bain result in government bailouts of any of those companies and did that benefit romney. conservatives are still looking into those fiscal and social issues that not only romney, but all the other companies espouse and we want to to know who is best prepared to lead this country. sean: let me play a cut of michelle obama saying people just don t know, we re confused. remember, president obama said we re lazy, among other things and we cling to our guns and bibles and religion, but this is t latest comment, this one by michelle obama. i want your reaction to this. some people say they re disappointed in barack obama s presidency, that it hasn t accomplished all that they thought that it would or all that he said it would, would you. , but they don t know, they don t know all that so we re going to. this campaign is going to be making sure that people understand all that s been accomplished. i think that people are confused about what some may be confused about how much have been a
this is decision day in iowa. just four hours from now, republicans will gather in caucuses across the state and cast the first votes in the 2012 campaign. the candidates have spent months of the trial paving the way with millions in campaign cash. much of that money has gone towards a barrage of negative advertising. now, in a final flurry of appearances, the rhetoric has reached a new peak or maybe a new low. you said mitt romney, somebody who will lie to you to get to be president will lie to you when they are president. i have to ask you, are you calling mitt romney a liar? yes. you re calling mitt romney a liar? you seem shocked by it. yes. why are you saying he s a liar? this is a man who s staff created the pack. his millionaire friends fund the pack. he pretends he has nothing to do with the pack. it s balogna. it s like his pretense that he s a conservative. wow. let s go live to our chief political correspondent, candy crowley. she s in des moines. you
keep your taxes from going up on january 1st. the president also made a point of thanking voters for telling congressional republicans to block the payroll tax cut extension. you reminded people in this town what our debates and all of our debates should be about. it s about you, it s about your lives. it s about your families. jessica yellin was right there when the president said aloha and walked out of the briefing room is few hours ago. the president won this fight. the question is, how much of it carries over to the reelection year and the reelection campaign? reporter: it carries over, john. i ll tell you why because first of all this wasn t just a short-term victory over what he likes to call a dysfunctional congress, in this case, house republicans. but this also gave him a chance to act out the role he wants to play during the campaign. and that is champion of working americans. there s not just the sound you played of the president but you also heard him say t
they want people to work the hardest and take the risk. they didn t say that to the bankers or the insurance companies when these guys went around and got government bailouts. so, i mean, what are we talking about here? we re talking about and what he s saying is not only outrageous, but it also doesn t speak to where we are, with 1 in 2 americans living in poverty he s completely out of touch. with 100,000 iowans unemployed, he s out of touch. he s clearly talking in code and clearly being not only bigoted, but also talking about poor latinos, poor blacks and single mothers. that s unfair. will this energize voters in those areas, though? i think this kind of language speaks to individual saying i m already struggling. how dare you say i m not trying to work, when i m trying to
now, let me go to somebody who can actually make the point by himself. oh. jonas, history jonas? we don t have five minutes. history shows us this could be a broad problem. yes, i m still trying to let it be clear that chrysler makes money selling cars, i wasn t aware they made money selling cars and hence the massive government bailouts they got. and wouldn t have two car companies we have if it wasn t for government support in our industry. now, they support all of their dozen crumby car companies, too, tit for tat. and these tend to escalate at the economy slows. and it s getting ugly and we mentioned the tire thing and what happened in the depression and caused it to linger, countries are concerned and slow down and hurts the economy. and it d be nice to stop the tariff stuff they ve done more than we have. but we re as bad as we are in many ways with the auto