his family will tell you, there is a reason why they call these precious medals. i can t even explain how proud i am of him. he s always been a proud veteran. it really is nice to see it. it s a joy for us. arthel: what a great story. we want to thank, again, jimmy altman from our affiliate. eric: god bless him and all of the greatest generation, the guys from ww 2. arthel: here, here. eric: coming up, a senior advisor to president obama s campaign is accusing governor romney of stone walling. calling him the most secretive candidate since richard nixon. what does that mean and how will it play in the race for the white house?
democrat. eric: boy, can you imagine if they actually would throw that at mr. romney? i don t know. i m from massachusetts where my father was a liberal republican and the only difference between liberal republicans and democrats was the democrats were a little more organized and some said more corrupt. that was a different time. eric: bottom line, you predict we ll have a nasty, dirty campaign on both sides whether we like it or not? oh, yeah. and a tremendous amount of money, which in the at the end of the day may not make the difference. but it will certainly make watching it kind of interesting. eric: yeah. you ran a campaign. what did you spend back then in the 80s? a billion dollars on both sides now. you know, i was thinking to myself, we hit 100 million. now that that was including all the sources of money. and all the money coming in. that would be church change in
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off of our coast and start creating jobs. over the long-term, you have to think how do private businesses think? what they think about is profits. you have to incentivize. you have to give tax credits for hiring. you have to repeal obamacare because it makes it more expensive for small businesses to pay their bills and hire people. arthel: you think governor romney will say that. i don t want to go off on that tangent. private sector job creation. arthel: how does it work in massachusetts and not in the country? it s the bottom line. i think governor remain knee needs to say, i have had a change of heart. i have seen what it s doing on the federal level and i have to admit it s something that maybe shouldn t have been done in massachusetts and certainly shouldn t be done now. i m hoping we will first of all, acknowledge the magnitude of the problem. when president obama came into office, we had no no one wanted to admit this is a depression. where i live on the south side o
candidate mitt romney s tax returns doing nothing to silence his critics at least so far. as we reported tonight mitt romney s tax rate is lower than most americans. he says he follows the law and pays his fair share. here is how his tax rate stacks up against some of the past candidates in the years leading up to their respective campaigns. looking only at their 2010 returns. mitt romney and his wife gave 13.9% of the government of the only one paying a lower rate was john kerry. counting his wealthy wife s low tax rate, john kerry paid about 13% in 2003. live team fox coverage james rosen with more on the bitter back and forth between romney and top rival newt gingrich. let s start with jim angle in the d.c. newsroom tonight to break down these numbers. jim, exactly how much money is romney making? a bundle, shep. romney s returns from 2010 and estimated 2011 returns show he made more than $21 million in