mr. eastwood?o, a lot of my friends on the pretty tough left were angry about the delivery, the younger members of my family think that not getting rid of gitmo was not good. did he want to get rid of it? no, he said he had to keep it. so what was the point of that. >> i think he was clearly off the te-- >> they let this guy come out, say whatever he wanted to say. >> clint eastwood's speech tonight, his performance brings to mind the famous line from ross perot's chosen vp running mate, admiral stockdale. it is not fair, he is a great american hero, but what a line. let's watch. >> you're opening statement, please sir. >> who am i? why am i here? >> you know, i hate that because he was a p.o.w. for so many years. he is a great guy. and yet -- he is wonderfully honest in saying i don't belong here, do i? >> no, it was not a good opener. >> okay, let's hear some great lines, what will he -- will stewart do with this baby? >> i think you will just have to watch and find out. one of my favorite moment

mr. romney? no. did they get marco rubio? no. what they got was that. clint eastwood. >> they said it was a mystery speaker. what we didn't realize was it was a mystery to them as well. >> surprise. >> surely, they did not expect everybody to be talking about this. the nominee gave a perfectly serviceable speech. quite a good speech, but it's lost in this now. i guess i blame hurricane isaac for just jumbling the whole thing up and they just got some bad karma. >> i'm not so sure about that. karen, i want to play one bit of sound from last night from the nominee himself because that's who we should be talking about. a bit where he paid tribute to the late neil armstrong. >> that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an american. >> some people have suggested that was a little nod towards those who believe the president, the current president is something other than an american. >> i also sort of took it as this idea, remember in the beginning of the campaign, romney was talkin

mr. eastwood after his exposition tonight. we are awaiting a speech by former florida governor jeb bush and here to fill some air time, fox news political analyst karl rove. you've been on air since 6:00 o'clock in the morning. eastwood, pretty interesting. glamourous guy, 82 years old, self made man. >> right. >> and it will be interesting to have -- how the media treats him, right? >> yeah. and remember, do you remember the last time clint eastwood played a role in a presidential campaign was reagan, wasn't it? 1968, he was endorse -- he endorsed richard nixon and appeared in a famous poster that was issued by the campaign. i've seen him. he sometimes comes to the meetings of friends of aid, a group of hollywood conservatives and libertarians that meet in a quiet conclave with secret rituals and -- >> bus he's not a hard core republican. i think he voted for president obama last time around. >> i don't know about that. but you're right. he's not a hard core republican. sometimes he's very libertarian. he's got moderate socia

mr. eastwood. later in the show. yes, i know you have a lot of explaining to do. can i do my show? we're on the air now. did you have a good flight? we'll get to you. but let's start with tonight's lead. party's over. republicans had their week. now democrats are punching back. it began today with vice president biden speaking to workers in ohio where he took aim at the gop ticket including the false statements made by paul ryan. >> you heard congressman ryan on wednesday night in a stirring speech blame the closing of a gm plant in his hometown of janesville on the president of the united states. what he didn't tell you is the plant in janesville actually closed when president bush was still in office. what they didn't say. but for the sacrifices you all made and the courage of the president of the united states, all those gm plants would be closed. here, all across the country. >> the vice president also went after ryan for voting for all the bush policies that exploded the deficit. >> he supported not paying for two wars. he supported not paying for the drug benefit. he supporte

mr. eastwood says the ad was about job growth, and the spirit of america, not an endorsement of president obama. >> question. is oprah's 2008 endorsement of obama the equivalent of clint eastwood's 2012 endorsement of romney? eleanor clift. >> i love clint eastwood but i just don't think he carries the same kind of constituency. >> you mean women. you mean a lot of women. >> well, even -- >> what's this again? >> oprah had a dedicated following. people would buy any book she told them to buy. few right. >> i tried to get her to endorse my book. didn't work. >> she has more -- >> by far, by far. and obama's got dirty harry reid on his side. >> she brings that female vote which we said on this program is so critical and under analyzed. >> she's an important endorsement. i don't think clint eastwood resonates to that extent. >> no, but he resonates, but not to that extent. you're absolutely right. she had a really dedicated following. so hers was different. but it doesn't hurt. you know, if i were him i would feel very happy about it. >> clint eastwood appeals to the demographic that romney

