there are some fun things to unpack in what john boehner said.ds like he believes democrats are willing to go off the cliff, as i have been urging them to do, since that is the only way to bring republicans to the negotiating table quickly and get any kind of reasonable outcome. boehner's use of the phrase "tank our economy," is also important, because he's accepting cbo's description of what would happen. boehner is admitting that the spending cuts that will be triggered on january 1st, unless congress negotiates some other agreement, will help tank the economy, along with an increase in the income tax rates. but, remember that republican orthodoxy now, which is to say the republican lie now, the republican economic insanity now is that government spending does not affect jobs in any way. doesn't create jobs. but there's boehner saying that cuts in government spending will tank the economy, just as cbo says it will, and will increase unemployment. of course, we will not go into recession if we actually do go off the cliff on january 1st, because

but what i'm saying is, i think that john boehner can't do anything.looks very often like he's in a hostage video because these folks are holding him in a way that he doesn't even feel like he really looks like he believes some of the things that he's saying. i think eric cantor and some of these rebel upstarts are the ones who are really in control of this horse, and john boehner is just being drug along. >> and ana, you see the absurdity of, you know, him trying to say to leslie stahl, you know, anything but the word "compromise." he's trying to get through the sentence without using the word "compromise," to the point where it's just obviously funny to leslie, that he was trying to do this, that there would be some price to pay within his caucus if he simply says the word "compromise" to her. >> i think jamal is totally right about the hostage video analogy. maybe he's trying to send us messages through different shades of tan, i mean, i don't know. it would explain something about that varying color of orange he has. but it is getting kind of ridic

boehner becomes speaker, he's going to have to govern. he can't stand on the sidelines and throw bombs. and so boehner: we have to govern, that's what we were elected to do. >> but governing means compromising. >> it means working together. >> it also means compromising. >> it means finding common ground. >> okay. doesn't that mean compromising? >> i am clear, i'm not going to compromise on my principles, nor am i going to compromise the will of the american people. [laughter] >> so you're saying i want common ground, but i'm not going to compromise? i don't understand that, i really don't. >> when you say the word "compromise," a lot of americans look up and go, uh-oh, they're going to sell me out. so finding common ground, i think, makes more sense. >> so, look, you tried to make all the bush tax cuts permanent, so you did compromise. >> we found common ground. >> why won't you say -- you're afraid of the word? >> can i reject the word. [laughter] >> that conversation on "60 minutes" was people in the house caucus, some of the freshmen,

, boehner baby.t's okay. it was an accident. >> he's the leaker of the house. >> what is hell is wrong with him? stop crying. >> be quiet. >> boehner baby, everything makes him cry. >> available at walgreens. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: the 43rd annual san diego convention center today. comicon. good luck finding a boba fete costume this weekend. they're out. i made 100,000 people who attend comicon this year. it's a huge locker stuffed with nerds. they say -- they're predicting this will be the largest collection of asthma inhalers in the world. if your wondering where your i.t. guy is tomorrow, odds are he's in san diego dressed up like hell boy. nasa just made a big announcement. they discovered previously recorded fifth moon orbiting pluto. it has five moons where we have just the one. i feel like nasa knows about all the moons in the universe already. they discover one every six to nine months. just to stay relevant. same way the kardashians do with weddings, to keep themselves in the news

representative john boehner earlier this week speaker boehner posted on his website that president obama quote continues to blame anyone and everyone for the drought but himself of course referring to the massive drought that is ravaging the midwest . in the united states basically boehner thinks that president obama who is just one normal guy has the ability to control the uncontrollable to influence whether in nature boehner wants obama to play god which is particularly funny because he and his republican colleagues have attacked the president over the last three years for trying to do just that play god next up john boehner blames president obama for the rain that washed out his golf match last weekend. and now the very very ugly monsanto the agribusiness in genetically modified food giant has contributed more than four million dollars to a group group opposing a california ballot measure that would require labels to let consumers know if the foods they're buying are genetically modified monsanto isn't the only corporation trying to prevent americans from knowing what's in their food

simpson-bowles report was a basis for where the president was in the discussion with john boehner. contrast that with paul ryan who voted against it and plan does not balance the budget. >> we got to remember here. we have to remember. ryan's cost savingings. no one was cutting anything. you are talking about slowing the growth of the government 5.6 trillion in ryan's and 4. on this side. >> that is not correct. you are talking about 20 billion in spending cuts. >> no, no, no. we are talking. you are wrong here. i want to make this clear. we are talking over 10 years. we'll have more spending than we do now. i want to make that clear. >> what percentage of gdp. >> but you look at. that's how you look at these things as a percentage of gdp and that's how you figure out if you are increasing or decreasing the debt. taxes would go up and pending would go down. that's how you get deficit savingings. >> you don't believe that the president let the debt commission @ altar and stranded bowls and simpson . >> no, i don't feel that. >> they feel that. >> i don't think simpson or bowles woul

