ride along. many call the choice of ryan pretty bold. i mean, you been following mitt romney for a while now, and what difference do you see in the candidate and his campaign now with paul ryan on board? >> well, i have to tell you, randi, last night on the campaign charter flight from where we were yesterday in virginia heading down to charlotte, north carolina, today, and where we are on the way of the first event of the day, mitt romney seemed more relaxed with paul ryan at his side. he and the wisconsin congressman came to the back of the press plane yesterday and briefed report reporters a little bit and talked to reporters about their reflections on the day and the vice presidential pick, and i have to say this is as loose as i have seen mitt romney be with the press in some time. so i think that there is a positive benefit that ryan is having with this campaign almost already. instantaneously. as a result of being selected as his running mate. we heard a little bit from paul ryan last night and he has an

easy going rapport with the press, but he did say at one point and got serious and said he has been fighting for these issues all of his life, and he is honored to be on this ticket, and that's what he sees as his role in this campaign to be fighting for these issues that he feels and mitt romney feels are crucial to the future of the country, randi. >> well, ryan is known for the budget proposal that calls for sharp cuts to many programs and the plan that is now a focus of the new obama campaign ad. jim, watch this along with me. >> i want to put out a comprehensive plan to rewrite the social security and the entire tax system. >> i think it'd be marvelous if the senate would pick up paul ryan's budget and to adopt it. >> so, romney like it or not, jim, he is tied to the ryan

budget, and what is the campaign's plan to combat what is a key strategy for the democrats will be? >> funny you should ask, randi, because earlier in the morning in the hotel as we were ready to get on the bus, a chief spokesman for the romney campaign briefed reporters and was asked how do you reconcile that you put paul ryan on the ticket and he is architect of what has been a controversial blueprint for fiscal reform in washington, and what kevin madden told reporters, mitt romney is at the top of the ticket, and keep in mind when paul ryan was on the plane saying i have been fighting for these issues all of my life, and mitt romney did not turn to him and say, we are talking about my issues and not your issues, so there has to be a balancing act on this campaign about how they handle this issue. the obama campaign has already seized on this, and they're going to make this a big part of this campaign over the coming

weeks, and so i think that is something to watch, how they reconcile dealing with this ryan budget that has caused some controversy, randi. >> tomorrow, all eyes on iowa and a little bit of a showdown with both president obama and paul ryan in the state. ryan showing signs that he is ready to play the attack dog role which is typical of vice presidents and what will we see from him tomorrow? >> that is right. >> well, just before tomorrow randi, i should note that after we wrap up these events in north carolina, we will be heading to wisconsin for a homecoming what they are calling a homecoming for paul ryan and their last big event for some time and yes, you are right, paul ryan is going to iowa tomorrow, and the iowa state fair and president obama will be in the same state of iowa tomorrow, so there is no chance that the two will cross paths, but it is interesting that the two will be in the same state at the same time, and just to go to something that mitt romney said yesterday on the campaign plane last night, he said that he is glad that we are now looking at a situation of two on two, meaning he and paul

ryan versus joe biden and president obama, because when it was one on two, mitt romney said he was taking some licks there. so he is glad to have paul ryan on board and as you said, he is filling the role of attack dog quite nicely in the eyes of the romney campaign so far and we will see that heading in the days forward. >> that is going to keep it interesting for sure. jim acosta, many thanks. thank you. >> all right. and here is a look at other stories we are watching this morning. new violence in syria as the rebel fighters clash with the government groups. they are accusing the regime of excuiling young men in cold blood in the city of homs and firing on a bus with irn chshgs and while the fighting end is nowhere in sight. in istanbul, secretary of state hillary clinton said that

washington is concerned that terrorists will infiltrate syria. >> we worry about terrorists, pkk, al qaeda and others taking advantage of the legitimate fight of the syrian people for their freedom to use syria to promote their own agendas and even to perhaps find footholds to launch attacks against other s. >> clinton also announced another $5 million of humanitarian aid for the thousands of refugees. and a message from michelle obama in colorado to visit all of the people at the aurora hospital to tell them thank you. dozens were hurt and killed as james holmes opened up firing in

