good morning. it's monday, august 13, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at at cbs broadcast center. republican vice presidential candidate, paul ryan says we're going to win this. while mitt romney says the campaign is running on his budget plan. both candidates speak out if their first joint interview. the tsa investigates charges of racial profiling in a major 1984. we begin this morning with a hook at today's eye-opener. your world in 90 seconds. was there one point when you said this is the guy? >> this is a guy who is a real leader. >> mitt romney abdomen paul ryan tell cbs news why they'll win in

november. >> it was one against one and now it's two against two. hearings how you get the country back. >> specifically on the budget and on medicare. he doesn't believe in the medicare program. if any person has blood on their hands, it's barack obama. there was a danger that the running mate may overshadow the actual candidate. i have that problem. >> there will be no changing of the guard in london. team usa has won back-to-back gold medals. >> this is all about usa. it's not about me. it's about these three letters on your chest. >> the games of the 30 -- xxx limb yaolympiad olympiad. we did it right. miami dolphins released chad

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charlie rose and gayle king are off. governor mitt romney's campaign is finding new energy and a new focus after saturday's announcement that house budget committee chairman will be his running mate. >> officials from both parties are calling the wisconsin congressman a risky choice in part because of his controversial budget plan that includes overhauling medicare. chief washington correspondent bob schieffer asked them about that in their first joint interview on sunday's "60 minutes." >> i have to tell you the miami herald has a banner headline across the front of it this morning that says ryan could hurt because they're talking about medicare and what you're talking about. >>hink about that. paul ryan and i have talked about is saving medicare. is providing people greater choice in medicare, making sure it's there for current seniors. there's no changes for the current seniors. but looking for young people down the road and saying you'll get a bigger choice >> you'll have do a little

selling. >> we need to preserve them. they organize retirements around it. in order to make sure we do that, you must reform it for those younger. they started from the clinton commission in the late '90s. so in order to make that promise for those current seniors, like my mom was a florida senior, we need to reform it for the next generationment. >> jan crawford is in st. augustine, florida, where governor romney will be campaigning later this morning. goodmorning, jan. >> good morning, anthony. romney, ryan hit two swing states yesterday, wisconsin. >> this one could decide it all. it was an emotional homecoming. the wisconsin congressman wiped away tears as thousands cheered him. now the republican nominee for vice president. >> my veins run with cheese,

bratwurst and a little spot of miller. >> it wasn't just in wisconsin. at every stop the romney ryan team drew crowds. >> i guess you think i made the right decision, the right choice. [ applause ] >> yeah. i know i did. >> ryan's nomination refocused the race and it brought out a new energy in romney. he took aim at president obama. >> mr. president take your campaign out of the gutter and let's talk about the real issues. >> for his part, the president welcomed ryan to the race and then returned fire. >> my opponent and congressman ryan and their allies in congress, they all believe that if we just get rid of more regulations on big corporations and we give more tax breaks to the wealthiest americans, it will lead to jobs and prosperity for everybody else. >> the obama campaign made its

strategy clear, quickly trying to connect romney to ryan's plan to cut the budget, rein in spending and reform medicare. >> it says something about mitt romney. they chose someone who has a budget. it would be the end of medicare as we know it. >> ryan's plan would replace the current system with a voucher program that krit critics argue could leave seniors paying more. but they said they were trying to save medicare before it goes bust and blaming the president for medicare cuts. >> he stole $700 billion from medicare to fund obama care. if any person in this entire debate has blood on their hands in regard to medicare, it's barack obama. he's the one that's destroying medicare. >> now, with a high percentage of seniors here in florida, there is no state where this issue medicare will be harder fought and romney will be here later today. they split off last night and won't be gone until the end of the month.

ryan is campaigning in iowa and romney will be here later. >> jan crawford, thanks. as romney travels in florida, ryan will be in iowa. president obama is going there too with a bus tour. john dickerson is also covering romney's campaign stop in st. augustine. john, good morning. >> john, to begin with, democrats and seniors excited about the pick of ryan as republicans. how tough a job do you think mitt romney has in framing his choice as a positive here? >> one of them has to be wrong. the challenge for romney is that ryan is not well-known in these battleground states. so there's a real race here for romney to define ryan and ryan to help define himself in a positive sense as an idea's man, someone with a plan for the future. the battle then is again for the obama campaign to get very specific, to look at what ryan

proposed over the course of his career and argue why that shreds the social safety net. that's their view in the obama campaign. and why, as we've been discussing it harms medicare. >> john, where do you see ryan hlping romney the most? >> the immediate help is with the republican base. people will say, but those republicans were going to vote against barack obama anyway. but the enthusiasm that we've seen in the last couple of days, the volunteers now coming out, the lack of troubling that romney will now have with his base, that's taken care of. that's one thing that's already in the bank. the question going forward is whether ryan helps the romney campaign with catholics. he's a catholic. that will help in the midwest and the battleground states in the midwest. ryan is an inroad to that group of vote ergs, that crucial group of voters. whether he can help remains to be seen. >> john, how big a negative will he be in the swing states? bob schieffer made this point a headline in florida that ryan

