Portraying romney caring for about profit than people. visited american education in crisis and obama dragging its feet and alleged it s because the president values gain donations from teacher s unions more than educating students. he talks like he is he for the under privileged. he is putting campaign cash ahead of the needs of our kids. he also noted a study by the mcken zi institute for all that the students smaller class size is not as important as a good teacher. one the schools he visited today thought mr. romney was probably misinformed. trace: getting toughner responding to the attacks on his business experience as well. yeah. today romney took one of his toughest counter shots. it may be his toughest any wavment he said the president and vice president so lack experience in understanding of the economy that they are actually undermining the american system. listen.
And he s firmly grounded in extremely conservative principles. they don t know where mitt romney stands on things because he s changed many of those fundamental positions that he took as governor and he s slip flop p flip-flopped on them as a presidential candidate. so i think that s what s showing up in the poll numbers. republicans know where newt stands. they don t know where mitt romney stands. some people suggest that republican voters like newt gingrich because they think he ll be toughner going after the president, that he s more combative. i ll leave that for republican voters. in terms of attacking the president, i m sure that will garner in votes in the primary. in a general election, i think people are more interested in where this country will move. and that s the one thing that we re not hearing right now. there was a report suggesting that you ve got some
Inflation rate. so rates have to go higher if they re going to want to do something about taming it. martha: thanks, kenny. i appreciate it. to another ken, you might have heard of this fellow, ken langone, the co-founder of home depot. thanks for taking the time. thanks for having me on, stuart. neil: it s neil. i think i know who you are. neil: i was thinking of the environment you and bernie started home depot. in it was very inflationary. you had stagflation. you got through it. but it s toughner an environment like that. are we entering in an environment like that now? i think your previous guest hit it right. we ve got to get rates well above the inflation rate if we want to snap inflation. just like paul volcker did in 80 and 81. the tragedy is a year ago and i m happy i said it public so it can be checked, i made it very
Expecting from secretary tillerson? they down played the importance of us, lowered the expectations. i don t believe president putin will meet with tillerson. they say that is normal, it would be a foreign minister. i don t know how effective this trip will be and what message he will convey to his counter part in moscow. he s a business man by trade, not a diplomat. so it will be interesting to see if he can put the diplomacy had on. shepard: and the chances of vladimir putin not having a nice discussion with him are very high if history is a guide. you re right. high indeed. we ve seen more tough words come out of the trump administration on trump and president putin. i think you re seeing them be toughner that realm to distance