joe why can't house speaker john boehner get anything done? >> two wards tea party.hner is not all that popular with him because he is seen as an insider, some guy willing to work with the white house and the grand bargain that he and obama talked about last year really did no favors with this crowd. they have a better relationship with eric cantor. and the obstruction agenda that the republican party at large has with the white house is really causing a lot of problems. that's one of the reasons why not much can get done on the republican side and a lot of the stuff they have trying to get done the democrats have to throw their bodies in front of to keep them out of the legislative agenda. >> jennifer: do you think nancy pelosi was a much more effective speaker than john boehner? >> i think so. she was very very good at controlling her caucus. she had a brooder spectrum than boehner in that there were conservative democrats she had to get on board, but she was always pragmatic enough to know that if things didn't get done congress would get the finger pointed at it.

we will hear from john boehner, ann romney, and chris christie on tuesday night.esday, paul ryan. finishing out with presidential candidate mitt romney on thursday. ron paul speaking about his liberty message ahead of the republican convention. >> welcome. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> you just heard from paul talking about his liberte chan message ahead of the republican convention in tampa. the supporters praised the increasingly bad weather. if you missed any of his "we are the future" rally, we will have again at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c- span. >> congressman pete sessions, from texas, and chair of the republican national campaign committee. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> also joining us, our guest reporters are josh kraushaar, executive editor for "hotline," and charlie mahtesian, national politics editor for "politico." thank you for being with us. let's begin with a series of ads which you are taking aim at the president in some key races trying to tag the dem

i think john boehner is really bad at his job. i think he can't control a group over whom he essentially has total control. is he actually so worried about a revolt from eric cantor or from somebody els that he has to be forced into making these decisions that he's taking? i think he's just bad at this. >> well, you can look at it either way. i mean, i frankly think he has to be worried about a revolt. i think he has to be worried about appearing to be on the wrong side of the fence on what are seen as bedrock conservative, conservative issues. that's what the base seems to respond to. that's what the base seems to want. and all the republicans that i talk to in washington are always loing over their shoulders at that republican base. the red base and not wanting to do anything that offends them. so i do think that's a real factor in boehner's decisions about whether or not he -- a more adroit politician would find a way to knock yourself in the head a few weeks before the election. that's possible too. but i do think the fear of

>> well, this is not the first time that john boehner has had to go along with things in the house that he personally might not have thought was such great idea, but look. he has a majority, but there's this huge very right wing block that is going to create problems for him. and, frankly, he's got eric cantor looking over his shoulder, ready to assume the gavel if boehner falters, so he does some things to keep his leadership, keep his position. and he's a smart politician, so i'm sure he realizes this was not a great move. >> okay. on the last point there, being smart and realizing this was dumb but letting it happen anyway. i mean i have an operating hypothesis for this entire congress, and i don't mean it personally and i don't mean it in a mean way, but think john boehner is really bad at his job. i think he can't control a group over whom he essentially has total control. would he assert it. is he actually so worried about a revolt from eric cantor or from somebody else that he has to be forced into making these decisions that he's taking? i think he's just bad at this. >> well, y

you said no one was watching boehner. i was watching. you, i saw the other day was fabulous, like joan crawford and betty davis, i loved it. >> [ laughter ] >> you were fabulous with her. you, i know. [ laughter ] >> mr. vice president, i don't know you very well, this is the first time i'm actually meeting you. i feel a governor or vice president, i was president of my sorority, though. >> john boehner was saying that this president has done nothing to help with jobs, although we've had 28% of private sector job growth. this is like lucy accusing charlie brown of not wanting to take the football. president obama submitted a jobs bill that was 30% tax cuts. i called it the boo rad bley bill because it was never getting out of the house. >> who is this speaking? ann romney? >> john, why does that surprise you. they have been hypocrisy wise since john boehner took over at speaker. >> this is. >> janine turner. an actress. >> talking about constitutional. >> and i hate to say she's charming, she didn't have the foggiest idea what was going

