business with b.e.t. founder bob johnson and former hewlett-packard ceo carly fiorina. i m candy crowley, and this is state of the union. first today, mitt romney. cnn s gloria borger caught up with the republican presidential nominee yesterday in indiana, and he hit back on president obama s proposal to raise tax rates for people making over $250,000 a year. i think it would be an enormous mistake for us to raise taxes on anyone right now with the economy and the trouble it s in. i also hope people understand that when they talk about raising taxes on the wealthy as the president does, he s also talking about the same tax rate that applies to small business. more of that romney interview in just a few minutes, but i want to bring in republican senator lindsey graham of south carolina, thanks for joining us. glad to be with you. let me ask you first about the president s plan or his wish to raise taxes essentially on those making $250,000 and above. we now have so
people are hurting out there and the president says everything is fine. megyn: whether those people, how those people will react to president obama saying the private sector is fine. they don t feel fine and they want a president who understands they are not fine just because they re not a cop or firefighter doesn t mean they are not, that they re fine. and, the question i have for you, chris hahn, whether it equates to this moment which many thought was a death knell to john mccain s campaign in 2008. here it is being replayed in the barack obama campaign ad. watch it. our economy i think still, the fundamentals are of our economy are strong but these are very, very difficult times. and i promise you we will never put america in this position again. megyn: he tried to couch it. but the fundamentals of our economy are strong. came back to haunt him in a major way. no doubt the romney campaign will put up many ads with the president saying the private sector is doing fine. but let
four men a, robert bales was brought to the u.s. and speaks to his lawyer for the first time. here s his attorney, john brown. i think flfs an effort to paint him as someone who, rather than having a serious brain injury and shouldn t have been there to begin with, had some other factors. the financial situation for all of us is stressful, i think. but, you know, nobody goes and kills women and children because they had financial stresses. bales is kbg held now at fort leavenworth military prison in kansas. that s where we have ted rollins standing by. do we even know if sergeant bales has met with that attorney yet ted? are we expecting the attorney to come on and speak? well, we are expecting him to come out and speak. we reached out to him via e-mail and he said he likely would. he said possibly right afterwards. we do know talking to people that they have met, they are meeting at this hour and they apparently met for three hours this morning and are on a lunch break
they couch it in terms of, you know, i would not put my family through this, put my constituents through this. how abouti putting your famiy through the affair? what the person is saying i don t want to put myself through all the stuff that happens when these revelations come out. and worse case he could have been expelled, the worst possible punishment. kelly, i want to ask you about what senators do during these spring breaks what they re all working so hard. the congressional delegation, our friend al cayman at the washington post disclosed some of the details of this trip led by harry reid, republicans in this and democrats in this, when we look at who has been traveling around china, you ve got a congressional delegation including senators reid, durbin, schumer, boxer, lautenberg, merkley, bennett, shelby, enzi and ikic son, the whole crowd. and they were in china. reporter: nearly a quorum.
victims and couch it for a week or so. to come out and say you re dead is inflammatory and speaks to the problem with this hate speech that the over the top rhetoric on both sides, both left and right, to short of cool our heels. it doesn t seem like he was listening when president obama was no one thought it would go away overnight the impassioned feelings, but i give him a pass, because he was shot a week ago in the back. it s like a mental health situation. he was arrested and taken for a mental health evaluation and we will keep you posted. speaking of some overheated rhetoric. perhaps we re too politically correct. shelly pingree, a democrat from maine, what s going on on capitol hill. they postponed voting on the health care repeal, the republicans did until next week, the name of the act is called the repealed job killing health care law act. that s the name of it. she says, we will he put it