not the referendum romney wanted but referendum on the ryan budget. that is why you are getting the first response from the white house. we go from romney wanted to make it a referendum to obama making a referendum about the ryan budget. that's the real thing about the pick today and what the object and what ryan on that stage means. >> what about the imagining of this young republican leader. we talked a little bit about it. i continue to throw out stats here. he will be 439 days before being sworn in if elected. he has a girl and two boys 7, 8 and 10. he is catholic. i am not trying to draw the imagining too much back to jfk but there is something about a young family that is appealing just as much as obama's family is appealing to leadership. is it not? >> joe question about it. sort of idealism in the way he talked about things. the real question is again is this the -- now it will be is this the romney plan pore the ryan plan? it gives an opening as much as the visual and the optices and the way people respond to the ryan family, i think there is

ryan. here, the new hero. >> i'm with romney. forget ryan's plan. romney's plan -- >> he's with him on a corporate tax cut, for a continuation of the tax cuts, he wants all those shifts to the wealthy not to cut the deficit. >> are we talking medicare? come on. you want to talk medicare? >> those savings in your program under romney and ryan both -- >> no. you're wrong. >> go to corporate tax cuts. they don't? you're not going to cut corporate taxes? >> medicare will be covered by guaranteeing to everybody 55 and over that they can have medicare exactly as it is today. >> yeah, yeah. >> no change. >> what's going on in the future of medicare. >> if you're 55 and over, if you're one of those elderly voters, you understand that. >> medicare under the ryan and romney plan is to replace a fee for service program which we've all grown up with. you go to the doctor and pay for it with a voucher program. where you've got to buy nurns the the private market. that's what they want to do, both of them. >> but that happens for people under 55. >> how is that a

clearly type in romney-ryan and you'll go right to the romney campaign website. gloria, you've sent spent a lot of time with paul ryan in recent years. you did a great series on this 42-year-old republican house budget committee chairman. he's very, very popular with republicans, very intelligent, knows these issues. a student of the late jack kemp. we know a lot about him even though he's relatively young, 42 years old. >> paul ryan became popular with republicans by pushing unpopular things. they didn't always like him at first. he was the guy who wanted to take away their earmarks. he's the guy that wanted to touch what's known as third rail of american politics, social security and medicare. he had a very hard time convincing them that they ought to follow him, and then you had this new class -- >> i'm sorry to interrupt you, the app told us officially, mitt's choice for vp is paul ryan, spread the word about the comeback team. >> it's official. put it up on the screen, put it in front of you. we'll show our viewers if you go to the mitt romney campaign app, y

the only way to win is -- he's got to try to make ryan and romney nonmon sters. they're not monsters. i don't think it's going to work, but he's going to try it. >> what's your take on paul ryan for vice president? were you surprised? were you pleased? >> i thought it showed a lot of boldness on the part of mitt romney. i thought he would select someone because mitt is kind of risk averse. well, this is a risk. it brings out all the democratic attacks about medicare and the budget. but i think this is exactly the debate we have to have. i think we're going to win this debate. and i think when we do, romney and ryan will have a mandate to make these changes. i think governor rom know has put the only substance into this campaign. this has been vicious attack after vicious attack. now we're going to be able to debate. should we reform medicare so we can save it? it's ridiculous to say that paul ryan wants to end medicaid. in fact, his proposal is the only way to save it. medicare is not going to be available to people 20 years from now. it's going to be disrupt and

romney-ryan team very excited by the reaction. romney is bouyant and excited about ryan bringing energy to the cam bane what henied. there is a lot of enthusiasm and confidence building here in the romneyn. it a rough couple of weeks of polls that showed president obama was gaining ground and mr. romney was slipping behind a bit. they firmly believe that romney will supply the juice needed and get more junk back in the republican campaign step and be ahead by the time the republican convention is over. >> there was a lot of energy n and enthusiasm in norfolk. we'll hear from carl throughout the day. we'll bring in our political panel. and we are joined in washington for brad blakeman . democratic strat yist chris hahn. and great to see you today. brad, let's start with you . what do you make of the pick. people thought it was a bold move that mitt romney needed to make to put new energy in the campaign and people wondering if it was the right pick. >> i don't think it a bold pick but the right pick. you look for a vice-president an

