we'll ask convention expert antonio villaraigosa . we'll ask our sunday panel if they have been able to shift the dynamics in the campaign. all right now on "fox news sunday". and hello again from fox news, today in the queen city charlotte, north carolina, site of the democratic national convention. our sky box is high up in the time warner arena, home of the bob cats and starting tuesday, first two days of the convention and happy labor day weekend everyone. the holiday used to signal the start of the campaign, both sides have hit each other hard for monthings. the democrats prepare to nominate obama for a second term. we are joined by top strategist david axelrod. >> guest: thank you, chris. >> chris: anyone in the democratic convention four years ago remembers the magic there and since of hope andendless possibilities. how do you recapture that magic this week? >> guest: i am glad you have such warm memories of that convention. i share them. i think we are going to have a good week in charlotte. we don't have the problems that the

>> antonio villaraigosa served as the enforcer here. when he gave the voice vote, there were more people for it than against it. he had them vote again. the third time, it passes. although it was about the same. he was the enforcer. i saw him yesterday. he said, i listened to everybody. everybody had a voice. they had ten minutes to object and nobody did. >> i want to talk about the way this happened. i talked to delegates yesterday morning who did not hear about this until the voice vote was called for. one person said they were in the ladies' room. i talked to someone from muslim caucus. half of our folks were not in the seats. they did it at 5:00 in the afterno afternoon. democrats were outraged over the process. one pundit said we would have done it at gop, but after midnight. >> i talked to michael, a former san francisco supervisor. he ran the convention platform in 2008. the first rule is do not harm. don't have a major embarrassm t embarrassment. hue closely to the platform. >> one more strike on that rules thing which is antoni

forward to it. >> chris: up next, the chairman of the democratic convention, los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. villaraigosa. we'll be right back from hi. remember me? i'm one of more than 3 million disabled veterans living in the united states. my brothers and sisters gladly gave our all for our country, but we need help to get our lives back to normal again. that's why we depend on the dav, the disabled american veterans, to fight for benefits and rights that we earned. don't forget america's disabled veterans, and remember the dav. >> chris: and we are back now in the fox news sky box in the time-warner arena here in charlotte. the mayor of one of the nation's largest cities will have a big role this week. joining us now, the chairman of the democratic national convention, los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. welcome to "fox news sunday." >> good to see you again, chris. >> you may be the chairman of the democratic convention but you like to say and i will read the quote you take on stupid whereever is exists. what is stewed by with romney and the republicans. >> i don't want to describe

we'll ask the convention chairman los angeles mayor are antonio villaraigosa. and the romney ticket takes its momentum on the road. we will ask our sunday panel if they have been able to shift the dynamics in this it campaign. all right now on "fox news sunday." >>> and hello again from fox news today in the queen city, charlotte, north carolina. site of the democratic national convention. our fox news sky box is high up in the time-warner cable arena, home of the probasketball charlotte bobcats and starting tuesday the first two days of this convention. and happy labor day weekend, everyone, while this holiday used to signal the start of the fall campaign, both sides have been hitting each other hard for months. as democrats prepare to nominate barack obama for a second term we are joined from the trail by his top strategist david axelrod. welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thanks, chris, good to be with you. >> chris: any one at the democratic convention in denver four years ago remembers the magic there, the sense of hope and endless possibilities. how do

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antonio villaraigosa.dÍas para elecciones presidenciales, quÉ hacen para convencer a votantes que su partido es la mejor opciÓn, analizamos el panorama con dos polÍticos, bill richardson, ex gobernador de nuevo mÉxico, y oto reid del partido republicano. y ademÁs, con solo 37 aÑos de edad, juliÁn castro, el alcalde mÁs joven de una ciudad metropolitana, y darÁ el discurso principal de la convenciÓn democrata, marÍa elena salinas lo entrevistÓ, y entrevistas mias con el senador marco rubio, y jeff bush. rubio nos dijo quÉ sintiÓ al ser descartado a la vicepresidencia, y el hermano de bush explica por quÉ a republicanos les cuesta seducir a votantes hispanos, y ann romney, presenta el lado humano de su esposo, y dice que su familia tambiÉn es una fanmilia de inmigrantes, comenzamos. ♪. ♪♪. ♪. ♪. >>> vamos al punto, con jorge ram ramos. >>> vamos al punto. acabamos de regresar de la convenciÓn republicana en tampa, y vamos a ver el inicio de la convenciÓn democrata en charlotte en carolina del norte, estamos

