. >> the sound you heard over the crowd was the loud slap of the gauntlet being thrown down. this nation needs this debate, it wants this debate, we will win this debate. four conventions ago, george, at that stage, accepting the vice presidential nomination, jack kemp, who preached against root canal politics. he was the apostle of sunny conservatism. paul ryan is saying, you can be a sunny conservative while trimming entitlements. >> you bring up the 1996 convention, donna brazile, that was a race where democrats attacked republicans for cutting medicare. >> absolutely, george, and tonight, paul ryan gave us a litany of things they disagree with president obama, but he did not offer the country that anything that mitt romney or paul ryan would do to fix the problem. at the end, more than $6.8 trillion under his congressional leadership. now, he's saying that obama failed but he's not given us a plan for what they will do for the middle class. >> he did do exactly what mitt romney expected him to do. >> i think for the first time he was on a national stage, he performed extr

. >> the sound you heard over the crowd was the loud slap of the gauntlet being thrown down. this nation needs this debate, it wants this debate, we will win this debate. four conventions ago, george, at that stage, accepting the vice presidential nomination, jack kemp, who preached against root canal politics. he was the apostle of sunny conservatism. paul ryan is saying, you can be a sunny conservative while trimming entitlements. >> you bring up the 1996 convention, donna brazile, that was a race where democrats attacked republicans for cutting medicare. >> absolutely, george, and tonight, paul ryan gave us a litany of things they disagree with president obama, but he did not offer the country that anything that mitt romney or paul ryan would do to fix the problem. at the end, more than $6.8 trillion under his congressional leadership. now, he's saying that obama failed but he's not given us a plan for what they will do for the middle class. >> he did do exactly what mitt romney expected him to do. >> i think for the first time he was on a national stage, he performed extr

to break 80 in a brown to after the wind kicked up in south carolina tiger woods emerge from the gauntlet with a share of the lead with vijay singh and carl peterson. his tee shot on the fourth goes to the gallery, egyptian comes up short. he bogeyed the hole. meantime rory mcelroy and his touch was great. 3 ft. from the cup and temps in for birdie one of five birdies on front nine. back to the tiger, on the seventh goes for the sand to the rough bodie's again drops back to one under. five of the lead. his partner vijay singh no such trouble long birdie putt to move at 6 under for the championship tied with mcelroy. for the lead. they suspended polite and resume tomorrow morning at 745 east coast time vijay and goes for his third career pga championship british open runner-up adam scott 1 off the pace. giants offense has been jekyll and hyde, 15 runs on wednesday one run thursday shut out last night. what happened today. the giants fans are innovative. love that sign. matt cain goes for his first win in a month. strikes out the side in a third. he of the rockies to two runs through seven

everyone in the audience, i take strength from those words, from that question as bobby threw down the gauntlet 30 years ago. you said you would always be there for me. meaning, the there in force, together with the understanding. thank you very much. >> let me begin this the scutcheon. you work every day with gang members. you were once a gang member yourself. why do you think you are effective working with young people and what does this mean to you and how we know that this is working. first of all, i want to thank god for his grace. i work with united players. i do reentry and the youth involved in juvenile delinquency. the majority of the kids i work with our gang members. i was formally -- formerly a gang member who grew up in san francisco. we all have stories of guys involved with the gang. everyone has a different story of why they joined. my thing is, i believe it works for me to be involved with kids who were in gangs -- i worked with all of the shot colors and i had a goal while i was there. it took me 10 years before i started to transform my life. in the meantime i have the goal t

. >> stephen: the sparkly gauntlet was thrown down, so we moseyed into the stables to learn the toolsthe trade. now this thing, this is nice. >> that's a lungeing whip. >> stephen: this is when i lunge at my horse? >> new york lunge is when you take a younger horse. easy, easy. >> stephen: that's the real deal. that brings back memories. do the female horses and the male horses ever date? >> no. no, dating is all arranged marriages. it's selective animal breeding. >> stephen: we do that at my country club, too. we arrange what kids can date each other so we'll have a better crop for next year's swim team. then it was time to meet my dance partner. >> so stephen, this is conchita. >> hello, conchita. now, is there anywhere i should not touch the horse? >> generally approaching the horse is about the way you approach her. you don't want to be in front of her or we hide her. >> stephen: what would happen? that's when she kicks the skull off my shoulders? >> the likelihood is about zero. >> stephen: is it about zero or is it zero? >> there are no absolutes. >> stephen: would you hold the

