will be interesting to see if we can have an honest debate over the future, because, frankly, the obama team gutting medicare, taking $700 billion and putting it into obama care. >> i've interviewed him many times over the years, and i've always found him to be reasonable, ready to compromise with democrats. i know some conservatives, maybe you weren't happy. he voted for the t.a.r.p. legislation. he voted for the auto bailout, which the president, obviously, supported. mitt romney didn't support it at the time. he's got -- he wanted to extend all the bush tax cuts, that the conservatives like. are some of these votes that he had going to undermine -- going to hurt him with your fellow republicans? >> i think he's going to have to explain some of them. but the fact is, he is seen by virtually every conservative activist in the country as one of the most courageous and most dedicated advocates of getting back to a balanced budget, controlling spending in washington, returning power to thstates. i think that it's very clear that paul ryan represents, in the jack kemp tradition, the ronald reag

frankly the obama team was gutting medicare and putting it into obama care. >> i interviewed them many over the years and found him to be reasonable and ready to compromise with democrats. i know conservatives, you voted for the t.a.r.p. legislation and the auto bailout which the president support and mitt romney didn't at the time. he wanted to extend the bush tax cuts. are some of these votes he had going to undermine or hurt him with your fellow republicans? >> i think he is going to have to explain some, but the fact is he is seen by virtually every conservative activists as the most courageous and most dedicated advocates of getting back to a balanced budg and controlling spending in washington and returning power to the states. i think it's very clear that paul ryan represents the next generation of ideal-oriented republicans and he will settle well with the country being courageous and even pointed out, very practical and willing to talk and be part of the rules. >> vice president biden issued a release and called him to congratulate him and welcome to the him race and he urged

will be interesting to see if we can have an honest debate over the future, because, frankly, the obama team medicare, taking $700 billion and putting it into obama care. >> i've interviewed him many times over the years, and i've always found him to be reasonable, ready to compromise with democrats. i know some conservatives, maybe you weren't happy. he voted for the t.a.r.p. legislation. he voted for the auto bailout, which the president, obviously, supported. mitt romney didn't support it at the time. he's got -- he wanted to extend all the bush tax cuts, that the conservatives like. are some of these votes that he had going to undermine -- going to hurt him with your fellow republicans? >> i think he's going to have to explain some of them. but the fact is, he is seen by virtually every conservative activist in the country as one of the most courageous and most dedicated advocates of getting back to a balanced budget, controlling spending in washington, returning power to the states. i think that it's very clear that paul ryan represents, in the jack kemp tradition, the ronald reagan tra

. >> you -- you in the past have criticized the obama team for not gingg up that enthusiasm. hink the selection of paul ryan will be enough to elevate enthusiasm on the democratic side? >> i think mr. obama got a taste of what he needs to do over the weekend. literally the selection of paul ryan bushed obama to the sidelines for the last three or four days. the numbers you talked about moving up at the rallies, that had to send a shock to the obama team. and they now they have got to actually ask independents, please come with us. they have got to actually do what they have done with hispanics. they have got to do that with blacks and gays. they got to do that with their core base population. and this kind of reaction that he got over the weekend says to obama get on your job. >> so you know this is all about states, right, and of course florida being such a high percentage of older voters we see that the governor of florida, mr. conservative actually decided to back off of supporting the ryan/romney medicare plan now. so you are seeing some key conservative republicans distan

so is the obama team targeting the seniors right now? >> reporter: absolutely, they are.plan to target women, veterans, college students, and as i mentioned, middle-class voters, arguing that paul ryan's budget also includes cuts to programs that impact all those constituent groups and that they will target all those constituent groups by pointing out there are ways paul ryan's budget would hurt them. so expect a targeted message that, again, this romney/ryan budget could be damaging to each of those groups, wolf. >> jessica is over at the white house, thank you. >>> joining us on the phone right now, someone who has worked closely with paul ryan. congressman chris van hollen of maryland. he's the top democrat on the house budget committee. the chairman of that committee is paul ryan. as we all know. congressman, thanks very much for talking to us. tell us, what do you think of this decision by mitt romney? >> well, wolf, i've worked closely with paul ryan, and we get along personally, but we have very strong disagreements on budget issues and the economy. and i think thi

