rich edson in tampa on the convention floor. just got an e-mail from mitt romney for president asked if i would donate $20.12 to support him in his run for president. >> we will walk you through that in one second. mitt romney a few seconds away from walking up onto the stage. when he finishes in a few more minutes we will get mitt romney to take his walk-through. seven hours from now mitt romney will take the stage, gave his speech and accept the nomination for the republican party for president of the united states. there is the debt clock started at 2:00 keeping a track of the national debt since they started this convention at 2:00 on monday up to $7.6 billion, so mitt romney takes the stage, he will discuss the debt. bain capital, something they want to confront head on. they will talk to the cofounder of staples and the experience thethey're having to build that business. the philosophy, the biography, president obama's tenure in office and what mitt romney wants to do for the country if in fact he is elected. that is the

cheryl: rich edson, what is the worst movie in your opinion? >> i will go kind of in the same vein, i don't like a bad sequel to a good first movie. caddy shack two. >> "godfather three." i just don't acknowledge it. >> you clearly forgot this one, the worst movie of all time is "showgirls." storing the former star of saved by the bell. >> you like it? lauren: i liked it, the girl from "saved by the bell." i didn't go see it, i saw it on tv. >> you couldn't, it was r-rated. cheryl: i'm concerned about lawrence mental race. it was horrible. it was from the middle east, whatever. have to run. lauren, we are going to talk later. my next guest is looking at stocks that dominate their business. up next he will reveal three of them putting some of his $1.6 billion behind. we will be right back. cheryl: when it comes to investing, they look for companies that dominate in their field. how low p/e ratios have little to no debt and have fallen out of favor with wall street, so what is the investing in right now? joining us from new orleans. looking mostl

so in the end, there wasn't a lot of support for edson's plan. but he said well, you know, the support was for the gold standard. people said it's not perfect. it's what we know. it's what we have got. and it's what we had. he wrote to a few people subsequently and said i better get back to my day jobs. i spent a couple of months intensively to this. i better get back to this. you wait in thirty years time, my scheme will look much more attractive. through the years economists have all opposed some sort of commodity-backed common. that doesn't necessarily make them right. but it certainly opens up the per view that edison wasn't just the cookie guy stumbling around in the darveg. with the inventive genus, he may have had something to say about strike to stabilize perhaps if not prices, stabilize farmers' incomes. now the federal government ultimately ended up doing that and so his lobbying efforts in congress and behind the scenes weren't really taken up further, because the federal government ended up allowing the federal reserve to extend the l

joining us now is rich edson. >> we have a light breeze and overcast.g on with the weather or the republican national convention. they decided to push today's events off this weekend when it look like isaac was going to hit tampa directly. they will babble out at 2:00 o'clock this afternoon. still republicans after losing a day will pull this off. >> we are containing to go with our program of tuesday, wednesday and thursday. we plan on the convention going to those three days. however, we will make sure that we monitor the storm as it proceeds and see what happens over the next few days. >> isaac is largely missing tampa. republican officials still have their eyes on the gulf and isaac. you cannot have a celebration when you have to structure going on in the gulf coast, if indeed that is what happened. we have pretty much dodged the storm here in tampa. they still have their eyes on isaac. dagen: my producer pointed out and she does adore you, that you have on more gear than jeff flock and he is standing in the middle of a tropical storm surf. it is no

neil: all right, i am with rich edson.they are important, to define how the party wants to present their candidate, effective? >> i think it was. we learned mitt romney is cheap on two occasions, but what this campaign is all about and what the other campaign is about is trying to define -- neil: all right, this is the moment. look who came to crash this party. clint eastwood. >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. save a little for mitt. [laughter] i know what you're thinking. you're thinking what a movie tradesman doing out here? you know they're all left wings out there. at least that is what people think but that's not really the case. a lot of conservative people, moderate people, republicans, democrats in hollywood, it is just the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play a little bit more close to the vest and don't go run and hot dog it. but they are there, believe me, they are there. in fact some of them around town, jon voight, other people around. academy award winner.

