i hope not. >> john nichols there is another ayn rand influence on the economy?alan greenspan. >> and was close to her personally. >> there's a picture of her in the white house with them back in the 1970's, at least to an opponent of some kind. look, there is an influence. i think we should not underestimate it. i have to suggest there is a cynicism in paul ryan. he is a really nice guy. he is easy to get along with and talk to. if he was sitting on the show, you might disagree, but you'd have a dialogue, much more what they would with other conservative republicans. but while he talks about really not liking government in being opposed to government, the truth is, wehe voted for the auto industry bailout, medicare part b, so for all his talk about finding a balanced budget, the fact is, what really seems to want to do is empower wall street. its huge amounts of money from many of the same interests we might talk about with the banks and other folks. >> you could say there was a conflict of interest. mitt romney chooses paul ryan who puts forward a plan that wou

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so then what will be joining me now is john nichols washington correspondent of the nation magazine and author of the book uprising john welcome back it's good to be with you tom before we get back to romney or be good to romney were you shocked by all the lies and ryan's speech last night absolutely shocked that that's precisely the word i've been using all day i had prepared a story you do interviews before and i really want to talk about how much republicans like paul ryan and also you know the challenge is to reaching out to america beyond the base you know kind of a classic standard story i had to rip it up basically because there were so many lies told that that became the central reality of the speech more than any specific theme or any any style it was the this that he did see it was amazing to me i thought so too in fact we played a clip earlier of f.d.r. from one thousand nine hundred four talking about the big law and i just repeated over and over and over the this is the republican strategy it seems that you know if they tried it in forty four they're trying to begin now. wh

they are the party of the corporate elite in america and they're pretty frickin proud of it too john nichols joins me now he's the washington correspondent at the nation magazine and author of the book uprising john welcome back to the show it's great to be with you so the president has a pretty uphill battle to climb this election that's always been known unemployment above eight percent nobody's been reelected you know with unemployment that high so it seems like romney can just pick you know a milk toast candidate and try and hammer the president said he picks a guy who's gone on record has written legislation to end medicare as we know it are republicans going to be on the defensive now because of this. sure they are and i think that the one thing that's important to understand up front is that mitt romney was forced into this pick this was not where he wanted to go it happens that he really likes paul ryan personally they have a very good relationship but at the end of the day his strategists his advisers were saying look ryan's a third rail candidate he brings issues into play that are

john nichols of the nation. this was a meeting, a conspiracy meeting held in private to destroy the obama presidency. now, these people come out with crocodile tears about the failures where they are of this administration claiming oh, they were in there rooting for him. >> i had no idea that mitt romney was so enthusiastic about the obama campaign. he had paragraph after paragraph about all the hope and possibility there and -- >> hope has succeeded as president. >> he was suggesting, kind of painting himself as one of these folks who swrus arrived at the convention. i was with obama last time -- >> what are we to make of the claim offal truism here? here was a guy running for president the minute he lost last time. by the way, publicly hoping. raising money, doing the whole thing. >> something else. when barack obama decided he was going to go for it, a very tough moment, to save the domestic auto industry, what did the son of the former head of american motors, obama's wrong. let detroit go bankrupt. this was

. >> tonight, john nichols of the nation magazine tells us exactly who paul ryan is. joan walsh and e.j. dionne on the president's counterpunch today on the campaign trail. now's terry o'neal on what romney/ryan means for women. james hoffa of the teamsters and larry cohen of the cwa on what the ryan pick means for lar. >>> and vermont senator bernie sanders on paul ryan's medicare lie. >> there's only one president that i know of in history that robbed medicare $716 billion. paul ryan and i talked about saving medicare. >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. it choices in the 2012 presidential election have never been as clear as they are tonight. mitt romney's announcement of congressman paul ryan to be on the ticket as his running mate has the republican base all excited. the roll-out no doubt positive, probably the best thing romney has had because he's had a rough summer. and the choice takes any controversy off the table that might have come up at the republican convention later this month. they're going to like this. conservatives are

let's get to it with mayor willie brown and the nation's magazine john nichols. i want to start with john. as a journalist, this whole question if there's something discernible -- let's look at one of the main distortions. the republicans haven't let facts get in the way of their rhetoric this week. in mitt romney speech talking about the promise of president obama back in 2009 as if he and the rest of the republicans tried their best to work with the president after the election. let's watch this one. >> four years ago, i know that many americans felt the fresh excitement of the new possibilities of a new president. that choice was not the choice of our party, but americans always come together after elections. we're a good and generous people and united by so much more than what divides us. i wish president obama had succeeded because i want america to succeed, but his promises gave way to disappointment and division. >> "the new york times" called the notion that republicans rallied behind president obama quote, an extraordinary reinvention of history, quote, t

. >> all right, john nichols, you finally, called out paul ryan and called him what he is, a corporatist who is not loyal to the principles he pretends to abide by. john nichols, washington correspondent for "the nation," author of "uprising" from madison to wall street. thank you for your time thank you. get irresistibly clean and fresh carpets in your home with resolve deep clean powder. the moist powder removes three times more dirt than vacuuming alone while neutralizing odors for a clean you can see, smell and really enjoy. don't just vacuum clean. resolve clean. rich, chewy caramel rolled up in smooth milk chocolate. don't forget about that payroll meeting. rolo.get your smooth on. now in minis. [ dennis' voice ] i bet he's got an allstate agent. they can save you up to 30% more by bundling your policies. well his dog's stupid. [ dennis' voice ] poodles are one of the world's smartest breeds. are you in good hands? ttv e reinforces he wants campaign to be about jobs and the budget not the area where the president has the most unilateral control, foreign policy. because romney doesn

john nichols joining us from mad join son, wisconsin. how are you. >> great, bill.ow that lincoln park, a band i have seen at manifest values -- >> yeah? >> is going to be playing for the u.s. government i am thinking that, you know frankly, paul ryan being the vice presidential candidate doesn't seem all that weird. >> here is mitt romney telling basically why he choice paul ryan, from saturday morning down in norfolk. >> paul ryan has become an intellectual leader of the republican party. he understands the fiscal challenges facing america, our exploding deficits and crushing debt and the fiscal catastrophe that awaits us if we don't change course. >> john, if he is the intellectual leader is this the romney-ryan ticket or the ryan-romney ticket? >> we have to begin with saying in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. so to be the intellectual leader of the current republican party is perhaps not as big a deal as some folks might suggest. but yes. you are absolutely right. ryan has pretty much put his i am prepped on the republican party over the. this

