good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, tax war. two respected experts wrote an op-ed that the obama campaign immediately seized on it. it was enough to prompt them to send this e-mail to their troops, subject line romney s role in tax shelter raises questions. the reason? the op-ed written by two experts who recently wrote another article critical of romney s personal tax strategies says since romney refuses to release his tax returns, his views on taxes are revealed by what did he while on the audit committee of marriott corporation. i ll explain what happened, but first let s just lay out the key accusation. the authors say, quote, a key troubling public manifestation of romney s apparent incense tivety different to tax obligations is his role in marriott international s abusive tax shelter acvity. so does the accusation of insensitivity, translation, lack of ethics, add up? romney was chief for a while of the audit committee from 1993 to 1998. in that
two respected experts wrote an op-ed that the obama campaign immediately seized on it. it was enough to prompt them to send this e-mail to their troops, subject line romney s role in tax shelter raises questions. the reason? the op-ed written by two experts who recently wrote another article critical of romney s personal tax strategies says since romney refuses to release his tax returns, his views on taxes are revealed by what did he while on the audit committee of marriott corporation. i ll explain what happened, but first let s just lay out the key accusation. the authors say, quote, a key troubling public manifestation of romney s apparent incense tivety different to tax obligations is his role in marriott international s abusive tax shelter activity. so does the accusation of insensitivity, translation, lack of ethics, add up? romney was chief for a while of the audit committee from 1993 to 1998. in that role, he would have been responsible for overseeing the company s t
good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, tax war. two respected experts wrote an op-ed that the obama campaign immediately seized on temperature pfs enough to prompt them to send this e-mail to their troops, subject line romney s role in tax shelter raises questions. the reason? the op-ed written by two experts who recently wrote another article critical of romney s personal tax strategies says since romney refuses to release his tax returns, his views on taxes are revealed by what did he while on the audit committee of marriott corporation. i ll explain what happened, but first let s just layout the key accusation. the authors say, quote, a key troubling public manifestation of romney s apparent incense different to tax obligations is his role in marriott international s abusive tax shelter activity. so does thei incense different, translation, lack of ethics, add up? romney was chief for a while from 1993 to 1998. in that role, would he would han respons
monster. we killed a lot of trees today, and did it reveal anything? and the re-election campaign of president obama starts tonight. we are counting down to the state of the union. the death toll continues the climb off of the cruise ship crash off of the coast of italy. we have video of the search and rescue of the divers. let s go there tonight, outfront. well, good evening, everyone, i m erin burnett and out front crunching the numbers in mitt romney s tax returns. here they are. we have flags in here, because i will admit that as we said, i m not sure that anybody has read all 500 pages here, but this is two years worth of mitt romney s tax returns released todayment the romney camp yeeling to the pressure on the campaign trail. here is the breakdown. the presidential candidate earned 42.7 million in the last two years. he paid 6.2 million in taxes. and an effective rate of just under 14%. now the reasons that romney made his money, pretty much all of it from inv