times reads no evidence has yet emerged that mr. romney exercised his powers at bain after february 1999 or directed the funds investments after he left. so, the reality is, he wasn t there. he had no practical involvement in the firm during those couple years. and the obama campaign is trying to make something out of nothing. well no, i think we should have a discussion about what s going on in the economy than this side show. what this plays into, the fact that you kind of don t know who mitt romney is and this is helping people feel like oh, maybe that s what he s like. why won t he release his tax returns, why won t he tell us what went down at bain. retroactively retired. the narrative that is going to stick if he s not careful. let s be very specific about the attack that they are focusing on, that the president himself doubled down on that clip you played at the opening of the show. he is saying, the president and advisers are saying, mitt romney was working somewhere
company, every independent group who looked at that period say wasn t true and the president is continuing to run ads on that. that tells me they re being dishonest and doing so to create a distraction and gone so far as to accuse him of a possible felony. this is like crazy land. let s get to that. today president obama will hold a town hall meeting in cincinnati where he will continue to push the narrative that a vote for mitt romney is a vote for outsourcing, pointing to a new report that estimates mitt romney s tax policy will result in more american jobs moving overseas. need to ask ryan about that. standby. president obama said this week there will be no apologies after a member of his campaign suggested that the republican contender may have broken the law by misrepresenting his role with bain capital after 1999. now yesterday, on meet the press, senior campaign adviser ed gillespie defended his candidate explaining romney had retired retroactively from the firm. he was st
said myself, mitt romney needs to explain this, but they re not talking about the future. they re talking about the past. what is barack obama s plan for the next four years? all i hear are a bunch of attacks. so i don t disagree with you. i was amplifying a point. only that if the romney campaign wants the obama campaign to do that, they, too, shouldn t go back in be retroactive the criticisms the romney campaign are making are about major policy decisions by president obama. when president obama says we re going to put in a big green energy support program, and the grants from that program will go to major donors who have conflicts of interest, who are that s not true. affiliated with people in the administration, that s policy. that s billions of taxpayer dollars going overseas. that s not what did you do 15, 20 years ago when you may or may not have been charge of a particular company. this is real policy that the administration is implemented. let s take a look a
putting people back to work. i think he would be the first one to say, i ve heard him say it, we have to continue to do better, continue to make the economic climate better so we re putting more people back to work and i absolutely believe he s laid he has laid out a strategy to do just that. governor jack markell, thank you so much. thanks. still ahead, time magazine s joe klein, also senior adviser to the romney campaign kevin madden. morning joe in just a moment. this is new york state. we built the first railway, the first trade route to the west, the greatest empires. then, some said, we lost our edge. well today, there s a new new york state. one that s working to attract businesses and create jobs. a place where innovation meets determination.
stop whining and just embrace that record and when you embrace the record, you have to embrace the full record? this is honestly how we ve responded. let s start having a discussion about what happened over the last few years, about president obama s big plans, big promises for what he would do for the economy, very few, if any have come through, let s have a discussion about what he intends to do going forward. there s serious issues going on here right now. i mean, look, the campaign this week is going to be focusing on these the green energy programs. the grants, the loans. hundreds and hundreds of worked out well, solyndra worked out well. billions out to campaign contributors. this is what the romney is going to focus on this week. these are huge amounts of money have come out of the federal government, have gone abroad, you know, to but deals at home and abroad. taxpayer money we re talking about, bain capital. it s an amazing thing. dan, if you do that, y