something he rarely does. he talked with cnn s national political correspondent jim acosta this evening. governor, thanks for joining us. let s talk first about this controversy over when you left bain capital. i ll put one of the documents in question up on screen. their sec filing stating that you were ceo at bain capital past 1999. when you say you left bain to run the olympics. why was your name still on these documents? and why didn t you clear this up sooner? well, i was the owner of an entity that is filing that information. but i had no role whatsoever in the management of bain capital after february of 1999. not that that would have been a problem to have said i was with the firm beyond that but i simply wasn t. i went out and did that full time. relinquished all management authority and role in bain capital after february 1999. how do you explain that discrepan discrepancy? you said publicly you left the firm in 1999. weren t you concerned at some point these
he talked with cnn s national political correspondent jim acosta this evening. governor, thanks for joining us. let s talk first about this controversy over when you left bain capital. i ll put one of the documents in question up on screen. their sec filing stating that you were ceo at bain capital past 1999. when you say you left bain to run the olympics. why was your name still on these documents? and why didn t you clear this up sooner? well, i was the owner of an entity that is filing that information. but i had no role whatsoever in the management of bain capital after february of 1999. not that that would have been a problem to have said i was with the firm beyond that but i simply wasn t. i left to go out and run the olympics. i did that full-time. relinquished all management authority and role in bain capital after february 1999. how do you explain that discrepancy? you said publicly you left the firm in 1999. weren t you concerned at some point these filings mi
violently mauled by two chimps in south africa. ahead, the horrifying details of the attack. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. these numbers just coming in. let s go to the battle for the white house. a brand new cnn o.r.c. poll is just being released right now. take a look at just how tight the race is. among registered voters nationally, nationally. 49% say they are for president obama versus 46% for mitt romney. that s with a 2.5% samplining err error. despite the landmark ruling, there s been no change in the number for either candidate since the last poll that came out in may. look at this, when it comes to voters in the so-called battleground states, about 15 of them, the numbers aren t so close. let s go straight to cnn s joe johns. he s breaking the numbers for us. he s in des moines, iowa, right now. tell our viewers what we re seeing, joe. reporter: wolf, there s certainly a lot more to this than meets the eye. the main takeaway is mitt romney is r
we need to get the country moving again. focus on small business. focus on job creation. the number one thing we could do is energy production that will help us. we ll change our trade deficit. put people back to work and change our foreign policy as well. bill: give you a shot at this. you have a bill called the domestic energy and jobs act, right? yeah. bill: one of the main headlines in the bill you suggest it would drive a manufacturing renaissance that would be a catalyst to america s overall recovery. defend that. well the most important thing when people look to manufacturing it is the cost of doing business, the cost of manufacturing. energy costs is the number one factor. if we lower the energy costs and make it consistent so you don t have peaks going up and down, people will come back. we have been beginning to do that when it comes to natural gas. you watch. some manufacturing jobs have come back because we allowed greater production of it. we can do the same thing acro
point he brings that up in the words of his campaign would mauk him an economic savior from his country. you saw the tape with steel workers who s plant in kansas city was loaded up with debt jammed up with bankruptcy. mitt romney and his investors walked away with ten s of millions of dollars. they were good at that making money for themselves and their investors. what bain capital never did was focus on job creation. romney s senior campaign advisor firing right back. the fact is pain capital there were a number of investments that sdn the perform well. it was less than 5 percent of investmentseneded up in bankruptcy. if you look at the sports authority 15,000 jobs you look at brighter horizons 15,000 jobs. nearly 90,000 jobs created.