the heads of the popular fronts of the liberation of palestine, visited that guy once in a villa in damascus years ago. you know, but but things that s not the way it is today. and if there s a general collapse, i wonder if, obviously, not the security council, because china and russia won t allow it, but if the united states and some coalition of the, if not willing then desperate, have to try to do something to stabilize the situation. this is an important could not be in a more strategic place. i just wonder how many of these republicans are thinking, we didn t intervene in egypt. in egypt and now it doesn t seem so right. and by the way out of concept. people aren t burning american flags in the streets of cairo. we ve seen the arab spring for the most part move with its own
somebody along the line gave you some help. there was a great teacher somewhere in your life. we value school teachers, somebody who builds roads. if you got a business, you didn t build that, somebody else made that happen. really couldn t have a business if you didn t have those things. the point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. all right. mark, so the obama s team and obama s defenders, president s defenders, say that s all taken out of context. do you see anything any of president obama s philosophy in the comments he made there. sure. but i ve said this when mitt romney said things not exactly the way he would have liked or things could be taken out of context. i think this is one of the worst things that s happening in american political journalism
some kids to talk to kennedy to film for an ad so she volunteered me for it, gave me a couple things to ask him. used it in the ad. but it was an entirely different circumstance. mark halperin, you also have been violated in this way. used and violated in this way by the campaign. how did that make you feel? i didn t like it. i felt i went back and look at what tom brokaw said when they used him in an ad. my understanding a spot that included me from this program and bob schieffer that ad ran on sunday only and isn t running anymore and my understanding is the campaign doesn t plan to run it. it wasn t like a blanket the airwaves the way the harwood spot did. you know, i mean they re going to do it, hard to stop them. legally and practically hard to stop them. as a journalist it just is not good for us because our roles are important in the process and they re blurred for a lot of citizens and voters when that
monenicle and top hat, a little over the top, that he s sort of helping his opponents to find things. hey, mark halperin, another bad trend, demagoging medicare. republicans did it in 2010, democrats did it in 2006. bill clinton did it throughout the 1990s. president obama, yesterday, was wrapping up a second straight day of campaigning in florida, where he warned seniors that mitt romney was going to drive up the cost of medicare and end medicare as we know it. according to many people who supported him. there was just this huge, huge effort to scare seniors in the state of florida. let s take a listen. he plans to roll back health care reform, forcing more than 200,000 floridians to pay more for their prescription drugs. he plans to turn medicare into a
i don t release the tax records. i just don t. listen, there are several years, obviously, where he probably didn t pay any taxes. yeah. there are also offshore accounts, there are things in here that he would be defending from now through the end of the campaign. and if i m mitt romney, and i know there are things in my tax returns that are going to give the president fodder and feed into this preexisting narrative that followed me throughout the republican primary worse than looking like different rules apply to you, especially now? he s not playing by his father s standard. he s not playing he has released what he s needed to release. nobody has suggested he s done anything illegal. nobody suggested he s done anything unethical. the other concern, narrative that doesn t go away. that he s very wealthy and has the appearance of playing by different rules, not doing anything wrong by the way, but playing on a different level of