ryan. you know what -- for romney and ryan.nk it is important that people remember that this is a time, though, for maybe some new voices, new faces, new energy out there so really engage with the base and with independents and my mission has been to help and not to hurt. and sometimes to help means you do step back, you step away and independently work for that enthusiasm that is needed for people to show up at the polls in november and elect a new president. and allow in the meantime some more i guess conventional measures in a campaign based on other people's voices being heard. >> shannon: and we got several along this line. this one says please ask governor palin how is trig. may god bless you all. >> oh, thank you so much for asking. makes me cry just thinking about my little boy who is just a few mills away from me right now. awesome. four years old and smart as a whip and beautiful and precious. the highlight of our lives and thank you so much for asking. that just made my day. >> shannon: it sounds like he is doing wel

and week one of the romney-ryan ticket. we'll ask our sunday panel how the running mate is doing so far . from hollywood and to extreme sports. he may be romney's top advisor all right now on "fox news sunday". and hello, again, from "fox news sunday" in washington. with paul ryan joining the republican ticket, the republican campaign took on a new intensity this week especially over who has the best plan strategy for medicare. first robert gibbses welcome back to "fox news sunday". >> thanks for having me. >> chris: paulyan campaigned in the village with 78 year old mother betty yesterday. he said the republicans want to protect medicare and the president is turning it into a piggy bank . >> when i think about medicare, it's not just a program, it is not just a bunch of numbers, it is what my mom relies on. the president raids $716 billion from the medicare program to pay for the obama care program. >>is: your reaction. >> if he wants to protect medicare for his mother he should thank president obama for what he has done to

romney. he has embraced the budget. now he has embraced the man as well. this is the ryan-romney ticket. mney got to defend his budget and he can't. i love it. i think he can -- democrats, no matter what they are running for, the issue in every campaign, are you going to support the ryan budget or not? so the house members ought to run on that. senate members and president obama and vice president joe biden. here is our friend joey from chicago. what do you think, joey? >> hey, good morning, bill. let's get scientific about this. you don't poop where you eat. you don't spit in the wind and you don't buy a used car or vote for a man with two first names. what are you people crazy? pass that on bill. >> joey ought to have you do the bumper stickers. >> that's for sure. good. thanks to, joey. out in west seattle washington bouncing around the country this morning, stewart, you are up. what so youdo you say. >> i believe paul was put in by the wall street bankers that used their money to choose the republican and democratic candidates to scare progressive america into rallying around their bu

governor romney and paul ryan clearly have the excitement. gured out barack obama and joe biden, of all people, clearly don't. >> as always, thanks to former minnesota governor tim pawlenty, co-chairman of the romney campaign. good luck. >> thank you, larry. >> a programming night for tomorrow, two special guests, conservative firebrand and syndicated columnist ann coulter joins us and america's mayor rudy giuliani will talk about whether veep paul ryan is a game changer for mitt romney or not. the power of capitalist ideas from mr. paul ryan. watch it. it's going to work.