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$3.69 a gallon up eight cents from last week's average and what is the fueling rise in prices and is there any relief in price. alison kosik explains. >> this is a culmination of perfect storm of circumstances. there have been refinery problems in the country. in the midwest a pipeline was shut down a few weeks ago because of a leak and problems at bp and marathon refineries in the region. in california, a fire at a refinery this past monday and all of the problems have been temporary, but it means that our supply of gas has taken a hit which pushes up prices, but supply isn't the only issue here. the drought in the midwest has a lot to do with the gas prices. current law mandates that 10% of the gas in the tank is meade of ethanol, and ethanol is made of corn and that is a product that we don't have a lot of these days. the usda said that the nation's corn harvest will be the small

est in 17 years, and you roll it together and that means higher gas prices. tom kloza at the price information services thinks that the prices will continue the rise for the next few weeks, but we should see relief after labor day. randi, back to you. ♪ the london olympics end today and so far the u.s. has won more gold medals than any other country, 44 golds and 102 medals in all. china is in second with 38 goals and 87 medals total. and there are more events happening this morning. how do people feel about this year's games? we have a poll. it shows that 66% of americans say that london has been successful as an olympic host, and 26% say they have enjoyed the olympics more than in the past. amanda davis is at the park this

morning and let e's talk about tonight. what do we have to look forward to? >> i have something very exciting to look forward to, randi. i have a ticket. i have just got this in the last hour or so, so i am very, very exci excited, because i am one of the lucky 80,000 in the stadium behind me for the closing ceremony. and i can just tell you that we have just heard them taping the practice and sound check this morning and not quite so much secrecy around the closing ceremony as the opening ceremony. we know it is basically a celebration of 50 years of british music, so i have heard take that and spice girls being an act and we have seen pictures of them practicing on sparkly black london cabs and george michael has confirmed that he will be performing, and it is going to be basically a three-hour ek extrav again -- a

to celebrate the 17 days of action. it is still going, and 15 gold medals to be awarded today, and one of them has just gone to steven kippertich of you dan da who has won the men's marathon and a great day for him and the results of the modern pentathalon and some boxing and of course, the big basketball match later on team usa against spain as well. >> well, amanda, i know that you have been working hard these past few weeks, and you deserve that ticket more than a lot of folks. appreciate it and enjoy yourself there. and there are now four, romney and ryan against obama and biden and what can we expect going forward?

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to bill clinton. amy, i want to start with you on this one, speaking aboard the campaign plane, mitt romney had this to say about his new running mate. listen. >> this is a campaign of ideas and production for america, and what is america going to be? and what kind of nation is it going to be? how do we help people across the country have a better future and having two people talk about that is a far more compelling dynamic than just be out there on my own. >> romney essentially saying there that two heads are better than one, a san die-- and is th really the best asset for paul ryan that mitt romney has been able to do so far to this point? >> well, paul ryan is a clear articulator of the fiscal conservative values. i am sure that you have seen the blogosphere, and the activist community of conservatives are

thri thrilled with this pick, because it bridges the polly wonk side with the political side. he is a beltway creature that grew up politically in washington, d.c. and he is well known quantity, but he has an appeal to the tea party activists and the people who see are definite and fiscal future as being the top issues in the election. >> and bernard, the obama/biden team is mock iing this team calling them the go back team, and saying that the policies will hurt everyone from seniors the students, and is this the race that the obama white house wanted? >> absolutely and i will tell you why, because it shows a clear division of america. we have a difference of opinion for shared prosperity for all americans and where everybody moves forward together where a division where the winner takes all and the top continues to reap the benefits where those in the middle and the bottom fall further behind. why do i say that? ryan would be a disaster for the seniors, the middle-class, and the women, and gay americans and

