rudy giuliani, welcome thanks for being here with us in new york. i want talk to about the campaign. here we are a week into paul ryan being on the ticket for mitt romney. what is the ryan effect? >> who can say? i mean first of all, here's to good news for mitt romney. no major problem. when you think about it, that's already puts the vice presidential choice at 75% range of vice presidential choices. it's in the first week that the problems start to emerge. i don't want to mention former people, but you remember what i'm talking about. second, i think it's been a positive effect for both sides. in the sense that selection of paul ryan was like selecting be a an issue, he was selected for not any perceived political advantage but because he can speak powerfully on a particular issue, which is how to rein in the federal government, how to deal with our budget, with our economy. i think in a powerful way romney rather than the president should be setting the agenda has now set the agenda for the campaign. maybe a bad gamble, maybe a good gamble, but

that why i want it is to enup the score. >> you can see rudy rudy giuliani on our blog. >> you heard publicans saying he is a joke and should be dumped from the ticket. is he doing more harm than good for the president? >> rudy and biden have a bit of history. biden that came up with that hit four years ago. all you hear is rudy giuliani, 9/11, noun, verb, and it get kpeed comedians. i with biden, what they like him for is hand-to-hand. there's a lot of bravado coming from conservatives and republicans, they can't wait until ryan wipes the floor with biden at the debate. just be careful. biden's been around the block a few times. i couldn't be cocky. >> what did you make of this whole episode this week. >> think thought everything jude rudy giuliani just said was true. if it was a vice presidential candidate who made those gaffs so comically and on top, the subject would be, how stoop sid this person. can this person possibly ble blofern. think i this is something o to what chuck said about the debates. joe biden is an american politician. he's been around forever. he is a big, warm,

plus we'll hear from former new york city mayor rudy giuliani. then, the campaign's tone, how nasty it's become. >> so mr. president, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting america. >> our political roundtable on the road ahead. democratic mayor of atlanta, kasim reed. tea party backed gop senate candidate from texas, ted cruz. nbc's political director and chief white house correspondent chuck todd. and columnist peggy noonan from "the wall street journal," and e.j. dionne of "the washington post." >>> good sunday morning. we're a little more than a week away now from the republican convention, and the campaign has turned even nastier with a big focus, as you know, on medicare. romney's new vp peek paul ryan campaigned in florida with his mother, and president obama stepped up his attacks in new hampshire. >> you think they'd avoid talking about medicare, given the fact that both of them have propose proposed cuts to the medicare system. i guess think figure the best defense

rudy giuliani calls them ronnie's biggest obstacle.joins us here lacquered and also ahead secretary janet napolitano at the center of another lawsuit. again, brought by people under her command. shannon bream has the support. and what was he thinking? congressman scott agent, ill-informed and insensitive remarks. it may cost republicans in the election if there is no resolution soon. doctor robi ludwig and doctor jeff gardere analyzing washington dc. half of the country disappointed in the job that president obama is doing. a brand-new fox news poll shows 50% of the country disapproves of the president's job performance. only 46% approve. in the same poll, governor romney taking the lead overall. the governor is gaining significant significantly with one voting bloc in particular print the romney-ryan ticket edging the president and vice president biden nationally, although within the margin of error and 45 to 45%. and governor romney now holding a 10-point lead on the president read. the president's approval rating on the economy stil

and rudy giuliani, that isn't fair. what you said has gone too far. if you're going to put yourself out as the arbiter and judge of vice presidential candidates, we're going to remember that four years ago you told america at the republican convention that sarah palin should be the vice president of the united states. she was ready to be commander in chief and president of the united states. that speaks for itself. >> schieffer: mayor? >> i think sarah palin actually is operating at a level quite a bit above joe biden. i mean, joe-- this is-- this is one joke after another. and you can't escape that. i mean, last week, a wrong state. last week, wrong century. last week, that was an absolutely blatant appeal to racism. it was-- it was they're going to put you back in chains. emphasize the word "back" and it was on a teleprompter. now that's disgusting, and somebody in the democratic party in addition to governor wilder who had the guts to do it should be able to stand up and say, joe, i'm-- i'm not going too far. joe biden is going too far. >> i would

we'll hear what newt gingrich and rudy giuliani hope that yin will say. >> that will be interesting. you can follow the coverage tonight and tomorrow on twitter or on abc 7 news facebook page. and abc news will carry remarks live here on abc 7 news at 7:00 and we'll be streaming it. >> hard new numbers on how long it takes for bay area veterans to collect on a disability claim and why it's so much worse here. >> first day of school for students and teachers. find out what instructors here had to sacrifice before they can set foot in a classroom. >> and there is tropical storm isaac still pounding the gulf coast with flooding rain. we'll take a look at the storm coming up in the accu-weather forecast. >> and there isor >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> confident information between pg&e and the pipeline explosion was mistaken by posted on the internet showing pg&e paid $1.8 million to a teen-aged girl that suffered burns two years ago. abc 7 news confirmed the information on the san mateo county superior court web site has been taken down and sealed. pg&e