mr. eastwood, sir. me. it. >> harris: hit a nerve with the obama team to see them tweet back a response. >> they have been tweeting all week on pretty much every speech. >> mr. eastwood, sir. >> sir. >> thank you, jonathan. more than 100 nations support iran's nuclear energy program. that's according to iranian state media. those nations from africa that's a continent. asia and it makes up the largest voting group in the united nations and its members met this week in iran's capital of tehran. of course, iran claiming nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. western nations accuse of it of trying to build nuclear weapons. now the u.n. nuclear watchdog reporting iran has doubled the number of nuclear centrifuges and fortified underground bunker. iran suffered up a separate site to hide it at least one person is dead and thousands have been evacuated as a massive wildfire threatens upscale resort area. it's our top story as we go around the world in 80 "around 0 seconds." spain. authorities say the fire brok

mr. eastwood that for romney. >>shepard: i can guess he could handle that. is all that is happening here dampening what is happening there? >>carl: there is a great degree of concern, politically and for the people. they recognize that the president, the candidate, mitt romney, does not want to appear they are not paying attention to the plight of people dealing with the floods and isaac yet they have made sure the show goes on. it is worth noting, two nights ago, ann romney mentioned the storm in her remarks. it is a clear message, it is on people's minds. the candidate, mitt romney, will do the same. there have been routine announcements saying you can text or call or e-mail or send money to the red cross and other relief agencies. they have gone ahead with this fully aware that there is a tremendously distracting, personal story, for literally, tens if not hundreds of thousands of people in isaac's path but the rest of the country goes on and that is what the republican campaign has done. they recognize in a country this large that faces so many challenge

mr. eastwood. we're so excited for you to be here. >> i have to say this.w conventions aren't fun or interesting anymore. they're not relevant anymore. >> is this a silver lining. >> i think the silver lining -- i think the republicans have created a -- we have the presidential acceptance, the vice presidential acceptance. we now have a new component of conventions. the mystery guest. >> we already have the poor man's clint eastwood in jon voight. >> we go to charlotte next week. the democrats now need theirs. i put the question out. i'm building to something here. i put the question out on twitter. i said, who do you want to be the democrats' star? and by far, the runaway favorite, betley white. then i looked up her date of birth. she's 91. she's ineligible. i had to pick a nominee to be the mystery guest at next week's democratic convention. and i and i decided, the legend of yiddish theatre. the 1994 emmy winner. the only 80s something actor i could think of. i said this is the answer. >> know better than to put somebody -- >> can you imagine the outrage

mrs. eastwood and company. >>> they are investigating the cause of a house fire in brentwood.t's happening on second street. no one was inside that home when the fire started just after 5:00 this morning. >>> a big grass fire along interstate 80 in vacaville is under investigation. that started at 8:00 last night on a hillside off pleasant valley road. it burned 150 acres but firefighters managed to keep it away from the homes. multiple fire agents were called out to help and it did take fire outers 2.5 hours to put that fire out. >>> the owners of the sacramento kicks are denying reports this morning that they are talking about moving the team to virginia beach. virginia business journal is reporting that the family will be at the virginia beach city council meeting on tuesday to talk about building a new arena and giving the naming rights to com cast. virginia beach's mayor says com cast offered to build a new arena and find a team to play in it. the team released a statement saying they have been approached by several cities but their not going to comment on every rumor. >>

