taking in $20 million and paying an effective tax rate of 24%. let s talk to don stein of the huffington post. dan, last week i was here for chris and i interviewed mark allen. he s writing this book inside the circus a lot of details about the presidential race thus far. in his book he points out it was all mitt romney who was reluctant to release his tax returns in the first go-around, and the question i guess i have is, for a campaign that is so controlled, how do they screw up their approach? for example, today we learned he s going to file an extension. we know we re going to see the returns. the returns are going to show him to be a very wealthy guy. why do they create all this intrigue and drama and prolong it? i don t know. i don t know whether this guy is wanting to be president or if he s auditioning for a villain in a james bond movie. he s got a secret bank account, a corporation in bermuda that nobody knows about, and everything he does rather than
an extension but it showed him taking in $20 million and paying an effective tax rate of 24%. let s bring in sam stein, and van jones, author of build the dream. in the book inside the circus he says mitt romney was reluctant to release his tax returns in the first go round. for a campaign that is so controlled, how do they crew up their approach. today we learn he is going to file an extension. you know we re going to see the returns, we know they ll show a very wealthy guy, why do they create all this intrigue and drama and prolong it? i don t know if this guy is ready to be president or if he
inside the circus. it s an e-book. and jackie kucinich, always great to have you on the program. what do progressives, conservatives, monkeys, and cocaine have in common? they re all politics now. and that is next. that ll be $973.42. ya know, your rates and fees aren t exactly competitive. who do you think i am, quicken loans? [ spokesman ] when you refinance your mortgage with quicken loans, you ll find that our rates and fees are extremely competitive. because the last thing you want is to spend too much on your mortgage. one more way quicken loans is engineered to amaze. one more way quicken loans is engineered to amaze. i have two products in front of you. we are going to start with product x. this is a very affordable product that will help save you a, lot of money. i like it.. i like it too. this is product y. this is a much more expensive product. you will not see a lot of savings with this one. harsh. you chose geico
co-author of inside the circus and former editor at large of newsweek. and jackie kucinich, who covers politics for usa today. good morning to both of you. good morning. so it took just a little bit of time before the obama campaign put out a web video featuring lilly ledbetter. so evan, you know how washington works. how do you decide that you re going to sort of shift your campaign into this war on women mode and not seem to know where your candidate stands on an issue like this? it s not great staff work. i mean, the romney campaign s actually got good staff work. they ran a good camp versus their opponents, pretty well run. but with a pace so quick now, you re going to make these mistakes. i think this one s going to pass. but it was an awkward moment. do you think that the conservatives that he needs are going to be unhappy with what he had to say, that he supports the law the way it is? temporarily. but it s going to go away. those conservatives are going to vote
christ. i read the book. serious. talk about your research for that movie because you covered it on scarborough country. i read his e-book. inside the circus. god bless you. there it is, political playbook 2012. mike allen is here with the morning playbook. how is the e-book going? fantastic. thank you, morning joe. this week, the republican super pack, american cross roads is going to target independents with attack ads against president obama. the group which has more than $200 million aims to what is this going to mean for the race? they are going to have $300