paul ryan is the vice-presidential running mate for mitt romney. find out more about congressman ryan. we have polster scott rasmussen from new jersey. great to see you. we saw the numbers at the end of the week that showed mitt romney was losing ground to obama. nine points in our fox news poll and 7 point in the cnn poll. people said he needs to make a bold move and needs to make it now. do you think in terms of public opinion it will turn things around and if yes, why. >> start with the premise that he was in trouble. it does show him down 9. but those following the race it is a tossum and that is a good approximateliation. we show romney up by two in the rasmussen daily tracking poll right now. i think the campaign is very close and romney is a slight favorite to win. the pick will determed in the next 48 or 72 hours. right now. 39 percent of voters nationwide have a favorable opinion of rhine. 29 percent unfavor and independent voters most don't know who he is and opinions are soft. there will be a battle to define and introduce paul ryan. >> h

the romney ryan ticket continues to draw a lot of attention. they are describing governor mitt romney's choice as a bold move. now that congressman paul ryan is joining him as his vice presidential running mate the key issues of the campaign now shifts through the issues of entitlement like social security medicare and medicaid. he proposed making changes to all three including a plan to give seniors a government payment to buy medical insurance replacing the current system of medicare directly paying their healthcare bills. the other issue might be ryan's support of privatizing social security and plans to revamp the tax code. >> we have a big choice to make. if you look at the path we are on if you look at all of the things the president has been doing, more government, more regulations, the promise of a lot more taxes on successful small businesses we see a president who took what we pioneered here in wisconsin, welfare reform getting people off of welfare on to a life of hitting their potential. >> the commitment i made is we will not have t

by one measure the selection of congressman ryan is a success. romney campaign took in four million in the first 7 hours after the big rollaids to goverd that the addition of ryan young and cath lickk would change the polls. the latest fox news polls released on thursday night showed president obama opening up a nine-point league. one marketed change in manassus. there governor mitt romney didn't say it was just a revverundum on the presidency. but the language. contest that obama and biden campaign employed. >> they will have a choice. it is executed over the lastt 3and half yearrs and as it worked middle income families are squeezed and we have a different plan. >> hope and change is now attack and blame. >> you know what? we are not going to fall for it >> now our setting today is the nascar technical institute. republicans have high hopes for the state of north carolina because george bush captured it and 2004 and obama's was point 4 percent. and the ticket will close out in a state that has not voted republican since ronald reagan. that is ryan's h

we are seeing a noticeably looser mitt romney since he announced paul ryan on the campaign plane lastht. romney was chatting extensively with the reporters and paul ryan at his side much more so than we have seen earlier in the campaign, but we will have to see how long that lasts. the campaign is already taking questions about the ryan budget. rlier in the morning, the campaign spokesman kevin madden said to the reporters that it is mitt romney who is at the top of the ticket suggesting that the paul ryan plan will not be adopted in its entirety by the campaign and by mitt romney if he elected president. one thing that is very interesting is in the coming days, we will see paul ryan basically separating from mitt romney and campaigning solo on behalf of this ticket starting in iowa tomorrow. kevin madden told us at a briefing earlier, a spokesman for the romney campaign that we may see ryan by himself on the campaign trail all of the way to the convention, candy. >> thank you, jim acosta, and we will be checking back in with you. >>> first up, all things politics, and what a great pe

ryan fan club. i am more impressed with governor romney. ds how to win and govern and courage to put someone great on the ticket like paul. that isal. >> the senate hasn't passed a budget in three and half years. when paul ryan put a budget ford to save social security from bankruptcy and save medicare and move us to fiscal responsibility here is the what democrat say. >> serious about a plan to reduce the deficit by spending trillions for millionaires and billionaires. >> what the ryan plann fails to do in any way meet the test of balance. >> i am not making this up. they sign under the ryan budget. the ryan budget if it were to pass and become law and romney would be president. 19 million people lose medicare. >> and it is something different altogether. it is a trojan horse disguised as plans and an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country and thinly veiled social darwinism. >> radical social darwinism. saving social security and medicare or take on five trillion in debt in three and half yearings. >> yeah, this is amazing. a pre