first, to my colleague, rich edson. reporter: good evening. surrounding me right now should be filled. that was the plan. and then isaac happened this weekend. republicans thought it was headed here for tampa. that was not the case. we didn't get all that much of it today. the result of all this is that we are one day behind. one thing the republicans to take care of today, and you brought it up, is the debt clock. 2:00 p.m. through the end of thursday is where they are going to get this thing. that is the total bill amassed. this has been shifted to tomorrow. tomorrow is what they should have been. the seats 24 hours from now will be to build with tens of thousands of delegates. what they will do is officially pledged their delegates, mostly for mitt romney here. we do expect ron paul will play a role. it will go and order alphabetically. typically what you get is the home state of the nominee will put that nominee over the top. that's not the case here. they are just going to go by order or in alabama, proceeding up to the end of the alphabe

rich edson at the rnc in tampa, florida, right now. rich, what can we expect from mr. ryan?e is down there, his kids are there, he is ready to go. >> that's right. he is the policy guy. he is the author of the republican economic plan. what better than to talk about paul ryan than wisconsin. this is the wisconsin delegation right here. cheesehead, and all. and what we can expect, is basically more fiscal talk. something that senator marco rubio previewed earlier, to say he will get into a little bit more substance than we heard last night as far as the what the republican plan is for the u.s. economy. so he will go last tonight, paul ryan. we asked him how he will prepare? he will listen to led zeppelin or against the machine before he ends up on stage. before he speaks former secretary of state condoleezza rice will make remarks. she will go off the prompter. probably first time that actually happened that is pretty rare. that is what they put in the prompter, by the way. that is the gettysburg address because you don't know what they will say before time. we'll have all of

david: fox business's rich edson is at the rnc.een doing yeoman's job there watch you all last night. great stuff. what are we expecting from romney tonight? any specifics? >> thanks very much, david. we do have specifics. six hours from now, that is the stage he will take. just finished his walk of this through a short while ago. tested the prompter height. had fans all the way up top yell out his name. he waved bab. we love you, mitt. and he waved back. said thank you. from here, we expect the speech tonight and the night much of the night with guest and videos to focus on bain capital. the romney wants to fight back against a tax on bain capital. they will talk staples. talk bain. a talk a number of difficult issues. he will bring his religion into the fold tonight. there will be discussions from former members of his church or former church. debt and deficits. the debt clock. reminder that the republican national committee put up there that clock, the right, the national debt in total. to the left, $7.8 billion. that is the rnc

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rich edson from the fox business network leads our news at the bottom of the hour.h, what's going on here. >> banks write mortgages, sell them to investors, use different interest rates make a good deal. that business is becoming more profitable. one watchdog group says banks are simply using historically low rate set by the federal reserve to turn an easy profit. >> these interest rates are all set to maximize the income of the biggest banks and basically to move money from the pockets of the american people to the pockets of the biggest banks on wall street. >> now, the "times" report also says fewer banks since the financial crisis means more business for existing lenders, one example it cites, wells fargo recently reported a 155% annual increase in revenue from its mortgage origination business, shep. >> shepard: wow, what are the banks saying about all of this, rich? >> a group representing mortgage bankers say lenders face much higher cost for originating loans driven by regulatory requirements and more extensive credit reviews of potential borrowers required

>> rich edson on capitol hill. rich, thank you.candidates bicker in iowa over who could best help the farmers, world leaders are tackling the drought's fallout. global food prices are rising as corn and soybeans die on the vine literally. officials from the united states, france and mexico say they are preparing for a possible emergency meeting to avoid the sort of riots we saw four years ago when food prices spiked in developing countries. analyst duties not expect any big changes from such a meeting. it's likely to open major debate over food vs. fuel. right now the u.s. uses around 40% of corn to make biofuels. something the critics say is just flat wrong when people in poor countries are starving. get the latest on the drought from janice dean meteorologist in extreme weather center. >> it's actually gotten worse in the highest hit drought areas. extreme to exceptional drought across the central u.s. last week over 2 a% of the country into extreme or exceptional drought this week up 3%. a little bit of good news this week, shep