could hurt romney in florida because of this question of restructuring medicare. i mean it certainly gives the democrats an opportunity to scare senior citizens, doesn't it? >> it gives democrats a number of opportunities. now, republicans would say they were going to take those opportunities anyway. but it's different to attack republicans in general. now they've got specifics. they've got a long record of paul ryan and there's going to be -- once you have a record, you can pick at that record and try to find distance between ryan and romney. put them on the defensive in a campaign talking about the specifics medicare or any of the difficult policy issues can get ugly very fast for a campaign. the obama campaign hopes to make that a problem for romney. what romney wants do is make this broader, say we're in trouble. everybody knows we're in trouble and talked about entitlements for years and years. nobody does anything. here's somebody who has done something. i've got a plan. that's the romney argument. >> john dickerson, stay with me a moment. senior adviser to the obama

campaign, david axelrod is here. >> good morning, anthony. >> you said this was not a game changer. the announcement of ryan on the ticket. this weekend, huge crowds turned out to watch the team and the republicans have already raised several million dollars since the announcement. it seems like there's a lot of excitement out of this. >> there's no doubt that i think the appointment as john said, thrilled the base of the republican party, the tea party, republicans, the social conservatives. because congressman ryan is a certifiable right winger. i saw that excitement four years ago when john mccain appointed sarah palin as well. there were huge crowds much of the same kind of reaction. i don't think it worked out very well. when the reality catches up with the moment, it's not going to be a plus for governor romney. >> as a senior campaign adviser,

what concerns you the most about mr. ryan? what do you see as his strengths? >> well, i'm more concerned about hip as an american. by the way, he's a very genial guy. i know him and like him, i don't like his views, i think they're dangerous views. i don't like the fact he was a rubber stamp for the bush era. it was laughable to hear governor romney say that's his plan, i've got my plan. those plans are similar. it's a choice between a punch in the nose and a knee to the groin. the fact is that both plans call for trillions and trillions of dollars of tax cuts skewed for the wealthy. and in the case of both plans, and higher taxes for the middle class when it all nets out. more burdens on seniors and students and this is not a prescription for a stronger economy. it's not a prescription for a

stronger country. i want to bring john dickerson or political director back in. he has a question for you. >> david, you said that paul ryan is a certified right wing idea log. somebody worked strongly with, is democratic senator ron weed en of -- how can ke work with him and an be an idea log? >> i know widen did not support this plan, including the medicare plan because he said it was badly skewed. listen, you're talking about a guy with a 96, 97% voting record down the republican line. he's a leader of the tea party. the intellectual leader of the tea party group and one. leaders in taking our country to the brink of default last summer because he wouldn't accept one extra dollar of taxes on the wealthy. and then when you go to social issues, he's someone who believes we should make abortion

illegal even in cases of rape and incest. he's a very, very much out of the right wing of the republican party. he's a genial fellow but his views are quite harsh. >> mr. axelrod, you said that the ryan's budget would end medicare as we know t at the same time, the president cut $700 billion from medicare to fund his own health care plan. how is this any different? >> anthony, you're repeating what is a misstatement by the republicans. i would call it a l-- story of little red riding hide. grandma should say what big lies you have. we took that money and extended the length of medicare by eight years. that was part of the affordable care act, we expanded prescription coverage. seniors now get preventive care under that health care act. we're going to take additional steps under the budget. the president proposed that the

republicans -- it would further extend the life of medicare. make no mistake about it, these republicans don't believe in medicare. they want to turn it into a voucher program and slowly all the burden is going to shift to seniors themselves. that is not an answer to entitlement reform. >> david axelrod and john dickerson, thanks. in the next half hour, bob schieffer will be here to talk about the first joint interview with congressman ryan and mitt romney. we'll hear more about the interview including a question why the wealthiest are paying the lowest tax rates. the olympics are over after a grand finale in london. two final gold medals for the united states. the u.s. won 104 medals in all, more than any other country. that includes 46 gold medals, the most americans have ever won in olympics held outside the united states. china finished second in total medals followed by russia, britain and germany.

mark phillips is outside olympic stadium, the scene of the closing ceremony. mark, good morning to you. >> good morning, rebecca, anthony. the closing ceremonies were always going to have a problem and that problem was the opening ceremony. it was a raucous, wacky treatment of british culture, it was going to be a hard act to follow. the response was to book just about every pop act going back five decades, including some from the dead. >> you knew you were in an evening of mixed emotions when a fleet of london taxis arrived and the spice girls got out to perform a medley of their hits. ♪ >> the world may have decided about 15 years ago that what it really, really wanted was for the spice girls to stop. but the girl power they famously marketed was the theme of these games. why not? and speaking of games, there was the small matter of the final

competitions to get through earlier in the day. the marathon was won by the surprising steven -- of uganda. >> team usa and spain. the u.s. men's basketball team faced its showdown with spain. losing was not an option for the u.s. nba stars but somebody forgot to tell the spanish nba stars. it was a one-point game going down the wire. how do you spell relief? jam james. we're hab i to represent our country and bring home the gold. >> the athletes assembled on the union jack flag for the game's conclusion. there were unexpected contributors who hadn't been seen for a while. john lennon's imagine was heard as his image appeared first in picture form and then in a

sculpture that exploded. resurrecting freddie mercury was stranger still. having the audience do a chant response to him bordered on creepy. ♪ after that, eric idle's monty python's bright side of life seemed like a moment of -- ♪ >> it only remained for the requisite thank yous. >> these were happy and glorious games. >> and the flag was passed to rio. olympic culture began the transition from british cool kitsch to brazilian hot samba. whatever happens dur the games, they always end the same way. the olympic morning after is always a strange and a little bit sad place. the circus leaves town. the great olympic distraction is over. instead of running, you get the