he authored the system to turn into a voucher program to cost se seniors $6,000 a year or more, and he voted against at the led better fair better act, and he voted against the "don't ask, don't tell" legislation, and other hate crime legislation and he would favor giving mu multimillionaires a $75,000 tax cut which would force a tax increase on middle-class families with kids of $2,000, and the choice of ryan underscores the vast difference, and also suggests that mitt romney is scared given the fact that he is running seven points behind in national polls in the latest cnn poll and 11 points behind with independents. >> amy, if you look at the senior vote, president obama lost the senior vote to mccain and is it wise to focus on the ryan plan and the impact of medicare and will that benefit him, do you think? >> that is what the obama campaign wants to do and you heard those talking points in the litany of charges against paul ryan and i won't get into

rebutting each and every one of them, but it is clearly the obama tactic to pailinize him to make the ticket so anathema that nobody will vote for him, but they won't get away with this tactic as they did four years ago, because so many members of the political and media class have grown up with paul ryan and they know him to be a reasonable guy. he voted for banning workplace discrimination, and against people with same sex preferences, so if you were the look at his record, i don't think it is going to be able to have the obama campaign is going to be able to caricature it quite as much as they might want to. >> and what about the battle for independents? both campaigns trying to pick up independents and ryan is unknown outside of washington, and so do you think that the presence will help gain ground there? >> no, because the independents don't share his view of an

america where the top get better and better and the bottom continue the struggle. what it really underscores is a difference between poul ryan and joe biden. i mentioned in the book 52 reasons to vote for president obama, and joe biden is the reason, because he helped to end the war in iraq and traveled there eight times as vice president, and helped to negotiate the budget compromises with congress in 2010 and 2011 and chaired an implemented the stimulus plan which help to create or save 3.5 million jobs, so when you compare joe biden and the experience over 30 years in foreign policy to paul ryan, he was really for the most part looked to limit those in the middle-class, think they americans have a clear vision of between president obama and mitt romney and joe biden and paul ryan. >> thank you both. are we alone?

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signs of life on mars, and it has been sending us back some amazing pictures from the red planetment joining me now is a theoretical physicist from arizona university lawrence krause and also the author of best seller "a universe from nothing." thank you so much for joining us from australia this morning as far as i understand it. let's talk about, this lawrence, eight months in space, and millions of miles traveled and $2.5 billion spent, an one of the most complicated interstellar landings in history and how excited are you about this? >> i am incredibly excited. i had a party up here and i'm right near the location where the deep space signals come in before they built the jet propulsion lab. i am so excited since the moon landing and it is amazing to see the pictures after the rover landed was incredible. the pictures coming in since then from the mars orbit as well, where you can see the balloon and the impact crater,

it is just like being there. >> and a lot of people say, that is so cool that we are searching for life on mars and the rover is doing that for us, and what, give us a sense of what you think that life might look like on another planet? >> well, of course, it is hard to say not having discovered it, but the biggest surprise would be indeed if we discover life on mars and i think that it is a good chance, at least we will discover past life on evidence and it would be a big surprise if it weren't our cousins, because we have discovered that material goes back and forth all of the time. and we can discover martian meteorites for example, and mi kroeps have survived the eight-month voyage inside of a rock. so if we discover life on mars and i am betting that we will discover evidence of that, and the big surprise would be if it weren't our cousins, because then it would mean that there was at least two separate genesis of life in the solar system which would probably mean that the universe is teeming

with life. we have discovered already 2,000 planets around the stars and 100 billion stars in the galaxies and 100 billion galaxies and if we discover one example of life elsewhere, it means a lot of life in the universe and maybe, maybe intelligent life. >> you have said and i want you to explain this one, because it will have us shaking our heads. you think that we could all be martia martians. >> exactly. the point is that since life could have gone back and forth between the planets, during the early period of mars' evolution, it was a hot earth pollution between the two planets, so if you want to see what the martians look like, look in the mirro mirror. >> that is an interesting thought. what would it mean? how big of a deal for sinciencef we do find a sign of life? >> well, it is profoundly important and it means that

potentially, there are other places in the solar system like the oceans under the moon europo where there could be existing life, and if we find life on mars it will be fossilized life and not existing life, but it could mean that we could learn also about how robust life is, and under what conditions it can evolve, and any other example of extreme life gives us much more understanding of our own origin and how typical we are in the universe. that is the thing we want to e know, and you want to know it and i want to know it, are we alone? >> that is the big question. thank you, lawrence, for being on the program this morning. thank you. >> thanks. it is great. it is a case that has the fbi baffled. watch this. >> they find a small bag $10 of marijuana, but a missing gun? >> apparently. >> is that disappointing to you? >> yes. >> police say that a man killed

