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

ryan. more happy for america. romney ryan 2012. he walker who fought off a recall effort in june successfully and has made that case a big issues matter. how does he factor into this campaign and how does he factor in moving forward? >> he factors in in a pretty significant way. the day after the recall election the day after on june 6th paul ryan came out and did a series of interviews that folths morning when he was asked about the meaning of the recall and what it means. rather than look backwards scott walker who ron the recall decided to look forward and urged mitt romney to make a bold bick to run on this reformed conservatism. no one urged him to do that. scott walker made the case. he helped the fact that he could win a recall election when he did level with people. we are going to make the hard decisions and make these difficult changes and it's going to work. you started to see that work. that is one of the reasons scott walker won the recall election. that is one of the reasons wall ryan was able to be picked. you talked

and mitt romney has picked paul ryan. hink the point to remember here is that romney/ryan part of this is something the republicans had already started and scott brown is deeply tied into. look it at the votes they've already taken. the buffett rule, whether or not billionaires should be able to get away paying half of rate of their secretaries, scott brown voted to protect those tax breaks for billionaires. the oil company subsidies, the biggest profitable companies in the united states making huge profits, scott brown and all the republicans said they get to keep those tax breaks. but then when it came time to give tax breaks to 98% of america's working families, scott brown and the republicans said, no, no, no. no breaks for them unless the top 2% get even bigger breaks. so the basic direction of romney, ryan, brown has already been set. it's just gone now to its clearest position with the adoption of ryan as the running mate. >> well, thanks for being on. it's great to have you on. running for the united states senate

ryan. you could not have a clearer choice than we have now between obama-biden and romney-ryan. t romney called the paul ryan budget "mavelous." it's his budget now. 866-55-press. i have to tell you, this is great. and the way i see it john mccain blew his chances in 2008 by naming sarah palin. mitt romney just blew his chances in 2012 by naming paul ryan. bring it on. bring your calls on, too 866--55 press. >> this is "the bill press show." 866-55 press. >> this is "the bill press show." in the billionaires' purchase of our nation. >> and you think it doesn't affect you? think again. what makes hershey's s'mores special? pure chocolate goodness that brings people together. hershey's makes it a s'more... you make it special. pure hershey's. it's like chicken and crunchy stuff got married! i only use french's french fried onions on my crunchy onion chicken because it's america's number one brand. just minutes to make, then bake! i look at her, and i just want to give her everything. yeah you -- you know, everything can cost upwards of...[ whistles ] i did not want to think about t

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

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

ryan is not so sure he wants to be wedded to romney's plan. what has he done under his health care act to medicare in terms of cuts in medicare spending? what would -- what would ryan do and what would romney do? can you delineate among the three so people now on medicare are facing tonight next couple of years, will see what their choices are? >> how much time do we have? >> you can do it quickly. so, what obama does is he keeps medicare broadly as it has been, but makes important changes to it. it remains a single payer system. if you're over 65, the government pays for your health insurance. but he makes some cuts to it. those cuts are focused on some of these payments that go to private insurers and in coming years, they include changes to that medicare tried to do a little bit less of paying for quantity of health care and more of paying for quality of health care. there are health experts to which the plan did more. there are those who see it as on the way to death panels. that's basically what -- >> >> the obama plan. the white house, b

>> romney ryan 2012. very excited. yes. romney picked wisconsin congressman, paul ryan, and folks, this was no safe choice. bold. bold. i mean, so daring. i mean, white, christian and male? that's a triple not threatening to me and of course, like all republican vp picks, he looks exactly like tina fey. >> isn't that the name of a laundry detergent? finally, president obama is the subject of an optical illusion tonight. take a look at this snapshot from a speech in iowa yesterday. is he looking into the future with some kind of glowing orb? finally, dompd donald trump -- he's an alien. up next, who needs to be convinced about the paul ryan budget? mitt romney. you're watching "hardball." place for politics. [ female announcer ] how do you define your moment? the blissful pause just before that rich sweetness touches your lips. the delightful discovery, the mid-sweetening realization that you have the house all to yourself. well, almost. the sweet reward, making a delicious choice that's also a smart choice. splenda no-calor

and even if romney says, look, i don't believe in the whole ryan budget plan. ct is, if romney and ryan are elected, the ryan budget plan is a heartbeat away from the presidency. i think this was all based on the fact that romney was losing his base. this is you have to hold on to the base, that's it. forget about hispanics. forget about seniors, even though that's the only cohort that obama lost last time. and forget about independents. hang on to the base. scare the middle class into thinking obama is going to take your wealth away and give it to the poor. have a he believe get-out-the-vote campaign and hope voter i.d. laws-- which democrats call voter suppression laws-- will keep the democratic vote down. >down. >> cordes: bob shrum i want to bring you into this. wouldn't it be wrong for democratdemocrats to underestiml ryan? he's a pretty tough debater, and a match-up, head to head between him and vice president biden would be pretty interesting to watch. >> yeah, i think that's right. first, nancy, by the way, i should say i've joined david up from at "news

