there are some fun things to unpack in what john boehner said. s like he believes democrats are willing to go off the cliff, as i have been urging them to do, since that is the only way to bring republicans to the negotiating table quickly and get any kind of reasonable outcome. boehner's use of the phrase "tank our economy," is also important, because he's accepting cbo's description of what would happen. boehner is admitting that the spending cuts that will be triggered on january 1st, unless congress negotiates some other agreement, will help tank the economy, along with an increase in the income tax rates. but, remember that republican orthodoxy now, which is to say the republican lie now, the republican economic insanity now is that government spending does not affect jobs in any way. doesn't create jobs. but there's boehner saying that cuts in government spending will tank the economy, just as cbo says it will, and will increase unemployment. of course, we will not go into recession if we actually do go off the cliff on january 1st, because

but what i'm saying is, i think that john boehner can't do anything.looks very often like he's in a hostage video because these folks are holding him in a way that he doesn't even feel like he really looks like he believes some of the things that he's saying. i think eric cantor and some of these rebel upstarts are the ones who are really in control of this horse, and john boehner is just being drug along. >> and ana, you see the absurdity of, you know, him trying to say to leslie stahl, you know, anything but the word "compromise." he's trying to get through the sentence without using the word "compromise," to the point where it's just obviously funny to leslie, that he was trying to do this, that there would be some price to pay within his caucus if he simply says the word "compromise" to her. >> i think jamal is totally right about the hostage video analogy. maybe he's trying to send us messages through different shades of tan, i mean, i don't know. it would explain something about that varying color of orange he has. but it is getting kind of ridic

we will hear from john boehner, ann romney, and chris christie on tuesday night.esday, paul ryan. finishing out with presidential candidate mitt romney on thursday. ron paul speaking about his liberty message ahead of the republican convention. >> welcome. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> you just heard from paul talking about his liberte chan message ahead of the republican convention in tampa. the supporters praised the increasingly bad weather. if you missed any of his "we are the future" rally, we will have again at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c- span. >> congressman pete sessions, from texas, and chair of the republican national campaign committee. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> also joining us, our guest reporters are josh kraushaar, executive editor for "hotline," and charlie mahtesian, national politics editor for "politico." thank you for being with us. let's begin with a series of ads which you are taking aim at the president in some key races trying to tag the dem

mitt romney got 2,061 delegate votes and was just announced by house speaker john boehner. he only needed 1,144 in order to secure the party nomination. they're going to party for a little bit and then go back and nominate by acclimation, we're told, paul ryan as vice presidential nominee. a lot of big applause, by the way, while we were watching wyoming and wisconsin especially cast those final votes. for scott walker, the governor of wisconsin, who everybody is a hero in republican circles and is also the home state of paul ryan. >> woodruff: a hero because he beet back an effort to recall him to recall him. gwen, i have to say as somebody who's covered more than one convention, they have done this all very quickly. the. >> ifill: more than one convention, judy! >> woodruff: i've never seen it happen this quickly. here we are the opening night of the convention. it's not even so-called prime time in television land and republicans already have their nominees. >> woodruff: they're also getting a long-needed injection of energy tonight. because we know, for instance, that t

legislative agenda. >> jennifer: do you think nancy pelosi was a much more effective speaker than john boehner i think so. she was very very good at controlling her caucus. she had a brooder spectrum than boehner in that there were conservative democrats she had to get on board, but she was always pragmatic enough to know that if things didn't get done congress would get the finger pointed at it. >> jennifer: so david, i want you to listen to what the president had to say today about congress. >> here is the thing. we are not going to get there. we're not going to get to where we need to be if we go back to the policies that helped to create this mess in the first place. >> jennifer: he was -- it was part of a longer speech he was railing about how ineffective congress was. but will anything change when it looks like the senate actually might have even more tea partiers after the election? >> probably not. and we have pretty much known this for a couple of years. the president is likely to win recollection, if he does with certainly a smaller margin than he did in 2008 he will be the first pre