that almost has racial overtones rudy giuliani. what's your take on that? >> i think if it came from somebody serious, we might get all excited about it. but i think the vice president of the united states has become a laugh line on late night television. i mean, he -- i have never seen a vice president that has made as many mistakes, said as many stupid things. i mean, there's a real fear if god forbid he ever had to be entrusted with the presidency whether he has the mental capacity to handle it. this guy isn't bright. he's never been bright. people think well, he just talks a little bit too much. actually, he's just very smart. >> or there's another take. and maybe it's consistent request what you're saying. this is just part of the team obama attempt to smear mitt romney. you no know, smear romney, tying him to the terrible tragedy of the woman who got cancer. he hasn't paid his taxes in sen years. >> he can't run the way ronald reagan ran. he can't go to the american people and say are you better off now sthan you are four years ago? here's what i prom

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also, rudy giuliani was silly to say joe biden was dumb. if you look at the foreign policy experience joe biden alone has it's greater than both mitt romney and paul ryan together. >> he was always wrong. >> wrong. >> he was always wrong. his latest, greatest idea was to try apartheid division of iraq. >> i think that's probably going to happen. he'll be right in the long run on this one. >> this is part dumb what he said and part smear. i'm sorry. >> this is a silly thing to spend our time about. >> they don't want to -- >> this is what the republicans want to talk about. >> about the economy. they don't want to talk about entitlements, tax cuts. >> don't be silly. you are being silly and partisan. come on. >> i want to ask my buddy governor dean. okay, just for a moment, let's go to lala land. if paul ryan standing before an audience that was at least 50% african-american had made that comment, would you tonight on this program be saying, that's very silly. let's move on? >> i don't know what i would be saying. first of all joe biden -- >

. >>> that almost has racial overtones, rudy giuliani, what's your take on that?ame from somebody serious we would get all excited about it. i think the vice president of the united states has become a laugh line on late-night television. i have never seen a vice president that has made as many mistakes, said as many stupid things, there's a real fear if he ever had, god forbid to take on the presidency, whether he would have the mental -- >> here's our political panel. welcome all. i do want to remind folks when you hear rudy, that maybe it's personal for him. >> i think. >> here is, we have this piece of sound, here's joe biden on rudy giuliani four years ago. >> i mean think about it, rudy giuliani, there's only three things he mentions in a sentence, he is genuinely not qualified to be president. >> this stuff does get personal. after that hit, i remember that. it really did do -- it was the one most effective things that biden did in his presidential campaign it just hurt giuliani in the primary. let's talk about the vitriol here. i was struck by biden saying

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. >> and rudy giuliani will have his say. plus, why he's questioning vice president biden's capacity to lead. >> joe biden has gotten a free pass. >> also, he started this country's tax wars. and he calls the ryan budget smoke and mirrors. both sides battle it out here tonight. >>> and a man who is just about seen everything when it comes to american politics. dan rather. >> each of these campaigns is in a mode to be meaner than a mama wasp. >>> the champion daughter of the greatest, laila ali on a controversial television show. this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> good evening. our big story tonight a man who catapulted into the spotlight, paul ryan. everyone in politics is talking about little else. this is what he said in ohio a little earlier today. >> president obama is out of ideas and that is why his campaign is based on anger and division. you know, the president i'm told is talking about medicare today. we want this debate. [ applause ] we need this debate and we will win this debate. [ applause ] >> the big knock on

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in this hour we'll talk with former new york mayor rudy giuliani.ch four years ago so we'll ask him about governor christie's speech and he'll tell us what governor mitt romney should do to connect with undecided voters. >> we'll hear from some republicans who are getting the red carpet treatment here. that usually doesn't happen from these conventions because they're from massachusetts. one of the bluest states in america. we heard ann romney talk about how blue the state of massachusetts is. >> red carpet treatment normally a good thing. nice to see you two. >>> hurricane isaac has dealt a serious blow south of new orleans this morning. a storm surge has stopped a levee there flooding some of the homes. isaac remains a large category 1 hurricane capable of dumping more than 15 inches of rain. it's moving north northwest towards arkansas. it's starting to weaken as it moves over land. byron fits is in new orleans which is being battered by new orleans on the seventh anniversary of katrina. byron, i've been watching you all morning blowing in the wi