congressman paul ryan will be on the ticket with the republican candidate mitt romney in the u.s. esidential race. we've got john king standing by. and john, you recently spent a good bit of time with paul ryan in your coverage of this campaign. we've been talking a lot about the substance, the policy. and, you know, it just strikes me as we talk and as we watch the pictures here on the style side where mitt romney can appear quite stiff, paul ryan looks to me as i watch here to be a very relaxed, very fluid, very different. john king, can you hear us okay? >> i sure can, colleen. i'm sorry about that. i hear you just fine now. he is different from governor romney. you see they look a bit alike. they look like older and younger. but he is more of a back slapper, more of an open sports fan, more comfortable tipping a can of beer than you might see governor romney in that kind of setting. but they are ideas guys. as our sources are telling us tonight, after a long search that paul ryan, a risky choice will be announced. he is the congressman from wisconsin. they announced him tomorro

ryan budget. listen: >> mitt romney has now chosen paul ryan, who is the architect of that plan, as his running mateone who mitt romney already embraced the ryan budget, which we know is extreme, and, you know, someone who represents thousands of seniors in south florida, i can until that what would happen, in either proposal, in ryan-2 or ryan-1 is that insurance companies would cherry-pick the healthy people and cherry-pick the best people to insure and as a result the folks who remained in medicare would really see their cost go up. >> reporter: senior citizens in the country, are absolutely the most reliable voters and looks like democrats will be fighting this on their turf. it will be an interesting campaign. >> jamie: and even more interesting show at least for today. thank you so much, john, for bringing us a preview, check your local stations for fox news sunday, don't miss john in today for chris wallace and let's listen to congressman ryan now in north carolina. >> the economy is not working like it should. president obama four years ago came with so much promise. so much shohope and so m

you can listen to what romney said. under the ryan plan, romney would have paid zero taxes over the last few years. look, president obama cut taxes for 95% of americans. mitt romney and paul ryan would raise taxes for 95% of americans and shift that money to pay for more tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires which incidentally would raise the deficit they seem so concerned about. once the facts come out and we get past this gloss of the new guy on the ticket, i think voters of all stripes are going to read the writing on the wall. >> 30 seconds ron and sally make the point we have two dramatically different propositions for the future of our country. do you think president obama will be driven to change his discussion of what he will do rather than saying we need more time and we need a different approach? >> he will be forced into a policy discussion that he doesn't want to have because the policy proposals he has put forth the past few years have been unsuccessful. we all said president obama is a nice guy, but he is not gett

is romney called himself an outsider. paul ryan is somebody who's a product of washington, i think most people will agree. today mitt romney tried to describe paul ryan as a reluctant candidate, somebody who put his own private career on hold to serve in washington. but he made him try and sound like he wasn't really as interested in washington as we've seen here, from where i sit. take a listen to this. >> his career -- his career ambition was not to go to washington. that is not what he wanted to do. but he became concerned about what was happening in the country. and wanted to get america back on track and so he put aside the plans he had for his career and said i'm going to go and serve. he's gone there and he's put the country and policies to get america right again ahead of ambiti ambition. he planned on doing something else with his career but you know, he looked at the country and recognized the real challenges we had and decided to go and try and make a difference. and so he went to washington, not to get along with everyb

>> first of all, the debate's been sharpened because before romney selected ryan, clearly mitt romneying a strategy where he just thought he was going to run against the president and sort of the status quo in the country, and the president's made the point from the beginning that he inherited a very bad economy. he's helped turn the corner, but we have a long way to go. and this election is about what's next? what's the future? what are the choices? and so now the republicans have put in place their plan for the future. and it's a great future if you're someone like mitt romney because the ryan plan provides not only the existing tax breaks but doubles down on those tax breaks, and it's all based on this trickle-down theory of economics. >> you don't think the ryan selection will give mitt romney some traction in the polling? >> oh, i think it will help him among the republican base. clearly there's a lot of energy and excitement among the tea party base. but this is essentially telling centrists and independent voters to go take a hike because if you look at the republican budget, t

