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. >> my veins run with cheese, bratwurst and a little spot of line i and some miller. >> romney to florida, ryan in iowa. >> we're going to split up more often than not and double our efforts. >> president obama won't concede iowa just yet kicking off a three-day bus tour today. the president congratulated ryan for being named to the ticket and called him the ideal -- >> he's an articulate spokesman for governor romney's vision. but it's a vision that i fundamentally disagree with. >>> ryan is best known for drafting the gop budget passed by house republicans. that plan would shift medicare into a program providing vouchers for senior citizens to get their own health insurance. >> ryan defended his plan on "60 minutes" on sunday. >> we need to preserve their benefits. in order to make sure we can do that, you must reform it for those of us who are younger. >> democrats claim it would bankrupt medicare. >> insurance companies would cherry pick the healthy people, cherry pick the best people to insure. the people in medicare would see their costs go up. >> the issue is important in florida f

. >> my veins run with cheese, bratwurst and some miller. >> i'm delighted to have picked as my running mate, paul ryan, a great leader. >> never see him until inauguration. >> our rights come from anywnat and god not from government. >> every now and then i'm known to make a mistake. >> i think al gore, i think bob dole. >> extremism. >> right-wing ideologue. >> alienating constituents. >> sarah palin with substance. >> i think it's going to be troubling to the mainstream of the american electorate. >> it's a vision that i fundamentally disagree with. ♪ highway to the danger zone >>> we're back after an olympic break and a lot has happened. just this afternoon mitt romney's new running mate paul ryan face add campaign event not such a warm welcome to life on the presidential campaign trail. he faced numerous hecklers but he kept right on going over the shouting pushing romney/ryan as the ticket for smaller government and lower taxes. >> we need to make sure we get rid of the loopholes, get rid of the deductions, lower everybody's tax rates so our businesses can survive and not keep tax

. >>> my veins run with cheese bratwurst and a little spot of miller. the president came into office with so much hope, offering change, he got the power he wanted he got his party in control he passed every item on his agenda it is law. now we see the results. our country with the health-care system that is about to be taken over a country with four years of trillion dollar deficit. >>> after tonight's appearance the to slated to campaigned separately ryan goes to i want and romney goes to florida. before the republican convention as you saw romney and ryan appeared together with bob schieffer on 60 minutes he said the selection of ryan was made two weeks ago. >>> we spend time on the campaign trail and i get to meet his wife and children, i was impressed, the final decision was not until august 1st when i get my mind open but i was intrigued and inclined toward paul. i get my mind open on august 1st time to make the decision. >>> and has this on again on you? >>> it has i felt for a while our country in a perilous position. i've done everything i coul

campaign is hoping ryan will help the gop win that state's 10 votes >> my veins run with cheese, bratwurst and a little bit of a miller >> the company it, they will go their separate ways today. president obama won't concede ottawa just yet, kicking off a three day bus tour. the president congratulated ryan >> he is an articulate spokesman for gov. romney's vision but it is a vision i fundamentally disagree with. >> ryan is best known for drafting the gop budget passed by house republicans which would shift medicare into a program that provides vouchers for senior citizens to get their own health insurance. ryan defended his plan during an interview on 60 minutes on sunday >> we need to preserve their benefits because the government promises organize retirement as around and in order to do that >> insurance companies would cherry pick help the people and the best people to ensure and as a result the folks who remain in medicare would really see their costs go up. >> these issues could especially be important in florida which is filled with retirees >> the romney campaign says it will send

my veins run with cheese, bratwurst and a little spot of lo-cal leinies and some miller. >> reporter: despite all the fanfare the ryan selection has not upset the balance of the race with americans almost equally divided on the pick and the race still locked in a near dead heat. and tomorrow mitt romney will wrap up this four-day swing state bus tour heading to the critical battleground, brian, of ohio. >> peter alexander in miami to start us off tonight on the trail. thanks. >>> as we just heard congressman ryan's first solo day on the campaign trail was greeted by those hecklers over his plans to remake medicare. it's an emotional issue that has brought attacks and counterattacks during every presidential race since easily the early '90s. here it comes again. our report tonight from our chief white house correspondent and political director chuck todd. >> reporter: in the 48 hours since paul ryan joined the republican ticket medicare has become a campaign flash point. not just with hecklers but party leaders, too. >> paul ryan embraced extremism, suggests we should end medicare as w