mitt romney got 2,061 delegate votes and was just announced by house speaker john boehner. he only needed 1,144 in order to secure the party nomination. they're going to party for a little bit and then go back and nominate by acclimation, we're told, paul ryan as vice presidential nominee. a lot of big applause, by the way, while we were watching wyoming and wisconsin especially cast those final votes. for scott walker, the governor of wisconsin, who everybody is a hero in republican circles and is also the home state of paul ryan. >> woodruff: a hero because he beet back an effort to recall him to recall him. gwen, i have to say as somebody who's covered more than one convention, they have done this all very quickly. the. >> ifill: more than one convention, judy! >> woodruff: i've never seen it happen this quickly. here we are the opening night of the convention. it's not even so-called prime time in television land and republicans already have their nominees. >> woodruff: they're also getting a long-needed injection of energy tonight. because we know, for instance, that t

john boehner said he spoke... he was so excited to speak at his first convention he spoke at 2:00 in the afternoon, there was nobody in the hall and nobody was listening so it was hubbling. >> i listen to these speeches because aim who i am. there were good once. >> much like popeye. (laughter) >> so the mayor of oklahoma city gave a good speech. that that feeds into what's happening. a lot of it is about reframing the party as the party of practical governance and there's a lot of ideology in this party but we have mayors and govern yourself, we have people on the ground doing it right now and we want to replicate what's happening in wisconsin, ohio. >> woodruff: it's something i raised with speaker boehner and that's the unpopularity of congress and you have to believe that's one of the reasons you don't see senators and members of the house of representatives speaking in prime time. they were in the afternoon. >> that was one of the good arguments against picking paul ryan. house republicans are not exactly pop

boehner. joining me now is dana milbank and erin mcpike.hanks for joining me tonight, both of you. >> thank you. >> tonight, let me ask you, d a dana, seriously no jokes aside. boehner trying to rally the troops by saying he wants to go on the offensive. is this even believable? >> many americans do find the republican position to be offensive, so it's not surprising from what point of view. you know, the truth is republican house members and senators running for re-election were going to be charged with the ryan plan anyway. particularly in the house. they didn't just vote for this thing once, they did it over and over in this obsessi obsessive-compulsive tick. now it is the republican ticket. for the vast majority it's not going to matter. but where the battle is with the seats in play, this makes their challenge that much more difficult to hold on to control of the house. >> dana's right. when you look at the vote on republicans on the ryan plan, 228 voted yes. only ten voted no. and three didn't vote at all. so you have at least 228 rep

here is a news flash for speaker boehner.bvious that the democrats would have made up medicare you would not have made it your own news flash last night. joining us is my pal with the orange jacket on, christine pelosi. she has her pulse on congress, her mind on campaign and her eye on news flash. christine pelosi of the california women's caucus. welcome back to the "the war room." >> thank you. >> jennifer: of course democrats were going to go after the paul ryan budget, but didn't it get served up to us on the silver platter? >> it certainly did. these are the folks who promised norquist that they would not raise taxes. and so now they're going to run from the hills from paul ryan, from mitt romney and from their own votes, but it won't work. >> jennifer: but they obviously--they were aware that this was coming as well, regardless of whether ryan was on the ticket because they knew they had all voteed for his budget. they came out immediately with this ad saying in a the president cut $700 billion. let's watch this for one

>> stephanie: to go right wing. >> i love boehner's speech or whatever. him that starting off with a sort of a bar joke at your kind of -- was one of the most famous jokes told during the primary was when one of the republicans set up and said a conservative liberal and an independent walk into a bar and the bartender said hi, mitt. remember that? >> that would have been a good one. >> stephanie: sure. >> truth hal. >> stephanie: that's sayin'. >> that's dogged him through the primaries. it is not going to change. pick the angriest sound byte from chris christie. i don't know why i reverted to a teenage girl. god, dad calm down. i wasn't that late. he was scary. okay. at least -- i'm concerned for him. i really am. i don't think he should get that worked up. he didn't look healthy is what i'm saying. >> we're demanding that our leaders stop tearing each other down and work together. >> you idiot. >> tonight we're going to do what my mother taught me. tonight, we're going to choose respect over love. >> respect. >> wait a minute. even in that sentence -- >

republicans in the house under the leadership of john painer -- boehner and certainly paul ryan have a plan, one we are on record for, we voted for, and which the democrats, as you have seen, oppose. they have no credible plan that would offer us a sustaining plan for the future for seniors or for us to avoid bankruptcy. >> >> would you rather have your candidates running across the country campaigning on health care or would you rather have them running on a presidential steward ship of the economy? >> i think we would compare and contrast. we are faced with a budget that is not only out of control, but no plan that would substantially alter the direction that we are headed. republicans offer ideas to solve problems. yes, paul ryan is that opportunity for responsible conversation and adult conversation about we must do something now that we are here. the president and democrats are void except to try to blame republicans and mischaracterize. the president, if he is going to get elected, he needs to first of all, tell the truth to the american people about what this plan has done. it