. >> reporter: the dude is swept into a gauntlet of mistaken identity persecution.et keeps his zen aura. >> careful, man. there's a beverage here. hey! >> reporter: the coen brothers have made better films, but for some reason, this one still resonates. what do you get yelled at the most by people on the street? >> dude! >> reporter: why do you think that that one resonates the way it does? >> such a good movie. >> reporter: there are a number of lebowski-fests around the world, where fans bowl and drink and quote their favorite lines. >> over the line! >> reporter: but when of verl b oliver benjamin saw the film, he saw more than a cult comedy. he saw a religion. with the dude as a transcendent model for modern living. >> we suddenly realized that it doesn't matter if you weren't a success, what society aproves of. what really matters is our own attitude to life and you can totally control what you felt about your life by not playing into the hands of the deke at the same times of society. >> reporter: he anointed himself the dudely lama and registered the website

everyone in the audience, i take strength from those words, from that question as bobby threw down the gauntlet 30 years ago. you said you would always be there for me. meaning, the there in force, together with the understanding. thank you very much. >> let me begin this the scutcheon. you work every day with gang members. you were once a gang member yourself. why do you

everyone in the audience, i take strength from those words, from that question as bobby threw down the gauntlet 30 years ago. you said you would always be there for me.

he threw down the gauntlet. this audience loved ann romney and condi rice. but this was the speech they were waiting for. we're going to have a great debate this fall. >> i think that paul ryan did a great job. he had to do a couple of things. he had to portray president obama as two things. divisive and a disappointment. to look at those persuadable voters and say, give mitt romney a shot here, and i think that's exactly what he did tonight, and he was the first person we really heard in this convention take on president obama directly and repeatedly and say this man has failed. >> ari? >> jolt of adrenaline. this was a jolt of optimistic adrenaline that he deliverrd tonight. that's something the republican party needs. the decisions to take on the future. also keep your eye on health care. if it's a romney/ryan ticket can neutralize the historic advantage in health care and they may be doing it on this obama medicare attack. huge changing issue in this election. >> james carville, after listening to paul ryan tonight will democrats be nervous and worried a

it is about the economy and today the gauntlet thrown down. about a new direction for america.o we grow the country through jobs and through the marketplace? or do we retard government and the people by growing government and increasing our debt? it is very simple. the government should only do for the people what the people cannot do for themselves. that is the republican mantra that we are going to bring to the american people. spend within our means just like people have to do in their home budgets. we will have a budget, something the president couldn't deliver when had the white house and house and senate the first two years of his presidency with high majorities. a district difference between the direction the republicans want to take the country and the disasterrous direction the president has taken this country. >> let's get back to the swing states. we noted they are going on a tour of virginia, north carolina, florida and ohio. obviously rolling out this selection of paul ryan, jehmu, governor mitt romney thinks he is going to help him in all of those states. you don'

. >> bell lawyers ran the gauntlet today. it has been the most sensational case in decades. the murder of a british man by one of china's most powerful women. the crime has already cost her husband, one of the communist party's most senior figures his job and plunged the party into crisis. she has confessed to poisoning a british businessman and today, are guiltless confirmed. usually that would mean execution. but she is powerful and well connected. the death penalty was suspended. the judge said she suffered a breakdown and was not in control of our actions. >> this verdict is just. it shows respect for the law, reality, and life. >> british embassy officials looked on. there's an element of theater to all this. the communist party controls the courts and the size the outcome. the embassy gave the report a guarded welcome. >> is this a result that will please the hayward family? >> i don't know. >> hayward was living in china, trading on his connections with powerful officials, brokering up -- broker in deals. the two fell out over a failed property venture. hayward demand

talk about being thrown into the gauntlet. >> no kidding. >> we have to hope maryland does a little better despite the trouble early on. >> we'll be right back. >>> and that is our broadcast for tonight. we want to thank you for staying up with us. >> and stay up for letterman as well. we're always on at wusa9.com. yellow alert day tomorrow. >> that's right. >> all right. in the people, businesses, and organizations that call greater washington home. whether it's funding an organization that provides new citizens with job training, working with an anacostia school that promotes academic excellence, or supporting an organization that serves 5,000 meals a day across d.c., what's important to the people of greater washington is important to us, and we're proud to work with all those who are making our communities stronger.

