isn t a federal issue. each state should decide. but the logic of what andrea sall said today was everybody, this poor man who lost his job and lost health benefits they should have lived in a state like massachusetts. they should have lived in a country like america which now under the affordable care act does what andrea was praising and what john says correctly, mitt romney believes in. you know who stood with mitt romney and worked on that bill in massachusetts and stood there proudly? ted kennedy. that has conservatives furious. you got rush limbaugh out there jumping up and down like he does like the underwater walrus of him. and then you ve got people like red state eric erickson who speaks for a lot of people on the right. how can they now attack obama care knowing as recently as today their candidate who they thought they could trust to stick it to obama is out there
the new obama ad whose wife died of cancer and everyone outside of massachusetts could benefit from a program. he wants people know matter where they live in this country to have a state-driven health care plan. it s a rarity in modern politics. what we expected to be true and now for the first time to be true, a candidate openly confessed romney long saw his health care plan as a model for the country. now his campaign spokesperson is trumpeting that fact. wait a minute, isn t he the one saying he ll kill the health care plan if he gets elected? we see the guy who promises one thing, believes another, and is now embarrassed by the ridiculous bad news in the contradiction here. joining me now is bob slump and john heilemann. we see here been talking about it since yesterday. the ad s narrated by a man whose wife died of cancer. his wife died years later. let s listen to this ad. then one day she became ill and i took her up to the jackson county hospital. and admitted her f
if you re unhappy with the economy, give me a try. you re going to get all sorts of things like this. they re not ready. they had 18 years to get ready for the bain attacks. they could have straightened out his taxes, closed the swiss bank accounts, they didn t do it. let s stick to this. don t go over the list of his problems. we ve got the most severe problem of his campaign. he is running as the former moderate governor of massachusetts. now pretending to be a right winger. trust me when i say i m going to take away obama care. now his spokesperson is saying whoa, here. our greatest achievement is health care. we did the very model. they re falling back on where they were five years ago. it seems to me they ve got a real problem here. jack said he felt sorry for dick nixon because he didn t know which day he d be. that s what i m saying. today they endorsed in essence the idea of the affordable care act. they ve done it because they re in a lot of trouble. they ve lost
and there are brand new allegations of outsourcing. sherrod brown, senator from ohio, tells the story. they re bringing people in that aren t active. the romney campaign denied flying in supporters to the naacp s convention to support mitt romney in his speech. eliminate every nonessential program i can find. that includes obama care. [ booing ] tonight a prominent african-american republican is contradicting the campaign, and we have the exclusive report. and how can anyone defend joe paterno after today? sometimes, and this is what people may not want to hear, but sometimes you have to make tough decisions, and sometimes you have to work around decisions. we ll ask the new york times about today s penn state disgrace. good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. it seems like only yesterday when mitt romney was on fox news talking about the political philosophy of responding to attacks. i, of course, respond to the attacks. but they say in
until now, romney has protected himself politically from any bain business practices after he left the company. romney always says that he left the company in 1999, except for this one time. i worked at one company, bain, for 25 years, and i left that to go off and help save the olympic games. okay. let s see if we can do a little bit of math here tonight on the ed show. mitt romney started in bain in 1977. 25 years later, well, that takes us to 2002. according to mitt romney and his camp, the candidate didn t make any decisions for bain after 1999. he only benefitted financially from them. well, his campaign spokeswoman, andrea sall released this statement today. governor romney left bain capital in february of 1999 to run the olympics and had no input on investments or management of the companies after that point. another campaign aide told politico romney wasn t involved in any investment decisions. he was on the sec filings because he was still technically the owner,