the obama team broke out a white board with an ad to rebut romney's claims. s listen to the ad. >> i'm barack obama and i approve this message. >> now romney is attacking the president on medicare. the aarp says obama care cracks down on medicare, fraud, waste and abuse and strengthens guaranteed benefits. the ryan plan says it would underline medicare and higher costs for seniors. the voucher plan could raise future retirees 6, $000. get the facts. >> what do you say about that one? >> that's why you have paul ryan in florida today. he'll be in orlando trying to shore up his plan, the romney plan. his mother is going to tour around florida with him. it's all to go after the older vote, making sure they don't feel they are going to be undercut and lose their benefits and services. the ryan plan only goes after those under 55, you and me. >> exactly. seniors are paying close attention to this one. nice to see you. thank you. >> thanks a lot. >>> as a member of the syrian regime's inner circle fled the country? there are reports about the where abouts about the

put that against what you see on the obama team. been in office four years and spent a mountain of mon yemore than any president in the history of market. and lethargic economy. and no fiscal plan. none from the obama administration . i hope paul will get a start to focus and how to solve the big fiscal crisis that we are in . legitimate plans from the obama team that matches those coming from the romney team. >> we'll report in the past. paul ryan said passion from jack kemp and jourge from bill bennett and compassion and understanding from sam brownbag. he is obviously a big fan of yourings >> i am a fan of his and he's a great man. he is as advertised. good family man and like to go out and hunt and passionate with his country. >> what will the debate with vice-president biden be. >> i think it would be one worth selling pop corn for. paul is a good thinker and he presents it very well. and joe talks pretty well. but when you clash the two ideas, there is no substance on the side of the obama team when you get to the real issues.

the obama team is up with a video they blasted out to supporters today. this is on the web. and it makes their argument that ryan, paul ryan's budget which he proposed to the house of representatives makes cuts in that that would hurt in the obama campaign's view women, the elderly, i think we have a bit of that video if we could roll it, women, the elderly, veterans, students, and middle class families. what you should take away from this is the obama team's thinking that this can be targeted to different key constituencies that can turn out in the election. this is not just about the one big thing you keep hearing is that medicare and the way it deals with medicare hurts seniors. >> all right. jessica yellin at the white house, thanks so much for that. people in iran are staying outdoors fearing the worst isn't over. two powerful earthquakes killed dozens and injured hundreds as well. we get a live update on the after shocks. lligence helping business, do more business. in here, opportunities are created and protected. gonna need more wool! demand is instantly recognized a

put that against what you see on the obama team. been in office four years and spent a mountain of mon yemore than any president in the history of market. and lethargic economy. and no fiscal plan. none from the obama administration . i hope paul will get a start to focus and how to solve the big fiscal crisis that we are in . legitimate plans from the obama team that matches those coming from the romney team. >> we'll report in the past. paul ryan said passion from jack kemp and jourge from bill bennett and compassion and understanding from sam brownbag. he is obviously a big fan of yourings. >> i am a fan of his and he's a great man. he is as advertised. good family man and like to go out and hunt and passionate with his country. >> what will the debate with vice-president biden be. >> i think it would be one worth selling pop corn for. paul is a good thinker and he presents it very well. and joe talks pretty well. but when you clash the two ideas, there is no substance on the side of the obama team when you get to the real issues.

