doesn't mean that there aren't small battles if you want to long the way you see the republican national convention in tampa will be a battle not necessarily for the nomination but it will be a battle to shape the platform the platform is the national dialogue it's what do republicans care about what do they agree on one of the issues that they all say that we're all going to move forward on so i think that the ron paul delegates who are going to be going to the republican national convention are necessarily going to be focused on winning the nomination outright although it's not impossible if you were to win a plurality of delegates he's name could still be put put forward as a candidate and if something were to happen to mitt romney between now and then god forbid then there is a chance that he could take a step up and take that role but most likely what's happening right now is that ron paul's delegates across the nation that he's earned about i think around two hundred fifty of them are working to influence the platform of the republican national convention which is a very very important step i

despite suspending his official campaign in may run paul still has his sights set on the republican national convention in tampa florida next month after winning a plurality of republican delegates from iowa maine minnesota louisiana ron paul needs to win a plurality of nebraska's delegates on sunday in order to secure a fifteen minute speech at the republican convention a speech he would use to influence the platform of the republican party but taking a barrage of his delegates may not be that easy mitt romney's camp is flooding in nebraska with advertisements and phone calls in an attempt to avoid what could be a major embarrassment and a previous state republican conventions in nevada and louisiana clashes between romney and paul supporters have even resulted in violent confrontations. i mean if you look at my. book i think you know that you know the threat of violence like this between the two campaigns has prompted nebraska republican officials to step up security for saturday's convention so will paul and his supporters be able to fend off the romney campaign and take the brassicas delegates on s

. >> tampa is getting ready for the republican national convention. the huge cost to transform the city's arena. >> born. traffic is moving along pretty well if you are driving on the freeways. we'll tell you more about the morning commute and the bay weather. get to your local subway for some dinnertime deliciousness tonight. subway. eat fresh. >>> just hours ago secretary of state hillary clinton arrived in israel. they are discussing iran's nuclear program which israel considers a major threat to world peace. clinton's trip to israel is the last stop of her world tour and likely her last visit to israel as secretary of state. earlier clinton got an angry reception while wrapping up her trip in egypt. protestors in cairo chanted monica monica a reference to her husband's sex scandal in the late 1990s. they also pelted her motorcade with tomatoes and water bottles. >>> time now 5:12. president obama is campaigning today in the battleground state of ohio. the president will be reminding the people out there at a town hall event in cincinnati about his

fighting for his fifteen minutes at the republican national convention ron paul and his supporters haven't given up hope yet why he could have a prime speaking role at the r. and c. later this summer. and twenty years after the panamanian leader manwell noriega was sentenced to prison in the u.s. for drug trafficking the narcotics war in latin america still rages on in the u.s. his grip on the region is tightening but we want to know what's in it for them some answers ahead. plus it's a hard knock life for american students they're becoming prisoners to their education in more ways than one from cops in the classrooms and metal detectors at every door it's school safety on hyperdrive so when we shift from protecting america's youth to imprisoning them. it's tuesday july tenth five pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching. well despite what you hear he's still in the running republican presidential candidate ron paul and his supporters aren't giving up on his delegate strategy and it looks like that effort is paying off in the state of nebraska one week from today there w

. >>> the republican party takes over the times forum in florida preparing for the republican nation convention. hundreds of workers will transform the forum into a place where mitt romney will accept the nominations. some improvements have already taken place. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton goes a long way to reach a break through. the visit happening right now. >> cooler weather today, where it will be cooler tomorrow. rosemary orozco has that plus tomorrow's outlook for the fog. >> and an announcement that may impact millions of microsoft users. >>> right now in san francisco microsoft is holding a news conference to announce new technology. microsoft wouldn't say what it was but analysts believe it is a new version of microsoft office. office 15 will include touch capability. >>> joe paterno's family denouncing the findings of a report into penn state's hand ling of the jerry sandusky scandal. the report concluded joe paterno and other officials failed to protect the children victimized by jerry sandusky and engaged in a cover up. joe paterno's family said he did not intentionally p