session. instead of water polo -- still, it was fun while it lasted. >> a forlorn mark phillips. clearly not a spice girl fan. in afghanistan this morning, a policeman opened fire on nato troops and afghan soldiers. nato says none of the soldiers were killed. this is the fifth attack on nato troops by a member of the afghan stuart forces in the past week. seven americans have died in those attacks. at least 300 people are now confirmed dead from this weekend's twin earthquakes in iran. this morning, the search for survivors has been called off. the powerful quakes hit 11 minutes apart on saturday centered in northwest iran. at least 20 villages were totally destroyed and more than 3,000 injured and some 16,000 people were left homeless. time to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. britain's guardian says egypt's new president has forced out the defense minister and another top

general. president mohamed morsi canceled the declaration that limited his powers. the wall street journal reports google is cutting 20% of the staff at motorola. roughly 4,000 jobs, that's about two-thirds of the cuts that will be outside of the united states. google bought motorola in may. the asheville, north carolina, citizen times says billy graham is in the hospital for treatment of a bronchitis infection. the 93-year-old evangelist is said to be alert. his third hospital stay in a little over a year for respiratory problems. the arizona daily star reports gabrielle giffords and mark kelly moved back home to tucson on sunday. for 17 months she had been living in houston to undergo intensive therapy after she was wounded by jared loughner last year. it is about

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republican running mate paul ryan tells "60 minutes," president obama has no record to run on. and mitt romney does. >> it's a record of creating businesses and turning around struggling businesses. that's what we want to see happen throughout the country. why would -- bob schieffer talks about that interview and how ryan could affect the race in some key swing states. new trouble for the tsa. now more than 30 agents are accused of rampant racial profiling. john miller takes a look at the screening process that's reportedly led to a major investigation. you're watching "cbs this morning." >> this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by hershey's

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record of seven. >> there he does it. this year's pga championship was a runaway. rory mcilroy blew away the field, winning the last major of the year by a record eight strokes. mcilroy finished the tournament sunday with a 6 under par, 66. this is his second major championship. last year he won the u.s. open by eight shots. by the way, he's 23. >> 23? >> 23. same age that woods did this. same age. >> eight shots? >> eight shots. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> mitt romney's choice of paul ryan as his running mate is paying off in contributions. it raised $5 million online since saturday's announcement. we have more now of the team's

first joint interview with bob schieffer on last night's "60 >> you made a point of praising governor romney for his accomplishments as governor of massachusetts and at bain capital. i'm going to put you on the spot here. >> okay. >> do you think he's been too defensive about bain capital and about his role -- >> what i see happening is the president has a terrible record so he can't run on that. he didn't moderate his positions whatsoever throughout his term. so he doesn't really have much to run on. he's going to try to run an distractions and try and divide people, distract people and try and win this election. that's why these attacks against a record that is outstanding. it's a record of creating businesses and turning around struggling businesses. that's what we want to see happen throughout the country because it creates more jobs and better take-home pay and gives people better futures.

why wouldn't we want a leader like that to help us turn this economy around. >> what will be congressman ryan's role. will you send him up to the hill, put him in charge of certain things? >> i anticipate that there will be certain areas that are his area of expertise and he has passion and concern there that he'll take a lead role in helping oversee those areas and maybe cabinet officers who will work primarily with the vice president. but he would also have a role in helping shepherd legislation on the hill and, of course, you have a director that takes that kind of lead as well. you can't imagine having someone like paul ryan who has been able to work with democrat senators, democrat members of the house as well as republicans been able to make things happen there. i can't imagine not using him and to have his skill in finding those people that can come together and find common ground despite different views and issues. this is one. key reasons i-elected him --

selected him is he has a unique capacity to find people of different parties who are of a common purpose that can come together to do something that's right for the country. >> congressman, what's happened to capitol hill? congress cannot seem to get anything done anymore, even when there are things that both sides seem to want to do, they can't find a way -- >> it's the worst i've seen it in 14 years. it starts in my opinion, with a fundamental lack of leadership. president obama has not provided the leadership we need to bring people together. the senate hasn't passed a budget for three years even though we have a budget law that says you have to pass a budget every year. it's dysfunctional. what we want to do and we think we've done this in the house is we're planting the seeds for a bipartisan compromises on the big issue of the day to be realized next year to get things done. that's why we think we need to have an election to give the country a choice and put our country back on the right track, then we need leadership to bring

people together. he has proven when he was governor of massachusetts, he had to work with democratic legislature to get things done. he did that. >> i must say, governor, you did something that seldom happens in american politics when you announced your choice was the congressman here. conservatives were delighted, they said it was a bold move and a bold stroke. but i have to say, democrats seemed equally delighted about this because they said that they think that congressman ryan's budget plan with its overhaul of medicare, with cuts in social programs and education, it's just going to drive voters their way. how do you respond to that? >> what i respond is very simple. america has a clear choice. are we going to continue to spend a trillion dollars more each year than we bring in and pass that to our children. >> no question, your campaign has been trying to make this

election on a referendum of barack obama. some people say you're making a referendum of paul ryan's budget plan. >> i have my budget plan, as you know, that i've put out. that's the plan that we're going to run on. at the same time, we have the record of president obama. if people think, by the way, that their utility bill has gone down. they should vote for him. if they think jobs are more plentiful, vote for him. >> i'm going to quote you. you said america is a place if you work hard and play by the rules you can get ahead. the fact is a lot of people don't think that's true anymore. they don't think the rules are fair. they think corporations and rich people are getting all these breaks and they're getting stuck with paying the bills. they see some of the wealthiest paying the lowest tax rates. how are you going to fix that? >> what i see is a new amount of crony capitalism in corporate welfare which both parties have been engaged in but the president brought it to a whole new level.