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state. but his family and others in the community don't believe that carter killed himself. i traveled to jonesboro a few days ago and pressed the police chief to get some answers. >> reporter: is it even possible physically to be handcuffed behind your back and somehow pull a trigger on a gun that you weren't holding when you were handcuffed? >> the average person who has never been in handcuffs and never been around inmates and people in custody would react exactly the same way that you just did about how can that be possible? well, fact of it is that it is very possible, and it is quite easy. >> i also should add that the police searched carter twice prior to his police and never found a gun on him in neither search and yet they were able to find a small amount of marijuana in a plastic bag. we want to hear about this from you, do you think that a man handcuffed behind his back in the back of a squad car could shoot himself in the head?

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paul ryan and the proposed budget overhaul which they say favors the wealthy and hurts everyone else. take a look at the new campaign ad. >> the cuts in here are so dramatic, and they are so painful. >> it gives a $4.3 trillion cut tax to the wealthiest in the country. >> president obama is holding five fund-raising events in chicago today, and cnn chief correspondent jessica yellin takes a closer look at how the democrats plan to make paul ryan a key part of their strategy in the weeks ahead. >> well, you can expect to hear the word ryan used as part of a phrase an awful lot between now and november between the obama team, and hear it as the phrase romney/ryan budget tor extreme republican house budget, because their goal is to try to bind mitt romney to paul ryan's budget which they believe is an example or they will try to tie

him to the narrative which they have already built, and that is that mitt romney wants to give tax breaks to the upper income americans at the expense of middle class americans, and they believe that the pick of paul ryan helps them to make the case that they are committed to doing that and as you know, he is an enormous enormously charismatic campaigner, but they can make the argument on entitlements and tax reform and deficit cutting that mitt romney would go about it in a way that would hurt the middle class whereas the president would not. and also, they plan to target women, veterans, college students, and as i mentioned middle-class voters arguing that paul ryan's budget also includes cuts to programs that impact all of those constituent groups, and that they will target all of those constituent groups by pointing out that there are ways that paul ryan's budget would hurt them. so expect a targeted message that, again, this romney/ryan budget could be damaging to each of those groups. >> jessica yellin, thank you very much.

after more than two weeks of intense competition and new world records, the london olympic olympics will come to a close later today. london will hand the games over to the next host city rio de janeiro in the closing ceremony and big british pop stars like the spice girls and george michael are expected to perform. and right no the u.s. is leading the race with 42 golds and 102 in all. and china is 87 total with 38 golds and dozens more events happening. and of course, the usa versus spain for the gold medal at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. remember that the u.s. beat spain in the 2008 olympics and spain's team also has nba players. for this morning's faces of faith, we look at the inspiration for the olympics and

how olympians inspire us to be more god-like. just think michael phelps does look a little bit like the greek god apollo, and the ancient greeks thought when athletes won glory they stood in the presence of gods and this mentality is part of christianity, as well, desire of hard work and virtue to bring us closer to god. our next guest wrote about this for our website cnn.com. joseph laconti is expert of and author of the new book "the searchers", and good morning, joe. >> thank you so much for having me. >> are the olympians really the closest thing that we will ever see to greek gods do you think? >> well, i'm not sure the closest things, but the greeks were on to something. the games were a wash in religion, and religious belief, a ped they dedicated the games to zeus, and they got priests on hand and i think that they are on to something, and it is not just pure superstition in the sense that they understood instinctively that something

