Stephanie Cutter: No, really, I didn't know the facts about Joe Soptic's wife

“I didn’t know the facts of when Mr. Soptic’s wife got sick, and I only recently learned that through all of the hysteria over that ad,” Cutter said “But, Jake, what I do know is what Mr. Soptic’s experience was with GST Steel, after Mitt Romney bought it, loaded it up with debt, overleveraged it, paid himself excess profits and fees, but then forced that company into bankruptcy, leaving Mr. Soptic without a job, without health care, and without his pension.”

Cutter has maintained that she was not familiar with the details of Mr. Soptic’s wife’s death even though she was on a conference call that featured Soptic in May.

The Romney campaign lashed out at the Obama campaign for the advertisement, saying it was running a campaign composed of “ugly distortions and lies.”