los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa is the convention chairman. >> wove got the most comprehensive and deep -- we've got the most comprehensive and deep ground effort we've ever seen. in fact, this convention is not only going to be the most diverse, op and accessible, it's also -- open and accessible, it's also going to be a working convention. >> reporter: expect speakers to hit also on the president's foreign policy. >> the president has gotten us out of iraq. we're getting out of afghanistan. we've got free trade agreements in latin america. wpresident that brilliantly dealt with the situation in libya. i think what this president has done is restored our prestige abroad. >> reporter: then there's the clinton question. why is the former president taking a primetime role? >> what president clinton will say is if you're looking for a president who can grow the middle class, create that economic expansion, move away from the policies of the past that crashed your economy and punished the middle class, then barack obama is your guy. >> reporter: all this begins monday, then some sa

antonio villaraigosa, presidente convencion democrata esta eleccion va a ser muy cerquita, que la nacionrencia va a ser el voto latino, el voto de la mujer. los delegados republicanos tambien se fueron optimistas de su convencion en tampa. mario lopez, fondo de liderazgo hispano pues desgraciadamente las muchas fallas que ha tenido el presidete obama, no les puso atencion a los latinos por 3 anos, y ahora que es ano de eleccion empieza a hablarle a los latinos y empieza a sacar comerciales y empieza a atacar a romney y otra gente. y es 1 poco triste, pero lo importante es que se lleve a cabo 1 cambio para mejorar la situacion economica de todos los americanos. la convencion democrata tambien implicara desafios logisticos y preocupacion por el clima. los dos primeros dias se llevaran a cabo en una arena techada, pero la noche final el presidente obama y el vice presidente joe biden daran sus discursos en un estadio. standup: fernando pizarro, tampa florida a partir de este lunes, tendremos una cobertura completa de la convencion democrata. en tampa, florida, fernando pizarro. ... le recor

claudia uceda, con mas detalles..el presidente de la cn nacional democrata antonio villaraigosa dijola reforma migratoria y el acta del sueno sera una parte importante de la plataforma de su partido... "tenemos una plataforma muy diferente que los republica nos" el dice que no solo es diferente sino inclusiva .... "vas a ver una amplitud de representacion de ma delegados latinos de nuestra historia." se refiere a los 600 delegados latinos de un total de mas de los 5 mil que vinieron a charlotte.... estas dos delegadas mujeres viajaron desde virginia... "es importante que la comunidad latina se involucre, que la comunidad hispana participe." y como leni, a los delegados en estados cruciales como colorado, florida, nevada, virginia entre otros, se les ha asignado una semana de vistas a barrios minoritarios para empujar a votantes a las urnas " los retos son muy grandes ..y tras haber iniciado la convencion democrata..los republicanos reaccionaron al encuentro politico y sobre como se encuentra el pais a diferencia de hace cuatro ... le recordamos que solo quedan 63 dias para destino 20

