Mitt Romney: Revised, Redacted and Retroactive

And that he did this, these statements that he then tried to change later in a way -- oddly enough, it was always in a way that saved him taxes, whether it was property taxes where he declared himself to have a principle residence in Utah, and in Massachusetts which got him a tax benefit in both places, or income taxes. I really appreciate your time on this.

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Nice to be with you. Romney, if you would like to talk with me about any of this stuff, me casa es su casa. Anytime, we would love to have you. Okay, more to come here. Including the Obama campaign officially making an argument, President Obama approving a message that I think may never have been made by a Democratic candidate running against a Republican candidate in modern times.

Common wisdom says what the Obama started doing is risky, but Congressman Barney Frank will join us here to assess the risks. Hey, some legit big news in a story that we have been covering in an ongoing way for months now. When the Iraq war ended in December, some regular Joe civilians in St. Louis, Missouri, decided to throw a parade for Iraq veterans to say welcome home. And frankly, it called the question of whether we would as a country do what we did at the end of previous wars, which is to welcome our veterans home with a parade at Broadway in New York City.

Well, we did not do a parade in the s to welcome home to troops who fought in Vietnam as the Vietnam War ended. As a country, frankly, we righted that wrong and honored Vietnam veterans years later in The predominant sentiment at the time, then, as is now, that it was the right thing to do to honor those Vietnam veterans with a parade at Broadway in New York City. Louis in January of this year really called the question, are we going to treat Iraq war veterans the way Vietnam veterans were initially treated in this country?

The Pentagon somewhat inexplicably said they were against there being a New York City ticker tape parade to mark the end of the Iraq war. I say it was inexplicable because we had on the show a Pentagon spokesman here to try to explain that point of view.

And at the end of the interview, the decision remained inexplicable to me. That spokesman, I should say, has since retired from the Pentagon. But the funny thing was, the Pentagon did not say that they object to all parades to mark the end of the Iraq war and welcome home Iraq veterans. And in fact, cities across the country have kept doing it. Louis parade, there have been parades to mark the end of the Iraq war, say welcome home, thank you to Iraq veterans in Houston, in Tucson, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in Melbourne, Florida, in Richmond, Virginia, in Kansas, Missouri, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in Austin, Texas, and then this weekend, there was another in the twin cities -- Minneapolis and St.

And as an adult, I now have the ability to stand up and do something for our community and for our military members actually stop and say thank you and why not? Why not do that? People are finally recognizing that you need to welcome these veterans home. The parade in the Twin Cities this past weekend to mark the end of the Iraq war and welcome home Iraq war veterans seems to have been a big success. The governor of Minnesota, Mark Dayton, issued a proclamation declaring this past weekend in Minnesota to be heroes weekend.

Senator Amy Klobuchar was on the hand for the parade. To the left of the senator, actually, the mayor of Minneapolis, R. We should mention that a couple vintage T-6 Thunders flew overhead at the parade. What we have just learned today and this is the big news, that the biggest city yet to do this kind of thing has just made their plans to do it. The third largest city in the country after New York and L. The Chicago parade permit is for December 15th.

So, mark your calendar, December 15th, , Chicago, biggest one yet. Honestly, that ought to be a national event if you ask me. And doing these things longer than a year from the end of the war is starting to seem like making the same mistakes as we made at the end of the Vietnam War again starting to seem a little bit weird. So, my personal opinion, but Chicago, December 15th, maybe the whole country should go.

Now look at this. This is interesting and political terms. The Obama campaign a few days ago posted online this web ad, this web video about Iraq veterans coming home and about the parades. President Obama kept his promise, brought the troops home from Iraq, and this was something that needed to be celebrated.

As these wars come to an end, we have an absolute responsibility to cake care of our veterans. Maybe that means the president will be there in Chicago in December. This is a big, made for TV, expensive ad buy that is airing in a bunch of swing states. This one, I actually think, is doing something historic. You watched and worried. Two wars, tax cuts for millionaires, debt piled up.

And now we face a choice. Increase military spending, adding trillions to the deficit. If you want to follow the way this ad makes you want to feel. This ad is taking on not just the legacy of the George W. Bush years, but also Mitt Romney bragging, which he does on the stump regularly, that he will increase defense spending, and hanging that on him about the deficit. In my lifetime, I have never seen a Democratic president play political offense on the issue of military spending so aggressively. I have never seen it.

