and i think i would agree with a.b.hris christie looks like the log call choice for keynote address on tuesday night. >> bret: charles, a.b., steve, as always. thank you from washington. next up, a brand new panel. here in ohio. talk local politics and how everything is playing. this is new york state. we built the first railway, the first trade route to the west, the greatest empires. then, some said, we lost our edge. well today, there's a new new york state. one that's working to attract businesses and create jobs. a place where innovation meets determination... and businesses lead the world. the new new york works for business. find out how it can work for yours at thenewny.com. mom: ready t♪ go to work? ♪ ♪ ♪ every mom needs a little helper. that's why i got a subaru. announcer: love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >> bret: welcome back to wood county, ohio, we're here at the fairgrounds. i wanted to talk about politics locally, with a local panel. we welcome to our panel, dave murray, managing editor of "the

not at all, as a.b.it. >> john: today at the college, governor romney and paul ryan came out fairly strong on. this ryan saying that the president is making decisions more political than military. romney promised to withdrawal, consistent with maintaining the national security. that's almost an impossible promise to make when you deal with afghanistan. >> it's not nonspecific. he basically had the same complaints that charles did, the president doesn't address it and he doesn't inform us. he doesn't have a specific policy on afghanistan that differs from the president. >> it's not the job of the opposition to make the commander-in-chief be a commander-in-chief. if this weren't an election year and we didn't have a romney you would still be asking where is the commander-in-chief on our troops are getting shot and why are they getting shot under his orders? where is he going and why? so, you can have a critique of romney and ryan on this. but the real issue today for the americans who are being shot as hap

a.b. 57 includes the requirement that we saw that san francisco had a third representative. it is on the governor's desk, and as a result, i am organizing a check-in with the governor's office staff to make sure whether they are standing on that, and i will have that completed by the end of the week. there are two bills by the senate transportation chairman that have been of high interest. the bill was basically killed in the assembly transportation early last week and is no longer valid for the year. s.b. 878 b which at one point started off as a bay area governance issue, restructured the relationships in the bay area, and then ran into trouble and became more of a bill to deal with economic strategies in the bay area. later, that became a bill no longer dealing with bay area governments but dealing with the state transportation commission. that bill has been sent to appropriation, and we will not see any more attempts to deal with governance this year. probably next year. finally, s.b. 1339, a re-bill of senator yee, the bill had been sponsored last year, but it was state

and he is not being asked the question. >> bret: a.b.?let's get back to the fiscal cliff which is not the fault of the republicans but not the fault of theteams either. both parties are accountable. everyone at home watching should recall that they both supported this deal. it was right from the start with a triggered death trap of cuts. >> bret: let's -- just one second. for people sitting at home. the reason it came to this, it went to a super committee. because the white house and house republicans, speaker boehner couldn't come together on a big deal, deficit and debt cutting that included tax increases on democratic side and spending cut and entitlement reform on republican side. we ended up in a super committee. they couldn't get it done. that was the threat, if they couldn't, you would get sequestration, major cuts. separately all the tax increase tied to end bush era tax cut. fair? in a simple way? >> they knew the time to fix these across the board, nonsensable draconian cuts would be at the time that the bush tax cuttings were e

i think he can. >> bret: a.b.?l think that mitt romney needs to tell a little bit more about himself this week. i think he is criticized obama for months, the race came to a draw. there is a place for him, there is room for him to break away at the end here. but really not doing something bold but really just engaging with the public. not a lot of baby holding or anything. he doesn't have to start leaping in the camera. but i think he needs to talk more about his family. his life. his stuff, his decisions, maybe, you know, his relationship with his dad whatever it is for people at home who are shopping and want to know more about him get something more. >> bret: steve, governor romney said openly that that is not easy for him. >> right. i think you do see a contrast to a certain extent between the kind of politician that romney, the kind of politician that paul ryan is. ryan, you said he is comfortable in his own skin. he has always been that way. he is who he is. you talk to him and do an interview and he talks ab

