a medical isotope company. > > gop vp paul ryan is from janesville. were you surprised to hear him say that the obama administration is to blame for the closure of the factory, when in fact it was already closed, correct? > > it was already closed. there's a technical detail, which is that thousands of people lost their jobs when it closed on december 23rd, 2008. but, there were 57 workers who stayed at the plant to finish out a small truck order for isuzu, and that went into the spring. so, technically, i think paul was trying to use that as part of his convention speech. > > where do we go from here? you have been front and center in this situation, and as i mentioned at the top, there is a power struggle. what happens from here? do you have any insights at all? > > i think that we're in the middle of one of the most difficult economic times we've ever seen. the pew research center also tells us that we're in one of the most partisan times in american history, and i personally think that the only way we're going to get past this economic, dismal per

i almost said hello, janesville. that is where i am from. am born and raised in a place called janesville, wisconsin. i went to school with a guy from zanesville, ohio. his family had some dry cleaners here. gus is one of my friends from college. go redhawks, go blue devils. right? [cheers and applause] i have got to say, the hospitality, the warmth from people in the buckeye state has been tremendous. thank you. i spent four great years at miami, living in ohio. the hospitality and the warmth that we had. go miami -- we call them something different when i was there. redskins. really something. what i see and sense and hear and feel are people who care so deeply about their country, who care so deeply about their community and people who are bringing their kids on their shoulders who care about the next generation. thank you for coming out today. thank you for coming through the rain and standing in the line of the middle of the morning for doing this. [applause] we have a big choice. this is not who is president for four more years. and we

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up just south of janesville.questions, and i'm disappointed that paul ryan didn't bring this up last night. they had the stimulus money that gaved gm but then gm closed down the only plant that they outright own in janesville wisconsin. >> stephanie: when george bush was president, yes. >> caller: yes but what i'm getting at it hang on if it was when george bush was president, they closed it down after the stimulus money but yet obama is taking credit for saving the auto plan -- >> stephanie: the stimulus is different than the auto bailout.% >> caller: okay. they then turned around and used money from the bailout -- >> stephanie: but paul ryan said that barack obama killed the plant, which was a basic flat-out lie. all right. twenty-nine minutes after the hour, right back with markos moulitsas on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ (vo) during the debates, it's hard to know what candidates are thinking. unless, of course you've stood at the podium yourself. with governors granholm, spitzer, and vice president gore, wa

i'm from janesville, wisconsin.ou know what the unemployment rate is in scranton today. >> i sure do. >> 10%. >> yeah. >> you know what it was day you guys came in? 8.5%. that is how it is going around america. >> you doesn't read the statistics. that is not how it is going. it he is going down. bill: ryan responding that the economy is barely limping along in the country and growing only at 1.3% gdp. jamie. jamie: they talked a lot about that. congressman ryan taking on the obama administration's foreign policy. he criticized white house and how it is handling iran's nuclear program and america's relationship with israel. >> let's look at it from the view of the ayatollahs. what do they see? they see this administration trying to water down sanctions in congress for over two years. they're moving faster toward a nuclear weapon. they're spinning centrifuges faster. they see us saying when we come into the administration, when they're sworn in, we need more space for their ally israel. they zoo president obama in new

he's from scanton, pennsylvania and i am from janesville, wisconsin.ou whan the unemployment rate is. 10 percent. you know what it was when you came in 8.5 percent. >> did biden turn the tables and put the focus more on romney's agenda. >> paul ryan didn't get much much a chance to put it on biden for anything. and now look. he did go out there and he tried to the extent while he was dodging the kitchen sink to put information and continue to further the romney agenda for a positive vision for the economy but he didn't get a big chance. romney will have to be aware of and get ready as he move in the debate for obama. they have a sense of what is coming. obama will not make the mistake and in any way make style mistakes that biden did. >> the answer for ryan that was weak. he said romney is a car guy. that is not a answer on the bailout. that is not an explanation. >> i think on domestic policy ryan did okay. most of the debate was foreign policy. but on domestic policy he did okay with the exception of his discussion of entitlement reform. biden got th

