this. democratic representative sandy levin of michigan is introducing a bill to require presidential candidates to release ten years of tax returns. now, richard, how much longer can romney hold out? i mean, this is going to force the republicans to vote if they take it up in the house, on exactly how many years should be released by candidates. you don t defend the indefensible. this is about disclosure. who could be against disclosure. it s like when you find banks shredding documents. what are you trying to hide? it s hard to get beyond that. sooner or later, they re going to have to do this. they can throw up as much dust as they like. they can do as many head fakes as they like, but they re going to have to do this. i guess maybe it s a good time to defer until they get to the olympics and maybe people aren t paying attention. whether it s votes or just the whole siren calls here, you have got to release these things because as bad as they are, not releasing them is actually wo
they want to distract the media if they can from reporting on these tax issues. well, the democrats in congress are going to jump on this. democratic representative sandy levin of michigan is introducing a bill to require presidential candidates to release ten years of tax returns. now, richard, how much longer can romney hold out? i mean, this is going to force the republicans to vote if they take it up in the house, on exactly how many years should be released by candidates. you don t defend the indefensible. this is about disclosure. who could be against disclosure. it s like when you find banks shredding documents. what are you trying to hide? it s hard to get beyond that. sooner or later, they re going to have to do this. they can throw up as much dust as they like. they can do as many head fakes as they like, but they re going to have to do this. i guess maybe it s a good time to defer until they get to the olympics and maybe people aren t paying attention. whether it s votes
rallying before existing home sales. and that could be one of the reasons. let s talk about consumer confidence here. consumer confidence at its highest level in more than four years. temporary spike or is it sustainable? that s the key question. and consumer don t like head fakes. that s a big difference between your sentiment if you re making more than $75,000, which generally means you have a job, or less. and so your head fake may be the housing market, if you re making more than $75,000, or less than that, you re looking at your job prospects. and so those are the things that need to be there on a consistent basis in order to really sustain increase sentiment. we ll take it. but you re right, everybody s looking for consistency before they really feel it. regina lewis, always insightful. thank you so much for your time. sure. coming up in office politics, rachel maddow on whether candidates should put their families on the political stage. you are watching weekends
to win ohio, florida. it will be very close. now, i think, states that obama won in 2008 like indiana, north carolina, those are probably going to go to romney. so virginia, battlegrounds out west. why the hispanic vote is so important. this will be one tight election. bill: to that point, it is interesting where romney has been over the past week. pennsylvania, a republican has not won that state since 1988. and the state of new hampshire which has fon back and forth over the past couple of cycles. romney is down in new hampshire right now. so some of these will be serious attempts to win these states. and some of these will be head fakes where they want the other to spend time and money in those states even though they don t think they will win it. michigan is one of the states where the romney campaign will have to decide should we really go after that state. that is another blue-leaning state. a lot of strategy and a lot of twist and turn over the next six months. bill: watch the
can deliver a punch, he can rope-a-dope, he has great head fakes. he knows how to get it in the arena. and that s not something people are confident in before this exercise. right. so we should not look at the numbers but look at the bigger dynamic of what romney was able to do. i m out of time. but you have to look at the numbers because they don t trust him. the majority of your electorate doesn t trust him. guys, i ve got to leave it there. mary matalin, rich galen, cornell belcher. thank you. president obama, key battleground states today. what he s facing there and beyond. why the election could be an uphill battle for him. also ahead, covering the caucuses. got kind of odd last night. we ll give you an up-close look in the wee hours of the morning. have we all just given up? is it like is this like 1:30 and everyone s like let s just flick it? with that. i m not authorized to access that transaction. that s not in our policy. i will transfer you now. my supervis