is. jenna: certainly is a big one. lots to cover today. we appreciate you joining us and thank you for your time. bill: hang on gulf coast it will be over soon enough. thanks for joining us. "america live" starts right now. megyn: fox news alert live from the republican national convention in tampa where you are about to get a sneak peak at vice presidental paul ryan for the last time before his big speech tonight. he is expected to do a walk-through down on the stage any morning now to get ready for his remarks this evening. as the congressman gets ready to step on to the big stage president obama's campaign today welcomed him with a fierce new attack ad. welcome to "america live," everyone, i'm megyn kelly reporting from the republican national convention in tampa. later tonight in this arena congressman ryan will deliver the most important speech of his political career. the vice presidental candidate is expected to take the stage some time after 10:00 tonight, but first the obama campaign is

unleashing a new attack on him, trying to label him as an even a me of than enemy of the middle class and that he is fiercely antifemale. here is part of their latest message. >> mr. ryan is new to the national scene with out of step views from a by gone era. he's known as the author of the extreme g.o.p. budget. one that many say hurts the middle class. megyn: chris stirewalt is our fox news digital politics editor and host of power play on "fox news live." and charles krauthammer is a syndicated columnist and fox news contributor. good to have you here. charles, your thoughts? >> we would expect no less from the obama campaign, and i think, you know, they really are -- they are really hurting

themselves in the end. they are quite over shooting on all of this. you've got the ad that has been running about ryan for years, showing him literally, a look alike throwing an old tkpwrap granny over the cliff. you have romney trying to kill a steelworkers life. what you have to do to this is show up with no horns and you overthrow the ad. show up and speak like a hraoupl and, if yohuman. if you try to portray them as a monster, which is what the democrats have spent millions of dollars doing, and if you show up with your family and your kids and you love your dog, you've won. megyn: fiercely and harshly antifemale? >> that is pretty bold when especially tonight you will get to see him with his wife who seems pretty decidedly female, and his family. look, here is the deal. charles is exactly right.

i think the key when it comes to the use of paul ryan, they cannot over use his family. his wife is charming, she is endearing. the kids are nice and it also roots him with somebody with a lot at stake in this election because he has young children. and it's somebody that is with young children that makes you feel about the world differently. for paul ryan and the republicans i think family softens him just as it did for mitt romney last night. megyn: might this be effective for folks who choose not to watch this piece tonight and manage to pick up this ad in the swing states where it's likely to run. people in the beltway or in news just assume, people know who paul ryan is, he's the budget committee chairman, a lot of people have no idea who ryan requires or didn't until a couple of weeks ago. are they doing what could be an effective job of painting a picture of this guy, charles? >> i think it's initially effective. romney himself has said that he

has been damaged by the ads, particularly run in the swing states like ohio, where they portray him in that steelworkers ad and other ads where they show him as a vulture capitalist who essential low cares nothing about ordinary folks. that does hurt. the problem is it's so little a reflection of reality. if you're a voter, and you end up ending up at the polls, so you're interested enough to go into the polls you're not going to rely exclusively on that. you're going to show some interest, and chances are you'll either see romney in this speech, ryan in this speech, or you'll watch the debates. and in these unfiltered forums, where you'll see romney, you'll see ryan it will be obvious. to say that ryan is a fiercely antifemale guy, the guy looks like a boy scout, he looks like he's 11. if anything you'd say, you know, he's too young to have developed antifemale attitudes. [laughter] >> the idea that this kind of

choir boy who is going to speak softly, speak directly is this moral monster, which is again what the democrats are doing, over shooting on this. i think it's going to hurt them in the end, because it will expose the democrats of being gross exaggerators and not something you can trust with the truth about these opponents. megyn: why so much focus by the president's campaign on paul ryan? i mean this is the third shot they've taken at him. they continue to try -- first it was the medicare thing, then it was the antiwoman thing, and now here they are it's the triple shot, let's try this. he's from a by gone era and trying to say he's all these things in one as the band warms up here, just a snippet, just a little piece. they seem a little concerned about it. >> that was the oak ridge boys. the point for the democrats is, they want to deny mitt romney any assistance, any help. they want to keep mitt romney stranded out in the middle of

the ocean and sink him on his own. they don't want paul ryan to be able to throw him a line. they didn't want his wife last night to be able to throw him a line. let's face it, mitt romney is not the true -- he's not a gifted natural politician. republicans say he's a good manager but he's not gifted at the political arts. paul ryan is. we saw last night his wife definitely is, and what the democrats want to do is keep them apart from these surrogates and don't let them in there to help him in a tag-team fight. what we saw with the former first lady of massachusetts, the obama campaign went out and said that was a terrible night, awful, awful, awful, angry. megyn: angry. >> said robert gibbs. megyn: one wonders when looking at ann romney how you could walk away with anger. maybe he was focused on the other speakers. >> there is only so much trut untruth you can tell.

i think they have set a low bar for romney and ryan to have to meet to humanize themselves because the economy is out of obama's hands, that is going to hurt him, and the factor of not being that likable is in the hands of the republicans. i think romney and ryan have the upper hand i in and and the election is really theirs to lose. megyn: was it oak ridge boys, really. >> it sure was. megyn: you really are a hillbilly. >> i love it. >> me too. you can expect high profile speeches tonight including remarks from the last g.o.p. presidential candidate john mccain. george w. bush. a speech by condoleezzaa rice, we saw her moments ago. and vice-presidental nominee paul ryan will wrap-up the night. please join bret baier, myself and the entire fox news political team for complete coverage and analysis of the rnc tonight.