el alcalde de la ciudad de los angeles, antonio villaraigosa, revela los detalles previos a este eventolorida jeff bush y le muestra el lado humano de su esposo, nos dice que su familia tambiÉn es una familia de inmigrantes. todo en al punto. >>> y si usted es amante de la cerveza y fabricaciÓn casera. le tenemos una recomendaciÓn muy particular. la casa blanca dio a conocer las cervezas favoritas del presidente obama. en 1600 de pensilvania avenue. la receta divulgada tras una peticiÓn del sitio web de la casa blanca. para refrescar un poquito la polÍtica. y el calor del verano. >>> los goles de la liga de mÉxico y la actividad deportiva en instantes. >>> una conmemoraciÓn que se realiza cada aÑo en el salvador. >>> se publican las primeras imÁgenes del cumpleaÑos de gabriel garcÍa mÁrquez >>> dtodavÍa con nosotros. >>> que tal lourdes felix, buenas tardes. hay buenas noticias para el tri mexicano. el portero memo ochoa estÁ... y ademÁs, no permitiÓ ningÚn gol. pero antes vamos con la emociÓn del torneo apertura mexicano. adelante. arrancamos con la visita de los jaguares al estadio ca

the chairman of the democratic convention and the mayor of los angeles, antonio villaraigosa, joins mee. i want to get to the news of bill clinton on stage, wow, he got a lot of really high praise across the board. it's a two-part question for you as we go and we listen to a quick excerpt. as you listen to these, mr. mayor, i want you to answer the question afterwards, was it so good that it might have been too good and too tough an act to follow? >> i want to nominate a man who's cool on the outside. but who burns for america on the inside. and by the way, after last night, i want a man who had the good sense to marry michelle obama. >> mayor villaraigosa, the crowd went wild, look at you. you're still basking in it as well. it's no secret the republicans have said that might be their secret weapon because it might be hard to follow and it also might remind people that president obama is not president clinton. your thoughts? >> actually, it's going to be an absolute assistance to the president. this was a shot in the arm that was a rocket launch, if you will. president clinton is not

join ming me are north carolina governor bev per due and mayor of los angeles antonio villaraigosa and also chair of the democratic governors association martin o'malley. what you hope people will take away from the convention? >> you want to crystallize the choices that the american people have in this election, a choice that invests in the economy from the middle-out, that continues to builds on some of the progress. we have created 4.5 million jobs in the last four years. 29 consecutive months of growth in our economy, and we want to continue that, and we also want to compare and contrast with the failed bush policies that romney/ryan would like to promote going into the future. >> all of that in mind, i want to show our viewers the latest cnn/orc poll, and this is about enthusiasm. are you extremely or very enthusiastic about voting in november was the question, and what we see is that since 2008, republican enthusiasm is way up, and democratic enthusiasm is down almost ten points, and why is that governor o'malley? >> well, you have yet to see the greatcandy, coming up. >> you are

antonio villaraigosa, presidente convencion democrata en 1 convencion como esta, donde hay tanta gente como el presidente, gobernado res, senadores, realmente la seguridad tiene que ser comprehensiva. tambien habra desafios logisticos cuando el jueves la convencion se traslade del time warner cable arena al estadio bank of america, donde el presidente aceptara la nominacion.aun asi, este doming registro la primera protesta del movimiento ocupa en contra de las corportaciones en una semana que contempla otras manifestaciones. al interior del centro de convenciones, delegados que asisten por primera vez estan entusiastas. jacquelene burke, delegada de florida tengo toda la confianza que va a haber movimiento despues de esta conferencia. politicos democratas quieren que la convencion energize el voto hispano por obama. kenneth mcclintock, secretario de estado puertorriqueno no tiene problemas pero tenermos que asegurarnos que haya el entusiasmo de subir a votar por el y que cada hispano reconozc que su voto si cuenta. standup: fernando pizarro, charlotte, carolina del norte para este mart

atlanta mayor kasim reed; houston mayor annise parker and antonio villaraigosa, mayor of los angeles and convention chair. thank you all for being with us. >> glad to be here. >> great to be here. >> woodruff: i do want to ask you about city issues but mayor villaraigosa what happened at the very beginning of this convention earlier this evening when you galved it to order and tried to add language in the platform about voice vote that would recognize jerusalem as capital of israel. you had to take the vote three times because the "nos" were almost as loud as the "yas." >> actually, the first time i knew we had a majority. the second time i was pretty sure, by the third time i was absolutely sure. that's what i oh, pined. you have 10 minutes to object. and nobody did. >> woodruff: but what was that all about? i mean the party has already been refugee criticism about taking that language out of the platform this year. >> i'll tea you what it was about. we have a president who expects the platform to reflect his values and his sentiments. and he made it clear that he wanted that langua