remark pli is shrkably is going and women are pushing human achievement and are standing in the presence of gods. so it suggests to us that there is something in us where we are hard-wired if you will, for glory, and hard-wired to try to achieve it and captivated when we see men and women achieving olympic glory. >> do the physical abilities of olympians, and do you find that god-like almost? >> well, from the greek perspective, they thought of the gods having incredible supernatural power, but that is one feature of it really, because the greeks talked about not only the physical strength, but moral strength or moral courage, and what the greeks called eretae, and think of it as moral beauty and great sacrifice and commitment and loyalty and humility and those are the olympians who are really capturing our imaginations, aren't they? >> yes, absolutely. and how does this all relate to christianity, and how does that play here? >> well, if you think about it,

what do the pliks stir up in our hearts and minds? we want to be different men and women, and when we see them perform, we want a piece of the glory. the author c.s. lewis talked about the inconsolable secret meaning the yearning of desire to bridge a gulf that exists between us that are ordinary earthly existence and this other world, this remarkable world unfolding before us as we watch the people achieve the incredible things, and the inconsolable secret is that we can't bridge the gulf. that is part of the tragedy of the human condition. >> was there an olympian or olympic moment for you this year that inspired you and probably inspired others? >> well, there were a lot. but one that comes to mind is m mantao mitchell who is 400 meters into the run, a nd he realizes he has broken his leg and soldiers on for the sake of his teammates and soldiers on and finishes the race, and he

says i was just doing my job. it is that kind of guts and perseverance for a greater good, and not just for personal glory that really gets our attention, i think. >> joseph laconti, thank you so much for inspiring all of us this morning. appreciate that. >> thanks so much. appreciate it. >> for more stories on faith, check out the widely popular belief blog at cnn.com/belief. this is going to get you completely nak a lly naked and by sharks. a fisherman prays for help and the rescue to save his life. all by cob. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. i'm going b-i-g. [ male announcer ] good choice business pro. good choice.

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have been talking about this story all morning. it is the story of a man in police custody in arkansas. police say that chavis carter was in the back of a squad car handcuffed, but he still managed to shoot himself in the head. police say they found a small amount of marijuana on him and he had an outstanding warrant, but family and friends don't believe he shot himself in the head. police searched him twice before the arrest and did not find the gun on him, but they did find that small bag of marijuana. so i asked all of you if you thought that a man handcuffed behind his back could be able to shoot himself in the head, and thank you for the responses. this one, unless he had a third inv invisible hand that the cops didn't cuff, i'll put my money on no. and jennifer says, no, he could not shoot himself with his hands handcuffed behind his backs is a

cover-up. the reason i would believe it is because it is too unbelievable to cover up. they could create a more credible story. keep the tweets coming and i have a lot of great comments about this one. you can find me @randikayecnn. and a man fighting for his life in shark infested hours for 20 hours after his boat sank. things turned out for him, but two others weren't so lucky, because they were found dead, and the search has been called off for the others due to rough weathers. the obama team now has an opponent and how will that shape their strategy for re-election. with unof the president's most trusted advisers will tell us. including the gs and is. [ engines revving ] because control

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anything but there are mile markers along the way for any candidate, and the first one when it comes to changing up the mix is certainly that vice presidential pick. so this is the beginning of change for the romney campaign, if there is to be victory at the end of it. so the first is he picks a vice presidential candidate, and how that plays. the second is that convention speech, and how he, romney presents himself to the biggest audience, he will have ever seen, and then of course sh, th debates with the president, and both of them standing pretty much side by side talking about hopefully their visions for the country. so, those are the three debates, and this kicks it off. this is going to be the day if romney wins, this will be the day they look back and say, it started here. >> and you know, i know you spoke with david axelrod, one of president obama's top strategists and what did he say about this pick? i'm curious, because didn't he

say tim pawlenty should have been the choice? >> well, he doesn't pick and he thought that pawlenty was a safe pick and since mitt romney was a cautious person, that is who he would pick, but he is right in line and as is the crafter off what has been the obama c campaign's response which is like, oh, my goodness, this is just, you know, radical, and it is sort of romney squared as far as they are concerned. they are going to wrap ryan inside their attack on mitt romney, which has always been that he's for the rich person, and he wants to help those who make the most money, and he is going to ruin the middle-class, and the now they add it into the quiver, they have and also take medicare away from the senior citizens and they add sort of all of those things into it, but it is the same gist. these people are out of touch with america. they just, as one candidate or one democrat told me yesterday,

