in his tax returns. also this idea that he says, you know, my name was on these forms for bain but i didn t know what was going on. tell you what, every american understands when you sign your tax forms and send them in or you sign a loan agreement, you re accountable, you re responsible. for him to say my name might have been on it but i wasn t really responsible, people just don t buy that. that s not going to go away. and there s more i think in this in terms of how he then took those values from bain, the outsourcing, who knows, skirting the effective tax rate just one point. i get all of that. but what kills me in this whole narrative is how we have allowed or how they have allowed the idea of outsourcing, the idea of bain, be a criminal enterprise and that to me is just the most ridiculous. do you know our olympians are wearing outsourced uniforms, for goodness sakes? this is the reality of america in the 21st century. steve kornacki is an expert in all things that happene
more of it from the obama campaign. chip, joe scarborough said on morning joe about the bain defense something telling. take a listen. i m barack obama, i approve this message. tax havens, offshore accounts, caredied interest. mitt romney used every trick in the book. i agree that is not a good answer. give me a name. give me a face. give me the romney people haven t handled this well. the romney people have not handled this way. give me a name, give me a face. the questions surrounding romney departure from bain points out in 99 to 2002 not changing the letter head. but why not come forward with the real ceo? yeah, i agree. i think they have an opportunity to set it up. this is simple math. he left in 1999 to run the olympics. he couldn t have done both jobs if he was spending six days a week in salt lake. he s an impressive guy but i m
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while ceo of bain capital he moved american jobs overseas, every single company that was cited in that washington post article increased employment in the united states while governor romney was the ceo of bain. their investments overseas took place after he had left. it s a complete fallacy and a number of independent fact checkers have said so. three yesterday came out and said this ad is flat wrong. ed, the concern that people western people on your own concern people on your own side saying mitt romney may not be a good enough political athlete to win this campaign? you know, i ve been on the outside of campaigns where i ve been one of those folks kind of chipping in my two cents. and offering my unsolicited advice to criticism. i take i like to hear the critiques, the constructive criticism. any campaign has top. you can t get too insulated. some legitimate critiques. we ll adapt. a month ago, the romney campaign
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