and tell his fellow republicans that opposing fair pay for all americans is shameful. now, senator, the romney camp released a statement yesterday saying, of course, governor romney supports pay equity for women. in order to have pay equity women need to have jobs and they ve been getting crushed in the anemic obama economy. as president mitt romney will create a pro jobs business climate that will put all americans back to work. we use the phrase delicate ballet. how has the romney campaign handled this issue over the last months? i believe there s words and there s deeds. if romney was really serious about equal pay for equal work, he d be working the phones today. he d be on the phone with mitch mcconnell, the republican leader, saying let s move this bill forward, let s put this issue to rest. he would be calling wavering republicans and saying, look, when i m president, i want women
to get equal pay for equal work, but let s start now. vote for this bill and let s get our economy going. instead he s out there giving speeches and we re on the floor advocating legislative remedies. we re the deed people, they re the word people. you know, jonathan, we look at what happened on the student loan debate, which is to say that mitt romney came out and said, the interest rates can t go up. and effectively republicans in congress had to fall in line. he could theoretically as a senator say, i am for pay equity, and this should go forward and, of course, co-signing to a democratic piece of legislation is not something he s likely to do, but in terms of the issue and saying this is a priority, we ve got to account for the discrepancy between women s wages and men s wages as long as they re unfair. well, this is the one issue where you called it a delicate ballet that the governor has been dancing on this issue. this gets back to something we talked about earlier in the sh
the book is confront and conceal. david sanger, honor to have you on set. delighted to be here. a great book. recommended reading. thank you. after the break, democrats and republicans spar over fair pay while mitt romney stays mum. i m a marathon runner, in absolute perfect physical condition and i had a heart attack right out of the clear blue. i m on an aspirin regimen. and i take bayer chewables. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. he s my success story. [ laughs ]
senator reid, majority leader reid said in that clip about where is governor romney and senator mikulski saying where is governor romney working the phones, tying congressional action to the titular head of the republican party, linking him to something that he clearly doesn t want to talk about, but what s interesting, this is an economic issue, this is about paychecks, about families, this is about putting food on the table, which plays to the wheelhouse that he s been pushing, governor romney s been pushing, yet his actions, it makes it seem as though he s viewing this primarily as a social issue than an economic issue. that is the problem. senator barbara mikulski, thank you so much for your time. we ll be following the passage, the fate of the bill, as it unwinds today. coming up the prop 8 debate. minutes away from a key court ruling on california s same-sex marriage ban.
the secrecy of both programs particularly the cyber program to not discuss it. so the united states has never acknowledged ever using a cyber weapon. for drones, you can t deny it. i mean, you see the result. yeah, but it s also a question as to how the president s constituents deal with this. steve, we ve talked about the very uncomfortable position i think this puts a lot of folks on the left. there have been to some degree a lack of discussion about this i think because it s hard for people to wrap their heads around. this idea that president obama s continuing and in some cases amplifying the programs put in place by the bush administration on he amplified all of them. or all of them. it seems like you talk about missing the opportunity to have the discussion with the american people to explain some of these things, and part of me, sort of the cynical part of me says that s to avoid what you are talking about, if you expose this, if the democrat party base was revolted wh