roscoe bartlett's district was changed to include a huge number of democratic leaping voters. >>> for the race for the white house, it comes to virginia once again. republican vice presidential candidate congressman paul ryan will be in glen allen just north of richmond this morning and then in springfield this afternoon. >> the campaign continues to focus on medicare. here is jennifer davis. >> reporter: mitt romney rolls up his sleeves and pols out a white board to sketch out the differences he sees between the these's medicare plan and his own. >> there is in change for seniors in medicare. >> their plan makes seniors pay more. >> reporter: ryan propose to transform medicare in his budget plan offering an alternative to the president's proposal. >> is voucherrizes medicare. it shifts costs to seniors. president's plan does none of that. >> he raid i had $716 bill job from made care to pay for obamacare. >> reporter: rome me remains on the offensive. the president is appealing to seniors warning the gop man would eventually cost them an extra $6400 a year. >> there is no doubt there

a few noticeable absentees from the convention, roscoe bartlett and george allen. i know they have tough races at home. does ha perhaps have something to do with it -- that perhaps have something to do with it? >> it has everything to do with. it roscoe bartlett is in a district that is now majority democratic because it was redistricted. he has an opponent who has a lot of money and bartlett is really the underdog in that race and i don't think i with the republican label wants to be too attached to what is a partisan effort which is a convention, a political party convention. when it comes to george allen, that's a dead heat against tim kaine and i think george allen thinks it's better to spend time in the commonwealth campaigning raising money and also trying to appeal to people who are not either republicans or democrats but who are independents. >> let me ask you this. perhaps in an effort to change perceptions, the rnc is rolling out a congressional nominee from utah named mia love. what can you tell us about her and the strategy here? >> yeah. she's a speake

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this puts congressman bartlett in great jeopardy. republicans have gathered enough signatures to challenge the redistricting, but attorneys for the democratic party argued in court the signature gathering process was flawed. attorneys for the state told the appellate panel the signatures are valid and the referendum should be held. even though democrats outnumber republicans in maryland, republicans are confident if they can challenge the redistricting in the voting booth, they will win. >> this happened before in 1962. the league of women voters which opposed this map opposed the map at the time, let the petition drive, got it on the ballot and the citizens said no and they got a much better map in 1965. i believe the same thing will happen again. >> reporter: the court of appeals is expected to expedite its ruling on whether the signatures are valid for the referendum on congressional redistricting. why expedite the ruling? because on monday the secretary of state of maryland is supposed to publish the formal language that will be

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expediency the call of the day let's make everyone happy i wrote my congressman congressman roscoe bartlett about this issue of privacy and legislation and what was the thing that gave him confidence that this power would not be abused he said it's based on good faith. well. coming up news is breaking another oil company misbehaving why do well and companies and corporations as a whole in america have such privileged positions in our economy isn't it time they were punished for their wrongdoings. wealthy british style. markets. what's really happening to the global economy with. the global financial headlines. a report. mission. couldn't take three months for chargers three arrangement three. three. three. three brought us closer to zero for your media projects. done to our dot com. now a quick update out of fukushima thanks to nuclear power japan is now home to mutant butterflies two months after the fukushima disaster scientists collected more than one hundred butterflies around the site and said is now show that twelve percent of them had abnormalities or mutations when those butterflies

police say the boat's driver, david haytina of bartlett, had cocaine and drugs in his system at the time. he's being held on one million dollars bond ... charged with reckless homicide and aggravated d.u.i. we're learning more details about congressman jesse jackson junior's medical condition. jackson is being treated for bi- polar 2 depression --which means he suffers from extreme mood swings. a statement released by the mayo clinic ... says the disorder is most likely caused by a complex set of genetic and environmental factors. treatment could be complicated by jackson's bariatric weight loss surgery. in 2004, he underwent a procedure to change how his body absorbs, food nutrients and medicine. bipolar disorder is common and treatable. jackson has been on a leave of absence, for more than two months. he's up for re-election in november. next in this noon hour: she was sexually assaulted during a 1500-mile solo journey around lake michigan. now a chicago area rower has returned home to tell her harrowing story. new allegations of abuse are surfacing against jerry sandusky and another p

expediency is the call of the day let's make everyone happy i wrote my congressman congressman roscoe bartlett about this issue of privacy and legislation and what was the thing that gave him confidence that this power would not be abused he said it's based on good faith. well now there were people i mean call me and ashcroft apparently who want to push back on that we have just a minute left either of you are there are people in this administration in the government right now pushing back or is as it just all been thrown over the overboard well i would tell you that right now my personal hero in this fight is senator ron wyden of oregon. and just recently he and eleven other senators signed the letter and sent it to the director of national intelligence asking that this whole patriot act section seven o two be examined because there are laws in there that even the american people don't know about and when the public doesn't know about something anything can happen that's extraordinary kurt thanks so much for being thank you it's a pleasure to me thank you thank you for dropping by. to see thi