here was los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa on cbs "this morning". >> the answer is we are better off. >> but the romney campaign hit democrats for that, too, saying eney weren't facing reality. vice presidential nominee paul ryan was in north carolina. >> the president can say a lot c things-- and he will-- but he can't tell you that you're t hter off. simply put: the jimmy carter years look like the good old days compared to where we are right now. (laughter) he reporter: vice president biden arrived in detroit armed with this answer. >> you want to know whether we're better off? i've got a little bumper sticker ffr you. "osama bin laden is dead and general motors is alive!" >> reporter: by some measures, americans are better off today. home prices are up and jobs are being created. however, median income, jim, is down since the president took office and unemployment is higher than when he came to office. it's now 8.3%. >> axelrod: bob schieffer is our chief washington correspondent and the anchor of "face the nation." e thoins us from the time warner cable arena in charlotte. b

. >> i am proud to nominate antonio guard cosa -- antonio villaraigosa. >> this includes the officersonal convention. do i hear a second? is there any discussion? the chair calls to question all those in favor. all those opposed say "no." the rules committee report is adopted. thank you so much to our real committee's co-chair. thank you very much. the rules of the convention allow me to appoint other officers to assist in the orderly conduct of the proceedings. it is now my great honor to announce the following additional convention officers as recommended by the convention rules committee. to serve as a convention parliamentarian, house minority whip steny hoyer from the great state of maryland, and helen mcfadden, michael coleman, cassandra butte, john perez, and nina shaw from chicago. john lewis will serve as our sergeant in arms. in addition, my colleague and friends will serve as the assistance sergeants and arms. bruce will serve as our doorkeeper. hines will be our timekeeper. each of these convention officers is dedicated to strengthening their communities and our country. t

this morning they have antonio villaraigosa, the mayor of los angeles, and chairman of the democratic national convention. he is the newsmaker this morning at the politico play book breakfast. that is due to start about 8:30 a.m. a couple of e-mails we've received on the question we're asking this morning of president obama's '08 supporters, i will be voting for president obama again, just because i like him, it has nothing to do with party, it is because is he as aligned himself with compassionon and i think he calls the world just a bit. another e-mail was bob, is bob from venice, florida, i went with obama four years ago as an independent and will do so again. the alternative is a pair of candidates who are building their campaign on a foundation of lies and distorted information. next call comes from armondo in bar harbor maine. are you sticking with the president in 2012? >> you know i'm not. i am desperately hopeing -- >> [inaudible] >> i think that when he started the term focusing on health care, i thought that was important, something that would help, business, right? if you

calls and comments on "washington journal," then "newsmakers" with antoniovil antonioville -- antonio villaraigosaf beer on the wall 99 bottles of beer? nobody? >> i was told there were u.n. peacekeepers who were killed by borians? >> the french -- at the beginning of the crisis and here we have these military fighting each other. that's how the u.n. came to resolve it. >> sounds to me like he's dodging the question. >> i walked out of my apartment, the upper west side of manhattan. a nice place to live. nothing particularly exciting generally happens there. i came out and was greeted by a man who was waiting, very nicely dressed, nice, well-made suit, waiting for me outside of my apartment and he said are you ami horowitz? and my spiedy senses are tingling a little bit. i said yes, i am. he said is this movie more important than your family? >> why does an investment banker make a mill m on u.n. west, mismanagement, and crimes committed by its troops. find out tonight with ami horowitz. >> a preview of this week's democratic national convention. then

