. >> now, that, save you, mr. ryanong shared with legitimate offender todd akin who just doesn't get why his misuse of words is being vilified by his former friends. >> but while i apologize for the misuse of that word, at the same time i don't apologize for the fact that i am strong and -- in my belief of pro-life. >> no, indeed. nor does paul ryan. only now he is going to try to have a different record than the one he had before i am proud of my record. the president's said policy. his policy is exceptions for rape, incest, life of the mother. good step in the right direction. >> yeah. it is a step in a backward direction anyway. but hang on, mr. ryan. what was that line you have been laying down on the campaign trail? >> we are going to confront the tough issues of the day. we are not going to duck the tough issues. we will not duck the tough issues. we will lead. we will not duck the tough issues. we will lead. >> right. i guess he's not going to duck the tough issues. anyway, women's rights and women's health issu

mr. ryan was announced in front of a battleship, yet mr.litary services by receiving four draft deferment, including a stretch in france as a mormon missionary. does the reality therefore of mr. romney's life live up to his rhetoric? >> i don't think it lives up to either of the rhetoric. they're both supporting a policy of continuing war in afghanistan, so if you look at what's created things like votevets.org, we've taken a chung of people that used to be republican and are now supportive of our organization. the romney act that congressman ryan supported, all of their advisers are from the bush administration. they have an opportunity to move to the left on the president on afghanistan, where the man is a very moderate plan. he's not calling for a rapid withdrawal. instead, the reason neither of them like to talk about it is that they're both in weak positions from a polling standpoint and what governor romney wants is endless war. when it comes to governor romney, it's times he's talked about how he was supportive of the war in vietnam.

and mr. ryan will have to answer this one all the way to november. >> epitomized what the american idea's all about. >> why have you lied about accepting stimulus funds? >> joining me now is chris hayes, host of "up with chris hayes" here on msnbc. he's also the author of the new book "twilight of the elites." and crystal ball cohost on msnbc. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having us. >> chris, do you buy mr. ryan's response to all of this today? >> i don't know. look -- i mean, look. there are two different channels. people have offices in districts and then in washington, d.c. he said it came through the district offices. what's revealing to me is this is a pretty big request. >> $21 million. >> $21 million. >> not quite a constituent service is it? >> also if you're the penny pincher you're saying and you think there's all this money flying around which is the sort of soul of the critique of the stimulus, then you should put into practice your -- you should put into practice in your ow

in the obama area, mr. ryan button that keeps the bush tax cuts, again, whether or not you like the bush tax cuts, they are not a fiscally conservative thing. they were not paid for, they were just larded on to the deficit. he keeps those budget-busting bush tax cuts whole, and then he adds on to them, more than $4 trillion more in tax cuts that hugely, disproportionately, go to the richest people in this country. hundreds of thousands of dollars going to every millionaire in the country. that's expensive. how does he pay for it? he does not say. he says, that's not his call to make. you may agree with that or you may disagree with that. but the point is, it should not be called fiscally conservative. it is something else. in fact, it is something else very specific. that congressman paul ryan, until recently, was very, very happy to talk about. >> the reason i got involved in public service, by and large, if i had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be ayn rand. it's so important that we go back to our

put out his budget, catholic bishops came out and said it was not in keeping with the teacher that mr. ryan had been raised on. now. mr. romney has picked mr. ryan as his running mate. what do you say about the romney-ryan budget which is not going to be that the similar, i suspect. >> i say this to people who are interested. speech in paul ryan's georgetown. he went there and allied his understanding of catholic social doctrine and explained how he thought the level of compassion he was greeting was appropriate. the challenge you have is this. he increases support for people in the lower 40% of income level and he cannot support people in the top 40%. he is trying to find a way on social security reform and medicare reform, of increasing the support for people who have -- are at the lowest part of the income. you do not want to leave them so low they cannot have a decent life. people will find it is a serious effort to apply catholic social doctrine was also respecting the reality. this is something that cardinal dolan and others have commented on. you do have this reality that we do not h