ground game along since the last -- four years ago, to the point where it can compete with the obama team? if the race is within a point or less, maybe a point-and-a-half or two, ground games can be crucial and if it is beyond that, it ends up not mattering. >> jon: david drucker from roll call, always good to have you on. >> jenna: jon and david talked about tropical storm isaac taking aim at florida now and it could become a hurricane in a few hours, we'll be tracking isaac's every move over the next couple hours and bring you the updates as we get them and also, a fox news scloexclusive, mitt romney and his wife, ann, sitting down with our own chris wallace on sunday, and it looks like they are making pancakes for them, i wonder if he is asked to do anything there, a free ride... >> jon: george clooney and now, this. >> what they are doing on the campaign, in terms of strategy, chris joins us next. at usaa, we believe honor is not exclusive to the military, and commitment is not limited to one's military oath. the same set of values that drive our nation's military are the ones we used

there are indications that the obama team is losing the money race. reports showing that team obama was in the red last month, spending $10 million more than it brought in. the news is not much better when you look at the overall campaign. latest estimates right here, the president's full operation, including the democratic national committee, the dnc, has $124 million. that is $62 million less than team romney at 186 million. none of that includes governor romney's massive cash advantage from outside political groups. steven mace hayes, senior writer for "the weekly standard", back home in wisconsin. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. bill: you made a number about points to our producers today. the big question how you use that money advantage. explain what is smart there, steve. >> i think if you're talking about the obama campaign, seems they made a decision very early on that one of the most important things, if the no the most important thing they could spend their money on was to define mitt romney. they wanted mitt romney to look like

patti ann: president obama's team warning supporters he's going to be in trouble toon and not able to have 89 days now. depending on how the campaign is going to work battleground states you have decisions to make about what you're going to target and where depending on what the polls look like. polling numbers yesterday, mitt romney was up, in virginia he was down. in the state of west rer was down, buwisconsin he was down, closing the gap with mitt romney. now the campaigns are going to make decisions over the next three months wh-rpb the whether or not they should pump a little more money into one state and perhaps leave others as they move this strategy around literally day-by-day. patti ann: a well-known and apparently well-liked doctor is accused of poisoning his wife over a span of months. police in tennessee say dr. hal hill pud barium in his wife's coffee, possibly every morning. barium is a toxic chemical used in rat poison. lisa hill told investigators she caught him in the act after becoming sick over a long period of time. >> very unusual. i've worked -- been here 26 year

obama's teams accusation not with standing.is it a conservative party and conservative convention. i think the calculation bill that conservatism and 40 percent of the americans give or take say they are conservative 20 percent said they are liberal. that is not bad to identify yourself. >> it is not conservatives or far right. no evangelical presence or nobody. sarah palin, not offered a prime time slot. >> but she's out of politics. >> oh, come on, come o. she's a cruise hitter. >> look at the main speak ares, they are almost all office holders. chris christy and ryan himself and so on down the list. they are people who are office holders and sarah palin was not for romney really. it is no surprise. i don't see that her absence means that it is not a conservative line up. >> i absolutely think that mitt romney would love the tea party support but will not identify himself with that part of the party. >> paul ryan has a lot. >> but it is not romney. he is making the case for who is speaking. >> romney has people in the tea par

team obama joked that romney had not hurt the usa. >> there was nothing that i could see that was detrimental, at least not against the president. >> reporter: i'm steve hand ee s handelsman,. >> a three-judge panel is asking to stop -- >> the obama campaign and democratic party is making sure that we can get people the answer to their questions about how to register, about where their polling place is, about what they're going to need to bring to the polls. people can log on to gottavote.org and get the information and the answer to those questions because the democratic party is going to do everything we can to make sure that regardless of whether you speak english or spanish, regardless of where you live, if you are eligible to vote and lawfully eligible to vote, we are going to do everything we can to make sure can you cast that ballot. the republicans are doing everything they can to prevent it. >> don't miss "politics nation," the place for politics. >> to texas where a tea party favorite won the republican nomination for the november election to replace retiring senator kay bailey hutc

the question is will the obama team capitalize on romney's gfs, or will they fade into campaign memorys where senate candidate ted cruz beats the establishment-backed challenger. the question is could the tea party's victory there have national implications? >>> and finally, it's 19 and counting for michael phelps who swam his way into the history books with another olympic gold. but the real story was the u.s. women's gymnastics team going for the first u.s. team gold in 16 years.