we've got a fox news weather alert now. flooding is becoming the biggest concern as forecasters predict heavy rain from isaac could last well into tonight. this is the scene last night when isaac first made landfall as elizabeth prann reported live from new orleans. she had to grab onto a pole to stay in place. there were heavy winds battering the city. jonathan serrie was also live from new orleans. all night he wore protective safety goggles to protect his eyes from the debris in the whipping wind. easy for me to laugh sitting here in the studio. new orleans was not the only area hit. the water is also rising this afternoon in mississippi, and how. this is the scene in gulfport. the director of the u.s. national hurricane center reminding people that isaac will continue to hit this area throughout the day, the thing won't move, it's just at thi sitting there. there is news from new orleans

from water from lake pons train could overflow. rick leventhal is standing by right now live from us. >> we've been getting rained on for about 24 hours now. the good news is the wind has died down significantly, probably ten to 15-mile an hour sauce stained winds. a gust within the last hour of 25 miles an hour. last night we were getting tropical storm force winds throughout the night, 50, 60 miles an hour. the building we were in was rocking. the biggest thing is the storm surge. i'm standing on a concrete dock. the bay is right next to me. the waves are up and over the dock, right caps coming in off dauphin island bay, mobile souped. it's pretty fierce out there. the storm surge maybe not what they had feared is still two to three feet by our estimation here on this part of the

island. so they are underwater. many of the roads on the island are also underwater especially on the west end that is closed. anyone who wants to get in there can't. more importantly the bridge and causeway to dauphin island is also closed. if you're trying to get on the island you won't be allowed. if you're trying to get off you can't leave because the road itself is flooded in spots. we are told that they may reopen that bridge at low tide, which would be around 8:30 local time. so there are issues with the bridge and there are certainly issues on the island. some homes have water on their yards. some docks have been damaged and other minor damages. really it's all about the storm surge, megyn they are keeping an eye on it here. megyn: rick leventhal. thank you of. a small town squabble getting national attention today. parents say school administrators told their deaf three-year-old child that he has to change the way he signs his name because it resembles the shape of a gun. really? plus when governor chris christie last night talked

leadership it was a not so subtle swipe at president obama and we will have a fair & balanced debate on whether it was a valid one, next. in 2008 he had the honor of seconding the nomination of barack obama as the democrat's candidate for senate. he was the man. fast forward now to 2012 and he is at the republican national convention hoping to recruit voters to the romney side. we'll ask him what happened. and back here live in tampa an inside look at the very spot where the vip sit and take in the convention happenings. this is the vip box, this is the place from where the families of the speakers will actually take in their remarks. it was governor romney and ann romney who sat here last night watching governor chris christie give his keynote address. there are only 18 seats, perhaps one for each of the romney grandchildren, maybe they'll sit and watch their grandpa formally accept the nomination for republican party candidate

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>> our leaders today have decided it's more important to be popular, to be popular to say and do what is easy, and say, yes, rather than to say no, when no is what is required. we need politicians to care more about doing something and less about being something. [cheers and applause] >> leadership delivers, leadership counts, leadership matters. you see, mr. president, real leaders don't follow polls, real leaders change polls. [cheers and applause] megyn: that was new jersey tough talking governor chris christie making a not so subtle jab at the president in his keynote

address to the rnc last night. his simple message was, leadership maltses and real leaders need to focus lesson their political image and more on making the hardy situations required to fix this country. christopher hahn is a former aid to senator chuck schumer and a fox news contributor. and chris plant is the host of the chris plant show. some on the right say he should have gone after president obama more aggressively. he chose not to go that direct route but talk about more what we need in a leader, and obviously in his view he doesn't believe we have it, chris plant. >> you know, it's a little bit of a no win for chris christie yesterday because, you know, he has a reputation for really going after you, hammer and tong and being extremely blunt force in his delivery of a blunt message. if he had done whole hog as it

were i think he would have been attacked and undermined for going after the president for being too harsh. i certainly heard from listeners today saying that they were hoping that they would have provided a little more red meat, that what he delivered was a little too medium rare and they were hoping for more blunt force. personally i thought it was a good speech. i thought it brought the case to the american people that we need to change course, that he reminded us what america is actually about, how we are supposed to be working together. he delivered a message of unity. there were all americans here instead of the message of division and polarization that the cit president delivers. megyn: the national review called him today in that speech a statesman. does chris christie get enough credit for what he actually has done in new jersey, which is lead, and help that state solve some serious problems? he seemed to sort of embrace that piece of his persona and

try to stand as ambassador on that front for the republican party trying to recruit independents to it. >> well, look i think he did a fine job last night. whether or not it was a help to mitt romney or not we could debate. whether or not it showcased his new jersey experience and whether that is a positive or negative for new jersey we could debate, but it was a very good national level speech. a lot of the rare meat that chris christie serves up is off the cuff at press conferences where he takes on people who are challenging him. that is something i think everybody kind of likes about him. what he did last night was he laid out why he should be president in 2016 a lot more than he laid out why mitt romney should be president here. he thought so much of mitt romney's leadership he didn't even mention it until 16 minutes into the speech. i thought that was kind of peculiar. megyn: did that remind you at all of barack obama back in 2004? >> it did, it absolutely did. it wasn't as up lifting as it but i think for a republican audience it was very much, this is who i am, this is who i should be and this is who our candidate should be and i think

he launched himself for 2016 more than he did anything for mitt romney. when you contrast that to ann romney's speech was a little odd i guess the schedule with the hurricane made it odd to have them both there on that night. that is the speech that is supposed to be the red meat, rev them up, let's go get those other guys speech and that's what he did. i don't think he really went after the president that hard. megyn: chris plant, i asked about this last night. was chris christie there to convince us that mitt romney should be the next president or was he there to convince voters in the middle to put on a republican team jersey for this election? >> i think mostly the latter, megyn. i think if that was his mission he did a good job. i thought the speech was inspiring, even if it wasn't tough enough. i thought it was an all american spao*efpl. american speech. he did go after the president's failure to lead the country in a cohesive way in a unifying way. that speech that president obama

delivered in 2004 is now a joke. i mean if you look at that now and look at his presidency, and gallop polling has found him to be the most polarizing president ever. i think the message that chris christie was delivering and the republicans are delivering is a message of bringing us back together and recognizing again which we seem to have forgotten about three and a half years ago that we are all in here americans, we are all americans. as barack obama said we are not black americans, and hispanic americans we are americans, that was the tone of his speech. >> you try to divide teachers from teachers unions, last time i checked teachers unions are filled with teachers. >> teachers are usually democrats. >> last time i checked the american people weren't crazy about healthcare when this president pushed it through. and that was something going against the polls and it's going to be good for america and good for our bottom line in this country. i think the president has led on many occasions where it wasn't so popular to do so. the last time i checked our actions in libya, which were successful in taking down a horrible man were not the most popular things in the world here the way we did it.