so i think he knows that having a chance to be the keynote at the republican national convention anddent for mitt romney might be the best seat for him for future prospects. >> now, karen, he raises a point. because a keynote is a big deal and he's a big player in the republican party. for example, in 2004 the keynote at the democratic convention was barack obama. it helped to launch him all the way to the white house. so this is no putting him to the side. >> it's a very big deal. it's the kind of thing at this point, this phase in the campaign the rnc and romney campaign make that decision together. it's a coveted spot. it absolutely puts that person front and center and says this is somebody who we think represents our party. he's an up and comer. he's popular with the base of the party. he's an up and comer. that's part of their narrative. he's also someone, now that the republican party has actually learned or are learning how to talk about the middle class, we haven't heard that much from them in the last several years. we only heard it from democrats. now we've got mitt romney

bush in the republican national convention.e it. >> we should stress you're an encyclopedia on that. at that point, president-elect was unpopular and john kerry, 6 to # points ahead. >> there are a few examples this year of republican candidates, senator hellers from nevada, not going to the republican national convention. so there's about five of them. but if you look at the amount of democrats not going to the democratic national convention, we're well over a dozen candidates and those elected running for reelection. there's more to come, this is a very high number. >> if you're the president and get reelected, do you remember the folks who dissed in. >> in some cases i think he probably encourages them to -- i think in claire mccass cal as case he probably suggests she doesn't. he wants to retain the senate if he wants to get anything done. it's his advantage to have those do what they have to do to stay in office. >> all right, good seeing you again. have a great 4th. >> same to you. >>> coming up. >> i am paying for this m

when massachusetts republicans got 0 together in april to pick delegates to the national convention, as to quickly and painlessly elect a bunch of republican big wigs to go to tampa in august to vote for home state mitt romney as the party's nominee for president but that is not at all what happened. for starters there was evan kenny this high school kid who beat the party's last nominee for governor for one of the alternate spots on the delegation. young mr. kenny and a handful supporters of ron paul beat out carrie healy who was mitt romney's lieutenant governor and the republican nominee for governor in many massachusetts in 2006 and lost to deval patrick the first time. the current republican leader in the massachusetts house of representatives lost that day, too. also long time sheriff of essex county in massachusetts lost, as well. this is mitt romney's home state. all these big name republican elected officials couldn't even win plays on state delegation to go nominate him. he was the republican governor of massachusetts and the next two people who tried to be the republican go

you up the email and it says they are going to make the announcement twain now and the republican national convention in august. we knew that but it has people putting this at the forefront of their minds. marco rubio, was fundraising for mitt romney in boston. today his answers were vague. take a listen. >> the reason they are asking about condoleezza rice because an article came out in the brog report and puts her as the front runner in the race to become mitt romney's vp. you have to remember, it was two weeks ago she said, she is not interested and there is absolutely no way this would happen. >> she said she is happy where she is. president barack obama is back on the campaign trail in a key battle ground state, virginia. tell us what you know about his plans. >> think back to 2008, winning virginia was a huge victory for president obama. he was the first democrat to do it in decades. now he is trying to hang onto the voters and here is his pitch. that's what brought us together was not about a single candidate, it was not about me, it was about us and our desire to make sure that the american d

bush will be skipping the republican national convention. mr. bush is grateful for the invitation but said he is enjoying his time off. the spokesperson said mr. romney will be a great president. >> and we want to turn back to our coverage of the shooting massacre in colorado. short time ago, police briefed the media on the latest on their investigation. >> and all of this comes as additional family and loved ones are speaking out about the who are filing sequence of events. we are live in aurora, colorado. sandra thanks for joining us. what can you tell us about the reports that we are hearing that holmes dyed his hair red and called himself the joker? >> that's right. federal law enforcement sources say that that is, in fact, the case. the suspect apparently dyed his hair head -- red and said he was the joker and they are trying to find out a motive and not releasing any evidence in the investigation so far but the real hot spot is the one-bedroom apartment that the 24-year-old lived in which was walking distance to the university of colorado

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to accept that job because he's been announced as platform committee chairman at the republican national convention. this may be a holiday week but the candidates are not holding back on campaign commercials. this study shows the candidates and their supporters will spend nearly $15 million in advertising this week. president obama spending about a million dollars more than mitt romney this week. >>> this morning an investigation is under way into claims that d.c. fire engine spent time filling a private swimming pool with water on saturday while other crews scrambled to respond to weather-related emergencies. the washington times first reported the story online monday night. news4 obtained an internal d.c. fire department document that showed the private pool was filled by a truck from engine company 30. the pool is behind a townhouse on 55th street northeast. firefighters said an engine had to make two trips to deliver 1,000 gallons of water for the pool that's big enough for at least ten adults. >> it's a highly unusual request, and highly unusual on a normal day much less given a state of emerg