ryan talked about how he was wisconsin through and through, bratwurst and miller beer, now he's the presumptive republican vice presidential nominee he told the cheering crowd, so when we win this election we're going to fix this mess in washington. now, in the 48 hours since congressman paul ryan was added to the romney ticket the gop presidential campaign has fired up. now, mitt romney at that same rally in wisconsin saying what a welcome, what a homecoming for a terrif. >> terry: terrific guy. i guess i made the right decision, the right choice. you know i did. president obama in his hometown of chicago sunday moved fast to define ryan by his budget plan and tie romney to it. now, the romney bus tour rolls into florida today without ryan. the gop campaign will divide and conquer this the week. the wisconsin native heads to the drought-stricken iowa, the same state that the president will campaign in today. obama will tour a farm in iowa and announce the agriculture department is buying up pork, lamb, chicken, and catfish to help support farmers because of that drought. we're live on capitol

. >> my veins run with cheese, bratwursts and a little miller. i was raised in a packers badgers, bucks, and brewers. i like to hunt here. i like to fish here, i like to snowmobile here. i even think ice fishing is interesting. i am a wisconsinite through and through. i have to tell you how this means to be home. >> well, the congressman also getting pretty emotional as he looked out at the crowd his family and friends and all of the people who supported him over the years. mitt romney talking about why he picked paul ryan to be on the ticket. >> people ask me why i choose paul ryan. the answer is i wanted someone who was a leader, leadership comes from character. this is a man who has real character who has passion for america who understand what it takes to put america on the right track. this leader is going to help get america strong. >> well, after that rally last night you might say congressman ryan would get a good night sleep. absolutely not. he hopped on a plane flying to iowa that's where he will speak at the iowa state fair lart today.

. >> my veins run with cheese, bratwurst and a little spot of some miller. >>> president obama won't iowa just yet, kicking off a three day bus tour today. >> he is an arctic class spokesman for governor romney's vision. but it is a vision i fundamentally disagree with. >> reporter: ryan is best known for passing the budget plan. it would provide vouchers for senior citizens to get their own health insurance. >> we need to pre verve their benefits, because the government promised them that they organized their retirement around. you must reform it for those of us who are younger and democrats claim it would bankrupt medicare. >>> insurance companies would cherry pick the healthy people. as a result the folks who remained in medicare would see their costs go up i can't the issue could be especially important in the battleground state of florida. drew levinson, cbs news, washington. >>> making news now at 5:50, this morning proguest forces are said to be quote firing at anything that moved in several cities around syria, according to rebels fighting to overthrow president assad. >>> ev

my veins run with cheese, bratwurst and a little spot of miller. i like to hunt here. i like to fish here and i like to snow mobile here . i think ice fishing is interesting. i am a wisconsinite through and through and i have to tell you how this means to be home. >> yeah, the roads are jammed for miles. thousands of people came to show the local boy suddenly thrust in the nation's consciousness as perhaps next vice-president of the united states. it is interesting, 60 minutes ran, i am sure you all watched it. ran an interesting, probably a half an hour interview don't you think eric . bob talked to him and they chopped it up in 10 minutes. number one things democrats are trying to do. paul ryan roin has a plan for medicare and if you are elderly he will wind up pushing you off of the clip. listen to the sound bite that did not run in its entirity. his own mother is a medicare senior in florida. cbs didn't run the clip. >> there is only one president that i know of in history that robbed medicare $716 billion to pay for a risky program of his own that we call obama ca

