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ladies and gentlemen... these past four years we have suffered no shortage of words in the white house. what is missing is leadership. in the white house. and the story that barack obama does tell forever shifting blame to the last administration is getting old. the man assumed office almost four years ago. isn't it about time he assumed responsibility? wow. >> greta: wait until you see who is going to be here tonight. south dakota senator, former new york city mayor rudy giuliani, new mexico governor martinez, representative michelle bachmann, house majority leader eric cantor

and ohio senator rob portman first, someone you know very well former secretary of state condoleezza rice. >> whenever you find yourself doubting it, just think about all of those times that america made impossible seem inevidentable in retrospect. our revolution yairy founding against the greatest military of the times? a civil war? brother against brother? hundreds of thousands dead but he we meerjed a more perfect union. a second founding when patriots were determined to overcome the birth defect of slavery and segregation and on a personal note, a little girl grows up in jim crow birmingham. the segregated city of the south where her parents can't

take her to a movie theater for a restaurant. but they have her absolutely convinced even if she can't have a hamburger at woolworth's counter she can be president of the united states if she wanted to be and she becomes the secretary of state. >> secretary rice joins us. nice to see you. >> nice to see you, greta. >> greta: the crowd loves when you talked about how things have changed from the jim crow days. we have a lot of improvement to do but it's tremendous success of your career. >> well, thanks it's an american story. that is what i said out to say. america is exceptional not because of our power though sit important to the world but because of who we are. we're a country where people come from humble circumstances ask do great thing as tributed to the united states. >> greta: i didn't know your parents. i hear you talk about them tonight or other times they

never said you couldn't. and so boy, you just started with different odds than the rest of use my parents didn't believe there are victims but believed if you worked hard. saying you have to be dwis twice as good. waits a matter not of debate but a statement about the truth as they saw it. and they just really believed in this country and it's values at a time when for black people in the south those values weren't very much evident. i'm grateful i had such terrific parents. >> greta: i'm going to ask questions about what you said tonight. one of the things you said is that question of the moment is where does america stand? >> yes. >> greta: i'm curious what provoke that had question? >> as i look around the world, particularly for instance in the middle east where we're seeing the horrors in syria and we see really the young iraqi democracy with little attention to it by the united states and see an afghanistan we seem to be in a big hurry to get out.

we are, i think are provoking that question among our friends and foes. it's not a good question. the united states has to be resolute. people have to believe we'll finish jobs we begin. >> greta: are you saying president obama and vice president biden are not doing that? they're not answering that question? and what makes you so certain the governor romney, if elected president and vice president paul ryan would do that? >> there is no dourt our voice has been a muted one in several years. maybe a sense when america speaks loudly, people will not follow us. but what we're seeing is that when america doesn't speak, people don't know twho follow. bad things start to happen. i believe that governor romney and congressman ryan understand first and foremost whoer. we are. they know we're a country that if we put our minds to it

we'll solve our debt problems and economic problems and they know we have to be leaders in the world. i do think that they'll speak in a way that let's people know where america stands. >> greta: have you a rich experience if foreign policy. for years secretary of state and worked at the white house. have these gentlemen have foreign policy experience? president obama didn't have foreign policy experience. does that give you any reason to pause? you've thrown your support behind this ticket tonight. >> foreign policy decision making is like almost any other. you have to have principles and values and people who know how to take a tough decision to ask expert people around them for answers to tough questions and i see those characteristics in mitt romney with his executive experience and paul ryan with his toughness on insisting on our fiscal responsibility. the truth is that not many

american presidents come into office with foreign policy experience, what to do about china or russia or iran, what will come. you want someone who has integrity and knows what america can mean in the world, someone who is prepared to lead. and the rest of it will soon take care of itself. >> greta: any doubt on who should be president? >> no. no doubt. no. >> greta: you were instrumental when george w. bush ran for president you'd advise him on foreign policy. are you informally advising in this ticket? the republican ticket? >> i've tun my service in the campaign. i was deeply involved in 2000. i talked to governor romney from time to time. we're friends. i certainly feel i can call him at any time and he calls from time to time but he has good people around him. in foreign policy advising that is not a role for me this

time around. >> greta: he said tonight our military capability and advantage will be safe in mitt romney and paul ryan's hands. are you saying they're not safe in president obama's hands? i'm concerned about a couple things. first that we not allow seek quest traigs of the budget to damage our military strength. i'm concerned about missile defense. that was the reverence to technology advantage. i don't know there won't be a move to try to compromise missle defense. i can't say that i know what will happen in the future with our military power under the current president. i do think i know what will happen with mitt romney. >> greta: you say concern. is that a nice word like maybe it may be a little bit or look, you no know we've got a serious problem and better do something about it. >> we better be certain whoever is president

understands the military tasks are not yet done. much of the problem relates to how we're going handle the budget and economy because that is really right now the threat to our military strength that we can start making cuts in the budget to hollow out the military again as we did after the end of the cold war. >> secretary rice nice to see you. >> nice to see you, too. >> greta: straight head, many featured speakers are right here with us. you're going hear from them, and plus, isaac. the dangers of a wicked storm lashing gulf coast states. he's stirring up trouble. we have teams on the ground. stay tuned for live reports coming up. we're sitting on a bunch of shale gas.

