straightforward subject lacks like a jackson pollack painting. this is not drip art. this is a simple issue. tens of millions of american women right now, who have health insurance, do not have to pay extra for contraceptives under their health plans. and insurance regulation says if contraception something you want, you do not have to pay extra for it, above your premiums. it s covered under what you pay for your premiums. millions of american women are covered by that. that is because of president obama. what is the mitt romney position on that? well, i m glad you asked. do you have a second or an hour? when republicans decided to make this new regulation an issue back in the spring, mitt romney was asked then, do you think your boss should be able to block you from having access to contraception? and mr. romney recoiled from that question. he said, no, he was not for that bill. that very same day, though, later on, he was reminded that, actually, it was his republican party that was
that said, mr. romney did not take the whole day off today. this afternoon, he did a rally in virginia and then he stayed in virginia for the day to do another virginia rally tonight. on the democratic side, vice president joe biden did an early afternoon rally in greeley, colorado, today. he was very fired up at that rally. vice president biden is campaigning tonight at an event in reno, nevada. the republican side, the vice presidential nominee there, paul ryan, he was out and about in the morning today. they put him out well before they put mitt romney out. and specifically, they put paul ryan out at a photo op and at a rally, with condoleezza rice. you know, there are a lot of former george w. bush administration officials advising the romney campaign. but even they, you would think, would be sort of cognizant of how people view that administration, right? you think they would recognize that there is a little political peril in trying to underscore to a country that is really payin
issues asked by those voters in the audience that are the kind of things that undecided voters might be hung up on, even if the beltway press hasn t. things like differences between you and george w. bush. i didn t much like obama, but i really didn t like the last republican president, how are you different? you saw my introduction there. i was struck by the fact that mr. romney chose to put condoleezza rice out on the campaign trail today after that whole discussion. what did you make of that? this is a puzzler. on the night after a few hours after the candidate who is trying to separate himself from president george w. bush, the very next morning, at an early event, up comes president bush s principle foreign policy adviser, condoleezza rice, with his vice presidential candidate. somebody in the romney campaign has got to be asking, whose idea was that? now, there are plenty of people, not all of them democrats, who are saying, you re more likely to see the return of a woolly ma
last night. his tax plan doesn t add up. his jobs plan doesn t create jobs. his deficit reduction plan adds to the deficit. so iowa, you know, everybody here has heard of the new deal. you ve heard of the fair deal. you ve heard of the square deal. mitt romney s trying to sell you a sketchy deal. i just think that the american people had expected that the president of the united states would be able to describe what he s going to do in the next four years, but he can t. he can t even explain what he s done in the last four years. i mean, he spends most of his time trying to talking about how my plan won t work. well, what about his plan? that s president barack obama in iowa and mitt romney in virginia at campaign rallies today, continuing the fight from last night or trying to. joining us tonight is dan rather, the host of dan rather
positions in that administration. and this group got together and demanded, frankly, of me and of mitt romney that we make a pledge. that we pledge to bring more women into, whether it was my or his administration. so we actually signed, i think he did too, signed the pledge. so when he goes and says that he was out finding all these women, the fact is, the women beat on our doors and said, take these binders. so at least the binders, i think, was truthful. but the binders so you re saying, just so i get this right, it s not that mitt romney realized that all of his cabinet, potential appointees, as he mentioned last night, were too male in terms of the pool, and he needed he sent people back to go find binders full of women in order to change the gender makeup of the people he was considering for his cabinet. you re saying that you guys were both offered these binders before you were ever in a position of appointing anybody? i m saying that i m sure the