bob dole was in '76, jerry ford's pick but didn't get elected. i think he feels ryan secures the conservative base and is articulate, full of ideas and eneveryone,y and provides a more youthful stance to the ticket than maybe picking anyone else. >> we're going to have to leave it at that. >> one last thing. >> go ahead. >> this is daniel webster who turned down the vice presidenty because i don't propose to be buried until i'm dead. i thought that was a great line about sometimes who the vice president is, and as the vice president, the vice president position is now a lot more important than -- . >> all right. mark plotkin. i love to hear your quips and says. >> yeah. >> thank you for your insight tonight. >> thank you. >>> the news edge in maryland. part of a two-week crime initiative to transform neighborhoods. specialized patrol officers and detectives will saturate the sixth most crime-ridden areas of the county. the main focus, getting as many guns as possible off of the street. that is the bottom line. >> the timing couldn't be better. ho

jerry ford never expected that -- hell, he never expected to be president.very administration, sooner or later is faced with a major challenge like that. in our case, it was 9/11 and the aftermath. and i think, you look at what barack obama's done. and he has walked away from it, refused to deal with thins, like, for example, the debt crisis. it's right there in front of everybody to see, to look at. i never hear thim talk effectively about what will happen if we don't address that issue. and i never see him seem to be serious about that issue? you say, he's trying to pretend that we are not at war. noose a pretty serious charge. >> before 9/11, we looked at terror attacks as a law enforcement problem. what we learned on 9/11, 3,000 dead americans is an act of war. and what you begin to recognize that it is an act of war, then you can bring to bear on it, the resources of the united states that wouldn't otherwise be applied, it's a law enforcement problem. bring the not bear on it, your intelligence capabilities and so forth. that's why it's important to hav

convention four years earlier where moderates and conservatives were at each other's throats and jerry ford nomination and did not have conservatives behind him. four years later ronald reagan had to get the moderates behind him. which is kind of in reverse what romney has to do. (inaudible). (inaudible lyrics) >>governor huckabee: there is nothing here -- this is not 1976. this is 1984, i would say, and people are saying is, we have a nominee, we will get behind him, we will get him elected president. >>neil: i didn't hear the last two minutes of what you said, governor, but you apparently said you are a complete... (inaudible) >>neil: we have a lot coming up including the latest on isaac and looking at the debt clock where numbers are swirling. g. every bite goes above and beyond the call of deliciousness. that's a big 10-4 kosher. with no fillers, by-products, artificial flavors or colors. hebrew national. the better-than-a-hot dog- hot dog. >>neil: we are focused on the convention here that has been put off until tomorrow although the band is practicing as bespeak. isaac is shutting off

unscripted moment which was that ronald reagan was trying to get vice presidential candidate and jerry fordth him for most of that night. people forget that. people also have to remember that in 1980, in new york, it was teddy kennedy and jimmy carter in an unscripted moment. teddy was not going to get the nomination but was still going to be a big player on the convention floor and he gave one of the great memorable speeches. >> the dream will never die. >> the dream will never die. he electrified the crowd. poor jimmy carter was on the stage, trying to get his attention and senator kennedy, for his own reasons, chose to ignore him which was i thought unfair to the president. >> teddy kennedy never took his outstretched hand. you wrote a piece, an opinion piece for the "new york times" online saying what about one day, one prime time night. why do we need this whole deal, why couldn't we squeeze it down to one day? >> that was part of the debate today in the "new york times" op-ed page. all the other participants agreed in one form or another that this has become an anachronistic exercise

. >> dan: and, again, ford goes nowhere. backed up by jerry>> cris: at least on the goal line we know that jerry brown is going to be a factor. again it's just the down block. he just going to hug it tight right off of there and make the play in the back field. >> dan: a couple of teammates going there. former teammates, i should say, going head-to-head in illinois. both undrafted rookies. jerry brown and jason ford. >> cris: how much do you trust jerrod johnson? you going to let him throw the ball here, an incompletion? and stop the clock? >> dan: you got chris freeney to his right out of the shotgun and third and goal and gives it to rainey and looking for a block and looking for some daylight but can't find much and gets it back inside the 5. that will bring up fourth and goal under a minute left and running -- >> cris: now you go knock in, basically, an extra point here and you'll leave the colts who will have what, maybe 25 seconds, something like that, to work with, going the other way? and no time-outs. in a weird way, that defensive st

