than to be off of welfare and want to get a job. and now we are at the point of the campaign where each campaign has to say we are going to be tougher on welfare recipients as if they don t have it tough already. i think the whole frame is off a bit. they are in there it is also this idea that somehow this is a huge part of the federal budget. i think it is something like 5%. i m going on welfare. that s my career plan. pro-obama priorities, usa. i m first. released this ad today. this is pro-obama. helping to bring the conversation back to bain. when mitt romney closed the plant i lost my health care. and my family lost their health care. and a short time after that, my wife became ill. i don t know how long she was sick. and i think maybe she didn t say anything. because she knew that we couldn t afford the insurance. one day she became ill and i took her up to the jackson county hospital. and admitted her for
we see here been talking about it since yesterday. the ad s narrated by a man whose wife died of cancer. his wife died years later. let s listen to this ad. then one day she became ill and i took her up to the jackson county hospital. and admitted her for pneumonia. that s when they found the cancer. by then it was stage four. there was nothing they could do for her. and she passed away in 22 days. i do not think mitt romney has realized what he s done for anyone. and furthermore, i do not think mitt romney is concerned. well, here s how romney spokesperson his top spokesperson responded to that harsh ad today. let s watch closely what she says. to that point, you know, if you know, if people had been in massachusetts under governor romney s health care plan, they would have had health care. there are a lot of people losing jobs and losing their health
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was serving as the outreach director at the time and she was in the courtroom when he entered the plea. pam, good morning to you. good morning. when you first heard guilty, what was your reaction? my reaction was one of this is going to be closure, not only for myself but for many of the other survivors and families of the victims. that s interesting you use the word closure here. this is a man, pam, who trialedo kill you. he shot you in your chest and hand. you were inside the same room, sharing the same air as this man in the courtroom. how did he appear and how did you feel sitting in the room with him? well, i ve attended the other hearings as well. a terrible irony is that the shooter was a student at the junior high i taught in over 20 years so we walked the same halls. i did not know him at the time. my only thought for him now is just remorse that something couldn t have been done earlier, that he couldn t have had the medication he needed earlier and this t
it s not just obama s radical but the people are even more radical. i don t think they thought it would be a big deal. reporter: the welfare offensive comes as a new poll shows most americans still don t have a favorable view of romney. ron haskins says the president s advisors should have seen the attack a mile away. if i were a political advisor to the president, i would say you better not do this now because republicans are going to claim you re trying to undermine the welfare reform legislation. and that s exactly what republicans are doing. reporter: and it s not just romney and gingrich making these claims. other republicans in congress and even the party itself have picked up this banner, a sign that this issue could be here to stay. wolf. jim acosta, thanks very much. in the next hour i ll be speaking live with newt gingrich. he s here in the situation room. with the republican convention only a few weeks away, the clock is certainly ticking on mitt romney