he's going to be john boehner, and i'm going to be leslie stahl. [laughter] and we're not acting this, we're reading -- >> i didn't volunteer for this. [laughter] >> you go first. >> well -- >> aren't you lucky? >> yes, okay. i'll try. >> this is serious. [laughter] >> i'll try. it starts, actually, in the interview a clip from obama saying when mr. boehner becomes speaker, he's going to have to govern. he can't stand on the sidelines and throw bombs. and so boehner: we have to govern, that's what we were elected to do. >> but governing means compromising. >> it means working together. >> it also means compromising. >> it means finding common ground. >> okay. doesn't that mean compromising? >> i am clear, i'm not going to compromise on my principles, nor am i going to compromise the will of the american people. [laughter] >> so you're saying i want common ground, but i'm not going to compromise? i don't understand that, i really don't. >> when you say the word "compromise," a lot of americans look up and go, uh-oh, they're going to sell me out. so

john boehner said he spoke... he was so excited to speak at his first convention he spoke at 2:00 in the afternoon, there was nobody in the hall and nobody was listening so it was hubbling. >> i listen to these speeches because aim who i am. there were good once. >> much like popeye. (laughter) >> so the mayor of oklahoma city gave a good speech. that that feeds into what's happening. a lot of it is about reframing the party as the party of practical governance and there's a lot of ideology in this party but we have mayors and govern yourself, we have people on the ground doing it right now and we want to replicate what's happening in wisconsin, ohio. >> woodruff: it's something i raised with speaker boehner and that's the unpopularity of congress and you have to believe that's one of the reasons you don't see senators and members of the house of representatives speaking in prime time. they were in the afternoon. >> that was one of the good arguments against picking paul ryan. house republicans are not exactly pop

. >> coming up at 6:30, john boehner spoke to delegates today and what he had to say about efforts to take back the house and ron paul came to the arena today. some of his delegates not very happeny and threatening a floor fight. >> and of course, he will be reporting live this week. you can follow him tonight on twitter for instant updates. and go to abc 7 news facebook page. be sure to stay with us tonight. abc news will be live tonight at 7:00 right after this newscast. >> still head here tonight the airport commuter crash delaying a flight to hundreds of people. that is just at sfo. another costly breakdown tonight at united. >> abc 7 news shows us some of the people and weapons that were rounded up in a gang sweep. there is a crack down on violence. >> there is hurricane isaac made land fall in new orleans. i'll show you the affects of the storm in just a moment. >> a marin county couple comes within minutes of falling for a costly scam. coming up,or >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> united airlines is work on getting its flights to land on time and h

republicans in the house under the leadership of john painer -- boehner and certainly paul ryan have a plan, one we are on record for, we voted for, and which the democrats, as you have seen, oppose. they have no credible plan that would offer us a sustaining plan for the future for seniors or for us to avoid bankruptcy. >> >> would you rather have your candidates running across the country campaigning on health care or would you rather have them running on a presidential steward ship of the economy? >> i think we would compare and contrast. we are faced with a budget that is not only out of control, but no plan that would substantially alter the direction that we are headed. republicans offer ideas to solve problems. yes, paul ryan is that opportunity for responsible conversation and adult conversation about we must do something now that we are here. the president and democrats are void except to try to blame republicans and mischaracterize. the president, if he is going to get elected, he needs to first of all, tell the truth to the american people about what this plan has done. it

and it because barack obama thought he had to deal with john boehner and then eric cantor came along and said i'm going to do a power play and put the shiv in the back of john boehner and all the sudden everything blows up i mean reduce the budget that called for more money then congress would ever have given him more money that he wanted more money every year is rewarding money but always has been so strong in washington it's called the foundation and a lot of the people that act like are says that in every single case broke obama asked for more money in a federal budget that he got every single time he wanted more money wouldn't you think reagan this is that i guess i'm right i don't mean all that we let them bring him into office the bus it was the budget deficit sorry but the national debt was one trillion when he left office it was two trillion dollars we saw he was retreating. he was greatly going to learn about it might look where we are in the eight hundred road and want to hand it out as five trillion and now that that one in five years ago twice as obama's twice as much the

simpson-bowles report was a basis for where the president was in the discussion with john boehner. contrast that with paul ryan who voted against it and plan does not balance the budget. >> we got to remember here. we have to remember. ryan's cost savingings. no one was cutting anything. you are talking about slowing the growth of the government 5.6 trillion in ryan's and 4. on this side. >> that is not correct. you are talking about 20 billion in spending cuts. >> no, no, no. we are talking. you are wrong here. i want to make this clear. we are talking over 10 years. we'll have more spending than we do now. i want to make that clear. >> what percentage of gdp. >> but you look at. that's how you look at these things as a percentage of gdp and that's how you figure out if you are increasing or decreasing the debt. taxes would go up and pending would go down. that's how you get deficit savingings. >> you don't believe that the president let the debt commission @ altar and stranded bowls and simpson . >> no, i don't feel that. >> they feel that. >> i don't think simpson or bowles woul

