i think you were a real stand up guy for coming and being on the factor. we appreciate it. happy to do it. thanks. juan: you re welcome. for the romney campaign, the selection of paul ryan for the vp slot has really energized the base. joining us now to talk about that and to respond to mr. la bolt, congressman, a surrogate fort romney campaign. you hear ben la bolt saying oh, no, it s the romney campaign that s playing dirty ball and we re just responding. what do you say? when the president is out there doing hard ball interviews with people magazine and entertainment weekly, governor romney and paul ryan are out there doing 60 minutes and out there talking about jobs and the economy and look, what they re engaged in in the obama administration and in their campaign is the politics of personal destruction. they re trying to distract at every turn. it s a playbook, comes around with a playbook out of chicago and the american people shouldn t stand for it. juan: now, when you
trade barbs. how nasty can this campaign get? we ll talk to the press secretary of the obama reelection campaign right here. mr. president, you did not kill osama bin laden. america did. juan: and a group of navy seals critical of the president now being called gutless by the far left bomb throwers. we will talk to one of the seals under attack. caution. you re about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. juan: hi. i m juan williams in for bill o reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. let s get right to our top story and our lead guest, ben, the obama campaign spokesman. i have a lot to talk about with him, including the nasty tone of the obama campaign and its supporters. complaints from the white house press corp. that mr. obama is
don t go away. juan: wait a second. let s get back to what we re talking about here, ben. i have heard you say that governor romney is unhinged for saying that president obama is running a divisive campaign. so you re calling the man unhinged. i have also seen an ad run by an obama support pac that accuses basically accuses governor romney of being involved in a woman s death because of cancer. and on top of that, of course, we have the constant badgering of mitt romney to release taxes as if he s a criminal. in fact, someone in your campaign said he may be guilty of a felony. isn t that divisive? well, in terms of unhinged, governor romney, this past week and after running an almost entirely negative campaign, said that he wanted to have a debate about the economic choice facing voters this november. that s what the president said this election is about all along. yet a few days later he abandoned that pledge in which
he accused the president of running a hateful campaign. as i said, if you spend a day on the campaign trail, i don t think those remarks had any bearing on that. we spend a lot of time debating an ad that our campaign didn t produce, but every day on the campaign trail, governor romney questions whether juan: are you going to apologize for that ad? are you going to disavow any association with that ad? you want to apologize for it right now tonight? we didn t produce that ad and we have made a different argument. governor romney is campaigning on his experience as a corporate buyout specialist and he said that during his tenure at bain capital, he was a job creator. but the fact is he profited off of bankrupted juan: okay, okay. ben, you re not answering the question. all right. ben, look, thanks. it s not an ad that we produced. juan: all right. we have made a different case. juan: okay. i hear you. i think everybody hears you. but then look, thanks.
trade barbs. how nasty can this campaign get? we ll talk to the press secretary of the obama reelection campaign right here. mr. president, you did not kill osama bin laden. america did. juan: and a group of navy seals critical of the president now being called gutless by the far left bomb throwers. we will talk to one of the seals under attack. caution. you re about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. juan: hi. i m juan williams in for bill o reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. let s get right to our top story and our lead guest, ben, the obama campaign spokesman. i have a lot to talk about with him, including the nasty tone of the obama campaign and its supporters. complaints from the white house press corp. that mr. obama is