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>> reporter: eastwood also had the invisible mr. obama uttering obscenities. >> what do you want me to tell romney? i can't tell him to do that. he can't do that to himself. >> reporter: eastwood was scheduled to speak for five minutes but ignored the red light to wrap up and spoke for twice as long. as traffic on twitter about the actor's bizarre speech spiked, the romney campaign rushed out a statement, even as their candidate was delivering his acceptance speech. "judging an american icon like clint eastwood through a typical political lens doesn't work" the statement said. his ad-libbing was a break from the political speeches and the crowd enjoyed it. the obama campaign quickly tweeted a picture of the president in his white house chair with the caption "this seat's taken." and the morning after mitt romney's big moment it was eastwood who was the top trending topic on google. one republican official told cbs news political director john dickerson that eastwood was not scripted because they didn't want to rein in his creativity.

mr. eastwood's speech a surprise? >> no. i, frankly, hadn't given it much thought. i didn't know he was coming on stage. >> you said you were convinced that your husband would succeed. he would not fail. have you given much thought of the kind of role you would like to play if, in deed, governor romney becomes president? >> for a long time, i've worked with at-risk youth. and my concern is that every child lives their fullest potential. i would hope that i get to work with at-risk youth. >> congratulations on the convention. and thanks for joining us this morning. >> thank you, george. >> we'll have more on the republican convention and a look at the democrats on "this week." >>> let's get to josh and the latest on the path mark shooting. >> more on that breaking news in new jersey. reports that several people have been killed after a shoot-out inside a path mark supermarket in the town of old bridge. police first responded to reports of shots fired around 4:00 a.m. when they arrived, it was actually a confrontation with the gunman, who was killed. he was apparently

mr. eastwood, we have a special guest with us today as well. so who do you think will win the presidential election? kind of insightful. and if you want to send questions into our special guest today like michael brown can we ask the empty chair if she thinks there's a resolution to the spanish debt cry signatures in september and were you also the olympic chair at the olympics, was at it total financial disaster for retailers. send your questions in for our special guest. plenty to come in later. ben bernanke, more qe? pretty decisive i think. we'll keep going here on "worldwide exchange". tropical storm isaac is threatening the lower mississippi valley with flash floods and heavy rainfall. the u.s. national hurricane center forecast three to five inches of rain for the area, tornado and flash flood watches are in place for parts of the mississippi, arkansas and louisiana. the insurance industry is starting to assess the potential damage from isaac, disaster modeler air worldwide said the storm caused 700 million and dollars 2 billion in insur

mr. clint eastwood showed up, mr. dirty harry, showed up looking old and it was sad to watch.u come on, be careful about your image and for heaven's sake use a tell prompter and stay on message and leave the ad libbing to tv reporters. >> i liked seth meyers response. did you see that? only response now from the obama convention would be for vice president biden to take his shirt off. that was the only appropriate response. next, harvard is investigating whether dozens of undergrads cheated on a take home exam last spring. are you surprised, john? >> not at all. i have been doing reporting at multiple colleges that where. thea.s bringing up this issue, they think there's widespread cheating at harvard and elsewhere and think they're ignoring it because it's embarrassing. if you're harvard you don't want that you're supposed to have the best and brightest students and a bunch of cheaters running around. >> alleged cheaters. >> there may be cover-ups going on. >> is there shock that students talk to each other about a take home exam? i agree. it's cheating but who's shocked? the

mr. eastwood? >> what was he saying about gitmo?g, people in my family, young members are of my family, thinking not getting rid of gitmo was a big deal. here saying he promised -- does he want to get rid of gitmo, no, he said it was a good investment we got to keep it. >> he was off the prompter at that point. >> hundreds of people going no, no! >> you can't blame that on the prompter. >> that was the thing, nothing on the prommer, they just decided on the most important night of mitt romney's life they let this guy come out and say whatever he wanted to say. >> somebody thought of some genius here, clint eastwood's speech, brings to mind the famous line from ross perot's chosen vp admiral stockdale in the october debate, not fair he's a great american hero but what a line. just watch. >> our opening statement? >> who am i? why am i here? >> i hate that because he was a p.o.w., a great guy and yet he -- so wonderfully honestly, i don't belong here, dohink? >> wasn't a good opener. >> let's hear some great lines from the daily show.