>> bill: rich edson thank you. live in washington tonight. it should be noted no american president has been up for re-election with unemployment greater than 8% since the second world war. today, president obama pointing out that the economy has added more than a million jobs this year. he admits that is not enough. governor mitt romney says today's report is more proof of what he calls the president's extraordinary record of failure. >> today we just got a new number from the unemployment report and it's another hammer blow to the struggling middle class families of america. because the president has not had policies that put american families back to work. i do. i will put them in place and get america working again. >> that from las vegas, nevada but the president saying that governor romney is pushing the same policies that, quote, helped create this mess, end quote. ed henry live at the white house tonight. ed, the white house cautiously touting today's numbers, what are they saying there, good evening? >> well, bill, the president toda

dennis: thank you very much, rich edson.y 15 minutes, it is time for stocks now with lauren simonetti. you have two computer giant who stocks are heading new lows. lauren: new lows for hewlett-packard and dell. while we have the overall market essentially a buy point, we are seeing these stocks do a little bit more than that, unfortunately, to the downside. pb hc owner of calvin klein, that stock is soaring today. it posted a profit that grew and raised the full year outlook for the second time this year. the consumer sector is strong. as you can see we have human discretionary up. as well as human staples. cheryl: thank you, lauren. california continues to be shaken by hundreds of tumblers. 4.2 earthquake hit east of san diego. most of monday's travelers were under a magnitude 2.5. scientists are puzzled as to what is causing this. no deaths or serious injuries have been reported here to marissa mayer is trying to raise employee spirits. 12:45 a.m. e-mail she announced the program called pb and j. making waves to make them

rich edson standing by with a preview of the aaa forecast.> aaa says actually they're thinking twice and they're traveling. 33 million americans taking trips of 50 miles or more for their house. air travel at 3.7%, total travel up 2.9% from a year ago. even though gas prices currently more than $3.71 per gallon compared not even $3.50 a month ago. still aaa says americans are just finding ways to make it work. >> it is a big factor in people's decisions when it comes to travel. they're not sacrificing the trip, rather trying to find ways to economize. try to find ways to be affordable in other areas so maybe they're not going out really nice restaurants. it still wants to take that trip. >> memorial day from last year, a penn state nearly 5% over last year. cheryl. nicole: thank you. i am surprised. dennis: apple and samsung present in the closing arguments today, and the patent violation case. we will handicap the verdict coming up. cheryl: a train derailment in maryland knocking out verizon phone service. the latest details on the deadly ac

lauren: rich edson getting ready to dump the rain here. it has been pouring here in new york. [laughter] >> no problem. you can use it. lori: treasury rates are dropping here slightly with a lot of concerns about that u.s. economy. mortgage rates on the rise up again for a fourth consecutive week. the national average is at 3.66%. joining us today with more ed pinto. he is a resident fellow. great to have you back on the show, ed. >> thank you. pleasure. lori: inching up just a little bit here. against the backdrop that the u.s. economy may be heading back towards a recession at least if you listen to the cbo. >> right. forget interest rates bounce around a lot. i would not be concerned about even 1%. during my career which is almost 40 years now, interest rates were 9%, they peaked at 17, they came back down to nine, eight, seven, six, five, now they are 3.5. they bounced around a lot. lori: what was it correlated to? >> they are correlated, primarily, to treasury rates. treasury rates have moved a lot over the years. moves from a quarter to a half are very commonplace. lori:

rich edson is awake in tampa and rich, it doesn't look too bad where you are right now?art, that's about it on this one. the hurricane or tropical storm wrapped around tampa and we've gotten rain here, but not that much. and when republicans made the call to delay this, did so on sunday. you've got a massive footprint downtown, half of downtown is shut down and tens of thousands of delegates have to get here, by shuttle bus, five, ten, 20 meals away and a nightmare to do this during a tropical storm. it's tracked west since then, this'll gather for a few minutes after 2:00 and they'll start a national debt clock, and they'll add the debt through the days of the convention and gavel out after that and the festivitying begin tomorrow, stuart. stuart: at this point it doesn't look like tomorrow's activities will be interrupted very much? >> it doesn't. the one thing they're looking out for here is not necessarily what this storm will do to tampa, but what kind of damage and what kind of problems on the north, north of here on the gulf coast, you really don't want to be cele