what president obama is picking winners and losers based on connections, based on fads like solyndra and basically giving handouts to businesses, giving preferences of the tax code. we want to get washington out of that. and so that people work hard and succeed. >> correspondent and host of face the nation bob schieffer is with us this morning. good morning, bob. >> good morning. >> what was your take away from that? what was the dynamic in the room? >> i don't know exactly how to say this. i kept trying to get governor romney to tell me what was one thing that caused him to decide, this is my guy and you don't get a lot of emotion from any politician anymore these days. they're all very cautious. i came away, though, thinking he really likes paul ryan. paul ryan is a very nice man. i've known him for a long time. i mean, you know, you can agree with his views or not. but people on capitol hill like

him. democrats like him. republicans like him. a cranky democrat and would be happy to acknowledge that's the way to describe him said i can't imagine why a guy that nice could have the views that he has. but i think he and romney -- i think governor romney somewhere along the way just decided he liked him and thought he would really help the ticket. >> it's interesting, bob, ryan is the pick here. he's known for his budget plan but romney is saying we're not going with that. we're going ahead with my old plan. how is that going to play? >> rebecca, i'll tell you, every time i've done an interview, i always come away saying the one thing i should have asked governor romney was let's talk about how your budget plan differs from his plan. i don't think it differs that much. that's going to be oneof the questions in this campaign and i wish i had gotten more specific on that one particular point. that's going to be one of the questions here.

exactly which parts of governor ryan's budget plan does mitt romney agree with. because there's really tough stuff in there. he really slashes into social programs. i mean, it's across the board. in order to try to get in budget back in the balance. and he argues you can do it without increasing revenue. >> right. >> that's where the -- >> which is taxes. >> that's where the rubber hits the road. >> bob, we've been talking about this since saturday. both sides as you say are excited about this. republicans are obviously enthused but democrats look at this and say we've got a pretty big target. which way is this going to fall? >> you saw and heard david axelrod this morning. he calls him a right wing idea log. that's what this is going to be about. this is no longer a campaign about negative campaign ads. this is a campaign about two very different visions for america. i mean, the campaign is going to

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this morning the tsa is investigating claims of racial profiling at boston's logan airport. "the new york times" reports that 32 tsa officers in boston have come forward to say hispanics, blacks and people of middle eastern origin are being targeted because you have their appearance. >> it focuses on a program called expanded behavior detection and correspondent john miller, a former deputy director of national intelligence is with us. always great to have you as always. good morning. >> good morning. >> what is the program all about? >> it borrows a page from what

the israelis have been doing for many years, which is it observes passengers walking around the terminal for suspicious behavior. then it has a new layer, which is and -- this is what the israelis hung their hat on is it involves an interview where they talk to the passengers in the line before they go through security. and it's a few short questions. very casual, but then they watch the behavior of the passenger giving the answers. >> so that's a concern because it involves the human element? and the human element is inherently or potentially subjective. >> it does. it doesn't involve the human element during an interview. they talk to 100% of the passengers in the line. who they select for additional screening or referral to a law enforcement officer for more questioning is what's at the controversy here. and the tsa says they don't take this casually. they have a scoring sheet where they actually make the assessors actually kind much go through,

well, were they suspicious this way or that way? they have to kind of add it up. and when we asked, well, how many blacks do you stop, versus how many hispanics and muslims? they said we don't ask them any of that. that's not what it's about. we can't give you the numbers. what we asked inspectors to do is to say can you articulate what the suspicious behavior was, not what the person looked like. >> isn't there inherently some kind of profile in making a decision to pick out to interview? >> well, there is. there's a lot of training that goes into this that tells them you're supposed to focus on the behavior, focus on the answers, focus on somebody who either is exhibiting fears of being caught at something or -- i mean a good example is richard reed, the shoe bomber, who was supposed to be the follow-up attack to 9/11 tried to board a jet and failed in the interview process with

his answers. they said you're not boarding this plane. he was able to board an american carrier where they don't do that because all they had to do was get his well-concealed bomb through security. what the administrator of tsa, john pistole and my ex-boss, when he took over tsa, the idea was how do we get a more layered approach that is less focused on finding a nail clipper in the bottom of somebody's bag and more focused on where is the suspicious behavior, who is potentially a high-risk passenger. >> john miller, thank you.

