that governor romney is making this an issue because it gets to the bigger point about government dependency and that is a largest narrative about what president obama and the left have been doing over the last three and a half years, which is to expand the number of people dependent on government at all levels. i guess if i wanted to be dependent on government i would have lived in massachusetts in 1997, would have got even welfare, a free car and autoshaourpbs. i don t kno auto insurance. shannon: the best welfare is a steady job and that is something this administration has not provided. we can agree on that. but getting welfare for free shannon: we are tracking a growing controversy after new reports that feature the president hraoebgt urg the media. mr. obama suggesting that some views should not be reported on when they are not supported by the facts. we will look at who decides the
are in trouble on this. maybe it s not a good issue for either one. i don t know what they said about obama but i will say with mitt romney i don t know what monica would say to the fact that he gave away free cars and auto insurance to people on welfare. that to me is not somebody strong on welfare. all obama is trying to do is say look, california, ohio, whatever state you want to pick, if you have a better way to put people back to work that is demon strabl, you hav demonstrable, you have to prove it. we will allow you flexibility to do that. i think both campaigns your engaging this issue. in that obama memo coming from hss they actually used a new, brand-new legal argument that apparently they pulled out of thin air that would actually gut the work requirement. so you have to look at this from all sides here. the other point about this is
shannon: back to our top story. we are awaiting word from the white house to tell us whether president obama supports a new ad that essentially accuses mitt romney of causing a woman s death. serious questions have been raised about whether it is accurate or fair. this morning on morning joe robert gibbs was pressed about this ad. this is an ad by an entity that s not controlled by the campaign. i certainly don t know the specifics of this man s case. i do think there is a lot of concern in the country about what happens when people lose their jobs. we know that when they lose their jobs because most of where
that accuses mitt romney of causing a woman s death. i have not seen the ad. i haven t seen this. i can t respond to it. i think i ll refer you to the president s reelection campaign. three, six, nine the goose dra wine the monkey chew tobacco on the streetcar line clap, pat, clap your hand pat it on your partner s hand
usually we love state rights and we hate centralized government. apparently not today. that is not what the romney ad said. the romney ad said that obama would waive the work requirements. that is not true at all. everybody concedes its not true at all, including independent belief in people who watch us independent leave. the only way you make a waiver is if you make the work requirement stronger. why would the romney campaign bring up welfare reform. now we learn that when he was governor of massachusetts mitt romney allowed people on welfare to have free cars. the state would pay for the cars, the car insurance, it would even pay for aaa, this is something that is so tone deaf because he s raised this issue now that the obama administration can come back and say, look what you did to massachusetts, look at the give aways you gave to people on welfare. i sometimes wonder who is running the romney campaign. did they not do research on their own candidate? governor romney has a ver