is supposed to originate we've got it in range when i started as chairman of the democratic national campaign committee recommended to our caucus by leader pelosi we were we had the ball on our own twenty yard line and we didn't have a path to the goal we didn't have a view of the goal it looked hopeless now nearly two years later we have driven the ball to the republicans twenty yard line where we're in the red zone now and a good football fan knows and i say this because the new york giants are playing against the dallas cowboys tonight during this convention you know that if you have the ball on the twenty your palms twenty yard line your ability to score depends largely on the wind if president obama does well and gives us a little wind at our back i promise you we will kick that field goal will be in the majority if we have a wind against us no we're not going to get the majority and if there's a neutral environment still wind maybe maybe not at this convention i feel really confident the energy that we see here and the message that we are sharing with the american people that we're going to have

billionaires well let me tell you something on last friday august thirty first the democratic national campaign committee raised and that one day online one point three million dollars in one day. thirty six thousand contributions and the average contribution was about thirty bucks you know how many thirty dollars contributions it takes to raise one point three million and so it is true that mitt romney may have a bunch of his super pac buddies and super rich friends but we have a grassroots that is animated that is fighting because they understand that we want to invest in the middle class we want to focus on the middle class and the only thing mitt romney needs republican friends want to do with the middle class is lay them off and ship their jobs offshore we get that message out tom not only does barack obama get reelected but we elect a democratic majority in the house and we preserve a democratic majority in the senate that would be an extraordinary thing and then that would be you know it's so important frankly i think for the democrats to take back the house has been very little discussion about t

israel is the man in charge of getting democrats elected in the house as chair of the democratic national campaign committeeressman, why are you so bullish now at finding your 25 seats when it doesn't appear that thanks to redistricting and you go through these different numbers, you talk to charlie and stu, our guys that follow this and have a hard time seeing it. what makes you bullish? >> i'm bullish because the environment has markedly improved. we won august big-time. you can see it in polling in districts coming in throughout the country. i think we win october. if we put a good october on top of a good september on top of a good august, we win 25 seats. there are 66 districts, chuck, as you know, that have republican or republican tea party incumbent, voted for president obama and/or senator kerry. we have 53 red to blue candidates. we reserve $63 million in air time for commercials like that. and finally, august was a turning point. mitt romney and paul ryan and the romney/ryan budget that ends medicare to fund tax cuts for millionaires have become an anchor around house republicans and that anchor

. >> host: and we are back with congresswoman donna edwards, democrat of the democratic national campaign committee. let's start with politics in the video that was released of governor bobby last night. i want your reaction. his explanation of what he had to say that private fundraiser. take a look. >> well, it's not eloquently stated. i'm speaking off the cuff in response to a question i'm sure i could see it more clearly and in a more effective way that i did in a setting like that. and so, i'm sure i'll point that out as time goes on. but we don't have another question giving the snippet there, nor the full response in a person who has the video would put out the full material. but it's a message, which i am going to carry and continue to carry which is the president's approach is attractive to people who are not paying taxes because frankly my discussion about lowering taxes is and is attracted to them and therefore not likely to draw them into my campaign as effectively as those in the middle. this is really a discussion about the political process of winning the election. and of course, i wa

mother jones says the person who shot the video does not work for the obama campaign or the democratic national committee. tahman bradley, abc7 news. >> you can watch or catch mitt romney and his wife ann this morning on live with kelly and michael. the couple recorded this interview in new york on friday. you can watch it at 9:00 this morning, right here on abc7. >>> today the san francisco ethics commission set to hand off final report on suspended sheriff ross mirkarimi to the board of supervisors. mirkarimi attended a rally yesterday. supervisors will have thirty days from the time they receive the report to decide if mirkarimi should keep or lose his job. his wife was also at that rally she called on supervisors to vote their conscience. the mayor suspended mirkarimi after he pleaded guilty to a domestic violence charge against his wife. she has supported him throughout. >>> cal-state board of trustees meeting in southern california this morning to consider another tuition hike. the 5% increase would go into effect in january at all campuses if voters reject the governor's tax initiative. cal-state