. >> all right, john nichols, you finally, called out paul ryan and called him what he is a corporatist who is not loyal to the principles he pretends to abide by. john nichols, washington correspondent for "the nation," author of "uprising" from madison to wall street. thank you for your time thank you. >> we haven't heard much from romney and ryan about foreign policy. do they even have one? >> coming up >> congressman paul ryan strives to unravel the social safety net. americans are celebrating 77. >> that's how would social security is today. president franklin d. roosevelt signed the social security act on august 14th, 1935. since then, it has lasted through wars recessions periodic raids on funds to pay for other government programs and mounting tilts to dump the entire account. why did it survive? perhaps because we need it so much. president roosevelt, himself, described the problem right after signing the bull and it's astounding how relevant his words still are. young people would wonder what would be their luck when they came to theold age. the man with a job has wondered how

joining me now, jonathan shake, and john nichols, washington correspondent for "the nation" and associatewho is an expert on wisconsin politics. gentleman, thank you for joining me. john, i want to go to you first. paul ryan is one of the most experience and also influential people in the republican caucus. he's definitely pulling the strings as far as the fiscal policy and strategy there. tell us a little bit about his governing philosophy. ryan's own philosophy, as he sort of illustrated it and wrote it out in his road map only by taking responsibility by one's self to the greatest extent possible can one before free. and only a free person can make responsible choices between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking. how has that made manifest in his policy decisions? >> it sounds an awfully lot like a section from an on rand novel, and that makes, because paul ryan is obsessed with on rand, the extreme libertarian novelist who wrote books like "atlas shrug." so we have to begin with the fact that this is a guy who really hugs an ideological extreme. he's obsessed with an

minor difference that basically actually makes the build even more expansive coordination reporter john nichols alec wrote this law for lobbyists from the n.r.a. and wal-mart the nation's largest retailer of guns and republicans in the florida state legislature introduced it and republican governor jeb bush signed it into law and now hundreds of justifiable homicides later homicides were nickels as wal-mart can no longer be sued for sellers liability because they're justifiable the african-american community is outraged in the city of sanford florida is about to explode but the n.r.a. and wal-mart both long time funders of alec according to nichols got what they wanted free rein for gun owners to shoot first since alec approved the law in two thousand and five sixteen states have passed it creating a breeding ground for more senseless racially motivated violence so how many more kids have to die in the name of justifiable homicides so walmart can avoid liability losses how many more teenagers have to be murdered and how many more communities have to be up ended by the violence so the national r

michael crawley and john nicholls, john, i want you to start on this thing. what can you expect from paul ryan to the extent he has influence and i expect he'll have a lot with romney. what will he do when he gets power back based on what he's done with power before? >> well, he's actually got a governing philosophy and it's pretty clear. it's the 1920s big house on the hill republican. he believes that the roll of government is to intervene when rich guys have a problem or when there's a war that needs to be fought and the funny thing about him is that paul ryan has a reputation. he's built it up carefully over a long period of time as a republican who really is deep into the numbers, deep into the reality of budget, but his default position when ever a big issue comes into play, is basically what is the the u.s. chamber of commerce say? what does the business community say as regard to what it needs? frankly, if it says it needs an auto bailout or bank bailout or if the pharmaceutical companies want a structuring of medicare that gives them a lot more money

i want to bring in john nicholls.tor for capital times and a lifelong wisconsinite and knows ryan quite well. if you looks. 19% view him unl favorably and 54% dot know hit pickle. he's extremely well known ochlt but not that well known in the kun true. the question is how good is the position tishian. he's won fairly comfortable. how good a competition is paul ryan? >> well, he's quite goochld paul ryan is a charming man. he's one of those people who you can criticize to your face. he'd do very well on the show today. he wouldn't be screams, make j is rah look a little edgegy on hesitate nigh, knolled to bane. if you follow media and heed fwrap imfact politics. paul ryan comes from a congressional city that has a dress strict that has know off the radar. mach isn't in hadn't disstrbt. washington is not in his distrubt. hi bridge to qualify ads a nigh guy hoye shoat up at the pa ray. many pult,erer many people were shocked. last year when he held town meetings after he came into the national spot light, those meetings

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john killing both him and his clinic escorts. six months later to a clinic workers were murdered. shannon at planned parenthood and deanne nichols. this was a tremendously different situation. people, doctors, clinic workers were being killed. this is that a theoretical discussion, this was a hot war and the doctors hadn't signed up for it when they first began to perform abortions they were viewed as progressives are maverick. now they were living in a constant state of post-traumatic stress and in the attack on the other provider struck fear and terror which is what they wanted. so the gun was on wall. there were discussions on the pro-choice movement. are you ready to use it? i purchased a 20 gauge shotgun at a small shop at the main street to keep at home for self protection. i shot at the woods behind and long before, a neighbor noticed the noisette call the police. a daily news journalist got wind from the police slaughter and ruda under the headline make her a. if you notice the right-to-life crowd sitting in front of the traces women medical center maybe it is because the abortion clinics president just purchased a shotg