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>> harris, this coastal city hasn't taken a direct hit from a major hurricane since 1946. but even in isaac takes that jog to the west out over the gulf. this bridge behind us and three others in the tampa saint pete area could stills shut down. if winds reach at least 40 miles per hour. the sunshine skyway bring and three others will be blocked off because of flooding concerns at the low-lying approaches. there is also security concerns here up to half of the 3500 police and sheriff's deputy its recruited from other departments may have to stay home to deal with isaac and his aftermath which means the national guard would get the call to keep the 50,000 delegates safe and secure. >> one issue we talked about yesterday was security, whether we would have a full contingent from around the state that were going to work the rnc event and we do have a full contingent and, again, we have the national guard backup so if we need anything. >> meanwhile, oil companies, including shell, are now preparing to evacuate nonessential personnel from oil rigs in the eastern and central gulf of mexico with the storm less than 72 hours away. harris? 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has done everything he can for the labor movement -- >> has he done everything he can for the labor movement? that answer is simple. nobody has ever done that. no president has ever done that. has he done a lot? absolutely. has he done a lot for working people? absolutely. let us take a simple guy that goes to work every day, whether you are in a mine or an auto factory or go to school as a janitor. under george bush, the occupational safety and health administration was nonexistent. they start it of resources and turned it from an enforcement agency into a consulting place for companies. more people were being injured. less people coming home from work that did not have health issues. now, you have workers being protected. this guy has fought for jobs. the last guy came in and had an economy that was blowing off the charts. it was growing. he leaves office 8 years later with fewer jobs than when he came into office. every american was worse off. our pension funds have been ravaged. lost money because of the deregulation is that he has given and then to people. this president has created 3.5 million jobs in the worst recession we have seen since the great depression. with an obstructionist house and republican senate that has tried to stop everything he has tried to do. he has worked hard. has he done everything? of course not. he works hard to get us health care. we try for 60 years to get health care for every citizen in this country. every other civilized nation has figured out how to do it. they provide health care for their citizens. he finally got that done. despite the obstructionism that we have seen on the other side. are their profits -- are their pockets of workers who say they should have done more? of co

has said. he lies about positions he has taken, and then contradicted. he lies about his opponents. he has lied relentlessly about the president. he has lied about what the president has said, and so he has left america with absolutely no reason to think that lying about his money and lying about his taxes and even lying to the internal revenue service about his money is somehow beneath mitt romney. the angry mrs. romney wasn't finished. >> we pay our taxes. >> notice, and this is very important, notice that she said, "we pay our taxes." she did not say, we pay our income taxes, our federal income taxes. of course they pay property taxes on their mansions. of course they pay sales taxes on their cars. of course she pays gasoline taxes when she fills up her cadillacs with with gas. what we don't know is whether mr. and mrs. romney pay any income taxes at all. senator harry reid says he hasaven't paid income taxes for ten years. mitt romney, like his wife, is very careful to never, ever, ever use the phrase, "income taxes" when he talks about them paying taxes. the romneys are so careful not to use the phrase "income taxes," so lawyerly coached on that, that they have now entered a zone of reasonable suspicion, that their accounting shenanigans have really left them paying nothing in federal income taxes, nothing in the tax returns that mrs. romney just angrily promised to continue to hide. >> we pay our taxes. we are absolutely -- beyond paying our taxes, we also give 10% of our income to charity. >> i'm sorry, but i don't believe you, mrs. romney. i don't believe you give 10% of your income to charity. what income? your gross income? your net income? as defined by you or mitt or your adjusted gross income? i don't believe you give 10% of your income to charity. and the only way you can prove you give 10% of your income to charity is by releasing your tax returns. i kno

ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. now then, keith, you know i'm running for president of the united states. >> yes, sir. >> well, it has been made clear to me that i need a vice presidential candidate. and i was hoping that you would be mine. >> no, sir, i'm sorry, can't do it. >> keith, i'm very excited. thank you. we're going to be a great team. >> no, sir. >> ha, ha, ha, ha. that's great. thanks, keith. i'll see you tomorrow. click. >> 27 past the hour. live look at capitol hill in washington, d.c., on this early friday morning. joining us now, politico's patrick gavin with this morning's playbook. did you see emma's picture as we came in. >> great picture. >> she's a beautiful catch. she's grown up very nicely. >> gorgeous, yeah. >> politico reporting democrats aren't getting much financial help from big unions. >> why not. >> before the convention. what's going on? >> if you look at it's still preliminary but a list of 120 events that will take place in charlotte not a single one is union sponsored. a lot for one big reason, charlotte is not really a very pro uniontown. a lot of these hotels don't have big union presences and when the city was announced a lot of labor groups made it clear they weren't happy of that selection. now you see the result of it, they're not contributing as much in the fast, aren't being featured as prominently in

has he done everything he can for the labor movement, no one has ever done, no president has ever done it. has he done a lot for the labor movement? absolutely he has. has done a lot for the working people? absolutely he has. but let's take the simple guy goes to work every day whether you're in and out of factory, where they go to school as a janitor or anybody. under eight years of george bush, the occupational safety and health administration, the mine safety health administration was nonexistent. it was a cadaver. they starved it of resources and turned from an enforcement agency into a consulting fee for companies. soviet more people being injured, more people being hurt, less people coming home from work that didn't have a health disease. now you have workers being protected. this guy has fought for jobs. look at the last guy. the last guy came in, bush came in, he had an economy that's blowing off the charts, growing a giant surplus. he leaves office, a just later with fewer jobs than when he came into office. so every american worker, every american was worse off. our pension funds have been ravished, lost money because of the the regulations that he had done to people. and this president has crea