romney nor mr. ryany credentia credentials, but those comments would have been nor appropriate in 1982 than today and then there was mr. romney's attempt to mock the growing threat of climate change. of course, 30 years ago, the science on climate change was just beginning to e emerge, but m mr. romney

here's how mr. ryan explains his signature on two or five letters asking for the stimulus money. >> my office sends tens of thousands of agency. this went through the case work and it was treated as a case work. i take full responsibility for it it was not my intention . but it doesn't change the fact that the stimulus was a bomb. it didn't work. it was a boondoggle. spending on things like solsoldoes not create jobs . >> paul ryan getting in the groove with the romney talking points and taking the offense and defending the romney proposals in no less thant village. at one of the biggest retirement developments in the whole world, heather. >> president obama areiched back in washington after campaigning in new hampshire and attending two events. one in wyndam and one in rochester. he talked about medicare and taxes. telling supporters they have a choice between different oproaches to the government's to the citizens. >> they have tried to sell the trickle down snake oil before. tell not work then and wil

and off he goes now, mr. ryan will be continuing to campaign throughout the course of the weekend and then on monday, he will go to new hampshire where the romney-ryan ticket will be reunited in the first of nation, primary new hampshire and hold a town hall meeting and they'll take questions from new hampshire and feisty and cantankerous voters. maybe the media will get a sound bite out of him. clearly he's gotten his talking points down and now is lock step with mitt romney. hard to flap. and now, off he goes to get back together with the ticket. the campaign thought they would be separate all the way up until the convention the end of next week. they've decided it would suit both of them to get them together and mr. ryan certainly puts a lot of spring and energy into the romney events and romney is enjoying the fact that ryan on the ticket has allowed him to focus the entire debate on medicare reform, entitlement reform and through that on what the republicans say are some failures of the obama administration t

mr. ryan and romney are energizing each other in the process. extent that democrats going to attack the selection of paul ryan they are already saying that he is very much like mitt romney in all of the wrong ways. and you can expect democrats to begin increasingly caustic attacks on paul ryan and his budget and mitt romney making the case that they are not in favor of the middle class. it will be a tough attack but when it happens mitt romney and paul ryan will respond now as they have on the stump in two events today basically saying it is time to stop the negative attacking and start talking about real solutions facing the real challenges. their hope is that moderate and independent voters and even some fiscally conservative democrats have finally grown fed up with the body politic's refusal to take the bold steps to fix the huge problems. that is what romney and ryan are betting on and that is what republicans now have in their ticket. and frankly there is a lot of signs that -- there are a lot of signs that the democrats on the left have re

indeed, mr. ryan spewed so many lies last night, it was like he was throwing down a challenge for broadcasters to try to fact check them all, so, let's begin with mr. ryan's favorite line on medicare. >> the biggest, coldest power play of all in obama care came at the expense of the elderly. $716 billion funneled out of medicare by president obama. >> yes, those very same anticipated savings from providers that mr. ryan had in his own budget. then, there was his swipe at the president over the simpson bowles commission. >> he created a new bipartisan debt commission. they came back with an urgent report. he thanked them, sent them on their way and then did exactly nothing. >> oh, dear, but mr. ryan neglected to say that he sat on the committee and voted no on the urgent report to which he alludes. how about his slam of the stimulus? >> the stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare and cronyism at their worst. you, the american people of this country, were cut out of the deal. >> ac

mr. ryan's previous proposals?> well, the campaign has tried to say and he said in the interview that he did on "60 minutes" on sunday night that the plan that they're running on is his plan, not ryan plan. having said that, he has embraced in essence the concepts and some of the details of the ryan plan. so, having put ryan on the ticket, i don't think there's any way he can effectively walk away from it. they're going to have to find a way to talk about it more effectively but he's bought the entire package when he picked paul ryan. >> maggie, does that hurt him in some of those states like a florida, perhaps, where medicare is the key issue? >> it certainly could. i think you saw across front pages in florida today much more of a warning sign about paul ryan than say in the midwest. he's a son of the midwest. it is definitely a concern. i think whoever wins the race to define paul ryan and this budget could end up winning. there's not been a clear message coming out of the romney campaign yet on exactly how many

