. >>> check out what musician ryan nichols caught on his virgin airlines flight from manchestero orlandohe shoots out the window. >> just a con trail. >> that's fuel coming out of the plane. this is actually a safety precaution. this flight was being rerouted back for technical problems and they're dumping fuel over the irish sea. it's official name is called a fuel jettison and the faa said certain planes are designed to land lighter than they are when they take off. they need to dump this fuel because if they land too heavy, there could be issues and cause a problem. in this instance the flight went back, was refueled and went on its way. >> but after all this, they make you turn around and say it's a technical issue, don't you think they should have got a new plane so nobody is worried? >> from manchester to florida, that's a lot of water in between. >>> the turtle just wants some finger food. >>> i don't even know how to introduce this one because it's just so funny and ironic at the same time because this little guy you see here walking down the stairs is known as mr. bump. he's the

ryan. john nichols, talk, the significance for people have never heard of ayn rand. >> most people mispronounced the name. paul ryan is a deep, deep scholar of and reader of ayn rnand. she was a russian immigrant. her family came to the u.s.. throughout her writing career, was a militant opponent of what she called collectivism read what she meant was government. beyond that, a critic even of helping your neighbor. she said that selfishness must be the central precept of your life in the most important thing was to take care of yourself. paul ryan started reading ayn rand as a young man and has read all of her books. he has appeared at celebrations and events for rates and cut a video in which he said in these times, about two years ago, one of the most important things people can do is read ayn rand. said it is one of the best ways to respond to obama's election. what is fascinating, a couple of months ago, speaking at a catholic university, the number of catholic scholars wrote a letter saying, with a problem because ayn rand was an atheist who is very condemnatory of what we think of as catho

ryan. and john nicholls, washington correspondent for "the nation" and associate editor of the "capital timessconsin politics. gentlemen, thank you for joining me. john, i want to go to you first. paul ryan is one of the most experienced and also influential people in the republican caucus. he's definitely pulling the strings as far as the fiscal policy and strategy there. tell us a little bit about his governing philosophy. ryan's own philosophy, as he sort of illustrated it and wrote it out in his road map, is "only by taking responsibility by one's self to the greatest extent possible can one ever be free. and only a free person can make responsible choices between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking." how is that made manifest his policy decisions? >> it sounds an awfully lot like a section from an ayn rand novel, and that makes sense because paul ryan is obsessed with ayn rand, the extreme libertarian novelist who wrote books like "atlas shrugged." he said the reason he even went into political was because of reading an ayn rand novel. so we have to begin with the fact

anti-government, anti-spending paul ryan is ducking questions about his support for t.a.r.p., the auto loan, and his request for stimulus money. next, ruth conniff and john nicholsn paul ryan's problem with the truth. >>> and out with the song hitting mitt romney for sticking his dog on the roof of a car. ♪ >> tonight, one of the founding members, jerry gasol debuts his new single live on "the ed show." ♪ >>> welcome back to "the ed show." thanks for watching tonight. what is a person in the media supposed to do when you ask a question and the answer changes from time to time? paul ryan spent the day trying to tell voters in ohio what he stands for. the problem is, this guy keeps changing his story. first, he bashed our nation's trade policy with china. >> they steal our intellectual property right. they block access to their markets. they manipulate their currency. president obama promised he would stop these practices. he said he'd go to the mat with china. instead, they're treating him like a door mat. we're not going to let that happen. >> but here's the problem. when congress got a chance to crack down on china's currency manipulation, representative paul r

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. >> all right, john nichols, you finally, called out paul ryan and called him what he is a corporatist who is not loyal to the principles he pretends to abide by. john nichols, washington correspondent for "the nation," author of "uprising" from madison to wall street. thank you for your time thank you. >> we haven't heard much from romney and ryan about foreign policy. do they even have one? >> coming up >> congressman paul ryan strives to unravel the social safety net. americans are celebrating 77. >> that's how would social security is today. president franklin d. roosevelt signed the social security act on august 14th, 1935. since then, it has lasted through wars recessions periodic raids on funds to pay for other government programs and mounting tilts to dump the entire account. why did it survive? perhaps because we need it so much. president roosevelt, himself, described the problem right after signing the bull and it's astounding how relevant his words still are. young people would wonder what would be their luck when they came to theold age. the man with a job has wondered how

that doesn't sound like the record of a deficit hawk, so what is paul ryan's really governing philosophy? michael crawley and john nicholls, john, i want you to start on this thing. what can you expect from paul ryan to the extent he has influence and i expect he'll have a lot with romney. what will he do when he gets power back based on what he's done with power before? >> well, he's actually got a governing philosophy and it's pretty clear. it's the 1920s big house on the hill republican. he believes that the roll of government is to intervene when rich guys have a problem or when there's a war that needs to be fought and the funny thing about him is that paul ryan has a reputation. he's built it up carefully over a long period of time as a republican who really is deep into the numbers, deep into the reality of budget, but his default position when ever a big issue comes into play, is basically what is the the u.s. chamber of commerce say? what does the business community say as regard to what it needs? frankly, if it says it needs an auto bailout or bank bailout or if the pharmaceutical companies want a structuring of