although the republican super packs, if you combine that with the romney combine spending outspent the obama team. obama versus romney straight up the obama had the advantage this summer but in the fall romney, who has been not able until recently to raise money for the general election, he's going to have a lot of money to do their work. i just don't know how much more positive stuff you're ever going to see from them or whether we're going to have as most people predict. send pretty quickly to an ad that is almost exclusively. this is what we're going to here about the obama campaign. >> rose: he's always been a stand up guy. what happened tonight is that what they planned or did something go wrong? >> i did some reporting before tonight about how this came about and what the plan was for him. i want to do more before i tell you definitively what happened. i believe what happened was this was something that they basically said clint eastwood is a performer, he knows what he's doing and there was no vetting of his performance whatsoever. there have been reports by other rep peubl the people were

obama care in the romney team east estimation changed the entire game. ey feel like the $716 billion that over the next ten years obama care transfers into the new entitlement and reducing medicare is a winning issue for them. romney would not take that $716 billion out of medicare. changing this entire medicare debate for the first time republicans feel like this is a winning issue for them. so i don't think they are afraid to have that conversation. >> okay, elsie, is the day spent talking about something other than job a good day for obama? >> yes, it is. i don't know what will is talking about. this is a side issue. the only way that romney is going to beat president obama is to hammer him on the economy and on jobs. he's not going to do it any other way. he hasn't been talking about jobs since he left on his trip. i really think there's a distraction for the romney campaign. i'm shocked they allowed it to go this far. what's really going to happen is they are going to start dissecting the rest of ryan's plan and get further away from the conversation

watch for the obama team to decimate ryan, and then it could have a positive affect for the obama squad we we've been covering "newsroom" a lot on this show. this is a reason for it. what they do in newsrooms across the country matter. then i got mad. here is what they don't care about--the news. i'll explain that when i come back. >> nay source says house republicans continue this debate i hope they're willing to mark the end of the hey joe? yeah? is this a bad time? no, i can talk. great -- it's the 9th inning and your hair still looks amazing. well, it starts with a healthy scalp. that's why i use head and shoulders for men. they're four shampoos for game-winning scalp protection and great looking hair... go on, please. with seven benefits in every bottle, head and shoulders for men washes out flakes, itch and dryness. and washes in... confidence. yeah it does. [ male announcer ] up to 100% flake free scalp and hair with head & shoulders for men. [ male announcer ] the inventors of twix had a falling out, so the production of twix was divided between two separate factories. left twix

just this morning the obama team released the latest ad in the medicare wars. it's nice to be talking about issues. it's running in eight states. let's watch it. >> i'm barack obama, and i approved this message. >> now mitt romney's attacking the president on medicare. the nonpartisan aarp says obama care cracks down on medicare fraud, waste, and abuse, and strengthens guaranteed benefits. and the ryan plan, aarp says it would undermine medicare and could lead to higher costs for seniors. and experts say ryan's voucher plan could raise future retirees' costs more than $6,000. get the facts. >> all right. again, that's an ad that will run in eight states. just yesterday, mitt romney as you know had a white board to prove that his plan would keep medicare solvent while the obama plan would cut $716 billion to medicare. this weekend, paul ryan heads to florida where his mother lives and happens to be on medicare. the gloves are off, aren't they? >> the gloves are off, but this is the kind of campaign that barack obama has always wanted. he wants a comparison of ide