and mr. ryan said that they can be assured their medicare would not be changed for current and soon to retire medicare recipient, no threat to their medicare. what the romney-ryan ticket hopes to do is offer an alternative, essentially a fee for service or voucher program. now, the democrats argue that that's in itself a complete misrepresentation of what the romney-ryan plan is, but it's unfair to accuse the president of raiding medicare. they make the argument that the $716 billion that the obama campaign took from medicare to put into the affordable carack, obamacare, is not all that different from the $716 billion that paul ryan said he would trim from medicare by ending waste, fraud and abuse and cutting some services. >> rick: you spoke with him today. he has not done a lot of, speaking with reporters. you asked about foreign policy because he's been criticized a little bit that he doesn't have a lot of experience in that area. what did he say to you? >> he makes no bones about his inexperie

about mr. ryan, we just heard david axel rod criticize him severely and you know he will have a big x on his back calling him extreme, radical, a lightning rod. how does the campaign respond? >> you know, for two years the president had total control of congress. they did nothing on tax reform and nothing on major economic policies. it is time we move this country forward and after 42 months of over 48% unemployment we will have leadership that will grow the middle class and provide a healthy economy. >> they will cite size him as the extreme gop budget plans and a radical and that sort of thing. what about these things going back and forth? we have had it for months in the negative campaigning. it is time for the american people to get higher ideals and real substance. >> keep in mind it was the president that gutted medicare over $700 billion. i think what the pick of congressman really does is show that this will be a campaign on substantive issues. this campaign is about jobs and the economy, an

mr. romney faces is the fact that paul ryan has been very outspoken and has dared to touch the entitlementstion and there are some that say that mr. romney my haay hav problem because people will assume that's mr. romney's agenda as well. he would be liblable to differentiate himself from the more controversial issues mr. ryan brought up. >> i think he is not afraid to have people on the team that would disagree with him. that's evident from what i saw at barron capital, if he wanted to distance himself from paul ryan, he wouldn't have picked paul ryan. i think he has to feel comfortable with some of the positions paul is taking even though they are perhaps more controversial than the positions mitt has taken. >> what does this say about -- the kind of cabinet you think mitt romney would choose? >> i think he would see more of the same which is brilliant guys with unassailable logic, deep subject matter experts that have the facts and set their -- at their fingertips and deep knowledge about what they are proposing and willing to take the stands and challenge mitt and not be able to disagr

mr. ryan will be campaigning in a place called the villages. the villages is a sort of jumbo sized retirement community, about 90 miles west of -- about 90 miles from tampa bay. and the villages is as close to a mandatory campaign stop for republican candidates as it gets. and here's why. as the "tampa bay times" notes, there are 61,000 registers voters in the villages. one retirement community. it's located in a crucial swing region of a crucial swing state that republicans really need to win. here's the thing about those 61,000 registered voters in the villages. the villages are really, really, really republican. there are twice as many republicans in this place as there are democrats. and they are super serious about voting. the average turnout in the villages is 80%. 80%. remember, there's more than 60,000 voters there. so all of that has made the villages a perennial stop on the republican campaign trail. it's where florida's republican governor, rick scott, you might remember, where he w

so if mr. ryan is outscoring him, that says a whole lot about what he was trying to project today on the airplane to reporters. >> that's exactly right. i think what paul ryan is missing here while todd akin's comments were offensive, it's not his crazy talk but the crazy policies that are the logical outgrowth of crazy talk. on those policies as the congre congre congresswoman was jut pointing out, ryan is just as extreme as todd akin. you played that clip several times where paul ryan says he's very proud of that record. what's the message of american people are getting? on the one hand, they're seeing just how extreme and out of the mainstream paul ryan's record and his voting patterns are. on the other hand they see hi parse words like any politician and willing to toss aside his allegedly firmly held beliefs now that it's politically inconvenient for him. >> when we look at this paul ryan, congresswoman, we're looking at a man who has these great convictions, very passionate, but now he seems t

