mandate was a tax. so he agrees with the president but he agrees with the president that it is not and he believes you shouldn t call the tax penalty a tax. you should call it a penalty or a fee or a fine? that s correct. but the president also needs to be held accountable for his hypocritical statements. that s not in line with republican talking points on the issue. mitch mcconnell was talked about the box romney finds himself in. if the obama mandate is a tax on the middle class, isn t the romney mandate a tax on the middle class? i think governor romney will have to speak for himself what he did in massachusetts. there s more to play through election day. on meet the press in 2006 mitt romney had trouble explaining why the fees he raised in massachusetts was not a tax. if it were a tax it d be called a tax. that s a gimmick. it s reality. and i have no i am not trying to hide from the fact we raised fees. $240 million. does the gop need romney
Connecting the cot dots and every dot has been connected. why does jerry sandusky then resign a year later and michael, you write a terrific column that got no play at all. why would mike mcquery made receiver s coach? he was a quarterback. had no experience. there was a guy named kenny jackson who had been the receivers coach, had played at penn state. had four times the experience and i now believe it was like hush money. jeremy, i thought it a bit odd the response from the curly lawyers after this report dominated this weekend. they seemed to wrap themselves in pennsylvania governor tom co
His mind. and say let s not report it to welfare authorities. i m not convinced and just connecting the dots and every dot has been connected. paterno knows about the 1998 incident. why does jerry sandusky then resign a year later and michael, you write a terrific column that got no play at all. why was mike mcqueary made the receivers coach? he was a quarterback. had no experience. there was a guy named kenny jackson who had been the receivers coach, had played at penn state. had four times the experience and i now believe it was like hush money. i m going to address that at the end of tonight s program. jeremy robuck from the philadelphia inquirer, i thought it a bit odd that the response from curly lawyers after this report dominated this weekend.
why would he say that? if it is, it means romney raised taxes with his plan in massachusetts. this is why santorum said romney would be the worst to carry the antireform message into the fall. also, we re hearing that chief justice roberts planned to strike down the mandate, but switched his vote. plus, count on seeing the obama campaign keep up their attacks on bain capital. both campaigns admitted the attacks on mitt romney s business experience, they re working and newly uncovered e-mails show that joe pe tern was more involved and finally, a reporter learns the hard way, don t mess with chris christie. we begin with the debate, mark halperin is msnbc s senior political analyst and the washington post s chris cillizza is also an msnbc political analyst. the the supreme court gave republicans one major gift with their decision on thursday suggesting the mandate was a tax. there s only one problem. mitt romney isn t exactly well positioned to take advantage of that given h
republicans say see, president obama raised taxes. but today mitt romney s chief spokesman told our chuck todd, no the mandate is not a tax after all. why would eric fernstrom say that? that means romney raised taxes with his health care plan in massachusetts. this is why rick santorum said romney would be the worst republican to carry the anti-health care reform message into the fall. also we re hearing that chief justice roberts initially planned to strike down the mandate but switched his vote. a look at the inner workers of the supreme court. plus count on seeing the obama campaign keep up their attacks on bain capital. both campaigns admitting the attacks on the business experience is working. and newly uncovered e-mails show that joe paterno was more involved in protecting sandusky from authorities than he admitted. and finally yet another reporter learns the hard way, don t mess with chris christie. we begin with the debate over the tax or penalty. mark halperi