0 voting for you. one of the most contentious moments of the night was about tax cuts and that $5 trillion number. only way you can find $5 trillion in loopholes is cut the mortgage deduction for middle class people, cut the health care deduction for middle class people, take away their ability to get a tax break to send their kids to college. is he wrong about that? he is wrong about that. how s that? you can cut tax rates by 20% and preserve these important items for middle-class taxpayers. not mathematically possible. it is possible. it s been done. it has never been done. jack kennedy lowered now you re jack kennedy? both campaigns are claiming victory. mr. ryan said that governor romney was a car guy. if they have an elevator stacked nothing for conservatives to complain about. but it wasn t the sort of knockout that they wanted. in fact, if joe biden hadn t been there acting a little crazy, paul ryan s delivery would have been a little flat. he only lo
intelligence failure, vice president biden? wherever the facts lead us, wherever they lead us, we will make clear to the american public because whatever mistakes were made will not be made again. this is becoming more troubling by the day. they first blame the youtube video, now they re trying to blame the romney/ryan ticket for making this an issue. with all due respect that s a bunch of malarkey. when there s a crisis we pull together as a nation. even before we knew what happened to the ambassador the governor was holding a press conference, holding a press conference. that s not presidential leadership. the debate moved from foreign policy to the 47%. it shouldn t be surprising for a guy who says 47% of the american people are unwilling to take responsibility for their own lies. my friend recently in a speech in washington said 30% of the american people are takers. these people are my mom and dad, the people i grew up with, my neighbors, they pay more effectiv
by virtue of the policies that we put in place, we get the unemployment rate down to 6% or perhaps a little lower. joining me is former new york mayor and romney supporter rudy giuliani. mr. mayor, you are also a former presidential candidate and a pretty astute observer of politics. let me start out with the broad-brush question, which is give me your most honest assessment of how you think the presidential race will play out this fall. well, i think the presidential race will play out largely based on the view the people have of the economy. i think if you look at just the last four or five months, about two or three months ago, president obama was looking pretty good in the polls, people were feeling a little better about him, the economy was doing better, unemployment had come down, jobs had come up, and the market was doing well, over 13,000. now jobs have teetered off, long-term unemployment seems to be at record levels. nobody had really been looking at it before,
don t like what he s done. they like what he might do, they don t like what he might do. is this showmanship, or does he really believe there is some other person under this guy we re watching, a sort of debonaire president, someone to lead, but underneath that is this crazed missionary. newt gingrich talked about saul linsky, a guy who wanted to be a real social dictator once he got elected. but shawn was saying on fox news there wasn t a vetting of obama on jeremiah wright? first of all well, he s like a black revolutionary with the automatic weapons, the sunglasses, the beret.
right now. the right believes john mccain missed his chance four years ago. it s convinced if only the country knew about jeremiah wright it never would have voted for barack obama. in the fever swamps of the right, this is the key to winning the white house this time, it s only the question of which angry, dirty money pack will take up the cause. also, two things to know about mitt romney s bain capital problem. one, nearly two years later he doesn t have a good response what he did with that company, and two, as long as he doesn t, people are going to hit him with it hard. look at the interactive map he put up about bain spots around the country. all of them happen to be in swing states. and the great author buzz bissinger joins us tonight on how to connect with the son he barely knew. we begin with the columnist for the national post and david corn is author of the book showdown. both are msnbc political analysts. i like how you say that. some people believe that the