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republican illinois congressman joe walsh is skipping the republican national convention. walsh says the convention is just an excuse to mingle with insiders and spend time with the elite. he says his district does not want another insider. he says his constituents want someone who's independent and will fight for real solutions. walsh is facing a tough re- election against democrat tammy duckworth... in the newly drawn democratic-leaning 8th congressional district. former chicago quarterback jim mcmahon says that he's not concerned ... about the government investigation into his role as a board member of the failed broadway bank the sun-times reports that he didn't do anything wrong during his three-year tenure on the board of directors jim mcmahon was one of several board members named in a lawsuit brought by the federal deposit insurance corporation which wants to recover more than $100 million loss from bad loans made by the broadway bank ... updating you on our top story. a suspect is in custody in the deadly shooting spree at a movie theater near denver. 24 year-old

charles evans hughes, shot as hughes republican presidential nominee campaigned after the republican national convention. tonight the contenders look as at life and legacy of charles evans hughes, who was a two-term new york governor, secretary of state, and twice a supreme court justice. of all of this, he is perhaps best known for his role as the chief justice during the years of fdr's new deal. the contenders is live this evening from the united states supreme court. just across from the capitol in washington, d.c., then-chief justice hughes inaugurated this building in 1935. let me introduce you to our two guests, first two guests of the evening, who are joining us to talk about the life and legacy of charles evans hughes david pietrusza, 1920 the year of six presidents and bernadette meyler a professor at cornell law school, which is hughes' alma mater. we'll jump into the election. set the stage for us. 1916, woodrow wilson wants to be re-elects, europe is at war. frame what was going on in the country and in the presidential campaign. >> well, woodrow wilson said when he ran it would be a tragedy

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in newspapers, extensively in new jersey it was more important for me not to go to it republican national convention in tampa and say that i got a tax cut for the people of our state than it was to actually give the people of our state a tax cut. unfortunately, this was a reverse to old politics seen relatively infrequently over the last 2.5 years in new jersey. and so we're going to have to have a fight about this over the summer. i'm looking forward to it. i called them back into session. they felt they were leaves june 28th. the end of the session, ready for summer vacation. our constitutional allows the governor to call the legislature back in for special session. i did july 2nd about the importance of trying to reach bipartisan compromise on this issue, i gave a speech. making our state for kpetable and giving taxpayers relief was much more important than the politics of the day on a speech i have not been invited to give, i'll attend but have absolutely no knowledge whether or not heil i'll be speaking. obviously they're concerned about that. i offered my hand of compromise to democrats on the

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choose his running mate as soon as this week as crews in tampa prepare for next week's republican national convention. a senior aide says he might make a final decision in the coming days. today he will attend a campaign event in pennsylvania. he and president obama continue to trade barbs about the economy >> what does it say about a president whose record is so boring that all he can do in his campaign is attacked me? >> his economic plan would create 800,000 jobs and there's one problem, the jobs would not be in america. >> president obama will attend campaign fund-raisers today in texas. here is a disturbing prediction of what would happen if automatic spending cuts taken next year. a study conducted by the aerospace industry says the u.s. would lose 2 million defense domestic jobs. the cuts will take effect unless a bipartisan budget reduction plan can be decided on >> ben bernanke will address lawmakers on capitol hill today as job growth has slumped. on wall street stocks finished lower. the dow lost 49 points. investors hope he will discuss new fed actions to boost the economy. yahoo! has a n

speculation is high on who he will choose, he set a deadline for sometime before next month's republican nation convention. the abuse of the disabled parking placards is getting worse in san francisco. a police task force is supposed to check for abuses but enforcement hasn't kept up. >>> fog this morning led to delays at san francisco international airport tonight. there are no fog related delays at this air but earlier it triggered their air flow program that prompted delays. officials canceled the program at 11:00 a.m. this morning. >>> lot of people still off for this long forth of july week. mark tamayo is here now. >> very nice afternoon. the clouds this morning cleared out and temperatures, relief today. cooler compared to yesterday. right now you heard the fog problems this morning,sfo, right now clear skies out there for the bay area, maybe a few patches near the shoreline. we don't have the fog but we have wind, fairfield, winds sustained 25 miles per hour. here is a check on the temperatures across the country. right now 102 degrees in st. louis and washington, d.c. mid- 90s. compare that to he