the paper reported who does his own skinning and butchering and makes his own polish sausage and bratwurst. >> i like to hunt here. i like to fish here. i like to snowmobile here. i even think ice fishing is interesting. >> here's romney's 2007 take on hunting. >> i'm not a big game hunter. i've made it very clear, i've been a rodent and rabbit hunter, and i began when i wase hunted varmemts since then. >> there's that. as far as exercise, ryan is a die-hard p and when it comes to sports. >> i was raised on the badgers bucs and brewers. >> but just as memorable, this is is romney at the daytona 500. >> not as closely as some of the most ar dent fans but i he some great friends that are team owners. >> romney/ryan. i want to bring in a political correspondent who wrote a great piece that really laid out the kind of guy that ryan is. from your research, what is he like? is he likeable? >> yeah. he's a really appable guy. he's humble from pretty earthy roots. he's, by no means, wealthy. he's relatively wealthy but he's definitely a relatable character which is what the romney character was lo

my veins run wi cheese, bratwurst and a little spot of -- and some miller. >> i was raised in the packersucks and brewers. i like to hunt here. i like to fish here. i like to snowmobile here. i even think ice fishing is interesting. i'm a wisconsinite through and through. i have to tell how what this means to be home. i also just want to say a great thanks to my friend, scott walker. and my friend reince priebus. and ron johnson. we're just guys from tosha, kenosha, oshkosh and janesville. what we learned in this state just a little white ago is that we want to elect men and women who run for office and tell us who they really are, what they really believe, what they're really going to do and then when they get elected, they do that! that's what we do here in wisconsin. we've seen a few elections in wisconsin lately. we're ready. we're tested. we put these ideas out there, we implemented it, our leaders fixed the problems in madison. and we as voters said keep doing it. on june 5th, courage was on the ballot in wisconsin and courage won. we wisconsinites, we saved wisconsin that day and o

[laughter] my veins run with cheese, bratwurst, and some miller.cheers and applause] i was raised on the packers, badgers, box, and brewers -- bucks, and brewers. i like to hunt and fish and snowmobiler here. i even think ice fishing is interesting. >> paul ryan in wisconsin, as you can hear the band warming up. we go to susan, in the delegation. >> i am in the north carolina delegation, and i want to introduce you to the president of the tea party in his home town in north carolina. how happy are you with this ticket? >> i am very, very happy, and i support both candidates, and i am looking forward to them going on in becoming president and vice-president of the united states. we are electing a ceo and a cfo, and that is exactly what this country needs. >> how will they be able to deliver a victory in the fall? >> i think north carolina is primed to go republican. we have been working with the grass roots, registering voters, calling voters, identifying who needs a ride. i think north carolina will be moving to the red state category, and i am loo

. >> my veins run with cheese, bratwurst and a little -- >> joining me now is ed schultz. great to see you this morning. >> thomas, it's great to be with you. >> he's a likeable guy, wisconsin hasn't voted republican since 1984. with then voting for ronald reagan, who ryan says is one of his inspiration. the state has gone very democratic. a pollster shows the president has a seven-point lead there. do you think a ryan pick brings wisconsin closer to mitt romney? >> well, it looks better today than several weeks from now when you get into the devil of the detail. this is as good as vice presidential roll out that you could have. this has been a tough summer for mitt romney. he needed some positive news. he got it this weekend. but he also delivered an idealog. he was on the budget committee, no doubt about it, when he did not put the wars on budget. he did not put medicare part d on budget. he did not figure out what it was going to do to our economy. paul ryan has been accountable to what he wants to be accountable to. they had the -- the republicans had the wars off budg

my veins run with cheese, bratwurst and a little spot of some miller.aised on the packers, badgers, bucks and brewers. [ cheers and applause ] >> i like to hunt here. i like to fish her. i like to snowmobile here. i even think ice fishing is interesting. [ laughter ] >> i'm a whic wisconsinite thrh and through and i got to tell you how this means to be home. i also just want to say a great thanks to my friend scott walker. [ cheers and applause ] >> and my friend reinces i pret ibus and ron johnson. we are just guys from kenosha, oshkosh and janesville. what we learned in this state just a little while ago is that we want to elect men and women who run for office and tell us who they really are, what they really believe, what they are really going to do, and then when they get elected they do that! [ cheers and applause ] that is what we do here in wisconsin! we have seen a few elections in wisconsin lately. [ laughter ] >> we are ready. we are tested. we put these ideas out there. we implemented it. our leaders fix the problems in madison. and we as vo