. >> and bernard, the obama/biden team is mock iing this team calling them the go back team, and sayingpolicies will hurt everyone from seniors the students, and is this the race that the obama white house wanted? >> absolutely and i will tell you why, because it shows a clear division of america. we have a difference of opinion for shared prosperity for all americans and where everybody moves forward together where a division where the winner takes all and the top continues to reap the benefits where those in the middle and the bottom fall further behind. why do i say that? ryan would be a disaster for the seniors, the middle-class, and the women, and gay americans and he authored the system to turn into a voucher program to cost se seniors $6,000 a year or more, and he voted against at the led better fair better act, and he voted against the "don't ask, don't tell" legislation, and other hate crime legislation and he would favor giving mu multimillionaires a $75,000 tax cut which would force a tax increase on middle-class families with kids of $2,000, and the choice of ryan underscore

watch for the obama team to decimate ryan, and then it could have a positive affect for the obama squad we we've been covering "newsroom" a lot on this show. this is a reason for it. what they do in newsrooms across the country matter. then i got mad. here is what they don't care about--the news. i'll explain that when i come back. >> nay source says house republicans continue this debate, i hope they're willing to mark the end of the dollar as global reserve currency. to the best political foresight. >>>first pick, i'm going to shock the world and pick, paul ryan. >>>brillant. okay... >>>with the number that just came out he's more inclined to throw long. in which case, i think the long one is paul ryan because the risks are higher. here in the obama war room... >>>putting satire aside, i agree paul ryan would be great for democrats. for us it would fame the intellectual debate. >>>see the future "live" weeknights starting at 7pm. uygur. spitzer. granholm. only on current tv. hey joe? yeah? is this a bad time? no, i can talk. great -- it's the 9th inning and your hair still looks amazi

president obama's team, super pac with a crushing new ad. >> i don't think mitt romney knows what heas done to people's lives when they closed the plant. that's when they found the cancer. it was stage four, and there was nothing they could do for her. >> cenk: man, blaming mitt romney for his wife dying. that's so harsh that it might be unfair. then pat robertson does it again. here's who he blames at the sikh temple. >> people who are atheist they hate got they hate the expression of god they're angry at the world angry with themselves angry with society and they take it out on innocent people. >> cenk: nonsense. we have no idea whether that guy is an atheist, a christian or what the hell he is. but i'll tell how is actually responsible the n-r-friggin'-a. i'll show you the numbers behind it and prove it at the end of the show. and then the boy scouts have a perversion file. >> the case is against the boy scouts of america who kept personal files on people to keep out of scouting. >> cenk: an amazing story. it's go time. [ ♪ music ♪ ] [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> cenk: all right, priorit

. >> the obama team points out the president of opsec is a republican from virginia that recently ran for congress. they insist they are a nonpartisan group that has democrats as members. >> thank you. the gop is celebrating a small political victory. former alabama congressmen davis will speak at the republican national convention. he was a prominent speaker at the 2008 democratic national convention. other gop convention speakers announced today include bob mcdonnell and louisiana governor bobby jindal. >> the fight over granting asylum to assange has spilled into the streets. >> you have no right to arrest julinan assange. >> he has been held up inside hiding from american and swedish authorities. he is accused of leaking classified american documents and also is accused of sex crimes in sweden. ecuador is offering asylum, but the british will allow him safe passage of the united kingdom. >> vincent gray says a newly appointed task force will look at increasing the number of underground power lines and enter the district. the storms that started with the derachio in late june knock

then this the march, a recording of a conference call where he tells his story to obama's team. >> >> to have the white house lied to the media three times yesterday to say they had no idea the context of the ad. >> romney supporters say obama must denounce the ad. >> they implied mitt romney committed a murder. barack obama needs to right away say shut this ad down. we won nothing to do with it. >> romney's people say it is important to clarify it was five years after the plant closed when his wife was diagnosed. she had her own health care but left that job after an injury. >> thank you very much. up next, we will tell you how the drought conditions are causing some problems around the world. >> on the lookout for storms before the weekend arrives. >> the waiting is over and the redskins did you robert griffin iii. they take on the bills. [ obama ] i'm barack obama and i approve this message. i think mitt romney's really out of touch with the averageoman's health issues... this is not the 1950s. contraception is so important to women... it's about a woman being able to make decision