have a great fall. >> thank you so much. >> thank you for reid epstein. we would like to thank bank of america for the continued partnership. these breakfasts are an important forum. and we appreciate bank of america's partnership in this amazing year, which is about to get more amazing in the year ahead. thank you in live stream land for being out there. we would love to have you join the conversation. for both the mayors, we'll get your questions that way. so we look forward to that. so i want to thank rich gold, who helped us with this event. he knows everyone. we appreciate that. so our first guest is, it's 48 days until the republican convention in tampa. mayor bob buckhorn is with us. mr. mayor, come on out. [ applause ] thank you so much for joining us. the mayor is actually from here. the jaguars, is that right? >> class of 1976. everyone is counting how old i am. 53. soon to be 54. >> you have family here? >> i do. my brother is a photo journalist for cnn. if you see somebody who looks like me with less hair, that's my younger brother. and dad wa

before the mayors come on stage, we have a pregame with reid epstein, one of politico's rising stars. he's been in both the romney and obama bubbles. he's @reidepstein. he came to us from newsday before that. he's also interned at the wall street journal. and he worked at the hometown of peoria, illinois. thank you so much for coming out. have a seat. the hot seat. you were our first romney reporter in the cycle. just been out with president obama. how are the bubbles? >> you know, mike. the romney organization sort of as a whole doesn't mind hiding what they think about reporters. they're much more aggressive, sort of personally about pushing back people both on the bus, on the phone, at events, whereas the obama campaign bends over backwards as having an aura of being nice to people. >> the suggestion is they feel the same way. >> of course they feel the same way about us. i found for me at the end of the day, no matter how the romney folks sort of treated you, you know, you could talk to them and you could get them to sort of go off the talking points. that campaign was pushing. wh

[applause] thank you for reid epstein. we like to thank the bank of america for the continued partnership in the playbook breakfast. they are important for the issues that matter most in washington and we appreciate bank of america's part here is nip in this amazing year which is about to get more amazing in the year ahead. thank you and live stream land for being out there. we love to have you join our conversation, hashtag playbook breakfast for both of the mayors will be getting your questions that way. so we look forward to that. i want to thank rich gold who helped the event. he knows everyone. we appreciate that. the first guest is 48 days until republican convention in tampa. mayor bob buckhorn is with us. mr. mayor, come on out. [applause] >> thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks. >> mayor is actually from here falls church, the jaguars. >> class of '76. everyone is counting how would i am. 35 soon to be 54. >> you have family? >> i brother is a photojournalist on the white house detail for cnn n. if you see

we are talking with reid epstein from politico here on -- political reporter for politico politico.comitter. everybody has a twitter handle these days at reidepstein, reid r-e-i-d r-e-i-d. were there any otrs? color full part of the vice president's travel. >> there are. they most certainly had them planned. there were some weather difficulties that caused his flight to be delayed by 45 minutes, almost an hour from jacksonville into the west palm beach airport. >> really? yeah. >> and so it was -- >> he didn't get to the doughnut shop then yesterday? >> and actually, when he landed in jacksonvi he made a note of that. he apologized for being late and said even air force one has to fly around the thunder. >> yeah. jeez. something interfering with the president of the united states' travels, pretty powerful indeed. >> tell us where he is heading today and what's on the agenda. >> he has more fundraisers but two big campaign stops in fort myers and southwest florida, another area where he was comparatively -- come pavered to the rest of the state four years ago, it's an area of midwestern

when house reporter from "politico" reid epstein.kes ohio so important to the president's campaign? >> ohio is a key swing state. no republican in modern times has won the presidency without ohio. it is ground zero for the president's pushing at -- boasting about the auto bailout that his illustration pushed early in his term. detroit makes the cars but more parts for the vehicles are made in ohio than anywhere else. so there's a lot of jobs on the line in this part of the state, in this part of the country for the president to be boasting about. >> there is news today the u.s. will file an unfair trade complaint against china with the world trade organization. the president is supposed to talk about that today. how does that tie into his comments on the auto industry? >> surely it is a coincidence -- coincidence that the president is filing that complaint at a plant. china is an issue mitt romney has been talking about from the beginning of his campaign. it is something money talks about when he is in ohio. if it is an opportunity f

before the mayor's come on stage, we have a pregame with reid epstein who has been in they romney and obama bubbles. we hope you are following along with us on twitter. reid came to us from "newsday "before that. he has also interned at "the washington journal." he went to emory and columbia school of journalism. you will be reading his byline and thank you for coming. [applause] thank you so much for coming out. take the hot seat. you are our first romney bus reporter in the cycle and you have been out with president obama. power the baubles difference? >> the runyan organization as a whole does not mind hiding what they think about reporters. they are more aggressive person without pushing back to people on the bus, on the phone, at events where is the obama campaign bends over backward to have this aura of being nice to people. >> this suggestion is that they actually feel the same way. >> of course they feel the same way about us. at the end of the day, no matter how the romney folks treated you, you can talk to them and you could get them to go off the talking points. the obama f