lot of time to plug in. that s why these ads are especially dangerous. the ones that we re seeing from j.d. vance that you showed from josh mandel, but even from my opponent, congressman ryan, who put out an ad that says china 20 times. what they have in common is adopting the trump playbook, but lacking any ideas and substance for solving the problems that everyday ohioans are facing. and that s been a challenge of this entire campaign. we need to get out there with substance, with debates. my opponent has not been willing to talk about that. he has not been willing because of his record, flip-flopping on gun rights, abortion, but we as democrats are going to win by focusing on the ideas and substance, not out republican. i want to find out that critics of the ad by congressman ryan have called it have called him for to take the ad down. i don t think he has, but people did find it offensive. we would love to have congressman ryan on to talk about it whenever he s
could be smuggled in undetected. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. it s one of the more mundane documents americans have to deal with, but for president obama, the tax return is politically charged in this, an election year. the white house released his 2011 files today along with that of the vice president, joe biden and there are some surprises in both documents. as lisa sylvester has been carefully going after these tax returns, what do you see? first off, the obamas, like the romneys, gave generously to charities. the president s income, which was $1.7 million in 2010 was down significantly as sales of his book dropped off, but the focus was on taxes and more specifically, rates. there are some surprises there. who was taxed at a higher rate? the president, mitt romney or the president s secretary? it might surprise you, but it s actually the president s secretary. she makes $95,000 a year. the obama administration confirms her rate is is higher than t