welcome to both of you. crystal, you first. hard to admit the election strategy is he goes off and secures the billionaires and ann wins everywhere else. shame there aren t more billionaires. he might have a better shop 6789 it is true. she is good on the stump and i think he is smart to use her. the whole thing is you captain just say i know a woman, i am married to a woman, so women should like me. you have to have something to offer the american people and policies that are going to help women and help empower women and so far he has failed to articulate anything that would help the american people and he has put his name behind, for example, the paul ryan budget plan which would be devastating to millions of women. programs that help the poor like programs that help the elderly, social security, medicare, those are predominantly helping women actually. that s what the numbers show. he wants to cut back on those. if he doesn t get on the ride side of the issues there is
belgium and the netherlands. still, the german president steadfastly defends the plan despite and the falling euro. and if the german chancellor is looking for an ally, she need look no further than mitt romney who is selling the very same policies here at home. dan in millbank is a political columnist and joins s us now. mitt romney endorses the paul ryan budget plan which seeks to impose crushing austerity across the federal bundget. is that sensible? we re talking about two different situations here. david cameron was at the white house several weeks ago and made a case of why even though he thought austerity was the right answer for europe, a different answer was needed for the united states. so it s not even as if the europeans are saying this is what should be done here. i think everybody agrees that in the short it term, you need not
he s going to have to make this a choice, not a referendum on his first term. democrats acknowledge that publicly. rick: the speaker in the interview asked about the president s opposition to the paul ryan budget plan. if the president doesn t like that budget where is his budget? his budget failed on the floor of the house, zero to 414. not one democrat or one republican voted for the president s budget. why? because he wasn t serious about dealing with america s problems. rick: that vote that the speaker was referring to was largely considered to be a political maneuver on part of republicans to put it out there. to the larger issue of the president and his track record when it comes to budget does the speaker have a point? that s what republicans are saying, is that if you look at the deficit, and some conservatives have criticized the republican budget for not cracking down on the budget kreub quick enough. but republicans say president obama doesn t close the deficit
political analyst. how did you get the title see more, all. . president obama. last week which is could take up to next week. let s watch. if thaet the case that members of congress want to make, then we re going to make sure every american knows about it. if you make more than a million dollars annually, then you should pay at least the same percentage of your income in tax as middle class families do. i intend to keep fighting for this kind of balance and fairness until the other side starts listening, because i believe this is what the american people want. wow. well, meanwhile, mitt romney has to break the paul ryan budget plan with all the cuts which dramatically lowers taxes on upper class americans but
campaign s strategy going forward and inextricably linking him to that plan. perry, we saw the president ratcheting up his general election campaign on a number of front this is week. but beyond the ad we just played, what exactly has he ruled out? they did a big focus this week about romney s taxes. they tweeted it out on the president s own twitter account, the notion that romney s not disclosing what his assets are. david mentioned the speech about the paul ryan budget plan. there s been a bunch of web ads criticizing romney and the president talk about how he s a pro-business person as well. the romney campaign has written it off saying the election is starting now. they opened up on a bunch of front this is week, particularly on the disclosures of romney s finances and they showed you where they re headed for this campaign. okay. perry and david, good to see you. thanks for joining us on a holiday weekend. for the latest political