the more potent line of attack for the president right now is you look at this, the questions around bain, bain is a successful franchise. they invested money on behalf of unions, colleges and universities. i think the bigger question for mitt romney is, are the tax returns, what may be in there. i know there was a discussion last week between dan and my friend robert gibbs about this. it will be clear be made clear to a lot of americans what bain is, what he did and how much money he made there. i like what the president is going to do more than anything. he talks about the policy that romney is proposing as he travels to battleground states and begins to talk more specifically about how the romney tax plan, how the romney spending plan, i think it s a bad place to go for him today. cincinnati is a bad place for the president today because two months ago, harold, procter & gamble, biggest company in cincinnati, agreed to move 20 of its top executives, essentially the headquarter
the newly minted chairman of the national governors association. congratulations, governor. thank you. good morning. good to have you on the show. we have been just painfully picking on dan senor who, of course, represents the romney campaign. coming here is like stockholm i know it s going to be tough for you. you re going to have a tough week. i have to let you have the first question. hey, governor. good morning. basic question, you have a successful business background, you re now engaged in public service, if you were running against president obama, given the economic record of the last 41 months, would you be focusing this election on economy? would you be making the case on the economy the same way governor romney is? i think the president has taken some incredibly important steps in terms of making the economy better. if you look at it, 28, 29 months in a row of job growth across the country. recently signed the jobs act,
other thing we re talking about need to defend the administration. that s not fully true. yeah. i m happy to get into it. i think there s a lot of meat there. there is. although solyndra. what do you do with this? the growing number of influential republicans who are calling on mitt romney to make more of his tax returns available to the public. listen. he should release the tax returns tomorrow. it s crazy. you ve got to release six, eight, ten years, take the hit for a day or two and give a serious speech on thursday which he says okay, we ve had this ridiculous debate about when i took my leave from bain and when i didn t, now let s have a debate about capitalism, business, and debate about jobs. if something s going to come out, get it out in a hurry. i do not know why, given that mr. romney knew the day that mccain lost in 2008, that he was going to run for president again, that he didn t get all of this out and tidy up some of his offshore accounts and all the
president in terms of looking back at mitt romney s career? is it fair? is it depends on what side you re on if you define it as fair. look at the attacks could it be seen as fair? sure, of course, by the majority of the americans because the majority of america is not wealthy so you say private equity, right, kind of a scary bain itself, the name sounds scary, right? let s raise taxes on the top 2%. right? because they can help. if you look at that policy, the top 2% pay, well, if we raise taxes about $100 billion a year, let s call that generous. the u.s. government makes $125 billion a year in erroneous or fraudulent payments to dead people and the wrong people. that s a problem. right. clean your own house up first. if romney was smart that s where he would go. obama s team is taking romney to the bank because romney s team is back on its heels doing this. we have 8.2% unemployment. what s the solution here. harold ford jr.? look, i think that probably
time, except he files an s.e.c. listing that says he was the ceo, chairman and president of the company. so, you know, as president of the united states one of the things i ve learned, and we talked about, anything that happens on my watch is my responsibility. that s what people expect. harry truman said the buck stops with me. and i think understandably, people are going to be interested in, you know, are in, in fact, responsible for this company that you say is one of your primary calling cards for wanting to be president? okay. don t think they re holding back on this. good morning, everybody. it is monday, july 16th. welcome to morning joe. with joe and me on set, former foreign policy adviser to the bush administration, adviser now to the romney administration, dan senor, good luck this morning. good luck. i m scared for you, actually. you are? as opposed to every other day i come on. i m scared of me for you. visiting professor at nyu,