i mean her number-one person, hou houma abedin is married to anthony weiner who s a sleaze ball and a pervert. and i m not saying that that s recorded history. right? i don t like houma going home at night and telling anthony weiner all of these secrets, okay? well, that suspect what happened. we know it s a laptop that belongs to anthony weiner that she used to e-mail with hillary clinton. but you remember the first time he said this, chuck? i do because i think it was there, it was a backyard event in the primaries in new hampshire or massachusetts a year ago. and he was talking about houma abedin and he pro nuannounced i and reporters were looking at each other like wow, this is a different campaign. i think his campaign it feels validating and you saw that in
in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the race for president of the united states is getting more brutal by the day. we begin this hour with mitt romney responding to a firestorm of controversy, surrounding his taxes and his time at bain capital. and he s accusing the obama campaign of stooping to a new low. our national political correspondent jim acosta had a chance on friday to interview romney. it was an excellent interview. thank you. and there were some real nuggets that we got out of it. that s right, wolf. the main issue we wanted to get to wasis role at bain capital and when he left that private investment firm. we asked mitt romney why his name still appears on government documents as the ceo of bain capital after 1999, the year he has said he left the company. that i left any role at bain capital in february of 99. and that s known and said by the people at the firm. it s said by the documents, off
i think that means that there will be a media onslaught of attack. but that s nothing new. that s something that goes with the territory. it doesn t matter who the candidate is. whether they re male or female. there will be attacks that come. and that s simply what we have to be prepared to deal with. and i m prepared. is she prepared? nbc s political analyst charlie cook. editor of the cook political report joins me now. she had a pretty good rollout just sort of the dynamic and now her organizers are saying in new hampshire today they expect perhaps 150 people excluding the media and she had more than 200 at a backyard event. head counting is of course a political art. that said, michele bachmann has some fire here. she is someone with some formidable skills.
election day that the white house and president obama, they have been working the college campuses. they have been working the big cities on the minorities. but right now they are focused on women. he did a backyard event. recently that was just for women, chris. president obama and women only in a backyard outside of seattle. i think that s a clear indication of where the political strategy is right now for the democrats in the home stretch. listen, midterm elections, as you well know, not as many people vote as vote in presidential elections. so it s all about turnout. it s all about you getting more of your ways to vote than the other side gets of their base to show up and vote. women have been-the cement, the real bases of the democratic party for decades since ronald reagan back in the 1980s. if you don t have a gender gap for democrats they are in serious trouble come november 2nd. juan: i think in part because
campuses. they have been working the big cities on the minorities. but right now they are focused on women. he did a backyard event. recently that was just for women, chris. president obama and women only in a backyard outside of seattle. i think that s a clear indication of where the political strategy is right now for the democrats in the home stretch. listen, midterm elections, as you well know, not as many people vote as vote in presidential elections. so it s all about turnout. it s all about you getting more of your ways to vote than the other side gets of their base to show up and vote. women have been-the cement, the real bases of the democratic party for decades since ronald reagan back in the 1980s. if you don t have a gender gap for democrats they are in serious trouble come november 2nd. juan: i think in part because women play such an important part in independent swing