i'm from janesville, wisconsin. you know what the unemployment rate in scranton is? it's 10%. the day you came into office it was 8. 5%. that's how it's going all around america. >> that's not how it is, it's going down. >> did they inherit a tough situation? absolutely. but we're going in the wrong direction. look at where we are. the economy is barely limping along. it's growing at 1.3%. that's slower than last year and last year was slower than the year before. job growth in september was slower than it was in august and august was slower than july. we're heading in the wrong direction. 23 million americans are struggling for work today. 15% of americans are living in poverty today. this is not what a real recovery looks like. we need real reforms and that's what we're proposing. it's a five point plan. get america energy independent by the end of the decade. help people that are hurting get the skills to get the job they want. make trade work for america so we can make more things in america. and sell them overseas and champion small businesses. don't raise taxes on small

one of my best friends in janesville, a reservist, is in an operating base in east afghanistan right now, our wives are best friends, our daughters are best friends. i want him and all of our tropes to come home as soon as and as safely as possible. we want to make sure that 2014's successful. that's why we want to make sure that we give our commanders what they say they need. we don't want to extend beyond 2014. that's the point we are making. it was just this, i feel like we would be able to -- call this a success. but it's not. what we are witnessing as we turn on our television screens these days is the absolute unraveling of the obama foreign policy. problems are growing at -- problems are growing abroad but jobs are not growing at home. >> he says he are absolutely leaving in 2014. you are saying, that's not an absolute, but you won't talk -- >> you know why we say that? >> i would like to know why. >> we don't want to broadcast to our enemy, put a date on your calendar, wait us out and then come back -- >> but you agree with the timeline? >> we do agree with the timeline and t

i am from janesville wisconsin. do know the unemployment rate? 10 percent. of the day you came into office? 8.5%. that is how would is going all over america. >> it is going down. >> he did very well. on medicare/medicaid security jobs for grow to go to toe withhe vice president on the military and foreign policy. he could hold his own. considering good demeanor of joe biden and interrupted 82 times. gerri: he had the hardest time drilling down the pacific's he corrected himself four times on numbers then with the war on afghanistan he could not go there. i was shocked at his performance. >> i thought it was typical except the hyper aggressiveness. he got a specific where he was specifically wrong saying raising the level of the tax cuts $1 million which is not the administration's position and it still is not. sometimes he plays fast and loose with the facts of the veal obama campaign calls them alive with t romney. i think paul ryan's should have pushed back. he was behaving in the rude manner the he should have been prepared he looked weak >> the moderato

but, you know, newt, folks, lakes take janesville for a minute, middle america, whatever. they are signature around the kitchen table and they understand the difference between rising and falling take home pay, like they get that, and this was a point ronald reagan made many years ago. you get lower tax rates. your take home pay for education, for your work, for your home, for your mortgage, that really matters. i hope, and i'm going to ask you, will ryan follow in romney's footsteps, because i thought for the very first time romney really made that case last week, and it's helped him shoot up in the polls. >> oh, i think he l.as you know, paul ryan worked for jack kemp at empower america. he worked for castin who is one of the original supply-siders. he gets this stuff in the very heart of his being, and it's an important story to tell that in fact, if you look at the price of gasoline. obama has failed. if you look at the unemployment rate, obama has failed. the answer is not austerity. the answer is growth. if you have growth, can you mop up a lot of your problems, be p

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he's from strain ton, pennsylvania and i'm from janesville, wisconsin.ewpoint hot unemployment rate was in strain ton today? >> sure do. >> do you know what it was when you came. >> did biden turn the tables and put the focus more on romney's agenda? >> paul ryan didn't get much of a chance to put the onus on biden for anything. look, i think he it go out there. he tried to the extent that he could while he was dodging the kitchen sinks that were coming at him to put some information out there, continue to further the romney agenda, the sort of positive vision for the economy you but he didn't get a big chance. that's something mitt romney is going to have to be aware of and get ready for as he moves into this debate with owe -- obama. obama won't go on the stage and make the style mistakes joe biden did. >> the answer for ripe i thought was week. he said romney is a car guy. what does that mean? that's not an answer on the bailout. that's not an explanation. that's one of those nonsense. >> i think on domestic policy i think ryan did okay. most of the d