rich edson on the floor. talk about his mom. she became the rock star.u hear her story, loses her husband, 50 years old, starts from scratch. all of a sudden it is entirely different focus. >> yes. and a standing ovation i have almost soundproof plugs to hear you but when that standing ovation happened i could feel might years shaking. and it was incredibly loud. talk about women's issues it talks about republicans to try to go after the women's boat by telling her story. talk about the delivery month the cal fire he has come to the robot all of this did of the union address. much more relaxed and fired people up. neil: i had that dramatic one on one earlier today. but if you label him to throw grandma off the cliff cliff, his mom is a grandma and sitting right there. he is concerned about her medicare he does not want to throw her off a cliff. does that go a long way to humanizing? his mom in florida getting medicare could be a game changer. >> that is what they were hoping for. republicans wanted to talk about medicare. we did not hear the president or

back to you. >> rich edson live from the republican national convention, joining us now from dallas,r kay bailey hutchinson, senator, always good to seek with you. i wanted to ask you, do you think that ann romney's speech last night worked in helping governor romney gain some support from female voters? >> oh, cheryl, i think she was spectacular with oak leaf clusters. she was so good. i just think she spoke to things that are not usually said to women, and women under stood it. that we have it harder, that women are the ones who have to work harder at the office, to get respect, and then go home tired, but the child still has a book report to do and she's got to do that, too. and she's got to be on the phone with the elderly parent. i thought she was fabulous. cheryl: you know, senator, i'm curious overall, the party in general has been under attack recently, some that have of course coming from the democrats, that the g.o.p. is not friendly to women. some of that has to do with reproduction rights and things like that. but do you agree with that? do you still feel like the g.o.p.

rich edson is manning the floor. >> where better to discuss this and texas. where the delicate will sit. the others are releasing their delegates they are free to cheat -- choose to they want, likely the nominee. but a few hundred of ron paul will probably vote for ron paul. they are not sure but they think somewhere between three or 400 delegates are free to choose from paul why republicans wanted to get it out of the way early if the we -- early in the week because of the revolts in. the romney needs 1144. ron paul will not officially address the crowd that would be rand paul for although held a an event with thousands of supporters. neil: many of those move to gary johnson the libertarian candidate from new mexico. somehow they let him in the building. [laughter] but they left me and. i may be the token i italian anchor. [laughter] you are the party crasher. >> we need to balance the budget now and then the war. the message not being heard. people really recognize spending is not a spate -- sustainable. neil: new poll very well in some states. q-tip colora

we will be checking in with rich edson quite a few times over the next couple of days. and next we have a great ceo. no, not talking i'm not talking about the people up in the corner. i am talking about that room behind me that will be filled with a lot of people. >> happy to be here at. neil: the delay notwithstanding? >> everything looks very well. the campus, as we call it, here in tampa -- we are ready to go. i would have liked it to dawn on monday, but that didn't happen. but will go we'll go on tuesday and have a great show. >> in a way it could work to your advantage if it is done faster. you could evoke a maneuver through the nominations are in one speaker after another, you captivate people's attention. were you going to do when people feel out of sorts or they haven't gotten enough attention were issued enough attention. >> first of all, everybody was in by saturday or sunday, primarily. they were here -- a lot of events were on the schedule. you had a great event that the host an event put on. a lot of people are participating in the process and the people th

mark twain, earnest hemingway, thomas edson, bill gates all atheist stick people and they did good things -- and they were geniuses, i mean all four of those people were geniuses in their own area. political genius i want the best for humanity but i just can't buy the fact that there is a supreme being you are still not even listening? all things being equal i'm not interested. you are disqualifying. >> i am disqualifying. i can't do it it i don't want to look up to a leader to doesn't believe in god. >> why the majority of people not disqualifying now when they did 20 years ago? >> i believe this is happening because there is a lack of civics being taught in school. if you look at that sta tisz particular, 18 to 29, 70% of those demographics would vote for someone who is an atheist. i think that's because there is no education in our schools. the founding principles. >> bill: walking away from religion. >> founding principles being taught in school. >> big issue in these numbers is the fact that everybody prefers any kind of religion, muslim religion, mormon religion, hispanic, catholic

