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I signed have Hollywood on the campaign trail Obama campaign -- is David Axelrod -- make classic movie -- first the original from a few good men.
I'll answer the question.
You want answers but did kind of -- -- not.
True you can't handle the truth.
And today Boston Axelrod taking Jack Nicholson's line.
Did he pull it off or did it fall flat here's what Axelrod told governor Mitt Romney supporters who are heckling him.
Okay.
-- know the truth my friend.
It was down.
Vikings -- chief political correspondent Byron York joins us so how to do this again.
Hollywood if you sick of convicting him pretty well public last summer on the.
I give the edge to Jack Nicholson what did I say this is this is actually a really serious -- -- knows -- rowdy and as noisy and attracted a lot of attention.
The Romney campaign was trying to send -- message was this they told me this afternoon you know we meaning Mitt Romney event has been heckled.
Over and over again -- Mitt Romney didn't event the bridges to nowhere in New Hampshire.
There were hecklers he did another event New Hampshire with senator I got there were hecklers there there was a big demonstration.
In Michigan when he laid out his economic plan they say we get heckled all the time.
This is an an indication this is a signal that they're gonna get a bad back twice as much.
I had these -- Freelance hecklers are these are organized.
Campaigns.
Sanctions hecklers organized campaign sanctioned hecklers this was in Boston okay so the Romney campaign headquarters is in Boston.
There were campaign.
Employees.
Among this group do in the al-Qaeda would this be -- when President Obama campaign's latest -- getting to the President Bush is so yeah I think it does -- they -- it is at this of this surrogate David Axelrod and not the president himself although it is true that there Romney has been.
-- called himself had some of these events but.
Doesn't mean that it will happen to President Obama himself -- -- mentioned that he is sick kids governor Romney is campaign is this ad campaign today excellent grab was secret.
People even know what's gonna happen with seven an effort to avert this sort of the popular had claimed as -- -- strategy by everybody and this was no accident this Axelrod event was not supposed to be known.
Until a few hours before it happened but it leaked out last night and that's what allowed the Romney people to.
Organize this counter demonstration Romney didn't let that happen in California is a matter of fact the reporters who travel with Romney who cover -- from the didn't find out there we're going to cilantro until there were on the bus on the way our topic email as sound today released describing the deal making and the health care a lot between the White House and big fight and pharmaceutical industry.
Well -- we remember President Obama and during the campaign promise that.
The negotiations for the health care bill would be in public they be on C span -- -- -- -- -- -- -- any of these private.
Back -- deals secret deals that sort of stuff this just blows it completely out of the water this shows that.
In the in the preparation or the of obamacare you had.
The pharmaceutical industry negotiated with the White House the one thing they wanted to stop more than any thing.
Was to reimportation of drugs.
At lower costs you know throughout the country.
They were offering things they ended up offerings money to.
For an advertising campaign in favor of Obama care to support grooves that were created to promote obamacare.
There was a lot of back and forth dealing going on.
Well what has got so college pants sounds about these emails is some White House Eric spokesperson Eric Schultz said -- naked political taxpayer funding crusade to hurt the president's reelection campaign.
Brandon books I'm sorry we weren't transparent as we said we were going to be paid -- -- cast the blame that this is the fact that now the American people know about this is somehow way.
Politico maneuver if you are Republican this is the advantage and controlling one house of congress.
The house energy and commerce committee investigators were able to get the stuff.
Make it public in a way that it probably would not have been if Democrats have continued to hold congress.
-- yet if it would.
Disturbed me so little if they had promised transparency.
-- and then -- -- -- his eyeballs this city trying to cut special deals and special earmarks.
But don't tell the American people and that is going to be transparent if you're doing this years behind the scenes secret email stuff that is just not transparent right and you.
Cannot expect.
Legislation -- the scope of obamacare which affects.
Literally 16 of the economy not to have some of the sort of stuff going on I mean who is more interested in a bill that would.
Force Americans to buy their product.
And subsidize those Americans.
-- reported to be higher than the pharmaceutical industry -- They deserve to have a voice in the process it's just the secrecy that's gonna irritate people this this secret stuff anyway fact.