my veins run with cheese, bratwurst and a little miller. >> and, you know, jim, as we look at that what's also so interesting is the ryan budget plan that you mentioned is so controversial and it does affect medicare and social security. can we read into anything the fact that paul ryan is not in florida where there's a huge senior population? >> reporter: well, that's right. at the very heart of this debate over the ryan budget plan is this issue of medicare. the ryan budget plan would partially privatize medicare, give seniors the option of using vouchers or premium support payments as the ryan folks have called them to buy plans in the open insurance market approved by medicare. that is going to be a tough sell down here in florida. there are a lot of seniors, as you know, down here, deb, and the campaign knows this. they put out a web video going after romney and ryan on all of this. the campaign has been pushing back on this notion that they're hiding paul ryan from the state of florida. he will be coming down to the orlando area this coming saturday. so we're going to get a full sen

. >> bratwurst boy. >> good stuff. >> i spoke to the camera operator i said who are you going to votei don't know. i said you're probably the only one that doesn't know. i said does the selection of ryan change your decision? he said he's a good guy but i don't think it's going to sway me. ryan is from janesville which is the biggest gm plant in america, it's idsled, not completely closed officially. remember he was pro auto bailout. they're hoping to capture maybe the -- some of the people that are center left, maybe a little pro labor, but yet, but like his conservatism from a political or social perspective. >> but his boss wanted the industry to go bankrupt. a little problem. >> there is that. >> also, romney just doesn't have the profile to win wisconsin. reagan does. a chris christie does. i mean you get a northeast catholic like that would go in there, and he would sweep it. mitt romney doesn't have what it takes. >> the white board. >> to win wisconsin. >> that's a milwaukee thing. a bar, a church and a white board. that's how it is. that's milwaukee. every time you go there.

also like any good wisconsinite, he makes his own polish sausage and bratwurst. that is it on our paul ryan coverage this morning. >>> let's get it over to ron claiborne with a look at the headlines overnight. >>> good morning, everyone. firefighters in california are battling a wildfire that's forced the evacuation of about 200 homes near fresno. crews are making progress containing the fire which has scorched 150 acres and is being fueled by dry, hot weather conditions. officials say that the blaze was caused by a discarded cigarette. six firefighters suffered heat-related injuries. >>> and the death toll is still rising from those two powerful earthquakes that rocked iran, at least 250 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured after the quake leveled villages in northwest iran. rescuers worked through the night trying to free people trapped under the rubble. thousands slept outside last night, afraid of aftershocks. >>> and the united states is stepping up plans for the possible fall of syrian president assad. the u.s. and turkey have agreed to work toget

. >> few hot dogs and bratwurst, and just having a little feast here. >> you said you were going to -- this is batch one, you've got batch two coming up later. >> that's correct. >> do you have any other secret recipes you need to tell us about? >> no, we're not going to do the tenderloin tonight, i don't think. but that's one we like to put out here on the grill occasionally. but this is it for the night. >> reporter: okay. dogs and pulled pork. that's what we'll be bringing back to the station for you. earlier, doing the 5:00 show, i got soaked from not a kid, but this gentleman right here. hit it, don, because you are itching to go. that's what we got splashed with. the camera man did not like that, did you? no, he did not like that at all. and we have to swing around and show this, doug, because this is another reason why we picked this backyard because they have their own weather station. how about that. and you tell me, clay, that you got that weather station why? >> i got it a couple of years ago, i like the weather, keeping up with it. y'all do a great job, but sometimes it ge

