>> and in a thursday debate mitt romney said it does not matter who wins the republican nomination because all of the candidates would be a better president than president obama . the president's first campaign ads hit the airways on friday. they defend the president's records, but republicans claim it shows a campaign that is panicked.
>> secretive oil billionaires attacking president obama with ads fact checkers are say not based on facts.
>> and joining us now, congresswoman debbie wasserman-schultz. congresswoman, thank you so much for your time.
>> hi, tamron .
>> before we start about the president and the strategy, i'm so intrigued about what's going on between you and mitt romney . after new hampshire you said the victory for mitt romney wasn't really a victory. it's basically his second home. and he was at an event. i want to play what he had to say regarding you and defending the president's record. let's play it.
>> the president only got 80% last night. so i feel sorry for debbie wasserman-schultz. she's got to stand up for the president's record. and it's bad.
>> he reiterated a similar comment in south carolina . why is he so focused on you?
>> that's a good question. i think we've been able to throughout the early primary process, you know, put him back on his heels because he's out of touch with middle class and working families . he continues to refuse to come clean about his own financial record . why won't he release his tax returns . he won't be honest and forthright about what his real role at bain capital was, which which outsourced jobs to other countries and deliberately bankrupted companies. when you have a record as unacceptable as his is, it's not surprising to lash out at the person who is pointing that out. tamron , even the middle class republicans now are upset and are leaving mitt romney here in south carolina because at the end of the day you just want your candidates to be forthright and honest.
>> and it's interesting. i was having a conversation with a viewer of msnbc just recently. and they were saying mitt romney might be able to in the there's no way that newt gingrich could gravitate anywhere near the center. so i'll have to ask you, is there a so-called dream candidate, since everyone seems to say the president would love to run against mitt romney , or does it matter at this point?
>> it really doesn't matter. we've watched through the entire republican primary all of the candidates engaged in this circular firing squad . they've been obsessed with trying to out right wing each other. so at the end of the day , whether it's mitt romney who is simply continuing to play by a different set of rules, not release his tax returns , not be forthright about his true job was or newt gingrich , who continues to really go after the president when his own record certainly isn't one that anyone could write home about. the republican peefield is dramatically out of step with the needs of working families who president obama is fighting for so they can be successful, too. the republican field is fighting to keep people who are already doing well.
>> i want to play a few of the cl clips from thursday's debate. some of the criticism regarding the president. i'm intrigued what you have to say about the tone especially.
>> because he has to bow to the most extreme members of the environmental movement , he turns down the keystone pipeline , which would bring energy and jobs to america. this president is the biggest impediment to job growth in this country, and we have to replace barack obama to get america working again.
>> we have unemployment rate two and a half times, those who are college educated, and feel that no party cares about. you have the democratic party and barack obama and all he wants to do is make them more dependent. gives them more food stamps , more medicaid.
>> why is president obama being for young people allowed to stay on their parent's insurance until 26? because he can't get jobs for them to go out and buy their own insurance.
>> you have words like the president bowing down. the notion of food stamps and even with gingrich, people not being able to be independent enough to move out of their family's house because of the president. how soon will we see the re- election campaign really aggressively tout the successes of the president's resum? from health care , even though the republicans say they want to repeal it. you can now keep your child on your insurance. when will we see an aggressive push of the things the president's base really want to have him sell?
>> tamron , those clips wow showed weren't the most outrageous things that the republican presidential candidates said about president obama . and we are out there focused on -- well, president obama is making sure he can continue to be president, championing getting the jobs turned around. we were bleeding 750,000 jobs a month when he took office. but president obama promised change when he campaigned for the presidency. the kind of change he brought us was rescuing the american automobile industry and making sure we save those 1.4 million jobs. making sure, as he promised, brought our troops home from the war in iraq , which he did at the end of december after promising that he would end that war. making sure that we could provide affordable quality health care to all americans , including the two and a half million young people who no longer have to worry about whether they can get health insurance because they can stay on their parent's insurance, or breast cancer survivors like me. the 47 million americans who live with a preexisting condition. thanks to the affordable care act , that gave them the no longer. barack obama has promised change. he delivered change. he made sure that we brought this country from the precipice of economic disaster to beginning to turn this economy around. he's going continue to fight hard for working families why we watch the republican field try out right wing each other. by continuing to tout an economy record that was one in which he devastated communities like those in south carolina when he was ceo of bain capital . there's a dramatic contrast. i think at the end of the day americans will reelect barack obama because they want to go in the direction he is going.
>> congressmthank you so much.
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