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it's no secret i'm a sports fan. i get asked if i've ever played basketball with president obama. the answer is no. i'm still waiting for that invitation. the next question is, do you think you can take him one on one? i said i don't know. i've never seen him play. but i can tell you this. president obama would be easy to defend because you know he is always going to go to his left. >> now, that was john thune

speaking tonight. and the theme, we can change it. nice to see you. that brought down the house. they like that had. >> got to try to lighten it up a little bit. >> greta: did you enjoy speaking? >> sure it's a great setting and you can be a little intimidated by your surroundings. there is a big audience. many of us are not used to that or using a teleprompter but tried to get through it without hopefully messing up too much. >> greta: it's fascinating how about four, five words defined the theme of the convention. provided by president obama but you didn't build it. and if it were a drinking game how many times it was said, everybody would be on the floor. >> i know people that are familiar with that and heard that story. a lot. and probably get tired of it. and probably get annoyed of the repetition but a lot of people is part of the narrative of the convention.

and i think it presents the contrast we're drawing in his campaign. his record. and his vision for the future because this really is in many respects hostile to small businesses and to the people who create jobs in this country. i think that statement was representative of just a view he has that is very different from the one governor romney has. >> greta: what do you think of the nominee for vice president? >> i thought it was great and well delivered. paul is very sincere and i think that come as cross. i think in terms of content, he doesn't runway from anything. he confronted issues, talked about leadership they're going provide and entitlement reform, taxes and regulations. all things i think are important when it comes to growing the economy and creating jobs and i think that is the number one issue. i think he was going at the heart of what i think this campaign is going to be about. that is the economy, jobs who has a better vision and idea

and a better plan and secondly, how do we deal with these pro tracted problems we have? entitlement reforms, getting spending under control. and i thought paul did a great job. >> there is so much discussion about the presidential race. if you look at it, if your candidate wins, if you don't, if your party doesn't take the senate and keep the house you still, you know there is still difficult for to you achieve your agenda. >> it is. that is why we're hoping for a big performance at the top of the ticket. many senate races are going to be impact bid what happens at the top of the ticket. if the governor does well in a lot of these states where there are big senate races we think that is going help our candidates get over the top. it's going to be critical to govern the country. if he wins presidency but democrats still control the senate they're going to be in a position to block everything he tries to do. if we want to change the direction of the country and give someone else a try having seen what three and a half

years now of obama policies have done, i think it's important to give the president hopefully president romney a team he can work within the senate. >> greta: why do you think some people are undecided. if there is a stark difference between the two ask lines drawn in the sand why do you think there is still six to 10% who aren't sure? >> partly because a lot of those people probably voted for president obama. and you have to convince them that that was bt a a good decision. so i think that not only is a question of -- he's i think you'll see in the campaign, i think they're going to talk about he's a good person, and a good family, awful those things well intentioned but he has tried and failed in the policies haven't worked and i think that there is a question of presenting an alternative people say do you know what? we're okay with voting him out, because we've got someone better with we think has a better idea. i think part

getting that is to convince them that the decisions they made wasn't the right one. >> senator, nice to see you. >> thank you. >> and coming up former new york city mayor rudy giuliani is here. [ pilot ] now when you build an aircraft, you want to make sure it goes up and stays up. [ chirp ] with android apps, you get better quality control. so our test flights are less stressful. i've got a lot of paperwork, and time is everything here. that's why i upgraded to the new sprint direct connect. [ chirp ] and the fastest push-to-talk nationwide. [ male announcer ] upgrade to the new "done." [ chirp ]

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commander dz not recommend these decisions and why they've said it puts our mission at greater risk. >> that is senator john mccain, 2008 republican nominee for president. and rudy giuliani is here. senator john mccain in his speech and interviews with us suggests when president obama is weakening the country millly and national security could be safer with a president romney. >> if john mccain says that i would take that very seriously there. is no one who cares more about national security, understands it better than john mccain. i thought his speech was a powerful speech and i think it came right from the heart for a man who put his life at risk for his country and almost lost it. i think he feels an american president should never made this country weaker. >> greta: why do you like governor romney? i realize he's the end of the

line but starting out in the beginning there are a lot of choices. what is it about governor romney for you? he has a clear vision of what he wants owe do the america. i think he wants to reduce the size of government. which is what paul ryan talked about tonight. and that is what they have to do. what president obama wants to do is increase the debt and make our economy more feeble than it s what this country needs is a reduction in the size of government the way five or six republican governors have done. including new york with great results. >> greta: if reduce the military you're reducing the sisz of the government. senator mccain says we have to sort of bolster the military. >> i work for a president who reduced the size of the government. his name was ronald reagan. and he had the courage to set priorities. priorities were america is going to be strong.