mr. clint eastwood. the 82-year-old has been involved in politics serving as mayor of carmel from 198 stix speak 88. he endorsed romney earlier this month. there sls another possibility for a guest speaker, they may be tebowing. some say it's florida native new york jets quarterback tim tebow. >> one of the stars of "mad men" will be performing. known for his role as pete campbell will star in the new play. the story focuses on a young writer who is dealing with a personal loss following the september 11 terrorist attacks. the play will be held at the san jose repertoire theater. >> a week after being stripped of seven tour de france titles lance armstrong is calling himself a tour de france champion. >> i'm a cancer survivor asked to talk about my survivorship. i'm a father of five and yes, i won the tour de france seven times. >> that's how he introduced himself. you'll remember that he was stripped of his official title just last week in the wake of doping allegations. armstrong never admitting to dop

mr. clint eastwood. he was a guest speaker.e spoke to an empty chair pretending to address president obama. >> what do you want me to tell romney? i can't tell him to do that. can't do that to himself. you're absolutely crazy. >> that got a few laughs. eastwood's speech also creating the buzz on twitter. this morning in account called invisible obama, has already gotten more than 37,000 followers. >> speaking of obama, the obama campaign responding to east wood's speech. the caption, this seat is taken. >> it's last call for reality show jersey shore. mtv announcing after six seasons it will perform its final. it premiered less than three years ago introducing the world to people named snooki, the situation and pauly d, the final season begin october 4th. >> speaking of reality shows, gadget friday contains our own reality show. >> we do have our own reality show. good morning to you. our gadget this friday is something called the brino camera and it is a time lapse camera. it does just what you think it does. you can stick it

eastwood said he met mr. rom nay when he was directing "mystic river" in massachusetts when romney was running for governor. eastwood says he likes romney's plans for tax reform. the former caramel mayor endorsed john mccain last time around. >>> now time to check our weekend weather. >> the weekend is here. sandhya patel with the accu-weather forecast. >> i can tell some of us are very excited. we are all excited. the weekend is here, and we are talking much cooler weather. temperatures are going to drop as we hit the week end. i want to show you our time lapse from the rooftop camera. this is a couple hours ago and as you look at the bay bridge, not just the low clouds, but we have high clouds moving in as well. check out live 7hd and the marine layer has ramped up. it is 2200 feet deep, and that is signaling a change. 58 in pacifica and 92 in antioch. 5 to 10 degrees cooler in the bay area, and with this deepening marine layer and the strong wind flow, the low clouds are starting to push into the inland are

mr. eastwood was given talking points by the romney campaign.formance that was not so welcome. >> you want to make my day, huh? >> reporter: what started as classic clint. >> i have mr. obama sitting here. >> reporter: turned into political drama, with even the candidate's wife on "cbs this morning" having a tough time with positive spin. >> he is a unique guy and did a unique thing. >> reporter: the four time oscar winner got good reviews from john voigt and some guys that texted him. >> got texts clint's the man. >> reporter: unscripted, unplugged, he spoke twice as long as planned, causing nervous moments for romney's campaign staff. >> i wondered about, you know -- what? what do you want me to tell romney? i can't tell him to do that. can't do that to himself. [ laughter ] >> reporter: the performance could be described as a hit, invisible obama on twitter quickly grew to 50,000 followers. and eastwooding has taken off. cute pictures of empty chairs. a party and campaign upstaged by a celebrity and a chair. oh, that famous chair. the romney

