anna navarro is in miami.ecks trump a convention. >> i was shocked. i honestly thought they would have gotten equal ratings because they are similar programs. both are about entitled white people who use catch phrases that make no sense. they exploit the poor. i feel like it should have been equal. >> that's why we have ana on. i assume your viewpoint is a little different as to why so many people were watching honey boo-boo and not the gop convention. >> i had never seen honey boo-boo child and i saw her tonight coming over here. i think she is hypnotizing in a horrifying way. maybe mitt romney needs to drink some go-go juice and put on a tiara and show his bare midriff to compete with honey boo-boo child. >> what is go-go juice? >> go-go juice is fluorescent green concoction. she drinks it to get her to win the pageants. >> it's a combination of red bull and mountain due. what you want to give any child. heavy heavy amounts of caffeine, i think. >> don't go anywhere. next we are going to ask you something mo

we're talking about it with christine romans and donna brazile and anna navarro. answer after the break what does this do for mitt romney? does this make him seem more or less relatable to the american people? what does this do for that 47% comment? does it put him obviously solidly within the 1%, probably the .01%? we're going to talk to you, a republican strategist about that after the break. oh no, not a migraine now. try this... bayer? this isn't just a headache. trust me, this is new bayer migraine. [ male announcer ] it's the power of aspirin plus more in a triple action formula to relieve your tough migraines. new bayer migraine formula. since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been committed to putting clients first. helping generations through tough times. good times. never taking a bailout. there when you need them. helping millions of americans over the centuries. the strength of a global financial leader. the heart of a one-to-one relationship. together for your future. ♪ >>> welcome back, everyone. the news just in to cnn, mitt romn

anna navarro is back. would you vote for a jesse ventura, howard stern ticket? >> i like that.o me, i think ventura should run with someone and give him credibility like ventura lohan. crazy squared is a much better take. i think that is a much more fun ticket. the man was governor of a state. he ran against the system. if there's ever a time for someone to say i'm not a democrat, i'm not a republican, i'm running as a reformer, potentially you could be a real candidate. it becomes a joke when you say howard stern is going to run with you. >> i was listening to it live. i was on my way to the airport on monday when jesse was on howard. i said we have to get him on. we've been talking about that. i think there are a lot of people in the country that would vote for them, anna. >> i do, too, don. nobody expected him to become governor of minnesota and did he. so i do think there are a lot of people in the country that would vote for him. i wouldn't vote for him. i left my country of anything nicaragua. if they become president and vice president, i may go back there. >> no! we who

don lemon spoke about it with cnn contributors elsi granderson and anna navarro. >> last time we talkedut this, you got really passionate, you and will really went at it. and you were specific saying you weren't going to sugar-coat it. >> this is driven by race. i was at the speech last night. i will tell you i didn't leave there thinking, oh, i need to vote for obama because he's black. i left there thinking as an american citizen, we all should be offends that these tactics are being used to curtail our rights, the right that is blacks and whites have died for. you don't have to go all the way back to slavery. jesse helms used tactics to scare blacks from going back to the polls. >> it's nothing like this. >> let me finish. i allowed you to finish. saying things like, if you go to these polls and you don't have x, y and z documents, you will go to documents. that wasn't a long time ago. we were in collegehen that was going on. >> we invited will to be back. he's traveling. so he's unavailable. why are you so passionate about this? it's going on in a number of different states. pennsyl

el z granderson and anna navarro. take a listen to paul ryan this morning on fox. >> yes, we've had some missteps, but at the end of the day the choice is really clear. we're giving people a really clear choice. we have these pro growth solutions for opportunity and upward mobility in the dynamic economy. you have the president promising four more years of stagnation and dependency. >> paul ryan acknowledges what he calls missteps and admitting mistakes, missteps. is that a deliberate strategy? >> i don't know if it's a smart strategy. but i know it's a realistic strategy. obviously they're down in the polls. i think he's being humble. i think he's being realistic. he's admitting there's been mistakes maitt romney said he didn't make the best articulation when speaking of the 47%. they do need to eat a little humble pie and admit things are not all rosie. we can't deny what the polls are showing. we may be able to argue with the polls a little bit, but things need to pick up. i think paul ryan admitting that this morn

we have anna navarro who is never afraid to hold her tongue.t they go public with the criticism? >> oh, don. this happens in the campaigns an happens at the ends of c campaigns. there's been a roller coaster of love and hate with mitt romney throughout the entire primary and a lot of reviews and a lot of it is constructive criticism for the campaign. there is a lot of frustration. most republicans agree that they'd like to see governor romney win this election. i can tell you that is the case for me and frustration on how some of the mistakes that have been made, and the fact that there hasn't been -- >> ana, this is me, and the thing that i said -- >> all right. >> and the way i teased this is what republicans are really saying about mitt romney. what are saying about the tape and what some deem as a rush to judgment on libya, and what are the republicans really saying and how are they feeling about it? >> all right. i will tell you what they are saying, don. as a faithful catholic, they are saying a novena and if you are a optimist, we will w

. >>> joining me to talk about that is republican strategist anna navarro and republican strategist maria cardona. i wish i was with you guys, because it is not the same. >> we do, too. >> it is not the same without you here in person, suzanne. >> and they took away the cnn grill and it was a great time in the last three or so days that we had a chance to chat about this, and it was interesting yesterday, the crowd certainly respo responded to the president, and he made this case. give it more time, and essentially give him more time and he is not done yet, and he got a mess and he needs more time to fix this. it was a convincing to you? >> look, it was -- it was convincing to the base. i don't think that it reached the independent voters as much. we saw it in a focus group being held at the cnn grill. the independent voters s seemedo be precisely in the same place before the two conventions which is not a great thing, because we are fighting for a small pocket of voters. it was a hard speech for obama to give. he did what he needed to do. it is not an easy thing to go out there after hav

president obama needs to do this evening and of course our distinguished panelist dana bash and anna navarro and maria cardona. good to have you guys back. the ladies in the house again. we are a popular item here. >> i agree with you. >> i want to ask you guys, because after this speech, and we were all watching it in the convention and a lot of people who came up to me and said, if i could just vote for clinton again for a third term. there was a sense of we are waiting for obama, and we kind of miss this guy. i mean, you want to weigh in on this, and eb you, anna, do you miss the guy? >> and the republicans were saying the same thing. >> listen, i think that it was a terrific night for bill clinton. i know bill clinton, and i like bill clinton and yes, i admit it on national tv. she sh he showed us last night what a political comeback looks like. he was marginalized and he went from the first black president to being accused of being a racist. and the guy who marginalized him had to call him back to the rescue, and he did it in fine clintonesque form. he was didactic and funny and lengthy

just ahead, at the bottom of the hour, we'll talk with anna navarro about mitt romney courting that latinoi'm sure she has a lot to say. >> it's 18 minutes off the hour. christine romans has the headlines. >>> one day after releasing the report on the botched gun running operation, michael horowicz, the inspector general of the justice department will be testifying before a house oversight committee about the findings. that's scheduled to begin in just over four hours. his investigation found in criminal behavior and exonerates attorney general eric holder. 14 officials with department of justice and bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms face potential punishment. >>> 129 inmates who escaped from a mexican border town prison are still on the loose this morning. and now mexican authorities say the prisoners didn't dig a tunnel as first reported to escape but they escaped through the front door. 16 people including the prison director were arrested following this prison break. police in eagle pass, texas, just across the border say that town is on high alert. a danish gossip magazine publi