so let's be honest, this president has bucked the policies many times and he has led value oo value. megyn: back in mayo bama led romney 53 to 36%. in august a week ago the lead has shrunk to 5 percentage points. governor romney is gaining on the president on the subject of leadership although the president continues to out poll him with the american people. give you a quick last word, chris plant. >> mitt romney is needed. we need to change the channel. the president has failed to lead. using libya and healthcare, please. a campaign that should take days and weeks took eight months. who is in charge, radical extremists. megyn: don't go on this broadcast and talk about changing the channel. don't ever do that again. all right, guys i've got to run. thank you both. >> thank you, megyn. >> thanks, megyn. >> coming up we are getting

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new questions swirling over one person slated to speak here at the rnc on thursday night. but who will it be? it is not vice-presidental nominee paul ryan, of course he's going tonight, or florida send marco rubio or governor mitt romney. we know when all those folks are speaking. it is a mystery speaker given a very high profile spot in the

schedule. trace gallagher who could it be? >> i love the hands, megyn, right, the hands is the key to the whole story. you know -- megyn: mystery. >> this is a prime-time slot, right? it happens right before mitt romney accepts the nomination, and the political experts say it really needs to be kind of a show stopper but it can't be so much of a show stopper that it over shadows mitt romney's speech. there's been a lot of speculation, it runs the gamut that it could be a former president george h.w. bush, george w. bush or even former first lady laura bush. this is the first convention not to have a former president in attendance since jimmy carter failed to show up back in 1996. carter says at the time he just got the invitation late. well of course sarah palin's name is always on the list. she's been mentioned a bunch but some said that might stir things up just a bit too much. so here rile is kind of a

compilation of the buzz feed of the top five. beginning number one with joe lieberman. what about colin powell? any chance there? nancy reagan has been mentioned a lot, though she is not in great health and has kind of trouble moving around. the guy in the bottom left, clint eastwood has got even a lot of play. remember that super bowl ad that sounded like he was for the auto bailout supporting president obama. he came out and said not true and then endorsed mitt romney. there has been speculation that he is on a plane headed to tampa though his spokesperson has knocked that down. and finally tim me tebow. the problem is the jets play tomorrow night, that would be kind of tough for tim tebow to sneak down to tampa and speak. finally, what about this guy? maybe a hologram of ronald reagan. they can do it now with technology, and the word is maybe they just put p ronald reagan up on the screen using media magic to have ronald

reagan endorse mitt romney. megyn: is that actually a theory that is out there or is that you? >> yes, it's not me, it's a theory. megyn: put that screen back up with all the possibilities. let's take a look at this and go through how wrong you are. there is no way it's going to be lieberman. it's not going to be powell. those two are not going to fire up the republican party faithful. nancy reagan would, but really is she going to make the trek i don't know. clint eastwood you may be onto something. tim tebow if he's got to play not likely. who would they be holding out there? maybe george w. bush, maybe clint eastwood i put my money on one of those two. >> some say donald trump. i say clint eastwood is the natural on this thing. megyn: i like that bet. >> the money is on eastwood. megyn: we are taking your thoughts on it right now on twitter. let me know your thoughts at megyn kelly. it's not going to be colin powell, right? new revelations from a tell all

book on the death of the world's most wanted terrorist, now suggesting that the government's version of what went down during the raid on osama bin laden's compound may not have been the whole story. wait until you hear the twist. plus, ann romney hoped to win over at least one group of voters last night with comments directed straight at the women in the crowd and at home. we'll debate whether she got the job done and what it means in the fight for the female vote. >> you are the best of america. you -- [cheers and applause] you are the hope of america. there would not be an america without you. tonight we salute you and sing your praises. [cheers and applause]

megyn: we have a fox news weather alert for you now. authorities in jefferson parish, louisiana, just announcing a dusk to dawn curfew during this storm. we are awaiting the next update on isaac from the national hurricane center which we expect to receive before the top of the hour. the storm is far from over. it is moving now very slowly inland and dumping flooding rain along the way. this is the first big test for new orleans rebuilt levee system which the army corps of engineers says is holding up so

far. >> it's the moms who have always had to work a little harder to make everything right. it's the moms of this nation, single, married, widowed who really hold this country together. we are the mothers. we are the wives. we are the grandmothers, we are the big sisters, we are the little sisters, and we are the daughters. you know it's true, don't you. [cheers and applause] i love you women! megyn: mitt romney's wife ann at the republican national convention last night. she specifically reached out to female voters, telling them her husband will not let us down. did she make the case for putting governor romney in the white house with that critical voting block of women? joining me now monica crowley a radio talk show host and fox news contributor. and sam bennett who is president and ceo of the women's campaign fund and the she should run

foundation. ladies, welcome so much. sam, let me start with you. you are a democrat, and you like to get democrats elected but you like more than anything to have women get elected. so you're a good person to ask for what i hope will be an objective opinion on how she did. >> well, our organization, as you know, megyn focuses on getting both democrat and republican women to run for office and i think ann romney knocked it out of the park in terms of her actual performance. she electrified the crowd here. i don't know how she did it 20,000 people, teleprompter, her first scripted speech. she did a beautiful job but it remains to be seen if it had the desired affect with voters and i have some thoughts on that too if you want them. megyn: yeah, i want to talk about that too, because she was charming, she was at ease, she was very warm, but there is a question about whether she managed to sort of get it done with women voters. monica some of the criticisms we heard of ann romney were that in appealing to women to get them over to your side, you know, you don't need to sort of be that

explicit about, i love you women, and women are the best, and moms are the best, and women are so great. you sort of don't tell them, show them, in other words. >> you know, it is pretty heavy lifting for any republican presidential candidate to try to appeal especially to single women who do vote by and large for the democrats, and traditionally always have. i wouldn't put too much stock in any one person's speech because the project is just -- is so much bigger than just ann romney's speech. i think part of her job was to reach out to women, to humanize mitt to soften the epbls there anedges there and talk about universal issues that are not just strictly relatable to women but relatable to every voter. what she did yesterday was project warmth, she was engaging, she was a huge hit in the hall and beyond and you know what one of the most important things for her to do last night, and this. megyn i think she actually did do was get women, but other