. >> jennifer: you are one of a number of races that the democratic national party and the house campaign committee has targeted or is at least looking at to be able to displace the tea party members. do you feel like you're getting adequate support from the democratic national party? >> yeah, we're getting support. we like more support always but at the end of the day we're a centrist kind of candidate. we believe that we're going to be bipartisan and we're getting help from everybody. the independent party in minnesota is very strong and a lot of their leaders not the party itself but the leaders are supporting me. and a lot of our moderate republicans that understand business understand we have real solutions to the real problems. they're coming across and they're supporting me. so we're going to have enough juice i guess to get the message out. thing. get the message out. >> jennifer: jim i think i speak for a whole lot of people that wish you good luck! we'll all be following this race as we go forward. thanks for joining me inside "the war room." >> governor, thank you so much. >> jennifer: y

about the political ramifications of this platform with steve israel, charge of the democratic national campaign committeeyou been hearing the last 24 hours from your candidates? has it been a problem for them? >> no, it wasn't a problem. the platform was fixed, no longer an issue unless the republican party want to make this an issue. >> reporter: they do. >> which is making israel a political football. prime minister netanyau and israel's ambassador to the united states have always said we shouldn't make israel a political football. the bush administration opposed moving this to tel aviv. we've repaired it. >> as someone who runs campaigns, you live in the world of reality. you know republicans use this. won't this hurt people on the dw god issue in places like ohio and jerusalem in places like florida? >> israel does best when you have bipartisanship in the united states. and for politicians to make israel a partisan tool doesn't do israel a service. platform was corrected, it's no longer an issue. >> reporter: how did you feel personally when you heard about the platform yesterday? >> i was disappoint

. >> democrats won't be the only ones trying to make a persuasive argument in charlotte. the romney campaign and republican national committee has set up a temporary headquarters it rebut democratic arguments. romney's running mate campaigns in north carolina today. romney is in new hampshire preparing for upcoming debates with obama. >> a maryland community honors a navy seal. patrick feeks arrives in edge water this morning. he will be laid to rest in arlington national cemetery. we have a live report from arlington with more on how the community will honor feeks. >> good morning to you, chris. petty officer first class patrick feeks was scheduled to come home later this year. he was in afghanistan almost a year and was killed in action last month. he will be buried here at arlington national cemetery with full honors this week. >> on this labor day along this south river in edgewater, maryland the community will gather to pay respects to one of the brave. >> it is good to remember the guys that sacrifice and gave their lives for our country. >> special warfare operator patrick feeks was killed august 16 in afghanistan. he

joining me with more on the challenge democratic strategist former national press secretary for the the democratic congressional campaign committeempaign. and long-time aide to rick santorum. the second former rick santorum we have had in the last 20 minutes. robert, let me start with you. with the anti u.s. protests much of the focus is on foreign policy. many said he was tone deaf in the way he responded in the attacks. how hard will it be moving forward for governor romney to demonstrate he's moving forward. >> there are a lot of gray areas. a lot of nuances there. governor romney stepped out on a limb if you will and the limb broke. most american voters do not make their decision based on foreign policy. they need to make sure and they want to make sure that the presidential candidate has an understanding of the foreign policy. but at the end of the day this is still about the economy. he did not look very presidential. we'll see over the next couple days how he continues to handle this situation. but also to remember the president did not handle the situation very well as well because he said one thing in terms of egypt but

i will spend some time with hopefully the head of the democratic national campaign convention committee, spent some time with dr. dan murray, in charge of the host committee. but i would also like to spend some time with the been a campaign from chicago -- if you're listening, david axelrod, i would love to hang out with you and see your war room and things like that. i think also interesting, looking at how much money is being raised. there are so many members of congress and other candidates coming to town. it is kind of like an atm machine, charlotte, this week. elizabeth warren, i think she's having to fundraisers at the mint museum. there is one convention on tv and another one on the ground with a lot of parties, fundraising, protests, and things like that. host: how many delegates? guest: i think a little less than 6000, which is twice the number in tampa. host: about three times, actually. there are about 2100 delegates in tampa and about 2100 or so alternates. guest: there are 5000 x but almost 6000. host: independent line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i hope the ameri