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

-ryan ticket. romneyet. that and more on hannity. while some fiber ads use super models, metamucil uses super hardworking psyllium fiber, which gels to remove unsexy waste and reduce cholesterol. taking psyllium fiber won't make you a model, but you should feel a little more super. metamucil. down with cholesterol. democrats are working veryy hard and interviewing everyone in the neighborhood and they are doing all of that work because their campaign is all about bringing america's perspective on the race as low as they can make it. this is a man who appeals the better angels of the american people and ask us to lift ourselves and talk about issues and vision for america and not drag down the dirt that you are seeing from the obama campaign. >> that was governor mitt romney how he and his running mate is going to do the campaign. the president and his group will use dirty trick. and the obama smear machine. how are you. this is true. we learned this week this is the dirtiest campaign in history. >> well,

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 there and is mitt romney. u know, a generational gap between the two of them, paul ryan 42 years old and i think mitt romney is 65 or 66 years old. i think mitt romney has a son about 42 years old as well. that's the republican presidential ticket. we have ari fleischer standing by. david gergen. we have our entire team. there's james carville as well. we'll take a quick break. much more analysis, reaction when we come back. those little things still get you. for you, life's about her. but your erectile dysfunction - that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sexual activity. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, as this may

ryan fan club. i am more impressed with governor romney. erstands 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.

but on monday, romney said that he and ryan were, quote, on the same page. that he count think of any differences between their plans. they were the same. and then on tuesday romney's surrogate john sanunu reversed cores and said that the ryan-romney plans were different again. and then on wednesday as sure as the sun comes up in the morning, mitt romney changed his mind again said it was the same. take a listen. >> actually, paul ryan and my plan for medicare, i think is the same. if not identical. it's probably close to identical. >> jennifer: identical. identical? which brings us to today's white board routine in which mitt wholeheartedly embraced the ryan plan as his own. we have obama-bad. romney-good. i don't want to tell you about it. let's just see it from the professor himself. >> i want to bring as much clarity as possible, so i prepared a small chart here. >> jennifer: can you keep up with all this? are you confused? well, i think that's exactly--exactly what ryan-romney, and the whole republican machinery wants. they want to confuse you. they want

i think romney was tied to ryan. that's why i wrote the piece in april. erstand what romney's going to do, look at ryan. ryan is really in charge. conservatives envision romney as a kind of ceremonial head of state who might direct foreign policy but in the domestic arena, he will do what ryan wants. ryan is not a deal maker. ryan's not a compromiser. ryan has a maximalist vision and strategy that he's been pursuing consistently since he basically gained control of the house republican caucus at the beginning of 2010. he's been very diligently and effectively subverting any bipartisan agreement to deal with the deficit over the long term, in the hopes they can win the election, have a majority in both houses and use it to push through his plan pretty much unchanged. >> ezra, i want to ask, in terms of the obama campaign and the medicare question, how to sort of best sell the fork in the road to the american public. the "wall street journal" on the editorial page writes our advice is that mitt romney go on offense on medicare. he could hit mr. obama with ad

ryan. one 1r50uer tweeted, right. romneyyan and company are just what the doctor ordered to cure the sickness known as obamanomics. another said seven-term representative ryan is more qualified than community organizer, both experience wise and intelligence wise. and here's another. larry kudlow at paul ryan, we'll focus on econ tacks and budgets, three topics on which obama cannot win. these are all my personal tweets. because i went nuts today when i read these stories. i'm sorry, i interrupted you. you were going to make a point. not just medicare, not just entitlements, there's a whole package of economi growth. if they don't, then david is right. they're going to lose ground. growth, growth, growth, jobs, jobs, jobs. oohite works both ways. to get out of the debt problem, we have to grow. we can't grow 1% or 2%. we will never be able to get out of that hole. we need to grow to get out of the debt. but we're not going to grow in the future if we have much bigger government. they're a drag on economic growth and jobs. the

