longer had to answer levies from gingrich, santorum, or ron paul. but the general election campaign was underway, and here is what the mitt romney message looked like then, according to their own archives back in may just as the general election was officially getting underway. have you had enough of president obama s attacks on free enterprise? we ve seen layoffs, cutbacks. you ve heard of solyndra. when others shied away, mitt romney s private sector leadership team stepped in. what would a romney presidency be like? day one, president romney immediately approves the keystone pipeline. we re going to keep america strong. that was mitt romney in may, about ten tv ads and web ads, jobs, jobs, the economy, s
a paper lantern into the river to honor the people of the hiroshima atomic bombing in world war ii and 70,000 people died instantly, and today is the 67th anniversary. the next hour of the the next hour of the newsroom starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m john berman filling in for suzanne malveaux. and this hour, we are learning more about the white supremist background of a man who gunned down six membersof a sikh temple in wisconsin, and we are hearing from the relatives of the people killed. he left this world protecting the people and the world, and now we want to know who is going to protect our hearts from this pain. the police say that the gunman ambushed the officers and gunned down people during their sunday services. he was identified as wade michael page, and some sources say he was a army member and discharged because of patterns of misconduct, and the gunman was killed in the rampage. brian todd joins us from oak creek, wisconsin,
had no plans to invoke it any further. yeah, real interesting, isn t it megyn? call me old fashioned, whethe where i come from and you apologize for it you actually pull the ad, that s how i view the world. maybe the dnc doesn t quite see eye to eye. let s just stipulate this was a really stupid ad, i think it s an ineffective ad. it comes back to the point you brought up, which is that this is a horse that mrs. romney uses to treat a cruel, debilitating illness that she has been heroically fighting through much of her life. if we cast our minds back to 2008 when then candidate obama s wife michelle, she made some statements in some speeches on the campaign trail, saying for the first time in my lifetime i m proud of my country. and there were republican groups that came after that and said, what do you mean by that mrs. obama they put them into web ads and that sort of thing. the then candidate, now president said that was a low
the massacre inside that colorado movie theater now appears to be only part of the horror that was planned. a law enforcement official who seen video of the suspect, james holmes booby trapped apartment tells cnn it was rigged with more than 30 homemade grenades and ten gallons of gasoline. the source says that would have created a fireball knocking out walls engulfing the entire building in flames undoubtedly killing many more people. cnn s ed lavandera is joining us now once again from aurora, colorado. ed, what else are you learning? there are new developments emerging even as we speak. reporter: well, there s a great deal going on behind the scenes, but now there s a great effort to make sure that the principle players and many of the people involved in these investigations no longer speak publicly about what is going on. the judge issuing a gag order. ever since that has happened, it s become much more difficult to be able to report on this story and to keep up with w
long can he sustain not answering these questions, because it s very clear that the obama campaign is not going to let up on them. these stories are being written by various news outlets but the obama campaign seizes on them immediately and holds conference calls and puts out ads and web ads and we had a poll with nbc showing that this issue is gaining some traction and cutting into romney s economic argument in certain key swing states. so there s no reason at all for the white house in their view to let up on it. i think it s amazing, i thought this was such a glimpse into the romney hive. a senior unnamed romney advisor says all this hue and cry from the bedwetters who get to sit on the sidelines aren t going to affect what we re going to do and our plan which is what. the talk, the e-mail that was sent to in-boxes last night, governor rendell, about mitt s vp pick seemed to me like a pretty transparent bid to try and change the dialogue. no question.