he's from scranton, pennsylvania, i'm from janesville, wisconsin. you know what the unemployment rate in scranton is today? >> sure do. >> it's 10%. >> the day it was when you came in, 8.5%. >> you don't read the statistics that's not how it's going. it's going down. >> this is two-minute answer, please. >> look, did they come in and inherit a tough situation? absolutely. we're going in the wrong direction. look at where we are. the economy is barely limping along, growing at 1.3%. that's slower than it grew last year and last year slower than the year before. job growth in september was slower than it was in august and august slower than it was in july. we're heading in the wrong direction. 23 million americans are struggling for work today. 15% of americans are living in poverty today. this is not what a real recovery looks like. we need real reforms for real recovery and that's what mitt romney and i are proposing. a five-point plan, get america energy independent in north america by the end of the decade, help people hurting get the skills they

we said as gm goes, so goes janesville. plant and a lot of friends i grew up with who worked at that plant who thought they could get a good job like their folks did and make a good living for their families lost that. and that livelihood is gone, i have a buddy that went from $25 an hour down to $9 an hour without benefits. we have got to help these people who are stuck in between, who are in the midst he will of their earning -- middle of their earning years, when they're supposed to be building for their family, saving for their family, putting themselves on the path of pursuing their idea of happiness, making the american dream realized for themselves and their kids. we have 46 different job training programs coming out of washington, spread across seven different agencies and it's nothing but bureaucracy. get the bureaucrats out of the way, give people like john casey the ability to take this and get people the skills they need so they can get the jobs they want in the 21st century and have themselves back on the path

and almost read the letters that the congressman read and looking for funding for a project in janesville or something. then he also said hold on. the house budget that you all passed would eliminate some of this funding. so at every turn last night, the vice president used all of his savvy and skill from his time on capitol hill. to me, it seemed like a couple of -- sort of a committee hearing with just -- someone from the house and the senate, i guess a conference committee of two if you will. the gentleman from delaware and the gentleman from wisconsin. and they went after it so hard. but i think that -- gwen: and thanks to martha raddatz. >> kept it moving along. gwen: where martha could say be specific. >> in this congress we might need here. the vice president was pretty skilled at sort of shutting this argument down. at every turn. but the condescension i think is you're right. it's still going to settle in as karen wrote this morning, and we need a few days to see sort of how this plays out. but by then there will be another debate. so this one will not have a lasting effect but i

he is from scranton, pa., i'm from janesville, wisconsin. do you know what the unemployment rate is in scranton, pennsylvania? >> i sure do. >> to date inherit a tough situation, certainly. but we are going the wrong direction. the economy is limping along. is slower than it was last year, and last year was slower than the year before. job growth in september was slower than august, and august was slower than july. 23 million americans are struggling for work. 50% of americans are living in poverty. -- 15% of americans are living in poverty. that is not what the recovery looks like. we need real reforms, and that is what we are proposing, a five-point plan. did america energy independent in a decade. how people who are working to get the skills for the jobs they want to control the debt crisis. make more things in america, and sell them overseas. champion small businesses. did not raise taxes on small businesses, because they are our job creators. host: back here live, we are talking to first time voters only in this section of "washington j

one of my best friends in janesville, a reservive is at an operating base in eastern afghanistan rightnow, our wifes are best friends, our daughters are best friends. i want him and all of our troops to come home as soon and safely as possible. we want to make sure the 2014 is successful. that's why we want to make sure that we give our commanders what they say they need to make it successful. we don't want to extend beyond 2014. that's the point we are making. you know f it was just this, i would feel like we would be able to call this a success. but it's not. what we're witnessing as we turn on our television screens these days is the absolute unraveling of the obama foreign policy. problems are growing at home but jobs, problems are growing abroad but jobs aren't growing here at home. >> let me go back to this he says we're absolutely leaving in 2014. you're saying that's not an absolute but you won't talk about what conditions would justify that. >> do you know why we say that, because we don't want to broadcast to our enemies, put a date on your calendar, wait us out and then come