scheme to shortchange the metropolitan transportation authority, the transportation infrastructure relied on by millions of new yorkers. new york attorney general barbara underwood said friedman pocketed money that should have provided much needed investment in our system and he ll now have to pay back every cent. and here is the part michael cohen is worried about. our office will continue to hold accountable those who cheat the system. joining our discussion now, michael daily, the columnist for the daily beast, who has been covering new york city for decades. he is a long-time columnist for the new york daily news. also with us joyce vance northern district attorney and a professor after the university of alabama law school. she is an msnbc contributor. and might bel, it s hard to be surprised at corruption and tax cheating among taxi operators in new york city. well, you know, it s i mean, you got this guy gene, they call him, friedman.
new york attorney general barbara underwood said friedman pocketed money that should have provided much needed investment in our system and he ll now have to pay back every cent. and here is the part michael cohen is worried about. our office will continue to hold accountable those who cheat the system. joining our discussion now, michael daily, the columnist for the daily beast, who has been covering new york city for decades. he is a long-time columnist for the new york daily news. also with us joyce vance northern district attorney and a professor after the university of alabama law school. she is an msnbc contributor. and might bel, it s hard to be surprised at corruption and tax cheating among taxi operators in new york city. well, you know, it s i mean, you got this guy gene, they call him, friedman. he starts out his father had a fleet of like 60 cabs. the next thing you know, gene s got a thousand cabs and the
romney is right to feel uneasy about pennsylvania. republican poll stores told him why he is in a bad position with pennsylvania voters. the bain capital ads that the europe packs have run have stopped some of the mitt romney s growth in the western part of the state with working class voters. romney is not getting much support from those closest to him either. anonymous friends of the campaign savaged the candidate in politico. he was called lousy candidate and he doesn t know the room and he is missing the normal guy gene. conservative denial of the current polls is so bad, chris wallace of fox news couldn t take it anymore. i think romney, i don t know that there is any great headline, is in trouble. he has got to win this debate. i don t think it can be he did well. where do you get that from?
is in such a bad position with pennsylvania voters. i think the bain capital ads that the president has run and the super pacs have run have stopped some of mitt romney s growth in the western part of the state with working class voters. romney isn t getting much support from those closest to him either. anonymous friends of the campaign associates savaged the candidate in politico. louie candidate. doesn t know the the room. not a great politician. and he s missing the normal guy gene. i think romney is in trouble. and he has got to win this debate. i don t think it can be well, it was a draw and wait a minute, wait a minute. where did you get that from? what do you mean romney s in trouble? because of this poll manipulation crap? let me just say something. the criticism of the polls is
alarms have been ringing louder and louder by conservatives. peggy noonan, rich lowry, bill crystal, all of these folks expressing extreme concern about this candidate and where he s taking the party and where he s taking the conservative movement. so i think if things keep going the way they are going, i think you can hit that fog horn button a few more times and a few more splashes will happen. now, erin, we re also hearing leading republicans and saying things political reported that republicans are losing faith in romney s ability to win. one high ranking romney campaign said, a lousy candidate and republicans repeatedly call romney too rich to care. one romney donor even tells politico he s missing the normal guy gene. i mean, these are republicans