dick jarrell an electional foreman and joshua nelson and his dad mark. both miners. mark laid off two months guy. gentlemen, welcome to our show today. great to have you here. joshua, you you come from a long line of coal mining families. i wanted you to talk about how the coal mining industry and your jobs have been affected in this recent obama administration? >> absolutely, governor. i graduated from liberty university and with the job market the way it was i went back home like dad and granddad and great grand daddy to go to work in the mines to take care of some of that college debt and i have a wife and a one-year-old who is now working on two. we are very worried about it. there was before all this started to happen there were probably 4,000 people or so employed in boone county where we are from in the coal industry or directly related to the coal industry and when all of the talks of layoffs and what have you started to happen, obviously everybody is really worried. we have had a lot of involvement. we had people getting more involved in the governmental pro

dick jarrell an electional foreman and joshua nelson and his dad mark. both miners.k laid off two months guy. gentlemen, welcome to our show today. great to have you here. joshua, you you come from a long line of coal mining families. i wanted you to talk about how the coal mining industry and your jobs have been affected in this recent obama administration? >> absolutely, governor. i graduated from liberty university and with the job market the way it was i went back home like dad and granddad and great grand daddy to go to work in the mines to take care of some of that college debt and i have a wife and a one-year-old who is now working on two. we are very worried about it. there was before all this started to happen there were probably 4,000 people or so employed in boone county where we are from in the coal industry or directly related to the coal industry and when all of the talks of layoffs and what have you started to happen, obviously everybody is really worried. we have had a lot of involvement. we had people getting more involved in the governmental process

dick jarrell an electional foreman and joshua nelson and his dad mark. both miners.y. gentlemen, welcome to our show today. great to have you here. joshua, you you come from a long line of coal mining families. i wanted you to talk about how the coal mining industry and your jobs have been affected in this recent obama administration? >> absolutely, governor. i graduated from liberty university and with the job market the way it was i went back home like dad and granddad and great grand daddy to go to work in the mines to take care of some of that college debt and i have a wife and a one-year-old who is now working on two. we are very worried about it. there was before all this started to happen there were probably 4,000 people or so employed in boone county where we are from in the coal industry or directly related to the coal industry and when all of the talks of layoffs and what have you started to happen, obviously everybody is really worried. we have had a lot of involvement. we had people getting more involved in the governmental process than we ever had. that

foreman, in for erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, a new storm warning. forget the hurricane, forget the vice president cruising tampa looking for a fight, forget everything you know about this election so far. because in florida tonight mitt romney's team is preparing to unleash a flood of money that could dramatically change the political landscape. listen to him today sounding confident in his home state of michigan. >> i don't want four more years, of what we have, do you? i want to get america on an entirely different track. a track of greatness and strength and vitality and prosperity. and i know how to do it. >> with the republican convention looming, new polls show the race is still very tight. take a look. president obama has a slight overall lead. two-points. that's in the margin of error. he's boosted with a 12-point edge with women. same margin with younger voters. a 29 point lead among big city folks. and he's done it with ads like this. >> he's made his choice. but what choices will women be left with? >> he supports paul ryan's budget which would cut education by 20%. >> now mitt romney's attacking the president on medicare? >> but consider the cost. to get that small

foreman has that. >> reporter: as soon as paul ryan was picked, democrats hit hard on women's rights. a laundry list of complaints about the wisconsin congressman popped up on the president's re-election website. and this white house attack ad went white hot. >> in congress, ryan voted to ban all federal funding to planned parenthood. and allow employers to deny women access to cancer screenings and birth control. both romney and ryan backed proposals to outlaw abortion, even in cases of rape and incest. >> reporter: the ad exaggerates some of those claims. while romney's position on abortion rights has been a moving target, he's supported them in the case of rape or incest 37 ryan's record shows support for abortion, only when the mother is in danr. and he's also pushed legislation to restrict taking cells from human embryos for stem cell research 37 to define each fetus as a person. the so-called personhood amendment. he's argued that unborn children are being treated as subhuman. like slaves once were. and he infuriated some womens rights groups when he helped sponsor anti-abortion legislation that used the term "forcible rape," as if there could be any other kind. the wording was

election. thank you for joining us. >> you bet, take care. >> thanks. >> see you. >>> still ahead, remembering. one heck of a leap for mankind. we are remembering the icon, astronaut neil armstrong. >>> that's one small step foremanr man. one giant leap foreman kind. >> with those words neil armstrong became a national hero as the first man to walk on the moon. today we mourn the loss of that man. armstrong passing away at the age of 82 after a remarkable life that inspired generations to reach for the stars. >> the eying legal has -- the eagle has landed. >> it was for me the highlight and it was very challenging. there were a lot of unknowns. for a pilot it was a wonderful experience. >> on july 16th, 1969 neil armstrong blasted off to the moon. his voyage would take him where no man had ever landed before. traveling with him was pilot edwin buzz aldrin and michael collins. >> after landing we had hours to stand there a mere 15 feet above the surface. long before we got out on the surface, we had a pretty good appreciation for what the moon was like. >> that's one small step for man. one giant leap for mankind. >> armstrong made history when he stepped off the eagle and set foot on the moon on july 20th. hundre

foreman has been looking into that for us. tom, you have looked back at the jobless rate in past presidential election years.ing to read the tea leaves. how does this line, unemployment from 1976 to 2008, how does that relate to the ability of one party to win or hold the white house. and there is a trend you can see. we are seeing an indication. look at 1980. ju jimmy carter was in office. lost a bid at re-election with 7.5% unemployment rate. there were a lot of other factors, the hostage crisis, there were many, many things going on, energy concerns. if you look at just that number, look, he loses, 7.5%. why would he lose? maybe this, not the absolute number but the trend line, it was going up when he was trying to get reelected. why do you think that? because if you look here when the trend line is going down and ronald reagan is trying to get reelected after beating jimmy carter here, look what happens, 7.2%. that's very close to the same number jimmy carter had, and yet he won. what's the big difference we look at if we say just unemployment? trend line up for jimmy carter, trend line down for ronald r

foreman. >> reporter: as soon as paul ryan was picked, democrats hit hard on women's rights. a laundry list of complaints about the wisconsin congressman popped up on the president's re-electionouse attack ad went white hot. >> in congress ryan voted to ban all federal funding for planned parenthood and allow employers to deny women access to cancer screenings and birth control. and both romney and ryan back proposals to outlaw abortion, even in cases of rape and incest. >> reporter: the ad exaggerates some of those claims while romney's position on abortion rights has been a moving target, he is supported them in the case of rape or incest. ryan's record shows support for abortion only when the mother is in danger. and he's also pushed legislation to restrict taking cells from human embryos for stem cell research to define each fetus as a person. the so-called personhood amendment. argued that unborn children are being treated as subhuman, like slaves once were. and he enfuruated some human rights groups that used the tomorrow forcible rape, as if there could be any other kind. the wordingas later changed complicating that matter further, another response sor of that legisla