liz: itch rich edson is in washington, d.c. with this story. more americans plan on traveling this labor day weekend. that's what aaa says. 3 million will go at least 50 miles from their home. air travel up 3 into 7%. total travel up 2.9% a over last year. this is pretty challenging time. the current average has gone up. $3.71 a gallon. a month ago a little less than $350 a gallon. a year ago, not quite $3.60 a. this is the highest gas prices in a year yet americans are skipping town anyway. >> it shows that americans are really prioritizing travel this year. they think it is really important to get out, spend time with their friend and family. >> aaa says while more americans might be traveling they might be spending less on their travels. perhaps not eating at nicer restaurants or doing certain activities or not picking up souvenirs. how do you expect to leave town without picking up souvenirs? who does that? david: there are other reasons travel could be up as well, rich? >> one reason they point to is air fare. aaa says air fare in the top

jon: rich edson reporting from washington. thank you. the. jenna: it is certainly not what you're used to seeing as graphic images replaced company logos on, you can see it there, on cigarette packs. why the change? what is up with that? we'll have more on the story coming up on "happening now" jon: if you're health-conscious like jon is. jon: yeah. jenna: or counting calories like the rest of us. you may think you need to avoid fast-food joints s that the case though? dr. marc siegel is here to explain. dr. siegel, no hamburgers for jon or not. >> when you think fast-food burgers and fries come to mind. they say they have such success selling healthier options they're expanding sources. just this summer, mcdonald's announced a nationwide launch of under 500 calorie menu featuring burgers, snacks and beverages all easier on the waistline. other chains are following suit. in the past year burger king introduced a other options. garden salads and fruit smoothties. they changed to fat-free cooking oils like canola to help the health-conscious co

rich edson joins us from washington, d.c. first of all, did you take a space jet back?ou get back so fast? >> i actually should have gotten back a little earlier. some mechanical problems. it took them longer to fill out the paper work fixing whatever the problem was than it was to actually fix the problem on the plane? that was this morning. they got us here i guess in time and, much easier air travel, governor romney and congressman ryan are back on the road. not really on the road. in the air. official republican candidates after this week's republican national convention. romney is meeting with louisiana first-responders in the wake of hurricane isaac and ryan is in richmond, virginia. and with vice president joe biden addressing unmembers in ohio, both vp candidates are squaring off. >> if we stay on the sail path, we'll get more of the same results! look where president obama has taken our economy. 23 million people struggling to find jobs. the poverty rate in america is the highest it's been in a generation. >> what is new about their plan? not only it's not new,

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fox business's rich edson is on the convention floor in tampa, florida.nd rich, i understand the rules committee, was a little hubbub about the rules may being meant to try to marginalize some of the more conservative elements, the tea party. that did pass but i guess there was a little hubbub about it, right? >> there was a lot came from texas that typically what happens in most things. texas being more vocal. had to do with republicans especially ron paul supporters feeling as though they were marginalized due to technicalities on the rules package assigning delegates. we're beyond that. what we're looking forward to next the delegates will stand up alphabetical order according to state and territory they will pledge their vote. they will pledge their intentions to nominate mitt romney. the question remains. this goes to the question, you asked, david, how many ron paul delegates will with you get here? some folks speculated there could be hundreds. 200, 300. the only candidate that has not released his delegates. the other candidates released them of t

fbn's rich edson is on the ground with the latest and what to expect from the big day. rich?, dennis we were expected to have tens of thousand of delegates here. instead republicans pushed this off. we've got empty chairs and band rehearseals. they thought, republicans did would get a storm directly here this weekend. so they condensed this convention, they pushed off today into tomorrow. so tomorrow those chairs will be filled. tens of thousands of delegates from all over country. they will be casting their votes mostly for mitt romney. governor mitt romney will not speak until thursday night. we get the keynote address from governor chris christie +++xew jersey. voters go how should you prepare your stock portfolio. looking back since 1981, that is eight elections, the dow has climbed, during the president's first year in office five times. but we have seen some declines. you can see that there. we have jm from gfi group with fearless prediction. what do you think the markets will do this time around? >> since the fed is so accommodative and the rest of the central banks ar

