voting against another campaign. although he ultimately came around, romney s son tagg said his father had serious doubts about doing this again. even up till the day before he made the announcement. there had been someone who he thought would have made a better president than he, he would have gladly stepped aside. there s unique insight into christie s decision not to run. also recounting christie s reaction to being told a video that was supposed to intro his gop convention speech would be cut for time. christie told this person to ask the director if he had ever heard anyone say f on live television because that s what he was about to do if the video didn t run. needless to say, an awkwardly so, after romney s speech, the video played. would could forget eastwood s
is really a political move. at this point we know that mitt romney is sort of out of politics at this point. he s taken a job at his son tagg s investment firm. and really the son says that it will be on his political career. i think more than anything it will be interesting what he gets into especially here before this audience where you remember he made a bit of a stumble last year at this conference talking about how he had been severely conservative. so it will be, i think, interesting to see exactly how much he kind of looks back. how reflective is he? does he talk about some of his regre regrets? in that interview recently he said those 47% comments, he said he didn t articulate them as he meant to. he said they were very damaging in his campaign. i think that s one of the things i ll be looking for is just how much reflection there is. is he sorry? does he express any regrets for
to promote peace and stability in northeast asia. we have urged the north korean leadership repeatedly and continue to do so to heed president obama s call to choose a path of peace. and to come into compliance with its enter nation international . gabrielle giffords wants the u.s. senate to require all gun buyers for get a background check. she and her husband took that message to a gun control rally at the tucson grocery store where she was shot in the head more than two years ago. six people were killed and 13 wounded in the attack. mitt romney s got another job. the republican nominee for president obama is going to work for his son tagg s private equity firm. he ll serve as chairman of the executive committee. romney rejoined the board of directors at marriott. let s turn now to the catholic church s election of a
nearby. trust me. the florida senator is still laughing about his state of the union slurp caught on camera. well, he wanted the executive office, he s settling for the executive committee, running to work at his son tagg s firm, reportedly working just one day a month. the 68-year-old republican will square off against irish john foley in a two-round exhibition start. the longtime boxing fan says if foley goes all out, it will be a quick fight. and talk about rebranding your image, the campaign team for notoriously sedate mitch mcconnell taped this video, spoofing the viral dance craze, so which senator might be next? roll call points to marco rubio,
welcome back to hardball. boston globe reporting michael kranish has written why romney lost the campaign this year. it includes access to insiders on the record including romney s oldest son tagg who says of his father, quote, he wanted to be president less than anyone i ve met in my life. he had no desire to run. if he could have found someone else to take his place, he would have been ecstatic to step aside. he is a very private person who loves his family and his country but doesn t love the attention. former huckabee manager chip saltsman is with us too. this is fun. this is joyful today. i love to know motive and reason. but i find it hard. i was never a big romney fan. i didn t have a personal problem with him, but i never thought of him as authentic. the one time i caught him in iowa signing people s posters and it was a rainy day. i said to him can you say let them eat cake in french. it s the ultimate side of being