dr. rice was the best part of the convention. i hope to call her madame president.a, but there is no hope from obama. two things in florida, i was really fired up for romney. one is about guns and two is about education and what he had to say and his background as well as what is jeb bush had to say and we are starting to go in the right direction. i believe those are the two elements for this nation, specifically for the state of florida and who have this -- help this economy and give the kids a better chance. america can still be great. the next generation can still be better. that is what this country is about. i believe romney can be the next reagan. i truly believe that. >> more reaction, including a new jersey resident. what did you hear from governor mitt romney? glaxo fantastic speech -- >> of fantastic speech. everybody knows where he stands on every issue and his vision for america. we can be a great nation. we can hire everyone, and business can do well and prosper. >> dte do what he needed to do? >> i think he delivered an amazing speech. it was exciting

dr. condoleezza rice, one of the architects of those conflicts.your view of the absence of that kind of conversation. >> her principal portfolio was foreign policy. she was secretary of state, deeply involved in the decisions first to go into iraq and then to go into afghanistan and the execution of those wars and it was reduced to one line in her speech at the very end about these very difficult decisions that we had to make. nothing more beyond that. more over, she came in to the public arena as an expert on russia. almost nothing about that. nothing about china. and what was so striking to me was one other line that she had. does not matter where you come from. it matters where you are going. to a lot of delegates on this floor, it does matter where president obama came from. because they've been very critical of his kenyan father who had a different faith than many of them would embrace and they've raised lots of questions about where his ultimate loyalty is. >> the first speech of the evening. during the televised portion. kelly o'donnell, pr

dr. riceegan her speech before we came on the air but let's listen in on a bit of it now. >> americans have believed that you might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances. >> and your greatest reply in controlling your response to circumstances is a quality education, but today, today when i can look at your zip code and i can tell whether you are going to get a good education, can i honestly say it doesn't matter where you came from? it matters where you are going? the crisis in k-12 education is a threat to the very fabric of who we are. >> my mom was a teacher, i respect the profession, we need great ones and not poor ones and not mediocre ones. >> we have to have high standards for our kids because self-esteem comes from are achievement, not from lack standards and false praise. and we need to give parents greater choice, particularly, particularly poor parents whose kids, very often minority, are trapped in failing neighborhood sc

a good pal of paul ryan, dr. rice of georgia joins us. and henry q& cuellar is with u.e pa low ic pelisi is w. >> good evening. >> geraldo: let me ask mario whether romney made a mistake not choosing marco rubio who congressman would have been a lot more help i think it is fair to say getting out that all important latino vote that frank just mentioned especially in the sunshine state. what do you think? >> marquise rubio is a superstar. look, i first ha v. to admit i'm a little biased in the area. i'm a good friend of his and i think he is a spectacular member of the u.s. senate. paul ryan is another superstar. let me put a little secret your way. four years ago i was pushing hard for paul ryan to be considered for vp then. he wasn't as well known. he was much younger. i think paul ryan is the kind of person that you want in leadership positions. he would be a great vice president. he would be great. he would make the american people proud of h him. he would be a big contrast with what we have now. administration that doesn't know how to deal with the economy. paul rya

theme of the speech, and i had a great audience, it was well received. >> you said in your speech, dr. ricesegregated large city in the south whose parents could not get you a hamburger at woolworth's taught you could be anything you wanted to be including president of the united states and, of course, secretary of state. you said specifically president of the united states. i know you've said you had no political ambitions, but that was a noticeable aspirational comment. >> i said it many times. i thought my father thought i would be president of the united states. i think he would have been satisfied with secretary of state. to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough. i'll go back and be a happy stanford faculty member and obviously i'll do what i can to help this ticket, but my life is in palo alto, my future is with my students in stanford and public issues i care about like education reform. >> do you feel that there has been a very troubling question of race and of prejudice in this campaign by the birther movement and those

dr. rice's speech, paul ryan's speech and then last night, people are genuinely unified and in a way thatt think was possible several months ago. >> what's your impression? i'm sorry. go ahead. >> we talked about this earlier. my impression was that he gave a strong speech. i thought it lacked kind of the big themes, two or three big ideas that you wanted to take away from it. >> to tie everything together. >> it was not -- there was more pros than poetry and the line you [ inaudible ]. i think we could have used a little more of that last night. it's striking to me, hard to find these moments or those lines that got -- you know, the one phrase that sums up what mitt romney wants to do for america. we have the new frontier. i never figured out what bill clinton meant by a covenant with liberty. but there was not that phrase. there were opportunities in the speech for him to make a kind of chorus out of, are you better off, or i'm going to help you and your family. those were two lines that were very effective, but they were kind of in the sea of a lot of other stuff. if he had just worked

dr. condoleezza rice and she's beginning to do her preparations so we'll see her again this evening. >> annt last night at the republican convention making the case for mitt in a direct appeal to women. jing us with more from the rnc is our own rich edson, rich. >> well, dennis, the quiet of preparations and last night incredibly loud here and keynote address from governor chris christie told the story of the republican party and the republican position and what their plans are for the future and to treat voters like adults and tell them they have to make tough choices and leave. ann romney telling the dinner table made up of an iron in a small apartment when i was a student, going to law school and business school at the same type and she also tried to disspell the thmyth that trying to runni bain capital and taking-- trying to disspell the myth of her husband as a corporate raider. >> mitt will be the first to tell you, he was the luckest person in the world. two parents who loved him and the chance at education that his father never had. as a partner on this amazing jersey, i can tell yo

. >> you said in your speech, dr. rice, that a child born in the most segregated large city in the south whose parents could not get you a hamburger, taught you you could be anything you want to be, including president of the united states, and of course, secretary of state. you said specifically president of the united states. i know you have said you had no political ambitions, but that was a noticeable aspirational comment. knl i have said it many times, i think my father thought i might be president of the united states. i think he would have been satisfied with secretary of state. i'm a foreign policy person. to have a chance to serve my country as my nation's chief diplomat in peril and consequence is enough. i'll be a happy stanford faculty member and obviously i'll do what i can to help the ticket, but my life is in palo alto. and it's in public service and issues i care about, like education reform. >> do you feel there has been a very troubling question of race and of prejudice in this campaign by the birther mov

. >> dr. riceyou make of current claim and insistent claim she would never hold office again. i don't buy it. i just don't think it's an accurate picture, do you? >> absolutely. she's a very interesting and dynamic woman. she's a common sense conservative. she's a woman of valor, a very, very popular former public servant. she's enjoying her life back at stanford. she's enjoying traveling around the country, speaking on college campuses. she's been in concerts with aretha frank len. i think she's having the most incredible time of her life. >> let me rephrase the question to you alex, wouldn't the party drag her literally and appoint her tomorrow to a high-powered job if she gave any indication? >> that quick. she is so impressive. and republicans understand they're running against an historic prish accomplishment. the first black president of the united states. they understand that was an advance. what if you pacify history with history? a female vice president of the united states, black presiden