undecided voters as well to take a second look at her husband and this ticket. she didn't really need really to on vince undecided women to vote for mitt romney last night, what she did need to do is convince them to look at him again and maybe seriously consider this seubgt. an ticket, and to that exstent i think she made great progress. >> i don't think mitt has so much a woman party personally, i think he he has a party problem. when you have loose cannons cannons like todd akin talking about rape, and one in six women have been raped, including myself. that makes it hard for a presidential nominee to breakthrough with undecideds. there is a republican somewhere putting legislation that is negative towards women, you have loose cannons like akin. i don't think mitt romney has a woman problem he has a party problem when it comes to

undecided women voters. >> this election is not going to be -- when we go into the democrat convention next week and megyn will be here covering this. this will be sandra fluck, it will be trying to rally women with the i shall issues that sam just pointed out. the reality is this election is not about these things. real issues are about the lack of jobs in this country, high unemployment, the lack of economic growth. home foreclosures, those are the real issues. megyn: let me jump in. women care about more than reproductive rights. ther >> there are many things that women care b. its not necessarily the deciding issue. there can be a presumption that all women feel as democratic women feel on the issues of abortion and the issues of paid for contraceptives and that could be a mistake, sam for the democratic party. you see the poll numbers go up in ohio and the conventional wisdom by some has been it's because some of those catholic

voters in ohio actually don't want to see abortion on demand and actually may be more aligned with the republican party on that issue. >> well, now, in truth, 98% of american women report that they have used some form of birth control during the course of their lives, right? megyn: no one is against birth control, it's just a question of who is going to pay for it. >> fair enough, fair enough. but i think let's talk just for a moment about the undecided women voters. all i'm saying is this. that in a time where mitt has just got to be scoring points, scoring points, whether it's from ann or other sources like laura bush, it seems like his party is always throwing him a boomerang or a left curve that he's got to deal with, and if the republican party would sit down and let him do his job and stop throwing fuel in the fire i think mitt would have a much easier job of this. >> the comments fed into the democrat's bogus war on women he did make a huge mistake. republicans from the establishment to the

conservative sidelined the guy. no one is talking about birth control, no one is talking about these issues, everybody is talk being about the economy. megyn: you'll hear a lot about it from the look of it next week. it is a pleasure to see you both. thank you both for being here. >> thanks. >> take care. megyn: in 2008 congressman arartur davis was the man who seconded the nomination of barack obama as the democratic candidate for president. four years later he's here at the republican national convention sharing stories of disappointment in the man he helped elect. we'll talk to him about his change of heart right after this break. and has flooding becomes a major concern with hurricane isaac hovering overhead we'll show you what some homeowners are already dealing with with another 24 hours of rain a very real possibility. stay with us. >> we are the backyard of the waylan family who has been nice enough to invite us in. cameraman rich is on the roof. we are trying to give you perspective on what the storm is doing, not the high winds but the flood surge.

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closer to becoming what we know america can be, ladies and gentlemen, a place where who you are now, a place where where you come from, a place where all of the things that may hold you back pose no permanent barriers. megyn: that was former democratic congressman artur davis back in 2008 singing the praises of then presidential nominee barack obama as one of the prime-time speakers at the democratic national convention. fast forward now four years and we find mr. davis in another convention speaking role, this time with the g.o.p. davis, who has since joined the republican party now among the former obama supporters who say they became disinch chanted with

the president over the past three and a half years. listen to him last night. >> maybe we should have known that night in denver that things that begin with styrofoam, greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. [laughter] >> maybe the hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little. you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo. [laughter] >> but in all seriousness, do you know why so many of us believed? we led with our hearts and our dreams that we could be more inclusive than america had ever been, and no candidate had ever spoken so beautifully. but dreams meet day break, the jobless know what i mean, so do the families who wonder how this administration could wreck a

recovery for three years and counting. so many of those high flown words have faded. remember, my friends, the president saying of negative politics and untrue ads, not this time? who knew not this time just meant not unless the economy is stuck and we can't run on our record? [cheers and applause] >> remember when the president said of his own election, this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to hill, who knew the plain version of it was, get rid, middle america to shell out 60 bucks to fill up your car. and in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement, who knew that when asked, could government conceivably impose a federal mandate requiring middle

class americans to buy health insurance whether they could afford it or not, that the obama answer would be, yes, we can. so this time in the name of 23 million of our children and parents and brothers and sisters who are officially unemployed, under employed or who have stopped looking for work, let's put the poetry aside, let's suspend the hype. let's come down to earth and start creating jobs again. megyn: here to discuss his change of heart that ma'am former alabama congressman artur davis. welcome to the program. >> thanks nor having me. good to see you. megyn: you certainly had a change of heart. was there one thing that did it? >> you know i tell people that there was no point on the road to tkaplz. damascus. there was no epiphany moment.

it became clear to me that the democratic party is no longer the big tent party that the mainstream media wants to you think it is. it is now a left dominated party that is intolerant of centrist viewpoints and it believes in one dominant enterprise, that government ought to be the dominant thing in american civil society. megyn: have you heard at all from the president on your switch? >> i know not. let's put this in perspective. last time i talked tooth president was when he was trying to round up votes on healthcare. you and i have had in the last minute probably about a two-minute conversation, that is about the normal conversation i would have had with the president even when i would have had occasion to talk to him several years ago and there weren't that many of those. i never new the president that well. megyn: there's been serious push back on you. it's been enormous the push back on you. reading up on your row marks and the response, 14 members of the congressional black caucus sent you and open letter expressing their distain for your recent

comments about important issues and your total distortion, in their word, of president obama's record, accusing you of a complete flip-flop on certain core principles. why would they do that? why do they care if you've had all those flip-flops and shifts? megyn >> i think you've got three sets of reason. some of the people that signed the letter are trying to get their names in the paper, that is a big deal for a few of them. some of them had a personal action to grind. some of them are sincerely motivated. there are some in the african-american community that feel such an intense loyalty to the president, it's completely understanding that they are intolerant of people who think differently or may regard the president's record nor negatively. a special kind of venom and fu fury of afternoon americans. condoleezzaa rice will speak tonight.