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>> the crowd was having a great time at the indiana state fair watching this stagecoach perform last night. then all of a sudden over it goes. five of the six people were injured when it tipped over. none of the injuries was serious. >> glad to hear that. it's 8:00, welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm anthony mai son. charlie rose and gayle king are off. >> i'm rebecca jarvis. james brown is with us. >> i'm excited that you are here at the table. >> feeling is mutual. congratulations, you're now the saturday tv husband for rebecca. >> keeping down the fort as well this week. governor mitt romney's running mate, congressman paul ryan is heading out on his first solo

campaign swing and chip reid is traveling with the republican vice presidential pick. he's in des moines iowa and chip, great to see you. good morning. >> good morning to you. paul ryan will be here at the iowa state fair later today. romney's campaign hopes that ryan's midwestern roots will help in this important battleground state. back in washington, ryan is extremely well-known as a leading conservative. but out here in the real world, a lot of people are wondering who exactly is paul ryan. >> wisconsin congressman paul ryan spent his first weekend on the national stage campaigning in swing states crucial to the victory of his new boss and introducing himself to a nation eager to know more about the rising republican star. >> i am deeply honored and excited to join you as your running mate. >> ryan was elected to congress in 1998 at 28. the youngest member elected to congress that year.

he came to washington after college and worked for jack kemp, the conservative icon who became ryan's mentor. now, just 42, ryan is the same age as romney's oldest son, tag. >> i represent a part of america that includes inner cities, rural areas, suburbs and factory towns. >> ryan is a fifth generation wisconsinite in this home in janesville, wisconsin, he grew up the youngest of four and dpru up quickly. >> my dad died when i was young. he was a good and decent man. >> in 2000, he married his wife janna, who worked as a lobbyist in washington when ryan was new in congress. the two share a love of the outdoors, they have three children who join them this weekend on the campaign trail. ryan usually works four days a week in washington, sleeping in his congressional office to save money and flies home each weekend to be with his family. he's a fisherman and an avid hunter. >> i like to hunt here, i like

to fish here. i like to snowmobile here. i think ice fishing is interesting. >> paul ryan is a fitness buff who claims to have less than 8% body fat. he trains other congressmen to work out to the intensive p 90x exercise regime. >> it's training his colleagues in budget matters that earned him the reputation as a leading conservative voice in congress. his detailed comprehensive budget plan earned him enemies across the aisle and accolades from fellow conservatives. >> it's really deeper than the deficits or the budget gimmicks or the actuarial analysis. there is a -- >> this health care roundtable in 2010, ryan's pointed criticism of the president's health care plan caught the attention of many in washington. >> paul ryan and his wife janna sat down with people magazine this weekend. she said he's pretty low maintenance and also said she thinks her husband and mitt

romney will have a lot of fun out on the campaign trail. but for the next week or two, paul ryan will be flying solo, racing from one battleground state to another. >> i'm looking forward to that first clip chip of the two of them doing p 90x on the campaign trail. >> i think you will see that. >> chip reid, thanks. >> this morning, major garrett of the national journal is on capitol hill where he's covered congressman ryan for much of the past 14 years. great to have you with us, major. good morning. >> great to be with you. good morning. >> how is ryan's bio going to play on the campaign trail? >> that's for the voters to decide. but there's much to go over. as chip reid indicated, he's not your average congressman. there's a ki net i can energy about him. he's used the ideas not just to advance his career but harness his party and move it in a different direction than the way it was under george w. bush. >> paul ryan voted some some of the things, the afghan stand and

iraq wars. he voted for medicare part d which provides prescription dug coverage to seniors. some have found fault with thatment since then, he's led the charge about earmarks, reforming medicare, democrats disagree. paul ryan he's been ambitious on behalf of ideas and persuaded his own party to follow the same paths. >> romney has made a point of advertising his lengthy private sector experience. it's a critical part of his resume. at the same time, his running mate now has had almost no private sector experience much he worked in the family business, had a couple of think tank jobs and went into congress at 28. is that going to be a problem? will he be billed as the washington insider in. >> i think it's a complication. they will address it in their own way. what romney is telling the country, washington-based idea logs -- whatever you think about paul ryan, he's both of those

things. he's an idea log and what romney will say he's got my ideology. in the main, he can no longer run universally against washington and its ills because he has a careerist alongside. >> i wish my wife would describe me as low maintenance but that's what she said about him. as the spotlight begins to shine on her, she's every bit quite his equal. >> absolutely. look, i've only had two brief encounters with the two of them at social events, one here and one in washington. they are compatible with each other, janna does not shrink away from conversation. talks about the law, economics and budget. not with the same passion or specificity as her husband. she's not a shrinking violet in any way. he seems to be comfortable with that. that's obviously an important dynamic to their relationship and their marriage and the way they raise their kids. >> major, when we're forecasting the future, are we going to see more of janna on the campaign

trail? >> i think they're a great couple. she'll be a terrific asset. you might see her and ann romney together. the dynamic between he and mitt romney is strong. some advisers wanted to be more cautious and not take paul ryan. they get together, they're compatible. their wives are. i think we'll see a lot of them on the campaig

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♪ video games are in $25 billion a year business. years from now. the industry is expected to be twice as big. not everyone thinks it's headed in the rye direction. jeff glor is here with the story. >> jb always good to see you. good morning to you. most people think that games can be childish or immature. there are those trying to change that, though. we sat down with one man in particular who is not just speaking out. he is building out. some of the most unique and challenging material the medium has ever seen. >> jonathan blow is probably the most famous video game developer in the world. he may also be the most feared. >> i actually don't like a lot of that. >> rarely mincing words. >> the state of video games today is what? >> i don't even know. it's a big mess right now. >> coming from anyone else, those words might ring hollow.