. >> dan: and, again, ford goes nowhere. backed up by jerry>> cris: at least on the goal line we know that jerry brown is going to be a factor. again it's just the down block. he just going to hug it tight right off of there and make the play in the back field. >> dan: a couple of teammates going there. former teammates, i should say, going head-to-head in illinois. both undrafted rookies. jerry brown and jason ford. >> cris: how much do you trust jerrod johnson? you going to let him throw the ball here, an incompletion? and stop the clock? >> dan: you got chris freeney to his right out of the shotgun and third and goal and gives it to rainey and looking for a block and looking for some daylight but can't find much and gets it back inside the 5. that will bring up fourth and goal under a minute left and running -- >> cris: now you go knock in, basically, an extra point here and you'll leave the colts who will have what, maybe 25 seconds, something like that, to work with, going the other way? and no time-outs. in a weird way, that defensive st

when i first came to the house jerry ford was president, and he had a bill that he would send up there for every subject. it that changed a lot sometimes, and he would veto it sometimes, with the point is there would be someone in the hearing room, and he would give the administration's position on this amendment. that was very helpful in working with the two branches of government because if you just say, you pass something. i'm going out of town. and so, the old fashioned working together, is not that they're going out to dinner together, not people putting their arms around each other. it is people working on a bipartisan basis with the bill submitted by the white house and take responsibility for it and being willing to admit defeat and taken up or down. that we stopped doing both on the presidential side and in congress. that has been an historic change . a very dangerous one. >> another question from the audience. >> good evening. i am a citizen, luckily, employed. my question actually ties into your lasted meant. what has happened to the political career? guess this is not a sta

there are three aircraft carriers on the planning one being build jerry ford class, and so i saw an estimatethe cbn aiding in 2018. it's going to cost $13 billion. >> well, junior i are -- the john f kennedy will be 79. we haven't gotten to that. c-span: those are $10 billion at least? >> yeah. and i'll -- yes, that explanation. s awe pointed out sphord a brand new class of aircraft carrier. it's old from the limits it's replacing or following. the navy's plan when these came up in the late 1990's early part of 2000 was to put the technology on in three ships to incrementally change the ship. secretary of defense in 2002, secretary rumsfeld said no we're not going to do that. when you do that you raise the risk and chance of price overruns and problems just exponentially. it goes through the roof. c-span: you have a new system. you have a new power plant. you have a new hall shape. you have a new -- [inaudible] >> that contract was supposed to be signed in 2006 all the stuff that was going on because we're trying to -- they were trying to jam it into one ship. that contract wasn't signed unt

when i first came to the house jerry ford was president, and he had a bill that he would send up therefor every subject. it that changed a lot sometimes, and he would veto it sometimes, with the point is there would be someone in the hearing room, and he would give the administration's position on this amendment. that was very helpful in working with the two branches of government because if you just say, you pass something. i'm going out of town. and so, the old fashioned working together, is not that they're going out to dinner together, not people putting their arms around each other. it is people working on a bipartisan basis with the bill submitted by the white house and take responsibility for it and being willing to admit defeat and taken up or down. that we stopped doing both on the presidential side and in congress. that has been an historic change . a very dangerous one. >> another question from the audience. >> good evening. i am a citizen, luckily, employed. my question actually ties into your lasted meant. what has happened to the political career? guess this is not a stat

when i first came to the house jerry ford was president, and he had a bl that he would send up there for every subject. it that changed a lot sometimes, and he would veto it sometimes, with the point is there would be someone in the hearing room, and he would give the administration's position on this amendment. that was very helpful in working with the two branches of government because if you just say, you pass something. i'm going out of town. and so, the old fashioned working togetr, is not that they're going out to dinner together, not people putting their arms around each other. it is people working on a bipartisan basis with the bill submitted by the white house and take responsibility for it and being willing to admit defeat and taken up or down. that we stopped doing both on the presidential side and in congress. that has been an historic cnge . a very dangerous one. >> another question fromhe audience. >> good evening. i am a citizen, luckily, employed. my question actually ties into your lasted meant. what has happened to the political career? guess this is not a statistic