she will take that stage tonight. she is the most successful african-american in american history. megyn: more than oprah? >> absolutely. she is going to take the stage tonight to make the case that mitt romney is a better steward of american interests around the world. she is an african-american. megyn: you think that poses a particular program with this group of congressional black caucus members? they seem very agitated. you responded to them. their point was, this is a quote, that your objections, your statements, and i quote, stem from transparent opportune is eupl, failing to win the alabama democratic primary for governor in 2010. they say the democratic party rejected you and that's why you are doing now. >> my grandmother said never lower yourself to the level of other people. if people resort to names or resort to name calling that means they are not articulate enough to make a broader point.

some of these folks are just mad at me personally. i te accept that. some of these folks are so enthusiastic about the president that they can't see that someone might be in a different place. megyn: i want to talk to you about why you believe in mitt romney. we will do that right after this break. standby. [ kate ] most women may not be properly absorbing the calcium they take because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption.

congressman artur davis joins me now. he was a democrat, now he's a republican. congressman in the wake of you you turning republican you've got even a lot of blow back including from moealeep. he said, it was a few months ago you called me, to talk about running as a democrat in virgina. he says you really are a secret democrat, and you were just

playing the role of republican to get speaking gigs, i don't know what the theory is. >> sounds like he's trying to get his name in the paper. moe aleffe was a democrat. i called him in 2011, august or september and asked him what he thought about virginia politics as i called a number of other people including republican friends of mine like tom davis. i give him credit for candor. he told mow that the virginia democratic party was not a party that would be remotely sympathetic to my political views or beliefs. and he told me i would be way too conservative as a virginia democrat. i think that was a candid assessment. it was an evolving sense i had that the democratic party is essentially a liberal enterprise. i've always been a conservative democrat and was attacked for that the whole time i was in congress so this is nothing new. megyn: a quick answer on this. is there something about mitt romney that has made you come here today, or is it just simply you've got a republican team

jersey on now? >> i think mitt romney is going to be a very good president of this country. he is someone who has a proven history of succeeding in everything he's done and he happens to be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since dwight eisenhower who had run the allied war effort. that notion of a person who has a history of running things might be well poised to run a country. it's an exotic notion to those on the left but a lot of people understand it. megyn: there is a long history of people switching parties, it was zel hr-rbs millerl miller. and charlie crist. thank you for being here. >> a new book about a osama bin laden mission, see how his version of events does not match up with what the administration told america. paul ryan preparing to give the biggest speech of his political life tonight. next hour i'll ask peggy noonan,

she is the woman behind some of the most memorable speeches in our time like this. >> some say it's soft and insufficiently tough to care about these things. but where is it written that we must act if we do not care, as if we're not moved? well i am moved. i want a kinder and -- okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle --

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later this hour paul ryan's brother will join us with fascinating insights on the congressman that people don't know very well. and we'll talk about john sununu. but first we want to bring you this. a fox news weather alert on hurricane isaac. brand-new hour of "america live," welcome, everybody. i'm megyn kelly. isaac is on a slow and drenching crawl inland from the gulf of mexico * and the storm turning into a major soaker. >> i sake belting new orleans are heavy rains and high winds exactly 7 years to the day after hurricane a trina stormed ashore. the army corps of engineers says the reinforced levee system is holding on for now.

over in mississippi where some highway shutdown with water reaching 4 feet deep in low-lying areas there is also major worry and things there could only get worse. janice dean live at the fox weather center with more. >> reporter: it's still a hurricane. even though this storm is onshore it should be weakening, it is still a hurricane at this hour and it's expected to crawl across the state of louisiana for the next 24 hours. so there is the 3d satellite the last three hours and the storm is inching northwestward. that's our big concern. all of that rain and wind and surge continues to pounds the coast and we have a threat on top of that of tornadoes. so a tornado watch until 4:00 p.m. local. they will probably extend this as we have a heavy band moving across mississippi man that band we are seeing tornado warnings east of hattiesburg and north of

biloxi. tornado warnings for these areas, take shelter immediately and keep your noaa weather radios on with those batteries in. you can see the track crawling across the state of louisiana until thursday night. then eventually moving up towards the midweststnd the plains where they need the moisture. so eventually we'll get to a good news story that will help the drought. your impact the next several hours. hurricane-force winds continue. the long duration is what we are concerned with and that storm surge will continue for parts of mississippi and louisiana. flash flooding will be a concern and eventually we'll talk about this helping the drought over drought-stricken areas. megyn: our cheech fox news coverage of hurricane isaac continues with steve harrigan live in ocean springs, mississippi. steve? >> reporter: this is a fairly

typical scene for war we have been seeing throughout the day, close to the coast of mississippi. that is a regular street. i'm standing here on washington avenue, a double yellow lane road which is about 4 feet under water where i'm standing. behind me is biloxi bay. it's hard to tell the difference between land and water because those waves are coming over a coastal road and coming down this road. the road i'm standing on has waves coming and occasionally white caps. it's raining hard now. it's been raining all morning. the park to my left is completely wiped out. this yard is beginning to get wiped out. these folks have built up their homes since katrina. rescuers can't get to people. we have seen the national guard pretty much stop at the edge of the water in their humvees and turn around. rescue operations are underway

in hancock county where three families are in the process of being rescued. 24,000 people in mississippi don't have electricity. and a lot of them cut off by wind, rain and rising tides like the one we are seeing here today. megyn: those pictures are unbelievable. stay safe, steve. wow! we are hearing some feisty new remarks from the president's campaign team about the republican national convention here in tampa. the president claims he isn't watching it, but a senior adviser to the campaign robert gibbs who was here at last night's tampa event is calling this convention angry and strange. here he is during an interview earlier today. >> i was really -- i'm kind of flabbergasted at whole night. it seemed first and foremost

like this was a very angry convention tonight, full of insults. this is not a plan for mitt romney's or mitt romney's plan to build the middle class. megyn: john sununu, a romney adviser and new hampshire's former governor. angry in very, very strange? >> very accurate description of the obama campaign. if you go back a year to the article in politico written by ben smith it was called their strategy is kill romney. i don't know why they did. but the obama campaign talked to mr. smith and told him exactly what they were going to be doing. and if you read between the lines there what mr. gibbs is saying is exactly what they planned a year ago. megyn: he's all over the airways with this message. what he's hearing here is insulting, they are angry.