but his last effort literally took the business to a new level. os sentence bli a traditional platform, braid was more than about a character named tim. it was about bringing together the abstracts of a complicated puzzle with deep moral and philosophical questions. a game for those who don't like most games. >> i had this idea about what games should do. they should be pushing the boundary of what games have already done, trying to expand the medium, because someday games can have a much bigger role in terms of their participation with human culture. >> do you still feel that way? >> i do feel that way. >> his primary criticism is that the vast majority of games simply don't respect the player. they are big, boilerplate and brain numbing. it's a criticism the main developers generally do not want

to hear. >> you sort of assume the mantle of the conscience of the video game business. is that a title or a role that you're comfortable with, that you want? >> it's not very fun. >> is it a role that you court? >> no -- >> you're not disowning it? >> i'm not disowning it, no. look, games are really kind of immature, they're playing in the kiddie pool a lot of times. we as video game designers are creating a significant part of the modern environment. we should be thinking about what that is doing to everybody. >> for the past four years, he has been working on his follow-up to braid inside this nonscript building in berkeley, california. it's called the witness. >> i think it's a much better game than braid already. it's much deeper and more expansive and more sophisticated. >> it may be the most intellectual liam bishs game ever attempted.

a 3d adventure set on a lonely island. he's pouring almost all the money he made on braid into its pcompletion, agonizing over evey detail. >> i think that would look more natural. this typing in numbers thing is not that great. we wouldn't do this. i want to be clear on what the goal is. so making something that's excellent and really smooth is just people -- people have no idea. >> when he's not creating, he can still be found speaking out at developer conferences -- >> engineering your way through a human defense and profiting by that is a parasitic form of behaviorment i'm a game designer. i don't want to think of myself as a parasite. >> or in the recent documentary, indie game, the movie. while his frank talks strike some as arrogant, it's also made him a cult hero for independent gamers. jonathan blow waits to see when his next project is complete. four years in, even he doesn't know.

>> i'm constantly reviezing the design of the puzzle and where they are relative to each other. it really reaches its potential. >> so the answer to when it koums out is when it's done? >> jeff, thought provoking, intellectually stimulating when you think about him and hi product. is it popular and receptive? >> i wouldn't say it's always mainstream. some of the mainstream developers aren't huge fans of his. he's so critical of them. a lot of the debate here, it's like the movie debate, we've had actors and producers saying all hollywood does is turn out blockbusters that are pre-quels and sequels instead of trying something that might be know. what this man tries to do is something new. >> the finger should be pointed at whom, designers or the public and their appetite? >> maybe a little bit of both to be honest with you. they're being developed by these

designers, but we're also buying them. a lot of people are buying them. i think he wants people to think twice. also, maybe not be so simplistic. when you're playing these or experiencing them, there are very, very clear clues. do this next, do that next. he wants there to be a little more exploration. >> i'm being told to do this. thank you very much, jeff. >> good to see you buddy. >> get ready for magic this morning. the man in charge of the most influential fashion event in the world will give us a preview when we return. your local news is coming your way next right here on cbs.

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♪ welcome back to "cbs this morning." one of the fashion world's biggest events. the ultimate place to see and be seen is called magic. tens of thousands of buyers and retailers will gather in las vegas for the trends and the man who is in charge of magic is with us now. thomas florio, he's ceo of the magic advance star fashion group. great to have you with us. >> good to be here. >> so $200 million a day in volume is what magic does. but it's not just like every other fashion show. how you is it different? >> magic is not a fashion show. it's a market week that's the largest contemporary market week for fashion anywhere in the world. it's made up of actually of

eight shows. there are several women's shows. there's a high n hend contemporary show, a footwear show and sourcing show. to put it into perspective, it's new york, milan, paris, the fashion weeks, in those markets, you'll see maybe 200 brands over three or four weeks. you could see 5,000 brands at magic market week over four days. and there are over 70,000 attend ee as the magic. it's an enormous engine that drives the fashion business. >> so if you had to put a headline on this year's effort, what would that headline be in. >> i think the headline of this year's effort is the dee mock rahization of fashion. what we're seeing take place is unprecedented. there's a shift in the value system. this idea of elitism and exclusivity has given way to a collaboration where high-end fashion brands are doing deals with mass market retailers as

we're seeing and now we're seeing the new young designers going out and creating their own campaigns that will reach more people in the contemporary space. i think magic is at the epicenter of that. you know, that's really the market and that's really the big shift that we're looking to embrace. >> you bring up that fashion idea. we're seeing the extraordinarily high-end labels teaming up with tart get. i wonder, to what degree are the millenials, the younger generation driving that type of buyers' situation. >> i think to every degree. >> to every degree? they're a huge part of it. >> for a number of reasons. first of all, the economic downturn, i think, just -- prior to the economic downturn, people were buying products beyond their means, right? a young -- in the fashion company might buy a bag for $2,000. that's not happening. >> on credit. >> yeah. number two, because of technology and the shift in the supply chain, there's a lot of great product out there at a

lower price point. but really, you know, ultimately, baby boomers were very happy spending -- spending a premium for perceived product benefit. if it was supposed to be luxury, that was good enough. where millennials, you really need to spell out the value proposition for them. and they have more information as a result of the web. they have e-commerce which really wasn't up and running quite the same as it is now. so they're driving this completely. i don't think it's going away. i think that this is the tip of the iceberg and we're going to be seeing a lot more great product in this space. >> with about 30 seconds remaining, this might be a personal commentary on marriage. pattern on pattern mixing. whatever i know about design and fashion, my wife teaches me. is that really something trending more now? because i don't get it. big trend.