eastwood said he met mr. rom nay when he was directing "mystic river" in massachusetts when romney was running for governor. eastwood says he likes romney's plans for tax reform. the former caramel mayor endorsed john mccain last time around. >>> now time to check our weekend weather. >> the weekend is here. sandhya patel with the accu-weather forecast. >> i can tell some of us are very excited. we are all excited. the weekend is here, and we are talking much cooler weather. temperatures are going to drop as we hit the week end. i want to show you our time lapse from the rooftop camera. this is a couple hours ago and as you look at the bay bridge, not just the low clouds, but we have high clouds moving in as well. check out live doppler 7hd and the marine layer has ramped up. it is 2200 feet deep, and that is signaling a change. 58 in pacifica and 92 in antioch. 5 to 10 degrees cooler in the bay area, and with this deepening marine layer and the strong wind flow, the low clouds are starting to push into the in

mr. eastwood. our question is which clint movie character or quote best suits mitt romney? tweet us. imbd and get a full list of his filmography. could be anything from "million dollar baby" to "unforgiven." the guy's got a long, long career. >> that's true. as people look for that we'll turn to markets. just about six minutes here before the opening bell. let's bring in art cashin, director of floor operations with ubs financial services. art, first want to talk, can we mention this, carl, here? art made a call on the program the other day, correct? >> yeah. >> we have the sound, actually. let's listen to what you said a week ago tuesday. >> let's first play this for people. take a listen. >> you opened up and got a higher high than the previous day. then reversed and closed and closed with a lower low than the previous day. so it's an outside day. it was outside the extremes of the previous day. and all trader folklore says that often happens when the market's about to reverse. >> that turned out to be a precient call. >> that's the reason people have to watch squawk t"squawk on th

eastwood said he met mr. om nay when he was directing "mystic river" in massachusetts when romney was running for governor. eastwood says he likes romney's plans for tax reform. the former caramel mayor endorsed john mccain last time around. >>> now time to check our weekend weather. >> the weekend is here. sandhya patel with the accu-weather forecast. >> i can tell some of us are very excited. we are all excited. the weekend is here, and we are talking much cooler weather. temperatures are going to drop as we hit the week end. i want to show you our time lapse from the rooftop camera. this is a couple hours ago and as you look at the bay bridge, not just the low clouds, but we have high clouds moving in as well. check out live doppler 7hd andtm the marine layer has ramped up. it is 2200 feet deep, and that is signaling a change. 58 in pacifica and 92 in antioch. 5 to 10 degrees cooler in the bay area, and with this deepening marine layer and the strong wind flow, the low clouds are starting to push into the i

eastwood's conservative loyalties. but thursday night in tampa he left no doubt where he stood or who he was supposedly talking to in that empty chair to his left. >> so i've got mrama is thing here. >> eastwood was sometimes tough. sometimes suggestive. >> what do you want me to tell romney? i can't tell him to do that to himself. you're getting as bad as biden. >> sometimes the grizzled icon and to overshadow the nominee himself. >> save a little for mitt. >> the 12-minute speech airing at the height of prime time coverage left tv commentators speechless. >> i don't -- well, clint eastwood is 80 years old. that's what's going on there. >> exceedingly strange. >> the romney campaign quickly put out a statement saying, in part, judging an icon like clint eastwood through a a political lens doesn't work, ad-libbing and political speeches enjoyed it. so did twitter in a slightly different way. a twitter handle called@invisible obama popped up, arm chairs across the country posting their open take on the chair affair giving birth to the latest trend, eastwooding. it spread to the white house tweeting this seat is taken. >> invisible obama has 38,000 followers and co

when we come back, the speech of clint eastwood, the mr.peaker. ♪ [music break] >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. from tampa, florida, this is "democracy now!" breaking with convention: war, peace and the presidency. this is our special daily to our coverage from the republican-to convention inside and out. next to make we will be doing the same thing in charlotte for the democratic convention. one unusual speech at the closing of the republic convention thursday generated so much attention it nearly threatened to overshadow romney's acceptance of the presidential nomination. the actor clint eastwood data rambling 11-8 minute address that appeared to be completely unscripted. during the speech, the 82-year- old actor addressed an empty chair the state's three pretended president obama was sitting. >> so have got mr. obama sitting here. i was going to ask him a couple of questions. i remember three and a half years ago when mr. obama won the election. and though i was not a big supporte

