crony capitalism is at play, because a particular b u.n. dler made big donations had access to federal money, loan guarantees and the like. in romney s view that is not creating good jobs. he points to solyndra and others to make that case. romney is turning the tables he hopes on the criticism of his own record at bain capital which has been under fire and the democrats demand for him to release for tax returns. 2011 tax returns for provided an extension, his lawyers are still looking at them. he s provid provided one series of tax returns from 2010. romney has not provided his 2011 because they are being worked on. martha: he says when they are finished that they will be released. talk to me a little bit about the vp pick. there are all kind of things surfacing out there, that the pick is narrowing, that they are down to three according to one report. obviously that is going to be a big news-getting moment when
we hope he gets better real soon. great, great job. how about this. a state of emergency is declared in a major american city. it is not because of bad weather. we ll tell you where and why they re raising unusual red flags. bill: tax cuts back in the news. republicans firing back at threats from democrats as the fiscal cliff draws closer. is there a true chance of a deal before you see it hitting your wallet? senator john barrasso is fired up about this. he is live on the hill in moment. we have brand new reaction from american business owners to very controversyal comments from president obama. if you have been successful you didn t get there on your own. you didn t get there on your own. i m always struck by people who think, wow, it must be because i was just so smart. there are a lot of smart people out there. martha: oh, donald trump on that next.
that way and say it s legitimate to discuss those issues i don t think it s very smart. look, the chicago formula is the formula this white house uses. the president you brought up the comment he made yesterday about business, that you don t succeed on your own. martha: right. that shows that he really believes that, that government makes businesses succeed, and individuals don t. and the reason he believes that is the chicago formula. in chicago they give grants to their friends that support their campaigns, and that s what this president has done. the solyndra money went to people who were bundlers, and backers, and contributors to the president s campaign. so he believes he made solyndra. the money that went t fisker was the same way, bundlers and contributors. martha: we had a panel that talked about this a little while ago and they said look so me a president who hasn t done that,
tough. i don t think he s going to be using the phrase about what a nice man the president is because it s starting out to be different. all you have to do is go back four years and see what he did to hillary clinton in that campaign, which was said to be the most vicious ever in the history of our country and now we have one i think that will surpass it. i really think mitt will have to get very, very tough and i think he will. martha: his campaign has said and we re going to talk to john senunu in a moment, and he said yesterday about the romney campaign that he thinks that they are sort of getting into the mode that we re going to see them in through the convention and the election, but then there are others out there who seem frustrated that this isn t sort of coming out in a stronger way now. do you think that strategy is a good strategy? i d like to see him come out now. we can always say, let s wait, let s wait. as you know john mccain ran a very-level campaign and it s just n
still in the larva stage. martha: oh really? bill: they re keeping some to keep them alive to see how they grow. martha: they re kind of cute. now to a bizarre story. this one is not fun at all. there is a investigation underway. they re trying to figure out exactly how sewing needles got into the little turkey sandwiches giving out on the delta american flight, delta airlines flights i should say. four different flights have finding of little needles coming with the turkey sandwich inside. julie banderas is live in the new york city newsroom. the fbi is involved, right, julie? reporter: right, martha. the fbi confirmed to fox that it launched a criminal investigation how needles got into five separate sandwiches toe be served to business class passengers on board four delta flights from amsterdam to the u.s. the airline says what appeared to be sewing needles found on sunday, injurying one passenger on