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President Obama hits Mitt Romney hard with his 'no holds barred' campaign style

Michael Hastings, reporter for Rolling Stone and Buzzfeed, helps Cenk break down why President Obama’s team has been so successful at knocking Romney down a peg in the 2012 election campaign. “President Obama — one of his greatest talents is going out on the campaign trail,” Hastings says. “What Romney’s getting a taste of is a Chicagoland sort of politics.”

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Meet Mitt Romney's billionaire club of supporters -- and find out what they'll expect in exchange if he wins

Cenk talks to “Rolling Stone” contributing editor Tim Dickinson about his investigation into Mitt Romney’s billionaire’s club of supporters, including “the other Koch brother,” the heirs to the Marriott Hotel fortune and the CEO of New Balance. “It’s purely in their financial interest to get this guy elected,” Dickinson says.

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White House 'kill list' of terror targets is 'unprecedented' and should prompt outrage from Democrats -- but probably won't

Cenk interviews BuzzFeed and “Rolling Stone” reporter Michael Hastings about the “kill list” of counter-terrorism targets being considered by President Obama for assassination. “It’s somewhat unprecedented the fact that these decisions are being made from the Situation Room, from the White House itself,” Hastings says.

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