talk about being thrown into the gauntlet. >> no kidding. >> we have to hope maryland does a little betterpi

we can now call it that starting this morning where mitt romney really threw down the gauntlet to the obama campaign and said this is not going to be about a personal attack in this campaign. it's going to be about the issues. and they started to get into some of those issues. paul ryan of course took the stage and talked about the need to cut the national debt in this country. and then fredricka some of that we saw at the second event in ashland, virginia which was very interesting, they started to sharpen their rhetoric on the obama campaign on the president. we saw paul ryan introduce mitt romney and say, talking about the economy, it doesn't have to be this way. we can do better. and then mitt romney got on stage and at one point basically warned the crowd, warned republicans that the attacks are going to be comin from democrats to get ready f these attacks coming from democrats aimed at paul ryan and it was something that he had described as getting dragged down in the dirt. so mitt romney sort of is preparing republicans for the onslaught that will be coming. we're on our way to

. >> romney has certainly thrown down the gauntlet with his pick and if he does win, in all likelihood the senate will go republican and we will see some real changes-- some fiscal austerity, some tax changes, and the beginnings of reform of entitlements. >> reporter: ryan's budget plan cuts spending deeply, but also cuts taxes too. so if romney follows his lead, markets may find the immediate impact is not too different than what would happen under president obama. another market focus is what happens immediately after the election. >> if romney got elected and ryan was part of the reason for that, then that postpones the fiscal cliff decisions until early next year, that is at the start of a romney administration. increasingly, we are looking at one way or another most of those fiscal cliff policies actually going into effect and then being revised early in january. >> reporter: for stocks, a romney-ryan win looks mixed. the odds of a corporate tax cut would go up, but the chances of getting more help from the federal reserve might go down. >> ryan has tangled with bernanke, been cri

a millionaire heart and more from "the contenders. " >> i draw the line into dust and tossed the gauntlet before the tyranny with segregation forever. >> this sunday, a former alabama governor george wallace. american history tv on c-span three this weekend. >> which is more important? our honor. this is the kind of nation we are. it is whether we still possessed the wit and determination to deal with many questions including economic questions but certainly not limited to them. all things to not flow from welsh or poverty. i know this firsthand and so do you. all things flow from doing what is right to [applause] >> look at what has happened to -- we have the lowest combined rate of unemployment, inflation in home mortgages in 28 years. [applause] look at what happened to -- 10 million new jobs, over half of them highway judge, 10 million workers getting the raise they deserve with a minimum wage low [applause] >> cspan has aired every minute of every major party conventions since 1984. you could want our live coverage every minute of the republican and democratic national convention liv

topping the agenda, the obama campaign dropping down the gauntlet and the obama campaign throwing ithe war is romney's tax returns. first, the obama campaign issuing a challenge to mitt romney, release five years of tax returns, we'll drop the issue. here's the letter from the obama campaign manager, jim messina to romney campaign manager, rhoades. if the governor will release five years of

but it is certainly laying down the gauntlet to the obama campaign.ampaign, randi, this campaign has been about who mitt romney is. the obama campaign has gone after bain capital and his experience. and what mitt romney is saying, this isn't about me anymore. this is about the issues. this is about, you know, this is about the republican plan that paul ryan has put forth in the congress that is quite dramatic. what he could do to the medicare program. what mitt romney has talked about with medicaid. they're drawing up a contrast in the fall. >> the seniors are going to have a field day with this one, if he's trying to end medicare, which is what the democrats will be saying. >> i think it's a curious strategy. if you look at the polling, where mitt romney does well is among senior citizens. the president has never done well among senior citizens, although he did carry florida last time. so, you've got to think that the democrats, that the obama campaign, is going to zero in on seniors and say this is what's going to happen to the medicare program. the

and down this stage mitt romney and paul ryan started ratcheting up the rhetoric, threw down the gauntlet on this issue of the economy trying to get the campaign to take its focus away from those personal issues going after mitt romney's business record and back on the issues that they want to talk about and that is the economy. earlier today at one of these events here in virginia paul ryan went after one of his bread and butter issues and that is the out of control national deficit. ryan put the debate, the subject of the national debt in these terms. here's what he had to say. >> on an unsustainable path that is robbing america of our freedom and security. it doesn't have to be this way. the commitment mitt romney and i make to you is this. we won't duck the tough issues. we will lead. we won't blame others. we will take responsibility. >> so there you hear paul ryan. deb, you asked for it. here it is right here. we're holding on to it for the first time. the romney/ryan ticket sign is being handed out here in manassas, virginia. you'll be seeing those all over the country in the comin