joe romm thank you for joining us this evening. >> thanks for having me. >> eliot: how did republicansome so crazy and how did democrats turn so useless. that's coming up. [ male announcer ] the inventors of twix had a falling out, so the production of twix was divided between two separate factories. left twix factory cascades caramel and chocolate onto cookie, while right twix factory flows caramel and chocolate onto cookie. today they share nothing but a wrapper and a driveway. try both and pick a side. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> eliot: as you probably heard there was a shootout here in new york by the empire state building. authorities say a clothing designer who had been laid off shot his former manager and was subsequently gunned down by police. the alleged shooter and his former boss died and nine others were injured in the melee. but that's not our number of the day. nor is it 19, which is the number of people shot in multiple incidents in chicago just last night. 19 also happens to be how many days since a man shot up a sikh temple in oak creek wisconsin. and killing six people. an

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romm in a campaign stop on saturday. it is time for our sunday groupp. bill kristol from the weekly standard and joe trippi a democratic strategist and liz cheney and former senator evan bayh. joe and bill have been waxing all day yesterday. you had a chance to hear crumb crumb - wasserman shultz. what expect. >> she refused to say what their solution is. what we have got in both mitt romney and congressman ryan is understanding we are about to go off the cliff. and as hard as you pushed congressman wasserman shultz all she repeated was talking points. and in congressman ryan we a terrific pick and someone who has show courage, leadership and deal with tough issues. >> senator bayh, do you think it is a help to the campaign. instead of a revverundum, the president has an opening to turn it on the vision that mr. ryan advance mr. romney adapted. is there a sigh of relief? >> i think there is. he is a good and start guy and showed courage. but this shifts the debate from economy and jobs to reforming entitlements that people embrace in the abstract and get down to the details, people are a lot less su

joe romm from the center for american progress who is their lead guy on climate change will be joining in the next segment. joe also has an interesting piece. he just wrote a book about language intelligence. and he's got an interesting piece in "the huffington post" about mitt romney's lack of language skills. which should be interesting with his speech tonight. we'll talk to him about that in the next segment. karl, you and i have been talking about this convention so far. paul ryan's speech last night. g is calling from philadelphia. hey, gee, good morning. >> caller: good morning, bill. how are you? >> bill: i'm good. what's up? >> caller: first of all, i just want to let you know i'm a 65-year-old african-american male. i served in the military during the years of '65-'68. >> bill: good for you. >> caller: i am an america. i love america. i don't feel i'm one of the american people the republican party like to refer to. >> that's because you're not. [ laughter ] >> caller: i 100% disagree with the outright duplicitous lies and deception and distortion all throughout this campaign.