. >> all right, john nichols, you finally, called out paul ryan and called him what he is, a corporatist who is not loyal to the principles he pretends to abide by. john nichols, washington correspondent for "the nation," author of "uprising" from madison to wall street. thank you for your time thank you. get irresistibly clean and fresh carpets in your home with resolve deep clean powder. the moist powder removes three times more dirt than vacuuming alone while neutralizing odors for a clean you can see, smell and really enjoy. don't just vacuum clean. resolve clean. rich, chewy caramel rolled up in smooth milk chocolate. don't forget about that payroll meeting. rolo.get your smooth on. now in minis. [ dennis' voice ] i bet he's got an allstate agent. they can save you up to 30% more by bundling your policies. well his dog's stupid. [ dennis' voice ] poodles are one of the world's smartest breeds. are you in good hands? ttv e reinforces he wants campaign to be about jobs and the budget not the area where the president has the most unilateral control, foreign policy. because romney doesn

. >> tonight, john nichols of the nation magazine tells us exactly who paul ryan is. joan walsh and e.j. dionne on the president's counterpunch today on the campaign trail. now's terry o'neal on what romney/ryan means for women. james hoffa of the teamsters and larry cohen of the cwa on what the ryan pick means for lar. >>> and vermont senator bernie sanders on paul ryan's medicare lie. >> there's only one president that i know of in history that robbed medicare $716 billion. paul ryan and i talked about saving medicare. >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. it choices in the 2012 presidential election have never been as clear as they are tonight. mitt romney's announcement of congressman paul ryan to be on the ticket as his running mate has the republican base all excited. the roll-out no doubt positive, probably the best thing romney has had because he's had a rough summer. and the choice takes any controversy off the table that might have come up at the republican convention later this month. they're going to like this. conservatives are

win the gold in the olympics or something john nichols thanks a lot we're going to do pretty good baby thank you no surprise. aside from policy which in ryan's case is as radical as it gets a lot of people tend to vote for people they like who they can identify with in which case paul ryan doesn't want people to know about a little incident he had last year with a very expensive bottle of wine here's an interview tom had around that time with a woman who called paul ryan doing what he enjoys most sipping pricey bottles of wine with billionaire hedge fund managers take a look. tell us what happened just give us the the the snapshot of what happened when you were there. well we were sitting at a table and after about i guess forty minutes or so congressman ryan came in with two companions you read didn't recognize and one of the companion really loudly ordered a wine and he ordered it by a number from the wind list so you know i kind of poked at my husband said oh hand me the rye and let's let's see what the order did you know it turned out it was a three hundred fifty dollars bottle. wine and i think either the most or second most expensive b

>> i look forward to that. >> john nichols with the wantt nation the great magazine k "the nation." paul ryanhe bill press show." [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] audience for the visual candy. >>sharp tongue, quick whit and above all, politically direct. >>you just think there is no low they won't go to. oh, no. if al gore's watching today... current tv, it's been all building up to this. >>bill shares his views, now it's your turn. >>i know you're going to want to weigh in on these issues. >>connect with "full court press with bill press" at facebook.com/billpressshow >>i believe people are hungry for it. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> heard around country and seen on current tv, this is "the bill press show". >> 26 minutes after the hour here it is, the full court press on this monday august 13th, talking about paul ryan mitt romney's pick, one little bit of -- one set of bad news about this pick is under wisconsin law, paul ryan is allowed to run for his house seat as well as run for vice president. so when he loses as vice president, he could still be in the house of representatives. >> that's too bad. some

nicholls. associate editor for capital times and a lifelong wisconsinite and knows ryan quite well. 19% view him unl favorably and 54% dot know hit pickle. he's extremely well known ochlt but not that well known in the kun true. the question is how good is the position tishian. he's won fairly comfortable. how good a competition is paul ryan? >> well, he's quite goochld paul ryan is a charming man. he's one of those people who you can criticize to your face. he'd do very well on the show today. he wouldn't be screams, make j is rah look a little edgegy on hesitate nigh, knolled to bane. if you follow media and heed fwrap imfact politics. paul ryan comes from a congressional city that has a dress strict that has know off the radar. mach isn't in hadn't disstrbt. washington is not in his distrubt. hi bridge to qualify ads a nigh guy hoye shoat up at the pa ray. many pult,erer many people were shocked. last year when he held town meetings after he came into the national spot light, those meetings with literally packed at speaking at him. he's another knee sew so well tee fiped in fun t