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eastwood, marco rubio, and mitt romney. quick reaction? >> that is dream for the romney campaign. you don't get any better, especially for independent voters, than dirty harry, than mr is a great visual. it adds a quintessentially american voice, celebrity star power. that just kicked it up another notch today. >> and clint eastwood did an ad during the super bowl, on the chrysler ad. he appeals to independents and appeals to mainstream american republicans. always have trouble with celebrity. now we've got it this time. >> all right. margaret hoover, john avalon, guys, thank you. how about that? clint eastwood. make sure you watch cnn tonight for all the speakers. >>> coming up, health officials, they are already saying this could be the worst year ever for the west nile virus. will the flooding in louisiana and mississippi make it all worse? dr. sanjay gupta, he's going to join us next with what you need to know to stay safe. great shot. how did the nba become the hottest league on the planet? by building on the cisco intelligent network they're able to serve up live video, and instant replays, creating fans from berlin to beijing. what can we help you build? nice

mr. speaker turned out to be clint eastwood. director actor and have had more awkward by attending this empty t obama.s presiden he cannot do that to himself. when somebody does not do the go. we've got to let them >> romney and paul ryan will new campaign advisement going toay before richmond. >> we don't know if the watched mitt romney's speech last night. >> but a photograph did appear president's facebook and twitter pages thursday night. it shows him in a chair saying this seat is taken. >> heavy rain and damage in the the stormaac as moves north this morning after delivering a deluge to parts of louisiana and mississippi. we are in new orleans with more. >> you can see communities and swallowed by the floodwaters. below, families who lost everything in louisiana are by nationalrescued guardsmen in boats. local levies have failed in many areas. we knew this was always the worst case scenario. >> people are being rescued from pontchartrain as well by coast guard helicopters. storm surge of a than anybody expected. >> emergen

mr. romney's acceptance speemp, we'll hear from actor cling eastwood.he was a mystery speaker until that mystery was revealed late this afternoon. many in this hall will be wanting to hear from him as well. here is mitt romney a few hours ago looking very relaxed as he took a campaign photo with his staff in front of the stage on this historic day. before his speech tonight, big name musicians will perform such as taler hicks and to show their support for mitt romney a group of olympic tale tales will speak tonight. in one of the first speeches of tonight's primetime hour, clintd eastwood will address the thousands of delegates. all of that is a warm-up to the most important speech mitt romney has delivered. >> right now what's keep thing race close is that voters are not sure they know who he is and not sure they like him. >> it is clear after three days of the convention that the party is united behind mitt romney. it's the undecided or swing voters that mitt romney must reach out to tonight to convince them that he belongs in the white house. >> i do

eastwood. >> so i've got mr. obama sitting here and he is -- i just was going to ask him a couple questions. i mean, what do you say to people? do you just, you know, i know people are wondering -- you don't have anything. okay. i wondered about, you know, when the -- what? what do you want me to tell romney? i can't tell him to do that. he can't do that to himself. you're crazy. you're absolutely crazy. >> that was the cringe worthy moment i was talking about ashleigh but i will tell you that being in the hall it felt like a clint eastwood performance. it felt like he was doing improv or one of those moments at the oscars where you come out and they have a little stchik. the problem is this is not the oscars or a clint eastwood performance. the whole purpose of the 10:00 primetime hour where everybody was tuning in was to talk about mitt romney and to be a validator for mitt romney and that is the reason why they decided to pick clint eastwood because he reaches audiences that normally politicians don't reach. >