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. >> shepard: rich edson in d.c.. that's the word today from researchers at a cancer research center in seattle. they have a new study. and in it they found chemotherapy can damage the d.n.a. in the healthy cells and actually help the tumors grow. scientists say that may be why cancer sometimes seems to come back with greater strength after chemo. they also say findings could eventually lead to better treatments. we're getting our first look at workers trying to prevent a nuclear meltdown after last year's deadly earthquake and tsunami crippled a japanese power plant. the plant's operators have released edited video from inside the command centers. it shows five screens from tokyo electric power company's emergency video conference system right after the explosion inside the reactor. three at fukushima. visually, it's just conference rooms and blurred out faces, not surprisingly. but the audio caps grim confusion. at one point a plant manager makes an urgent call to help to company headquarters saying this is serious

tracy: from alabama to tampa bay, rich edson live from the republican national convention where the weather has taken center stage. this morning you were in full rain gear. now the rain is gone. rich: i lost the windbreaker because we didn't get hit by anything. in fact the worst part was last night when we were trying to get to the car, we were getting hit by a thunderstorm but that's aibt. -- but that's about it. we thought we were going to hit by this, but instead it tracked elsewhere. we were going to get a full day of convention here. instead we got ten minutes. republicans gavelled in and started the national debt counter and then gavelled out. what republicans have done given this weekend's forecast is condensed four days of this convention into three days. tomorrow all the delegates who will announce who they are pledging themselves for. obviously mitt romney is over the top in that category. we will hear from anne romney. we will hear from governor chris christie. the vice presidential candidate will speak wednesday, paul ryan. thursday is governor mitt romney is where he will offi

neil: rich edson is monitoring the floor gauging what's going on right now. rich, of course, the mayor, of course, knocked it out of the mark with her speech and putted added pressure on other speakers tonight, didn't she? >> you know, neil, when you look at that and you look at the line up coming up, it's an all-star republican lineup. we are 15 minutes or so behind schedule. we've got 10 to 12 speakers left before we get to the keynote portion of tonight. you'll hear from ann romney, personal story that you'll get of mitt romney. won't talk necessarily policy or the nitty-gritty of the campaign, but the theme of what she's going to say is basically this is the man america needs. that is what we hear from the romney campaign. of course, paving the way for governor chris kristy of new jersey. it was his state, new jersey, that put mitt romney over the top to give him 1 # 144 delegates where he will accept the nomination thursday. neil, back to you. neil: all right, buddy, thank you. rich edson. we got now official word on tropical storm, now hurricane isaac.

back to rich edson following the developments tonight. a big night, obviously, rich edson, per paul ryan. reporter: that is right. the last time i was lost in wisconsin, i was covering the primary in waukesha. we had cheese had top hats. that's my favorite there. these folks are just as dedicated to paul ryan, may be as excited as they are for the start of the packers reason. but this is paul ryan who is the headliner. he will talk about the physical challenge of that he faces. his exurbs that the campaign has released saying that paul ryan will very much have a discussion. the u.s. is facing a severe fiscal crisis and we can choose to act now or later. this is a part of the campaign, very much running as two candidates with very serious efforts to fix the economy. these are the two guys that are going to get in there and fix this thing and paul ryan fits into that perfectly republican sector. tonight he is on the showcased. neil: thank you very much. to put wisconsin into perspective, you can understand. the last republican president whe

rich edson is in tampa covering all this. do you know what time he starts to speak tonight?dea? >> sometimes in the 10:00 hour. senator marco rubio will start around:00 and introduce mitt romney. this has passed punctual. they were supposed to go at 11:00. chris christie and congressman paul ryan a little after 11:00. you have a dozen politicians going before these guys. the most long winded possible possibly on the planet. stuart: another question. we keep hearing there's going to be a mystery speaker tonight and the smart money says it is going to be clint eastwood. that is pure conjecture. what input do you have? >> the smart money down here is also on clint eastwood. there's also speculation it could be tim tebow. not like he is scoring any touchdowns. stuart: two questions and two bout of sarcasm. stay up until past midnight. thank you very much. have a good time. here is what you are saying about the late speeches and putting on our facebook page. jessica agrees with me. i wanted to stay up and see paul ryan's speech but after working all day and i have three kids unde

