a great job, it s enough to make you think you might become a little out of touch. we have a president who i think is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at harvard, perhaps. said from the guy who graduated from harvard business school, as well. but msnbc political analyst michael steele is former chairman of the republican party, nbc latino.com contributor elisa menendez, and jill lawrence, managing editor for politics at national journal. welcome, everybody. thank you so much for being here. jill, we ll start off with you. quote, romney s long odds looking glass strategy. you wrote this in the national journalist, quote, out of touch, raging a war on women, presuming an alarming foreign policy, trying to end medicare as we know it. president obama must feel like he has gone through the looking glass to hear mitt romney leveling those charges against him. the daily show did this last night with jon stewart saying what is this election, they re simply going after each other
tweet ever to respond. and george zimmerman is charged with second degree murder of trayvon martin. but do prosecutors have enough of a case? good morning from washington, it s thursday, april 12th, 2012 this is the daily rundown i m luke russert filling in for chuck todd. let s get right to the first reads of the morning. mitt romney kicked off his general election campaign by aggressively responding to what advisers believe is his big just vulnerability, gender gap with women. romney tried to attack the president. the pivot wasn t subtle. the real war on women is being waged by the president s failed economic policies. his policies have been really a war on women. his failures have hurt women. failed american women. more and more women lost jobs. women are entrepreneurs. women start businesses. do you know what percentage of those jobs lost were lost by women? 92.3%. do romney s job loss claims add up? romney may have gotten a little help from hillary rose
let s get right to the first reads of the morning. mitt romney kicked off his general election campaign by aggressively responding to what advisers believe is his big just vulnerability, gender gap with women. romney tried to attack the president. the pivot wasn t subtle. the real war on women is being waged by the president s failed economic policies. his policies have been really a war on women. his failures have hurt women. failed american women. more and more women lost jobs. women are entrepreneurs. women start businesses. do you know what percentage of those jobs lost were lost by women? 92.3%. do romney s job loss claims add up? romney may have gotten a little help from hillary rosen. who is she, a washington political consultant who advises the democratic national committee. rosen has created a firestorm after these comments on ann romney last night. what you have is mitt romney running around the country saying, well, my wife tells me what women rea