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. 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

i'm excited for governor romney and congressman ryan. i didn't support governor romney because i expected to be vice president. i'm not disappointed that i didn't get something that i didn't expect. it's a great ticket. it's a terrific pick by romney. ryan has a clear, specific vision, an adult approach to solving the nation's problems. >> any comfort to know that both the president and his senior adviser david axelrod thought that you were going to be the pick? >> it was a nice set of comments that he made. >> let's talk about -- we brought up in the previous interview, you heard the case against paul ryan, they're saying now that, having the budget front and center defines mitt romney, makes him own these plans by ryan, they're going to end medicare as we know it. you heard the case that david axelrod made. respond. >> well, i think the american people are smart and i think the american people respect people who have real solutions to big problems, and so, congressman ryan and governor romney have put together a plan that actually tackl

ryan, mitt romney is acting like a new candidate. >> i guess you think i made the right decision, the right choice? people ask me why i chose paul ryan. the answer is i wanted someone who was a leader. >> paul ryan has given the republican ticket and romney himself a boost of energy and it's not just evident in the largest rallies we've seen. finally looks like he's enjoying being a candidate again. here's how he confidently took on a heckler in wisconsin last night. >> you see, young man, this group here is respectful of other people's rights to be heard. >> and clearly, ryan himself is enjoying and he enjoyed that warm reception back home in wisconsin. >> my veins run with cheese, bratwurst and a little spot of some miller. >> now, of course, romney is hardly the first presidential candidate to try to use a vp pick to relaunch his campaign. walter mondale, bob dole, al gore, john mccain tried to shake things up. all lost any way. the question is, whether the ryan pick will be more than a short-term boost. will romney's relaunch do

ryan fan club. i am more impressed with governor romney. rage 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 president and vice-president who ca

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

pointing, you are doing it wrong. >> okay, ryan-romney ticket. i can live with that. don't think ann romney was enthusiastic. chris, what do you think? >> this pick, there are risks with this pick with the older voterss and ryan budget as relate to medicare and social security. they are undoubtedly true. but you are talking about with karl. mitt romney needed to the trajectory of the lace. i am sure mitt romney made the choice before the polls were out and i am sure today's choice and i suspect mitt romney is the kind of guy who will tell you what he will have for breakfast three we thinks from now. it was set. he needed in his pick to change the trojectory about the race and all about him personally and democrats calling hem a vampire and letting a woman die of cancer . now romney is daring obama to have a fight on policy and that could shift the narrative of the election. >> you know, bill, you are one of two people and steven hayes called for romney to go for the gold in his pick. pick paul ryan or marko rubio. what do you think of the choice of ryan. >> i am obviou

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

romney and mr. ryanficially the republic ticket it in just a little bit under a couple hours. this has been a long long process for mitt romney. he started with, at one point, at many as a dozen names being threated around the country. the mentionables. brought it down to a list of three or four in the last several days there was a real emphasis that maybe it was rob portman and maybe tim pawlenty and a buzz began at the beginning of last week that paul ryan height be the pick. in norfolk, virginia but the uss wisconsin obviously kind of hard to overlook as an irony or intentional coincidence for the ticket. insofar as mr. ryan is the congressman from wisconsin and as we have been talking about. the house budget committee chairman with the ryan budget in his portfolio which now becomes a big part of the romney agenda. he was early supporter of the ryan budget when the likes of newt gingrich and other republicans criticized. gingrich called it right wing social engineering and got roundly criticized for i

first, how the ryan/romney deficit reduction plan compares to the president's own $4 trillion deficiteduction proposal. do they add up? then the pros and cons of paul ryan, what his votes have been on the key issues from afghanistan to abortion to t.a.r.p. and finally, the politics of mediscare, the fear-mongering that both sides do when entitlement reform is proposed. we want to look at the next decade. we're talking about stacking the ryan/romney budget against president obama's own proposal. that's the debate we should be having in this country. about what's the best path forward to take. so tonight we're putting the two side by side. first ryan's budget is o of the most sweeping plans ever proposed to cut government spending. and whether romney likes it or not, he now owns it. the plan's made romney a lightning rod. because in his view the only way to get our fiscal house in order, he says, is to dramatically shrink the size of the government 37 ryan wants to cut spending by $5.8 trillion over the next ten years. additional revenue he says will come from economic growth. ryan want