john boehner had many serious discussions with the president. there came a moment in time when leadership had to rise up and make a decision not from parties but individuals whether you could come to an agreement. the president decided he could not come of with an agreement and walked away from the talks. harry reid -- john boehner turned to harry reid -- laid out -- [cellphones] [laughter] -- harry reid asked for one thing. he said i need a supercommittee. why do you need a supercommittee? i can't deal with 60 votes. the last one, don't want people from the outside. how do you know you will ever get it done? if you don't you go back to the cuts $1.2 billion if that is where you want to get to and make it so painful people will act. my study of the supercommittee republicans for proposed about an senate democrats tried to come to a conclusion. house democrats never even produce a plan. didn't seem like much they wanted to get something done. so the bowl of the supercommittee was to find the cuts. it is never been my belief of power rests with th

that's likely when john boehner will start tearing up and close out today we get ann romney who can tell you people what it's like to own a horse and compete in the olympics and we get new jersey governor chris christie who before yelling at a few people will try to talk about the economy and job creation what he won't mention is that in his state of new jersey currently they have an unemployment rate of nine point six percent well above the national average so that's the schedule tonight and now joining me for the latest on what's happening right now at the r. and c. eleanor white house correspondent and bureau chief for the talk radio news service . i'm doing. democrat on radio row here at the convention it's got to be fasting first of all happy birthday to you should people still go to go. that's right if you want a birthday present for me i actually started it for my sixtieth birthday last year . and we give. as you know where you are recovering from slavery. from the north of sudan which is now sudan and of course. i hope you have just an absolutely wonderful birthday ellen and very

john boehner blames president obama for the rain that washed out his golf match last weekend. and now the very very ugly monsanto the agribusiness in genetically modified food giant has contributed more than four million dollars to a group group opposing a california ballot measure that would require labels to let consumers know if the foods they're buying are genetically modified monsanto isn't the only corporation trying to prevent americans from knowing what's in their food though nestle coca-cola and pepsi have all contributed to the same opposition group to plain and simple monsanto and the rest of their kind don't think americans have a right to know if they're eating frankenfood it's because you know extra labeling costs money and months santo and their hundreds of millions of dollars in profits just can't afford it so check out on some corn and don't worry what strange gene is in it because monsanto is very very ugly. coming up with republicans you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't especially when it comes to cutting medicare costs and making medicare

i think john boehner is really bad at his job. i think he can't control a group over whom he essentially has total control. is he actually so worried about a revolt from eric cantor or from somebody els that he has to be forced into making these decisions that he's taking? i think he's just bad at this. >> well, you can look at it either way. i mean, i frankly think he has to be worried about a revolt. i think he has to be worried about appearing to be on the wrong side of the fence on what are seen as bedrock conservative, conservative issues. that's what the base seems to respond to. that's what the base seems to want. and all the republicans that i talk to in washington are always loing over their shoulders at that republican base. the red base and not wanting to do anything that offends them. so i do think that's a real factor in boehner's decisions about whether or not he -- a more adroit politician would find a way to knock yourself in the head a few weeks before the election. that's possible too. but i do think the fear of

representative john boehner earlier this week speaker boehner posted on his website that president obama quote continues to blame anyone and everyone for the drought but himself of course referring to the massive drought that is ravaging the midwest . in the united states basically boehner thinks that president obama who is just one normal guy has the ability to control the uncontrollable to influence whether in nature boehner wants obama to play god which is particularly funny because he and his republican colleagues have attacked the president over the last three years for trying to do just that play god next up john boehner blames president obama for the rain that washed out his golf match last weekend. and now the very very ugly monsanto the agribusiness in genetically modified food giant has contributed more than four million dollars to a group group opposing a california ballot measure that would require labels to let consumers know if the foods they're buying are genetically modified monsanto isn't the only corporation trying to prevent americans from knowing what's in their food

look, it is pretty coarse, but that's john boehner's life. >> it's john boehner, and it's a convention got that, it's red meat for the base. the basest of the base. anyway, thank you. long night, howard. great having you here, of course michael will steele, the inside man. he was anyway. >>> up next, one-time romney rival rick santorum makes his case for his former rival. it's falling in line more than falling in love. we'll talk about santorum in just a second. >> under president obama, the dream of freedom and opportunity has become a nightmare of dependency with almost half of america receiving some sort of government assistance. humans -- even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. namely, other humans. which is why, at liberty mutual insurance, auto policies come with new car replacement and accident forgiveness if you qualify. see what else comes standard at libertymutual.com. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? it's the only way to get fresh coffee. not in my house! this new flavor lock pack from maxwell house helps seal in f