i think he can. >> bret: a.b.?think that mitt romney needs to tell a little bit more about himself this week. i think he is criticized obama for months, the race came to a draw. there is a place for him, there is room for him to break away at the end here. but really not doing something bold but really just engaging with the public. not a lot of baby holding or anything. he doesn't have to start leaping in the camera. but i think he needs to talk more about his family. his life. his stuff, his decisions, maybe, you know, his relationship with his dad whatever it is for people at home who are shopping and want to know more about him get something more. >> bret: steve, governor romney said openly that that is not easy for him. >> right. i think you do see a contrast to a certain extent between the kind of politician that romney, the kind of politician that paul ryan is. ryan, you said he is comfortable in his own skin. he has always been that way. he is who he is. you talk to him and do an interview and he talks abou

a.b. stoddard associate editor of fair hill. steve hayes for weekly standard.ve, your thoughts about last night? the kickoff and the two big speeches obviously. >> solid start for the convention. both speeches made the case for mitt romney. ann on a much more personal level in a way the campaign was eager to do and wanted to do for a long time. she was in a unique position to give that speech. to make comments and give that context for mitt romney. the question is how much will that matter to people? i think it was generally well received. on television. but do people apply discount factor? because you expect a wife to say nice things about her husband? chris christie speech was not the speech most people expected him to give. he made a big picture case. and tried to provide a contrast. and defend the republican brand. >> he has been criticized about the speech that took him a long time to talk about mitt romney. a.b., some, almost 1800 words before he said it. he was asked about it this morning at an event. here is how he responded. >> i really thought that my

requirements and the result of this was legislation at the state level that is carried by tom ammiano a.b. 2452 and that bill passed. it allows local agencies to eliminate the paper filing requirement and require electronic filing as the official document of record. >> thank you, mr. massey. >> i thought we were on the other memo. this is something we have been working on for a very long time and i think it's going to save a lot of resources and make life easier for the regulating community and it reduces a lot of paperwork for the staff and i think the public uses the information will still have quick assess to all of the information they need and deserve. i just wanted to thank steven for really a lot of work. we spent several days in sacramento working on this and so i just wanted to point out that he did great work. he deserves the thanks of the commission and so does member ammiano as well. >> on behalf of the commission, thank you, mr. massey, for your efforts. any comments, questions from the commissioners? ms. studley? commissioner studley: i know that we have been working for qui

this was before a.b. era of cell he phones, text messages and gps. everyone was puzzled. how could a school bus with 26 children on it vanish. >> to tell a law enforcement agency to be on the lookout in a yellow bus when they were heading in all directions. >> they tieally found the bus from the airplane. somebody had taken an airplane up and scene the bus was hidden in the bushes. no footprint. no nothing. no blood. no sign of anything bad. something happened to the kids and we knew something was wrong. we got a phone call to come to the courthouse. the fbi was there. we had this big meeting and they talked to us that they didn't know anything. >> and this thing is quite unusual in the fact that there was no known or apparent motive. >> as the news spread around the country and then the world, chowchilla soon found itself at the center of a media frenzy. >> we were immediately called by every state and every government in the world asking what had happened and they were talking about zodiac killers talking about zodiac killers and people f male spirit present.trong it's

this was before a.b. era of cell he phones, text messages and gps. everyone was puzzled. how could a school bus with 26 children on it vanish. >> to tell a law enforcement agency to be on the lookout in a yellow bus when they were heading in all directions. >> they tieally found the bus from the airplane. somebody had taken an airplane up and scene the bus was hidden in the bushes. no footprint. no nothing. no blood. no sign of anything bad. something happened to the kids and we knew something was wrong. we got a phone call to come to the courthouse. the fbi was there. we had this big meeting and they talked to us that they didn't know anything. >> and this thing is quite unusual in the fact that there was no known or apparent motive. >> as the news spread around the country and then the world, chowchilla soon found itself at the center of a media frenzy. >> we were immediately called by every state and every government in the world asking what had happened and they were talking about zodiac killers and people f whoa, look at all those toys. insuring that stuff must be a