it's been since the spring since the obama campaign and democratic national committee combined have outraisedcampaign and rnc. these are august numbers that don't include any money raised during the convention last week that had been fully in september. so a good fund raising total for the obama campaign but, remember, the romney campaign has basically been sitting on money months and months until romney formally accepted the nomination in tampa so the romney campaign is unleashing a lot of that money in tv ads and swing states and don't forget outside groups, we have to remember, are going to outspend the obama campaign. here in richmond, one of the top ten battleground tv market, you saw ads for americans for prosperity and ads for american crossroads in addition to ads for the obama campaign and romney campaign so good fund raising numbers for obama but, remember, the expectation is they'll be outspent across the country this fall, john. >> peter, woo he applaud you for your research watching football over the weekend only so you could see the campaign ads. exleapt work right there. >> tha

a a member of the democratic national committee and former chair of al gore's campaign during the 2000 election. hello pwoflgt you. we are standing by for -- remarks from congressman paul ryan when that comes in we go to that and then get back us to. this topic, the romney campaign numbers we are talking about. should the numbers indicate cause for president obama's camp in celebration for the romney campaign or should that needle fall in the middle? why does it seem that the young voters seem to be disgauged this time? debbie? >> actually f you dig into the study , you will find the place for most concern is in the governor romney champ. it -- camp. it shows he's very unpopular with young people and moderate republicans are becoming very dis-- disingauged. the obama camp knows it has to win in getting people to vote, voter registration is stronger than it was in 2008. it has a strong ground game they are on the go in the early vetting states. they've always known they are going to have less money than the romney campaign does, but they have a very strong ground game going. >> arthel:

democrats discuss have their cordoning their congressional campaign efforts. the heads of the democratic conventional -- the democratic campaign committee and the senate campaign committee talk. this was hosted by the national journal, atlantic monthly, and cbs news. >> guy cecil and robbie mook, the two guys who follow house and senate races. welcome to both of you. i want to start up for the same question i asked before, what is the national mood for democratic candidates? >> from the house perspective, august has been an abysmal month for republicans. i keep saying that mitt romney has been our best to honor in this campaign, he gave us paul ryan and that was something no money could buy. we absolutely have momentum right now between the paul ryan nomination which nationalized the medicare issue and the talks about the cuts to medicare while giving tax breaks to millionaires, people know you're talking about. the to we haddd akin to remind of the country that this is a party that wants to redefine race and has extreme views. that will be helpful to us and some of the district's. we had republicans gallivanting in the sea of galilee and their branches so toxic at this point. the difference between our two

national party committees. here's what's at stake. the democrats congressional campaignreserved more than $61 million in airtime across 41 distrts through election d. arly $44 million in 35 districts. joining me now, rolle call's sheer a. good to see you. >> good morning to you, too. >> this is what you cal triage time. explain that. >> yeah. ablutely. a party has been harvesting nanciaou fhe re cycle and they've put to it all these media markets but the races change really quickly over the last two months of the campaign. so party committees right now look over polli data, they look over candidates, they look over the trends and the races to figure out which ones are going to be worth their resources in ese la potaleend h ones are not, which races and which candidates and sometimes incumbents are on the chopping block. >> sometimes the most fascinating race is todd akin, of course, the republican who made those controversial comments about rape. and, you owhe rli pawallfo t step down. he got of a phone call from paul ryan. and yet he stuck in. part of the calculation se