five state primaries and that would have guaranteed him fifteen minutes to address the republican national convention in tampa next month are in several state the winning five states makes you a nominee for a party candidacy but that didn't happen so was this is last chance or is hope still alive for ron paul i asked austin peterson director of production for freedom works what he thought take a look. real actually there's a little bit of light at the end of tunnel for ron paul supporters delegate counts and totals and that's a really complex topic and it's really hard for people understand even the mainstream media and i work for fox news for a couple of years and i was one of the only people who was able to really understand this because i had worked in politics before but a lot of people who work in the media haven't done politics before so they don't understand how fluid some of these delegate counts can be and everybody's forgetting the big elephant in the room everyone nobody said nevada everybody forgot the fact that nevada was one of the states where he did take the plurality of delegates so

former president george bush and his wife barbara will not be attending the republican national convention next month. his spokesman says it is because he has trouble getting around. he is confined to a wheelchair. the couple is convinced more than ever now that mitt romney and his wife are needed to help turn the country around. romney plans to campaign in the pittsburgh area today. it is 75 degrees on this tuesday. >> still ahead uncertainty for dozens of people after fire ripped through an apartment complex in woodbrige. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> good morning, washington. 5:00 then on this tuesday, july 17. starting on a good note on the high weight. travel times in our favor on 95 395, in and out of baltimore between fredericksburg and springfield. -- it is 5:10. this is springfield traffic bogged down on 95. 66 eastbound as a broken-down vehicles between nutley street and the beltway in the center the road. steve rudin is in the weather center. >> looking at temperatures around 80 degrees already at reagan national. a little cooler off to the

news that he will be the keynote speaker at this year's republican national convention do you think one of the most important things obviously want to fire up the crowd but you're preaching to the converted do you want to find that little clip that is going to be played over and over and over again in your folks out there. yeah that's right m s n b c actually wasted like ten minutes this morning talking about what they'll be talking about once the keynote address is given at the r. and c. or whatever the sound bite is that they're going to obsess over hasn't been said yet but they're already talking about it that kind of stuff just blows my mind but hey i guess it should be expect that again the hypocrisy involved the bigger picture is a transparency in tax returns and who actually has a right to say anything about it that's just another thing that they choose to miss . well a situation in syria continues to develop after yesterday's suicide bombing in which three of assad's top security chiefs were killed some reports are now saying that assad may have left a mascot's for the coast cit

talking about actually releasing the name of his vice presidential candidates prior to the republican national conventionmething that is not typically done. it is possible. of course, he is looking at a hold a variety -- whole a variety. >> it probably will not happen before the olympics. the romney campaign just cannot with some counter advertisements saying that the obama campaign was lying. >> absolutely. we are kind of waiting for them to start lobbying why you're a liar, pants on fire. -- lobbying liar, liar, pants of fire. they used clinton in the advertisement. obama has been adamant about mitt romney's situation where he is on federal documents showing he was leading bank capital during a period when romney says he is not in control. a lot of things being thrown at each other. >> they allege romney may have broken the law. we will see all of this plays out. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> this weekend, get ready for a round of laughter from a group of animated animals. arch campbell gives us his best bets for the weekend. >> good morning washington. a family friendly weekend at the movies.

. >>> virginia governor chairing the platform committee at the republican national convention. he lines there? >> in today's deep dive we will take a look at a potential new republican star rising in utah. an african-american population of about 1% and she stands out from there. she is a young fiscally conservative woman who happens to be black and running for congress. after blowing out her competition, the utah republican convention she won 70% of the delegates and that was enough support to by pass a primary election. e faces a tough fight fwens a long time name in utah politics and the six term democrat and n what has become one of the more closely watched congressional races in the country and she has the support of some big name republicans. craig velvet is here. you went out to utah. what did you learn? >> one thing, she is quite the runner. they may not know her name just yet but she is creating quite the stir within the republican party, generating some sorely needed buzz and excitement. the trail running native new yorker who has adopted utah as her home and converted

the republican national convention goes from august 27th to the 30th. the 30th. >>> turning now to the race for the white house, mitt romney wants president obama to apologize for his campaign suggestion that he may have commited a money in his claims to the sec about his tenure at bain capital. will you there is no apology on its way. those words coming from president obama himself. we have a report. >> reporter: the obama campaign looking for answers over whether mitt romney was at the helm of the private equity firm when it sent jobs overseas. when it comes to mitt romney's tenure at bain capital, the period of time between 1999 and 2001 is in question. that is the time when romney stepped in to run the olympics but was also listed as the head of the firm. >> he was on leave. he was still ceo and had shares but he wasn't responsible for management and that is the bottom line. >> reporter: the deputy campaign manager who prompted the uproar from romney defending her comments said any misrepresentation of a signature to the sec might be a felony. >> if

