congress as a citizen was don t give them anymore money. do not bail out fannie mae and freddie mac. that s in the new york times in july of 2008. i have two witnesses. rick lazio, chairman of the housing committee and congressman j.c. watts, head of the freddie mac watch committee for seven years. both of them had said flatly they were never approached by me. so his charge, it s untrue. he knows it s untrue. and he s saying it out of pure desperation. i find that sad as a way to run for president. you know the format of our show. we re up against a break. real quick, do you think this was mitt romney s night last night? not much. i think watching some desperate guy throw wild punches doesn t get him close to the prz presidency. people want stability. a people who will lie to you to get a job will lie to keep the job. people got a see to see how desperate mitt romney is. we ll get to see another debate coming up thursday night
about $3 million which is an effective tax rate of just 14%. he also had some foreign investments in luxomberg, ireland, the cayman islands. one account in switzerland but apparently that was closed in the last year. interestingly enough, it also showed at one point, the romneys have invested in fannie and freddie but it was done through a third party in a blind trust so mr. romney had nothing to do with that. some other genius picked those investments. will this be the end of the whole tax debate regarding mitt romney or continue on now? here s how he addressed it last night during the debate. you ll see how complicated taxes can be. but i pay all the taxes that are legally required and not a dollar more. i don t think you want someone as the candidate for president who pays more taxes than he owes. i d like to see the tax rate come down and focus on growing the country. getting people back to work. that s our problem with this
wad, i don t know how we re going to continue. he doesn t seem that serious seems more of a boxer type. just asking. hey, congratulations on the south carolina win. we have not seen you since that time. and then you re off to yet another debate. now, the thinking has been that you do so well in debates, you probably like having all these debates. what was your reaction to last night s debate? the audience was taken out of it and up until this point, the audience has been your fan. you know, i protested because brian williams took him out of it. i think it s wrong. he s scared that the audience is going to side with the candidates than the media. we will serve notice on future debates, we re not going to allow that to happen. that s wrong. media doesn t control free speech. people ought to be allowed to applaud if they want to. it s almost silly. it s obvious that romney has a new debate coach. that s fine.
involved? the mentorexchange.org. amy, president of the new agenda, thanks so much for your thoughts today. thanks for having me. stick around because fresh off the first florida debate, two of the g.o.p. candidates, rick santorum and newt gingrich will be here live. then sarah palin takes a swipe at governor chris christie calling him a rookie? can t we all just come together and get along?
best proper medication because it saves lots of money. if we don t give you insulin, when you have diabetes but will pay for kidney dialysis, that s inhumane and financially stupid. that s been my public position for my whole career and for romney to come along and say i m influence peddling because as a citizen i speak out and i say something i believe something i ve written a book on and something i founded a center for and something i ve given speeches about. it s a dishonest use of the words. what about the freddie mac stuff? was he wrong in saying that you were influence pedaler for that? first of all, the great irony that we didn t learn until after the debate is he owns freddie mac and fannie mae stock. here s this guy making this big deal. i don t own any freddie mac and fannie mae stock. he does. so presumably he was getting richer. i did no lobbying of any kind. we had a very specific understanding i would not lobby. my advice to them which was actually published on the w