then we learned, of course, it was clint eastwood. >> i've got mr. obama sitting here and i was just going to ask him a couple questions. what do you want me to tell romney? i can't tell him to do that. can't do that to himself. you're crazy. you're absolutely crazy. you're getting as bad as biden. of course, we all know biden -- biden is the intellect of the democratic party. i'll start it. you finish it. go ahead -- >> make my day! >> john, this was a rambling talk in the midst of a heavily scripted convention. he was scheduled to go just five minutes. i was there, i saw the red light blinking for another seven, eight maybe minutes, like get off stage. he just kept going on and on. did it affect the night? did it affect mitt romney's message? >> reporter: well, yeah. the mystery guest seemed to be a mystery to himself for periods of his speech there. i think it was a great diversion and i think it certainly did not come off -- i think it goes away, living history as an odd moment. i don't think it changes the trajectory of the campaign. >> it was t

but as clint eastwood is the all the buzz the switch: mr. m latterly better. >>> mitt romney is officially his party's presidential nominee to bi the men who are most of te show. through this the best guess is. >>> as it has been done good for the troubles or into a tropical depression. >>> to more cases of the deadly hantavirus in yosemite. >>> mitt romney empire run always in the time in getting back on the campaign >>> the run is unlikely we cannot pretty happy this morning back on the campaign trail. glass that that republican accounts there was so much anticipation around the speech mitt romney delivered. the rally got a standing ovation as he entered the convention hall for the big speech of his life. >>> i am proud to introduce the new the next president of united states of, little time making his nomination of the show. >>> i accept your nomination for president of an attitude of good >>> he focused on his life. including an emotional not to dispense. >>> my mom and dad were true partners. when my mom ran for the senate my dad was th

eastwood. >> so i've got, i've got mr. obama sitting here, and i was just going the ask him a couple of questions. i mean, what do you say to people? do you just, you know, i know people -- people are wondering, you don't have it? okay. i wondered about, you know, when, when the -- what? what do you want me to tell romney? i can't tell him that, to do that. he can't do that to himself. you are crazy. [ laughter ] you are absolutely crazy. >> clint eastwood talking to an invisible president obama and the crowd was laughing and also cringing, too. is this what the republicans expected when they brought clint eastwood on stage? we will find out. >>> and the democratic national convention kicks off tuesday and we will be live there in charlotte, north carolina, and cover the speakers and the high party guests and of course all politics. this is what we have going on for this hour. >>> more than 800,000 homes and businesses without power as isaac moves into the midwest. we'll take a look at the damage that the storm caused alon

eastwood last night? >> well, he's a good friend. i like him as a person. i think that mrs.mney said it all when she was non-plussed about his performance. >> okay. i guess we will leave it at that. mayor antonio villaraigosa who is the chairman of the democratic national convention in charlotte and we will see you there as early as tomorrow. thank you, mr. mayor. >> thank you. >>> all right. wall street waits to hear if ben bernanke plans to bring another round of easing. the market rundown is next, and the democratic score, a big win in texas, one of the toughest new voter i.d. laws in the country is getting wiped off of the books. >>> and the trivia question, since 1948, how many winning republican presidential candidates lost the state in which their party's convention was held? e-mail me at chuck todd@dailyrundown, and we will have the answer coming up. >>> the markets are all waiting to hear what ben bernanke will say at a much anticipated speech in jackson hole today moments away from the opening bell. let's get the market rundown and with that my friend becky quick i

mr. obama sitting here and i just was going to ask him a couple questions, but -- >> over the next seven minutes, clint eastwood proceeded to have a conversation with an empty chair. >> mr. president, how do you -- how do you handle -- how do you handle promises that you've made when you were running for election and how do you handle -- how do you handle it? i mean, what do you say to people? do you just, you know, i know people are wondering, you know -- >> as the interview continued, things got a little testy. >> i thought maybe as an excuse -- what do you mean, shut up? >> and ultimately, even a little crude. >> what do you want me to tell romney? i can't tell him to do that. can't do that to himself. you're absolutely crazy. >> just to be clear, clint eastwood is calling the empty chair crazy. joining the table now is host of "inside the actor's studio" james lipton. always a pleasure to have you on set. >> thank you very much. great pleasure to be here. >> let's talk first about clint eastwood, which was -- i think in many ways, one of the stranger moments in any political convention in recent memory. wha