america going to give a great image of strength to the world. he backed down to soviet union as a result of that. if we did that, we can back down iran. instead we have an american president writing letters trying to negotiate with him while iran is becoming a nuclear power, a president has to security head of the security council, secretary general to not go to iran. secretary general says that is nice, i'm going anyway. no respect for the american president. this president is not respected in the world. that is the point john mccain was making and the point governor christie is making and i think that is one of the reasons why our national security is jeopardized. iran does not fear barack obama. >> greta: that is interesting secretary of state couldn't leeza rice spoke to you tonight. she's been above politics and i was surprised and that means something to her. >> i believe she's here for the same reason she does,

we're concerned for our country. people can agree or disagree but that is where we're coming from. i'm concerned four more years with barack obama will mean a weakened economy with damage done to it and a seriously weakened america. i think with mitt romney and paul ryan america will become a private economy rather than a government economy. >> greta: what about representative paul ryan tonight? >> fabulous, home run. i can't thing of a single thing that could have been better in that speech. he took on medicare, turned it around completely. he and mitt romney want to save medicare under president obama, it's not going to be available to anyone under age 50 years old. he's going to ruin it. he's raided it. he's going ruin it. i think he demonstrated wisdom of governor romney's choices in the speech he gave tonight. it was very mature about as clear a vision of what has to be done as you can get. and it was a devastating

critique of the obama administration. >> greta: to better sell, i think that i'm going to give you something then i'm going make you cut back. mitt how do republicans make that sell come the next couple weeks leading into november? it's someone says i'm going to help you out with your skbrob gave you more unemployment that, is sounding better someone says very to cut back stuff. >> unless you're saying to the person who believe in the work ethic and dependency is not a good thing and believe it only leads to further dependency and remember with welfare spiral. american people are a stj, reliant people who want to be given a hand but a hand up, not a hand that holds them down which is what president obama has done. i thought paul ryan made that case very power fully. >> greta: it's toasty out here it s you can go inside and do this.

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>> greta: we're back live. tomorrow night, mitt romney will accept his party's nomination but tonight congressman paul ryan is officially the g.o.p.ville yip candidate. and also sues sanna marlt yez spoke tonight. >> in many ways mitt romney and i are very different. different starts in life. and different paths to leadership. different culture buzz we've each shared in a promise of america. and we share a core belief the

promise must be kept for the next generation. and it's success. >> greta: new mexico governor martinez joins us, nice to see you. before we start we went over the fact in 2008, the democratic candidate for president won by 15 points and your state is 3-1, democrats republican autos republicans outnumbed 3-1. >> they elected you, a republican governor. why? >> well i was district attorney first of all four terms. and in a county where republicans are outnumbed 3-1 but because we talked about what we're going do and delivered on promises especially being tough on crime. it was a border city and we had to be tough on crime. i have been a prosecutor before for governor, and i went to places where state candidate never had gone

before where they just would mark it off as democrats were going to control and not going to be willing to crossover. i went there and spoke with them. i told them what i would do if elected governor i'm now delivering on promises. >> greta: you have to admit it's unusual. those odds were against you in terms of demographics. one is that you talked about it tonight said at one point, you went out to lunch and when you drove to the lunch you're a democrat. and you had lunch and when you left you said something like, i'll be damned, we're rinz. -- republicans. what happened at that lunch? >> we sat down. two mayors from the republican party. i knew something was up. and they just hadn't called me out of the blue for nothing. we talked about issues. we which what we stopped doing. trying to get twordz define you. are you a conservative? what does that mean.

tell me the issue. that is what they were doing with me, having an honest conversation so i would think about why i'm registered as a democrat which no one had done before. i was raised conservative. now i realize that. my family is hard working, proud people. and they built their own business them wanted less government involved in their lives. and so it was wonderful to be able to realize who i truly was and that i was a republican. and i was going to run for office for the first time and i changed parties knowing that could have been the beginning of the end. >> greta: last night's senate candidate for texas cruz was here. he said hispanics are conservatives. and historically the vote has gone democratic. how is governor mitt romney going to get the hispanic vote? in this election? because that is, those are both unusual. >> what has to happen with especially president obama

many promises to the hispanic population. to most americans of course. getting, taking over immigration reform and taking charge of that and first year. he failed to do that. that he was going to cut the deficit in half first term. and it went up $5 trillion. you have to have honest conversations and go to places where republicans have never been before. so you can have that conversation with him them and come with solutions and have to get an elected. you have to -- can't just visit when it's election time then go away. you have to include them part of the process z part of the solution. they're going need to be taken in america. >> greta: very to put up a picture. you talked about when you're 18 and a security guard. i've got to put up a picture. totally random. and lots of viewers wanted to see you when you're a young girl, a young governor martinez sup there. governor, thank you very much. i hope you come back again.