>> i thought everything rudy giuliani just said was true. if it had been a republican vice presidential candidate who had made those gaffes, one after another, so comically, and all on tape, the subject today of the panel would be how stupid is this person? can this person possibly govern? that hasn't been said. i think there's something to what chuck just said about the debates. you know, joe biden is an american politician. he's been around forever. he's a big, warm, fleshy person-to-person. that has a certain power and he can play this sort of daffy old grandfatherly thing who everybody thinks he's going to make mistakes, but he says two or three acute things that can work in a debate. >> kasim reed, did you hear race in those remarks? is there a racial appeal? doug wilder did as we showed the governors before. >> i didn't hear it. i mean i watched the entire presentation, i saw the transcript, i didn't hear it. i think this is small ball. i think that he's talking about the wall street recovery, and that was the context of the message. w

and rudy giuliani is here. senator john mccain in his speech and interviews with us suggests when president obama is weakening the country millly and national security could be safer with a president romney. >> if john mccain says that i would take that very seriously there. is no one who cares more about national security, understands it better than john mccain. i thought his speech was a powerful speech and i think it came right from the heart for a man who put his life at risk for his country and almost lost it. i think he feels an american president should never made this country weaker. >> greta: why do you like governor romney? i realize he's the end of the line but starting out in the beginning there are a lot of choices. what is it about governor romney for you? he has a clear vision of what he wants owe do the america. i think he wants to reduce the size of government. which is what paul ryan talked about tonight. and that is what they have to do. what president obama wants to do is increase the debt a

. >> hard words from rudy giuliani about joe biden. remark that sparked it all. . >>> they are down but not out. the boys of summer took one on the chin today in the little league world series but they are still fighting. ken pritchett went there this morning to watch the community cheer on the team and joins us now live with their story. ken. >> reporter: we are talking little league baseball and we are here at a movie theater. the reason why, act 350 people here came out to watch live and cheer on their team as they live out a once in a lifetime dream. outside the t-shirts were selling fast. and inside not one movie theater but two anthony lackey was petroleuming pumping up the packed house. they were doing something special. >> eight teams of 4600 in the united states in that tournament. it says it all. >> reporter: they are playing at the little league world series in williamsport pennsylvania. supporters watched it in this theater back home. >> well, it's beyond belief. we have been so nervous and so excited at the same time. >> r

plus, perspective from rudy giuliani and we'll talk about the nasty tone of this race.erward, be sure to stay tuned for my press pass conversation with former mayor rudy giuliani in its entirety. >> thanks, david. >>> a 62-year-old swimmer is not giving up on her life long dream to swim from cuba all the way to the florida keys. >> this is the fourth time diana nyad has tried to make the 100-mile journey. nyad jumped right in yesterday. she tried making the swim last summer but an asthma attack and dangerous jellyfish stings forced her out of the water. this time, she's confident she can finish. >> well, i respect this. i know how difficult it is. there's a reason no one has ever done it. but i'm prepared. i think the team is 100% prepared to just -- i may suffer some. i'm prepared for that too. >> nyad says it will take more than 60 hours to complete the trip. >>> a simple mistake by a store clerk at the gas station ended up giving a massachusetts man a $1 million payout. a man came into the gas station asking for a blue ice lottery ticket and he was given a sizzling s

and rudy giuliani is delivering a key note speech in 2004. >> and there is our coverage continues tonight on abc 7 news at 6:00 and instant updates around the clock you can follow him on twitter or on our facebook page. and there is live coverage of the republican convention on our web site. >> there is a devastating fire in san jose. firefighters decided to let a nursery burn to the ground. >> and there is michael finney on anor >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> tonight investigateors trying to figure out what sparked a fire that destroyed a nursery. firefighters took pictures as flames engulfed the nursery just before midnight. and firefighters decided to let the fire burn out because they were concerned water might spread chemicals .s and the manager race together scene only to watch the business go up in smoke. >> memories, memories in the store, 50 years of doing business. a lot of good people have worked here. this is kind of tough to see it go. >> there is nothing sus spishus at this time. something could be revealed in the investigation. >> and fire d

on "face the nation," rudy giuliani, questioned after vice president biden has the balance to be president, claims the media has gone easier on biden than past republicans, like dick cheney, sarah palin, dan quayle. >>> and peggy noonan said that biden also succeeds with coverage, claiming the daffy grandfatherly thing. all this, after another republican-leaning pundit, mark halperin argued on the "today" show, that the immediate is susceptible to what the obama campaign wants. >>> salon, along with her fervent tea party resort, recent voting shows that michele bachmann faces a real possibility of losing her re-election bid. >>> "the des moines register" reports that hank williams jr. got loud cheers saying, we've got a muslim president who hates farming, hates the military, hates the u.s. and we hate him. okay. appearing on fox and friends last year, williams jr. likened the president to, get this, hitler. >>> and finally, in an interview tonight on "entertainment tonight," president obama calls george clooney a, quote, wonderful guy. the president jokes that staffers come to his office w