said it is the same arguments but on steroids now with ryan. >> how strong of a weapon do you think that paul ryan will be against president obama? because he has not minced words about him. >> well, he hasn't, and the other thing is that there is, there is a power and a certainty of the words that ryan tend ss say. there are famous times when he stood up to the president in public and said, look, this is what this is, and the president tried to back him down and ryan wouldn't do it. so he is not after friday to take on things, and we also saw yesterday by the way after the announcement, and romney and ryan went on the trail together, and ryan who, you know, described by the republicans side as cerebral and a policy wonk, and let me tell you that he can play the number two attack dog pretty well. so, you know, we will see how he is on the campaign trail and he has not campaigned across the state much less across the nation, but he has certainly got the knowledge to make his

argument. there is this will not be a bumper sticker campaign with ryan. >> candy, great to talk to you about this. thanks so much. be sure to keep it here for "state of the union" with candy crowley, and it starts in five minutes at the top of the hour. do you ever feel like you are completely bogged down in paperwo paperwork? yeah. who doesn't, right? well, get a load of this photo, piles upon piles of paperwork, so much that the building inspector said that the weight of the paper could actually damage the building. this is the veteran's affairs office in winston-salem, north carolina, and the inspector also pointed out that the papers could be damaged or lost or a real fire hazard. we will see colorado shooting suspect james holmes back in court, and we will break it down for you and see what you should keep an eye out for this the coming week. that is all next. [ male announ] this is the at&t network. a living, breathing intelligence helping business, do more business. in here, opportunities are created and protected.

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♪ that was a big day in history, and here's a look at the big stories that we will be following in the week ahead. the olympics, of course sh, may ending today, but the race for the white house heats up tomorrow. romney will be campaigning in florida and president obama in iowa and his wife michelle will make the third appearance on "the night show" with jay leno. on tuesday, t.j. lane will stand trial for the high school cafeteria shooting that killed three students in ohio last february.

and looking ahead to illegal immigrants who can start applying for a deportation program application that was put in place in june. and thursday, colorado shooting suspect james holmes will be back in court about the content that he sent to the university psychiatrist will no doubt be in question. and looking to next sunday is world humanitarianay, and the day to honor nose who risk their lives to help those in need. thank you for watching today. i'm randi kaye and you can always continue the conversation on twitter. "state of the union" begins with "state of the union" begins with candy crowley right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com a dynamic decision to shake up the race one way or the other. today, it is romney/ryan, a little known seven-term congressman from wisconsin catapults into the national

are arena. >> we won't duck the tough issues. we will lead. we won't blame others. we will take responsibility. we won't replace our founding principles. we will reapply them. >> romney's pick, firing up the base. our conservation with south dakota republican john thune, and then re-oping the search with david axelrod and ed gillespie on why his candidate gambled on a wonk who is wanting to overhaul medicare. and then risk/reward, ron brown, and cnn's dan lothian. i'm candy crowley. this is "state of the union." the campaign trail is most often a series of mind-numbing days interrupted by the ones that you will never forget, and the days when you know that one way or another, something has changed, and saturday was one of those days for mitt romney. >> what works here, and what

works around the world is free people pursuing their dreams. we want those dreamers here. we can accomplish our dreams. >> because as much as voters learned about paul ryan yesterday, they may have learned more about romney first and foremost that this most cautious of candidates will take a big risk for the potential of a big payoff. at first blush this much could be said for the ryan pick, it appears to have brought home conservatives. joining fouser a conversation of that and more is john thune, n senator from south dakota, and that is the first question that we have seen is some hesitation, and some skepticism or whatever you want to call it by conservatives who by the way very publicly pushed for paul ryan to be the pick. do you think that this settles conservative doubts or hesitations about mitt romney? >> well, good morning, candy. what i think it does is it certainly demonstrates that governor romney is very serious