president obama and milt romney take their blistering battle over who can run the economy today. the president will hold four fundraising events in texas as obama takes aim at the record at town hall and pennsylvania. he ll be greeted by the new obama ad. this time asking if romney and the unreleased years, quote, paid any taxes at all. tax havens offshore accounts, carried interest. mitt rom any has used every trick in the book. romney admits that in the last three years he s paid we don t know because romney has released just one full year of his tax returns and won t release anything before 2010. i have put out as much as we re going to put out. what is mitt romney hiding? it will not die, the taxes story and mitt romney, the
that he pays about a 15% tax rate. bill: on cap gains, that s how he makes most of his money, that s perfectly legal. may not play well politically. people may not like it. once he is given the chance to explain it and people listen to it they will learn bill: he hasn t explained it well, has he. no. he hasn t spoken it at all. given a sound bite saying it s about a 15% rate. bill: his tax returns, do you think they put those out there and just get that behind them him. sounds like is he going to. maybe around april. bill: by april he could be going the way of governor perry. listen, it sounds like he is giving us the headline that perhaps his campaign thought would be problematic already, the 15% tax rate, which you know, a lot of people say wait a minute. you get it out there in advance and have people react to it before you actually do the document dump on them. now there is a story out of this week that he has got investment in the kay men islands. bill: offshore
that he pays about a 15% tax rate. bill: on cap gains, that s how he makes most of his money, that s perfectly legal. may not play well politically. people may not like it. once he is given the chance to explain it and people listen to it they will learn bill: he hasn t explained it well, has he. no. he hasn t spoken it at all. given a sound bite saying it s about a 15% rate. bill: his tax returns, do you think they put those out there and just get that behind them him. sounds like is he going to. maybe around april. bill: by april he could be going the way of governor perry. listen, it sounds like he is giving us the headline that perhaps his campaign thought would be problematic already, the 15% tax rate, which you know, a lot of people say wait a minute. you get it out there in advance and have people react to it before you actually do the document dump on them. now there is a story out of this week that he has got investment in the kay men islands. bill: offshore
that he pays about a 15% tax rate. bill: on cap gains, that s how he makes most of his money, that s perfectly legal. may not play well politically. people may not like it. once he is given the chance to explain it and people listen to it they will learn bill: he hasn t explained it well, has he. no. he hasn t spoken it at all. given a sound bite saying it s about a 15% rate. bill: his tax returns, do you think they put those out there and just get that behind them him. sounds like is he going to. maybe around april. bill: by april he could be going the way of governor perry. listen, it sounds like he is giving us the headline that perhaps his campaign thought would be problematic already, the 15% tax rate, which you know, a lot of people say wait a minute. you get it out there in advance and have people react to it before you actually do the document dump on them. now there is a story out of this week that he has got investment in the kay men islands. bill: offshore
iowa caucus. a moral victory. and romney calling him this afternoon to concede in those delegates. and then there s ron paul, who is the one we can count on to fight in the bitter end. and finally, our friend and neighbor, newt gingrich. today he tried to distance himself from his ex-wife s claims he wanted an open marriage. i thought it was the mormons. here we go. ex-wives, offshore accounts, results you can t count on, and a field where no one seems to be happy. our thursday mega panel together in the flesh for the first time in over a month. we had to fly everybody to silicon valley. karen, susan, jimmy, and myself. if anybody is benefitting at this point, it has to be the president. one would think. all he has to do is stand back and say i m just trying to get some jobs for you guys.