WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's re-election campaign says Mitt Romney won't get the apology he's demanding. And deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter says the Republican presidential candidate should "stop whining."
Romney called for an apology after Cutter suggested last week that Romney might be guilty of a felony if he misrepresented his position at Bain Capital to the Securities and Exchange Commission. And today, his senior campaign adviser, Kevin Madden, repeated that demand when he appeared with Cutter on the CBS program "Face the Nation."
Cutter says "he's not going to get an apology."
The Obama campaign is questioning whether Romney was at the helm of the private equity firm he founded longer than he has said, during a period when it sent jobs overseas. Romney says he had no active role in Bain once he became head of the Salt Lake City Olympic Games in early 1999.
On CNN's "State of the Union," Romney campaign adviser Ed Gillespie said allegations that Romney actually ran the company longer than that are "a lie."
And he said Romney did five interviews with cable and network news shows Friday so people would know "he's not a felon."
Gillespie accused the Obama campaign of saying or doing "anything to keep the highest office in the land, even if it means demeaning the highest office in the land."
116-a-10-(Kevin Madder, adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, in interview)-"to pursue it"-Adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign Kevin Madder criticizes those who say Romney told "a lie" about when he was in charge of Bain. COURTESY: CBS' "Face the Nation" ((mandatory on-air credit)) (15 Jul 2012)
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115-a-09-(Stephanie Cutter, deputy manager of President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, in interview)-"just about that"-Deputy manager of President Barack Obama's re-election campaign Stephanie Cutter says Republican candidate Mitt Romney should just release the tax documents she thinks the public has a right to see. COURTESY: CBS' "Face the Nation" ((mandatory on-air credit)) (15 Jul 2012)
<<CUT *115 (07/15/12)>> 00:09 "just about that"
117-a-09-(Kevin Madden, adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, in interview)-"the 2011 returns"-Adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign Kevin Madden says the presumptive Republican candidate has done what he was required in releasing his tax records. COURTESY: CBS' "Face the Nation" ((mandatory on-air credit)) (15 Jul 2012)
<<CUT *117 (07/15/12)>> 00:09 "the 2011 returns"
114-a-10-(Stephanie Cutter, deputy manager of President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, in interview)-"not in charge"-Deputy manager of President Barack Obama's re-election campaign Stephanie Cutter says she stands by her previous statements that Republican Mitt Romney can't have it both ways on when he was in charge at Bain. COURTESY: CBS' "Face the Nation" ((mandatory on-air credit)) (15 Jul 2012)
<<CUT *114 (07/15/12)>> 00:10 "not in charge"
108-a-10-(Ed Gillespie, adviser, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign, in interview)-"reckless baseless charges"-Mitt Romney campaign adviser Ed Gillespie says President Barack Obama's campaign is just grasping at straws when it accuses Romney of sending jobs overseas. COURTESY: NBC's "Meet the Press" ((mandatory on-air credit)) (15 Jul 2012)
<<CUT *108 (07/15/12)>> 00:10 "reckless baseless charges"
APPHOTO WX201: In this July 15, 2012, photo released by CBS, Stephanie Cutter, right, who is serving as deputy campaign manager for President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election and Senior Adviser
to the Romney Campaign Kevin Madden, left, talk on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. (AP Photo/CBS, Chris Usher) MANDATORY CREDIT (15 Jul 2012)
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