this appears to be a narrative they want to get out there. >> they wrote this six weeks ago. last night we heard from mayor love of utah. we heard from governor haley of south carolina. we heard from governor sandoval of nevada. congressman artur davis. we heard from ted cruz, the republican candidate from texas. all these folks we are talking about the power of the american dream. what is angry about talking about why people's parents -- each one of them talked about why they or their parent came to america because of the american dream and the opportunity it provided. that's not angry, that's not strange. that the american dream. megyn: you are seeing senator john mccain. he's doing his walk through getting a feel for how it will be when he gives his remarks. a different scenario this time

around than four years ago. probably a lot less pressure, too. have you talked to the romney camp about chris christie's remarks since he gave hem? >> i haven't talked officially to the romney camp but everyone thought ann romney and chris christie gave a great set of remarks. megyn: some on the right are saying should have given more red meat to the party, and some on the left are saying it was all about him, him, him, him, him. >> chris christie was here if you will as the opening act. what he was defining is what the public wants, what he has found with his experience, is that the public wants straight talking politicians like mitt romney and paul ryan to come in and tell them what's wrong and create a partnership between the politician who has been elected to serve the voters and the voters. chris tries i used his example as the kind of partnership that

mitt romney and paul ryan will create to explain to the voters what has to be done then make the hard decisions that this country needs to cut spending and get back on track. megyn: do you think the romneys have managed to start to break through this veneer that people say he has? there is no question he's not this natural politician in the way bill clinton is or barack obama was. do you think they are doing a good job of letting the american people know him as mitt romney the man? >> i think they started. all along they have gone through this. if you want to look at any kind of a restart, there is a reason for it. most presidential campaigns really get into thanks the last two months. a basketball games the last two minutes. it starts around labor day when the kids go back to school and people start paying attention and know they have an obligation to make a decision in november.

ann started that yesterday, you will see more of it from mitt. as we go through this people will get a much more comfortable feeling. but this is a man whose principle asset is fixing america. that what's we need, somebody with his talent. megyn: can he win your state? >> he's going to win new hampshire by 2-3 points. megyn: you heard it here. we are getting new numbers on how damaging isaac has been for energy production in the gulf coast. a navy seal from the bin laden mission wrote a tell-all book. we are getting new details that do not match up with the administration's version of that event. all eyes on one of the most anticipated speeches of this convention. vvice presidential nominee paul

ryan will take to the stage. our next guest is a former speech writer. she'll tell us what congressman ryan needs to say to win the critical voting bloc of independent. >> america is an idea. it's the only country found on an idea. our rights come from nature and god, not from government. [applause] [ male announcer ] this is anna, her long day teaching the perfect swing begins with back pain and a choice. take advil, and maybe have to take up to four in a day. or take aleve, which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. good eye.

megyn: he can real weather alert on hurricane isaac. the mayor of norms proclaimed dawn to dusk curfews as hurricane isaac lashes the city. the storm has already caused billions of dollars in damages from $1 billion in damage for offshore energy companies for one-half billion for insures losses onshore.

last year's hurricane irene caused $4.3 billion in losses. it continues to unleash damage on the gulf coast, however. >> this is america, the knights of columbus, the disabled american veterans, the business and professional women of america. the union hall, the bible study group. a brilliant diversity spread like stars like a thousand points of light in a broad and tasteful sky. some would say it's soft and insufficiently tough to care about these things. but where is it written that we must act if we do not care, as if we are not moved? well, i am moved. i want a kinder, and gentler nation. megyn: how about that.

one of the more memorable lines from any convention as george h.w. bush introduced his vision for a gentler and kinder form of conservativism. tonight the world will be watching congressman paul ryan as he makes his debut on the rnc's big stage. what does he need to say? peggy noonan is known for her work on president bush's speeches and or or tories. what a beautiful wordsmith you are. i know it's a collaborative effort. but it's good to hear some of the words. this is a big night for paul ryan. they are estimating 40 million americans could watch this. >> it's big for him. he has spoken at a convention

before but never in this position. all eyes will be on him tonight. megyn: if you were advising him what would you tell him about how to speak to the american people? >> i think the first night of the convention is ann romney on mitt romney as a man, the person i know. chris christie was in a way the meaning of modern conservativism. i think part of what paul ryan wants to do is bring this back to something called the romney-ryan ticket. two guys that stand for specific things, specific things they want to do. and it would be very good without stepping on mr. romney's speech thursday. if he got across a sense of who they are as a political entity and what they need to do and also because he is a young man, new on the fully national stage, he's a vet with the washington political establishment, but he's new to the american people.

introduce himself just a little bit. don't go too far, but say this is who i am. this is where i'm from. megyn: do you expect him to be a fire brand? that's what we saw from sarah palin four years ago. >> i think his style is somewhat more cerebral. he's known as such a serious policy person. one thing you should never do when you are doing a speech and introducing yourself to people is try to be different from who you are. all great speeches come from actually who you are. and he will know that. he's been in congress for 14 years. and so i expect i would anticipate a certain height in this speech while also's a nice guy and he's funny. i'm sure he will have some fun with this crowd. megyn: we were talking at the top of the show about a new

barack obama campaign ad that came out attacking paul ryan and they claim he is harshly anti-female. and charles' point was when they set the bar like that, he could come out, and as long as he doesn't have horns he will have a successful evening. is there something to that? >> well, i haven't seen the ad. but if they portray him as this devilish sort of i don't like you person, and then he comes out with his open and general -n self that will be a contrast to the ad. megyn: does he need to hit the ball out of the park or dose need to hit a single? >> moment in life like this don't come along that often.

you are address a convention as a nominee for the president or vice president. why don't you aim for the fences. megyn: he's writing it himself but he's working with a couple speech writers, including some who worked on sarah palin's speech four years ago. how do you tackle that thanks, working for a home run. >> he is working with wonderful writers. they have been traveling with him and talking to him which is what i did with george h.w. bush in 1988. you get to know them. you ask them questions, you get them reflecting about something that happened to them years before and it becomes something neither of you expected but it becomes a major part of the speech. so they have been talking to him. they have been passing drafts back and forth. one thing i sense about ryan is he's a very professional person.