we're joking around before we came in. of course, my wife, and i promised her that i wasn't going to do a plug has started a yielded company about pattern on pattern in fashion. called prison sport and the funny story was she actually is showing at magic and didn't tell me. >> wow. >> which is really more a statement about marriage, i guess. yeah. but i think one. things we're seeing in this whole world of pattern on pattern is really coming from kind of the global influence that is taking place in fashion right now. and probably there's nowhere that you're seeing that more than in the whole sourcing area of magic, which will have over 5,000 -- over 500 companies from china. but at the same time the largest made in america pavilion anywhere in the northern hemisphere. >> all next week. >> all next week. >> tom florio, go give your wife a call. thanks for sitting onset with us. we appreciate it.

magic begins next monday in las vegas. why would jerry seinfeld compare stand-up comedy to being a plumber? we'll find out this morning as we revisit a classic conversation he had with charlie rose. first, let's check your local weather.

♪ this week we're looking back at a few of charlie rose's conversations with some of the great names in american comedy. this morning, we bring you part of charlie's 2007 interview with jerry seinfeld. >> i am pleased to have jerry seinfeld here. welcome. thank you for coming. >> you know why i wanted to see you as i'm doing this promo tour. i wanted to thank you for the show you did about the tv series nine years ago. i thought it was the best kind of analysis of what the show was and what it meant when it went off the air. i just love that show. it was the best thing of all the magazine articles and all the things that people did about it. i loved yours the best.

i wanted to come back and say that. you knew how do it. >> you sent me a note. i appreciated that. >> the creation of seinfeld. the creation of it, is that a question sm. >> that's a question. >> did larry come to you or did you go to larry sm. >>? >> i didn't go to him. i turned to him in the bar and said you want to get something to eat. i go yeah. we go to the korean deli on first avenue and 78th. we're wandering around the deli, you know the delis with all kinds of stuff in there. >> lot of stuff on the street, too. >> lot of stuff on the street. sometimes weird stuff, no labels, just fig newtons with no identification. you just go yeah, i'll take a shot on that. we start making fun of the product. he says to me, this is what the show should be. i go what? just two comedians talking. >> any particular episode, the best episode of seinfeld for

you? >> well, i think larry and i really loved the connection in the marine biologist. we love the ones -- all of them have great stuff in it. but when you can get that story to just go like that. just -- they just meet & perfectly. >> from where i was standing i could see directly into the eye of the great fish. >> mammal. >> whatever. >> what did you do next? >> from out of nowhere, a huge tidal wave lifted me, tossed me like a cork and i found myself on top of him face to face with the blow hole. i could barely see from the waves crashing down upon me. but i knew something was there. so i reached my hand and felt around and pulled out the obstruction. [ laughter ] >> some say this was the perfect

marriage. you and larry david. a magical relationship. >> uh-huh. it was. >> different sensibilities? >> uh-huh. >> but not different comedic sensibilities. different kind of guys but he -- it was one of those perfect partnerships where he saw a lot of big picture story. he knew what would be a great story for the show and i had a great sense of mechanics of comedy. comedy is like hitting a baseball. you're just trying to improve your average. nobody hits .1000. >> what do they hit, .300? >> a good hitter can hit .500. >> what did you hit on this show? >> .700? >> maybe. most of them are good. very few clinkers out of the shows. >> there are -- where are those people? are any of them here? are you one much those people? >> of course i am. do you believe it?

>> i don't think things like that. >> take me to bat when you decided to end seinfeld. >> yes. >> you decided? larry had left two years earlier. >> larry left two years earlier. what did you think you would do when you left? >> oh, i didn't care. i don't care what i do. >> just simply because you knew you had talent and it would be okay? >> i'm a comedian. i'm a stand-up comedian. it's like being a plumber. there's always going to be a job somewhere. this was just insane good fortune. >> perfect thing that happened. >> i was so lucky to have it. i don't know why people would think that i -- people always ask me about trying to get back to it. i just don't understand that thinking. it's just like i'm lucky that i had it. >> what did you think when you left? >> i did not think, charlie. >> that's the point. >> i don't think. remember that line from baseball movie, don't think. it's good advice. >> so you left. were you happy after you left? >> yes.