>> well, this is not the first time that john boehner has had to go along with things in the house that he personally might not have thought was such great idea, but look. he has a majority, but there's this huge very right wing block that is going to create problems for him. and, frankly, he's got eric cantor looking over his shoulder, ready to assume the gavel if boehner falters, so he does some things to keep his leadership, keep his position. and he's a smart politician, so i'm sure he realizes this was not a great move. >> okay. on the last point there, being smart and realizing this was dumb but letting it happen anyway. i mean i have an operating hypothesis for this entire congress, and i don't mean it personally and i don't mean it in a mean way, but think john boehner is really bad at his job. i think he can't control a group over whom he essentially has total control. would he assert it. is he actually so worried about a revolt from eric cantor or from somebody else that he has to be forced into making these decisions that he's taking? i think he's just bad at this. >> well, y

. >> stephanie: speaking of crying, can we talk about john boehner's speech.ern story. first of all, it was so sad. it was like -- i don't know, dinner show at yuck yuck's. they were milling around. no one was listening. >> open mic night. >> current tv was covering it. >> as was msnbc. >> current. >> stephanie: okay. they were all covering it. let me talk about the tone. first of all, i can't believe seriously, jim, it was like one of your skits. whole story was about a guy walks into a bar. but the tone of it, a lot of people talked it was disrespect to the president the whole speech was about that guy walked in our bar what do we do? we would throw him out. it was the visual of -- >> talk about the g.o.p. guy who got kicked out. >> right. that's right. so they kicked somebody out of the -- there was somebody ejected -- a g.o.p. attendee was ejected for throwing nuts at an african-american cnn camerawoman and saying this is how we feed animals. >> stephanie: she's a black woman. >> fantastic. to the credit, they ejected the guy. >> stephanie: anyone seen thi

apparently in a meeting with his conference, speaker john boehner told people get your butt in line. and i believe this has been so polarizing and unexpected. a book like this would be great for some summer reading to pick up and figure out some of the dramas that were actually going on behind the scenes as we watched. another book i would like to read is called "love in a mixed tape." it is a personal story about somebody, about how he fell in love with someone and she fell in love with him. they were a very unlikely pair. from what i understand, she died, and he is devastated. but then they used to make each other mixed tapes. which is something that i did for years to all my ex- boyfriends. he basically writes a book that is essentially a mixed tape to her. in her honor because he loves her and she is gone. it sounds like it is a final mix tape for her with love songs. i can't read it. that is what i'm hoping to read this summer demand for more information on this and other summer reading list, v

let's listen to john boehner here. >> we begin tonight with a fundamental question. can we do better? >> yes! >> the answer is obvious you bet we can. you know the american people are still asking the question where are the jobs. president obama only offers excuses instead of answers. his record is a shadow of his rhetoric, yet he has the nerve to say that he's moving us forward and the audacity ho hope that we're going to believe him. allow me to illustrate. you know, i'm what you call a regular guy with a big job. i've got 11 brothers and sisters, my dad and uncles owned a bar in cincinnati. i worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables, tending bar. so believe me when i say i learned how to deal with every character who walked in the door. so let's say right now some guy walked into our bar full of guys looking for work having a tough go of it and the guy said well the private sector's doing fine. you know what we'd do? that's right we'd throw him out. think about this, a guy walks into our bar full of people paying more for health care, paying more fo

i'm not as emotional as john boehner. >> that's okay. listen, you only tease the ones you love. >> from the speaker of the house, we go to abc's jonathan karl, a pro here. so tell me exactly where it stands tonight and the hard numbers. >> the race right now is essentially tied. tied nationally. virtually tied in every battleground state. this race right now is a contain toss, diane, just like the last three campaigns going into the convention with a race with this tie. >> seems to be the way of politics these days. and they're supposed to come out with a change in that. a bounce of how much? >> average is about seven points. they are counting on a bounce. they want a big bounce out of this convention. they want to leave here with a lead and they think they can. >> and almost 40 million people have watched these speeches in the past so it makes a big difference what happens on that stage in the next three days? >> this is the one chance to get the attention of the country to introduce mitt romney. this is who mitt romney is. >> and what