. >>> a state legislative committee has ordered a.b.e in house police force of the department of developmental services following questionable virginia techs binvestigations by inclue tasering of patients. here is abc 7 news is reporter vic lee. >> laura. >> the joint legislative audit committee is calling for an investigation of the department of developmental services. in particular, its in house police force the ops or office of protective services. ops has been under fire for years for reportedly conducting lax investigations is into mysterious abuses and even deaths at is a know ma an sew d other developmental centers. the u.s. department review ended with troubling conclusion that the department's investigates failed to reconcile evidence, appropriately failed to include interviews of relevant staff and residents and failed to determine the cause of serious incidents. jim bell coauthored the bill. >> there is a series of repeated incidences shows they have a lack of integrity in terms of their investigative abilities. >> reporter:

i a.b.leave there was -- i know of someone who was in a meeting that was very important about this, and i think that columnist was one of the best reporters at the time. that was true, and if the two men had lived they probably would have moved in that direction. >> what did wendell willkie do after he lost the election? >> the first thing he did was noble indeed. he devoted himself to getting -- making sure that we gave aid to britain while britain was standing alone against hitler. so he went to london to gather evidence to support roosevelt's bill which was the crucial bill for england and came back and made an appearance before congress that many people felt turn the tide and by the way i think i forgot the draft was so important that senator johnson, the leader of the draft of the opponents of the draft said that wilkie broke our backs. that's how important it was. >> did you find much evidence for the run-up to the convention that roosevelt had handicapped the republican convention? di

one fire may have been ignited by a.b. arsonist.ng up to be one of the worst wildfires in state's history. >>> in chicago, the la palooza fess city val back in full swing after a weather detay. fans left grant park calmly as the storm dropped torrential rain on the city. organizers exercising an abundance of caution after the last year's deadly stage collapse at the indiana state fair. i'm marianne rafferty. now, back to mancow. for the latest headlines log on to fox news .com. >>> ad news. read between the headlines right now. there is a brand new online cast that actually can measure your cat's iq. if your cat can find it online the cat is smart. meow, meow, click. >> after 85 0* years nuce week is going to stop the hard copy edition. only online. where will i get my left wing propaganda and my hard copies of president obama with the halo. the pompous pontiff right there. there. snooki will have a son there and name her son lorenzo. let me use it in a se sentence. poor lorenzo. this marks the first time in years that any one in ya

that a president romney will march in lock step with conservative congressional republicans and push a.bagenda? >> it is is a very effective argument because remember, chris, a stunning number of americans say they still don't know who mitt romney is. he will be introduced this week at the convention. when you you ask people what does he stand for if barack obama and the democrats are able to define him as the man who picked paul ryan who had this extreme budget on medicare, the man who says on abortion, you know, gosh, i'm not sure here and he flip flopped on abortion. the mano on gay rights has flip flopped and when it comes to the dream act and hispanics turned away and endorsed governor brewer and arizona's plan. if they see him as that extremists, especially moderates and women are not going to play ball. >> chris: governor, what do you think of the argument against romney? what do you make in his claim in the same interview with ap if he is reelected he will be able to forge compromises with house republicans because they will no longer be so obstructionist. >> if addressing the se

all right, a.b. stoddard. >> i like to blame both parties speak to tropical storm isaac.ut the appropriate response. as well as the white house and news media. hurricane ivan, which one will be the bigger event between isaac and the convention? in the meantime, republicans are weighing in as well. >> they brought me down here specifically to make sure that i get the hell off the beach. [laughter] [applause] anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating? yeah. one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. approved! [ female announcer ] live the regular life. phillips'. jenna: thank you for joining us today. we want to show you the scene in wisconsin. congressman paul ryan attending a standout rally at his old high school. let's listen in. >> i want to thank the city manager. i want to thank our neighbors on courthouse cell. for in building all this and for their patients. we really appreciate that. i want to thank you and tell you how proud i am to come to janesville, wiscon