. >>> former president george hw bush and his wife won't be attending the republican national conventionause of health reasons. the former president who is 88 years old is confined to a wheelchair and is having a hard time get around. he has a form of parkinson's disease that affects his leg. >>> the president showed his love for the first lady last night at a basketball game in the nation's capitol. . >> the president and his wife were taking in the usa verses brazil game when the kid camera zoomed in. it was their second time. they didn't realize they were on it the first time and didn't kiss. the crowd and daughter and vice president all cheered them on. >> safeway today celebrated the launch of a high tech stool. they said their new just for you program is a mobile and online tool that provides people with a list of coupons available at its stores, based on their shopping history. customers can then down load the discounts to their safeway club card and the discounts automatically applied in the store during check out. >>> in sacramento the california highway patrol is looking for a

quite a lot of them are going to be in tampa anyway because they are delegates to the republican national convention. and depending on what happens this upcoming weekend, this saturday, those delegates at the real convention who are ron spall supporters could really, really change what is supposed to happen at the mitt romney convention. if ron paul gets the most delegates at nebraska's state republican convention this weekend, that would make nebraska the fifth state in which ron paul has accomplished that goal, getting the plurality of delegates. republican party riles say that means ron paul would get to put his name forward at the convention. in terms of whether or not he should be the nominee for president from the republican party. he would be guaranteed a speaking slot of 15 minutes before the first round of balloting at the convention. they don't just get to coronate romney as the uncontested nominee, and did i mention there are a whole bunch of ron paul supporting official delegates going to the convention. how do you think the prospect of that happening is going over with the republican pa

. >>> former republican presidential hopeful hunts man says he will not attend the republican national conventionatement today saying he won't be attending any republican convention in the future until the party focuses on a quote bigger bolder more confident future for the united states. this will be the first g.o.p. convention hunts man hasn't attended since he served as delegate for ronald reagan in 1984. >>> some candid comment from actor morgan freeman about president obama. he told national public radio that the president isn't the first black president saying quote barack had a mama and she was white. very white. american kansas middle america. he's not america first black president he's america first mixed race prchlt he believes the president has been treated unfairly by republicans who he claims are doing whatever they can to make sure president obama ace one term president. >> bold move to crack down on horrific crime i. >> i felt so guilty that i didn't do anything before. >>reporter: just ahead. turning guilt into action. the turning guilt into action. the >> as many as 300,000 ameri

convention. it turns out he could get that one more state a week from tomorrow when the nebraska state republican party holds its state convention to pick its delegates to go to the nationalvention in tampa. so here's the rub. even though mitt romney won the nebraska primary, ron paul delegates have proven themselves to be really good at taking over the state conventions and getting themselves picked to be the delegates. they say they're so worried about the prospect they told us today they're hiring extra security for their convention. quote, for the purposes of maintaining an orderly convention. so depending on what happens in nebraska next weekend, a week from tomorrow, hey, it's possible that ron paul is also going to be nominated at the convention in tampa. along with mitt romney, which means dueling speeches from both nominees, and votes and a floor fight and something really, really specific and rules based for those rules based ron paul delegates to do at the convention instead of just cheer for things related to the fed. yes, mitt romney is probably going to be the republican presidential nominee, but it is not a done deal. all eyes on nebraska next weekend. ♪ ha

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we will take this to the republican national convention this summer. what is your six word stump speech. i am asking the author of 700 page book. >> i'm pretty happy with this first one. in the words of patrick henry, give me liberty or give me -- speech? [laughter] [laughter] give me liberty, that's all he's asking. there are six words. you can count. honor the constitution. read the constitution. >> fantastic. i will say that we will quote you on that. [applause] [applause] >> kevin, what is your next project? any other crucial american documents that need to be rewritten by kevin bleyer? >> as i indicated, i might write a sequel in 19 years. look forward to that. in the immediate future, i will probably need to rewrite the federalist papers. in the same way that they wrote those papers to try to convince people to ratify the constitution, i, too, probably have some explaining to do at this point. maybe that will be the next. or maybe 50 shades of gray. i will be right back. john stewart said i should call my book 50 shades of red white and blue. tak