. >> my veins run with cheese, bratwurst and a little spot of some miller. >> now, of course, romney is hardly the first presidential candidate to try to use a vp pick to relaunch his campaign. walter mondale, bob dole, al gore, john mccain tried to shake things up. all lost any way. the question is, whether the ryan pick will be more than a short-term boost. will romney's relaunch do anything to change the fundamentals. this seems to be the big question. now, mitt romney knows that florida where medicare is king and where a lot of people are on it will be pivotal come november and he's in the sunshine state today and treading carefully. peter alexander is there with us here in a minute and he'll be doing that, but we will be moving on and we're waiting for him. is peter ready? well, let's go on to -- let's check in now with peter at that rally. romney's already been speaking there. >> reporter: good to visit with you, sorry. some technical issues on this end. governor romney's going to be here in a moment. also joining him on the podium, rick scott as well as marco rubio. he was one

ryan talked about how he was wisconsin through and through, his veins were running with cheese, bratwurstsnd miller beer. and now the republican presidential nominee he has really added some fire to the ticket. >> we can either stay on the current path we are on, a nation in debt, a nation in doubt, a nation in desspire spare, a nation on high unemployment, given the children diminished future or change this thing and get our country back on the right track. >> is a decent man, he is a family man, he is an articulate spokesman for governor romney's vision. but it's a vision that i fundamentally disagree with. >> now, that was president obama in his hometown of chicago yesterday, moving fast to define romney and ryan to ryan's budget plan. the romney bus tour does roll into florida today without ryan, the gop campaign will divide and conquer this week. he heads to drought-stricken iowa. that's where president obama will be campaigning today. obama will tour a farm there while romney will headline a morning rally in st. augustine and then head to miami later in the afternoon. we're live on c

and she's or bratwurst -- talking about beer and cheese or bratwurst. host: sort of a homecoming rally for him. mitt romney and paul ryan will go their separate ways. what might their messages be around the country? guest: they were joking about the nature of campaigning, they both have to be in different places. the vice presidential candidate gets dispatched to the smaller market and you'll probably see that now. that is why they are in different states. they will cover as much ground as possible. the message in the short term has to be defining paul ryan in a way that works for republicans and then gets back him as an ideologue. -- and that fight backs -- and that fight back against the image of him as an ideologue. host: charles mahtesian is the national political editor for politico. he spent eight years as a national correspondent for governing magazine. we have harold from new jersey, a republican. good morning. caller: the good news is we live in the united states of america. we have a marvelous constitution and marvelous people with generous he

ryan choked up as he spoke about his deep roots in the state saying his veins run with cheese and bratwurstonathan karl. >> reporter: mitt romney and running mate at his side and some of the biggest crowds of his campaign. >> day two on our comeback tour to get america strong again to refill the promise of america. [ applause ] >> we are going to recapture something that some people thought was lost. >> reporter: in mooresville, north carolina, packed to capacity inside, several thousand more in overflow area outside. >> paul! paul! >> they were able to pass their entire legislative agenda virtually, and so what we got was stimulus, obama care -- [ booing ] >> you know what, north carolina, we can do better than this? [ applause ] >> reporter: down the road in hyde point, an even bigger crowd. >> our founders made it really explicit -- our rights come from nature and god and not from government. >> reporter: romney's wife ann seemed to be caught up in the excitement. jumping on stage to talk to the crowd for the first time in over a month. >> we are not going to take it anymore. we are taki

and he's going to be giving us bratwursts in a couple of minutes. christine and cindy, tell us why you love coming over to don and shirl's house. >> well, they make us feel very welcome and she definitely has the gift of hospitality. my kids love to come and eat here. >> we've been friends for about ten years and had many backyard barbecues and there's hospitality when you come over. >> as we turn around, it sure doesn't hurt when you have a pool like this. we're going to have more from the grill coming up at 6:00. >> that's what i'm talking about, if you want us to come to your backyard, e-mail us at nbcwashington.com, send pictures to weather -- >> you can see. >> let's go back to it. watch -- >> we don't have time for that? >> prime time. >> thank you, doug. >>> here's a look at top trending stories today. >> a family rivalry for mark zuckerberg. this happened after facebook lost a bidding war with google to purchase a social media start-up. to make matters worse, wildfire interactive specializes in facebook ads. >>> michael jackson's three kids