. >> the chairman of the convention is mayor antonio villaraigosa. you would think he would get good seats. >> in the back in the corner in the dark. >> you know i know where the california delegation is. >> yep, they are in the cheap seats. first rows are reserved for swing states like iowa and nevada. >> i hope california is never up front. >> california delegates are being met by an army of volunteers. can't say if it contributed to the rejection of a delegate, but then two delegates showed up one falsely claiming to be a congressman and he was asked to go home. no names are being released. today only one arrest as several hundred marched through uptown charlotte. the march on wall street went through the wells fargo building and the bank of america headquarters. you remember the woman kicked out during romney's speech? she is here in charlotte with her code pink crew. >> you can see people of all races and economic backgrounds in the streets. a lot of young people that makes me inspired. >> inspiring young voters is the goal to convention organiz

. >> the chairman of the convention is mayor antonio villaraigosa. you would think he would get good seats. >> in the back in the corner in the dark. >> you know i know where the california delegation is. >> yep, they are in the cheap seats. first rows are reserved for swing states like iowa and nevada. >> i hope california is never up front. >> california delegates are being met by an army of volunteers. can't say if it contributed to the rejection of a delegate, but then two delegates showed up one falsely claiming to be a congressman and he was asked to go home. no names are being released. today only one arrest as several hundred marched street went on wall street went through the wells fargo building and the bank of america headquarters. you remember the woman kicked out during romney's speech? she is here in charlotte with her code pink crew. >> you can see people of all races and economic backgrounds in the streets. a lot of young people that makes me inspired. >> inspiring young voters is th convention organizers. they will stream the entire

mayor >> antonio villaraigosa was the chair and speaking of people who want to run for governor, he has made no bones about the fact that he wants to be gov. jerry brown's opponent, not opponent but will follow him whenever jerry brown has turned out. he spent four days or so wheen mayors from all over the state and as the chairman of the convention he had to boxes that were full of celebrities with mayors coming in and out and did a really good job of leveraging his position at the convention, to make relationships with people and laid the groundwork for a gubernatorial run in what will probably be 2018. gavin newsom kept a very low profile, did not have a reception or anything. the only thing he did was make this gaffe >> mayor ed lee was there as well. >> he was very active. he will be campaigning for obama in some swing states with asian populations like pennsylvania and virginia and he had a reception featuring mc hammer who did the video for mayor ed lee mayoral campaign. the bid rumor is mc hammer is rumored to be running for mayor of oakland. it was really the highlight of my tw

los angeles mayor, mayor antonio villaraigosa called for a vote.ed it a second time, then a third time. >> i'll do that one more time. all those delegates in favor say aye. [aye ] >> all those opposed say no. [no!] >> in the opinion of the chairman the motion was adopted. jon: sounds like a two-thirds victory to you? you decide. in case there is any doubt about how the party leaders and what that he wanted it to go. here is the teleprompter that was already scripted with the new language. how are the media handling all of this. ellen ratner is bureau chief of the talk news service. jim pinkerton is a contributing editor and writer for a conservative magazine, both are fox news contributors. two-thirds majority voting yes there, ellen? >> listen, i understand that you guys have said that the media has ignored this issue. i represent talk radio and talk radio media. i've got to tell you, every one of our stations from 6:30 this morning on, democrats, republicans, middle level stations all those kind of hosts, everyone brought that up. either there is

. >> reporter: good morning, including mayor antonio villaraigosa who will be a speaker.e get into the convention, president obama is still on the campaign trail hitting some battle ground states. let's talk a little about those states that he's hitting including colorado. that's where the president was yesterday. president obama talking about the republicans saying that they offered new solutions but didn't really give any at their convention. moving on the president will be in ohio today, traditionally presidents do that on labor day. he will be with union members there. and then he'll go to louisiana to visit storm victims and to make a statement there later before coming here the president will speak at the stadium on thursday. meantime, mitt romney took the day off on sunday, he had paul ryan out refuting what the president was saying, ryan saying there is no way this president can run on his record, that record is exactly what democrats will be talking about when they begin their meeting here tomorrow afternoon. live from charlotte, tracie potts for "today in the ba

