it was a long speech. thank you for joining us this morning. we appreciate it, both of you. heather: as only the former first president can do, talk a lot. now the top stories making news: another sign of president obama s re-election campaign worried about raising money. chicago mayor, rum rahm, is now stepping down as the co-chairman of the national campaign in order to help raise money for priorities usa, a super pac. another former white house advisor is stepping in to run the group. it is the same super pac that ran the highly controversial adding suggesting mitt romney was to blame for a woman dying of cancer. democrats nervous about raising money, says romney outraised the president in may, june, and july. heather: who robbers are on the loose after kid napping a bank manager, strapping what they said were explosions to her body and ordering her to hand over all the money need a bank of america.
shooting there. two incidents in california. a fatal shooting that still has not been solved and one in michigan where a sikh temple was defaced by teenagers. six of the incidents have come in the last two years. bill: lots of reaction on this. president obama and governor romney finding themselves in the position to take time out from the campaign and comment another mass shooting in america. the president expressing his sorrow. saying, quote as we bhourn this loss as loss in europe we are reminded how much our country has been enriched by sikhs who are a part of our broader american family. heather: this is a senseless tragedy that should not involve a house of worship. bill: any possible motive. police will brief 11:00 a.m. eastern time. as soop as that starts you
what harry reid says. bill: okay. all right. i think, and honestly i think the more that republicans complain about this the more we talk about the fact that romney hasn t released his tax returns. the constant griping just keeping it on the topic. bill: the more you talk about it, the less you talk about the jobs number in america. i think it raises the question, you re calling him a dirty liar. why not just release the tax returns? seems like we can put this all to rest but . bill: but he, does the president have a responsibility to at a minimum distance himself from harry reid. harry reid is not some ancillary surrogate, bill. this is the senate majority leader. was one of the chief advocates of senator obama running for president and one of his earliest supporters. if making some sort of statement that the senate majority leader should stop this type of nonsense. ality this is systemic
pattern. you saw debbie wasserman schultz do this several weeks ago with the swiss bank accounts alleging nefarious activity. robert gibbs has done it and stephanie cutter has done it. to say harry reid is a little bit after lone ranger is not consistent with what the the democrats have been doing. bill: kirsten point, is right, takes focus away from the bigger issues. carl rove on over the weekend. for the majority of the leader of the senate of the united states to go out and say it is a sign of desperation of the democrats and more important than that the complete lack of character. the slime ball nature of the senate majority leader. harry reid ought to be disgusted and embarrassed and shamed the great institution he claims to lead. bill: the point, that president obama could take the national stage from harry reid and rise above it if he were to distance himself.
he called it the nearly sister soul. moment for the president. i m sure carl is so concerned about helping president obama. you know what could work better, bill? this is where my frustration is. it is not the point we have a situation where the president and his goons are making this attack, the fact governor romney not release returns, he released what he is legally obligated to do, the fact that he is not taking the mantle away from the president, you know what it is your failed presidency the problem and issue in this campaign. not my personal success. the fact that he has not yet done that effectively is more worrisome to me than the fact that the democrats are showing clear sign of desperation. bill: you don t think governor romney has been aggressive enough in his response? no. this is moment. i m in the clear minority, bill. i talk to a lot of republicans who agree. just release it. what is the big deal. no, the governor has done what he obligated to do.