting one around the country and which of those will end. determining the united states majority. our phone lines are open. you can join us to talk about u.s. senate races. good friday to you year going to join senate races and let s start by giving you an overview of the statistics. the senate breaks down this way. a 51 democrats, two independents who caucus with the democrats and 47 republicans. and there are 33 races this year around the country. the democrats are defending 21 seats jennifer duffy is in the cook report. nice to have you with us this morning. of those 33 seat, how many are competitive? caller: well, right now, we have seven democratic seats that we