democrat with throng of 80,000 fans. the republican national committee used the #presidentdowngrade to suggest it was cover for the obama campaignstruggling to fill seats. top democrats admit they were planning to bus people in from several states like south carolina and georgia they scoffed at the charge of lack of enthusiasm. >> i think that 65,000 people scheduled to come tomorrow probably disagree with that and are disappointed they are not going to come to see the president. we're disappointed, too. the chance of severe weather, the chance of putting those people at risk was too high. >> will were other problems with top democratic sources telling fox that in closed door meetings here the president's team is expressing increasing alarm about mitt romney raising $100 million in august alone, which could give him a big essential in the final days. publicly they insist they're not worried about a last minute tv ad assault. >> the president is ahead or tied in every battleground state and ahead in national polls. at some point the ads have diminishing returns. >> sure-fire way to whip up enthusiasm is bring out former president

these are the folks as chairman of the democratic national committee that you went around campaigning for. you ought to start off with what the house passed and then look at ideas like reforming our tax code, close loopholing. the proposal i have will create over 50000 jobs a year, and we ought to unleash our energy resources, and that could create over a million jobs across our country and get a trillion dollars in revenue to the federal government without raising taxes. get more revenue in, have a country more secure and improve people's quality of life. >> moderator: thank you, governors. let's move on to ben pershing from the washington post. >> moderator: both of you have endorsed the idea of a simpler tax code with fewer deductions. i wonder if you would entertain of getting rid of the deductions from charitable donations, and what specific deductions would you be able to eliminate? is cain cain sure, ben. it's the second step in the process. we have to solve the sequester issue before year end, and i've put a specific plan on the table to do that. we then have the broader chall

national committee press secretary. and melanie russell the democratic national committee press secretary. welcome to beth of you. >> thank you. jon: so the president, melanie, says his campaignone a little overboard. do you agree? >> well, jon, if you look at the full clip, what the president said is that in this vigorous debate he is going to, and in the ads that he has approved for the campaign he is going to point out the sharp differences between the candidates. like the fact that mitt romney think's it is fair for him as millionaire to pay a lower tax rate than a worker making $50,000. that contrasts with the president who believes that everyone should pay their fair share. those are the types of things we'll point out. that is going to show a very sharp contrast. and so we're going to continue to do that. those are the things that the romney campaign doesn't want to talk about. they had an advisor brag that they're not going to be dictated by fact checkers. they don't care about facts. they don't care about truth. we'll have an honest conversation with the american people are about sharp contrasts in this election. jon: kirsten, both sides seems to have stretched the t

74,000 people to hear president obama accept the nomination of the democratic national committee and move officially into his campaignhere on radio row and the time-warner cable arena bringing youel full "full court press" with all of our guests today. your calls welcome at 1-866-55-press. here's the way it works. we've got peter ogborn here in studio with us. >> in my native south. i feel at home. >> bill: not far from south carolina. >> the american south. >> bill: is this the better of the carolinas? >> how dare you say that. [ laughter ] >> bill: then we've got our crew out in los angeles as always and in -- at the mothership back in washington, d.c., dan henning cyprian bowlding, hello, guys and phil brackert in this morning handling your calls. we've got l.a., charlotte, washington d.c. all part of the show this morning. good to have you with us. and we welcome for the first part of our last hour together this morning corey is a senior vice president of box global but for a few years, he was communications consultant and -- more than that. you were director of specialty media for the obama white house corey, ri

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national committee. it was also the first time since april that the democrats won the monthly money race. romney campaigned in mansfield, ohio, today hoping to make headway by hammering again at the president's economic leadership. after friday's weaker than expected jobs report. >> forward is his campaign slogan. i think forewarned is a better term. we know what would happen if he were re-elected. we'd see more years of high unemployment. we'd see more years of massive deficits. we'd see more years of almost no wage growth in this country. >> woodruff: at the same time, romney aides denied he has begun moderating his tone to attract independent voters. the question arose after his appearance on nbc's "meet the press." romney said he would keep certain parts of the president's health care law but still wants to repeal the overall statute. >> i'm not getting rid of all of health care reform, of course. there are a number of things that i like in health care reform that i'm going to put in place. one is to make sure that those woo preexisting conditions can get coverage. >> woodruff: his campaign clarified h

