that s precisely what president obama campaigned against. he said i m not going to punish people for not being able to afford healthcare. i want to make it less expensive. and now we know the rules and regulations will make it more expensive and it will punish people. megyn: he went on the ellen show and was critical of hillary clinton for that reason. he had an issue with the mandate being proposed by his rival hillary clinton. here is part of an obama ad from 2008 on that point. hillary clinton is attack but what is she not telling about her healthcare plan? it forces everyone to buy insurance, even if you can t afford it and you pay a penalty if you don t. megyn: there is a question about when this kicks in.
a potentially alarming discovery but nuclear inspectors in iran. the united nations weapons inspectors found traces of radioactivity and underground bunker in iran that could mean that iran has moved closer to reaching the uranium threshhold, meaning to arm nuclear missiles. that follows more talks with iran this week that made little progress. joining me now is forming u.s. ambassador mark ginsburg. good morning to you. thank you so much for being here. let s start with the on question. do you think that iran at this point is even closer now to producing the nuclear weapon than they were a year ago? absolutely. the fact that they have been enriching uranium in exsays of 20%, which is the threshold you need to go to 90%, that s the
please can we get past that? no. martha: really, i was looking at times 100 thing last night. bill bain, who mitt romney worked for at bain capital wrote his have description. how he would get into work earlier than everybody. he always knew from the minute he hired him he would be success at bain, success at olympics. success in massachusetts as well. obviously a glowing response. do you think that somebody like bill bain, you know, does that help, can he help mitt romney? can folks who worked with him talk about the kind of man he is be helpful or continue to perpetuate that richie rich thing? no. look. anytime you have a positive character witness i don t care mrs. romney or i don t care with mr. bain it is a positive for the candidate. barack obama surgeonly has his surrogates out there. on question of likeability, it is true a lot of americans like the president but likeability doesn t make a strong president necessarily. we saw in jimmy carter most
he can t possibly hope to have a leg up. the fact is that if you look at any opinion polling, even in times when the president s had difficulties over the economy, although that s getting better, people have given him enormous credit as commander in chief. they have huge trust in him to conduct this fight against terrorism. and romney himself i think you know, he was governor of massachusetts. he s relatively unschooled in foreign policy. he kind of makes it up as it goes along. the thing that s interesting about the president is people worried that he didn t have enough experience, that that phone was going to ring at 3:00 in the morning, he wasn t going to give the right answer. on question after question after question, whether it s going after bin laden, finally keeping the commitment to leave iraq, the way he s gone in afghanistan, that phone has rung at 3:00 in the morning and he s given the right answer. george h.w. bush has come out in support of mitt romney. he seems to
times when the president s had difficulties over the economy, although that s getting better, people have given him enormous credit as commander in chief. they have huge trust in him to conduct this fight against terrorism. and romney himself i think you know, he was governor of massachusetts. he s relatively unschooled in foreign policy. he kind of makes it up as it goes along. the thing that s interesting about the president is people worried that he didn t have enough experience, that that phone was going to ring at 3:00 in the morning, he wasn t going to give the right answer. on question after question after question, whether it s going after bin laden, finally keeping the commitment to leave iraq, the way he s gone in afghanistan, that phone has rung at 3:00 in the morning and he s given the right answer. george h.w. bush has come out in support of mitt romney. he seems to be picking up more support from traditional republicans. what does this mean, and does this help? oh,