>> thank you so much, greta. >> vice presidential nominee, paul ryan. >> college graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms staring up at fading obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life. barack obama is the first president to create more excuses than jobs. and in his view, it's george's fault. it's the bank's fault. it's europe's fault. it's the weather's fault. it's congress's fault. mr. president, if you want to find fault i suggest you look in the mirror. >> it's is said that this election will turn on domestic and economic issues. but like mitt romney knows and what we know is that this is a success at home, also depends on our leadership in the

world. >> the essence of america what unites us is not nationality or ethnicity or religion. it is an idea. and what an idea it is. that you can come from humble circumstances and you can do great things. that it does not matter where you came from. it matters where you are going. >> greta: how did congressman ryan do tonight? brit human joins us. how did he go do? >> i thought he did fine. i thought he had a difficult task. convention lost its first day. the day when the obama record was laid bare and attacked. he took care of that tonight. and he did it in a way that i thought was specific and point by point. it was tough. it wasn't mean. i don't think he came across as a mean guy. and so i think it was very effective and there was humor

in and a wonderful moment. and when he was said his mother was a role model and showed a picture of a mother and granddaughter that is wuchbt things people looked at that home, that is dynamite it s he seemed earnest in delivery. >> he doesn't seem like a guy out with a main chance. this tells you he spent a fair amount of time on medicare. there is speculation he was not going to do that tonight and they fired their shot across the obama bow on medicare. they're going to stay with this issue and they're going to campaign on it. they're going to run on it. he said they're going to win and he said we're going to win this debate. i was uncertain how long they'd stay with it. they're staying with it and it's been a dangerous subject for republicans for a long time.

>> greta: carl rove tells me that the vice president no one votes for the vice president. that you know that is not relevant for the ticket. >> i think that is true. that is basically true. it's hard to cite a vice presidential candidate who singlehandedly made a difference not since 1960 when lyndon johnson probably made a big difference in delivering texas for john f kennedy. that doesn't mean along the way there aren't things the vice presidential candidate does if it's a well received election it enhances the election of the nominee. the vice president helped put the case which is certainly what paul ryan is about tonight, against the incumbent, which was what paul ryan up to as well. he can help. ease, the vice presidential selections are rarely decisive. >> greta: each side has got its base. the other side that they're both trying to get. it seems to me undecided means ones that aren't particularly

interested to dig in and make a decision. would they are watching tonight or next week? >> one of the thing that's can work this election year and i haven't seen much of this is that i think a lot of people are at a stage where they voted to make a big change four years ago when they're not satisfied with how things were. not satisfied with how things are now. i think people wonder can anyone fix this? one of the things they have to overcome that people think nobody can make a difference. i think a lot of people who are at that stage are and have been indifferent to the whole election so far. that is when i think it counts in part for the undecides we have left. >> and certainly wasn't a big night tonight. >> and thank you, now to isaac. that is mean isaac, winds and rain hammering the gulf coast. raging flood waters leaving people trapped with no way

out. all of that exactly seven years after hurricane katrina devastated the region well. have live coverage in new orleans and in baton rouge, louisiana. we begin with casey. >> actually we'll go back to casey. we'll go to anna in baton rouge interest there. can you tell me what conditions are like there? >> tropical storm isaac has been down graded from a hurricane. it's a slow-moving soaker. it's been wreaking havoc around the region but we're still waiting for it to move northwest and hit in the baton rouge area we're under a curfew that began at 6:00 p.m. and will end at 6:00 a.m. it seems people are heeding warnings and businesses are closed off and people are off the streets. and we're seeing flash flooding in and around the area. we've been getting rain all day. and which is sat rating the

ground that. is with trop cal force winds and busts up to 50 miles per hour. here in baton rouge. trees and power line goesing down. utility officials saying about 674,000 homes and businesses are with out power across the state of louisiana. and this area has learned the hard way about how difficult it can to get assistance. governor bobby jindel has been urging the federal government for more help. president barack obama sign aid disaster declaration for the state of louisiana providing financial assistance to state and local governments affected by isaac. and 4100 shelters are serving residents across the state and all flights out of new orleans airports are cancelled. back to you. >> greta: thank you. now we're going to try to get back to casey in new orleans. as soon as we get his shot

back up. and straight ahead, a huge night here at the republican national convention. congressman paul ryan accepting the vice presidential nomination. what does the tea party think of the g.o.p. ticket? also, rob portman on the vp short list. he did get to speak at the convention tonight z coming up, senator portman goes on the record. >> we're a full generation apart. governor romney and i. in ways we're different. there are songs in his ipod. which i've heard on the campaign bus... and i've heard it on many hotel elevators. he actually urged me to play some of the songs at campaign rallies and i said look, i hope it's not a deal breaker mitt but my play list starts with ac-dc and ends with

