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Four years ago as I had the privilege to travel all across this country and meet Americans from all walks of life.

I decided nobody else should have to endure the heartbreak of a broken health care system. No one in the wealthiest nation on earth should go broke because they get sick.

Voiceover: "He's made his choice. But what choices will women be left with?"

"Just like Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan would get rid of Planned Parenthood funding."

"In Congress, Ryan voted to ban all federal funding for Planned Parenthood..."

"...and allow employers to deny women access to cancer screenings and birth control."

Dawn: "I think Mitt Romney's really out of touch with the average woman's health issues..."

Alex: "This is not the 1950s. Contraception is so important to women...it's about a woman being able to make decisions..."

Dawn "I don't remember anyone as extreme as Romney."

Mitt Romney: "I'll cut off funding to Planned Parenthood."

President Obama spoke on Romney's middle class tax increase and shared how his plan will keep strengthening middle class families.

President Obama was in Orlando, FL to discuss the choice in this election between two fundamentally different visions of how to grow the economy, create middle-class jobs and pay down the debt.

Today, at a grassroots event in Mansfield, Ohio, President Obama highlighted a new report from the Tax Policy Center -- a nonpartisan policy think tank -- that concludes that Mitt Romney would have to raise taxes on millions of middle-class families with children by more than $2,000 to pay for his $5 trillion tax plan tilted to the wealthiest.

Voiceover: "You watched and worried: two wars, tax cuts for millionaires, debt piled up. And now we face a choice.

Mitt Romney's plan?

A new $250,000 tax cut for millionaires, increase military spending, adding trillions to the deficit.

Or President Obama's plan?

Mitt Romney has only released one full year of tax returns. Why hasn't he released more? Is Romney willing to share any new information?

Ehud Barak and Shimon Peres discuss President Obama's record on Israel.