rich edson is in tampa, what do you say, rich?, if you are be overshadowed, i think you're right, you might as well as be overshadowed by people talking nicely about you. tomorrow, is paul ryan the vice-presidential candidate and romney doesn't speak until thursday and i guess when you see a big headline act, the man you see doesn't come out first. and we'll see governor he will be here to hear people speaking nicely. stuart: and is there some speculation that chris christie is asked to tone it down. the hurricane is going to hit. and maybe some people said maybe he should tone it down. that's not going to happen, do you? >> i think when you're booking chris christie, you're booking him to be fiery. and there's no sense if you're going to ask him to be less chris christie. >> thank you, short and to the point. and he's made his mark blasting california and blasting jerry brown. wait until you hear what he said about the california delegation, we'll play it for you later this hour and we have elizabeth to react. running for califor

rich edson joins us in washington d.c.. you travel fast. peter: rich: i do.took time but we got here on time. you have got this campaign going on the road. romney and ryan are officially the ticket. they left florida this morning and took a detour to louisiana. mitt romney will meet with governor bobby jindal of louisiana and meet with first responders. this campaign goes away from the convention staged to be hidden rhode stage to get folks to vote for them and paul ryan earlier this morning kept that going. >> let me now say this. coming out of tampa we have given our fellow countrymen a very clear choice. we can either stay on the path of america by president obama of decline or we can get you back to work. we can restore growth in this economy and opportunity in our society and the way we do that is a like this man, mitt romney as president of the united states. peter: rich: joe biden on the road in ohio and according to the campaign the obama campaign he will say mitt romney is against the federal government or any government using funds to save jobs, to

rich edson in tampa with the latest. we're waiting for romney perhaps to do a walk-through on the convention floor, have we seen it yet? >> we have not seen it yet, at the lay of the land, where the stage is, the teleprompters, how this will all play out tonight and that is it, the most high-profile event in the 10:00 hour. it is for him to sell himself and his land to american voters. we have had a pretty interesting week so far in florida, thought they would get a hurricane, moved one day of the convention back, into the three-day convention, but from his wife and romney, chris christie following talking about the republican party and last night chairman paul ryan of the house budget committee spent much of his speech going after democrats the white house on their plan will they have been doing over the past four years. what you are also going to have is a handful of speakers including newt gingrich, we'll hear from the founder try to tell the good story of pain capital job creation as opposed to what democrats are say

our very own rich edson is in tampa with the latest. rich? >> well they have arrived.ac never did arrive but still republicans had to cancel yesterday. moved everything up today. the presentation we'll get today was what we expected for yesterday. as you mentioned the presidential nominee, vice-presidential nominee, they're not official yet, i guess the presumptive once are here at the convention site in tampa. ron paul making an appearance. his delegates have not been released. the way it works, some of the other challengers, if you don't have enough delegates you release them to vote for the presumptive nominee. that is what we expect later on today. that roll call vote starting at 5:20 this afternoon. that symbolic moment they go around the convention hall and cast their votes or most of them for governor mitt romney. the keynote address tonight by governor chris christie at 10:00. before that mitt romney's wife ann will speak. ashley: thank you, rich. in tampa. tracy: set the dvr for 10:00 p.m. eastern, ashley webster. watch my fine governor. 16 minutes after the h

let's go to rich edson at the rnc in tampa with the latest. >> the policy guide tonight. paul ryan, chosen as the vp nomination as author of the european fiscal plan. we expect to hear substance from paul ryan on the republican proposal. aides say that he will talk the choice of fiscal future between democrats and republicans much like chris christie did. >> i am telling the truth. we are about facing up to the hardships that need to be faced up to that have not been faced up to by either party for a long time. we are about a party that recognizes someone has got to be responsible. >> paul ryan speaks in the 10:00 p.m. hour. governor romney will watch that speech from his hotel room before ryan's >> we will hear from condoleezza rice where a campaign aide says she will not use the teleprompter making her among the first in tampa. back to you. cheryl: thank you for that live report. our national debt is getting close to the $16 trillion market every day. there is our clock. it is a focus for the republican national convention but will the soaring deficit drag down the stru

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