who knows what will happen, it's up to john boehner if we come back at all. the fact is if they're going to do something the time is now to do it. they can pull a rabbit out of the house. you know the legislative process as well as i do, but the fact is it does not look good. they walked past an opportunity to do what republicans and democrats agree on, or we say we do to maintain the tax breaks to beam below the $250,000, and let it expire for people above that threshold the top 2%. i think that this may well be, you know, the end of it, at least until the election. all the tax cuts expire at the end of the year. a lot will turn on the election. if we win the election, as i believe we will, if they expire, then we'll pass the tax cut and get our way any way. of course, that's a high-stakes gamble. i wish we could settle on what they say we say agree on now. >> eliot: that would be great. as i said, there is an agreement that the republicans refuseed to shake hands on it, and now we're off until november, december, january, and the harm to the economy and the

we work hard and had small struggling businesses john boehner said and we achieve success. a lot of republicans feel that's under threat so that's one of the concept of earned success is something they've been hitting again and again and again. >> we do build things and president obama said we've been taking it he's been saying on the campaign trail triggering a real talking point, you didn't build that. in context he meant something more. >> no, he did. and one of the few times actually stressed himself. honey said of saying you know we we -- instead of saying we take great provide in the succes prid imagination to do it you know we're a large part of a larger family that we all do this. as americans under the american law, american schools and so forth, it didn't come across that way. they grabbed that opportunity and they've used it. >> we're going to hear a lot more of that. jeff brown is on the floor. jeff. >> brown: judy, gwen and i were talking early in the program about the one note here so far having to do with ron paul supporters. so an interesting thing just happ

who is really going to get fired up over nancy pelosi on the one hand or john boehner on the other? they are shorthand for the incredibly narrow range of choice that we actually have in political, and elected officials in this country. c-span: these are all leaders. representative mitch mcconnell has only been in the senate for 26 years. in fairness it feels like a century. did you write that? >> guest: you know i think i'm going to play my co-author matt welch on that one but i would certainly agree with that and i'm not trying to make -- you know we are not trying to make light of politics. politics is absolutely important and there are things worth fighting over but part of the problem that we have in this country is that people have tribal loyalties to team blue and team red in a way that we don't have these loyalties anymore to any other -- you don't come across chevrolet families or even toyota families anymore and i think with the rise of these kinds of many meet leaders we have also seen an evacuation of little identification as a core value from those people, the people who

muslim. [ laughter ] now, these charges were made without evidence and denounced by republicans john boehner, lindsey graham and john mccain who took to the floor of senate and called her accusations specious and degrading but former speaker and current not going to be president newt gingrich defending bachmann on the cnn. >> to start raising the issues of mccartyism. >> first of all there were real spies. >> a lot of innocent people who suffered. >> and a lot of guilty people who would have never been uncovered if people didn't have the courage to take them on. >> stephen: yes, it takes a brave noon accuse someone of something without evidence and demand they refute the evidence you don't v. tonight i'm accusing newt gingrich of being a baby eating werewolf. [cheers and applause] there it is. it's out there now. do i have evidence, no but someone has to stand up to him. [ laughter ] where do i find the courage? [ laughter ] sadly bachmann's biggest critic is fellow minnesotaan keith ellisson who -- surprise surprise is the nation's first muslim congressman. who kind of people would elect so

john boehner, john mccain saying that he's pedaling his conspiracy theories.been accused of bigotry by members of his own -- >> bigotry towards whom? >> muslim-americans. and they've been accused of being members of the muslim brotherhood with little evidence and other conservatives are rejected his claims. >> that's pretty rotten. you see people work at the stands. they work all night at the food stands outside. three times a night and they're praying and great americans trying to make it in this country with little background. and they all feel, i don't know what they feel when they read this crap. all this turkish americans and everybody that has backgrounds eastern europeans with islamic backgrounds, everybody is targeted by this stuff. >> someone that's been targeted by these accusations, has a security clearance, he has received death threaten. law enforcement had to come to his house. these don't go into a void. >> terrorist suspect. then you have people saying they're just investigating. people like newt say they're just investigating. how would you li