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the supreme court upheld obama care. the first words out of my mouth were i still think it's unconstitutional. the left wing blogs were merc mercilyless. my wife said can't you please

just count to 10 before you speak? so i've had time to count to 10. do you know what? i still think it's unconstitutional. >> on the record is in tampa at republican national convention. members of the tea party are here so what did they think of the g.o.p. message so far? let's ask michelle bachmann who started the tea party caucus in the house of representatives. what do you think? >> fantastic because remember tea party stands for we're taxed enough already. government shouldn't spend more than it takes in and follow the constitution. that is what you heard all night. last night, every speech. it's in our party platform. we couldn't be happier. >> was congressman ryan in the tea party caucus some. >> you know that is a good question we'll have to check if he is. if anyone is following those values it's paul ryan. membership doesn't necessarily

mean if you abide by principles. clearly, he does. >> greta: condoleezza rice spoke tonight. what do you think? >> she was fantastic. the thing about condy is that she has credibility behind her words. she has conviction, heart and purpose. she was very smart and gave the message it that needed to be heard. that is mitt romney will lead from the front not like barack obama said, america he's leading from behind. and he said she said that america's voice has been muted on the world stage leading to a dangerous less safe america. she's right. >> greta: soos obama care was passed i think you were one of the first to object to it. do you have any sort of reservation with governor owe romney in light of the massachusetts health care system she developed there? >> i was very concern bitd when ways a presidential candidate running as a

nominee. during the course of the race that the contribution i made to the presidential race. i made the repeal of obama care front and center, mitt romney accept that had position of the full scale repail of obama care and greta he's looked me in my iz, on more than one occasion and assured me michelle, i will repeal obama care. i believe him. he said he will do it on day one. if we can have a republican house and senate, we get sworn in first, we can pass the repeal bill when he goes in to take an oath of office he can turn around, come back into the capitol and on that day, he can sign repeal and release all of the hostages in a way that like reagan did, on the day. >> and the stance of the senate going republican have been somewhat dim. >> i think they're very good. >> we don't think.

>> because take a look. at some of the races that we didn't think were possible. >> legality me ask you about missouri. about akin and missouri. that is then congressman akin made the remark about legitimate rape. now he's down a legitimate number of points. >> realize senator mckasskill's record hasn't changed one bill after another, she has problem was her tax records and all that. and i think that the people of missouri are starting through this race and will make a decision. and they'll decide. i like to have a couple spares. i think we're going to do better than what people think. we have win the senate. again, we lost the legal challenges the supreme court. that is doneful we can't deal with obama care through the courts. there is only one avenue.

it's a good one but we have to hold on to the house but have to win the senate in order to do that, then of course take the white house as well. then we'll realize my dream and dream of millions of americans repeal of the president's health care plan to deal with the real problem, greta, you know is bring down cost of health care. because this is only jacked it up. >> greta: nice to see you, thank you very much. >> and we need to reform our outdated tax code. we need to fix our burdenensome regulatory system and need a policy that encourages development of our resources right here in the ground in america. america has a choice between mitt romney who seek seeks to grow the economy and barack obama who seeks to redistribute it. which one do you think will

liberate america's entrepreneur yil spirit? >> greta: that was rob portman speaking tonight in tampa. now, he goes on the record. nice to see you. >> good to be with you again. >> greta: did you have fun speaking tonight? >> it was fun, yeah. >> greta: why some. >> because we're talking about the future and to take this country in the right direction z so i did talk about tax reform and energy policy. and also talked about trade. we can expand exports and grow more jobs here. i think our best days can be ahead of us. we need new policies and it's fun to talk about that. >> greta: if you get your president romney, and you don't win the united states senate, do you still get that which is a romney agenda? >> makes it harder. some things you need 60 votes. and i think we could get to 51

and we can get there. and if we can, we can do amazing things including passioning a budget which we haven't done for three years in the united states senate. >> how does that happen? >> greta: how can you not pass a budget? i know it's not your party but, i don't mean to argue for him. how does he justify not putting something on the table? >> i think budgets are hard things to vote for they include a lot of things that are difficult. paul ryan's budget did come to the house floor and did pass. republican dz what they're supposed to do. congress has the power of the purse ability to put forth a blueprint for the future. in the senate, nothing. you know is in the senate majority leaders decided not to move forward witness probably to protect members. the president does have to