campaign to spend in other areas like voter identification and ideout. another romney advantage is the war chest he's helped build at the republican national committee, $76 million, 10 times more than the democrats. it's a reserve fund the r.n.c. can spend for any reason, including direct, last-minute lplp for romney. these numbers also reveal that romney excels at asking a relatively small pool of donors for the maximum individual onnation of $5,000 each. but the president's take last ronth, scott, came from more than a million donors giving an average of $58 each. >> pelley: wyatt, thank you. a plane carrying ann romney today was forced to make an emergency landing in denver when pilots noticed smoke in the cockpit. mrs. romney is campaigning for her husband. firefighters responded and found smoke apparently came from an electrical fire. no one was hurt. it's friday, of course, the muslim sabbath, and anger spilled out of mosques and into the streets today. tsre deadly protests over that american-made internet movie that ridicules islam. in pakistan, the protest turned deadly, but over the border in afghanistan, where our troops rne fighting, the government n.de sure that didn't happen. charli

said when the republican national committee stopped supporting todd akin, carl roves, they said the race was over. win for the democrats. win for claire mccaskill, but the campaigntill win? >> he could still win. the polls show it's competitive between him and claire mccaskill. she's the democratic incumbent. but gingrich yesterday out there in missouri with akin, he's about the only major republican politician who's been supporting him other than former arkansas governor mike huckaby who ran for the white house a few years ago. the family research council also backing akin. keep your eyes on this race, brooke. >> paul, thank you. a lot of talk on this one today, that controversial call last night. watching monday night football, nfl fans are saying probably yelling at the television that the refs were wrong. now the pressure is on the league to do something former nfl qb drew bledsoe weighs in next. ally bank. why they're always there to talk. i love you, james. don't you love me? i'm a robot. i know. i know you're a robot! but there's more in you than just circuits and wires! uhhh. (cries) a machine can't give you what a person can. that's why ally has knowled

the chairman of the national democratic committee you went around campaigning for.view is you ought to start off with what the house passed and look at ideas like reforming the tax code to make the close to the poll to make it more competitive. the proposal i have would create over 500,000 jobs a year and we ought to unleash the resources and that could create over a million jobs across the country and get a trillion dollars of revenue to the federal government without raising taxes. those are positive solutions to improve our lives and give more revenue and have the country more secure and improve people's quality-of-life. >> governor both of you endorsed the idea of a simpler tax code with fewer deductions. i wonder if you could say specifically if he would entertain the idea of getting rid of the deduction for mortgage interest and that the charitable donations and if you wouldn't, but other specific donations deductions would you be willing to eliminate? >> i am glad that you asked about this because it is the second step in the process. we have to solve the seq

democratic senate campaign committee saying, look don't write this race off. >> stephanie: right. right. right. i guess the political's latest obama opened up a nationaldline. what is important is obama is picking up in florida and colorado for instance. >> yeah. it's the electoral count and the other problem is -- my lord 50 years from now, presidential historians are going to study the romney campaign. it's not possible to do more wrongs than have been done in the last couple of days. cold fusion? that was debunked 20 years ago. why don't the windows in the airplane open? [ laughter ] >> stephanie: i know. >> because your head will reduce to the size of a peanut and you will get sucked out -- >> he had to be joking. i can't imagine that a harvard graduate wouldn't know -- >> we should give him a break because he was obviously so shook up about what happened to ann. he could have been joking, because he obviously doesn't know how to do that. his own punch line is i'll send your job to china. a guy walked into a bar, and he said hey i'm going to fire all of your asses! [♪ circus music ♪] >> stephanie: nate silver still has a 75% chance of obama winnin

democratic national committee and vermont governor dr. howard dean and the senior editor at the new republican and author of the book "sick". >> that would be the gotcha tape. on any other campaign it would be look at this he's in complete contradiction with himself only 24 months ago. in the romney campaign you just add it to this giant bonfire of these things that i don't know how to make sure these things get the right weight in this campaign. because there are so many of them. >> here's the thing that are amazing to me about what he said. he put in universal health insurance in massachusetts. he essentially used the same plan that president obama used. he doesn't appear to know what he's talking about. anybody who puts in a plan knows like this should know you can go to the emergency room and good good care, or expensive care. i don't know what to think of this. he doesn't appear to know what he's talking about. here's the governor who presided over the farrest reaching health care plan in the united states today. i don't know what to say. i'm speechless. >> he clearly did know what he was talking about on morning joe there and he worked enough on the issue in massachusetts

