brothers. i was not asked to do anything. you were very terse about my questioning. it is important to understand the financial connections. coming up, i comparison of the domestic policies of former gov. mitt romney and president obama. then analysis of their approach to foreign policy. later, a look at the present polling in the 2012 election. now discussion about the 2012 presidential candidates and their domestic policies. we will hear about former governor romney and president obama s differing approaches to the economy. this is about 40 minutes. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] thank you very much for joining us this morning. we appreciate you being here live. we also appreciate you joining us live through nationaljournal .com. it is my pleasure to welcome you here this morning. i think we will have a wonderful event. we hope we can take a very long hard look at how the two president