my veins runs cheese, bratwurst, and a little spotted cow and some miller.as raised by the bucs and brewers. i like to fish here. i like to snowmobile here. i even think i should fishing region as a fishing is interesting. at to tell you what this means to be home. i want to say thanks to my friend scott walker. my friend writes this. what we learned in this state a little while ago, is that we want to elect men and women who run for office and tell us who they really are, who they believe, what they're going to do. when they get elected, and they do that. that is what we do here in wisconsin. we are ready. cotton we implemented our leaders. we said keep doing it. courage one. we say it was confident that day. in november, we will help save america that day. i see so many familiar faces. >> we are all family. >> we are. and that was my brother that said that. -- was not my brother that said that. [laughter] we have to make a decision. the president came into office with so much hope, offering so much change. he got the power he wanted. he got the party in co

my veins runs cheese, bratwurst, and a little spotted cow and some miller.as raised by the bucs and brewers. i like to fish here. i like to snowmobile here. i even think i should fishing region as a fishing is interesting. at to tell you what this means to be home. i want to say thanks to my friend scott walker. my friend writes this. what we learned in this state a little while ago is that we want to elect men and women who run for office and tell us who they really are, who they believe, what they're going to do. when they get elected, and they do that. that is what we do here in wisconsin. we are ready. cotton we implemented our leaders. we said keep doing it. courage one. we say it was confident that day. in november, we will help save america that day. i see so many familiar faces. >> we are all family. >> we are. and that was my brother that said that. -- was not my brother that said that. [laughter] we have to make a decision. the president came into office with so much hope offering so much change. he got the power he wanted. he got the party in cont

. >> my veins run with cheese, bratwur bratwurst, and a little spot of miller. >> so cheese and miller. so i guess, you know, if mitt romney wins, then the question, don is, what would happen to this brewing operation, which we understand is probably -- it's pretty top secret, but we understand it's probably a pretty small operation. maybe it would go over to the naval observatory with paul ryan, maybe he could continue the tradition. >> yep. miller. remember the little miller ponies? >> i have to show you this too. >> what is that? >> this is something that was actually invented -- invented? made in 2008 during the obama campaign by a company in st. louis. it's baracktoberfest beer. >> thanks, brianna. we've got to run, get some news in here. top of the hour here. >>> it is the top of the hour. brooke is on assignment. i'm don lemon. we're keeping our eyes on tropical storm isaac. it is strengthening, threatening to unloosh disaster on haiti. our team is covering it all for you. gary tuchman in port-au-prince right now, where folks there are on high alert as a storm could hit tomorrow

and he was saying, my veins run with cheese, bratwurst and millers, as well. they must be so proud there. >> they are. you just described my breakfast, mandy, by the way. good to be here in green bay. here's the situation. wisconsin is not gone for a republican presidential ticket since 1984. okay? obama took wisconsin by 56% in 2008. i'm going to give you an anecdote. i was at a friend's 60th birthday party on saturday night. a lot of talk of romney an i meat woman and asked her, she considers herself a republican. are you going to vote for romney? she said, no, because she didn't trust him. so i said, well, you 'll vote for obama? she said, no. so i said, who will you vote for? she said, nobody. and there's no doubt many people that are like that out there. and the pick of ryan is to get women like her to the polling station and to punch the romney ticket. that's the reality. i think if you're going to vote for romney, you're going to vote for romney anyway. everybody i talked to, probably 20 locals over a last couple of days if they were for romney, they we

my veins run with cheese, bratwurst, and a little miller.nd applause] i was raised on the packers, badgers, bucks and borrowers. -- brewers. i like to hunt and fish and snowmobiler here. i even think ice fishing is interesting. i am a wisconsinite through and through, and i want to tell you how good it is to be home. i also want to is a good things to my friend scott walker. [cheers and applause] and my friend, reince priebus and ron johnson. we are just guys from kenosha, oshkosh and janesville. and what we learned in this state just awhile ago is that we want to elect men and women who run for office and tell us who they really are, what they really believe where they are really going to do, and then when they get elected they are going to do that. [cheers and applause] that is what we do here in wisconsin. [cheers and applause] we have seen a few elections in wisconsin lately. we are ready. we are tested. we put these ideas out there. we implement them. our leaders fixed the problems in madison and we said, "keep doing it." on june 5, cou