going to let this go. why is he ducking it, how long is he going to duck it? we don t have any debates left to distract us. this is the crazy season in the campaign. it would be better if he came out and addressed it and got it over with. alicia, can he duck it for two weeks or is he going to duck it once and for all? it means that they ve made a calculated decision that they are not going to talk about it and what is really sad is that we continue to talk about ex acceptings leads us away from the major conversation which is that in the case of 90% of abortions, mitt romney would want those abortions to be illegal. that s the conversation that we actually need to have front and center. so this entire conversation has shifted to the right instead of us talking about the fact, the personhood amendment, as you said, about mitt romney s support of the blunt amendment, the fact that he wants to overturn the affordable care act
i think i agree. like how andrea got behind chuck, just duck it. duck the question. i really hope this doesn t happen, but something mark said a second ago, there s a chance that this impoverishes the debate over entitlements because romney is not going to be specific and the president probably just can t help it on a purely political level to speak in the broadest of generalities about entitlement reform which makes it seem extreme when we know most people know, we have been talking about 15 minutes what we have to do. talk to peterson, look at the concord coalition, center left, center right, think tanks, they will all tell you medicare and medicaid together within the next 20 years consumed 100% of all taxable, all taxes that come into the federal government will be devoured by medicare and medicaid over the next 20 years. it s fact. this is math. this is math. no money for roads, no money for
jobs report today. it seems like it was democratic strategy. could have said there was no basis to that. this is a fight that mitt romney cannot win. he can try to duck it. he can t do that successfully. when he tries to make the issue, harry reid s source rather than his own taxes. it s a bad strategy. it s not going to work. this impression that he s not transparent on his personal finances. he won t explain here s a guy it s all the same thing. let s look at someone trying to get the information out of him. romney does not give an inch on this question. even when asked broad questions on tax rates, he doesn t. let s listen. we know that there was one year when you paid about a 13.9% tax rate. can we clear this up by asking you a simple yes or no question? was there every any year when you paid lower than the 13.9%?
well, soledad, as soon as mitt romney landed here in london for his overseas trip he found the controversy surrounding basically what has been hoped by his campaign as what they re calling a listen and learn tour. it has been sort of who said what in the last 24 hours as you mentioned that quote that appeared in an article in the london daily telegraph apparently or allegedly we might even want to say from an unnamed romney advisor and even though the international press could not independently verify whether or not that advisor even uttered those comments, the vice president and the obama campaign jumped on those comments and released a statement from vice president biden and put it up on the screen for you. he said not surprisingly in this statement this is just another feeble attempt by the romney campaign to score political points at the expense of this critical partnership, this assertion is beneath a presidential campaign. for his part mitt romney was asked about all
but the problem she was the project manager but diana is a grated, great person and i think she s going to have a fantastic career. we know arsenio hall gets the money for the magic johnson foundation. here s the question, try not to duck it. is she the hottest woman you ve ever fired? you know, i could maybe agree with that. i mean, she really is gretchen, you have to say, i mean, she is i m not saying anything. she is a don t get me into this! like gretchen, she is a great beauty. and she s also very smart. so she is she s very much like gretchen in many ways. right. thank you. although gretchen would have fought back harder against lampinelli. i think she would have been torn up. i think lisa wouldn t have had a chance. that s true. wow. wish you were my boss because then you wouldn t fire me. lisa has been very good as far as the entertainment. i mean, she s been amazing. arsenio is starting to bug me. is he bugging you? no, i think he s doing