that was hilarious, governor romney. also when you picked vice president biden to be your running meat amazing and good choice with michelle. joining us is john harwood. cnbc s chief washington correspondent and author of the political memo. great to see you. thanks for being here. hey, rachel. is it too much of a stretch to see him saying the bailout was a mitt romney success and mr. romney saying he would have ordered the assaults on bin laden s compound? are they going after that line that gm is alive and bin laden s dead? absolutely they are. both of the items of the rather concise formulation as you mentioned are pretty powerful. it s an unimpeachable fact that osama bin laden was gotten under president obama after not having been gotten under president bush. that doesn t mean with the same set of circumstances that president bush might not have made the same decision. you can t take away the fact
who just don t vote democrat. in fact, there s a pretty healthy percentage of them. all this talk about how the unions are in the back pockets of the democrats, if they vote their own economic interest, a lot of them will make the turn in november. that s what the obama administration is counting on. let s turn to howard fineman. great to have you with us tonight. hi, ed. how does this play in states like ohio and pennsylvania? first of all, let me say as far as the union workers, in the previous segment you were talking about barack obama as commander in chief, that plays there. as far as the economy is concerned, david axelrod thinks there s more spots of good news around the country than people inside the beltway have yet grasped. we re about six months behind the curve.
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looking at the numbers, rachel, there are lots of reasons for that. wait, wait, wait. don t tell me the reasons. do women make less than men? actually, no. wow! okay. we re working from different men work an average of 44 hours a week. women work 41 hours a week. men go into professions like engineering, science and math that earn more. listen, this is not a math is hard yes, it is. no, it isn t. let rachel frame it the way right now women are making 77 cents on the dollar for what men are making. that s not true. all right. let rachel make her point. every greedy businessman in america would hire only women, save 25% and be hugely prosperous. it s weird that you re interrupting me and not letting me make my point because we get along so well. let me make my point. i will. the interruption is important, i think. now we know at least from both of your per spect i that women are not fairing worse than men in the economy. women aren t getting paid less
introduced pieces of legislation that specifically helped women. done nothing. do you think the current republican party is doing anything to address fair pay. susan collins does not represent the republican party. you know the that. look at the facts. republicans do not control the united states senate. when republicans introduce bills, it is up to harry reid and other folks to bring it up to the floor. i m taking issue with alex s point about doing nothing. do you have a bill an that passed? i m not a united states senator. robert s bill. look, you ve already. do you have a bill that passed? the fact that people introduced bills is nice. i think the point stands that this republican party has basically blocked or voted against all attempts to make pail parity a legislative priority. let s talk about doing nothing. . the senate was controlled by the democrats for the last three years. let s talk about how come they haven t done anything over the last three years