submit a budget by law and he d unfortunately, it was such a bad budget no one would go for it. he didn't get' single republican or a single democrat, neither house or senate to support his budget. partly because it added another $11 trillion to national debt over 10 year period of the budget. so that is the lack of leadership we have now. exciting opportunity is electing mitt romney and paul ryan trying to get to 51. or 50 with vice president providing a tie vote. and beginning to shape this country by getting a a budget in place and you can do other things to help with regard to tax reform and saving our entitlement programs and making sure the economy gets back on track. >> greta: it's a virtual tie can president obama and governor rom nee. i zront a sense of how many un in ohio. i assume that you get your work to make sure they're in

place. >> i'm following it closely. >> greta: a lot of pressure on you. >> i'm going door to door. i've gone through 11 call centers and made calls. it's interesting what's happening. there is more energy on our side this year. and we've been pummeled by ads. there is a carpet bombing of mitt romney in ohio by barack obama's campaign. it's been almost all negative. it's been a boreage of negative ads, many are misleading and some are inaccurate. >> greta: you've been quoted as saying being cool does not fix the economy. are you saying the president is cool? >> in 2008 people said this is the guy when has got right idea he talked about the fact that this wasn't a red or blue country. sort of seemed like he was a guy going to work together to get things done that. hasn't happened. he's not shown leadership through his budget or what he did on health care what. did

he with financial services and the stimulus package. jammed it through on a partisan basis. we're seeing results of it. the president promised to fix the economy it and hasn't worked. mitt romney has got experience and record. he worked with democrats to get things done z balance the budget, cut taxes and bring back jobs. that is whalt american people are looking for. i think those undecided voters in ohio, are looking for hope. they're looking for someone who they will show there is a better way. >> senator thank you very much. >> great to be with you. >> thank you. >> and up next, florida attorney general pam bondy. also house haj ti leader eric cantor is here, he's close to vice presidential nominee paul ryan. coming up. g.

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paul ryan. >> greta: florida attorney general pam bondi speaking about the issues she has been fighting obama care. i want to ask you quickly about last night, mrs. romney spoke. and you're here, you know mrs. romney. tell me what you thought about the speech. >> i thought it was unbelievable and i also saw her this morning she was submitting a video saying i'm worried about one thing, they're going to come in and nominate ann romney instead of me. he was very cute about that and that is true. she has an incredible speaker and a dynamic woman. a great mother. and she's brilliant. and frankly i've been disappointed by comments i've heard about her from fox's own juan williams. but that is ridiculous calling her a corporate wife. she's mer than that. i sat with the governor's

wives, first ladies of pennsylvania and idaho and they were talking about this morning how disaptsed they were in that. >> greta: and governor rick scott is not here. >> he's not. he's, you know i've talked with the governor three four times per day. he is so disappointed he's not here but he has to look out for 19 million floridian autos suffering from the storm that came through. yes. >> it did. he said palm beach is underwater. he when i talked to him earlier he was in palm beach and headed to the keys and then, possessa coala. we've got severe flooding in our state. he's so disappointed but he's doing his job as governor. >> greta: i noticed you hit a nerve with the crowd tonight with what the signature program you've been fighting which is obama care from the podium what was it like? i was outside watching. i wasn't in there. >> it was something i've never spoken to that amount of people before but it was

exciting and i just spoke with general sam owens from georgia we spoke about something we believe in in our hearts. so easy to talk about something you believe in. and you know is right. we whole heartedly believe in mitt romney and paul ryan. >> greta: was your father able to watch? >> he wasn't. my dad... hasn't felt well. he had to stay home. my mom was here, my sister, greg was here, my future stip son. the whole family is here. >> greta: it's exciting and so much families, people want their families. pam nice to see you. i should call you general. >> we've known each other too long. >> greta: too long. >> now, efy rain pounding new orleans. and we just got him back. casey joins us live from new orleans. casey?