mrs. ryan is tax attorney with degrees from wellesley college and george washington university law school. at one point in his life, mr. ryan seriously considered becoming a professional skier but turned to politics instead. when asked if in an interview if he ever regretted the decision, the congressman said sometimes. jenna: at least he is honest about it, right? jon: that's for sure. in college one of his jobs was oscar meyer salesman peddling turkey bacon and even drove the weiner mobile one time. jenna: why dud governor romney pick congressman ryan as his running mate. is it the sking? is it gym rat title? one of the biggest reasons his potential. >> paul, if it were necessary could become president. he has the experience and judgment, capacity and character to become, to become president. that was the first and most important criteria. jenna: mr. romney said he and congressman ryan are both policy guys who share the same values. jon: new fallout from the congressional investigation into t

when mr. ryanas asked at the time on "meet the press" if he thought his own party, republicans, were maybe focusing too much on birth control and opposing this new rule to make birth control more accessible, his answer was no. republicans in the senate tried and failed to overturn the birth control insurance rule. house republicans were also planning to do that until they got cold feet on the issue. house republicans including paul ryan did of course vote to repeal the whole health care law. they did that twice for good measure. along with more than 30 separate votes to repeal, defund, or knock out portions of the law. paul ryan has also voted multiple times to defund planned parenthood, one of the largest providers of contraception services and it his budget would eliminate for all title 10 family planning programs all together. gnaw just planned parenthood, everything. but paul ryan has not just spend spent his time in congress trying to roll back access to birth control. he also sponsored a bill

ryan ticket. and on day three, here's how mr. y has been trying to handle the hot potato subject of paul ryan unplugged, of his running mate's record. he's been trying to muddy the waters, trying to say it's not his running mate who has proposed gutting medicare. that's the other guy. >> the president's idea, for instance, for medicare was to cut it by $700 billion. that's not the right answer. we want to make sure that we preserve and protect medicare. >> the $700 billion cut for medicare that the republicans are very excited about, whatever you think about that as a cut, it's the same $700 billion cut that is in the paul ryan plan. which not only preserves those cuts, but also would turn it into a coupon program, privatizing medicare and thereby getting rid of what we think of as medicare. you can't muddy the waters on paul ryan and medicare. killing medicare is why paul ryan is famous at all. that's the thing he is known for and you picked him knowing that. if you pick the guy who really, really, really in his heart of hearts w

mr. ryan only wants to talk about the romney ticket? he's flipping and flopping on his own legislation? well, that makes him the perfect running mate for governor romney. on the day ryan unveiled his budget, mr. romney couldn't stop gushing. >> i applaud it. it's an excellent piece of work and very much needed. >> very much needed. excellent piece of work. let's hear him applaud it some more. >> this is a guy who's willing to stand for something. congressman ryan and i are in the same position with regards to making sure we save medicare. this is the proposal which congressman paul ryan has adopted. it's a proposal i believe is absolutely right on. >> is right on. they're in the same position until when they're not. >> some people are saying you are making it a referendum on paul ryan's budget plan. >> well, i have my budget plan, as you know, that i've put out. and that's the budget plan that we're going to run on. >> your budget plan? what happened to right on ryan? what happened to having the same position as ryan? maybe mr. romney ha

your thoughts about the choice of mr. ryan to be the vice presidential nominee. caller: neither one of them talk about very much what they will try to do again if president obama gets re-elected. they are too busy shrinking mud at each other. i quit watching it. also, my husband was a retired u.s. army veteran, i live on social security and survivors' benefits. i get medicare and tricare. i'm well with insurance but if they change it, i cannot afford to pay co-payments. congress should quit fighting between themselves and get together and do what we put them in there for and listen to the president. they don't necessarily have to do what he wants but should start doing what is best for our country. this is what is wrong, mainly congress. host: dorothy calling from cleveland, ohio, ryan's hope, romney taps wisconsin congressman for veep. caller: i think it is a very bad pick. i can't see us getting romney to be the president of the united states. ryan wants to do away with medicare and medicaid and give the tax breaks to the rich. i realize we are debted -- we are