takes -- in one way it takes two thing to make a good speech. you need a creative speech. somebody helping to create it. but you also need the person who is going to give that speech to understand what he has been given, to know what good work is. to know what bad work is. ryan strikes me as a pro. 14 years in politics at a high level. he knows what political communication is. he would know what good work is. megyn: he gave an interview to bret baier where the last answer was about losing his father at age 16 and how he has chosen to live his life since then. it will probably be one of the more memorable moments based on way saw this week. we are getting early details from a new book about the death of usama bin laden written by one of the navy seals who was there when it was written. how his story contradicts what the administration has told

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megyn: new questions about the death of usama bin laden. a new book written by a member of the seal team that killed the most wanted terrorist in the world contradicting the official version of usama bin laden's death. >> reporter: the official account was bin laden was shot and killed as was going back inside his bedroom possibly reaching for another weapon. but the navy seal who wrote under the pseudonym mark owen

said that's not how it happened he says ubl was killed as he reached his head out of his bedroom door. he says he was directly behind the point man going up the stairs when less than five steps from the top of the stairs he heard suppressed gunfire. bop, bop. the point man had seen a man peeking out the door. he goes on to say bin laden ducked back into his bedroom and the seals found him crumpled in a pool of blood with two women wailing over his body. but the administration says this was not an assassination mission and if he was maked with his hands up they should not engage him. they said his body was treated with dignity before being given a burial at sea.

he writes one of his fellow seals had to sit on bin laden's body in the helicopter. sometimes soldiers have to sit on the war dead because there is so little space. he says the navy seals were not big fans of president obama because they believed he would take credit for ordering the raid though they also say they respected him for ordering the raid on the bin laden compound in the first place. the book was supposed to come out september 11 but now it's been moved up to september 4 because of the huge demand, everybody want to go read this thing. megyn: trace, thank you. coming up this week we heard a growing number of accusations that the romney-ryan campaign may be sending coded racial messages to win over voters. former presidential candidate herman cain joins with us his take on that. also ahead.

just ahead of congressman paul ryan's speech at the republican national convention, we'll speak with a man who knows him very well. paul ryan's brother is here. you can see former secretary of state condoleeza rice. she is a major speaker. after that of course it's all about paul ryan. he's got the help of two well-known former presidential speech writers. but he has been working on the remarks himself. he wants to give a great speech. let me show you with the candidates will see. here is the teleprompter from which they will read their remarks. you can see up above that all around the arena, the home base of various news organization, including up at top, that's up, america's election headquarters. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years?

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megyn: extreme weather alert as rescue operations get underway with hurricane isaac slowly crawling act state of louisiana. some people and even their pets are being pulled from the floodwaters. look at these poor folks. there will not be much relief the next 24 hours. new orleans is getting drenched as high winds, heavy rains pummel the big easy.

while the levee system seems to be holding for now. there is word floodwaters jumped another levee outside the city. more on that as we get it. >> when you have a party that says coded things that makes totally false ads up about -- falsely saying the president is trying to undo welfare reform, i think you are going to see a lot of presently heavily and not so subtly coded messages from the romney campaign. that is maryland governorrer in mark o'molly warning people to watch for code attacks from the republican convention. herman cain, former gop candidate for president and the foundinger of godfather's pizza. welcome back to the program.

a pleasure see you. this sounds like the debates. let's get back to the 999 plan. is that a coded message? >> yes. i'm so sick of this racial coded baloney. they not only are taking black people for granted by taking the black vote for granted. but they are keeping black conservative faces away from the general public of what some of the liberals outlets do. now to tell people to look for racially coded messages is baloney. the reason is because they have three tactics. s-i-n. they shift the subject over to all of these distraction. they ignore the fact. they ignore the fact that $716 billion is a cut and they are ignoring the fact.

megyn: medicare by obama. >> and they ignore the fact that in fact the whole thing relative to obama wanting to ease the work requirements in welfare is true. it's true. but then they come back and try to use different language to basically lie. megyn: this is the ad they are talking about. governor romney suggests that president obama has stripped the work requirements out of welfare and this is something that has been rated this claim pants on fire and gotten some pinocchios from the post of the others say this does have a legitimate foundation. so there is a debate about that. but the question is whether the argument is going to a racial place. whether there is a coded racial message in that. >> i say absolutely not.

there are not on black people on welfare. there are some white people on welfare. there are hispanics on welfare. they are so desperate that they want people to begin looking for something that's not there in the romney ads and the romney campaign. megyn: they are going after governor romney for making this joke at a campaign stop. you watch for yourself. >> i love being home in this place where ann and i were raised. where both of us were born. and was born at henry ford hospital, i was born at harper hospital. no one has ever asked to see my birth certificate. they know this is the place we were born and raised. megyn: he makes the joke. now they come out and say that is the basist bigotry.

and messina tried to fundraise off it saying imagine what this says about mitt romney. >> when i was campaigning i made the statement i'm glad to be home and i have my birth certificate and i don't have to show it to you. it was a joke and now because they are desperate they want to use any possibility to shift the subject as i said to make this racial because they are so desperate that if they can't play the race card, they want to play the class warfare card and it's so bad they are looking for coded racial baloney. megyn: the other item they pointed to was when governor romney came out after joe biden came out and told a group of voters, largely african-americans that the republican party wanted to put y'all back in chains. governor romney finally said take your politics of hate back to chicago. he said take your campaign of

hate and division back to chicago and let's get back to rebuilding and uniting america. now some say that's a coded racial message. the black man is full of hate and anger. >> that whole party is full of hate and anger. they are so desperate. they are talking about coded racial comment. vice president biden said they want to put y'all back in chains. that's not coded. that is direct. in other words the liberals and democrats want the narrative both ways. they want to be vicious and cross the line, but as soon as romney or any of the conservatives have anything that remotely challenges their position, then they are ready to say it is the republicans and not them. they want it both ways. megyn: it's so great to see you. how you doing? is this exciting or is it hard

because you wanted to be the guy on the stage? >> this is exciting for the following reasons. one of the reasons i'm here is i want to try and help communicate the enthusiasm that's here at the convention back to the people that weren't able to make to it tampa. i'm having a ball. megyn: we are looking forward to seeing you. herman cain, always a pleasure, sir. as we break count events at the republican national convention there are new questions about what the president's campaign team needs to fear most about the rnc. what would they be worrying about? two democratic pollsters weigh in on that after the break.