has ever done, no president has ever done that. has he done a lot for the labor movement? absolutely, he has. has he done a lot for working people? absolutely, he has. let's just take the simple guy that goes to work every day whether you're in a mine, an auto factory, or you go to a school as a yang to have or anybody -- janitor or anybody. under eight years of george bush, the mine safety health administration was nonexistent. it was a cadaver. they starved it of resources and turnedded it from an enforcement agency into a consulting theme for companies. so you had more people being injured, less people coming home from work that didn't have a health disease. now you have workers being protected. this guy has fought for jobs. look at the last guy. the last guy came in, bush came in, he had an economy that was blowing off the charts. it was growing, a giant surplus. he leaves office eight years later with fewer jobs than when he came into office. so every american worker, every american was worse off. our pension funds have been ravaged, lost money because of the deregulation that he'd given, he'd done the people, and this president has created four, three and a half, four million jobs in the worst recession that we've seen since the great depression. with an obstructionist house and republican senate that has tried to stop everything he's tried to do. so he's worked hard. has he done everything? of course he hasn't done everything. he worked hard to get us the health care bill. we've tried for 60 years to get health care for every citizen in this country. every other civilized nation has figured out how to do it. they provide health care for their citizens. he finally got that done despite

has done for his church and his country. the bible says that a man who does not support his own has [unintelligible] romney has supported everybody who has needed help. obama has a brother he will not help. he has an aunt who had been ordered deported twice. who is the infidel? host: a lot of governors are speaking this week and a handful of senators as well. here is a story about a former u.s. senator battling illness. the story says -- he announced in 2005 he had hodgkin's disease for which he underwent chemotherapy. friends declined yesterday to comment on the nature of his own this. he was scheduled to appear as a surprise guest at last wednesday's candidate, the night, but his secretary canceled his appointment citing personal reasons. his son declined to comment for this story. senator arlen specter republican for many years to eventually switched his allegiance. he was voted out of the senate'. from go to our next call, leesburg, va., on our independent line. caller: how are you? i am not watching any of these conventions. i am an independent and i am just going to wait for the debate been bee. i went to an obama rally and a mitt romney rally. all this is a platform to tell me what i want to hear. for the last two callers, all politicians are liars. i am waiting for the debates to see who is going to do what they say they do or at least attempt to. i will tell you this. when i went to the -- both rallies or nothing but noise. the differences between the two -- i have a problem when i went to the mitt romney rally and it was predominantly middle age, all caucasian painting not a single asian, hispanic, mexican, no one. at the obama rally, it was very diverse. campaignt the romney -- when i went to an obama rally, it was predominantly white, but a lot of hispanics, mexicans, and other racist. i have a problem with somebody who says i am for america but i cannot rally america. watch out for false profits because they come in sheep's clothing. we have to be careful about who we talk about and who we want as the president of the united states. anyone who says they are going to change the world, i do not believe that. i think we need to stop and pay attention to what that person is conventio.tin at the host: lisa brings up the question of watching the conventions this week, the contents versus the drama. here is a study that was released, saying there is more interest in the gop platform itself than mitt romney's speech. more americans expressing interest about what is in the gop platform. about half of the public is interested in learning about the republican party's platform. 44% are interested in mitt romney's acceptance speech. this is the latest survey and we can see the numbers of interest in the democratic convention and interest in the republican convention. you can see there are more people interested in the republican party platform rather than those speeches. the same thing for the democrats. 55 percent and are more interested in hearing about the platform than they are in hearing bill clinton's speech or president obama's speech. you can see how it is breaking down in terms of republicans and democrats. 80% of democrats want to hear their party's platform. let's go to florida and hear what anne has to say. good morning. caller: good morning. i will actually be attending the rnc as a guest. i am certainly interested in hearing all of the group's. in particular i would like to hear paul ryan because i feel his budget is the only one taking a serious attempt at scaling back government. i do not feel it is strong enough. i also wanted to bring up the fact that i would like to hear ron paul and rnad paul. i attempted to be a delegate for ron paul, but because of local shenanigans, the local gop did a fantastic job pushing us out. he is obligated to vote for mitt romney but reluctantly. i think it will be interesting for us to see how this plays out and if anybody is going to go against the pledge and vote for ron paul. that is the unspoken fear. from ant's hear independent caller in baltimore. caller: good morning. i served in the military for 20 years. as far as the president being in the military, it does not really matter. the current president never served. that has nothing to do

has done everything he can for the labor movement -- >> has he done everything he can for the labor movement? that answer is simple. nobody has ever done that. no president has ever done that. has he done a lot? absolutely. has he done a lot for working people? absolutely. let us take a simple guy that goes to work every day, whether you are in a mine or an auto factory or go to school or are a janitor. under george bush, the occupational safety and health administration was nonexistent. they start it of resources and turned it from an enforcement agency into a consulting place for companies. more people were being injured. less people coming home from work that did not have health issues. now, you have workers being protected. this guy hasought for jobs. the last guy came in and had an economy that was blowing off the charts. it was growing. he leaves office 8 years later with fewer jobs than when he came into office. every american was worse off. our pension funds have been ravaged. lost money because of the deregulation is that he has given and then to people. this president has created 3.5 million jobs in the worst recession we have seen since the great depression. with an obstructionist house and republican senate that has tried to stop everything he has tried to do. he has worked hard. has he done everything? of course not. he works hard to get us health care. we try for 60 years to get health care for every citizen in this country. every other civilized nation has figured out how to do it. they provide health care for their citizens. he finally got that done. despite the obstructionism that we have seen on the other side. are their pockets of workers who say they should have done more? of course. when we compare t