expediency is the call of the day let's make everyone happy i wrote my congressman congressman roscoe bartlett about this issue of privacy and legislation and what was the thing that gave him confidence that this power would not be abused he said it's based on good faith. well. coming up news is breaking another oil company misbehaving why do oil companies or corporations as a whole in america have such privileged positions in our economy isn't it time they were punished for their wrongdoings. mr. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. pepper spray that just burns your eyes right right i mean it's like a derivative of actual pepper it's a food product essentially. this is much stronger than anything if you buy a lot of sort of these is thousands of times was stronger than any kind of the body of ever put. into it only military mechanisms to do the work to bring justice or accounta

bruce bartlett, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank the war room with jennifer granholm. [ ♪ themeusic ♪ ] >> i'm jennifer granholm. coming up in the war room tonight. it's professor romney with a quick study that we should all be paying attention to. lying in 30 seconds. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> the political ad wars have moved from the airwaves to the schoolyard as shouts of liar liar pants on fire echo across the election landscape. priorities usa ran an ad implying that when romney's bain capital closed a steel mill it caused the loss of a job and insurance and the death of his cancer-stricken wife. we had that ad on a radio show today. >> the various fact checkers look at these charges in the obama ads and they say that they're wrong and inaccurate. yet he keep in the past when people point out something was inaccurate, campaigns even pull the ad. they were embarrassed. today they just blast ahead. >> where do even begin with all of this. first of all that ad is not a "lie" as bill burton said on cnn. >> what this ad does is it tells of story of one guy and how it impact-- >> th

that changed republican congressman ross could bartlett's district to include a huge number of democratic leaning voters. >>> breaking news out of afghanistan this morning. it has happened again. american troops killed by an afghan police officer. we'll get the details on that story. >> plus, tragedy at a major league baseball park. we'll tell what you happened in the stands that got the players' attention next as we check more headlines. stay with us. release me, momigus! that's mom to you. and you should eat something that's good for you before you go outside. never! come on james. it's a new fiber one chewy bar. chocolatey and delicious. fiber one chewy bar, huh? mmm. refueled space captain james. [ male announcer ] new fiber one chewy bars. great taste kids love plus calcium and fiber kids need. >>> we continue to follow breaking news from afghanistan this morning where, for the second time in a week, an afghan security officer has turned his weapon on american troops. nato says a shooting today killed two u.s. service members who were training the afghan officer. it happened in a far

. >> that is going to go down in history in bartlett's quotation -- kiss my -- and you know the rest of it. and this is a holy site. putting those two thoughts together it is hard for most people. jonathan, what did you fellows and women think when you heard in the press corps that conjunction of words. kiss my followed by this is a holy site? >> i think it reflects the frustration on governor romney's staff because, you know, they are trying to do their job and sort of corral us. look, we have a job to do, too, in the press corps. and that is, for our readers, to get answers from the candidate for the president of the united states. the fact is that he had not given any real time to the traveling press corps and a question and answer session, traditional press conference like many candidates do. like president obama did four years ago when he was then senator obama and so we had no choice but to yell questions when we have an opportunity to the candidate when he's walking to his motorcade after he finishes a public event. it's unfortunate it got to that, but, look, this is what happ

let's bring bruce bartlett and rachel smoken. is out there somewhere. >> i'm here. >> thank you all for joining us. rachel, clint eastwood, do you think this was a little weird or brilliant? >> the takeaway here is that sometimes teleprompters are a good thing and sometime that sometimes teleprompters are a good thing. this was a jarring moment. really a stunning moment, and it's all the talk today. any time you have the nominee come out, and it was machinery's big night, but all the talk today is of clint eastwood. >> the case was to get the -- clearly the cloud in the room loved it, but on television, watching this play out was surreal. he said paging salvador dolly on this and that's the message you hear every day. >> let's get to romney, i'm not sure the salvador dolly thing is going over well. most people watched and said what's this and they watched and that's the point. romney, did he hit it, did he lure the unsort of committed voter to the gop camp with his speech last night? >> i didn't hear anything that sounded to me l

that changed republican congressman roscoe bartlett's district to include a huge number of democratic leaning voters. >>> the road to the white house passing through our area once again. today republican vice presidential candidate paul ryan will be campaigning in virginia. wisdom martin back now with the details on the visit plus the latest numbers that are coming out of the battleground state. >> say are the latest information is that now we are hearing the obama campaign just within the last hour or so came out with a special offer to mitt romney saying if he releases five years of tax returns they won't credit same him for not releasing them any more. a new poll showing president obama leaving romney in -- leading romney in virginia. the race to white house comes to virginia once again. now republican vice presidential candidate paul ryan will be in glen allen this morning and then in springfield this afternoon. the campaign for the moment continues to focus on medicare while issues about running mates and taxes tax returns are keeping both sides on the defensive. now mitt romney