>> this feels like deja vu. would you believe the the worst is not even right here in new orleans proper. it's all around us. take a look at some video. just about 11 miles southeast of where i am. an area very hard hit levy breech on the' eastern side of the mississippi river. an earthen, community built levy. this is a sending people up to their at that timic -- attics. and in afternoon, focus in the same part of the parish but on the western side of the mississippi. 3,000 people had to be evacuated including 120 nursing home residents hooked

up to oxygen tanks and sitting waiting to be taken by national guard troops to a nearby naval base. it's down in the area and now, in the opposite direction southwest in the community of lafitte tonight we're hearing about he vac waigs in jefferson pairnish. some of the rescue boats unable to get into the area because conditions are not good. isaac moving very slowly. it's dumping a lot of rain and kicking up a lot of wind. and we're seeing this playing out around the region. >> greta: casey, thank you. we look at this and see those pictures and it's horrifying and a vision of what we saw seven years ago. >> yes. >> greta: casey, thank you. coming up governor romney's wife made a big splash but how

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>> another update on hurricane isaac still a major threat to louisiana. the system moving across the state at only five miles per hour that, means hovering there and the threat of storm surges and more flooding will continue for a second night. >> made a decision today and sometimes, overnight and early morning hours. the surge came up and there is water just came in. >> this severe flooding where boxes and boats as you can see are shuttling evacuees, flood waters, a foot high in places, power out in many 700,000 homes and night time curfew is under way. i'm ainsley earhardt, back to greta. >> it's moms that had to work a little harder to make

everything right. the moms really hold this country together. we're the mothers. we're the wives. we're the grandmothers we're the big sisters. we're the little sisters and we are the daughters. you know it's true. don't you? i love you, women! >> last night governor mitt romney's wife delivering a personal, passionate speech about her husband today, shannon got the first interview since the night in the spotlight. and asked about her family's reaction to her speech. >> we went home, a lot of my grandchildren were there. not real little ones but most of the grandchildren were at the speech. i was in the hotel room. the door opened and about 15 of the little kids stormed into the door. tackled me, threw me on the

ground jumping all offer me, hugging me, laughing. they just, i mean, they were so cute. >> and well, she, the family loved fed it. >> she said they were emotional saying one was sobbing, her daughters in law but all very meegsal because she's for a year and a half felt like the job is to get out there and tell the world who mitt romney is. >> it's tough on political families people forget that it's almost easier to be the one insulted but the same thing as their husbands get insulted and sometimes unfairly. did she talk about that? >> i asked her about this priority usa ad from a third party that drew an implication between her husband's work and that man telling a story of losing his wife to cancer. and if said you know it was rated false by a fum of outside organizations smchl democrats stepped up and

called it outrageous. how do you feel to see your husband attacked that way? she said we're talking about a woman losing her life. and suggesting my husband had anything to do with that, she said, it was painful and i don't expect it's going to get better. >> greta: she seemed confident on this and very relaxed. a lot of people interview them they're not comfortable. you feel bad because they're nervous, she seems she's very comfortable in her own skin. >> you got the interview we've all wanted. thank you. >> you got it. >> greta: great interview. house majority leader eric cantor watches as paul ryan officially became the vice presidential nominee. we spoke with leader cantor tonight. >> nice to see you. >> good to be with you. >> is it traechl fun to have a close friend as vice presidential nominee? >> it's just cool. it is something else.

really i couldn't be happier for paul. and the whole family. it's a very exciting time for us in the house, too to see one of our colleagues actually on the national stage like this, trying to affect some of the policy changes we've been working on. >> he's not new to this business about policy launch. >> paul, you know i first met him he served on tax writing committee together. ever since then, i've known he's very interested in aing things budget, the economy. and really how to make government sort of right side so we can hold true to principles of economic freedom. >> greta: washington gets a little nasty. did you know that? sheer what congressman van holland told me. i understand people goring to have differences of opinions he described congressman paul

ryan i calculated kinical efforts to confuse seniors and e romney-ryan plan would be. >> that is so washington. and i'm listening to that just trying to remove nasty adjectives and stick to the facts here. the facts are that paul put forward a budget that actually proposes a solution to the real problems we're facing in the deficit. when we know that the federal government made promises now that it can't afford to keep. so we're trying to save the safety net for those who truly need it and gitd get about the business of regenerating activity in the private secretary qor. we believe men and women build those businesses and can be successful without necessarily the big hand of government deeming itself. >> i suppose you realize sort of the advantage of offering a

lot more. if it maik maybe unrealistic and telling everybody to tighten the belt. one is a ease easier message to sex how do you sell your republican message that people have to tighten the belt? >> i think it's like when chris christie conveyed last night to n.his address. i don't think we should underestimate the american people. they're smart. there is a reason why our country has been a leading country for some years and the world's only super power, economically and militarily. the reason is that american people get it. and that you can't have something for nothing. we do need tf a safety net there for people when need it. and you know we also want to provide the avenue for those who want to earn their success. foremost of the american people dying to get out there and start building businesses and growing men.