campaign donors here, top obama officials say they are more nervous privately than they have let on publicly about mitt romney raising $100 million in the m nt of august alone. democratic national committee officials are down playing this saying that money might not have that much of an impact. take a listen. >> they have spent millions and millions of dollars in states all across the country, including their super pacs. the president is tied in every battleground state and ahead in the national polls. at some point these ads have diminishing returns. what happens up here on thursday night versus what happened in tampa and the eastwooding last thursday night, that's going to be more determinative to the outcome of this election than ads. >> nevertheless, i'm told by senior democrats that obama officials in private are saying they are concerned that all this extra money that mitt romney has pouring in could be used not just for tv ads in the final days but also get out the vote, a ground game that could be a big challenge to this president, shep. >> shepard: ed henry on the convention floor. thanks at lot. the main event tonight was supposed to be former president bill clinton's speech. p

campaign to spend in other areas like voter identification and turnout. another romney advantage is the war chest he's helped build at the republican national committee, $76 million, 10 times more than the democrats. it's a reserve fund the r.n.c. can spend for any reason, including direct, last-minute help for romney. these numbers also reveal that romney excels at asking a relatively small pool of donors for the maximum individual donation of $5,000 each. but the president's take last month, scott, came from more than a million donors giving an average of $58 each. >> pelley: wyatt, thank you. a plane carrying ann romney today was forced to make an emergency landing in denver when pilots noticed smoke in the cockpit. mrs. romney is campaigning for her husband. firefighters responded and founded smoke apparently came from an electrical fire. no one was hurt. it's friday, of course, the muslim sabbath, and anger spilled out of mosques and into the streets today. more deadly protests over that american-made internet movie that ridicules islam. in pakistan, the protest turned deadly, but over the border in afghanistan, where our troops are fighting, the government made sure that didn't happen. char

democratic congressional campaign committee, representative steve israel, on our show yesterday discussing what he thinks is the fallout from the republican party's presidential ticket. joining me now, other side of this, deputy chairman of the republican nationalongressional committee, congressman, let me start with go ahead and rebut. do you believe the republican ticket is making the medicare issue more complicated for your members? >> no. actually we're on offense because we have a plan to save medicare, protect those who are 55 and over. this isn't about them. we'll keep that pledge to them. look, we all have parents, mine have passed now but i saw how important medicare was for them in the end years of their life, senior years of their life. i am fully committed to making sure seniors are taken care of. but if you do nothing, the actuaries tell us medicare goes broke so we did something. we said here's a way to deal with medicare. looks a lot like medicare part d, by the way, for the next generation of seniors. obama care's the one that raided $716 billion out of medicare and put it into obama care -- >> do you think medicare's going to be the most debated issue among house candidates, that if we do a survey, do we think that will be the

campaigning to go. >> gregg: indeed, president obama is going to be heading to charlotte in a few days. right now the democratic national committee is getting ready for their big convention. it kicks off on tuesday. mike emmanuel has the latest live from charlotte. mike, today president obama gave us a bit of a preview of what his message will be in charlotte. what did he say? >> gregg, indeed. in fact, his aides said he didn't watch the republican convention, but he described it as a rerun, something that you might have seen from an earlier time. even suggested it might be something you could have watched on a black and white tv. today president obama gave us a bit of a preview of what he'll say when he comes here to charlotte. >> this thursday night i will offer you what i believe is a better path forward, a path that grows this economy, creates more good jobs, strengthens the middle class. and the good news is you get to choose which path we take. we can take their path or we can take the path that i'm going to present. >> that's president obama on the stump in iowa. he's making other stops in battle ground states on his way h