megyn: now to the biggest political story of the last week. the growing concern among democrats about how the president s election team is attacking mitt romney s time running bain capital. a number of supporters have rejected or failed to support the president s line of attack. it started last week with the former car czar who called the attacks unfair. then over the weekend cory booker who called the ad campaign news yaight, then harold ford defended his remarks from attacks on the left. on that same day an ad focused on bain was released.
about. we are asked to let a man lead us without knowing what he is all about. he hold himself well beyond the rope line. who complains about the need to explain himself. there is something strangely and defiantly weird in a man demanding to enter the public world who demand, commands is a better word, that we keep our distance. do not try too hard to enter his world. we can t talk about his faith. we can t talk about his time as governor. we can t talk about bain capital. what can we talk about? his choice in cadillacs. the car czar for the obama administration and time magazine s mark halperin cnbc political analyst. by the way, in your interview, you asked if his business record was open to scrutiny. let s watch his response. do you welcome scrutiny of your business record, is that right? what i can tell you is this, the fact is that i spent 25 years in the private sector.
later but still a major issue. harold ford agreed with the fellow democrat cory booker and then you have steve ratner last week who agreed who works with president obama as car czar and also knew cory booker. how does the president answer that question about private equity? i was stunned, i was listening to this in my car driving my kids to and from piano lessons and i m glad i caught it because the questioner actually had three parts to the country. is romney responsible for the jobs that were lost, you know, how do you respond to cory booker and do you believe that private equity has a good place in our economy? the president really dodged the cory booker part. he also dodged the is romney responsible part? but it came out yesterday what the theme is going to be now. they re going to alter what they were saying about private equity because, you know, you can t have it both ways. you can t attack mitt romney and then take money from private equity guy. what they re going to do is sa
it started the strategy. and i think so far, president obama has to be and david axelrod had to be somewhat floored on how badly the attacks on bain capital are going. certainly not as planned. are you talking about the fact that three prominent democrats thus far have come out publicly to say that they do not agree with president obama s strategy? i m thinking of harold ford, i m thinking of cory booker on meet the press on sunday and also steve ratner who was the car czar. those three have and he ran a private equity firm. those three have basically denounced the president s attack on mitt romney. but yesterday during a press conference, the president was asked that question immediately. do you believe mitt romney is responsible for the jobs lost in the companies that bain capital took over? do you agree with what cory booker said or what s your response to that and what do you really feel about private equity? here s the president s new response. saying i m a business guy
it was five years after bain had given up majority interest in both enterprises. romney left bain to run the olympics. drew special attention to the former car czar, who noted that bain was not about creating jobs but profits for investors making obama attacks unfair. they did it superbly well. acting responsibly and leading firm. democrats ignore romney was not running bain when it closed the company they cite but many may not know one of the managing director of bain now is a top bundler of big donations to the obama campaign. bret? bret: carl, more on this with the panel. thank you. today, catholic institutions across the country filed more than a dozen lawsuits against the obama administration. specifically targeting the health and human service mandate about contraception. the archdiocese of washington is among the plaintiffs filing