congressman king is the new romney buddy. he says birth control leads to a dying civilization and same-sex marriage contributes to the national debt. but to mitt romney, he's a top endorser. >> don't doubt this man's faith or conviction and do not doubt his patriotism or his faith and his love for jesus christ our savior. >> romney was so happy to have king's endorsement he returned the favor. >> i'm looking here at steve king. that man needs to be your congressman again. i want him as my partner in washington, d.c. >> when romney wasn't looking for the religious conservative vote, he was knocking his own running mate. this was what mitt romney said when talking about federal defense spending on "meet the press." >> the sequestration idea of the white house which is cutting our defense is an extraordinary miscalculation. >> republican leaders agreed to that deal. >> it's a big mistake. i thought it was a mistake on the part of the white house to propose it. it was a mistake for republicans to go along with it. >> it put paul r

united states mitt romney that's right last week on the campaign stop in virginia mitt romney brought along his new buddy pat got to make sure to get that christian vote what a great partnership indeed especially considering robertson has already been overly critical of the democratic party for omitting god from the d.n.c. platform let's take a look at what pat had to say about that. you label them a christian but it's the party you. live in this whatever rules. and romney is still strolling all over town with this man or at least when it's convenient for him of course so you see this is the one preacher who has more influence than we all care to admit and that's why pat robertson is infamous televangelist as our villain of the day. i. while guys were approaching the one year anniversary of occupy wall street what started as a small camp of demonstrators in new york city's financial district grew into a nation wide political movement but after the militarized police crackdowns on protesters the media coverage died down and so did the movement's visibility so will the influence of occupy wall street remai

but 910 miles up the road, governor romney is holed up in a beautiful new england town with his good buddyor bob portman. there's mr. romney's caravan. this morning driving down cemetery road to get to his retreat. seriously. he had to drive down cemetery road in a beautiful quaint west windsor, vermont, population, 1,099. no crowds, no campaign. no press. they are just kicking back and practicing for next month's debates. mr. portman is playing the role of president obama. this is unheard of in any presidential campaign. four years ago president obama and joe biden launched a four-state bus tour after their convention. george w. bush and john mccain toured the mud west after their convention. and bill clinton and al gore went on a thousand-mile bus tour after their convention. but paul ryan is not hiding out in vermont. he's making the tv rounds. he hit all the morning shows today trying to back pedal from his rnc speech, when he blamed president obama for shutting down a general motors plant in his hometown that was really shut down under president bush. >> the point i was make being gm

buddy. >> digging deeper into some of the new polling we are seeing today. before the conventions mitt romney appeared to be closing the gap for the president on the issue of medicare. getting within just one point in a "new york times"/cbs poll. president obama has opened up a 12-point lead. 52% to 40% when it comes to talking about medicare. good sunday afternoon to you. good to see. >> you great to be with you, craig. thanks for having me. >> this issue of medicare. republicans have been talking about turning the table on this issue. it looks like that window might be closing. what happened? >> well, the important thing to remember when it comes to medicare is that the only one who has taken from medicare is president obama in this election. $716 million he stole from medicare in order to fund obama care. once people are made aware of that and are reminded of that they will think twice about the president. he came in four years ago promising to create jobs and turn the economy around. where are the jobs? the economy will play a big factor come november. we have unemployment above 8% for mo

we need new ideas and i'm proud to be here to introduce the team of governor romney and congressman paul ryan. >> i appreciate it. thanks, buddy o.h. >> ohio. >> works every time. i got my lucky buckeye. rob portman gave me this lucky buckeye. it means we are going to win ohio. the other reason we are going to win ohio, we are going to give you our fellow citizens a clear choice. we owe you that. you see, our choice is do we stay on the same path we are on, the one that obama put us on, a nation in debt, in doubt and decline, or do we reclaim the founding principles and get the country back on the right track? >> yeah! >> after four years the recovery that president obama promised is nowhere in sight. he said if he just could borrow a bunch of money and spend it on his friends unemployment would never get above 8%. it has been above 8% for 43 months. we had 23 million americans struggling to find work, 15% of our fellow countrymen and women are in poverty today. president obama, the economy is barely growing, he's run out of ideas and just the other day on tv he said that he can't change washington from the inside. why do we s

there's been a lot of news today and a lot of talk about the romney campaign switching or at least tweaking their strategy. >> boy, joe, you have all kinds of fun topics today, buddyknow. >> right. >> my question for you is, what kind of tweaks or changes do you think the romney campaign ought to make? >> well, i think that you saw two ads come out today that i think are fresh and they're ve y specific and i think it will resonate with pple across erica. what we're going to do and mitt and the above and are things to see more of ming out of mitt romney. think it's a good thing. i think it's part of the i thtegy k that they're just moving forward with the next step in the campaign moving in to the last 50days. >> i did want to just go back to last week and we all followed very cl the situation at the embassies in egypt and bya. put t a twe and we never got a chance to ask you about it so i thought i would and show it eenon t here. it saysbama sympathizes wh attackers in egypt. sad and pathetic and then this, of course, before we knew that ambassador stevens had been killed in libya and the white house explained it had notng to do wihe stementou re referencing there

team pulled their goalie and romney was like, "look at that, another job lost under president obama." [ laughter ] calm down, buddy. grandpa. [ applause ] some major tv newseith urban will join randy jackson and mariah carey as judges on "american idol." [ cheers and applause ] yeah, at this point "american idol" has seen more judges than amanda bynes. [ audience ohs ] [ laughter ] lindsey sent her flowers. thank her, thank her. [ laughter ] some business news. the ceo of ikea announced that he will retire next year after 34 years with the company. of course it was awkward when ikea just gave him pieces of a gold with instructions on how to put it together. [ laughter ] put the florgen in the smorgen. what is -- what? this is a crazy story. last week a woman in new hampshire gave birth to a baby in the parking lot of a nascar track. [ laughter ] yep. very healthy baby. the baby was 18 inches long -- well, 24 inches with the mullet. [ laughter ] so i mean -- you could tell the baby was born at a nascar race. take a look at the cute baby. there you go. you can tell. [ laughter ] already sponsored. i read that the apple executive who designed the iphone just

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poll testiitici we need new ideas and i'm proud to be here to introduce the team of governor romney and congressman paul ryan. >> i appreciate it. thanks, buddymy lucky buckeye. rob portman gave me this lucky buckeye. it means we are going to win ohio. the other reason we are going to win ohio, we are going to give you our fellow citizens a clear choi choice. we owe you that. you see, our choice is do we stay on the same path we are on, the one that obama put us on, a nation in debt, in doubt and decline, or do we reclaim the founding principles and get the country back on the right track? >> yeah! >> after four years the recovery that president obama promised is nowhere in sight. he said if he just could borrow a bunch of money and spend it on his friends unemployment would never get above 8%. it has been above 8% for 43 months. we had 23 million americans struggling to find work, 15% of our fellow countrymen and women are in poverty today. president obama, the economy is barely growing, he's run out of ideas and just the other day on tv he said that he can't change washington from the inside. why do we send presidents to washington in the f