video stream is jeff sharlet, author of "radiant we welcome you both to democracy now! tell us the story of governor mike pence. who is this indiana politician jacob u.s. congressman her, governor, fox talkshow host? >> he's a kennedy democrat. he is an irish catholic kennedy democrat who really either lost his way or changed his way back in college at a christian rock astival that was meant to be evangelical woodstock. he decided to accept jesus and become an evangelical and that turned him on the path to conservatism, a way from the sort of democratic roots. in 1980, i think he voted for jimmy carter. i 1984, he was a regular republican. i the early 1990's, he was running for congress. he was losing badly because of his very sort of negative howaigning and he learned to be a kind of smoother, kinder ted cruz who sort of character. he is the ideological makeup of ted cruz, he just does not have the visible venom. he entered congress in 2000. what is interesting is the way the press is playing him as mr. stability, as this more moderate, conservative but mild-mannered -

and thank you to jeff sharlet, associate professor of literary journalism at dartmouth.uthor of several books including, "c street: the fundamentalist threat to american democracy." his most recent book is "radiant truths." back in a minute. ♪ [music break] amy: "jumper" by third eye blind. the band performed at a benefit concert tuesday night in cleveland andndhe singer r stepn jacobs true b boos for many in e audience in town for the rnc when he introduced the song by talking about the needed to brig people like "my cousins who are gay" into the american fabric and to "not live your life and fear in opposing that fear on other people." jacobs asked the crowd to "raise your hand if you believe in science." this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. breakiking with convenention, w, peace, the presidency. we are from cleveland,d, ohio, covering the republican national convention inside and out from the streets to the convention floor. the big newsnight, of the convention was that texas senator ted cruz, former republican president