>> this is extraordinary. and i guess the real group everyone is trying to reach are undecided. how do you get your message to undecided?. >> i'm from virginia. we're one of the critical states like this one. in election. and they will come down to the election in very few states and it will be the 5% or 6% of the undecided going to make or break this election for mitt romney and paul ryan. how by goat them is i think talk to them and make a case in terms of how to make life work for the suburban mom in virginia. they're struggling now wondering how to get through the month and pay bills, it's our solution to planl for their kids college education and paying for parents health care costs. >> coming up, what you've been

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congressman paul ryan now officially the vice presidential g.o.p. nominee. he's made his mark as the budget guru. you've seen him go on the record many times. >> we need leaders willing to put up ideas. and we pass our plan showing the senate and budget here is how we want to fix the problem. let's see your ideas. and they have decided not to

put their ideas on the table so you can get to the table. >> america does not deserve a debt crisis. in 2008 we had that economic crisis that, caught us by surprise, if if they knew about a bad time, knew when it was coming and how to stop it but didn't do so. what would you think that have person? >> last year, last time with obama john mcyain stopped campaigning here so obama kind of ran up the score. >> there is a last election we took two house seats we feel like we have a good chance as republicans and i think mitt romney is in the best position to win states like ours. and this is what it doesn't do, it doesn't fix our problem.

he doesn't pretend to fix our fiscal problems so i would call it america drawing a debt. >> greta: joining us now our political panel, byron york and rick klein, rick, first you tonight. >> energy. enthusiasm. excitement. it was a good story told there. he tied obama, romney campaign message in with his own personal story. and i think also a very effective description of why mitt romney is the right person to do it. he talked more about mitt romney than just about everyone else. >> i was not a big fan of chris christie tonight. i think tonight was a big success for paul ryan. last night was not a good night for chris christie. he did have to liver a -- deliver a indictment against the obama

administration. and he had good barbs at the president for talking too much. and introduced himself a little bit. did that, had some people tearing up talking about his mother and he had to talk and he had to convince people that he and mitt romney were going to spend all of their time working on jobs, economy and debt. he was well focused on that. >> two images i thought were effective in describing his appeal. ac-dc to zepplin idea, then, fading picture of obama on the walls of the kids coming home from college without a job. it just is an easily understandable image that i think if you can make that appeal that is how you do it. >> one of the speech writers for the speech was a guy who wrote sarah kbrainl's speech at the republican convention in 2008, a beautiful speech. this was the same way. i think the image of the

bedroom was huge and people goring to remember that. the other interesting, ac-dc to zepplin thing was fascinating showing he had younger musical taste than mitt romney. led zepplin was 40 years ago. he said the real point is s.to get to white middle aged, disaffected voters who may have voted for barack obama last time around z make that connection with them this time around. >> what about governor romney tomorrow night? >> i mean he's, as i said, he's made big speeches before. none as big as this. everything else going to pale in comparison he's going to need to -- the way they've structured this convention we're going hear more about him. he's never been comfortable talking about himself. >> greta: his wife said that other night. >> that is right but that is

how it works. i asked rick santorum about this. he said be vulnerable. show a human side and show people not everything is perfect. if he can demonstrate that and show a limb bit of humanity tomorrow might, i think we'll be surprised at people tuning in. >> greta: do you think the president's team regrets the president said you can't build this? >> you know, i'm sure that it just drives them crazy. in times i've wondered maybe republicans are pushing this too hard like maybe pushing joe the plumber hard. and this does resonate with republican voters and independents because it's suggesting what people suspect about barack obama. is that he really does devalue that kind of individual initiative republicans celebrate. so they've said it a lot. and you're going to keep hearing it too, on the

campaign. >> big week next week. and you'll be with us next week, too. gentlemen, thank you both. >> thank you. >> coming up, republican national convention is rocking. literally. a big late night event pairngtsly dancing. we're going to take you there, too. next. the business... the designated hitter's the best thing to happen to baseball! but it's not the same game! [ wife ] wow, he's really gonna get us a good deal. it's better! no it's not! the pitcher comes up and he's out! [ dealer ] he can bunt! whatever. but we're good with 0% apr for 60 months? oh yeah, totally. thank you so much. that must've been brutal. [ male announcer ] the volkswagen autobahn for all event. at 0% apr for 60 months, no one needs to know how easy it was to get your new volkswagen. that's the power of german engineering. why nature made? to get your new volkswagen. they were the first to be verified by the usp. an independent organization that sets strict quality and purity standards. and that's why i trust nature made. nature made the number one pharmacist recommended letter vitamin brand. learn more at naturemade.com

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conservative advocacy group. tonight's concert benefits wounded warriors, the group called citizens helping heroes and nobody -- no star is more in tune with the heroes than kidd rock who, has been rocking it. he cam out tonight, greta, and he said, i'm not giving any speeches. i want to thank the wounded warriors. i want to drink beer. i want to party and he sang. it was pretty amazing. there are a few highlights here of the stars, kenna mccarthy was here, getting tshaking down. i don't see him anymore. i got