memeorandum: Romney interview with CBS News: Full transcript (CBS News)

9:25 PM ET, July 13, 2012

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President Obama says Romney should answer Bain Capital questions — In an exclusive interview, President Barack Obama tells ABC7's Scott Thuman that GOP challenger Mitt Romney should answer questions about Bain Capital and his time there. Here's a transcript of the interview.

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David Weigel / Slate:

Did the Romney Campaign Create the Swift-Yachting Story? … - Josh Levin: Penn State Should Cancel Its Football Program for a Few Seasons — Is It Legal for Airlines To Let Richer Passengers Go Through Airport Security First? — Manjoo: Buying an iPhone? Get the Smallest Possible Amount of Storage.

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ABCNEWS:

Transcript: Romney Responds to Bain Attacks In ABC Interview — JONATHAN KARL: Governor Romney, you have been hammered by the president and by the president's campaign over your time at Bain. In fact, one of his top advisers actually said you might have committed a felony when it comes …

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CNN:

Acosta interview: Romney's spirited Bain rebuttal — (CNN) - Following a week of some of the sharpest attacks yet on his management of the financial firm Bain Capital, Mitt Romney offered a vocal defense Friday of his tenure there and strongly disputed reports he left the firm years later than he has previously said.

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CBS News:

Romney interview with CBS News: Full transcript — presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney sat down for interviews with all five networks following several days of heightened criticisms over his time at the private equity firm Bain Capital. Romney defended his work …

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Jed Lewison / Daily Kos:

Bain Capital press release described Romney as ‘part-time’ in July, 1999 — A July 19, 1999 press release distributed on behalf of Regan Communications and Bain Capital described Mitt Romney as the “Bain Capital CEO” and said he was “on a part-time leave of absence to head the Salt Lake City Olympic Committee.”

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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:

Do Bain SEC documents suggest Mitt Romney is a criminal? — “Romney and Bain claim that he was not involved with Bain, but Bain and its portfolio companies in their required filings under the Securities Exchange Act continuously certified to the Securities and Exchange Commission say precisely …

J. Bradford DeLong / Brad DeLong:

Is This the Silliest Thing Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post Has Ever Written? — Suggestions for sillier things welcome: … Give it up, Glenn. — It would be very unusual for somebody to have the titles of not just “CEO” but “President”, “Chairman of the Board” and be “sole stockholder” …

BuzzFeed:

McDonnell Declares Bain Off Limits — Drawing a line in 1999. — McDonnell and Romney in June. — Image by JASON REED / Reuters — WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia — Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a leading Republican figure, said Friday that Mitt Romney's time at the helm of Bain Capital …

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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

Kessler: He's Drowning Not Waving — Glenn Kessler, WaPo's fact-checker, has a detailed examination of the latest Globe story. Why he thinks criminal charges are extremely unlikely: … Throughout, Kessler bizarrely asserts that telling the SEC that someone is the CEO and sole owner of a company, when he isn't, is no big deal.

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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama mocks GOP health law repeal votes

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Team Romney: Obama campaign is ‘unraveling’

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Hunter Walker / Politicker:
Mitt Romney's Shifting Bain Story

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Romney to give television interviews today

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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Mitt Romney did business in Massachusetts during Olympics

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Lindsey Boerma / CBS News:
Romney: Obama owes me an apology

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Matt Negrin / ABCNEWS:
Romney to Obama: Apologize for Bain Questions

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Steve Kornacki / Salon:
Why Mitt's story doesn't add up

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Brooks Jackson / FactCheck.org:
Romney's Bain Years: New Evidence, Same Conclusion

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill: Romney surrogate: ‘Can you imagine how dumb this president is?’

Ginger Gibsonand Dylan Byers / Politico:
Mitt counter-punches on Bain

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BuzzFeed:

Audio Exclusive: The Speech That Landed Condi On Romney's List — A call to “storm Washington D.C.” Speculation in Park City that “she wants to be Vice President.” — With The Drudge Report driving speculation that Condoleezza Rice is now a leading contender in the Republican veepstakes …

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Alexander Burns / Politico:
SBA List: Condoleezza Rice unacceptable

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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Palin says Rice's view on abortion shouldn't disqualify her as VP

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Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:

Obama campaign worker collapses at Chicago campaign HQ and later dies — Alex Okrent, a staffer in the Obama for America campaign who has worked with Barack Obama's political team since 2004, died Friday after collapsing in the Chicago headquarters. — President Barack Obama called his family to offer his condolences.

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PARADE Magazine:

Preview: The Exclusive PARADE Interview With President and Mrs. Bush — Nineteen years after leaving the White House, George H. W. Bush, 88, is seeing his legacy burnished. In an exclusive interview in this Sunday's issue of PARADE, the former president and his wife, Barbara, 87 …

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David Brooks / New York Times:

Why Our Elites Stink — Through most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Protestant Establishment sat atop the American power structure. A relatively small network of white Protestant men dominated the universities, the world of finance, the local country clubs and even high government service.

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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:

13 reasons why this is the worst Congress ever — This week, the House of Representatives voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. On its own, such a vote would be unremarkable. Republicans control the House, they oppose President Obama's health reform law, and so they voted to get rid of it.

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Jim Lindgren / The Volokh Conspiracy:

Over 30% of President Obama's 2009-2011 Gross Income Came From Foreign Sources — I find it strange that the Obama campaign would be making so much of Romney's income from foreign sources when Obama's foreign source income appears to be a much bigger percentage of his income over the last few years.

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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:

Ed Rendell — Team Obama went “a little bit too far with the felony business” — The only positive thing President Obama has going for him with swing voters is that they tend to like him personally. I'm not sure why, but assume it's some combination of his race, the positive initial impression he made …

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Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:

Ros-Lehtinen is first GOP member of Congress to back marriage equality — Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon — Send via Email — Send this page to Print Friendly — Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen supports marriage equality (Blade file photo by Michael Key)

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