Democrats can not criticize Republicans for wanting to spend too much on the military. Barney Frank joins us next. Now, we face a choice. Joining us tonight now for the interview is Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who has been a very vocal proponent of at least being able to discuss the military budget as a thing that operates on the same kinds of dollars that other things in our budget operates on.

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Congressman Frank, thank you very much for being with us. Great to see you, and on this topic which you have done such important work. I guess assuming times have changed enough to make this less risky. Do you think times have changed enough? It is historic, and frankly, the timeline is beyond that.

Now, I believe we did not see an evolution in the Soviet Union early enough and we over-prepared for it, but there was this fear that we were going to be attacked by somebody powerful. That led to military spending that I think in some cases was excessive. The Soviet Union collapses in , and first, George H. Bush and Bill Clinton begin to reduce the military because there was no longer this existential threat to our citizens. And then what happens is , the mass murders of Americans, and Dick Cheney and the other neocons persuade George Bush that they can use the threat of terrorism as the functional political equivalent of communism.

Now, in fact, the terrorists are terrible people and I am very pleased against them. They are threatening our lives. We have to fight them back. But that threat was blown up beyond the reality. So we got back into excessive military spending, including the two wars.

I think what has happened is the American people understand there is no power in the world that comes remotely close to threatening our existence. They see how the Iraq war backfired. They see the frustration in Afghanistan. See, the American people -- and then, finally we have the concern about the deficit, and people I believe now in the majority understand, yes, we must reduce the deficit.

Yes, we have to include the military, otherwise we devastate all of the programs that affect the quality of life at home, and given the nature of the world, we can afford to do it. We are significantly overspending. Two weeks ago, I teamed up with a Tea Party Republican, Mick Mulvaney from South Carolina, and we offered an amendment in which the House voted by a large majority to reduce the amount of money the appropriations committee was going to give the military. And so I think, yes, the president sees this right. The people are tired of this excess.

They understand the importance of trying to have a balanced approach. You know, that point about working with Congressman Mulvaney on the Republican side I think is really important and interesting. I was thinking about it last night watching the Texas primary results. And I was thinking about whether or not this thing, this dynamic you and I have talked about a lot is ever going to materialize, this idea of fiscal resistance on the Republican side to such increased military spending.

Mitt Romney is still campaigning on spending more. And Romney I think is the outlier on this. A year ago, I offered an amendment to cut the military and so did Mulvaney. So, we talked about it.

So, we offered it jointly. And the answer, yes, the American republic understands that. First, they recognize that we are not threatened in our existence as a country. Let me say three things. Our military is wonderful at doing what a military can do, stopping bad things from happening. If you expand the military the way Mitt Romney wants to, then Medicare is going to take big cuts. They were warned, not to do so, in a conflicted manner See P. Compounded by the fact they were forewarned by the federal police U.

Trustee not to do conflicts of interests. Means the offenses are extensively heinous and egregious. Congress has gone to great lengths to assure conflicts of interests, such as this, do not occur. As a matter of fact, one of the lies under oath is the perjury of Barry Gold which occurred once the perpetrators illegally locked Laser Haas out of eToys. Regrettably, Taibbi omitted certain key facts from his story that Laser has expressed to this reporter.

This reporter reached out to Taibbi multiple times but has not received any response from a number of mediums he was messaged on including email and Twitter. Including the fact that Michael Glazer also was at Stage stores. Laser halted the paltry sale and Laser had various deals structured to get back hundreds of millions. Back in , U.

Additionally, every time MNAT, Paul Traub or Barry Gold declined to do their fiduciary duty, to protect their court-approved clients, the parties are guilty of a criminal conspiracy to defraud a public company and federal estate. Such is significant due to the fact Congress designed the conflict of interests laws in order to prevent this very thing from happening. Neither of those parties nor U. Doing so would lead to a number of indictments and the end of the MNAT law firm; which has been in existence for 80 years.

Compounding those issues, the perpetrators kept the eToys bankruptcy case open, for 14 years; and then they closed the case, in January , after the eToys v. In other words, it was kabuki theater, Goldman Sachs sued Sachs and eToys lost a billion dollars — again! Though the victims have been deprived, for a decade plus, justice could still come… retroactively speaking! Trump Nominates Racketeer for Federal Bench].

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