this has not been played on the nightly news of the three stations that i know of. they haven t covered the campaign really at the nightly news level. if he alludes to it they have to cover it and so do the news media because he has alluded to it in the debate and the viewers will want it. there are three large things he has to do tonight. number one, he is falling behind in a number of the swing states because of the range of personal attacks obama made on him. largely on his business career. and he should have been answering those in ads but he has to answer them in this debate. he has to explain what the kay men islands is. he has to explain the 47%. when he does that he will completely dismiss obama s campaign to date. so you believe that his explanation of his tax shelters and whatever will just put it to rest. yes. first heed you is say about the kay men islands bill and hillary clinton claim $200,000 of foreign tax credits in
removal, emergency assistance for 16 months. some of the assistance at louisiana and mississippi received had no stafford act requirement. for example, there is $20 billion for housing. no requirement that the state put up a 10% match. there was $14 billion in targeted tax relief. again, no requirements. bill: all of this stuff and by the way we got these stats from our brain room of researchers. this shows you how complicated it is i m not questioning you because you were there. however, here is the key question. is barack obama making this stuff up is he fabricating this deal? mississippi required to pay 10% on everything and this was not waived. that s simply not true. the people in florida and new york city were given presidential preferential treatment. because new orleans is a black town they were hosed.
bill: he has to rise above. absolutely. he he needs to be presidential. he needs to be nor o reilly or rove on this issue because both of us are too spun up about it. bill: okay. two minutes left in this segment. what is the most important thing that mitt romney has to do tonight? if you make me pick one, it is to give the american people a sense of what it is that he is going to do so they walk away saying he has got a practical common sense set of answers to the problems we fay faces a a country. in a debate you never get to do one thing. let me suggest three. that s one of them. second, he he needs to strike a presidential tone. he needs to look more like the guy in the oval office than the guy who was there. third, he he needs to in the right way call out president obama on both his record and on his misstatements. he needs to not every misstatement. not every part of his record. he needs to pick his targets carefully. he needs to look like is he strong and convincing and
care about the 47%. he should say let s put it this way, mr. president, when i m alone in a room, i speak to 53% of the country. when you are alone in a room it would appear that you speak to 14% of the country if you want to play games like that. bill: would you play that game though? would you play that game? you didn t ask me that you asked me if he brought that up first. yeah. bill: that s what i m talking about. is he going to bring it up. you know the 47% is coming. would you go back with the 14%? would you go back with it? no. because i think mitt romney is winning, bill. i don t believe the polls. i don t believe the hacks. i think he is in great shape. i think this president is so bad at this job guy goes out there and looks comfortable for god s sake. huckster guy like is.
been taken out. [ applause ] tells me that somehow the people down in new orleans, they don t care about as much. bill: now, when mr. obama refers to the people down in new orleans, he is obviously referring to african-americans and taking the bullet out is racial code. thereby, mr. obama injected race into the debate. by the way, in the end new orleans might not have paid anything under the stafford act. the situation is so muddled it s hard to know. you decide the validity of mr. obama s comments. here is the key question tonight. should mid romney refer to that race tape in order to demonstrate how the president is being divisive. the governor might also point to his speech he gave in 2002 when he went after wealthy americans.