not always be evident to lay people. one of the things aides have said is he is not required to give all of that information because federal law protects his medical privacy, but the reality politically is that people wanted more. they ve now given a bit more. and we may see more of a push at some point when we know that he is completing that treatment or is released or whatever those next public steps might be. there may be more pressure for jackson to say what s been happening to him. and, of course, the federal law, the hipaa law, only says that doctors cannot disclose. patients, individuals can disclose anything that they want. reporter: yes, they can. or need to. and the other fact is, of course, he s under a continuing review. the house ethics committee investigating charges that they re continuing to look at in terms of campaign money and the use of campaign money involving some personal issues as well. complicated and sad. thank you very much. thanks, kel. up next, new
now, that s just the facts. and andrea, whatever report says, suggests that he was anything else, would be an inaccurate report. no question there is why did he sign the s.e.c. i think the key is there s ownership and how you state that, whether it s, you know, this title or that title, he had no active management at the company. what he has said has been reaffirmed by everybody who was involved. and also by outside sources. so i don t know what else you can do but to tell you what he has said is accurate. it s the truth. it s been reaffirmed. there s no evidence otherwise. do you think this is hurting his campaign? no, i think what is hurting, what potentially can hurt, is when the other campaign deliberately distorts the truth and suggests to the american people that his reputation is not as stellar as it is. you know, mitt romney was enormously successful businessman. he has a stellar reputation as an individual. and he earned that. he earned it the hard way.
the first time that mitt romney meets with either president george w. bush or vice president cheney. this is really sort of a passing of a baton from the former republican administration to the presumptive president nominee. that does it for mitch reports. happy birthday dad. he s 78 years young today. congratulations. my colleague craig melvin has a look on what s next. happy birthday from craig. counter punch. we have the latest reaction to vice president joe biden s rousing speech in texas before the naacp, one day after mitt romney took that same stage. how did vice president biden do? should president obama have spoken before the group instead? we ll talk about that plus that scathing report issued on the penn state cover-up at the highest levels of the university over the jerry sandusky scandal.
this? why don t they have lobbyists? why don t they have any of this stuff? mitt romney doesn t want that because the uncomfortable truth will emerge about what s happening to wages in this country, in spite of the fact we had this productivity. because it will talk about making things that mitt romney doesn t want to make like investments in education or go against people you don t like, like getting health care costs under control. i think that s truly one of the really telling things that mitt romney has ever said. don t discuss this stuff in the public. this is we shouldn t do it. can the president go too far with this populist appeal? can he scare off independents and swing voters and the business community? no. okay. look, he s advocating for the middle class. he s cutting taxes for those under for 98% of the country. this is hardly class warfare in any, you know, in any big sense. it s a very inclusive concept of let s have the middle class grow and that s the center
at earnedasay.org. ceo in name only or was he legally liable for jobs sent overseas and for any jobs created at home during that period? here s romney s top adviser, ed gillespie with savannah guthrie on today this morning. some outsourcing allegations have been disputed by fact checkers saying the outsourcing happened after romney left day-to-day control of bain capital. should romney not take credit for jobs created by bain after that point in 199 after he gave up day-to-day control? up of the essential reasons the ad is false, he didn t have control and didn t shut down jobs. to say that, you know, moving jobs overseas when it didn t happen while governor romney was the ceo of bain, patently false. americans have the right to know that. joining me now, steve rattner, wall street financier