WEBVTT 00:00:05.952 --> 00:00:08.760 - Does the government work for us or do we work for the government? 00:00:08.760 --> 00:00:12.620 Can a man who essentially agrees with President Obama on all the key issues 00:00:12.620 --> 00:00:16.397 realistically become the Republican nominee for President? 00:00:16.797 --> 00:00:20.319 - Let me speak very directly and candidly about where I stand. 00:00:20.319 --> 00:00:23.462 In 1985 I helped found a company. 00:00:23.462 --> 00:00:27.456 I learned how America competes with companies in other countries. 00:00:27.456 --> 00:00:29.007 ...in other countries. 00:00:29.007 --> 00:00:33.058 - The money he has that he didn't inherit is what he made as a private equity mogul, 00:00:33.058 --> 00:00:37.295 *shutting down companies, liquidating their assets, and firing their American workers.* 00:00:37.295 --> 00:00:39.472 - Later, when I served as Governor of Massachusetts, 00:00:39.472 --> 00:00:45.743 I used the skills I had learned in 25 years in business to streamline state government. 00:00:45.743 --> 00:00:50.172 To get that kind of money you've gotta cosy up as an incumbent to all of the special interest groups 00:00:50.172 --> 00:00:53.094 who can go out and raise money for you from their members. 00:00:53.094 --> 00:00:56.519 And that kind of relationship has an influence on the way you're gonna vote. 00:00:56.519 --> 00:01:00.811 *- Romney is one of the biggest flip-floppers to ever grace the GOP stage.* 00:01:00.811 --> 00:01:03.588 - I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. 00:01:03.588 --> 00:01:06.765 I believe people understand that I'm firmly pro-life. 00:01:06.765 --> 00:01:08.926 *- You just can't trust a word he says.* 00:01:08.926 --> 00:01:13.078 *- I have never seen a guy change his position on so many things so fast.* 00:01:13.078 --> 00:01:16.977 - I have never supported the President's Recovery Act, alright, the stimulus. 00:01:16.977 --> 00:01:20.850 No time, nowhere, no how have I supported the President's stimulus. 00:01:20.850 --> 00:01:27.781 I think there is need for economic stimulus, Americans have lost about eleven trillion dollars in net worth 00:01:27.781 --> 00:01:30.703 and government can help make that up in a very difficult time. 00:01:30.703 --> 00:01:34.215 *- He was pro gun control, then he becomes a lifetime member of the NRA.* 00:01:34.215 --> 00:01:37.125 *- Mitt Romney is a complete hypocrite and phoney.* 00:01:37.125 --> 00:01:42.088 - I think you'll find that I've been as consistent as human beings can be. 00:01:42.088 --> 00:01:46.551 If you're looking for someone who's never changed any positions on any policies 00:01:46.551 --> 00:01:49.242 then I'm not your guy. I'm not your guy. 00:01:49.242 --> 00:01:53.721 - I think Americans just don't know sometimes which Mitt Romney they're dealing with. 00:01:53.721 --> 00:01:57.987 *- The new cover of Time Magazine today asks the question, why don't they like me?* 00:01:57.987 --> 00:02:01.596 *- Mitt Romney spends little or no time doing interviews on the TV* 00:02:01.596 --> 00:02:06.590 *whereas the other candidates are working the Sunday news show circuit like a politician running for President.* 00:02:06.590 --> 00:02:09.399 *- Romney often bypassing reporters on the rope line...* 00:02:11.552 --> 00:02:14.306 *- Remember earlier this year how Romney got a million dollar donation* 00:02:14.306 --> 00:02:18.062 *through an organisation that just suddenly ceased to exist the next day?* 00:02:18.062 --> 00:02:21.993 *- It's really someone wanting to give Romney the money while staying in the shadows.* 00:02:21.993 --> 00:02:25.863 *- Mitt Romney stealing all of Barack Obama's big dollar Wall Street donors.* 00:02:25.863 --> 00:02:28.380 *- A good chunk of his funds came from his buddies on Wall Street* 00:02:28.380 --> 00:02:31.222 *like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America.* 00:02:31.222 --> 00:02:35.974 - To get that kind of money you've gotta cosy up as an incumbent to all of the special-interest groups 00:02:35.974 --> 00:02:38.073 who can go out and raise money for you from their members. 00:02:38.073 --> 00:02:41.812 That kind of relationship has an influence on the way you're gonna vote. 00:02:41.812 --> 00:02:44.236 Now look, I'm not gonna spend my time going after Ben Bernanke. 00:02:44.236 --> 00:02:48.034 I'm not gonna take my effort and focus on the Federal Reserve. 00:02:48.034 --> 00:02:51.568 - Would the chairman of the Federal Reserve be appointed again? 00:02:51.568 --> 00:02:53.326 - I think he's doing a good job. - You do? 00:02:53.326 --> 00:02:57.257 - Yes I do. And I think it's important to have the Fed as an independent agency. 00:02:57.257 --> 00:03:03.611 I do not think you wanna have the Congress of the United States trying to pull strings at the Fed. 00:03:03.611 --> 00:03:06.474 - He physically, personality-wise, comes across 00:03:06.474 --> 00:03:11.890 as if he was designed by East German scientists to be the perfect android politician. 00:03:11.890 --> 00:03:14.801 - In fact I thought it was such a disastrous interview from Mitt Romney. 00:03:14.801 --> 00:03:20.105 *- Romney's donations from lobbyists actually come to more than all of his GOP counterparts combined.* 00:03:20.105 --> 00:03:22.880 *- Do you really want this cat to be president?* 00:03:22.880 --> 00:03:24.952 *- Romney can't win, he's dead in the water.* 00:03:24.952 --> 00:03:27.483 - There are a lotta reasons not to elect me. 00:03:28.944 --> 00:03:32.286 [*Music: The Who - Who Are You*] 00:03:32.301 --> 00:03:33.798 I will be a pro-life president. 00:03:33.798 --> 00:03:37.213 I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. 00:03:42.166 --> 00:03:47.195 We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts, I support them, I won't chip away at them. 00:03:47.195 --> 00:03:51.505 As Governor I worked closely with the NRA and the Gun Owner's Action League 00:03:51.505 --> 00:03:55.082 to advance legislation that expanded the rights of gun owners in my state. 00:03:55.667 --> 00:03:59.635 -Thank you for your understanding. Can you assume the position you were just moments ago? 00:03:59.635 --> 00:04:02.103 - If the Federal Government expands at the kinda rate it's expanding, 00:04:02.103 --> 00:04:08.431 buy car companies, bail out banks, we have every good reason to be alarmed and to speak our mind. 00:04:08.431 --> 00:04:11.372 We didn't waste a lot of money right then, that was an investment made 00:04:11.372 --> 00:04:15.084 to try and keep a collapse of our entire financial system from occurring. 00:04:18.376 --> 00:04:22.450 But I like mandates, the mandates work... - I beg your pardon? 00:04:22.450 --> 00:04:25.306 I didn't know you were gonna admit that! 00:04:25.306 --> 00:04:30.527 - The Federal Constitution does not allow for mandates to be provided by the government. 00:04:30.527 --> 00:04:34.071 -You like mandates? - Let me tell you what kinda mandates I like Fred, which is this... 00:04:34.071 --> 00:04:36.573 - [mandates] which you come up with? 00:04:36.573 --> 00:04:37.967 [laughter] 00:04:37.968 --> 00:04:40.813 I'd like to ask you to just pass this message along to a friend. 00:04:40.813 --> 00:04:43.000 Thanks so much.