the miami herald, ryan could hurt romney in florida. the indian river press journal, ryan may be a liability in florida. romney's pick for running mate could antagonize many seniors. with ryan in, medicare key. they weren't fans of bold policy that intruded on health care. the ledger newspaper of lakeland, florida. romney seeks distance from ryan's plans. the" bradenton herald", ryan could be a drag in florida. see, in republicanville, paul ryan may be some combination of a reincarnated ronald reagan and a rock star. but in normalville, outside of the bubble, he's the kill medicare guy. and again, i think this may be a shock to them. republicans have their own echo chamber, if you listen to conservatives, just echoing each other, just talking to each other about paul ryan, you would think that selecting him was not only noncontroversial, you would think that it was being greeted with universal acclaim. it is not. usa today had the first polling today since paul ryan was tapped to be mitt romney's running mate, and it is not pretty for th

ryan fan club. i am more impressed with governor romney. nderstands how to win and govern and courage to put someone great on the ticket like paul. that isal. >> the senate hasn't passed a budget in three and half years. when paul ryan put a budget ford to save social security from bankruptcy and save medicare and move us to fiscal responsibility here is the what democrat say. >> serious about a plan to reduce the deficit by spending trillions for millionaires and billionaires. >> what the ryan plann fails to do in any way meet the test of balance. >> i am not making this up. they sign under the ryan budget. the ryan budget if it were to pass and become law and romney would be president. 19 million people lose medicare. >> and it is something different altogether. it is a trojan horse disguised as plans and an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country and thinly veiled social darwinism. >> radical social darwinism. saving social security and medicare or take on five trillion in debt in three and half yearings. >> yeah, this is amazin

plus, week one of the romney-ryan tic ticket. we will ask our sunday panel how the republican running mate is doing so far are. and our power player of the week from hollywood to extreme sports he may be romney's top advisor. all right now on "fox news sunday." and hello again from fox news in washington. with paul ryan joining the republican ticket the presidential campaign took on a new intensity this week. especially over who has the best plan to preserve medicare. we will hear from a top romney strategist in a few minutes but first obama campaign senior advisor and former white house press secretary robert gibbs. welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thanks for having me,. >> paul ryan campaigned in the victim lajeunesses with his 78 -- villages with h his 78-year-old mother betty and he said that the republicans want to protect medicare and the president is turning it into a piggy bank. let's watch. >> when i think about medicare it is not just a program, it is not just a bunch of numbers. it is what my mom relies on. the pre

i also think it's going to be awfully hard for romney and ryan to tell seniors across america that president obama is slashing medicare when there have been no reductions in benefits whatsoever. but a lie is a powerful thing. and for mitt romney, lying may be his only hope at this point inside 90 days. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question, will the romney/ryan lie on medicare work? text a for yes, b for no to 622639. you can always going to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. >>> we know for years that the industry has lied to us. i'm joined tonight by wendell potter, former communications director and vice president of cigna. and now he's with the center for public integrity, "huffington post" contributor and author of the book "deadly spin." great to have you with us tonight. this is -- i have laid it out, exactly what the republicans are doing. this is what they're doing on the campaign trail. they're out there saying president obama and the word stolen was used by the rnc chairman, that they have stolen $716 billion from medicare for seniors to pay for obama

pundits call ryan a gutsy choice for romney. joe biden fired back. >> what's gutsy about giving millionaires another tax break? what's gutsy -- what's gutsy about gutting medicare, medicaid, education? what's gutsy? >> at the same time, both president obama and paul ryan were making stops in central iowa and both spoke at the state fair. they're both getting a firsthand look at what is essentially become ground zero for the worst drought in 50 years in this country. ryan will have to explain why he is blocking a farm bill that would provide disaster relief for farmers and ranchers. president obama asked supporters in iowa to pass along this message. >> unfortunately right now, too many members of congress are blocking the farm bill from becoming law. i am told that governor romney's new running mate paul ryan might be around iowa in the next few days. he's one of it leaders of congress standing in the way. so if you happen to see congressman ryan, tell him how important this farm bill is to iowa and our rural communities. >> not