well, thank you so much for that warm welcome to baldwin wallace university.ause] i would like to thank my friend and wonderful senator, rob portman. thank you for all you do for your country. and you cannot find a finer public servant than rob portman. thank you. [applause] now, it is true i am going to go see the cleveland browns, who by my count won the game last week. but that is not why i am here. i want, like you, to see this country prosper and continue to be a place of unlimited opportunity. to see this country lead the world toward prosperity and liberty and peace. and so i am here to support mitt romney and paul ryan in that quest. this is a pivotal time in our country's history. we are at a crossroads, ladies and gentlemen. we are at a crossroads about what kind of country we are going to be and whether you and i, who have benefited so much from what our ancestors gave us, are going to pass on that same country of liberty and opportunity to our children. is about. [applause] we are at a crossroads because we cannot continue to spend money that we ca

this is the baldwin wallace university, a liberal arts college methodist-related college, and this isevent for paul ryan post-presidential debate, so it will be really interesting to see wha he has to say about his colleague and running mate's performance last night. wolf blitzer is still live with me, and those four questions that we had asked before the break, i want to get back to question three, and it had to do with gas prices. should the energy department's policy be to lower gas prices? candy crowley had to ask this question four times, wolf blitzer, and neither one of these candidates could really come out with a good straight answer on this. is that effective to try to evade when you can't actually give a straight answer that's going to appeal to the entire voting block? is this something we just forget? >> well, there's a simple answer. the policy of the united states government is to reduce america's dependence on imported foreign oil to increase domestic production, including from all of the united states and north america, for that matter, from canada, from mexico, or wha

pretty good sized crowd here at this baldwin wallace college where condi rice was with paul ryan. they're watching the cleveland browns practice. she's a big fan. she kicked off her speech as she did in the tampa republican national convention, the promise of america being threatened for the individual that the current course that country is on is going to make it difficult for younger people to realize the dreams of their parents and grandparents and so she says that's one reason why the country should vote for mitt romney and paul ryan that they've got a set of plans that will reverse the trend that the country is on with the run away deficit spending and the like. paul ryan for his part, talked about the standard stuff, the five-point plan that governor is proposing for a stronger middle class but he weighed in just a little bit on the first two presidential debates. take a look at his assessment of those first two. >> we saw a president offering not a single new idea on how to turn things around. we saw a president not offer a single idea or a lesson learned from the fail your

well, thank you so much for that warm welcome to baldwin wallace university. i have to start by saying go jackets. [laughter] [applause] i would like to thank my friend and wonderful senator, rob port man. thank you for all you do for your country. and you cannot find up finer public servant than rob portman. thank you. [applause] now, it is true i am going to go see the cleveland browns to by my count won the game last week. who by my count won the game last week. but that is not why i am here. i want, like you, to see this country prosper and continue to be a place of unlimited opportunity. to see this country lead the world toward prosperity and liberty and peace. and so i am here to support mitt romney and paul ryan in that quest. this is a pivotal time in our country's history. we are at a crossroads, ladies and gentlemen. we are at a crossroads about what kind of country we are going to be and whether you and i, who have benefited so much from what our ancestors gave us, are going to pass on that same country of liberty and opportunity to our children. a