captivating the party s attention. bernie sanders has a secret. our roundtable guest michael cruz digs into his past seeking details that have been scarce despite his 40-year career. david corn of mother jones, sabrina siddiqui and michael cruz. you wrote this great piece. bernie sanders has a secret. what s the secret you found out about? so when i flew to burlington vermont. i got off the plane and i was interested in learning more about bernie sanders in the 70s in general. but my reporting led me to his son s birth certificate which showed that the mother of his son was not is not his first wife which has always been assumed and which has been reported for 44 years. it s sort of amazing that over the course of 44 years a public political figure like bernie
team romney is getting nervous, and newt knows it. on the subject of mitt and taxes, it s not really romney s fault you could argue that he pays an effective tax rate of only 15%. those are the rules. but it s also true that mitt wants to change the rules. he wants to tilt the playing field even more toward the wealthy. that doesn t help when mitt refers to the $374,000 he made a year making speeches as, quote, not very much. it s seven times, mitt, the average family income in this country. also, you don t have to be an airedale to hear the racial dog whistles in this republican race. can this kind of thing really work in 2012, or are the republicans playing a dirty game well past its sell by date? remember michael hastings whose reporting led to the firing of general stanley mcchrystal? he is out with a new book saying that where once president obama used to get pushed around by the pentagon, he is the one doing the pushing now. let me finish tonight with the robotic nominating proce
and newt knows it. on the subject of mitt and taxes, it s not really romney s fault you could argue that he pays an effective tax rate of only 15%. those are the rules. but it s also true that mitt wants to change the rules. he wants to tilt the playing field even more toward the wealthy. that doesn t help when mitt refers to the $374,000 he made a year making speeches as, quote, not very much. it s seven times, mitt, the average family income in this country. also, you don t have to be an airedale to hear the racial dog whistles in this republican race. can this kind of thing really work in 2012, or are the republicans playing a dirty game well past its sell by date? remember michael hastings whose reporting led to the firing of general stanley mcchrystal? he is out with a new book saying that where once president obama used to get pushed around by the pentagon, he is the one doing the pushing now. let me finish tonight with the robotic nominating process that s moving toward romney.
so today newt did what newt does. he got nasty. he called the romney campaign dirty, dishonest, and desperate. team romney is getting nervous and newt knows it. on the subject of mitt and taxes it s not really romney s fault you could argue that he pays an effective tax rate of only 15%. those are the rules. but it s also true that mitt wants to change the rules. he wants to tilt the playing field even more toward the wealthy. that doesn t help when mitt refers to the $374,000 he made a year making speeches as, quote, not very much. it s seven times, mitt, the average family income in this country. also, you don t have to be an airedale to hear the racial dog whistles in this republican race. can this kind of thing really work in 2012 or are the republicans playing a dirty game well past its sell by date? remember michael hastings whose reporting led to the firing of general stanley mcchrystal? he is out with a new book saying that where once president obama used to get pushed around b
i m glad you brought us on to correct the record. there have been no waivers given to aarp and aarp has not applied for waivers. we did not get any special deals. we have not asked for nor received any waivers. martha: clarify what your reporting led you to believe. it s not a waiver, per se. it s a waiver because it gives them a break. they and all these other mehdi gaon the these other medigap s providers. we reported that nancy pelosi s district got 20 per of the latest slew of obama-care waivers. there have been thing that have come up that are starting to look like political favors . we don t know for sure. but the way this rate review we