. >> look some other folks have written an article about bruce bartlett a conservative who says the regulatoryncertainty is a canard. as somebody who is in business in the private sector i can tell you, i don't see uncertainty. i know what the tax it's a will be,a couple of points or two. >> that's enough whether capital gains is 15 or 20, marginal rate is 35 or 39, that won't be despositive on an investment whether there is demand for what i am make something what i look like. >> last july i remember what happened. >> we hit the fiscal cliftf, the last-minute bargain. both sides mulingsdzed along. the credit rating was downgraded. what we are talking alongddled along. the credit rating was downgraded. what we are talking along it may not be as deeply substantive as you want it to be but it's about confidence. it's about feeling. it's about the sense that the nation somehow has got its act together and do you think it does right now? >> sure. >> you have a life of politics. the answer is "no." ? >> there is no question the governing structure of our government is failing. i take that as a prem

i'm mark bartlett, the head librarian at the library, and it's wonderful to have you for an event during national library week which we are celebrating here at the society library. i'm glad you could all be with us. we're also pleased to have the folks from booktv from c-span with us tonight, and they will be recording this event for future be broadcasts. as we begin, let me ask you to, please, if you have a cell phone, a pager, anything electronic to just take it out now and silence it, and your neighbors and viewers of the program will appreciate it. tonight i'm especially honored to the have two very loyal society library members speak to us about their new book, "pax ethnica: where and how diversity succeeds," published by public affairs here in thy. karl e. meyer and shareen blair brysac have been members of this library since 1974. mr. meyer and ms. brysac are the authors of numerous books which you will see in your program, many of which are on display here at the front of our members room. i would like to take a moment to mention that the last time they spoke for us in 2008 they

this weekend donald bartlett and james steele share their opinions with fox news analyst how the foundation of america's middle class have been dismantled by washington and wall street. it airs every saturday on booktv at 10:00 p.m. eastern and 9:00 p.m. and midnight. up next "new york times" financial writer talks about her recent bock ""the wizard of lies"." bernie this is about an hour. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. thank you for being with us today. i would like to graduate you all on your wise decision to come in here to see dyne. you'll know here in an hour when you feel smarter and more in control of the own financial future. diana henriques is the author of the "new york times" best seller wizard of lies. looks like this you can buy your own company right outside afterwards in the u of a bookstore tent and u of a bookstore or signing area which is signing area b.s dini we hope to see you there.at beforet writing the book she had been a writer for "the new yorkg times" since 1989, before that she wa s a writer for the bar rends magazine a philadelphia respond and investigate

dan bartlett, thank you. >> thank you, dan.g joe" will be live at the blackfinn saloon. we're bar hoing convention to convention in charlotte, north carolina, for the dnc. still ahead, ariana huffington and next he was on mitt romney's short list as a vp candidate. senator rob portman of ohio joins us and rick stengel with a new issue of "time" magazine. this is "morning joe" live from the elephant bar. [ applause ] humans -- even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. namely, other humans. which is why, at liberty mutual insurance, auto policies come with new car replacement and accident forgiveness if you qualify. see what else comes standard at libertymutual.com. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? he speaks a weird language... [ gargling ] drinks green stuff. he says he's from albuquerque. i'm not buying it. i mean, just look at him. and one more thing -- he has a spaceship. [ whirring ] the evidence doesn't lie. my dad's an alien. [ male announcer ] the highly advanced

i mean we never made a big deal when the economist bartlett who worked for reagan and kemp and georgeut for obama's stimulus package. you will find people say it is thoughtful. and look, i will even go so far to say it is thoughtful. it is wrong but it is thoughtful. martha: andrea. >> bob will reach for the maalox after he gets off the set because that kind of video is so damaging to have democrats actually praising paul ryan as sensible and honest and his budget really is. a lot of the ideas that he has in there, martha, are from democrats. they're from john breaux. they're from the clinton era in the 1990s. and his plan is basically the same way that federal employees get their benefits, through choice and competition. and if it is good enough for federal employees and members of congress, then it is probably good enough for paul ryan's own grandma. and just real quick, in that video as well, bowles went on to actually say negative things about president obama's budget, a budget that i should mention his own party voted down 97-0. >> you remember he had negative things to say about

. >> dan bartlett served as counselor to the president and white house communications director during bush administration and currently the president and ceo . i want to get your take on romney's speech and ryan and christy and the whole bit. it is unfair but this is what people are talking about. here is the post this morning, it is not romney, it is clint eastwood, the headline is feeling lucky, punk? if you were organizing this convention would you have let romney get upstaged like this? why did this happen? >> i have no idea how something like this happens. obviously when you have somebody like clint eastwood who is an icon to so many americans and around the world, you're obviously very excited about having him come and speak at the convention and you obviously would hope it is one tightly controlled and scripted. i saw somebody compare it to the person at the rehearsal dinner and you're cringing in your napkin wondering what the next world is going to come out. that was wild. i could not believe it. whether it upstaged or not, in the scheme of things it was a very successful con