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megyn: a live look in tampa, florida as we look at the folks preparing the rnc get the arena in shape for the second big night of the convention. there are questions about what the democratic party may be taking away from this. robert gibbs was on the floor of the convention last night and they are watching this closely, perhaps shedding light on new tactics the republicans can use from now to november. what else is the president's team likely watching and fearing from what they are seeing. joining me now pat caddell, a fox news contributor and former pollster. and doug schoen. thank you both for being here. pat, given wausau last night. we saw robert gibbs come out and he said he thought people were angry and it was very, very strange. do you think he genuinely believes that or is that just messaging. and what do you think the real

feeling is at the white house? >> i'm sure he prepared that line about two weeks ago, to say no matter what happened. if they are having a love-in here. what the democrats have to fear i believe is what governor christie did last night and artur davis to a lesser extent speaking to former obama voters. pardon my drum. what happened there was that he spoke -- doug and i have been arguing the need to get the big crowds to appeal to swing voters and independents. christy did that last night. he talked about truth. he elevated the republican party as something more than simply the party of no. he called on people for real leadership. i have the speech and i have line after line, i couldn't have written it better in terms of the arguments that doug and i have been making about the stakes in this election. talking about truth, talking about leadership, talking about responsibility. and i thought it was an

incredible speech. megyn: what did you think, doug? >> i'm going to tell you, i agree with pat. the president said i think it was yesterday, that he will only be worried about the republicans if they speak to people's everyday concerns and give them answers in a new direction. i thought that's pre$sighsly what chris christie did. i thought ann romney humanized governor romney and i think they have gun to close the sale. there is a lot that the american people need to hear particularly about economic growth, job creation and a better future. but i think pat's exactly right. they are on the right track. we have paul ryan and condoleeza rice tonight who can continue the process, and of course governor romney. i think it was a good start for them. megyn: how worried do you think they are about paul ryan. they released an ad trying to color the american people's

judgment before he takes the stage. >> people don't vote for vice presidents. the on memorable vice presidential speech i can remember was sarah palin's four years ago. the democrats want to exploit the medicare issue. but so far since he has been picked the romney campaign has been on the offensive on the question of how it relates to the affordable healthcare act as obama-care is known. what it does about taking from medicare. they carried that battle better than i thought they had. i think they want to make him the poster boy of the extreme right. we'll see to that. i don't think it will work. megyn: how big a factor do you think ann romney was last night. it's unusual for the spouse to have this kind of role at the convention. last year cindy mccain introduced john mccain. she didn't have a prime time

address to the convention. >> mitt romney has a very, very serious problem which is people think he is qualified but not likeable and not accessible. he trails the president by 10-15 points on those dimensions. ann romney's job and i think she addressed it well last night was to make her husband more accessible, more human to tie their marriage and life experience with that of ordinary people. i think that's a hugely important step. it's not enough to get him elected about it is important to begin the process of closing the sale for the american people. megyn: they mor morepeople. megyn: quickly, panel. >> i agree with doug, ann romney helped humanize them.

megyn: guys, good to see you. tonight, congressman paul ryan will address the republican national convention. he's expected to walk behind me on this stage any moment now. they get the run through. we don't know if he will do that before this broadcast ends. but we know his brother will join us live after this break.

[♪] megyn: that was tobin ryan showing up to a wisconsin campaign event for his famous brother congressman paul ryan. we are joined by that brother.

tobin ryan. tobin, great to meet you. help us get to know him. he's from wisconsin. he's married. how many kids? >> three kids. megyn: how old are they? >> 10, 8 and 7. megyn: he runs for congress and has been there 14 years. >> i never thought he would be a career politician. i expected him to come back and start a real job. megyn: do you come from a republican family? >> not necessarily. certainly ronald reagan made a big difference in our family. megyn: were you surprised when he decided to run for congress? >> i was. my wife and i -- he called us before he ran the first time and he said i think i'm doing something important. would you mind coming to help me? what are you doing? i'm going to run for congress. my wife and i took 8 months off our jobs and came to janesville

with our mom and worked on the campaign for him. megyn: he told bret baier he was studying economics. >> he came to a path when he was work for jack kemp an was trying to figure out how he could make a difference. he was thinking about pursuing a ph.d in economics. but kemp said why don't you go home to your hometown and run for an open seat. the rest is history. megyn: is it hard for him to spend his weeks in washington being a family man? >> sure. paul spends every minute he can back home with his children, with the people of the first district of wisconsin, with his lovely wife. he sleeps on his cot in his office. he jumps on the first plane back home. he brings a child at a time quite frequently to washington with him. they shadow and sleep in his office with him.

megyn: he has become fair game now that the arrows -- they are coming now that he's on the ticket. the democrats just released an ad, the obama campaign referring to him as harshly anti-female. your thoughts? >> it's -- i'm not surprised. he has been in congress for quite a while. and we are getting used to these sorts of arrows. i remember when they had him pushing my mother in a wheelchair off a cliff. megyn: just a look-alike, tobin. >> as people get to know paul and they understand what a wonderful husband, father, son to his mom, a guy who is so passionate about solving these entitlement issues that are facing our country. i think they will realize he's anything but anti-woman. megyn: you said last night he babysat his kids and watches the speeches from his house and you

came over to watch the speeches live. what is he doing today? >> it wasn't just his kids. he hosted a sleepover. so we all realized when we got over here we left him with all the kids. and -- megyn: tonight he will be covered in chocolate. >> this morning janet got up early to spend a breakfast with ms. romney and we realized paul had all these kids. he had to get out of bed and get them ready for the day. there is a sense of calm for him and our family right now. yesterday, today, paul is who he is. he's as authentic a person as you can find. and we are just confident that the country is going to see paul ryan, they will be introduced to him. they will see a very, very optimistic view of a path this country can take and we are all just delighted to have him here

tonight. megyn: all the best to you and your family.

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