other speakers today include los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa, cecile richards who is the president of planned her head, and sandra fluke, the recent graduate of georgetown university law center who came under attack after inge speak -- after speaking out about insurance coverage for contraception. the convention opened on tuesday, exactly nine weeks before the general election. on opening night, democrats touted president, and his achievements on issues ranging from health care and women's rights to immigration and ending the war in iraq. about two dozen democratic congress women and candidates took the stage together to criticize the republicans on a number of issues including healthcare, equal pay, and domestic violence. illinois congressional candidate tammy duckworth, who lost her legs serving in iraq, criticized republican nominee mitt romney for ignoring the war in afghanistan. other speakers included lilly ledbetter, for whom the lilly ledbetter fair pay act was named, and san antonio mayor julian castro. will your act serbs from their speeches in a moment. the evening culmi

. >> joining me now is los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa and thank you both for being here. madam secretary, start with you and the school choice issue. you seem to be wavering on where you are in school choice. is ithe answer when it comes to accountitoc school systems or maybe are we rushing too much? >> no, i'm a big supporter of school choice so long as we have information that empowers the consumer so they can use it efiv all of the things that go hand in hand. when parents are powered with information and the resources as governor romney said to follow with the children to schools of their choice i think it's a perfect combination. >> what is your hesincy? ght n i n tt, right? >> i don't think we're seeing that. in d.c., we have seen really effective school choice programs work around other parts of the country. here is the difference. you know, kids can vote with their feet. parents can vote with their feet ho o woo vouchers nhart as we have in d.c. >> you would have in los angeles, i know you don't fully run the school system per se but the challenge then is if you h

joining us is the chairman of the national democratic convention antonio villaraigosa. you may be the chairman of the democratic convention but you like to say, and i am going to read the quote, you take on stupid wherever it exists. what is stupid will romney and the republicans. >> i don't want to describe either governor romney for t-- e republicans stupid. i will say this. if you look at their platform the 2012 platform it looks like it is from another century maybe even two. it looks like the platform of 1812. when you see that they want to repeal the affordable care act dividing 32 million people with healthcare with no alternative plan of their own they call for the deportation of 11 million people no country in the world has ever done that, don't believe in abortion even in the case of rape and incest, it is a platform that is from another century. >> i want to point out it doesn't matter that romney does support the exception for rape and incest. since you take on stupid wherever it exist what is is stupid about obama and the democrats. >> if i wasn't going to

joining us now, the chairman of the democratic national convention, los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. welcome to "fox news sunday." >> good to see you again, chris. >> you may be the chairman of the democratic convention but you like to say and i will read the quote you take on stupid whereever is exists. what is stewed by with romney and the republicans. >> i don't want to describe either governor romney or the republicans as stupid but i will say this. if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it is from another century and maybe even two. it looks like the platform of 1812. when you see that they want to repeal the affordable care act providing 32 million people with healthcare with no alternative plan of their own, they call for the self-deportation of 11 million people. no country in the world has ever done that. they don't believe in abortion even in the case of rape and incest. it is a platform that is from another century. >> chris: i just want to point out that romney does support the exception for rape and incest. since you say that you take on stupid

joining me now, antonio villaraigosa, national co-chair for the obama for america campaign. also joining us, the former u.s. secretary of commerce, carlos gutierrez, who co-chairs mitt romney's hispanic steering committee. gentlemen, thanks very much for joining us. mayor villaraigosa, i will start with you. the president participating in a discussion today in the spanish language network univision, was pressed pretty hard by the anchor, jorge ramos on why he didn't achieve comprehensive immigration reform in his first term. i want to play a little clip of that exchange and let you respond. listen to this. >> may 28th, 2008, we had a conversation in denver, colorado. you told me the following, and i want to quote you. what i can guarantee is that we will have in the first year an immigration bill that i strongly support. >> i confess i did not expect and so i'm happy to take responsibility for being naive here, is that republicans who had previously supported comprehensive immigration reform, my opponent in 2008, who had been a champion of it, and who attended these meetings