look, it is pretty coarse, but that's john boehner's life. >> it's john boehner, and it's a convention got that, it's red meat for the base. the basest of the base. anyway, thank you. long night, howard. great having you here, of course michael will steele, the inside man. he was anyway. >>> up next, one-time romney rival rick santorum makes his case for his former rival. it's falling in line more than falling in love. we'll talk about santorum in just a second. >> under president obama, the dream of freedom and opportunity has become a nightmare of dependency with almost half of america receiving some sort of government assistance. 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? it's the only way to get fresh coffee. not in my house! this new flavor lock pack from maxwell house helps seal in f

we work hard and had small struggling businesses john boehner said and we achieve success. a lot of republicans feel that's under threat so that's one of the concept of earned success is something they've been hitting again and again and again. >> we do build things and president obama said we've been taking it he's been saying on the campaign trail triggering a real talking point, you didn't build that. in context he meant something more. >> no, he did. and one of the few times actually stressed himself. honey said of saying you know we we -- instead of saying we take great provide in the succes prid imagination to do it you know we're a large part of a larger family that we all do this. as americans under the american law, american schools and so forth, it didn't come across that way. they grabbed that opportunity and they've used it. >> we're going to hear a lot more of that. jeff brown is on the floor. jeff. >> brown: judy, gwen and i were talking early in the program about the one note here so far having to do with ron paul supporters. so an interesting thing just happ

the republicans in the house so let's be clear about that. >> that's not boehner's version. boehner's version is that the president tried to change what they had basically agreed on. >> john, everyone knows he couldn't sell it to his own caucus. >> that's the strategy for him -- >> let me move quickly to the second issue which is this issue of gun control. we've had two of the worst gun incidents in america of this century. yet neither romney, nor barack obama, is prepared to say anything about this at all. there's been this wall of conspiratorial silence. august 7 to the 8 the poll was taken. it says 38% of american, the majority, believe there should be major restrictions now -- >> you said 38%? >> 38%, major restrictions. 37%, minor restrictions. only 13% think no restrictions. make all guns illegal, 10%. this is a rising tide. despite that you hear from the pro-gun lobby that people want something to be done. why is nobody saying anything in any sort of leadership way? >> because politicians underrate the intelligence and the reasonableness of the american people. piers,

. >> coming up at 6:30, john boehner spoke to delegates today and what he had to say about efforts to take back the house and ron paul came to the arena today. some of his delegates not very happeny and threatening a floor fight. >> and of course, he will be reporting live this week. you can follow him tonight on twitter for instant updates. and go to abc 7 news facebook page. be sure to stay with us tonight. abc news will be live tonight at 7:00 right after this newscast. >> still head here tonight the airport commuter crash delaying a flight to hundreds of people. that is just at sfo. another costly breakdown tonight at united. >> abc 7 news shows us some of the people and weapons that were rounded up in a gang sweep. there is a crack down on violence. >> there is hurricane isaac made land fall in new orleans. i'll show you the affects of the storm in just a moment. >> a marin county couple comes within minutes of falling for a costly scam. coming up,or >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> united airlines is work on getting its flights to land on time and h

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and including speaker boehner.s what boehner said about the romney/ryan approach. i'm quoting him. i'm sure there will be other ideas about how you save medicare, all of those will be part of the big policy debate we have next year. and it will come next year regardless of who wins the election. it will come next year, a bug debate, but he is supporting a ticket that would end medicare as we know it. so it seems like he is trying to back away from this. >> well, i think john boehner is a smart politician and a bit more sensible than some others are in the party right now. you can find polls and cut polls in various different ways and say well, maybe it is not hurting the republicans as much as you would expect. but it is hurting them in fundamental ways and the best they can do on this is play to a -- to this advantage. the larger issue here is republicans are in a position of doing these sorts of budget cuts, whether it is medicare, whether it is the other programs, that's going to hurt their own base the most. we

and it because barack obama thought he had to deal with john boehner and then eric cantor came along and said i'm going to do a power play and put the shiv in the back of john boehner and all the sudden everything blows up i mean reduce the budget that called for more money then congress would ever have given him more money that he wanted more money every year is rewarding money but always has been so strong in washington it's called the foundation and a lot of the people that act like are says that in every single case broke obama asked for more money in a federal budget that he got every single time he wanted more money wouldn't you think reagan this is that i guess i'm right i don't mean all that we let them bring him into office the bus it was the budget deficit sorry but the national debt was one trillion when he left office it was two trillion dollars we saw he was retreating. he was greatly going to learn about it might look where we are in the eight hundred road and want to hand it out as five trillion and now that that one in five years ago twice as obama's twice as much the