Obama: 'We Will Not Apologize' for Bain Attacks

President Barack Obama said Saturday his campaign will not apologize for its attacks accusing Mitt Romney of outsourcing jobs while at Bain Capital, despite the Romney campaign's insistence that the charges are not true.

"We will not apologize," Obama told WAVY-TV in an interview set to air Sunday. "Mr. Romney claims he's Mr. Fix-It for the economy because of his business experience, so I think voters entirely legitimately want to know what is exactly his business experience."

The Obama campaign has been pointing to discrepancies between Securities and Exchange Commission filings and Romney's recollection of when he left Bain Capital. Romney has said he left the company in 1999 to head up the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, but his name turned up on SEC filings through 2001, coinciding with when Bain sent jobs overseas.

(Related: ‘Disgusting and Demeaning’: Romney Fires Back on Bain Attacks)

Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter suggested last week Romney could be guilty of a felony for misrepresenting his position with the company.

Both sides continued to traded barbs on the issue Sunday.

"We now know that this president will say or do anything to keep the highest office in the land even if it means demeaning the highest office in the land," Romney campaign adviser Ed Gillespie saying on CNN's "State of the Union."

Gillespie said Romney had "retired retroactively to 1999" from Bain, an explanation that prompted a wave of mocking on Twitter.

Cutter echoed Obama's vow that the campaign would not apologize for its attacks, saying on CBS' "Face the Nation" that Romney should take some of his own earlier advice for Obama and "stop whining."

"Instead of whining about what the Obama campaign is saying," Cutter said, "why don't you just put the facts out there and let people decide instead of trying to hide them? If he didn't gain advantages, then show us, show the American people. What is it you're hiding?"

Watch Obama's comments below; Bain remarks begin at the 4:00 mark.