romney has said and had been confirmed by independent fact checkers multiple time, bain left in february of 1999 to run the limb p picks and had input on magt of companies after that point. but hang on. what was it romney said yesterday about responding in politics? i respond to the attacks that come, they say in politics, if you re responding, you re losing. let s get right to our panel including the man who had the early jump on the story, david corn with us from washington, d.c. and also joining us here in new york, charles blow. david, you ve been one of the first to report on this back at the beginning of the month in mother jones. and you found romney s break with bain wasn t so clean, but how dirty are the details really? well, you know, they keep trying to set up this bright, clear line in the campaign and bain on february 1999 and romney had nothing to do with the company really after that. but as i reported last week and the boston globe amplified today, the
still signing their papers. it s got to be inconceivable that for all those years, he wasn t asking, checking, vetting, having some input to what bain was doing. was being done in his name, so he s responsible. and all i can tell you about the story i wrote today, bain in china. it s a fundamentalically contradictory story. charles, the bain pr team has issued their own statement saying he left in 1999, but the obama campaign is hitting hard on this case. take a listen. if the sec filings aren t accurate, then prove it. if he wasn t investing millions of dollars in shell corporations, tax havens, swiss bank accounts overseas to gain a tax advantage, then prove it. prove it by releasing your tax returns. she went so far as to suggest mitt romney could be found guilty of fraud. how far do you think this could go or to borrow a hip hop phrase, how low can it go? i think it goes pretty far because this is a very fundamental part of politics. the idea of a lying president.