>> were you really? >> yes. well, i was happy for a while and then -- >> what were you doing? >> i thought what am i going to do now? >> yes. >> i was spending most of my time in amsterdam billiards playing pool. >> did you get good? >> i did get pretty good. >> yeah? >> yeah. i liked being single but i was getting tired of it. and marriage is something i never felt was right for me. and i didn't really see what was left to accomplish in conventional show business. i still wanted to be a comedian, but i was -- i kind of ran out of ideas. and i was kind of -- there was nothing exciting left. that's when i realized i was old. 45 by then? >> i was 45 when the show ended. that's kind of up there. i was in a relationship with this wonderful woman. my usual thing is, get in a relation, enjoy the relationship

and then run like hell. i thought maybe i should give this one more of a chance and luckily, i happened to be with this wonderful woman who is now my wife. >> you said she saved your life almost. >> i didn't know what to do with my life. if you're with the wrong person at that moment, i probably would have married that person too. i was lucky. >> are you funny -- how many kids, three? >> three kids. >> 6, 4, 2. >> do you try to make them laugh? >> constantly. >> as a comedian, i have to say that laugh is what i live for. when they start giggling, every second that i can think of something, i'm always looking in their little eyes and trying to figure out if i take this napkin and stick my tongue through it, i think it might make them laugh. >> so you do that? >> yes. >> it will make them laugh. >> yes. >> you can't beat a kid laugh. it's gold, jerry. letter that line. do you think you have a

golden touch or you worked really hard? >> i get into it. i do get into it. i do think i'm a little lucky. i'm a little lucky. >> can you imagine being in that deli where he and larry david are wandering around in new york city making jokes about every item. i mean, to be a fly on the wall there would have been amazing. >> i love what he said about kids laughing. that's the greatest thing a father can have. it's wonderful. all right. julia child was born 100 years ago this week. this morning, one of america's other great chefs is here to tell us how she influenced his career. i'll have the $4 everyday value slam with... bacon.

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an wa ward winning restaurateur. he's the host of mexico one plate at a time and he's created a foundation to support young family farms. rick baylis is here with us. great to have you with us. >> thank you so much. it's a pleasure to be here. >> pleasure to have you here and a pleasure to enjoy your cooking. i'm lucky enough to have tried it. on a much more serious note, given your focus on farming and eating food that comes from close to home, how are you seeing the impact of the drought on farmers right now? >> it's been close to devastating. i have to say. most of statistics that you hear certainly are about corn and soybean farmers. those are not the ones that we work with. we're working with small family farms that produce tremendous amount of vegetables and fruits and herbs and spices, things

that we work with in our restaurant. i have to say that a lot of them are irrigated but not enough to really make an impact. so a lot of the crops have been lost. and we are very, very warm spring which was devastating to our apple crop, our cherry crop, peaches. we have almost no peaches much we live in an area throughout chicago that has tremendous peaches. >> how about your restaurants, how are you adapting? >> we're working closely with our farmers. we want to see them survive, obviously. that's important to us because we build our menus around what they do for us. we're really trying to utilize things that they might have in abundance this year because they can grow certain things. we've changed our menus to include more of those crops, like zucchini that maybe would be in small amount in our menu but now we're really developing dishes ha we can really focus on what they need to sell. >> you've created a foundation

to help local farmers. are they going to be able to help? >> it's not a relief thing. that would be a relief. we try to provide capital improvement grants for these small family farms to make them more profitable. it's one of the things that we notice that a lot of the small family farms, they're really trying to produce enough stuff that they can stay on the farm. but they don't have the money to invest in the tra being tore, the hoop house, the greenhouse, whatever it might be that they need to take them to that next level. our foundation helps them to do that. >> love your focus with respect to that. i was teasing before we came on air. you don't think losing weight in the same sentence with mexican food. what's the most misunderstood aspect of mexican cuisine? >> that it's all covered with cheese. when you think about the american-style mexican food, that's really what people think about. in mexico, it's all about these beautiful tomatoes and toem at this time owes and greens. a lot of greens don't associate

cooked greens with mexican food. yet, they eat tremendous amounts of those kinds of things. i'd say if you trail back to the origin of this cuisine, if you go back and explore the regional foods of mexico, you find one of the healthiest cuisines that's out there. we don't know too much about it in the united states. i'm trying to help people get that knowledge, get that experience with that delicious food. >> and you've certainly done your research and spent a lot of time yourself in mexico even though you're not from mexico. >> no, no. i went there as a teenager and fell in love with it. and decided to go back there, study there. i lived there for five years and traveled to every state in the republic and learned to cook from the regional cooks. that's the way to do it in mexico. it's really a cooking as they say of the vein rated older women who really have the treasure of recipes and they taught me in the marketplace and

street stalls at home. >> the great julia child would have been 100 this wednesday. i know she was a big influence on you. how so? >> when i was growing up, i grew up in a barbecue restaurant in oklahoma city. my resources were not really great. but she was on television showing me just how great food could be. she showed me how to bring precision to cooking. introduced me to a wide variety of ingredients that i had to scrounge around to find back in the '60s in oklahoma city. but i did. i really -- i tell you, she's the one that launched me. she did it obviously vicariously through the television. i am -- i feel so privileged to be able to do shows on the same network that she was on, on public television and help bring that kind much knowledge of broad cuisine and delicious well-crafted cooking to a lot of people. >> how did you find her as a kid in oklahoma city? >> well, you know, this is back

when it wasn't public television. it was called educational television. she was one of the very first people on there. i fell in love with it. we had a little tiny screen, black and white television. every week when she came on, i would turn it on and i would sit there with a pad and paper and i still have the pad where i would write down all of her recipes. i was just a little kid. but i loved it and i cooked the stuff and my parents let me cook the stuff. which is really remarkable too. >> rick baylis, thanks for being here. >> my pleasure. that does it for us. up next your local news. see you tomorrow on "cbs this up next your local news. see you tomorrow on "cbs this morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com