today, rudy giuliani expects paul ryan to build on many of the themes new jersey governor chris christie laid out in his keynote speech last night. >> and he basically laid the ground work for what i think is paul ryan's speech tonight and this is -- and we have a president who has a problem making tough decisions. he's afraid to take on medicare and social security. >> congress and -- ryan's and romney's budget has been a target of the tv ads and accusing him that he will slash federal spending as l. also, mccain and rand paul. paul's father, meanwhile, congressman ron paul, will appear in a video and that is going to be interesting. he won't be taking the stage and no is not clear how paul's delegates are going react when the video is played and instead of seeing a live speech and that is what they wanted. we'll city tuned on that one. >> and fox 5 will have live coverage and you will get the latest on www.myfoxdc.com. >>> a story on fox 5. significant new leads in the shooting death of a popular deli owner northeast d.c. investigators found dna on the scene from a man named steven von

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the former mayor rudy giuliani had some comments. >> this vice president has made more dumb, stupid, idiotic comments than anyone. he is an embarrassment. i have to believe in the white house, whatever they say. they've got to be in constant dread, what is joe biden going to say today that will torpedo our campaign. >> giuliani channeling his inner chris christie. he was in new hampshire yesterday campaigning for mitt romney. biden has since clarified those remarks explaining he was in fact talking about house speaker john boehner's use of the word unshackled when discussing the budget proposal by the vice presidential candidate paul ryan. >>> a crowd of cheering supporters greeted frame and first lady michelle obama at i campaign event. this is in davenport, iowa. it was the last stop yesterday on the president's three-day bus tour of the state. white house official says the state is important to the obamas because that is where the presidential journey started. president obama won iowa, the caucus, back in january 2008. >>> this morning, it is the wind that is fueling dozens of fir

rudy giuliani was a candidate for mayor in.ell us what you think has to accomplish this evening. >> i think what he has to do and what he will do is explain his vision for how we move this economy forward. an economy that's been stalled. an economy that's been overburdened by failed policies. he will talk about how we have to reinvest in people. reinvest in the private sector. reinvest in entrepreneurship and free enterprise and stop this movement towards massive government control get together point of taking some of our liberties and freedom away. as everyone says, this is an opportunity for the person to introduce himself a bit more than people have gotten to know him. give us a sort of sense of his personality. he's a regular decent guy. an has been demonized in a ridiculous way. martha: you guys had your moments, too. you questioned whether he had an ideological core. have you changed your opinion of him as a man and a person? >> i developed more of a view of him. i have gotten to know him better. i have gotten to know hip

we'll see who is on his possible short list and get reaction from rudy giuliani. former new york city mayor. >>> plus an alarming look at america's failing infrastructure. we'll hear from former pennsylvania governor, ed rendell. >>> former heavyweight boxing champ, mike tyson stops by studio 57. that and more a little later on "cbs this morning." that will do it for the "cbs morning news." i'm terrell brown. morning news." i'm terrell brown. have a great day everybody. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> the morning everyone. it is thursday august 9th. time is 430. we begin with developing news out of these bay. a few hundred homes and businesses are without power this morning and oakland. >>> it looks like there was a car verses a poll. these are active wires. it looks like a car on one and the poll is down. we are near the 81st avenue parade it will be a watteau. about 500 people are affected parade we'll give you more affirmation as it comes. >>> this talk about the area where this is located. a vehicle hit a car pool. streets are blocked in and around t

former new york city mayor rudy giuliani has been ripping into joe biden questioning the vice president's intelligence and his capacity to lead after making those controversial remarks. listen to what giuliani told piers morgan last night. >> the vice president wasn't very nice yesterday. the vice president did something disgusting yesterday. if vice president cheney did this, if sarah palin did this, if paul ryan did this, it would be on the front page of "the new york times" and you all would have been outraged. someone had to be outraged and it's going to be me. >> giuliani has been saying that in all his years, he says he's never seen a vice president who has made as many mistakes or said as many stupid things as joe biden. that was rudy giuliani's words. >>> only one winning ticket was sold for last night's $337 million powerball jackpot purchased in purchase and not here. unless you live in the great lakes state, call off the retirement party. you may have won something smaller. winning numbers, 6, 27, 46-51-56 and powerball is 21. if you hold that number, i love you. you're my new